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RELATED SUBJECTS
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CATALOG 146: GERMAN JEWISH PHILOSOPHY, RELIGIOUS THOUGHT, & RELATED
SUBJECTS
Over 300 Titles
Included is material in the following subjects, organized by category:
=E2=80=A2=09SPECIAL
=E2=80=A2=09HASKALAH
=E2=80=A2=09SPINOZA
=E2=80=A2=09REFORM
=E2=80=A2=09ORTHODOXY
=E2=80=A2=09ROSENZWEIG, BUBER, & 20TH CENTURY GERMAN JEWISH PHILOSOPHY
=E2=80=A2=09FREUD & SEX
=E2=80=A2=09WOMEN
=E2=80=A2=09ANTISEMITISM & THE JEWISH QUESTION
=E2=80=A2=09ZIONISM
=E2=80=A2=09BIBLE
=E2=80=A2=09SECOND TEMPLE
=E2=80=A2=09RABBINICS & MEDIEVAL
=E2=80=A2=09RAMBAM
=E2=80=A2=09AGADA
=E2=80=A2=09CABALA
=E2=80=A2=09LITURGY
=E2=80=A2=09HAGADOTH & PESACH
=E2=80=A2=09KARAISM
=E2=80=A2=09SERMONS & ESSAYS
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DER CHURF=C3=9CRSTL. S=C3=84CHS. HANDELSTADT LEIPZIGK KAUF- UND HANDELS=
-RECHT.
[Leipzig]; Christolph G=C3=BCnther, 1683. A compendium of regulations=
of
the City of Leipzig. Of special interest are the edicts concerning
Jews: "Leipziger Juden-Ordnung de anno 1682."
Nr. 6 Wessely Naphtali Herz. SHIRE TIF'ERET: HIBUR KOLEL SHEMONAH AS=C2=
=B4AR
SHIRIM... 5 Volumes, Complete As Issued. Berlin-Prag: No Publisher
(Landau?), 1809.
Nr. 31 Bet Din Tsedek (Hamburg). ELEH DIVRE HA-BERIT:...PESAK DIN ASHER
YATSA MI-PI BET DIN TSEDEK DE...HAMBURG... Altona, 1819. Collection of
opinions written by German, Polish, and Italian rabbis against the
introduction of a Reform temple and prayer book in Hamburg.
Nr. 39 Holdheim, Samuel. UEBER DIE BESCHNEIDUNG ZUN=C3=84CHT IN
RELIGI=C3=96S-DOGMATISCHER BEZIEHUNG. Schwerin: Kurschner. 1844.
Nr. 172 K=C3=B6ster, Friedrich. DAS BUCH HIOB UND DER PREDIGER SALOMO'S=
NACH
IHRER STROPHISCHEN ANORDNUNG =C3=9CBERSETZT. Schleswig, 1831. Rabbi Mos=
es
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CATALOG 146: GERMAN JEWISH PHILOSOPHY, RELIGIOUS THOUGHT, & RELATED
SUBJECTS
Over 300 Titles
CONTENTS
=E2=80=A2 SPECIAL
=E2=80=A2 HASKALAH
=E2=80=A2 SPINOZA
=E2=80=A2 REFORM
=E2=80=A2 ORTHODOXY
=E2=80=A2 ROSENZWEIG, BUBER, & 20TH CENTURY GERMAN JEWISH PHILOSOPHY
=E2=80=A2 FREUD & SEX
=E2=80=A2 WOMEN
=E2=80=A2 ANTISEMITISM & THE JEWISH QUESTION
=E2=80=A2 ZIONISM
=E2=80=A2 BIBLE
=E2=80=A2 SECOND TEMPLE
=E2=80=A2 RABBINICS & MEDIEVAL
=E2=80=A2 RAMBAM
=E2=80=A2 AGADA
=E2=80=A2 CABALA
=E2=80=A2 LITURGY
=E2=80=A2 HAGADOTH & PESACH
=E2=80=A2 KARAISM
=E2=80=A2 SERMONS & ESSAYS
SPECIAL
1. [Leipzig: Commercial Law; Leipziger Juden-Ordnung]. DER
CHURF=C3=9CRSTL. S=C3=84CHS. HANDELSTADT LEIPZIGK KAUF- UND HANDELS-REC=
HT.
[Leipzig]; Christolph G=C3=BCnther, 1683. Boards bound with Latin miss=
al
with musical notation. 16mo. (4), 132, 4 pages. Only edition. In
German. A compendium of regulations of the City of Leipzig. Of special
interest are the edicts concerning Jews: "Leipziger Juden-Ordnung de
anno 1682." The relationship between this city in Saxony and the Jews
is an anomaly. On the one hand, Jews were banished from Saxony in 1430
- (it took three centuries for them to be readmitted to Leipzig). On
the other hand, on account of the seasonal Leipzig Fair, the number of
Jewish merchants present in the City would swell to the point that
these visitors were formally authorized to conduct gatherings in their
own prayer-rooms ("Judenschulen"). Indeed, permitted to attend the Fair
were not only German Jews, but Jews of Eastern Europe as well. In the
present text, Johann-Georg III, Duke of Saxony, mandates several laws
concerning Jewish tradesmen and the nature of Jewish participation in
the Fair. In order to attend, the Jew required attestation to his
professional honesty ("ein Ehrlicher Handelsmann") (par. 1); he was
forbidden to lodge in the suburbs (par. 2); and at all times, he must
be in possession of his various individual passes (pars. 3-6). Also,
legal-clauses are addressed to the wives, children and servants of the
Jewish tradesmen visiting (pars.10-12). Of peculiar note: Jewish
musicians were barred from trading altogether (par. 21). See JE, Vol.
VII, pp. 673-4. Subjects: German Law. Books before 1700. OCLC lists 14
copies worldwide. Backstrip detached. Binding very solid. Paper missal
over boards torn in places and foxed. All edges lightly bumped. Pages
lightly foxed around text throughout, fresh and clean otherwise. Good
condition. (GER-38-46) (ID #29048) $1,000.00.
HASKALAH
2. (Wessely, Naphtali Herz) Friedrichsfeld, David.ZEKHER
TSADIK:...VE-DIVRE YEME HAYE...NAFTALI HIRTS VAIZEL. Amsterdam: Be-Vet
Uvi-Defus S. Props,, 1809. 1st edition. Period Marbled wrappers, 8vo,
85 pages. 21 cm. The first biography of Wessely. Friedrichsfeld was
=E2=80=9Cborn in Berlin, where he was influenced by the Jewish Enlighte=
nment
movement. In 1781 he settled in Amsterdam, where he became one of the
leaders in the fight for Jewish emancipation. After Amsterdam was
occupied by the French revolutionary forces, he became one of the
leaders of the Felix Libertate society. [He was ]A follower of Moses
Mendelssohn=E2=80=9D (EJ, 2007). In Hebrew. =E2=80=9CWessely influenced=
his
contemporaries in various directions. As a scholar he contributed, by
his profound philological researches, to the reconstruction of the
language of the Bible, though his work is marred by prolixity and by
his refusal to admit shades of meaning in synonyms. As a poet he
possessed perfection of style, but lacked feeling and artistic
imagination. No one exerted a greater influence than he on the
dissemination of modern Hebrew, and no one, on the other hand, did more
to retard the development of pure art and of poetic intuition. Because
of his energetic commitment to the cause of Jewish emancipation,
Wessely may be regarded as a leader of the Maskilim=E2=80=9D (Wikipedia=
2012).
British Jewish leader Rabbi Berman Berliner=E2=80=99s copy, with his st=
amp (=E2=80=9CB.
Berliner=E2=80=9D) on title page. SUBJECT(S): Rabbis -- Biography. Auth=
ors,
Hebrew -- Germany -- Biography. Haskalah -- Germany. Wessely, Naphtali
Herz, 1725-1805. OCLC lists 10 copies worldwide. Ex-library with usual
marks, wear, but heavy rag paper has held up very well. Good.
(Heb-45-7) (ID #28957) $275.00.
3. Bertinoro, Obadiah (Ca. 1450-Ca. 1516); Heller, Yom Tov Lipmann
Ben Nathan Ha-Levi Ben Wallerstein (1579-1654); Teomim, Joshua Feivel
(Ca. 1680 Or 1685-1728); Friedla=C2=A8nder, David. PIRKE 'AVOT MENUKAD=
A. P.
DIKDUK IM P. MEL'O KHAF NAHAT / SHPRIKHI DER FETER. Vin [Wien, Vienna]=
:
Hrashantski,, 1791. 2nd edition. Period Marbled boards, 12mo, 80
leaves, 23 cm. In Hebrew & Judeo-German. Mishnah. Avot -- Commentaries,
Yiddish -- Early works to 1800. Mishnah. Avot. 1791.; Shprikhi der
Feter; Mishnah.; Avot.; Yiddish.; 1791. =E2=80=9CFaivish... Asher izen=
ve-hiker
ve-lakat mi-shene me'orot... Ovadyah mi-Bertinorah veha-Ga'on baal T.
Y. Ve-Im ha-targum Ashkenazi / David Fridlender. =E2=80=9D Friedl=C3=A4=
nder was =E2=80=9Cthe
son-in-law of the rich banker Daniel Itzig, and [as] a friend, pupil,
and subsequently intellectual successor of Moses Mendelssohn, he
occupied a prominent position in both Jewish and non-Jewish circles of
Berlin. His endeavors on behalf of the Jews and Judaism included the
emancipation of the Jews of Berlin and the various reforms connected
therewith. Frederick William II, on his accession, called a committee
whose duty was to acquaint him with the grievances of the Jews,
Friedl=C3=A4nder and Itzig being chosen as general delegates=E2=80=A6.=
Friedl=C3=A4nder
and his friends in the community of Berlin=E2=80=A6[later] turned thei=
r
attention to the reform of worship in harmony with modern ideas and the
changed social position of the Jews=E2=80=A6. He was one of the founder=
s of a
Jewish free school (1778), which he directed in association with his
brother-in-law, Isaac Daniel Itzig=E2=80=A6. Friedl=C3=A4nder also wrot=
e text-books,
and was one of the first to translate the Hebrew prayer-book into
German=E2=80=9D (Wikipedia, 2012) OCLC lists 2 copies worldwide (JTS,
Cambridge). Stamps old signitures on blank endpapers, some old stains,
Very Good Condition. (HEB-45-1) (ID #28945) $400.00.
4. Maimonides, Moses; Salomon, Gotthold. HELKAT MEHOKEK: KOLEL
SHEMONAH PERAKIM. Dessa: Moses Philippsohn,, 1809. 1st edition. Period
Marbled Boards, 12mo, [4] 83 leaves, 19 cm. In Hebrew and Judeo-German=
=2E
SUBJECT (S): Ethics, Jewish. Translated into Judeo-German by Gotthold
Salomon. =E2=80=9CLe-Rambam. Iberzetst und mit... Anmerkungen ferzehen=
me-et
Shelomoh Zalman b, kh. H. R. R. Lipman le-vet ha-Levi. =E2=80=9D In 180=
1,
Salomon =E2=80=9Cwas appointed teacher at the Jewish Free School, subse=
quently
called =E2=80=98Franzschule f=C3=BCr Hebr=C3=A4ische und Deutsche Sprac=
he, =E2=80=99 where he had
as colleagues David Fr=C3=A4nkel and Moses Philippson=E2=80=A6. [and e=
dited]=E2=80=A6the
periodical =E2=80=98Sulamith, =E2=80=99=E2=80=A6 of which six volumes a=
ppeared=E2=80=A6. In 1818 he was
called as preacher to the newly founded congregation at Hamburg, as
associate to Eduard Kley=E2=80=A6. In 1835 he engaged in polemics with=
the
theologian Hartmann of Rostock, who publicly opposed the emancipation
of the Jews, Salomon answering with his =E2=80=98Briefe an Hartmann.=
=E2=80=99 In 1837
he issued the "Deutsche Volks- und Schulbibel f=C3=BCr Israeliten" with=
the
assistance of Isaac Noah Mannheimer and with the financial support of
the Hamburg philanthropist Solomon Heine, uncle of Heinrich Heine. In
1841 the famous temple controversy (=E2=80=98Tempelstreit=E2=80=99) aro=
se in Hamburg on
the occasion of the publication of Salomon's prayer-book, which was put
under the ban by Hakam Isaac Bernays=E2=80=A6. Salomon, who was one of=
the most
eloquent Jewish preachers of the nineteenth century, was often invited
to deliver discourses in various cities, e. G. in London, Frankfort,
Vienna, and Prague. Aside from his polemical writings, a great number
of sermons and liturgical poems which were included in the hymnal of
the Hamburg Temple, Salomon published: a German translation, with
notes, of the Minor Prophets (1806); a translation, with notes, of the
=E2=80=98Shemonah Perakim=E2=80=99 of Maimonides (1809) =E2=80=9D (JE,=
1906). OCLC lists 7
copies worldwide (UCLA, JTSA, Yale, Spertus, Harvard, HUC, UToronto).
Light wear to boards, Very Good Condition. (HEB-45-2) (ID #28946)
$275.00.
5. Minden, Yehuda Leb Ben Yo'el. SEFER MILIM LE-ELOHA: VE-HU SEFER
MEVA'ER KOL SHEM U-FO'AL U-MILAH SHEBA-TORAH NEVI'IM U-KHETUVIM:
BE'URAN BI-L. HA-K. VE-TARGUMAN BI-LASHON ASHKENAZ... Berlin, 1760.
Later Paper Wrappers, Square 8vo, 2, 155 leaves. 21 cm. In Hebrew &
Judeo-German. First Hebrew dictionary by Jewish author with German
translations (in Hebrew letters). Title page states (translated): =E2=
=80=9CBook
explains all words in the Torah, Neviim and Ketuvim in Hebrew and
translated into Ashkenaz with accompanying references from the Bible.
Text is arranged alphabetically according to the root of each word as
found in Sefer ha-Shorashim by R. David Kimhi. =E2=80=9D At bottom of t=
itle
page is an illustration of the coat of arms of Fredericus Rex, the
Prussian king, and the last page has illustration of vase of flowers.
