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
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1935. Second edition. Hardcover. 4to. xiv, 601pp. Blue cloth with gold lettering on spine in original printed dust jacket. Classic work of 20th century Jewish thought that laid the foundation for the Reconstructionist movement. Rabbi Mordecai Kaplan sets forth a vision for Judaism free from..... More
Cincinnati: Department of Human Relations Hebrew Union College - Jewish Institute of Religion, 1960. Experimental Edition. Softcover. 4to. (3), 298pp. Original orange papers wrappers. A collection of essays on the role of the rabbi as a pastor by leading 20th century American rabbis. Includes essays by Joshua Trachtenberg and Benzion..... More
Kansas City: Quality Printing and Publishing Co., 1942. Second edition. Hardcover. 4to. 676pp. Original blue cloth with gilt lettering on front cover and spine; gilt-stamped vignettes on spine. An anthology of 4100 choice selections from the medieval Jewish scholar Rashi. The selections are organized in 141 chapters and have been..... More
New York: Maimonides Publishing Co., 1927. Hardcover. Quarto. 54, 446, XIIpp. Original black cloth with gilt portrait of Maimonides with gilt reproduction of his signature on front board. Hold lettering on spine. Title-pages in English and Hebrew. First volume of this work including the following sections: Yesodei Hatorah, Deot, Teshuva..... More
Frankfurt a. M. J. Kauffmann, 1935. Softcover. 8vo. 102pp. Original gray paper wrappers with red lettering. A collection of essays printed in honor of the 60th birthday of R. Max Dienemann, a leading early 20th century German rabbi. Includes articles from R. Leo Baeck and Martin Buber. Includes a timeline..... More
Asbury Park, NJ: Jewish Theological Seminary of America, 1927. First edition. Hardcover. Octavo. VIII, 9-107, [1]pp. Original cloth with gold lettering on front cover. Collection of papers dealing with problems affecting Jewry and Judaism, and devising ways and means of raising the status of the congregations to which the Rabbinical..... More
NP, 1912. Softcover. 8vo. 196pp. Original wrappers. Front wrapper detached but present. Creasing, chipping and staining to wraps. Bottom right corner of first few pages creased. Some pages with markings and underlining in pencil. Entails guidelines of a program on liberal (reformed) Judaism as well as several other lectures held..... More
Atlanta: Scholar Press, 1986. Hardcover. 8vo. xiv. 263 pp. In English, translated from the Hebrew. Orange cloth with white lettering on front cover and spine. Book condition: Fine. Part 114 from the "Brown Judaic Studies" series. More
Northvale, NJ; London: Jason Aronson Inc., 1990-1991. First edition, second printing (Volume I), first printing (Volume II). Hardcover. Quarto. XXI, [5], 318, XXVII, [7], 316pp. Original printed dust-jackets over cloth, with gold lettering on front covers and spines. Long accepted as the standard code of Jewish law and practice, the..... More
Nürnberg: J. Bulka, 1930. First edition. Hardcover. Quarto. 120pp. Original cloth spine over paper covered boards. Fascinating work on the leading medieval Jewish scholar, Catalan rabbi, philosopher, physician, kabbalist, and biblical commentator that was Rabbi Moses ben Nachman Girondi, Bonastruc ça Porta also known as Nahmanides. Slight age-toning along edges..... 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. First edition. Softcover. Quarto. 74 leaves. Original brown quarter cloth tape over light..... More
Wien: Verlag der Israel.-Theol. Lehranstalt, 1912. First edition. Softcover. Quarto. LX, [4], 120, [4], 23, [1]pp. Unopened copy. Scarce and fascinating work written by one of the most renown Austrian theologians of the 19th century, Adolf Schwarz. As a veteran rabbinic scholar, he was a prolific writer on theological, homiletic..... More
