Philadelphia: The F. A. Davis Company, Publishers, 1900. Hardcover. 8vo. x, 346pp. Original green cloth with blind-stamped borders and gold lettering on the spine. Frontispiece illustration of a Hebraic circumcision from a 16th century Italian print. A history of circumcision that takes a highly sympathetic view of the practice and..... More

Philadelphia: The Dropsie College for Hebrew and Cognate Learning, 1923. Hardcover. Large 8vo. 128pp. Brown cloth with blind-stamped borders and gilt lettering to spine. Title-page contains the publisher's emblem. An apologetic analysis of working conditions in ancient Israel using the Bible. Focuses on the specific Hebrew terms used for various..... More

Frankfurt am Main: Hermon Druckerei, n/d. Hardcover. Ex-library. 213,[3]pp. Tan cloth with green lettering on cover. Ex-libris of Dr. Harris Hirschberg of the Hebrew Union College on inside of front board, blind library stamp on title-page. Rare edition of biblical dietary laws by Dr. Rabbi Wolf of Cöln (Cologne). Age..... More

New York: KTAV Publishing House, Inc., 1971. First edition. Hardcover. Quarto. XXXIV, 259, [1]pp. Original blue cloth with gold lettering on spine and front cover. This remarkable volume on Jewish law in ancient and modern Israel contains the following essays: The secularization of divine law, by H. H. Cohn; The..... More

Cincinnati: Bloch. Softcover. Ex-library. 8vo. 102pp. Paper wrappers. Essay on Jewish historiography. Author discusses different philosophies of Jewish history from the Bible, rabbis, the middle ages and the rise of the modern study of the field in the 19th century under Zachariah Frankel and S. D. Luzatto. Wrappers chipped. Library..... More

London: The Bibliophile Press, 1909. First edition. Hardcover. Octavo. [4], 59, [1]pp. Cloth spine over paper covered boards. An authority on the legal status of English Jews, Henriques (1866-1925) was the author of "The Jews Return to England" (1905), "The Jews and the English Law" (1908) and several historical and..... More

New York: Cornwall Books, 1989. Limited First edition. Hardcover. 1/500. Quarto. 368pp. Original illustrated dust-jacket over black cloth with gold lettering on spine. Limitation page inscribed and signed by the author. In this remarkable work, brief profiles of each poet accompany a collection of 370 poems by 133 Yiddish poets..... More

Basel: S. Karger, 1968. Second edition. Softcover. Octavo. 208pp. Original printed wrappers. Second edition of Maimonides' work on the hygiene of the body and the soul. Wrappers age-toned. Text in German. Wrappers in overall fair, interior in very good condition. More

New York: Hermon Press, 1968. Second Edition. Hardcover. Large 8vo. 270pp. Original blue cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Reprint of a late 19th century work offering an overview of Talmudic criminal law. Covers crime and punishment, the Supreme Court of the Sanhedrin, trials and executions. Lettering on spine faded..... More

Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1980. First edition. Hardcover. Quarto. XXXI, [1], 302pp. Original red cloth with gold lettering on spine and front cover. Publisher's logo on front board and title page. The problem of this book is to describe the history of the laws of the Mishnah-tractates surveyed in the..... More

Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1974. First edition. Hardcover. Quarto. IX, [3], 338pp. Original red cloth with gold lettering on spine and front cover. Publisher's logo on front board and title page. Kelim (literally "Vessels") is the first tractate in the Order of Tohorot in the Mishnah. It contains thirty chapters..... More

London: Oxford University Press, 1931. Hardcover. 8vo. 142pp. Blue cloth with gilt lettering and illustration to spine. Ex libris Arthur S. Wolpe. Age wear. In English. Very good condition. More