Jerusalem: Yesha'yahu Aryeh & Yehoshu'a Dvorkes, 1980. First edition. Hardcover. Complete 3 volume set. 4to. 110pp. (12), 184pp. 148pp. (4). Brown cloth with gold lettering on cover in original printed orange illustrated dust jacket. A collection of the thoughts of the renowned early 20th century Jewish Sage Rabbi Israel Meir..... More
Leiden: Brill, 2017. First edition. Hardcover. Octavo. xii, 393, (1)pp. Index and 34 page bibliography. Text in English with some Hebrew. Red buckram lettered in yellow. Scratch on front cover, otherwise a fine copy.. "Ve-Eileh Divrei David: Essays in Semitics, Hebrew Bible and History of Biblical Scholarship, covers the career..... More
Madrid: Arias Montano, 1983. First edition. Softcover. Quarto. 250pp. Original printed wrappers with red and black lettering on front cover and spine. Printer's device in red on back cover. Scarce work compiling the proceedings of the 5th Congress of the International Organization for Masoretic Studies (IOMS). The International Organization for..... More
Leiden: Brill, 2006. First edition. Hardcover. Octavo. xxxviii, 423, (1)pp. Index and 35 page bibliography. Aqua buckram lettered in white. A fine, as new copy. Based on a comparative and interdisciplinary approach, this volume for the first time interprets the biography and philosophy of the German Jewish thinker Samuel Holdheim..... More
Jerusalem: Wigoder, 1909. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. 163 pp. Original black cloth with pink cutout paper image pasted down on front cover. Marbled edges. Decorative ruling on title page in red and green. This item is a unique collection of a variety of books by the authors Me'ir Wigoder (located..... More
Cincinnati: American Israelite, 1889. First edition. Hardcover. Ex-library. 8vo. 129, (1). Original purple pebble cloth with gold lettering on front cover. All edges red. Floral decorative endpapers. Rabbi Isaac M. Wise, a leader of 19th century American Reform Jewry, wrote this work of Jewish apologetics in response to Christian missionaries..... More
Poland: Leon J. Liebreich, no date. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. 158 pp. Original three-quarter leather over decorative paper-covered boards. The book contains a series of three prefaces by the rabbis Rashi (Rabbi Shlomo ben Yitzhak) and Ramban (Rabbi Moshe ben Nachman). Furthermore it contains the text of the Shir Ha-Shirim..... More
London: Published by the author, 1952-1955. Only edition. Hardcover. Complete 2 volume set. 4to. 255pp. 182pp. Original blue cloth with gold lettering on cover and spine. Frontispiece photograph of Israel Baruch Zinober. A collection of rabbinic legal responsa relating to “Shulhan Arukh” by Leb Shalm Zinober. Also includes sermons on..... More
Fürth: Josef ben Hakzin. First edition. softcover. Octavo. 98 leaves. Original red endpapers, binding missing. Beautifully decorated title page. Decorative initials. Contains Midrashim on Ruth, Yehoshua, Kohelet, Shoftim, Samuel, Melekhim, Yeshayah, Yermiyah, Yekheskiel, Hoshea, Yonah, Micah, Habakuk, Zkharyah and Malakhi with Ziskind's explanations. Text in Hebrew (Rashi script). Front endpaper..... More
Leipzig: Otto Schulze, 1881. First German translation. Hardcover. Large octavo. VIII, 587pp. Half leather over marbled paper covered boards. Publisher's device on title-page. Fascinating first ever translation of the Midrasch Echa Rabbati to German. Ex-library copy with library stamps at rear of front and back boards, and on title-page. Edgewear..... More
New York: KTAV Publishing House, 1970. New Matter. Hardcover. 8vo. xlv,406pp. Mottled blue cloth with silver lettering on cover and spine. Signed on title-page by Harry Orlinsky, the influential biblical, archaeological, linguistic and Near Eastern historian and scholar. Orlinsky was the editor of this series "The Library of Biblical Studies."..... More
Mainz: Yechiel Bril, 1878. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. 52 pp. Rebound w/o original wraps in brown quarter cloth over decorative paper-covered boards with green paper label at head of spine. Contains explanations and comments on the Parashiyot Bereshit, Vayeshev, Miketz, Va'era, Yitro, Tetzave, Ki Tisa, Vayekhal, Pekudey, Shmini, Metzora, Bekhukotay..... More
