Leipzig: Buchhandlung Gustav Fock, 1910. Hardcover. 8vo. viii. 383pp. Green illustrated cloth with gilt lettering to cover and spine. Library mark to spine. Decorated endpapers and page edges. Stamp to front endpaper and page following title page: "HUC-Jir. California School." [HUC stands for Hebrew Union College]. Hinges starting. Library paste-ins..... More
Cincinnati: Hebrew Union College Press, 1951. First edition. Hardcover. Quarto. XVI, 570pp. Original blue cloth with gilt lettering and golden printer's device at bottom of spine. Top edge blue. Printer's device on title-page. Fascinating work compiling two manuscripts ("The Sabbath in Jewish Ritual and Folk-Lore", and "Jesus in the Talmud")..... More
Jerusalem: Levi & Partners (printer), 1912. First edition. Hardcover. Quarto, 139 pp. Original black cloth with decorative blind-stamped ornaments on covers. Red edges. After a brief introduction as to his understanding of the Torah Margolis starts out with the Parasha Lekh Lekha (Go for yourself!) and offers his interpretation of..... More
Baltimore: The Friedenwald Company, 1904. First edition. Hardcover. Quarto. VI, [2], 142pp. Modern burgundy cloth with gold lettering on spine. Original printed wrappers bound in. Remarkable work in which the author shows how Judaism is rooted in the Bible and therefore, in spite of re-formulation, remains largely Scriptural. Original front..... More
London: Jews' College, 1920. First edition. Softcover. Quarto. 199, [1]pp. Original printed wrappers. Remarkable work on the history and meaning, the development and influence of the doctrine of merits in old Rabbinical literature. Age wear on wrappers with front cover detached but present, back cover missing, and spine partly torn..... More
Strasbourg: Faculte de Theologie Catholique, Palais Universitaire, 1973. Softcover. 8vo. 255pp. Beige wrappers with black and green lettering. Edited by Jacques- E. Menard, then Director of the academic magazine on Religious Studies, "Revue des Sciensces Religieuses", this work is a collection of presentations on Bible exegesis and Judaism, held at..... More
NP, n/d. Hardcover. Quarto. VI, 7-48, 11-496, Xpp. Original blue cloth with gold lettering on boards and spine. Fascinating work published to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the founding of the great institutional institution "Talmud Torah Eitz Chaim" in Toronto. When the Talmud Torah was founded, there was no organized..... More
Cincinnati: Quarto. 74 leaves. Original brown cloth over light brown printed wraps. Aspects of Jewish Homiletics Volume IV. Lectures delivered under the auspices of the department of Midrash and Homiletics at Hebrew Union College. Mimeographed lecture, 1959. Softcover. Quarto. 7, 6, 6, 7 leaves. Original black quarter cloth tape over..... More
New York: Bloch Publishing Company, 1932. First edition. Hardcover. Quarto. X, 211pp. Original blue cloth with gold lettering on spine. This work, a commentary on Seder Eliahu, was derived from Kadushin's Ph.D. dissertation. In it, he argues that ancient rabbinic texts possess organic, experiential consistency despite the sometimes non-linear character..... More
Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1975. First edition. Hardcover. Octavo. viii, (4), 236pp. Indices. Purple cloth, lettered in black. Spine lettering mostly effaced. The biblical criticism & interpretation of Rabbi David Kimhi (1160? - 1235?). Text in English with some Hebrew. More
Warsaw: Nowozetgraf, 1931. First edition. Hardcover. Large Quarto. 65pp. Original half cloth on black paper-covered boards with stamped decoration and vignettes on each corner fo front and end cover. Decorative endpapers. Contains a collection of teachings, discussions and explanations from Rabbis in Eretz Israel and the Exile on the tractate..... More
Leipzig: Kaufmann, 1928. Softcover. 8vo. x. 397pp. Wrappers. Work on Jewish Ethics and Morals by renowned Professor and Rabbi, Ignatz Ziegler. As mentioned on front wrapper, "herausgegeben von der Grossloge X I. O. B.B. für den Tschechoslowakischen Staat." Rear wrapper and most of spine missing, with tears and staining to..... More