SUBJECT(S): Bible. O. T. -- Concordances, Hebrew. Bible. O. T. --
Dictionaries. Hebrew. Bible. O. T. -- Dictionaries. German. Bible. O.
T. -- Dictionaries. Yiddish. OCLC lists 17 copies worldwide. Wear &
some stains, but good, solid condition. (HEB-45-8) (ID #28958) $350.00.
6. Wessely [Weisel], Naphtali Herz. SHIRE TIF'ERET: HIBUR KOLEL
SHEMONAH AS=C2=B4AR SHIRIM... 5 Volumes, Complete As Issued. Berlin-Pra=
g: No
Publisher (Landau?), 1809. Period quarter leather & marbled boards,
8vo, 5 vols. In 1. 21 cm. [A 6th volume, not included here, was
published 20 years later in 1829 with with the separate title page =E2=
=80=9CDie
Mosaide. =E2=80=9D] In Hebrew. In 1788 Wessely =E2=80=9Cpublished in Be=
rlin his ethical
treatise Sefer ha-Middot (The Book of Virtues), a work of Musar
Literature. He also published several odes; elegies, and other poems;
but his masterwork is his Shire Tif'eret=E2=80=A6describing in rhetoric=
al style
the exodus from Egypt. This work, through which he earned the
admiration of his contemporaries, was translated into German=E2=80=A6an=
d partly
into French (by Michel Berr; Paris, 1815). His commentaries on the
Bible were published by the society Meie Nirdamim (Lyck, 1868-75) under
the title Imre Shefer. Wessely influenced his contemporaries in various
directions. As a scholar he contributed, by his profound philological
researches, to the reconstruction of the language of the Bible, though
his work is marred by prolixity and by his refusal to admit shades of
meaning in synonyms. As a poet he possessed perfection of style, but
lacked feeling and artistic imagination. No one exerted a greater
influence than he on the dissemination of modern Hebrew, and no one, on
the other hand, did more to retard the development of pure art and of
poetic intuition. Because of his energetic commitment to the cause of
Jewish emancipation, Wessely may be regarded as a leader of the
Maskilim=E2=80=9D (Wikipedia 2012). SUBJECT(S): Epic poetry, Hebrew. Mo=
ses
(Biblical leader) -- Poetry. OCLC lists 17 copies worldwide. Light wear
to period boards, a very attractive copy in period binding. (HEB-45-3)
(ID #28947) $300.00.
7. =E2=80=A2 Euchel, Isak Abraham. GEBETE DER HOCHDEUTSCHEN UND POLN=
ISCHEN
JUDEN: AUS DEM HEBR=C3=84ISCHEN =C3=9CBERSETZT UND MIT ANMERKUNGEN BEGL=
EITET.
Vienna, A. Schmid, 1815. Original Publisher=E2=80=99s Cloth. 12mo. 458=
pages.
19 cm. In German. Title translates to English as, =E2=80=9CPrayers of t=
he High
German and Polish Jews: Translated from Hebrew and Accompanied with
Notes. =E2=80=9D Isaac Abraham Euchel was a =E2=80=9CHebrew author; bor=
n at Copenhagen
1758; died at Berlin (June?) 14, 1804. He studied at the University of
K=C3=B6nigsberg under Immanuel Kant, and acquired a fine Hebrew style f=
rom
Moses Mendelssohn and Naphtali Wessely. A proposal to appoint him
professor of Oriental languages at the University of K=C3=B6nigsberg wa=
s
resisted by Kant, as dean of the faculty of philosophy, on the ground
that "it is hardly possible for a Jewish teacher of the Hebrew language
to abstain from the rabbinic expositions to which he has been
accustomed from his youth. " Euchel was one of the founders of the
periodical "Ha-Meassef" (1783), the organ of the Biurists. For some
time subsequently he was bookkeeper in the establishment of Meyer
Warburg in Berlin. In the winter of 1791 he founded, with other young
scholars, like Joseph Mendelssohn, E. Wolfssohn, and N. Oppenheimer,
the Gesellschaft der Freunde in Berlin" (EJ, 2007) SUBJECT (S): Judaism
-- Liturgy -- Texts. OCLC lists 12 copies worldwide. Stanley Dreyfus=E2=
=80=99
copy with his name on internal cover. Non-archival tape along spine.
Internal pages somewhat foxed throughout, but all text is clear. Good
condition. (DREYFUS-3-15) (ID #28664) $225.00.
8. Mendelsohn, Moses. PH=C3=84DON ODER =C3=9CBER DIE UNSTERBLICHKEIT=
DER SEELE
IN DREY GESPR=C3=84CHEN. Karlsruhe; Schmiederischen Buchhandlung, 1780.=
(FT)
Quarter leather over marbled board. 12 mo. [14] 52, 224 pages. 17 cm.
In German. Title translates as =E2=80=9CPhaedo or on the Immortality of=
Souls
in three discussions. =E2=80=9D Beautiful gilt lettering and ornate dec=
oration
on spine with marbled endpages. Mendelssohn=E2=80=99s Phaedon, for whic=
h he
became known as the =E2=80=9CJewish Socrates, =E2=80=9D was sold out wi=
thin four months
of its first printing. =E2=80=9CThe =E2=80=98Ph=C3=A4don=E2=80=99 was t=
he most widely read book of
its time. Its special charm was its elegant and lucid style. Never
before in Germany had philosophical questions been treated in such
clear language; so that his contemporaries with justice called him the
=E2=80=98German Plato. =E2=80=99 The "Ph=C3=A4don" is one of the best p=
roductions of classic
German prose; it was reprinted fifteen times and translated into nearly
all the European languages, while a number of Hebrew versions were
made. The Crown Prince of Brunswick was so delighted with it that
during a visit to his royal uncle in Berlin in the autumn of 1769, he
invited the author to visit him at the castle, and expressed the wish
that he might induce him to come to Brunswick. =E2=80=9D (Jewish Encycl=
opedia
1906) Subjects: Immortality - Early works to 1800. Covers worn at
edges, with top headband shaken, light pencil marks at endpages, pages
clean, with light foxing scattered throughout. Very good + condition.
(DREYFUS-5-9) (ID #28595) $400.00.
9. Omit.
10. Rabe, Johann Jacob. MISCHNAH ODER DER TEXT DES TALMUDS: DAS IST,
SAMMLUNG DER AUFS=C3=84TZE DER AELTESTEN, UND M=C3=9CNDLICHEN UEBERLIEF=
ERUNGEN
ODER TRADITIONEN ALS DER GRUND DES HEUTIGEN PHARISAISCHEN JUDENTHUMS.
Onolzbach, J. C. Posch, 1763. Original Publisher=E2=80=99s Cloth. Large=
8vo. 6
volumes in 3 books. [14], 268, [8]; 294, [4]; 250, [4], [7], 306,=
[5];
294, [4], 420, [5] pages. 24 cm. In German. The first German
translation of the Mishnah. Title translates to English as, =E2=80=9CMi=
shnah,
or the Text of the Talmud: A Collection of the Oldest Papers and Oral
Traditions as the Basis of Today's Pharisees Judaism. =E2=80=9D "'This=
man
[Rabe] is a strong Talmudist,' wrote Moses Mendelssohn to Herder under
date of Dec. 3, 1771, 'and I wonder at his patience. He has translated
into German the first three parts of the Babylonian and the
JerusalemTalmud, as he informs me, and has them ready for the printer,
but can find no publisher for them'" (JE, 1906). CONTENTS: Vol. 1.
Seraim. -- Vol. 2. Moed. -- Vol. 3. Naschim. -- Vol. 4. Nesikin. --
Vol. 5. Kodaschim. -- Vol. 6. Tohoroth. SUBJECT (S): Mishnah --
Commentaries. Includes indexes. SUBJECT(S): Mishnah -- Commentaries.
Includes indexes. =E2=80=9CVerkauft: 1827=E2=80=9D (sold) stamp on titl=
e page of each
book. Endpages are darkened and somewhat fragile. Backstrips are rubbed
and worn. Internal pages are lightly darkened, but not fragile, and all
text is clear. Good+ Condition. (DREYFUS-3-14) (ID #28663) $300.00.
11. Altmann, Alexander. MOSES MENDELSSOHN--A BIOGRAPHICAL STUDY.
London, Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1973. 1st Edition. Cloth, Large 8vo,
900 pages. Massive tome. Includes 25-page index. Author inscription on
front page. Very good in very good Jacket. (GER-39-13) (ID #28937)
$40.00. x
12. Mendelssohn, Moses. DIE PSALMEN. Berlin; Bey Friedrich Maurer,
1783. (FT) Full calf. 12mo. XII, 354 pages. 18 cm. First Edition. In
German. Marbled endpages. The Book of Psalms, translated into German by
Moses Mendelssohn, was the result of ten years of work, completed
shortly after his masterful translation of the Pentateuch into German,
which caused a stir of denunciation amongst both conservative Rabbis
and Gentiles of the time. Subjects: Bible. O. T. Psalms. Early printed
books - 1783. Covers worn, binding still very tight. Very light foxing
throughout; in remarkably clean condition. Very good condition.
(GER-39-19) (ID #29066) $400.00. xx
13. Euchel, Isaac Abraham. TOLDOT HA-RAV HA-KOLEL HE-HAKHAM...
MOSHEH BEN MENAHEM ZATSAL. Vienna; Gedruckt Bey G. Holzinger, 1814.
(FT) Later Paper Wrappers. 12mo. 144 pages. 19cm. Second edition. In
Hebrew. Title translates as: =E2=80=9CAutobiography of Moses Mendelsohn=
, with
excerpts from his work =E2=80=98Jerusalem=E2=80=99. =E2=80=9D Isaac Abr=
aham Euchel was a
=E2=80=9CHebrew author; born at Copenhagen 1758; died at Berlin (June?=
) 14,
1804. He studied at the University of K=C3=B6nigsberg under Immanuel Ka=
nt,
and acquired a fine Hebrew style from Moses Mendelssohn and Naphtali
Wessely. A proposal to appoint him professor of Oriental languages at
the University of K=C3=B6nigsberg was resisted by Kant, as dean of the
faculty of philosophy, on the ground that "it is hardly possible for a
Jewish teacher of the Hebrew language to abstain from the rabbinic
expositions to which he has been accustomed from his youth. " Euchel
was one of the founders of the periodical "Ha-Meassef" (1783), the
organ of the Biurists. For some time subsequently he was bookkeeper in
the establishment of Meyer Warburg in Berlin. In the winter of 1791 he
founded, with other young scholars, like Joseph Mendelssohn, E.
Wolfssohn, and N. Oppenheimer, the Gesellschaft der Freunde in Berlin.
=E2=80=A6 The most brilliant example of Euchel's Hebrew style is found=
in his
biography of Moses Mendelssohn, entitled "Toledot Rambeman:
Lebensgeschichte Mos. Mendelssohns, mit Excerpten aus Seinem
'Jerusalem'" (Berlin, 1789; Vienna, 1804)=E2=80=9D (EJ, 2007). Subjects=
: Jews -
Biography. Rabbis - Biography. Mendelssohn, Moses, 1729-1786. OCLC
lists 3 copies worldwide (American Jewish Univ, U of Manchester, Royal
Danish Library). Some signatures shaken. Edges lightly bumped. Text
crisp. Fair condition. Rare and important. (GER-38-36) (ID #29039)
$375.00.
14. Pinner, Efrajim Moseh. COMPENDIUM DES HIEROSOLYMITANISCHEN UND
BABYLONISCHEN THALMUD: EIN BEITRAG ZUR GESCHICHTE DER ISRAELITEN UND
EINE PROBESCHRIFT DER ZU ERSCHEINENDEN DEUTSCHEN UEBERSETZUNG DES
GANZEN THALMUD. Berlin; Beim Verfasser, 1832. (FT) ...Clothbound. 8vo.
XLVIII, 132 pages. 24 cm. First edition. In Hebrew and German. Red
cloth with gilt lettering on spine. Title translates as: "Compendium of
the Jerusalem Talmud and of the Babylonian Talmud; a contribution to
the history of the Israelites with a sample of the script appearing in
German translation of the entire Talmud. =E2=80=9D Labeled as the first=
volume
(no more published), outlaying the origin, language, and authenticity
of the Talmud, as well as the life and deeds of Rabbi Simon, the son of
Yochai. Ephraim Moses Pinner (1800-1880) was a =E2=80=9CGerman Talmudis=
t and
archeologist; born in Pinne about 1800; died in Berlin 1880. His first
work, bearing the pretentious title of "I Ur Talmud Yerushalmi
we-Talmud Babli" =3D "Compendium of the Jerusalem Talmud and of the
Babylonian Talmud" (Berlin, 1831), contained specimens of translation
of both Talmuds and an attempted biography of the tanna Simeon b.
Yohai. It was published as the forerunner of his proposed translation
of the Talmud; and his travels through Germany, France, England, Italy,
Turkey, and Russia were probably undertaken for the purpose of
furthering that plan. Pinner went from Constantinople to St. Petersburg
in 1837, and secured the permission of Emperor Nicholas I to dedicate
the translation to him. It was to have been completed in twenty-eight
folio volumes; but only one appeared, the tractate Berakot, which was
published five years later (Berlin, 1842). This is a splendidly printed
book, dedicated to the emperor, who also heads the list of subscribers.
The latter includes the names of the kings of Prussia, Holland,
Belgium, and Denmark, and of about twenty-five dukes, princes,
archbishops, and bishops. The volume contains approbations from several
rabbis, none of whom lived in Russia, in which country only
representatives of Haskalah, like Abraham Stern, Isaac Baer Levinsohn,
Jacob Tugendhold of Warsaw, and Abraham b. Joseph Sack of Wilna,
favored the undertaking. Their approval was given in signed eulogies,
which follow the approbations of the non-Russian rabbis. =E2=80=9D (190=
6 Jewish
Encyclopedia) Subjects: Simeon bar Yohai, 2nd cent. Talmud --
Introductions. Talmud Yerushalmi -- Introductions. Ex-Libris Herzlian
Teachers Academy (in South Africa). Covers lightly worn, with white
paint marks on uppermost edge of cover. Pages lightly foxed in margins
and lightly wavy near binding throughout; but clean and very fresh
otherwise. Good + condition. (GER-38-21) (ID #28930) $120.00.
