Studien zur byzantinisch-jüdischen Geschichte
Leipzig: Buchhandlung Gustav Fock, 1914. First edition. Softcover. Small Quarto. (8) 160pp. Original light blue wrappers with black lettering on cover. Krauss, a historian and talmudic scholar, was one of the main protagonists at the Israelitsche-Theologische Lehranstalt in Vienna. His library was destroyed by the Nazis in the Reichskristallnacht in 1938. His account on the Byzantine Jewish history may be considered one of the first stepping stones in the process to fathom the "dark continent of the Jewish history in the Middle Ages (David Kaufmann)." Text in German. Wraps with wear along edges, small chips, tears and sunned. Block lightly age-toned. Wraps in overall good-, interior in very good condition. g- to vg. Item #38299
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