Eric Chaim Kline, Bookseller

Eric Chaim Kline, Bookseller

Aus dem Jüdischen Sagenschatz. 2 Volume Set (Complete) [Hebrew]; Volume 1 & 2

Berlin: Achisefer, 1913. First edition. Hardcover. Quarto. Vol. 1: xvi, 264, Vol. 2: xv, 234. 2 volumes. Contemporary three-quarter brown pebbled cloth over red marble paper boards with grapevine design as well as raised bands and gold lettering on spine. Gold edges. German and Hebrew title pages. Head and tail pieces. A collection of Jewish legends from the biblical period and throughout Jewish history. Includes bibliographic footnotes. This work can be seen as an early precursor to Louis Ginzberg's "Legends of the Jews." Micha Josef Berdyczewski was a maskilic Hebrew journalist from a Hasidic family. As a young man he studied in the Volozhin Yeshiva before pursuing a university degree in Switzerland and Germany. He was greatly influenced by Hegel and Nietzsche. This work was later reprinted in Tel Aviv in 1956. Text in Hebrew. Spine and edges scratched. Some scoffing to endpapers. Overall in very good condition. vg. Item #38147

Price: $250.00

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