15. Altmann, Alexander. MOSES MENDELSSOHN ON MIRACLES. Louvain;
Peeters, 1980. Paper wrappers. 8vo. 15 pages. 24 cm. Offprint from the
volume: =E2=80=9CHommage =C3=A0 Georges Vajda: =C3=A9tudes d'histoire e=
t de pens=C3=A9e
juives. =E2=80=9D This offprint includes a handwritten dedication from=
the
author, addressed to Fred Lessing, and also includes a laid in
handwritten letter in English written on Brandeis University stationery
from the author to Fred Lessing, dated August 19th, 1980. Alexander
Altmann (1906=E2=80=931987), =E2=80=9Crabbi, teacher, and scholar. His=
father was Adolf
Altmann (1879=E2=80=931944), a Hungarian-born rabbi who officiated in T=
rier in
1920=E2=80=9338 and wrote a history of the Jews there and in Salzburg.=
He died
in Auschwitz, together with his wife and other members of his family.
Alexander commemorated them in "A Filial Memoir, " which appeared in
the Leo Baeck Yearbook, 26 (1981). In 1931, Altmann received both a
doctorate in philosophy from Berlin University and ordination from the
Hildesheimer Rabbinical Seminary in Berlin, where he taught from 1932.
He served as rabbi in Berlin from 1931 and established there the Rambam
Lehrhaus, a public institute for adult education, in 1935. Altmann was
obliged to flee Germany in 1938, and was then appointed communal rabbi
in Manchester, England, serving in that capacity until 1959. In 1954 he
founded the Institute of Jewish Studies in Manchester, serving as its
director until his departure from England, when the Institute moved to
University College, London, under the watchful eyes of his devoted
brother, Manfred. In 1959, Altmann was appointed Lown Professor of
Jewish Philosophy and History of Ideas at Brandeis University, where he
taught until his retirement in 1976. He established the Lown Institute
for Advanced Judaic Studies at Brandeis and directed it from 1960 to
1965. Altmann's scholarship was primarily in the fields of medieval
Jewish philosophy and mysticism, as well as in the writings of Moses
Mendelssohn. His initial German essays were theological and
contemporary in nature and appeared in translation as The Meaning of
Jewish Existence (1992). Altmann's work includes Des Rabbi Mosche Ben
Maimon More Newuchim (abridged German translation, 1935); Saadya Gaon:
The Book of Doctrines and Beliefs (1946, abridged English translation
and commentary); Isaac Israeli (together with S. M. Stern, 1969); Moses
Mendelssohns Fruehschriften Zur Metaphysik (1969); Studies in Religious
Philosophy and Mysticism (1969); Moses Mendelssohn: A Biographical
Study (1973); Essays in Jewish Intellectual History (1981); Moses
Mendelssohn, Jerusalem or On Religious Power and Judaism (introduction
and commentary; translation by Allan Arkush, 1983); Von der
Mittlealterlichen zur Modernen Aufklaerung: Studien Zur Juedischen
Geistesgeschichte (1987). Altmann was the editor of Scripta Judaica
(jointly with J. G. Weiss) and the Journal of Jewish Studies (1954=E2=
=80=9358);
of Studies and Texts of the Lown Institute (four volumes, 1963=E2=80=93=
67); and
editor in chief of the Moses Mendelssohn Gesammelte Schriften
Jubilaeumsausgabe from 1970 until his death in 1987. In that period, he
was sole editor of five volumes in that series and part editor of five
more. A complete bibliography of Altmann's work is found in
Perspectives on Jewish Thought and Mysticism, edited by A. L. Ivry, E.
R. Wolfson, and A. Arkush (1998). An appreciation of his manifold
contributions to scholarship is given in the Leo Baeck Yearbook, 34
(1989) and in the Hebrew publication In Memory of Alexander Altmann
(1990), published by the Israel Academy of Sciences and the Hebrew
University of Jerusalem. Subjects: Mendelssohn, Moses, 1729-1786.
Judaism -- History. Light aging to covers, otherwise fine. Very good
condition. (GER-40-4) (ID #29057) $30.00.
16. Aristotle; Meir Ben Solomon Alguadez; Joseph Ben Shem-Tob.;
Isaac Satanow. SEFER HA-MIDOT LE-ARISTOTELES. Berlin: Orientalische
Buchdruckerey. 1790. Cloth. 8vo. In Hebrew. Fascimile reprint from 1790
edition. SUBJECT (S): Hebrew language; Aristotle =E2=80=93 Ethics. OCLC=
lists
one copy worldwide (UCLA). Fine condition. (GER-15-23) (ID #18803)
$75.00.
17. Bamberger, Fritz. FOUR UNPUBLISHED LETTERS TO MOSES MENDELSSOHN.
[New York], 1963. Paper wrappers. 8vo. 9 pages. 23 cm. Offprint from
=E2=80=9CLiving Legacy, essays in honor of Hugo Hahn. =E2=80=9D These f=
our unpublished
letters to Moses Mendelssohn were obtained by Bamberger in the wake of
the =E2=80=9CJudenrein=E2=80=9D of a Leipzig publishing house in 1937.=
Bamberger
dedicated the publication of these letters (from Johann Freidrich
Lowen, Johann Theophilus Lessing, Johann Jacob Dusch, and Christian
Wilhelm Von Dohm) to Hugo Hahn, and this edited collection of letters
was originally published in the Festschrift =E2=80=9CLiving Legacy=E2=
=80=9D in 1963.
=E2=80=9CBamberger's main interest in the field of Jewish philosophy ce=
ntered
on Moses Mendelssohn (Moses Mendelssohns geistige Gestalt (1929) and
"Moses Mendelssohns Begriff vom Judentum, " in: Wissenschaft des
Judentums im deutschen Sprachbereich, ed. By K. Wilhelm (1967), 521ff.
), and he edited three volumes of the bicentenary edition of
Mendelssohn's writings (1929=E2=80=9332; cf. Also Denkmal der Freundsch=
aft
(1929), and Living Legacy (1963), 86ff. ). =E2=80=9D (2007 Encyclopedia
Judaica) Subjects: Mendelssohn, Moses, 1729-1786. Biography. Bound in
paper and archival tape over staples, on thick paper. Paper lightly
aged, but clean. Very good condition. (GER-40-3) (ID #29056) $30.00.
18. Elbogen, Ismar; J. Bergmann; S. Bernfeld; Max Freudenthal;
Leopold Hirschberg; A. Lewkowitz; Paul Michael; Franz Muncker; Hanns
Reissner; Franz Rosenzweig. GEDENKBUCH F=C3=9CR MOSES MENDELSSOHN 1729-=
1929.
Berlin; M. Poppelauer, 1929. Clothbound. 8vo. 171 pages. 23 cm. First
edition. In German. Brown cloth with gilt lettering and frontispiece of
a bust of Moses Mendelssohn. Title translates as: =E2=80=9CMemorial Boo=
k for
Moses Mendelssohn. =E2=80=9D Printed under the auspices of the Federati=
on of
Societies for Jewish History and Literature in Germany, this collection
of writings and biographical sketches commemorates the two hundredth
year after the birth of the famous German Jewish Enlightenment poet and
philosopher, Moses Mendelssohn. Subjects: Mendelssohn, Moses,
1729-1786. Light rubbing to backstrip, light aging to pages. Clean and
fresh. Very good +condition. (GER-36-14) (ID #28865) $35.00.
19. Hensel, Sebastian. DIE FAMILIE MENDELSSOHN 1729-1847. NACH
BRIEFEN UND TAGEB=C3=9CCHERN. COMPLETE IN 2 VOLUMES. Berlin: H. Behr, 1=
880.
Original Publisher=E2=80=99s cloth with gilt lettering on front and spi=
ne, 8vo,
ix, 383, 400 pages. =E2=80=9CMit 8 Portraits, gezeichnet von Wilhelm He=
nsel 2.
Durchges. Aufl. =E2=80=9D The letters are for the most part by Felix
Mendelssohn and his sister Fanny Hensel. Contents: - Moses Mendelssohn
-- Joseph und Nathan Mendelssohn -- Die T=C3=B6chter Moses Mendelssohns=
--
Abraham Mendelssohn-Bartholdy -- Wilhelm Hensel -- Die Schweizer Reise
-- Leipzigerstrasse No. 3 -- Felix in England 1829 -- 1830-1834 --
Gustav Peter Lejeune Dirichlet -- Das Jahr 1835 -- 1836-1839 -- Italien
-- Neapel bis Berlin -- 1841. Hier sind wir denn vorerst ganz still zu
Haus -- Die Jahre 1842 und 1843 -- Reise- und Heimathbriefe --
Wiedersehen in Italien. Chip to bottom of Vol I spine, otherwise Very
Good Condition, a very attractive set. (holo2-47-35) (ID #26307)
$55.00.
20. Herz, Marcus. MARCUS HERZ =C3=9CBER DIE FR=C3=9CHE BEERDIGUNG DE=
R JUDEN:
AN DIE HERAUSGEBER DES HEBR=C3=84ISCHEN SAMMLERS. Berlin; Bey Christian
Friedrich Voss Und Sohn, 1788. Original Paper Wrappers. 8vo. 60 pages.
21 cm. In German, with some French and Hebrew. Revised and enlarged
from the 1787 1st edition. Engraving on title page by L. W.
Chodowiecki. In original paper wrappers, printed on fine paper. Title
translates as: =E2=80=9CMarcus Herz on the Early Burial of the Jews: To=
the
Editor of the Hebrew Collector. =E2=80=9D Hame=E2=80=99assef (Hebrew: ;=
literally "the
collector"), first Hebrew organ of the Haskalah. Founded in 1783 in
Koenigsberg by pupils of Moses Mendelssohn, Hame'assef was devoted to
the education of youth, the increased use of the Hebrew language, and
raising the general cultural level of the people. Although the organ
was planned as a monthly, it actually appeared as a quarterly whose
numbers were collected into annual volumes. The first three volumes
were published in Koenigsberg from 1783 to 1786; the next three in
Berlin, 1788=E2=80=9390; four issues of the seventh volume in Breslau,=
1794=E2=80=9397;
and three volumes of the renewed Hame'assef in Berlin, Altona, and
Dessau (1809=E2=80=9311), after which it ceased publication. =E2=80=9CM=
arcus Herz
(1747=E2=80=931803), German physician and philosopher. Herz was born in=
Berlin,
where his father was a Torah scribe. At the age of 15, Herz left for
Koenigsberg, where he worked as a clerk. He attended lectures at the
University of Koenigsberg from 1766 but had to stop in 1770 because of
his financial situation. He became friendly with Immanuel Kant, who
asked him to serve as his "advocate" on the occasion of his submitting
his dissertation. In his book Betrachtungen aus der spekulativen
Weltweishei (1771) Herz formulated his interpretation of Kant's views.
In 1770 Herz returned to Berlin, where he joined Moses Mendelssohn 's
circle. Supported by David Friedlander, he completed his medical
studies at Halle. In 1774 he was appointed physician at the Berlin
Jewish Hospital and was reputed to be one of the best doctors of his
time. He married Henriette De Lemons from a Portuguese Jewish family
from Hamburg. She was a social leader who gathered at her salon some of
the most prominent intellectual figures in Berlin of her time and was
known for her intellect. In 1777 Herz started lecturing in his home on
philosophy and experimental physics. These lectures were attended by
important persons, including members of the royal family, among them
the future Frederick William III. In 1787 the king of Prussia bestowed
the title of "professor" on Herz with the right to receive an income
for life. Kant corresponded with Herz for many years, and these letters
are of great importance for understanding both the development of
Kant's views before the publication of Critique of Pure Reason in 1781
and the relationship between Kant and Salomon Maimon. Herz published
several essays on philosophy and on the human soul. His Versuch ueber
den Geschmack und die Ursachen seiner Verschiedenheit (1776) developed
the conception of perfect beauty (in the spirit of Winckelmanns). In
1786 Herz published his Versuch der Kuenste. In 1786 he published his
Versuch ueber den Schwindel, and in 1777=E2=80=9384 his Briefe an Aerzt=
e. At
Mendelsshon's request he translated from English into German Vindiciae
Juaeorum, a defense of Judaism by Manasseh Ben Israel. In his work
Freimuetige Kaffeegesprache zweier juedischer Zuschauerinnen ueber
Juden Pinkus (1772), Herz criticized the self-hatred found among Jews.
He also wrote, at the request of the editor of Ha-Me'assef, a pamphlet
in which he argued against quick burial, the traditional custom among
Jews. He was for a long time the unknown translator of the so-called
"Prayer of the Jewish Physician, " attributed to Maimonides, from
Hebrew into German. =E2=80=9D Subjects: Burial laws (Jewish law). Jewis=
h
funeral rites and ceremonies. Burial, Premature. OCLC lists 16 copies
worldwide. Light foxing to wraps, with some tears along backstrip.
Light soiling to title page. Edges of pages lightly bumped. Pages
exceedingly clean and fresh, owing to the fine quality paper and
preservation. Very good condition. (GER-40-1) (ID #29054) $675.00.
21. Katsh, Abraham I. NACHMAN KROCHMAL AND THE GERMAN IDEALISTS.
KROCHMAL'S PHILOSOPHY AND ZIONIST THOUGHT. New York: No Publisher,
1949. Paper wrappers. 8vo. 24 pages. Reprinted from Jewish Social
Studies, Vol. VIII, No. 2 and from The Jewish Review, Vol. IV, No. 3.
Not an offprint. SUBJECT (S): Zionism; Philosophy; Krochmal, Nachman.
