Mishnah Megillah.
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
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Medicine in the Bible & Talmud (The Library of Jewish Law and Ethics, vol. 5)
New York: Ktav Publishing House, 1977. First edition. Hardcover. 4to. 247pp. Original dust jacket with gold lettering on spine over blue cloth. An authoritative work discussing diseases, organs, ethics & prayers for the Jewish physician, famous physicians in the talmud, as well as answers to miscellaneous questions such as artificial..... More
Studies in Torah Judaism: Modern Medicine and Jewish Law
New York: Bloch Publishing Company, 1972. First edition. Hardcover. Quarto. 216pp. Original dark blue cloth, with gold lettering on front board and spine. First edition of this fascinating study intended to present mere professional guidelines grounded in legal formulations and scientific research, that may set the stage for the halakhic..... More
A History of the Mishnaic Law of Agriculture, Section Three: A Study of Tractate Demai. Part One, Commentary [Studies in Judaism in Late Antiquity, Volume Twenty-Seven]
Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1979. First edition. Hardcover. Quarto. XX, [2], 289, [1]pp. Original red cloth with gold lettering on spine and front cover. Publisher's logo on front board and title page. In this volume, the author analyzes Tractate Demai ("Doubtfully Tithed Produce") in Mishnah and Tosefta, the earliest extant..... More
Torah and the Chronicler's History Work: An Inquiry Into the Chronicler's References to Laws, Festivals, and Cultic Institutions in Relationship to Pentateuchal Legislation [Brown Judaic Studies, 196]
Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1989. First edition. Hardcover. Quarto. XI, [1], 160, [12]pp. Original olive cloth with silver lettering and ruling on spine and front cover. Shaver's thesis is straightforward: The Torah book of the Chronicler contained more than the canonical Pentateuch. Thus, the canonization of the Torah has not yet..... More
In Partnership With God. Contemporary Jewish Law and Ethics
Syracuse, NY. Syracuse University Press, 1990. First edition. Hardcover. Quarto. XVI, 290pp. Original blue cloth with gold lettering on front cover and spine. Fascinating work which holds much promise. Most importantly for scholars of Jewish studies, it contains a ringing critique of the sufficiency of the "Wissenschaft" values which continue..... More
Das Schächten vom Standpunkt der Religion und Tierschutzes. Eine gemeinverständliche Darstellung von Rabbiner Dr. I. Unna, Mannheim. Herausgegeben von der Reichszentrale für Schächtangelegenheiten. Verlag der Deutschen Israelitischen Zeitung u. Laubhütte, Hamburg 13. Zu beziehen durch die Reichszentrale für Schächt- Angelegenheiten in Berlin N 24, Artilleriestraße 31.
Berlin: Reichszentrale für Schächtangelegenheiten, 1931. Softcover. 8vo. 31pp. Original wrappers. Work on different aspects of Shechitah [Kosher Slaughtering], both from the viewpoint of the Jewish religion and from the viewpoint of animal rights. Illustrated with a couple of b/w plates. Minor age wear to binding, with binding staring to split..... More
The Jewish Marriage Contract: A Study in the Status of the Woman in Jewish Law
New York: Jewish Theological Seminary of America, 1927. First edition. Hardcover. Octavo. XVII, [1], 316pp. Uncut. Original green cloth with gold lettering on spine and front cover. Printer's device on title page. Talmudic laws are discussed in detail in Louis M. Epstein's "Jewish Marriage Contract" to give us a Jewish..... More
Business Ethics in Jewish Law
New York: Hebrew Publishing Company in conjunction with the Board of Jewish Education of Greater New York, 1987. First printing. Hardcover. Lg. 8vo. 256, [12]pp. Tan cloth with blue lettering on cover and spine in original printed dust jacket. The author "sees Judaism as a whole and makes clear that..... More
The Leo Jung Jubilee Volume: Essays in His Honor on the Occasion of His Seventieth Birthday
New York: The Jewish Center, 1962. First edition. Hardcover. Quarto. [10], 242pp. 258pp. Original grey cloth with illustration pasted on covers and gold lettering on boards and spine. Each title-page in orange and black lettering. Frontispiece portrait of Rabbi Leo Jung. A collection of papers on Jewish topics by various..... More
Contemporary Halakhic Problems
New York: KTAV Publishing House, 1977. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. xviii, 403pp. Brown cloth with gold lettering on spine in original printed dust jacket. J. D. Bleich's work deals with the application of Jewish law to contemporary, social, political, technological, and religious problems. Age wear and creasing on dj. Head..... More
Zur Schächtfrage. Sonderabdruck aus der "Berliner Tierärztlichen Wochenschrift". Jg. 44 (1928), Nr. 7, S. 113 )Verlag von Richard Schoetz, Berliner SW 48, WIllhelmstr. 10)
NP, n/d. Softcover. Reprint of an academic article on Shechitah [Kosher Slaughtering], that was originally published in "Berliner Tierärztlichen Wochenschrift" [Berlin Veterinarian Weekly] in 1928 (see above). 8vo. 8pp. Original wrappers missing. This academic article is a response to a statement by the municipal veterinarians of the German region of..... More
The Human Will in Judaism: The Mishnah's Philosophy of Intention [Brown Judaic Studies, 103]
Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1986. First edition. Hardcover. Quarto. XIV, 250pp. Original blue cloth with gold lettering and ruling on spine and front cover. This study examines the role of intention in the Mishnah, a handbook of rules written ca. 200 C. E., by a group of sages living in the..... More
