London and New York: Routledge, 200. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. x, 341 pp. Black cloth with decorative silver lettering on front cover and spine. Fully annotated. Includes bibliographic references. Book is an exploration of what it means to be Jewish, particularly in terms of racial and ethnic identity. The author..... More
Leiden: Brill, 2015. First edition. Hardcover. Octavo. xv, 265, (1)pp. Selected bibliography. Dark blue over light blue boards, photo of Arthur Green on front cover. A fine, as new copy. Arthur Green is Rector of the post-denominational Rabbinical School and Irving Brudnick Professor of Jewish Philosophy and Religion at Hebrew..... More
Leiden: Brill, 2015. First edition. Hardcover. Octavo. xv, 254pp. Selected bibliography. Black over light blue boards, photo of Kellner on front cover. A fine, as new copy. Menachem Kellner is an American-born scholar of Jewish philosophy, an educator, and a public intellectual who lives in Israel. For over three decades..... More
Cincinnati: Robert Clarke & Co., 1894. Hardcover. 8vo. xxii,413pp. Brown cloth with title-plate. Minor chipping to edges, and slight abrasion on title-plate. Head and tail of spine slightly chipped. Wear to corners. Slight staining to boards. Decorated endpapers. Small handwritten plate pasted inside front board. Stamp and name of previous..... More
Cincinnati: Office of the Israelite, 1872. First edition. Hardcover. Octavo. 83pp. Blind-embossed brown cloth with title in gold on cover, protected by modern mylar. "As a literary production this little book shows: 1. There is a religion without mysteries or miracles, rational and self-evident. 2. This rational religion is taught..... More
Dordrecht: Springer, 2009. First edition. Hardcover. Quarto. XVII, [1], 204pp. Original printed glossy paper covered boards. Publisher's logo on title page. A disciple of Husserl and Heidegger, a contemporary of Sartre and Merleau-Ponty, Levinas entirely renewed the way of thinking ethics in our times. In contrast to the whole tradition..... More
Budapest: A Magyar Izraeliták Országos Képviseletének Kiadása, 1959. First edition. Softcover. 8vo. 284 pp. Original decorative paper wrappers with gray lettering on front cover and spine, decorative Ten Commandments on front cover beneath title. Book is a periodical put out by the Conservative Seminary in Budapest, Hungary. Contains a calendar..... More
Jerusalem: J. Yunovitch, 1931. First edition. Softcover. Quarto. (xliii) 67pp. [1]. Tan textured paper wrappers with black lettering and publisher's device on the front cover, protected by modern mylar. Pages untrimmed. Volume one from the series of Hebrew translations from the writings of Hellenistic Jewish philosopher Philo of Alexandria. The..... More
San Francisco: Harper Collins, 1994. First edition. Hardcover. Quarto. xxxiv, 401pp. Original gray half cloth over orange boards with gilt lettering and publisher's device on spine, in orginal illustrated dustjacket, white, black and orange lettering on spine. The Sacred Literature Series. With a foreword by Arthur Hertzberg and an historical..... More
Dordrecht: Springer, 2007. First edition. Hardcover. Quarto. VIII, 215, [3]pp. Original printed glossy paper covered boards. Publisher's logo on title page. This book offers an examination of Levinas’s philosophy of religion in light of his ethics and anthropology. It provides critical perspectives on Levinas by relating his work to that..... More
Jerusalem: Tora Mitzion Institute, 1992. Hardcover. Octavo. 531 pp. Original Brown buckram with beautiful decorative gold border on front and spine, with gold lettering and red data box on front and spine. Yellow edge coloring. Decorative border on title page. Reference work on "Sefer Hasidim" organized by topic. Sefer Hasidim..... More
Cincinnati: Bloch & Co., 1874. Softcover. 8vo. Original printed wrappers. Study by Russian Orientalist Daniel Abramovich Chwolson, defending the Jewish race and religion. The work was first published in Russia in 1872 under the title "Kharakteristika Semitskikh Narodov." He draws a parallel between the characteristics of the Semitic race (the..... More