OCLC lists 1 copy worldwide (Brandeis). Katsh (1908-1998) was born in
Poland and emigrated to the U. S. In 1925. In 1933, he began teaching
at New York University, and over the following three decades taught
Hebrew education, culture, language and literature there. In 1957 He
founded the National Association of Professors of Hebrew in American
Universities, and was elected president of Dropsie College in 1967,
where he served until 1976. His scholarship won him many awards and
fellowships, including the Jewish Teachers Association of New York's
Avodah Award, the Rabbi Kaniel Prize of the Municipality of Haifa, and
the first Charles Kramer Research Fellow of the Institute for Jewish
Policy Planning and Research of the Synagogue Council of America. Katsh
is well known for his studies of Hebrew manuscripts and fragments from
Russia and Eastern Europe, his translations, and his essays on Jewish
studies in the United States. (EJ) Crease down front cover, edgeworn,
good condition. (Katsh-1-9) (ID #19587) $30.00.
22. Kayserling, M. MOSES MENDELSSOHN: SEIN LEBEN UND SEINE WERKE.
Leipzig, Hermann Mendelssohn, 1862. 1st Edition (?). 3/4 Leather, 569
pages; "Schriften herausgegeben vom Institute zur F=C3=B6rderung der
israelitischen Literatur... 7. Jg. " "Mit Heinrich Graetz und Leopold
Zunz geh=C3=B6rt Kayserling zu den Bahnbrechern der Geschichtsschreibun=
g der
Juden" (NDB). Lacks title page. Gilt spine title, binding tight. Light
wear to leather. Staining to corner of some pages. Very Good Condition,
nice copy. (RAB-45-23) (ID #24687) $75.00.
23. Mendelssohn, Moses. SEFER ZEMIROT YISRAEL: KOLEL SEFER TEHILIM
(COMPLETE IN FIVE VOLUMES). Ofenbakh: Al Yede Ha-Madpis Avraham Ben
Hirsh Segal,, 1825. Half leather, (FT) Hardcover, 44, 70, 68, 42, 38,
82 pages 5 volumes in two, 8vo, 20 cm. In Hebrew and German in Hebrew
characters (Judeo-German). SUBJECT(S): Bible. O. T. Psalms --
Commentaries. Other Titles: Bible. O. T. Psalms. Hebrew. 1824.; Bible.;
O. T.; Psalms.; Yiddish.; 1824.; Zemirot Yisrael. OCLC lists 6 copies
worldwide (Harvard, Stanford, Baltimore Hebrew Univ, Gratz Col, Texas
at Austin, Texas at Austin, Harry Ransom). Volume 1-2 missing
backstrip, leather rubbed off of front cover. Some stained pages to
Volumes 1-2. Volume 3 - 5 solid, tight binding. Good condition.
(music-1-2) (ID #24176) $400.00.
24. Natonek, Josef, 1813-1892. WISSENSCHAFT - RELIGION; EINE PRO-
UND CONTRA-BELEUCHTUNG DES MATERIALISMUS, DARWIN, HAECKEL, B=C3=9CCHNER
ETC., NACH NATURWISSENSCHAFTLICHEN GRUNDS=C3=84TZEN DER MOS.
ENTSTEHUNGSGESCHICHTE, NEBST HISTORISCHER BEWEISF=C3=9CHRUNG F=C3=9CR E=
INE
WALTENDE G=C3=96TTLICHE VORSETZUNG. Budapest, Pester Buchdruckerei,, 18=
76.
Professionally rebound in modern boards, 16mo. 151 pages. 1st edition.
In German. =E2=80=9C Science - Religion; Pros and Cons of Materialism,=
Darwin,
Haeckel, B=C3=BCchner etc. After Scientific Principles of Man=E2=80=99s=
Origins,
History, with Evidence for the Divine. =E2=80=9D Natonek =E2=80=9Cobtai=
ned his
rabbinical diploma from Rabbi Moses Sofer, of Pressburg=E2=80=A6. He ga=
ve up
his rabbinate to devote himself wholly to the reclamation of Palestine.
In concurrence with the Alliance Israelite Universelle and Sir Moses
Montifiore, he negotiated unsuccessfully with the grand vizier at
Constantinople. He returned to Hungary, settling in Budapest, where he
edited what may be considered the first Zionist weekly, Das einige
Israel (1870). =E2=80=9D (UJE, 1942). SUBJECT(S): Judaism and science.=
OCLC
lists only 10 copies worldwide. Ex-library with minimal markings. Very
good + condition. (RAB-42-5) (ID #24677) $100.00.
25. Plessner, Salomon. TRAUUNGSREDEN F=C3=9CR ISRAELITEN. Berlin; G.
Eichler, 1839. Paper Wrappers. 8vo. Viii, 182 pages. 21 cm. First
edition. In German. Title translates as: =E2=80=9CJewish Wedding Sermon=
s. =E2=80=9D
This collection of Wedding Sermons were written and published by
Salomon Plessner, a =E2=80=9CGerman preacher and Bible commentator; bor=
n at
Breslau April 23, 1797; died at Posen Aug. 28, 1883. Having lost his
father when very young, Plessner had to support his mother and himself.
He engaged in business, but found time to study Hebrew, rabbinics, and
German, under Wessely's influence. At the age of seventeen Plessner
began to study Wessely's Hebrew translation of the Apocrypha, resolving
to continue the translation himself. He indeed published at Breslau in
1819 his Hebrew translation of the Apocryphal additions to the Book of
Esther, under the title "Hosafah li-Megillat Ester, " with a
literary-historical introduction. At the same time he became known as
an eloquent preacher. Many of his sermons were published, among them
his funeral oration on the death of Abraham Tiktin, bearing the Hebrew
title "Zeker Addili-Berakah" (Breslau, 1821). In 1830 Plessner removed
to Berlin, where for a short time he was a teacher in the normal
school. Although possessing all the knowledge necessary for an Orthodox
rabbi, he persistently declined rabbinical office, preferring freedom
of speech. He earned a livelihood by preaching every other Saturday in
the Berlin bet ha-midrash, continuing at the same time his study of the
Apocrypha. In 1832 his "Nozelim Min Lebanon" was published in Berlin.
This work consisted of a Hebrew translation of a part of the Apocrypha,
with an appendix, entitled "Duda'im, " containing exegetical notes,
verses in Hebrew and German, and sermons. The following year he was
invited to dedicate the new synagogue at Bromberg, for which occasion
he composed poems in Hebrew and in German, which were published under
the title "Shirim la-Anukkat Bet ha-Tefillah" (Berlin, 1834). In his
sermons Plessner adopted the expressions of the most eminent Christian
preachers, interspersing his sentences with verses of Schiller and
Goethe, and rejecting the derashic or homiletic interpretation of the
Bible. In 1834 he began to publish his sermons in yearly volumes under
the general title "Belehrungen und Erbauungen" (2d ed. Berlin, 1840,
under the title "Religi=C3=B6se Vortr=C3=A4ge"). In 1838 Plessner publi=
shed his
"Dat Mosheh wi-Yehudit, " a catechism in twelve parts, preceded by an
introduction, on the nature and history of Jewish religious
instruction. His oratorical talent is particularly exhibited in his
"Mira'e Odesh" (Berlin, 1841), a collection of holy-day sermons for the
years 1835 to 1839.=E2=80=9D (1906 Jewish Encyclopedia) Subjects: Jewis=
h
wedding sermons. Jewish sermons, German. OCLC lists 21 copies
worldwide. Original paper wrappers absent. Title page very soiled
around edges. All edges very bumped and soiled. Pages lightly foxed and
lightly soiled throughout. However, all text legible, and pages quite
crisp. Fair condition. (GER-38-49) (ID #29051) $100.00.
SPINOZA
26. Auerbach, Berthold. B.V. SPINOZA'S S=C3=84MMTLICHE WERKE: AUS DE=
M
LATEINISCHEN MIT DEM LEBEN SPINOZA'S. Stuttgart: J. Scheible. 1841.
Half leather. 12mo. 284 pages. In German. SUBJECT (S): German language;
Philosophy. OCLC lists 24 copies worldwide. Auerbach (1812=E2=80=931882=
) was a
German author and a leader of Jewish emancipation. Born at Nordstetten
in Wuerttemberg, he, after some initial training for the rabbinate at
Karlsruhe (1827=E2=80=9329), became interested in law and philosophy an=
d
continued his studies at the universities of Tuebingen, Munich, and
Heidelberg. Auerbach's interest in Spinoza prompted his first novel,
Spinoza, Ein Denkerleben (1837), and his five-volume translation of the
philosopher's works (1841). (EJ) Ex-library, Lacks backstrip (spine
covering), Good Condition (GER-15-17) (ID #18797) $175.00.
27. Grunwald, Max. SPINOZA IN DEUTSCHLAND. GEKR=C3=96NTE PREISSCHRIF=
T.
Berlin, 1897. Berlin, S. Calvary & Co. 1897. 1st edition. Modern Cloth,
8vo, iv, 380 pages. 23 cm. In German. "Beitr=C3=A4ge zur
Spinoza-bibliographie"on pages [361]-370. SUBJECT (S): Philosophy,
German. Institutional blindstamp on title page. Paper wrinkled and
chipped, not suitable for institutional library, working copy only.
(GER-17-6B) (ID #16465) $40.00.
28. Glasscheib, Hermann Samuel. BARUCH SPINOZA: DRAMA IN EINEM
VORSPIEL UND SIEBEN BILDERN. Frankfurt Am Main; Ner-Tamid,, 1964.
Softcover, 8vo, 112 pages, 20 cm. In German. SUBJECT (S): Spinoza,
Benedictus de, 1632-1677 -- Drama. OCLC lists 11 copies worldwide. Wear
to cover edges. Very good condition. (Rab-46-15) xx (ID #24745) $30.00.
REFORM
29. Rabbiner Versammlung. PROTOKOLLE UND AKTENSTUCKE DER ZWEITEN
RABBINER VERSAMMLUNG ABGEHALTEN IN FRANKFURT UM MAIN, VOM 15TEN BIS ZUM
28TEN JULI 1845. Frankfurt Am Main, E. Ullmann, 1845. Original
Publisher=E2=80=99s Cloth. 8vo. Vi, [2], 382 pages. 22 cm. Reform. In=
German
with some Hebrew. Title translates to English as, =E2=80=9CProtocols an=
d file
pieces of the second rabbi meeting held in Frankfurt at Main, from 15th
to 28th July, 1845.=E2=80=9D =E2=80=9CIt was at this conference that th=
e irreconcilable
differences between the traditionalists and the reformers received
decisive expression. The discussions had shown that many of the members
held radical views on a number of vital points connected with the
ritual. Zacharias Frankel, who declared himself to be a champion of
positive historical Judaism, desired the conference to issue a
statement of definite principles. In this he was opposed particularly
by Geiger and Holdheim, and, although a majority of the meeting was in
sympathy with Frankel's views, yet the conference supported his two
chief opponents in their contention that no definite declaration of
principles should be formulated, because such a theoretical document
would result only in antagonisms and would not assist in solving the
burning questions of the day. Frankel withdrew from the conference, and
became the leader of the adherents of so-called "positive historical"
Judaism. Frankel issued a call in May, 1846, for a conference of Jewish
theologians, to be held in the fall of that year, and to be the organ
of the opposition to the Reform conferences; but the meeting did not
take place=E2=80=9D (JE, 1906). SUBJECT(S): Judaism. Rabbis -- Germany.=
OCLC
lists 25 copies worldwide. Some wear to cover, especially at corners.
Lacks most of backstrip. Some dampstains to second half of book, but
all text is clear. Institutional blind stamp on title page. Good+
condition. (GER-35-2). (ID #26860) $150.00.
30. PROTOKOLLE DER DRITTEN VERSAMMLUNG DEUTSCHER RABBINER,
ABGEHALTEN ZU BRESLAU, VOM 13. BIS 24. JULI 1846. Wroclaw, Leuckart F.
E. C. 1847. 1st Edition. cloth, 8vo., vi, 317 pages. Later cloth
binding. "The chief interest in the Breslau Conference centres about
the Sabbath discussions. Possibly nowhere was the conflict between the
commands of rabbinical Judaism and the demands of life so apparent as
in the matter of Sabbath observance...Was there any method of
reconciliation? Could the Sabbath be preserved and the deamnds of life
be satisfied at the same time? Here, if anywhere, the people looked for
help and guidance to their religious leaders" (Philipson in JQR, July
1906). Additionally, "During the Breslau Rabbinic Conference in 1846
the status of women was presented as an issue and addressed to be more
equalized, but no major practical action toward the equalization of
Jewish women was taken" (Wilhelm in Jnl of Amer J. Archives, Vol 54, nr
1). (GER-30-12) Rebound in period cloth, without original paper covers,
some old waterdamage to barods, but internal paper and binding to have
escaped with only dampstains to the margins. Good Solid Condition. (ID
#7815) $150.00.
31. Bet Din Tsedek (Hamburg). ELEH DIVRE HA-BERIT:...PESAK DIN ASHER
YATSA MI-PI BET DIN TSEDEK DE...HAMBURG... Altona, 1819. (FT)
Hardcover, 8vo, xvi, 132 pages, 22 cm. In Hebrew. SUBJECT(S):
Descriptor: Responsa -- 1600-1800. Responsa -- 1800. Reform Judaism --
Controversial literature. Jewish law. Jews -- Germany -- Hamburg.
Publication date from publisher's preface. Collection of opinions
written by German, Polish, and Italian rabbis against the introduction
of a Reform temple and prayer book in Hamburg. Like his mentor Wessely,
Cohen might be considered the traditionalist element within the
burgeoning Haskalah movement. He was opposed to the liberties taken in
the Hamburg Temple, beachhead of the Reform movement. It was none other
than Cohen who translated into German the responsa of leading rabbis in
condemnation of the Hamburg Temple that were included in the well-known
Eleh Divrei ha- Berith (Altona, 1819). The first Reform Temple was
inaugurated in Hamburg in the year 1818 by Israel Jacobson. What marked
the service as Reform was the abbreviation of the liturgy, choral
singing with organ accompaniment, and supplementing the standard Hebrew
prayers with prayers in the vernacular. The following year of 1819, the
Hamburg Temple issued its first prayer book. One of the most egregious
innovations in the eyes of the Orthodox rabbinate was that the revised
text of the liturgy no longer shared the traditional longing for a
return to Zion and the restoration of the Temple in Jerusalem. This
radical ideological shift is refl ected in the Hebrew text on p.105:
=E2=80=9CMay it be Your will...that you accept the service of our lips=
in place
of the sacrifices. =E2=80=9D Orthodox reaction was swift. The three rab=
bis of
Hamburg, Baruch Ozer, Moses Jacob Jaffe, and Jechiel Michael Speier
issued a ban against the recent heresies. However, the appeal of the
Orthodox to the Hamburg Senate to have the Temple closed was turned
down. The reformers attempted to garner rabbinical support for their
innovations, publishing a tract Nogah Tzedek (Dessau, 1818) presenting
several opinions in favor of their efforts. The Orthodox rabbinate of
Hamburg likewise appealed to their fellow rabbis to come to their aid.