Jerusalem: Mossod Ha-Rav Kook, 1959. Hardcover. 8vo. 14pp. 346pp. Original blue half-cloth over gray cloth. A collection of essays on a range of topics relating to Jewish political thought. Text in Hebrew. Covers stained and bowed. Head and tail of spine rubbed. Endpapers sunned. Overall in good- condition. More
Toronto: La Salle Press, 1956. Hardcover. 8vo. 211pp. Original blue cover with gold lettering on cover and spine. Doctoral dissertation on rabbinic exegesis. Appendices cover grammar, etymology, lexicology and synonyms. Evaluation by Rabbi Leo Jung. Foreword by R. Travers Herford. Tail of spine bumped. Head of spine rubbed. Spine title..... More
NP: Published by the author, [1949]. Softcover. Quarto. 100pp. Original decorative wrappers. Frontispiece portrait of the author. Collection of lectures on the principles of the Bible, and containing gems taken from it. Wrappers age-toned along edges and slightly soiled. Paper edges sunned. Wraps in overall fair, interior in good to..... More
New York: KTAV Publishing House, Inc., 1968. Reprint. Hardcover. Quarto. LXV, [3], 314, [2], 208pp. Original red cloth with gold lettering on spine and front cover. Originally published in 1924, this remarkable work is a collection of more than 300 Hebrew stories – the largest collection of its kind compiled..... More
Philadelphia, New York and Jerusalem: Jewish Pubn Society, 1988. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. xx. 419 pp. Red cloth with gold lettering on front cover and spine. Original dj. Inscribed in Hebrew by author to Professor Yona Sabar of UCLA. Book condition is fine. On Judah Goldin [from National Foundation for..... More
New York: The World Union for Progressive Judaism, (1977). First edition. Hardcover. Lg. quarto. xxvii,382pp. Blue cloth with gold lettering on cover and spine in original dust jacket. Interesting study by Professor Guttmann on the struggle raging in the rabbinical Responsa literature, the most significant Hebrew source. Foreword by Rabbi..... More
New York: KTAV Publishing House, 1976. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. xvii,281pp. Light olive cloth with gold lettering on cover and spine. Small stain on front cover. Minor foxing to page edges, otherwise very good condition. More
Poland: n/a, n/a. n/a. Hardcover. Folio. 280pp. Newly bound half cloth over decorative paper-covered boards and free endpapers. No title page. The book deals with teachings on purification with the sources from Baba Kama, Baba Metziya and Baba Batra plus the interpretations and explanations of Rashi, the Mishna and the..... More
Vilna: P. M. Romma, 1847. First edition. Hardcover. Folio, 92 (60)pp. Newly rebound half red cloth over blue paper-covered boards. Free end papers and decorative title page. First book is a collection of explanations and interpretations on Talmudic tractates: Brakhot, Shabbat, Pesakhim, Sukkah, Massekhet Megillah. The second book refers to..... More
Frankfurt: J. Kauffmann, 1906. First edition. Softcover. 8vo. 15 pp. Original decorative paper wrappers. In German with Hebrew selections. Minor age wear to wraps, otherwise book is in very good condition. The author, David Zvi Hoffman (November 24, 1843 - 1921) was an Orthodox Jewish Rabbi and Torah Scholar. Born..... More
New York: The Jewish Publication Society of America - Schocken Books, 1975. Third edition. Hardcover. Octavo. IX, [3], 195, [1]pp. Original printed dust-jacket over blue cloth with gold lettering on spine. Remarkable work presenting for the first time in the English language a systematic study of the methods of prayer..... More
Philadelphia: The Jewish Publication Society of America, 1975. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. (lvii), 593 pp. White dust jacket with green and black lettering on covers and spine. White cloth boards with green lettering and gilt ruling on spine. Green endpapers. Work of Midrashic Literature on the Shabbath and Jewish High..... More
Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2016. First edition. Softcover. Large octavo (8 1/2 x 6"). XI, [1], 368, [4]pp. Original printed dust-jacket, with black and white lettering to spine and covers. "Midrash is Jewish scholars' study of the Bible and its result, the eponymous literary genre. But Midrash is also teaching, mediation..... More