Washington, D.C. The Catholic University of America Press, 1959. Softcover. Lg. octavo. xv,[2],208pp. Original printed wraps. "...the material pertaining to "Tsa'ar Ba'ale Hayim" will be treated in two distinct books. Book I will deal with its bases and development as reflected in the Biblical, midrashic and talmudic literature; Book II..... More
NP: Gaon Israel, 17th. CE. First edition. Hardcover. 12 mo. 52, 46 pp. Original three-quarter blue leather. This fascinating book contains not only Cordovero's Sefer Tomer Devorah, but also a letter by Gaon Israel and another book on ethics, the Sefer Midrash Tadshe by Rabbi Pinhas ben Yair. Sefer Tomer..... More
Cambridge, MA: Association for Jewish Studies. 1982. First edition. Hardcover. x, 220pp. Index. Text in English with some Hebrew. Decorative off-white boards, spine lettered in blue. Contents: Mysticism in Jewish history, religion and literature / Joseph Dan -- Was Philo a mystic? / David Winston -- Jewish Merkavah mysticism and..... More
Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1976. Hardcover. 8vo. x, 454pp. Dark blue cloth with gold lettering to cover and spine. Collection of articles on the Ancient Jewish Religion and other religions in the Ancient Near East, especially the Phonecians. The articles had been previously publlished in a variety of academic magazines..... More
New York: Ktav Publishing House, (1976). Hardcover. 4to. xiii. 377pp. Gold lettering on front board and spine over blue cloth. Volume 1, Education, only volume ever published. Interesting work discussing the many philosophies behind Jewish education through the centuries. Included are articles by notable modern Jewish scholars such as David..... More
Assen / Maastricht: Van Gorcum, 1990. First edition. Softcover. Quarto. 334pp. [1]. Red soft cloth wrappers with white lettering on the front cover and spine. Part of the series "Studia Semitica Neerlanica", the work is a study of Sephardic Rabbi Abraham Ibn Daud's (aka RABad, ca. 1110-1180) philosophical treatise ha-Emunah..... More
New Haven: Yale University Press, 1938. First edition. Hardcover. Quarto. xii,348pp. Blue cloth with gold-stamped spine in original dust jacket. Frontispiece b/w photographic reproduction of the earliest portrait type of Philo. Comprehensive work on the politics of Hellenistic Jewish Biblical philosopher, Philo (20 BCE - 50 BCE). Includes general bibliography..... More
New Haven: Yale University Press, 1938. First edition. Hardcover. Quarto. xii,348pp. Blue cloth with gold-stamped spine in original dust jacket. Frontispiece b/w photographic reproduction of the earliest portrait type of Philo. Comprehensive work on the politics of Hellenistic Jewish Biblical philosopher, Philo (20 BCE - 50 BCE). Includes general bibliography..... More
Frankfurt: J. Kauffmann, 1900. First edition. Softcover. Octavo. vii, 87pp. (German), 77pp. (Hebrew). Original light blue wrappers with black ruling and lettering on cover, white paper spine. A contribution to Jewish philosophy of religion in the middle ages based on the Hebrew translation of the Arabic text by Abraham b...... More
Budapest: Adolf Alkalay & Sohn, 1899. Special edition. Softcover. Small Quarto. (4)123 (1)pp. Original tan wrappers with black ruling, ornament and lettering on cover. Special edition from the annual report of the "Landes-Rabbinerschule" in Budapest after the death of the author. Two page obituary at front. Studies on the Jewish..... More
Lewiston, NY: The Edwin Mellen Press, 1988. First edition. Hardcover. viii, 285, (3)pp. Index. Set entirely in typewriter script. Publisher's 4-item catalog at rear. Red cloth lettered in gilt. A fine, as new copy. This is Jewish Studies Volume 4. "Medieval Jewish philosophy like medieval Christian philosophy represented a cultural..... More
Lancaster, Ca: Labyrinthos, 1995. Limited edition. Hardcover. 1/300. 4to. XXXII, [4], 266 pp. on acid-free paper. Original teal smyth-sewn clothbound with silver illustration on front cover and silver lettering on spine. Tenth volume in the "Sephardic Classical Library" series. A critical edition of the oldest Ladino prayer book, predating the..... More
Leiden: Brill, 2019. First edition. Hardcover. Octavo. x, 285, (1)pp. Indices (including one in Hebrew and Aramaic) and a 23 page bibliography. Text in English with some Hebrew. Green buckram with purple red and green spine, spine lettered in white. A fine, as new copy. This volume contains studies based..... More