They subsequently produced Eileh Divrei ha-Berith (Altona, 1819), a
collection of twenty-two response denouncing the new movement. See EJ,
Vol. XIV, cols. 23-24; JE, Vol. X, pp. 354-355; E. M. Klugman, Rabbi
Samson Raphael Hirsch, pp. 20-21, 25-27. OCLC lists 20 copies
worldwide. Hinge repair. Wear to binding. Light staining to pages.
Repair to spine. (Heb-33-17) (ID #28046) $300.00.
32. Formstecher, Salomon, 1808-1889. DIE RELIGION DES GEISTES: EINE
WISSENSCHAFTLICHE DARSTELLUNG DES JUDENTHUMS NACH SEINEM CHARAKTER,
ENTWICKLUNGSGANGE UND BERUFE IN DER MENSCHHEIT. Frankfurt Am Main; J.
C. Hermann, 1841. Contemporary boards. 8vo. VIII, 452 [1] pages. 20 cm=
=2E
First edition. In German. Quarter leather with red cloth and gilt
lettering on spine. Title translates as: The Religion of the Spirit: a
scientific view of Judaism according to its character and gradual
progressive development of humanity. =E2=80=9D Salomon Formstecher, (18=
08-1889)
was a =E2=80=9CGerman rabbi; born at Offenbach July 28, 1808; died ther=
e April
24, 1889. After graduating (Ph. D. 1831) from the Giessen University,
he settled in his native city as preacher, succeeding Rabbi Metz in
1842; he filled this office until his death. During his long ministry
he strove to harmonize the religious and social life of the Jews with
the requirements of modern civilization. His aims were expressed at
Brunswick, Frankfort-on-the-Main, Breslau, and Cassel in the
conferences of the German rabbis. The most important of his works is
"Religion des Geistes" (Frankfort-on-the-Main, 1841). It contains a
systematic analysis of the principles of Judaism. The author endeavors
to demonstrate that Judaism was a necessary manifestation, and that its
evolution tends in the direction of a universal religion for civilized
mankind. Judaism, in contrast with paganism, considers the Divinity to
be a Being separate from nature, and allows no doubt of God's
existence. Consequently any theogony, any emanation, any dualism must
be rejected. Formstecher concludes his work with a history of Judaism
which is a valuable contribution to Jewish religious philosophy. "
(1906 Jewish Encyclopedia) Subjects: Judaism -- Works to 1900. Jewish
philosophy. Judaism -- Doctrines. Light wear to covers, with rubbing at
edges on leather. Jewish book distributor stamp on title page. Pages
very clean and fresh, with light spots of foxing throughout, and
slightly wavy pages. Binding very solid. Good + condition. (GER-38-39)
(ID #29041) $350.00.
33. Geiger, Abraham. KOVETS VIKUHIM. Breslau, 1844. (FT) Softcover,
12mo, un-paginated. In Hebrew. Geiger was a =E2=80=9Cpioneer of the
Wissenschaft des Judentums and founder of Reform Judaism. Geiger was
born in Frankfurt am Main to an Orthodox family and received a
traditional religious education. Already in his childhood, he began
studying classical history, which gave rise to doubts concerning
biblical claims to divine authority. At the age of 17, Geiger began
writing a study of the Mishnah, differentiating its legal style from
biblical and talmudic law, and a dictionary of Mishnaic Hebrew. With
funding from friends, Geiger began university studies at the University
of Heidelberg in April 1829, to the dismay of his family. He
concentrated on philology, Syriac, Hebrew, and classics, but also
attended lectures in Old Testament, philosophy, and archaeology. After
one semester, he moved to the University of Bonn, where he joined a
group of Jewish students, many of whom were preparing for careers in
the rabbinate, that included Samson Raphael Hirsch, Solomon Munk,
Joseph Derenbourg, and other future scholars of Judaism=E2=80=9D (Hesch=
el in EJ
2010). OCLC lists 10 copies worldwide. Wear to binding. Name written on
front cover. Staining to cover. Bumped corners. (HEB-37-2) (ID #27626)
$135.00.
34. Geiger, Abraham. WISSENSCHAFTLICHE ZEITSCHRIFT FUR JUDISCHE
THEOLOGIE (VOLUME 1 ONLY). Frankfurt Am Main: J. D. Sauerlander, 1835.
Hardcover, 8vo, 22 cm. In German. SUBJECT (S): Judaism -- Works to
1900. Judaism -- Doctrines. Reform Judaism. The first volume of this
important journal, which ran a total of 6 volumes 1835-1847. Geiger
(1810=E2=80=931874) was a =E2=80=9Cpioneer of the Wissenschaft des Jude=
ntums and
founder of Reform Judaism. Geiger was born in Frankfurt am Main to an
Orthodox family and received a traditional religious education. Already
in his childhood, he began studying classical history, which gave rise
to doubts concerning biblical claims to divine authority. At the age of
17, Geiger began writing a study of the Mishnah, differentiating its
legal style from biblical and talmudic law, and a dictionary of
Mishnaic Hebrew. The two journals he edited contain numerous articles
of scholarly and theological significance: Wissenschaftliche
Zeitschrift fuer juedische Theologie (1835=E2=80=9339) and Juedische
Zeitschrift fuer Wissenschaft und Leben (1862=E2=80=9375) =E2=80=9D (He=
schel in EJ
2007). OCLC lists 33 copies worldwide. Wear to cover Lightly bumped
corners. Otherwise beautiful condition. (SPEC-11-1) (ID #25450)
$200.00.
35. Geiger, Abraham; Geiger, Ludwig. ABRAHAM GEIGER'S NACHGELASSENE
SCHRIFTEN. DRITTER BAND. ONLY. Breslau, Jacobsohn & Co., 1885. Cloth,
8vo. 344 pages. In German. This volume only. SUBJECT (S): Judaism; Jews
=E2=80=93 Germany; Jewish question; Geiger, Abraham, 1810-1874. Abraham=
Geiger
(1810-1847) was a Reform movement leader. In 1832, he became the rabbi
of Wiesbaden, and began his program of reform; five years later, he
hosted the first meeting of Reform rabbis there. He also served in
Breslau and Frankfurt, his hometown. His well-known Orthodox opponents
were S. R. Hirsch and A Titkin. Cover is worn, especially at edges;
lacks backstrip. Internal pages are nice and clean. All text is clear
and binding is tight. Good condition. (GER-30-8). (ID #26902) $35.00.
36. Geiger, Abraham; Geiger, Ludwig. ABRAHAM GEIGER'S NACHGELASSENE
SCHRIFTEN. DRITTER BAND. ONLY. Berlin: L. Gerschel. 1876. Cloth, 8vo.
326 pages. In German. First edition. This volume only. SUBJECT (S):
Judaism; Jews =E2=80=93 Germany; Jewish question; Geiger, Abraham, 1810=
-1874.
Abraham Geiger (1810-1847) was a Reform movement leader. In 1832, he
became the rabbi of Wiesbaden, and began his program of reform; five
years later, he hosted the first meeting of Reform rabbis there. He
also served in Breslau and Frankfurt, his hometown. His well-known
Orthodox opponents were S. R. Hirsch and A Titkin. Ex library with
minimal markings, covers and front flyleaf missing, back flyleaf and
edges marbled, a couple small tears in text, fair condition.
(GER-18-11) (ID #25791) $35.00.
37. (Holdheim) Ritter, Immanuel Heinrich. SAMUEL HOLDHEIM: SEIN
LEBEN UND SEINE WERKE: EIN BEITRAG ZU DEN NEUESTEN REFORMBESTREBUNGEN
IM JUDENTHUME. Berlin; W. J. Peiser, 1865. Half-leather. 8vo. VIII,
307, [1] pages. 23 cm. First edition. In German. Half-leather over
boards, gilt lettering on spine. Title translates as: =E2=80=9CSamuel H=
oldheim:
his Life and his Works: a Contribution to the Recent Reform Efforts in
Judaism=E2=80=9D. Contains notes on the Hebrew texts of the Old Testame=
nt,
together with a translation of the Book of Job, and a grammatical
appendix. Rabbi Samuel Holdheim was a leader of the Reform movement in
German Judaism early in the 19th century, considered a pioneer in
modern Jewish homiletics. The author, Immanuel Heinrich Ritter, was a
=E2=80=9CGerman rabbi; born March 13, 1825, in Ratibor, Prussian Silesi=
a; died
July 9, 1890, in Johannisbad, Bohemia. While studying at the gymnasium
of his native town he received his Talmudic instruction under Rabbi
Loewe. At the University of Breslau classical philology and history
formed his special studies (Ph. D. 1849). During an audience with the
Cultusminister von Raumer in 1851, the latter gave the young candidate
to understand that only baptism could entitle him to an appointment as
professor at a college. Ritter thereupon accepted a position as teacher
of religion and reader at the Berlin Reform congregation, becoming
later assistant to the senior preacher of the temple, Samuel Holdheim.
His first ten sermons were published as "Kanzelvortr=C3=A4ge aus dem
Gotteshause der J=C3=BCdischen Reformgemeinde" (Berlin, 1856), which pl=
aced
him at once among the foremost Jewish preachers of his time. In 1859
his "Beleuchtung der Wagner'schen Schrift, " published against "Das
Judenthum und der Staat" by Wagner, member of the Prussian Diet,
created a stir. Ritter's principal work was his "Geschichte der
J=C3=BCdischen Reform, " in four parts (Berlin, 1858-1902): I. "Mendels=
sohn
und Lessing. " II. "David Friedl=C3=A4nder. " III. "Samuel Holdheim. "=
IV.
"Die J=C3=BCdische Reformgemeinde in Berlin" (edited by S. Samuel, rabb=
i in
Ussen). In the first part Ritter demonstrates that Moses Mendelssohn's
lack of understanding of historical criticism concerning Judaism was
one of the main reasons why his own children and many of his friends
became apostates from the religion of their fathers. He further shows
that Lessing had a better conception of Judaism than Mendelssohn.
Mendelssohn's false view of revelation, a view which identifies Judaism
with legalism, makes him a representative of conservatism and even of
retrogression. =E2=80=9D (from the 1906 Jewish Encyclopedia). Subjects:=
Reform
Judaism - Germany - History -- 19th century. Holdheim, Samuel,
1806-1860. OCLC lists 13 copies worldwide. Front cover hinge starting.
Covers lightly soiled. Pages lightly foxed through. Very good
condition. (GER-36-21) (ID #28872) $225.00.
38. Holdheim, Samuel. DIVRE HA-SHEM. WORTE GOTTES, ODER
GOTTESDIENSTLICHE VORTR=C3=84GE GEHALTEN IN DER SYNAGOGE ZU FRANKFURT A=
=2E O.
Frankfurt A. O.; In Commission Bei F. J. Tempel, 1839. FT) Clothbound.
8vo. XX, 208 pages. 21 cm. First edition. In German. Three volumes in
one. Half leather and cloth with gilt lettering on spine. Title
translates as: =E2=80=9CWords of God, or liturgical presentation; Sermo=
ns and
lectures in the synagogue at Frankfort-on-the-Oder. =E2=80=9D Samuel Ho=
ldheim
(1806-1860), a renowned extreme reform Rabbi, starting his Rabbinical
career in 1936 at the synagogue at Frankfort-on-the-Oder, where these
sermons were conducted. The Jewish Encylopedia relates his career and
ideas during this period of writing thus: =E2=80=9CHere he remained unt=
il 1840,
encountering many difficulties, due both to the distrust of those
within the congregation who suspected the piety of a rabbi able to
speak grammatical German, and who was a graduate of a German
university, and to the peculiar legislation which in Prussia under
Frederick William III. Regulated the status of the Jewish
congregations. To bring about a change in this state of affairs was the
purpose of Holdheim. In the preface to his "Gottesdienstliche Vortr=C3=
=A4ge"
(Frankfort-on-the-Oder, 1839) he appealed both to the government to
accord the modern rabbinate the dignity due to it, and to the
congregations to cease regarding the rabbi as an expert in Jewish
casuistics mainly charged with the duty of answering "she'elot" (ritual
questions) and inquiries concerning dietary laws. He insisted upon the
recognition of the rabbi as preacher and teacher, who at the same time
gives attention to the practical requirements of his office as the
expert in Talmudical law. While in Frankfort, Holdheim scrupulously
decided every question according to the Halakah. In his pulpit
discourses belonging to this period the intention is plain to steer
clear of mere rationalistic moralizing, on the one hand, and dry
legalizing and unscientific speculation (in the style of the old
"derashah"), on the other. Holdheim thus deserves to be remembered as
one of the pioneers in the field of modern Jewish Homiletics, who
showed what use should be made of the Midrashim and other Jewish
writings. He also repeatedly took pains to arouse his congregation to
help carry out Geiger's and Philippson's project of founding a Jewish
theological faculty. Judaism even then had ceased for Holdheim to be an
end unto itself. He had begun to view it as a force in the larger life
of humanity. =E2=80=9D Subjects: Jewish sermons, German. Jews -- Poland=
--
Slubice. OCLC lists 12 copies worldwide. Covers soiled, leather rubbed.
Pages wavy, foxed throughout, but clean, and pages firm. Very good
condition. (GER-36-39) (ID #28890) $150.00.
