Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1975. Second printing. Hardcover. 8vo. xxvii, 1000 pp. Illustrated black and white dust jacket, white and orange lettering on the front cover, orange lettering on the spine. Original beige cloth with gilt lettering on a black label on the spine. Frontispiece portrait of Sabbatai Sevi..... More
Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1973. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. xxvii, 1000 pp. Original olive cloth with black imprinted title label with gold lettering on spine in original printed cream & black dust jacket. Frontispiece portrait of Sabbatai Sevi. One of the greatest works of Jewish history ever written, Gershom..... More
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1985. Hardcover. 8vo. viii, 272pp. Red cloth with gold lettering on spine in original printed illustrated dust jacket. Red top edge. A collection of 16 articles, 8 of them previously unpublished on Hasidism by the late Joseph Weiss, a leading scholar in the field. The articles..... More
Princeton, NJ./Jerusalem: Princeton University Press/Magnes Press, 1993. First English language edition. Hardcover. Quarto. 398pp. Purple and blue dust jacket, with white and black lettering on the front cover and spine. Maroon buckram boards with gilt lettering on the spine. The first English translation of Uffenheimer's classic work, originally published in..... More
New York: Pilgrim Press, (1981). First edition. Hardcover. Lg. 8vo. 277pp. Gray cloth with white lettering on spine in original illustrated dust jacket. Collection of Jewish mystical writings in the context of a general study of the mystical experience. The author traces mysticism through the Bible, the Talmud, the Kabbalah..... More
Santa Barbra, CA: Christopher Books, 1971. First edition. Softcover. 8vo. Unpaginated. 1/500 limited copies. Original paper wrappers with decoration of a Kabbalist making astrological calculations on front cover. Rear cover has medieval looking black decoration of the scene of Adam and Ever with the snake. Thick, orange decorative front and..... More
Jerusalem: ha-Akademya ha-Le'umit ha-Yisraelit le-Mada'im, 1982. First edition. Softcover. 8vo. 88 pp. Original paper wraps. Includes frontis piece of the famous and influential scholar of Jewish Mysticism and Kabbalah, Gershom Scholem. The title, rendered into English means: "Gershom Scholem, Concerning the Man and his Deeds: Words Spoken on the Thirtieth..... More
New York: Schocken Books, (1991). First American edition. Hardcover. Sm. quarto. 328pp. Half blue cloth with gold lettering on spine over paper-covered boards in original illustrated dust jacket. The author deals with several of the Kabbalah's most intriguing formulations: the mystical form of the imageless god; good and evil in..... More
Paris: Grasset, 1947. 7th edition. Softcover. Quarto. 533pp. Uncut and unopened copy. Original illustrated wrappers with red and black lettering on front cover and spine. Illustrated title-page. Decorative headpieces and initials. Fascinating work on the origins, the mystical psychology, and the metaphysic of the Kabbalah. Some age wear on wrappers..... More
Cincinnati: University of Cincinnati, 1978. First edition. Softcover. Octavo. Unpaginated. [28]pp. Original printed wrappers. Rabbi Louis Jacobs' lecture on Elimelech, who developed the Hasidic theory of the Zaddik into the full doctrine of "Practical/Popular Tzaddikism". This shaped the social role of mystical leadership, characteristic of the "Mainstream Hasidic" path. As..... More
New York and London: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1938. Hardcover. 8vo. xc. 720 pp. Maroon cloth with gold writing on front cover and spine. In English, translated from German, Yiddish and Hebrew. Some sunning and age wear to spine, front and back covers. Book is in fair condition... More
New York: Schocken Books, (1997). First printing. Hardcover. 8vo. xx, 329pp. Green cloth over green paper boards with gold lettering on spine in original printed illustrated dust jacket. A collection of English translations of texts recounting mystical experiences. Includes writings by Abraham Abulafia, Joseph Karo, Hayyim Vital, Moses Hayyim Luzzatto..... More