Sefer Dibrot Mosheh 'al masekhtot Bava kama (helek sheni), Bava metsi'a, Bava batra: me'at hidushim ... be-divre rabotenu ha-rishonim, zatsal, ve-gam le-lamdam be-shi'ure ha-yeshivah*
Bene Berak: Yeshivat Ohel Yosef, 1983. Hardcover. Folio. 448pp. Modern cloth binding. The author, Rabbi Moses Feinstein, was the leading judicial arbitrator of Jewish Law in the 20th Century (see below). This volume is devoted to his lectures in Seder Nezikin (of the Mishna) including discussion of Torts, property rights..... More
The Ketubah
Berlin/London: Rimon Publishing Co., 1923. First edition. Hardcover. Large Octavo. 54 pp. Tan cloth over illustrated tan paper boards with gilt lettering and illustration on the front cover. This monograph by Dr. Moses Gaster (1856-1939), discusses the Jewish historical tradition of the Ketubah (marriage document). The book is illustrated throughout..... More
Moses: Moses der Befreier; Moses der Gesetzgeber; Moses und die Dichtung; Moses, der Prophet
Berlin: Juedischer Verlag, 1905. First edition. Hardcover. Quarto. 104, [8]pp. Original thin vellum with gold lettering, and embossed illustration of Moses in gilt on front cover. Publisher's logo on title page and back cover. Collection of 4 essays on Moses, illustrated with 12 tissue-guarded tipped in plates after illustrations by..... More
The Bible and Modern Medicine: An Interpretation of the Basic Principles of the Bible in the Light of Present Day Medical Thought
New York: Bloch, (1963). Hardcover. 8vo. 222pp. (1). Green pebbled cloth with gold lettering on cover and spine in original printed yellow dust jacket. Work examining biblical ritual law from a medical perspective. Discusses dietary laws, Sabbath observance, ritual slaughter and marriage. D/j spine sunned. Back of d/j repaired with..... More
Judaism: Law & Ethics - Essays by the Late Chief Rabbi Dr Isaac Herzog
London: The Soncino Press, (1974). First edition. Hardcover. 4to. x, (1), 227pp. Purple pebbled cloth with gold lettering on the spine in original printed dust jacket. Red top edge. Frontispiece photograph of Rabbi Dr. Isaac Herzog. A collection of essays on Jewish history and thought by the former chief rabbi..... More
Die Vaticanische Handschrift der Halachoth Gedoloth. (Beilage zum Jahresberichte des Rabb
Berlin: Druck von H. Itzkowski, 1819. First edition. Softcover. 8vo. 42 pp. Original paper wrappers with text continued onto back cover. In German with many Hebrew selections. Age wear to wrappers, otherwise book is in good condition. More
Ueber das Verhalten des Blutdruckes in den Hirngefäßen nach Durchschneidung des Halses (Schächtschnitt der Juden). Sonderabdruck aus "Monatshefte für praktische Tierheilkunde". XXXI. Bd. Herausgegeben von E. FRÖHNER, TH. KITT, R. EBERLEIN und W. Zwick. Verlag von Ferdinand Enke in Stuttgart. Nicht einzeln im Buchhandel käuflich. [RARE]
NP, n/d. Softcover. Reprint of an academic article on Shechitah [Kosher Slaughtering], that was originally published in "Monatshefte für praktische Tierheilkunde" [Monthly Magazine for practical application of veterinary medicine] (see above). As is mentioned, this article was not sold to the public in retail book sale [Nicht einzeln im Buchhandel..... More
Sefer derekh yivhar: kolel she'elot u-teshuvot ve-h.T. 'al sugyot ha-Shas ... u-derushim ... / mi-kevod Hayim Betsal'el Panet : uve-rosh ha-sefer yavo hibur toldot rabenu Yehezkel ... toldot avi ... ve-korot yeme hayav
Munkatsh: Ba-defus shel ha-shutafim Blayer et Kahn, 1894. Hardcover. Folio. 132p. Half cloth over marbled boards. Decorated title page. Work of responsa on the Talmud. Age wear to binding. Back cover missing. Last leaf and end paper detached but available. Lower left hand section (2"x5") missing. Paper is brittle. In..... More
Bibbia e Babele: Appunti alle conferenze del Prof. Gustavo Sacerdoti
Trieste: Morterra & Cie. 1904. First edition. Softcover. Quarto. 162pp. Original printed wrappers. Decorative head-, tailpieces, and initials. Written by Italian rabbi Emilio Schreiber, this work is a historical and philosophical diatribe about Judaism, in which the author confronts and counters the arguments of Prof. Gustavo Sacerdoti with precise and..... More
She'elot u-Teshuvot Shem 'olam
Riga: Vardes, 1925. First edition. Folio. 67 leaves. Covers are detached but present. Spine missing. Pages brittle. Decorated title page. Responsa to all sections of Shulchan Aruch. In Hebrew. Poor condition. As is. Bet Eked, V. 3, p.1015, item #1676. More
The Tractate "Mourning". (Semahot) Regulations Relating to Death, Burial, and Mourning [Yale Judaica Series, XVII]
New Haven/ London: Yale University Press, 1966. First edition. Hardcover. Octavo. English section: (x) 191pp. [2]. Hebrew section: 40pp. Printed beige dust jacket with black lettering on the front cover and spine. Red buckram boards with gilt lettering and publisher's device on the spine. The main text of the book..... More
The Jewish Law of Divorce According to Bible and Talmud with some Reference to Its Development in Post-Talmudic Times
New York: Hermon Press, (1968). Second edition. Hardcover. Octavo. 224pp. Mottled blue cloth with gold lettering on spine in original dust jacket. "The distinguished 19th century legal historian compares the Biblical-Talmudic view with that of the New Testament and Mohemmedan law. He also discusses such related subjects as forbidden marriages..... More