39. Holdheim, Samuel. UEBER DIE BESCHNEIDUNG ZUN=C3=84CHT IN
RELIGI=C3=96S-DOGMATISCHER BEZIEHUNG. Schwerin: Kurschner. 1844. Cloth.=
8vo.
88 pages. In German. SUBJECT (S): Circumcision. OCLC lists 11 copies
worldwide. Holdheim (1806-1860) was a German Reform leader. He preached
in German, established modern schools, and held services on Sundays.
His general idea was to separate Jews' religious imperative from their
civic duties owed to the countries they lived in. (Levinger, EJ) Boards
worn, pages foxed, good condition. (MX-21-4) (ID #23883) $200.00.
40. Holdheim, Samuel. MA=E2=80=99AMAR HA-ISHUT: =E2=80=98AL TEKHUNAT=
HA-RABANIM
VEHA-KARA=E2=80=99IM: KOLEL HAKIROT SHONOT BE-MAHLOKET HA-TSEDUKIM
VEHA-PERUSHIM, HA-KARA=E2=80=99IM VEHA-RABANIM. Berlin: The Author, 186=
0. (FT)
Hardcover, 8vo, 173 pages, 23 cm. In Hebrew. SUBJECT(S): Marriage
(Karaite law) Divorce (Karaite law) Divorce (Jewish law) Marriage
(Jewish law) Selbstverlage der wittwe des sel, Verfassers. Holdheim
(1806=E2=80=931860) was a =E2=80=9Cleader of Reform Judaism in Germany.=
Born in Kempno
near Poznan, Holdheim received a talmudic education, but began to study
German and secular subjects after marrying a woman with a modern
education, daughter of a Poznan rabbi. The marriage was unsuccessful
and after his divorce he moved to Prague where he began to study
philosophy at the university. Holdheim=E2=80=99s principal thesis was t=
he
separation of the religious and ethical content of Judaism (which
should be binding) from the political-national content (which should
not be binding), since Jews are citizens of the countries in which they
are living. In Ma=E2=80=99amar ha-Ishut al Tekhunat ha-Rabbanim ve-ha-K=
ara=E2=80=99im
(1861), a historical work written in Hebrew and published posthumously,
Holdheim attempts, inter alia, to refute Geiger's opinion on the nature
of the controversy between the Pharisees and the Sadducees and defends
the traditional thesis that the principle in dispute was whether
interpretation of the Scripture should be based on the primary meaning
(Sadducees) as opposed to midrashic exegesis (Pharisees) =E2=80=9D (Lev=
inger in
EJ 2011). Repair to binding. Edwewear, good condition. (Heb-43-7) (ID
#28031) $50.00.
41. Holdheim, Samuel. NEUE SAMMLUNG J=C3=9CDISCHER PREDIGTEN, WORUNT=
ER
=C3=9CBER ALLE FESTE DES JAHRES, GEHALTEN IM GOTTESHAUSE DER J=C3=9CDIS=
CHEN
REFORM-GEMEINDE ZU BERLIN [Erster Band]. Berlin; C. David, 1852.
Clothbound. 8vo. VIII, [2], 318, [1] pages. 22 cm. First edition. In
German. Marbled covers with decorative title pastedown on spine. Title
translates as: =E2=80=9CNew collection of Jewish sermons, among which a=
re held
on all the festivals of the year, in God's house of the Jewish Reform
congregation in Berlin. First book. =E2=80=9D The first of four volumes=
of
sermons given at the Reform German Synagogue in Berlin by Samuel
Holdheim. The published titles of the four volumes printed from
1852-1869 have varied titles; Volume 1 has title: Neue Sammlung
juedischer Predigten worunter ueber alle Feste des Jahres.../ Volume 2
has subtitle: Ein Buch der religioesen Belehrung und Erbauung fuer's
juedische Haus. / Volumes 3-4 have title: Predigten =C3=BCber die j=C3=
=BCdische
Religion. Volume 4 has also special title: Fest- und
Gelegenheitspredigten. Volume 3 has imprint: Berlin, J. Springer,
volume 4 has imprint: Berlin, J. Benzian. Rabbi Samuel Holdheim
(1806-1860) =E2=80=9Cemerged as a representative of the extremist trend=
in the
Reform movement. In 1847 he was asked to serve as rabbi of the new
Reform congregation founded in Berlin where he officiated until his
death. In Berlin he introduced radical reforms in the ritual. Services
were conducted on both Saturdays and Sundays and after a while on
Sundays only. Holdheim's principal thesis was the separation of the
religious and ethical content of Judaism (which should be binding) from
the political-national content (which should not be binding), since
Jews are citizens of the countries in which they are living. The
Sabbath, for instance, is included in the religious category, while the
prohibition on mixed marriages is of a political-national nature, and
hence no longer binding. =E2=80=9D Subjects: Jewish sermons -- Germany.
Sermons, German -- Jewish authors. Jewish festival-day sermons. OCLC
lists 18 copies worldwide. Covers lightly worn, bumped corners. Pages
clean, lightly aged, lightly soiled, lightly foxed. Very good
condition. (GER-36-38) (ID #28889) $100.00.
42. Holdheim, Samuel; Leopold Stein. PREDIGTEN =C3=9CBER DIE JUDISCH=
E
RELIGION [Volumes 2, 4, 3] / KOHOLETH; EINE AUSWAHL GOTTESDIENSTLICHER
VORTR=C3=84GE GEHALTEN in DER HAUPT-SYNAGOGE ZU FRANKFURT AM MAIN in DE=
N
JAHREN 1844-1846. Berlin; C. David / Frankfurt Am Main; Sauerl=C3=A4nde=
r,
1863. Clothbound. 8vo. XIV, 310, [4]; VI, 214; 72; XVI, 366 pages. 22
cm. First edition. Four volumes bound together. In German and Hebrew.
Green cloth with gilt lettering on spine, includes a handwritten table
of contents from time of binding. The first three volumes constitute
volumes two, four, and three (bound in that order) of the =E2=80=9CSerm=
ons on
the Jewish religion. Held in the church of the Jewish Reform
Congregation in Berlin =E2=80=9C by Samuel Holdheim (1806-1860), a reno=
wned
extreme German Reform Rabbi. The imprint of these latter volumes
varies: volume 3, Berlin, J. Springer; volume 4, Berlin, J. Benzian.
The last volume, =E2=80=9CKoholeth; a selection of Sermons held in the=
main
synagogue in Frankfurt am Main in the years 1844-1846=E2=80=9D by the r=
eform
Rabbi Leopold Stein (1810-1882), constituting sermons from his first
two years (of an eighteen year career as Rabbi at) the synagogue at
Frankfurt am Main. A fine collection of mid-19th century German Reform
Sermons. Subjects: Jewish sermons -- Germany. Sermons, German -- Jewish
authors. Judaism. Sermons, German. Covers lightly worn, first endpage
shaken. Margins stained with pink fluid in first volume in last hundred
pages, not affecting text. Light water stain to bottom margin of
Koholeth, last page repaired on back portion. All text clean, pages
overall very fresh and clean. Very good condition. (GER-36-40) (ID
#28891) $400.00.
43. Isaak, Bernhard. DER RELIGIONSLIBERALISMUS IM DEUTSCHEN
JUDENTUM. 1933. Leipzig, Druckerei der Werkgemeinschaft G. M. B. H.
1933. DESCRIPTION 76 pages. 22 cm. NOTES Curriculum vitae.
Inaugural-Dissertation--Leipzig, 1933. "Quellen-Verzeichnis und
Literatur-Nachweis, " at end. Institutional Stamp, Very Good Condition
(GER-37-46) (ID #9390) $60.00.
44. Plaut, W. Gunther. THE RISE OF REFORM JUDAISM. VOLUME ONE. A
SOURCEBOOK OF ITS EUROPEAN ORIGINS. New York; World Union For
Progressive Judaism, 1963. Clothbound. 8vo. XXXII, 288 pages. 25 cm.
First edition. Red cloth with gilt lettering; with dustjacket. Gunther
Plaut is a German-born Reform Rabbi in Toronto, who escaped Nazi
Germany in 1935 and studied at the Hebrew Union College and served in
the US army as a chaplain during the second world war. The Rise of
Reform Judaism constitutes a detailed and respected history of the
ideas, texts and works, temples, prayer books, conferences, worship,
and community life of Reform Judaism. Subjects: Reform Judaism -
History. Reform Judaism - History - Sources. Judaism - History - Modern
period, 1750- - Sources. Dustjacket worn with a portion torn at upper
edge. Edges lightly aged and soiled. Pages fresh and clean. Very good +
condition. (GER-36-17) (ID #28868) $25.00.
45. Wohlgemuth, J. DIE "RICHTLINIEN ZU EINEM PROGRAMM F=C3=9CR DAS
LIBERALE JUDENTUM". Frankfurt A. M. Verlag Des Israelit G. M. B. 1913.
Paper Wrappers, Few chips to cover, otherwise Good Solid Condition.;
12mo (small); 80 pages, Guido Kisch's copy. (GER-39-5) (ID #3058)
$40.00.
ORTHODOXY
46. BLATTER HERAUSGEGEBEN VON DEM GRUPPENVERBAND DER AGUDAS JISROEL
UND DER AGUDAS JISROEL JUGEND-ORGANISATION. Frankfurt: AM, 1918. Paper
Wrappers, 8vo. 16 pages. In German. "Agudat Yisrael was founded in
Katowice (Upper Silesia, now in the southwestern part of Poland), in
1912, with purpose of providing an umbrella organization for observant
Jews, who opposed the Zionist movement" (Wikipedia 2012). In good
condition. (MX17-19) (ID #21499) $30.00.
47. BLATTER HERAUSGEGEBEN VON DER AGUDAS JISROEL
JUGEND-ORGANISATION. Siebentes Blatt. Frankfurt: AM, 1916. Paper
Wrappers, 8vo. 20 pages. In German. In good condition. (MX17-18) (ID
#21498) $30.00.
48. Breuer, Isaac. LEHRE, GESETZ UND NATION, EINE
HISTORISCH-KRITISCHE UNTERSUCHUNG UBER DAS WESEN DES JUDENTUME.
Frankfurt A. M. Verlag Des Israelit, 1914. Paper Wrappers, Front cover
repair, paper browning but good; 12mo (small); 40 pages (MX-22-19) (ID
#4894) $50.00.
49. Breuer, Isaac. MESSIASSPUREN. Frankfurt A. M. R. L. Hammon,
1918. 1st Edition (?). Cloth, Previous owner's name inked out on title
page, otherwise Very Good Condition.; 12mo; 131 pages; 19 cm. Freimann
402. (GER-17-6A) (ID #8191) $75.00.
50. Carlebach, Joseph. LIBERALES JUDENTUM UND J=C3=9CDISCHE TRADITIO=
N
AUFS=C3=84TZE. Frankfurt; Verlag D. "israelit,", 1913. FT) Clothbound.=
12mo.
107 pages. 19 cm. First edition. In German. Marbled paper and cloth
over boards, with decorative edges. =E2=80=9CLiberal Judaism and Jewish
tradition=E2=80=9D a collection of essays by Dr. Joseph Carlebach, a la=
ter
famous mathematician, natural scientist, philosopher, pedagogue, and
Rabbi, who during the time of these essays was finishing up his
rabbinical studies. Subjects: Orthodox Judaism -- Germany. Reform
Judaism -- Germany -- Controversial literature. OCLC lists 5 copies
worldwide. Light soiling to covers, with yellow and white pen and paint
at cloth edge near spine. Light pencil marks on endpages. Pages fresh
and clean, with a slight tear at bottom of page 17. Near fine
condition. (GER-33-9) (ID #28805) $70.00.
51. Carlebach, Joseph, 1883-1942. RENEGATENTUM DES GEISTES.
Frankfurt A/M.; Israelit Und Hermon, 1937. Paper wrappers. 8vo. 47
pages. 23 cm. First edition. In German. Nazi-era imprint. =E2=80=9CApos=
tasy of
the Mind; first part, criticism of Elias Auerbach: "Wilderness and
Promised Land", a critique and exposition of historical exegesis of
biblical commentaries written by Dr. Joseph Carlebach: mathematician,
natural scientist, philosopher, pedagogue, and during the time of
writing Chief Rabbi of Hamburg. He was murdered in 1942 in Latvia, but
his name and legacy is remembered in Hamburg and Israel through various
building and street dedications, institutes, and scholarly prizes.
Subjects: Bible -- Criticism, interpretation, etc. Old Testament.
Exegesis. Wetenschappelijke technieken. OCLC lists nine copies
worldwide. Covers lightly soiled, with torn upper right edge, tears at
backstrip, and small portion torn on back edge of cover. Title page
lightly soiled. Pages lightly aged but clean and crisp, yet with small
crease in upper right corner of pages. Very good condition. (GER-33-28)
(ID #28824) $45.00.
52. Carlebach, Naphtali. JOSEPH CARLEBACH AND HIS GENERATION;
BIOGRAPHY OF THE LATE CHIEF RABBI OF ALTONA AND HAMBURG. New York,
Joseph Carlebach Memorial Foundation, 1959. Clothbound. 8vo. XV, 316
pages. 24 cm. First edition. Beige cloth with gilt lettering. A
detailed biography of the brilliant Rabbi Joseph Carlebach; written by
his brother. Dr. Naphtali Hartwig Carlebach was rabbi of the
Passauerstrasse Synagogue of Berlin from 1917 to 1931. This was one of
the few synagogues in Germany that did not discriminate in any manner
against Jews of Eastern European origin, when it came to the right to
vote on congregational issues or to the election of officers and board
members. One of the by-laws of the congregation stated explicitly that
at least two of the seven members of the board of the synagogue had to
be of eastern European extraction. This synagogue, too, was perhaps the
only one in all Germany to make extensive structural changes in its
interior, so that it might conform in every detail with strict
traditional rules. The act brought the congregation and its leader to
the attention of the great rabbis of Poland and Lithuania, who
henceforth made it their custom to speak from the pulpit of the
Passauerstrasse Synagogue whenever they were in Berlin. From 1931 to
1938 Naphtali Carlebach was Chief Rabbi at Baden near Vienna, Austria.
Later he became the spiritual leader of Congregation Kehilath Jacob in
New York City. Subjects: Carlebach, Joseph, 1883-1942. Covers and edges
lightly soiled, pages fresh. Very good condition. (GER-36-20) (ID
#28871) $45.00.