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1969. First edition. Hardcover. Lg. octavo. xxi, 379pp. Green and brown cloth with gold lettering on spine in original clipped printed dust jacket. Red top edge. John Bowker analyzes early Jewish exegesis with particular focus on the Targum biblical translations and how they might be applied..... More
New York: Mekhon Zekher Naftali, (1981). Hardcover. Ex-library. Octavo. [32], 814, [60] pp. Original brown pebble buckram with decorative gold illustration and lettering on cover and spine. Decorative border on title page. A listing of names, terms and biblical verses found in the midrash "Tanna D'Vei Eliyahu." This work likely..... More
London: M.L. Zaylengold, 1930. First edition. softcover. Small Folio. 100, (42)pp. Original beige wrappers. Decorative title page. The first book contains several sections and explanations of the Talmud Yerushalmi (Jerusalem Talmud), from the tractates Brakhot, Zeraim and Moed. The sections are in particular on Shabbat, Eruvin and Pesakhim. The second..... More
Lanham; New York; London: University Press of America, 1989. First edition. Hardcover. Quarto. X, 192pp. Original red cloth with gold lettering on spine and front cover. Free front endpaper possibly inscribed and signed by the author. Students of modern Judaism have largely ignored the responsa literature as a source for..... More
London: Cambridge University Press, 1927. Second edition. Hardcover. 8vo. ix, (1) table of contents, 290pp. Original red cloth with gold lettering on spine in original price clipped dust jacket. Survey of rabbinic midrashic/aggadic agricultural metaphors. Covers field cultivation, the Pardes garden, trees, viticulture, figs, olives, palms, nut trees, thorns, reeds..... More
New York: The Jewish Theological Seminary of America, 1928. First edition. Hardcover. Ex-library copy. 8vo. xvii, 549pp. Original blue cloth with gold lettering on spine. A collection of rabbinic midrashic and aggadic texts from the famous Cairo synagogue genizah explored by the great early 20th century Judaic studies scholar Solomon..... More
New York: The Jewish Theological Seminary of America, 1970. First edition. Hardcover. Quarto. XXI, [1], 256pp. Original tan cloth with gold lettering on spine. Free front endpaper inscribed and signed by the author to Dr. Moshe Davis, the renowned rabbi and scholar of American Jewish history who taught at the..... More
London: Unwin Brothers, LTD, 1909. First edition. Hardcover. 4to. xix, 642pp. Rebound in blue cloth with gold lettering on spine. Collection of sermons by Hermann Gollancz, a late 19th early 20th century London rabbi. Sermon titles include "Monotheism, Dualism, and Trinitarianism," "Mixed Marriages," "Frederick, Late Emperor of Germany," "Queen Victoria..... More
Breslau: Druck von Grass, Barth und Comp. (W. Friedrich), 1873 & 1879. Hardcover. 8vo. 44,xi,[1],pp. 44,xi,pp. Quarter-cloth over marbled boards. Some age wear, scuffing and minor abrasions on boards. Sticker with handwritten number pasted on spine. Slight age toning to outer edges of interior pages. Signature of previous owner on..... More
Leipzig: J. C. Hinrichs'sche Buchhandlung, 1913. First edition. Hardcover. Octavo. XII, 436pp. Original 3/4 calf over marbled paper covered boards with gold lettering and tooling on spine. All paper edges colored. Publisher's logo on title page. Captivating study on the Israelite conception of God in the light of the history..... More
Munkasz: Jakob Weinberger, 1902. Later printing. Hardcover. Octavo. 212, 168pp. Original brown quarter cloth over black paper-covered boards with embossed vignette on front cover and black lettering on spine. Decorative title page. Two books, Sefer Zot Zikaron and Sefer Zikaron Zot. The first is dedicated to explanations of the Torah..... More
Leipzig: Verlag Eduard Pfeiffer, 1904. First edition. Softcover. Small Quarto. xxii, 138pp. Original ochre wrappers with black lettering and publisher's logo on cover. Translated and critically interpreted by G. Jahn; with appendix of a new examination of the Mesha Inscription. Treatise on the Book of Daniel, one of the more..... More
Philadelphia: The Jewish Publication Society of America, 1978. Second Impression. Hardcover. 8vo. lvii, 593 pp. White dust jacket with green and black lettering on front cover and spine. White cloth boards with green lettering and gilt ruling on spine. Green endpapers. Work of Midrashic Literature on the Shabbath and Jewish..... More