Wien: Verlag der Israel.-Theol. Lehranstalt, 1913. First edition. Softcover. Quarto. [4], 235, [1]pp. Original printed wraps. Scarce and fascinating work written by one of the most renown Austrian theologians of the 19th century, Adolf Schwarz. As a veteran rabbinic scholar, he was a prolific writer on theological, homiletic, and philosophical..... More
New York: Stanford and Swords, 1847. Hardcover. Sm. octavo. xi,245,[24pp). Brown cloth with blind-stamped border and gold lettering on spine. Commentaries on Jarchi on Isaiah xi., Kimchi, Aben Ezra, etc., biographical notes on Maimonides, Abarbanel, Saadis the Gaon, as well as various extracts from other works. 24 page publisher's advertisement..... More
Leipzig: Otto Schulze, 1883. Softcover. 8vo. 65pp. Decorated wrappers. Wraps almost detached. Chipping and closed tears on spine. Staining on title-page. Work on the more playful homiletics found in the Talmud and Midrash. Text in German. Overall good to fair condition. Scarce. More
Warsaw: M. A. Glikman, 1882. Later printing. Softcover. Large Quarto. 81pp. Rebound in decorative wrappers. Decorative ruling on title page. Decorative endpiece. Commentary on the Talmud, tractate Baba Metziya chapters 1-10, with commentary of Rashi (Rabbi Shlomo Yitzchaki), RambaM (Rabbi Moshe ben Maimon), the RiF (Rabbi Isaac al-Fasi), Tosefta and..... More
London: Oxford University Press, 1958. First edition. Hardcover. Large octavo. XIV, [2], 347, [1]pp. Original printed dust-jacket over blue cloth, with gold lettering on spine. Publisher's logo in gilt at tail of spine. Comparison of the two main centers of Jewish Life, Ashkenaz [Germany, Central Europe] and Sepharad [Spain, later..... More
Jerusalem: Carmel, 1994. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. 240 pp. Brown covered boards with white lettering on front cover and spine. Text in Hebrew with additional English title page. Interesting work on a seldomly studied area by a distinguished scholar and prolific author in the field of Hebrew literature and language..... More
Philadelphia: The Jewish Publication Society of America, 1936. Second Impression. Hardcover. 12mo. 6, XXVIpp, 161, 162-348 leafs. Original blue cloth with gold lettering on spine and front cover. Top edges gilt. Ribbon marker in second volume. Publisher's logo on each title page. The present volume, being a selection from the..... More
Shamloya: Bi-defus Shelomoh ha-Levi Haimlaikh, 1926. First edition. Paperback. 8vo., 106 pp. Original decorative wrappers. Title page with decorative ruling and printed in red. Booklet features Jewish law with Talmudic approaches to Niddah, ritual impurity (due to discharges, the menstrual cycle and seminal emission) and commentaries. Text in Hebrew (Rashi..... More
Berlin: M. Poppelauer, 1913. First edition. Softcover. Royal octavo. Vi, 107, [3]pp. Original printed wraps with printer's device on front cover and title-page. Scarce and fascinating work on the Baraita on the Thirty-two Rules (or Baraita of R. Eliezer ben Jose ha-Gelili). It is a baraita giving 32 hermeneutic rules..... More
Krakow: Druck U. Verlag von Josef Fischer, 1903. Hardcover. 8vo. XLVIII, 167 pp. Red cloth.Small closed tears along spine. A few pages have become detached, but all are present. Browning to pages due to age, otherwise is in good condition. Text in Hebrew. The author, Salomon Buber (1827 - 1906)..... More
Berlin: Alfred Töpelmann, 1969. First edition. Hardcover. Quarto. XIV, 142, [2]pp. Original cloth with blind-stamped printer's device on front cover and title-page. The present study grew out of a seminar on Hosea led by Millar Burrows. It was presented to Yale University in 1958 as a Ph. D. dissertation in..... More
Frankfurt a. M. Sänger & Friedberg, 1912. Hardcover. 8vo. xx,448pp. Rebound in three-quarter maroon cloth over textured black cloth. Minor age wear, scuffing and staining on binding. Foxing on front and rear endpapers. Top corner on page VI creased. Text in German, Gothic script. Tight copy in overall very good..... More