53. Hermann Schwab. CHACHME ASHKENAZ; A CONCISE RECORD OF THE LIFE
AND WORK OF ORTHODOX JEWISH SCHOLARS OF GERMANY FROM THE 18TH TO THE
20TH CENTURY. London, Mitre Press, 1964. Hardcover, 8vo, 131 pages,
portraits, 23 cm. SUBJECT (S): Jews -- Germany =E2=80=93 Biography. Jew=
s --
Germany -- Bio-bibliography. Schwab (1879-1962) was a =E2=80=9CGerman
journalist and historical writer. In his native Frankfurt Schwab joined
the school of the Israelitische Religionsgesellschaft. He was employed
from 1902 to 1927 in the metal enterprises of Aron Hirsch near Berlin
and in Halberstadt. He also worked as a journalist for the Frankfurter
Zeitung, the Vossische Zeitung and other newspapers, was editor of the
Juedischer Volksschriftenverlag, and author of Orthodox children=E2=80=
=99s
books. A supporter of Agudat Israel and its founder, Jacob Rosenheim,
Schwab organized its war orphans=E2=80=99 fund during World War I, whic=
h
established a number of orphanages in Poland. From 1927 he ran a press
service in Berlin which he continued after emigrating to England in
1934. In London, he became president of the Golders Green Beth
Hamidrash. His main published works are: Kindertraeume: Ein
Maerchenbuch fuer juedische Kinder; Orthodoxie und Zionismus=E2=80=A6;=
Aus der
Schuetzenstrasse; A World in Ruins: History, Life and Work of German
Jewry; The History of Orthodox Jewry in Germany; 1933: Ein Tagebuch;
Jewish Rural Communities in Germany; and Chachme Ashkenaz=E2=80=9D (Arc=
hiv
Bibliographia Judaica in EJ, 2007). Light wear to edges of dust jacket.
Otherwise, very good condition. (Heb-17-3)xx (ID #26718) $45.00.
54. Hildesheimer, Ezriel. GESAMMELTE AUFS=C3=84TZE. Frankfurt Am Mai=
n;
Hermon, 5684. Clothbound. 8vo. XX, 228 pages. 24 cm. First edition. In
German, with some Hebrew. =E2=80=9CCollected Essays=E2=80=9D of Ezriel=
Hildesheimer
(1820-1899), Orthodox Jewish Rabbi and scholar, founder and director of
the Berlin Rabbinical Seminary and of an Orthodox weekly newspaper,
Judische Presse. This volume of his collected essays includes 12
essays, not limited to, Talmudic commentaries, Jewish Law, Emigration
to Palestine, and on Reform Judaism (which the author was determinedly
opposed to). Subjects: Jewish Law. Covers shaken, worn edges, with some
chipping at edges. Gilt lettering on backstrip rubbed. First signature
loose. Pages visibly aged, especially in margins, but clean and in good
condition. Good +condition. (GER-33-30) (ID #28826) $50.00.
55. Hirsch, Mendel. DIE KLAGELIEDER NACH UBERSETZUNG VON MENDEL
HIRSCH NEBST ANMERKUNGEN. Frankfurt Am Main, J. Kauffmann, 1903. Cloth,
8vo. 21 pages. In German. OCLC lists 4 copies worldwide (University of
California Los Angeles; University of California S REg Library Fac;
George Washington University, Florida Atlantic University). Mendel,
(1833=E2=80=931900), was an educator and a writer. The eldest son of Sa=
mson
Raphael Hirsch, from 1855 he taught Jewish and general subjects at the
high schools founded by his father in Frankfort. From 1877 he was their
principal and for 17 years was also headmaster of the Jewish elementary
school. He contributed a series of articles on pedagogical subjects to
the monthly Jeschurun, published by his father. (EJ, Staff) In Good
condition. (MX17-21) (ID #21501) $50.00.
56. Moshe Leib Lyeitsch Rosenbaum. SHA=E2=80=99AREI EMET AND BEIT AR=
YEH.
Pressburg, 1866. Hardcover, 8vo, 40 leaves, 24.5 cm. On title-page a
handwritten self dedication: =E2=80=9CGift from the author, Azriel
Hildesheimer=E2=80=9D and ink stamp of the rabbi. On the inner side of=
the
bidning Ex-Libris of (his grandson), Rabbi =E2=80=9CAzriel Hildesheimer=
=E2=80=9D. Rabbi
Azriel Hildesheimer (1820-1899) was among the leading Torah authorities
of his generation. Disciple of the Aruch LaNer and of Rabbi Yitzchak
Bernays of Hamburg. He served as Rabbi of Eisenstadt in years
1851-1869, and during that time established there one of the major
Yehsivot of Hungary and Germany. In 1869 he was appointed as Rabbi of
Berlin, where he established the Beit Midrash LaRabbanim. He led the
Orthodox Jewry of Germany. Binding repair. Chipped and worn cover edges
and corners. Some lightly stained pages. Good condition. (Hag-2-6) (ID
#27522) $325.00.
57. Sachs, Michael & Moritz Veit. edited by Ludwig Geiger. MICHAEL
SACHS UND MORITZ VEIT: BRIEFWECHSEL. Frankfurt A. M. J. Kauffmann,
1897. 1st Edition. Cloth, Original Publisher's Cloth. 8vo. xxiv, 108
pages. 23 cm. In German. Includes decorrated endpapers and tissued
frontis plates of Sachs & Veit. Sachs "was one of the first Jewish
graduates from the modern universities, earning a Ph.D. degree in 1836.
He was appointed Rabbi in Prague in 1836, and in Berlin in 1844. He
took the conservative side against the Reform agitation, and so
strongly opposed the introduction of the organ into the Synagogue that
he retired from the Rabbinate rather than acquiesce. Sachs was one of
the greatest preachers of his age, and published two volumes of Sermons
(Predigten, 1866=E2=80=931891). He co-operated with Leopold Zunz in a n=
ew
translation of the Bible. Sachs is best remembered for his work on
Hebrew poetry, Religi=C3=B6se Poesie der Juden in Spanien (1845); his m=
ore
ambitious critical work (Beitr=C3=A4ge zur Sprach- und Alterthumsforsch=
ung,
2 vols., 1852=E2=80=931854) is of less lasting value. He turned his poe=
tic
gifts to admirable account in his translation of the Festival Prayers
(Machzor, 9 vols., 1855), a new feature of which was the metrical
rendering of the medieval Hebrew hymns. Another very popular work by
Sachs contains poetic paraphrases of Rabbinic legends (Stimmen vom
Jordan und Euphrat, 1853)" (Wikipedia 2012). Nice, clean copy in very
good condition. (SPEC23-9) (ID #8430) $55.00.
ROSENZWEIG, BUBER, & 20TH CENTURY GERMAN JEWISH PHILOSOPHY
58. Rosenzweig, Franz, 1886-1929. Mongin, Olivier,; 1951-...;
(editor). FRANZ ROSENZWEIG. Paris: La Nuit Surveill=C3=A9e,, 1982. Pape=
r
wrappers, 8vo. 237 pages. In French. First book in the series: Les
Cahiers de la Nuit surveill=C3=A9e Includes writings by Rosenzweig, Ger=
shom
Scholem, Emanual Levinas, and others on religion and philosophy.
Includes bibliography on p. 235 - 237. Additional editors: Jacques
Rolland and Alexandre Derczanski. With four high quality black and
white photographic plates, including a facsimile of the original cover
of Rosenzweig=E2=80=99s =E2=80=9CDer Stern der Erlosung=E2=80=9D. Very=
slight tanning to cover.
Very good condition, beautiful printing. (RAB-36-9) (ID #24585)
$100.00.
59. Buber, Martin and Franz Rosenzweig. DIE SCHRIFT (COMPLETE IN 15
VOLUMES). Berlin, Verlag Lambert Schneider (Vol. 1-11) / Schocken (Vol.
12-15), 1934. Original Publisher=E2=80=99s boards. 8vo. 203; 175; 125;=
168;
145; 102; 112; 259; 270; 278; 295; 228; 237, [1]; 276; 88 pages. 20 cm=
=2E
In German. Books one through ten translated by Buber and Rosenzweig;
11-15 completed by Buber alone. =E2=80=9CIn [Buber and Rosenzweig=E2=
=80=99s]
translation, they wanted to recapture the spoken character
(Gesprochenheit) of the Bible, so that the reader could become a
listener of the ongoing Divine voice. They stayed close to the Hebrew
original, to the Hebrew sentence structure and rhythm, to the Hebrew
words and sounds. They did not Germanize Hebrew, they surprised German
with Hebrew culture. The very fact of the translation itself was a
bridging of German and Jewish cultures. =E2=80=9D =E2=80=93EJ, 2007. CO=
NTENTS: Bd. 1.
Das Buch Im Anfang -- Bd. 2. Das Buch Namen -- Bd. 3. Das Buch Er rief
-- Bd. 4. Das Buch In der W=C3=BCste -- Bd. 5. Das Buch Reden -- Bd. 6.=
Das
Buch Jehoschua -- Bd. 7. Das Buch Richter -- Bd. 8. Das Buch Schmuel --
Bd. 9. Das Buch K=C3=B6nige -- Bd. 10. Das Buch Jeschajahu -- Bd. 11. D=
as
Buch Jirmejahu -- Bd. 12. Das Buch Jecheskel -- Bd. 13. Das Buch der
Zw=C3=B6lf -- Bd. 14. Das Buch der Preisungen -- Bd. 15. Das Buch
Gleichspr=C3=BCche. Grey boards with black writing. Light bumping to th=
e
covers of a few volumes, but still nice. Volume one with some chipping
at top of backstrip. Otherwise bright, clean copies in Very Good
Condition. (DREYFUS-3-10) (ID #28659) $375.00. [Additional individual
volumes, in velum, also available, please enquire
60. Horwitz, Rivka; Leo Baeck Institute. ADELE ROSENZWEIGS
JUGENDENNERUNGEN (IN BULLETIN DES LEO BAECK INSTITUTS). Tel-Aviv,
Bitaon. 1977. Serial, 8vo. 14 pages bound with staples. In German.
Series: Publikationen - Leo Baeck Institute of Jews from Germany. Title
in English: Adele Rosenzweig's childhood memories. Adele Rosenzweig
(1867 =E2=80=93 1933), was the mother of Franz Rosenzweig, a =E2=80=9Cw=
ell-cultured and
learned person. It was Adele Rosenzweig who later took interest in
[Franz Rosenzweig=E2=80=99s] spiritual and intellectual pursuits. =E2=
=80=9D (Betz,
Vanderbilt University Divinity Library). SUBJECT(S): Jews -- Germany --
History -- Periodicals. Slight wear, highlighting on cover. Cover
slightly tanned. (RAB-36-5) (ID #24581) $40.00.
61. Buber, Martin. VOM GEIST DES JUDENTUMS: REDEN UND GELEITWORTE.
Leipzig, J. Wolff, 1916. 1st Edition. Cloth, 8vo, 191 pages. 24 cm.
Ex-library, lacks backstrip (spine covering), otherwise Good Condition
(GER-15-48dw) (ID #18706) $30.00.
62. Brod, Max. HEIDENTUM, CHRISTENTUM, JUDENTUM: EIN BEKENNTNISBUCH.
M=C3=BCnchen [Munich]; K. Wolff, 1921. FT) Clothbound. 12mo. 319, 369=
pages.
19 cm. Two Volumes. First Edition. In German. Title translated as
=E2=80=9CPaganism, Christianity, Judaism; a confession of faith. =E2=80=
=9C Title page
in red and black ink, original half cloth with green boards. Max Brod
(May 27, 1884, Prague =E2=80=93 December 20, 1968, Tel Aviv) was a
German-speaking Czech Jewish, later Israeli, author, composer, and
journalist. Although he was a prolific writer in his own right, he is
most famous as the friend, biographer, and literary executor of Franz
Kafka. The work on Paganism, Christianity and Judaism was widely read
in his day, written passionately by the young Max Brod, on the subjects
of the differences and interconnections between the =E2=80=9Cthree powe=
rs=E2=80=9D,
with chapters on humility and freedom in Judaism to readings of Dante,
Kierkegaard, Paul and Jesus. Subjects: Religion -- Philosophy. Light
wear and soiling to edges and covers, with very light pencil marks on
end pages. Otherwise, near fine condition. (GER-33-6) (ID #28802)
$30.00.
63. Buber, Martin; and Franz Rosenzweig, German translations. DIE
TROESTUNG ISRAELS: AUS JESCHAJAHU, KAPITEL 40 BIS 55. Berlin, Schocken,
1933. 1st Edition. Hardback, Light edgewear, but much better than usual
found, Good+ Condition; 12mo; 83 pages; In German. B=C3=BCcherei des
Schocken Verlags, Nr. 1 (! ). Hebrew and German on facing pages.
(GER-37-94) (ID #8288) $45.00.
64. Buber, Martin, editor. DER JUDE. EINE MONATSSCHRIFT. Vol II, Nr
12. Berlin-Wien, 1917. Softcover, 8vo, Berlin-Wien: L=C3=B6with, 1917-1=
8.
Paper Wrappers, 8vo. Aprox 64 pages each monthly issue. Originally
published in 10 volumes between 1916-1928, with Vol. 9 published as
special issues 1-4, and Vol. 10 put out as a special issue celebrating
the 50th birthday of Martin Buber. SUBJECT(S): Jews -- Periodicals.
Judaism -- Periodicals. Covers worn & foxed with paper browning, as
usually found but overall about good condition. (GER-37-13) (ID #13562)
$30.00.
65. Buber, Martin, editor. DER JUDE. EINE MONATSSCHRIFT. Vol V, Nr
3, June 1920. Berlin, 1920. Softcover, 8vo, Berlin, J=C3=BCdischer Verl=
ag,
1920. Paper Wrappers, 8vo. Aprox 64 pages each monthly issue.
Originally published in 10 volumes between 1916-1928, with Vol. 9
published as special issues 1-4, and Vol. 10 put out as a special issue
celebrating the 50th birthday of Martin Buber. SUBJECT(S): Jews --
Periodicals. Judaism -- Periodicals. Covers worn & foxed with paper
browning, as usually found but overall about good condition.
(GER-37-11) (ID #13563) $30.00. . (GER-37-12) |=E2=80=A2 Buber, Martin,=
editor.
DER JUDE. EINE MONATSSCHRIFT. Vol VII, Nr 12, Dezember 1923. Berlin,
1923. Softcover, 8vo, Berlin, J=C3=BCdischer Verlag, 1923. Paper Wrappe=
rs,
8vo. Aprox 64 pages each monthly issue. Originally published in 10
volumes between 1916-1928, with Vol. 9 published as special issues 1-4,
and Vol. 10 put out as a special issue celebrating the 50th birthday of
Martin Buber. SUBJECT(S): Jews -- Periodicals. Judaism -- Periodicals.
Covers worn & foxed with paper browning, as usually found but overall
about good condition. (GER-37-12) (ID #13564) $30.00. . (RAB-36-6) |=E2=
=80=A2
Cohen, Carl. FRANZ ROSENZWEIG (IN CONSERVATIVE JUDAISM VOL. VIII, NO. 1
NOVEMBER 1951). New York: Rabbinical Assembly Of America, 1951. Serial,
8vo. 31 pages. Essay on pages 1-13 on Rosenzweig, including sections on
his education, his philosophy, religious crisis, Judaism and
Metaphysics, and role as an educator. Rosenzweig, the renowned German
Jewish philosopher, =E2=80=9Cwas born in Kassel, Germany, the only son=
of
well-to-do parents. His father Georg financially supported many charity
institutions, including the Jewish community, but the family's
adherence to Judaism was minimal. In his youth, Franz came under the
influence of his great-uncle, Adam Rosenzweig, a bachelor, an artist
and a learned Jew, who lived in the Rosenzweig home and spent many
hours with Franz. Through him the young boy learned of the Jewish world
in an otherwise assimilated milieu. Unlike the rest of his family,
Rosenzweig fasted on Yom Kippur (the Day of Atonement) and also took
private Hebrew lessons=E2=80=A6In 1909, Rosenzweig tended towards assim=
ilation,
and justified the conversion of his cousin Hans Ehrenberg to
Christianity. He did not see the advantage that Judaism could have over
Christianity, the dominant culture, which would also help him obtain a
teaching position, almost impossible for a Jew to get. Another cousin
and friend, Rudolf Ehrenberg was already born a Christian. Eugen
Rosenstock, a Jewish convert to Christianity, became Rosenzweig's
closest friend. Rosenstock, who would become an important nonconformist
Protestant theologian, repeatedly urged him to abandon what he
considered Rosenzweig's merely nominal Judaism and to convert. After
months of deep conversations, and especially the catastrophic
conversation with Rosenstock during the night of July 7, 1913,
Rosenzweig decided to convert. But he then made the condition, to
convert not "as a pagan, " but "as a Jew. " All this led to a crisis
and almost to suicide. He left his converted friends for a few years
and refrained from having any contact with them. In the same year, on
Yom Kippur of 1913, he attended in Berlin the synagogue of Rabbi
Petuchowski and felt a profound identification with the praying Jewish
community. After a few days he wrote his friends, "I shall remain a
Jew. " He then reshaped his life, rethought his identity, and devoted
his further life to a sincere return to Judaism, moving from the
periphery of Jewish life to its center. =E2=80=9D (Meir, Horwitz, EJ, 2=
007).
Also includes an article on prayer, and on Professor Louis Ginzberg.
Cover slightly tanned. Very good condition. (RAB-36-6) (ID #24582)
$40.00.
66. Cohen, Hermann. DER BEGRIFF DER RELIGION IM SYSTEM DER
PHILOSOPHIE. Giessen, A. Topelmann,, 1915. Softcover, 8vo, viii, 164
pages, 23 cm. In German. Series: Philosophische Arbeiten, 10. Bd. 1.
Heft. SUBJECT (S): Philosophy and religion. Godsdienst. Filosofie.
Cohen (1842-1918) was a =E2=80=9CGerman Jewish philosopher. Born in Cow=
sig, the
son of a cantor, Cohen studied at the Jewish Theological Seminary at
Breslau, but gave up his initial plans to become a rabbi. He turned to
philosophy, studying first at the University of Breslau and then at the
University of Berlin. He received his doctorate at the University of
Halle in 1865. In 1873 he was invited by F. A. Lange, the well-known
author of The History of Materialism, to become a privatdozent
(lecturer) in philosophy at the University of Marburg. Appointed full
professor after only three years, Cohen taught in Marburg until 1912.
He spent the last years of his life in Berlin, where he taught at the
Hochschule fuer die Wissenschaft des Judentums=E2=80=9D (Bergman and Am=
ir in
EJ, 2007). Wear to edges and cover binding. Slight tear to cover
binding. Good condition. (Rab-46-14) (ID #24744) $45.00.
67. Fleischman, Yaakov. FRANZ ROSENZWEIG AS A CRITIC OF ZIONISM (IN
CONSERVATIVE JUDAISM VOL. XXII, NO. 1 FALL 1967). New York: Rabbinical
Assembly Of America, 1951. Serial, 8vo. 94 pages. Essay on pages 54-66
on Rosenzweig=E2=80=99s views on Zionism. Rosenzweig, the renowned Germ=
an
Jewish philosopher, =E2=80=9Cwas born in Kassel, Germany, the only son=
of
well-to-do parents. His father Georg financially supported many charity
institutions, including the Jewish community, but the family's
adherence to Judaism was minimal. In his youth, Franz came under the
influence of his great-uncle, Adam Rosenzweig, a bachelor, an artist
and a learned Jew, who lived in the Rosenzweig home and spent many
hours with Franz. Through him the young boy learned of the Jewish world
in an otherwise assimilated milieu. Unlike the rest of his family,
Rosenzweig fasted on Yom Kippur (the Day of Atonement) and also took
private Hebrew lessons=E2=80=A6In 1909, Rosenzweig tended towards assim=
ilation,
and justified the conversion of his cousin Hans Ehrenberg to
Christianity. He did not see the advantage that Judaism could have over
Christianity, the dominant culture, which would also help him obtain a
teaching position, almost impossible for a Jew to get. Another cousin
and friend, Rudolf Ehrenberg was already born a Christian. Eugen
Rosenstock, a Jewish convert to Christianity, became Rosenzweig's
closest friend. Rosenstock, who would become an important nonconformist
Protestant theologian, repeatedly urged him to abandon what he
considered Rosenzweig's merely nominal Judaism and to convert. After
months of deep conversations, and especially the catastrophic
conversation with Rosenstock during the night of July 7, 1913,
Rosenzweig decided to convert. But he then made the condition, to
convert not "as a pagan, " but "as a Jew. " All this led to a crisis
and almost to suicide. He left his converted friends for a few years
and refrained from having any contact with them. In the same year, on
Yom Kippur of 1913, he attended in Berlin the synagogue of Rabbi
Petuchowski and felt a profound identification with the praying Jewish
community. After a few days he wrote his friends, "I shall remain a
Jew. " He then reshaped his life, rethought his identity, and devoted
his further life to a sincere return to Judaism, moving from the
periphery of Jewish life to its center. =E2=80=9D (Meir, Horwitz, EJ, 2=
007)
Also includes other essays, poetry and reviews. Page 43 torn at bottom
corner, effecting text. Pencil marking on cover. Very good condition.
(RAB-36-7) (ID #24583) $35.00.
68. Freund, Else. DIE EXISTENZPHILOSOPHIE FRANZ ROSENZWEIGS; EIN
BEITRAG ZUR ANALYSE SEINES WERKES "DER STERN DER ERL=C3=96SUNG." Hambur=
g; F.
Meiner, 1959. Paperback. 8vo. VIII, 196 pages. 22 cm. Second revised
edition. In German. Title translates as: =E2=80=9CFranz Rosenzweig's ph=
ilosophy
of existence: an analysis of the Star of Redemption." This work
constitutes the revised edition of Else Freund's 1933 doctoral
dissertation, a close reading of the Rosenzweig's most important work,
the Star of Redemption. The copy of Fritz A. Rothschild, former
professor of philosophy at the JTS; includes his original purchase
receipt of this volume from 1970. Subjects: Judaism. Cosmology.
Religion - Philosophy. Juda=C3=AFsme. Cosmologie. Religion - Philosophi=
e.
Covers lightly worn, taped at upper and bottom of backstrip. A few
pages earmarked, a few pages with underlining, and pencil marks in the
margins. Good condition. (GER-33-49) (ID #28844) $30.00.
69. Hermann Cohen. DIE RELIGION DER VERNUNFT AUS DEN QUELLEN DES
JUDENTUMS. Leipzig, Gustav Fock, 1919. Hardcover, 8vo, vi, 629 pages.
In German. Series Title: Schriften- hrsg. Von d. Gesellschaft zur
Forderung d. Wissenschaft d. Judentums; Grundrib der Gesamtwissenschaft
des Judentums. SUBJECT (S): Judentum. Cohen (1842-1918) was a =E2=80=9C=
German
Jewish philosopher. Born in Cowsig, the son of a cantor, Cohen studied
at the Jewish Theological Seminary at Breslau, but gave up his initial
plans to become a rabbi. He turned to philosophy, studying first at the
University of Breslau and then at the University of Berlin. He received
his doctorate at the University of Halle in 1865. In 1873 he was
invited by F. A. Lange, the well-known author of The History of
Materialism, to become a privatdozent (lecturer) in philosophy at the
University of Marburg. Appointed full professor after only three years,
Cohen taught in Marburg until 1912. He spent the last years of his life
in Berlin, where he taught at the Hochschule fuer die Wissenschaft des
Judentums=E2=80=A6 The religious significance of Jewish existence was o=
ne of
the bases for Cohen=E2=80=99s devotion to Jewish religious law. Using K=
antian
terminology and criteria, he argues sharply against Kant=E2=80=99s noti=
on of
autonomy and the philosopher=E2=80=99s negation of Jewish law. Cohen in=
terprets
"mitzvah" to mean both "law" and "duty. " The law originates in God,
the sense of duty in man. The law is at the same time duty; duty at the
same time law. God issued commandments to man, and man of his own free
will takes upon himself the "yoke of the commandments. " With the "yoke
of the commandments, " one simultaneously accepts the "yoke of the
kingdom of God. " Thus, the law leads to the messianic ideal=E2=80=9D (=
Bergman
and Amir in EJ, 2007). OCLC list 27 copies worldwide. Hinge repair.
Yellowing to edges of pages. Notes written on some pages. Wear to cover
binding and lightly chipped edges. Bumped corners. Otherwise, good
condition. (HEB-17-4) (ID #26719) $50.00.
70. Klatzkin, Jakob. HERMANN COHEN. Berlin: Judischer Verlag, 1919.
Softcover, 100 pages, portrait, 22 cm. In German. SUBJECT (S); Cohen,
Hermann, 1842-1918. Bibliography on pages 95-100. Klatzkin (1882-1948)
was an =E2=80=9Cauthor, philosopher, and Zionist. Klatzkin was born in=
Bereza
Kartuska, Brest-Litovsk district, today Belarus. The son of Elijah
Klatzkin, a prominent rabbinical scholar, who gave him a thorough
education in all branches of traditional Jewish studies. At the age of
18, Klatzkin went to Germany, first to Frankfurt on the Main and then
to Marburg, where he studied philosophy under Hermann Cohen. He
received his doctorate from the University of Berne in 1912. In the
following years Klatzkin was active in Germany as a writer for Hebrew
periodicals, including Ha-Zeman, Ha-Shilo=E2=80=99ah, and Ha-Tekufah, a=
nd as
editor of Die Welt, the organ of the Zionist Organization, and later in
Heidelberg, of the Freie Zionistische Blaetter. From 1912 to 1915 he
was director of the Jewish National Fund in Cologne. From 1915 to 1919
he edited the Swiss Bulletin Juif, which covered world events of
special relevance to Jews during World War I and established the
publishing firm Al ha-Mishmar, which issued a series of books on Jewish
problems in French and German. In Berlin Klatzkin founded another
publishing house, Eshkol, and continued writing for the Jewish press.
In 1924 he and his lifelong friend Nahum Goldmann initiated the
Encyclopaedia Judaica, of which ten volumes appeared between 1928 and
1934. Two volumes of a parallel Hebrew edition, Enziklopedyah
Yisre=E2=80=99elit, were issued in 1929=E2=80=9332. Klatzkin acted as e=
ditor in chief
in cooperation with leading Jewish scholars=E2=80=A6Klatzkin was a stud=
ent of
philosophy as well as a brilliant Hebrew essayist. In philosophy
Klatzkin opposed his teacher Cohen, whose philosophy and interpretation
of Judaism he submitted to searching criticism in the monograph Hermann
Cohen. He also devoted a critical study to Spinoza, Baruch Spinoza, in
which he stressed the Jewish influences in his intellectual background
and style; he translated Spinoza=E2=80=99s Ethics from the Latin to Heb=
rew as
Torat ha-Middot. Klatzkin developed his own philosophy, which may be
described as vitalistic, emphasizing the biological, instinctive aspect
of life rather than the intellectual one, in Sheki'at ha-Hayyim, and in
Der Erkenntnistrieb als Lebens und Todesprinzip=E2=80=9D (Sole and Sche=
ps in
EJ, 2007). Wear and chipping to cover and some page edges. Fragile
cover. Otherwise, good condition. (RAB-46-11) (ID #24741) $100.00.
71. Another Copy. Berlin, J=C3=BCdischer Verlag, 1921. Cloth, Origin=
al
Publisher's Cloth. 8vo. 132 pages, portrait, 22 cm. Lacks part of
bacsktrip. Internal pages are nice and clean. Very good condition.
(Rab-46-11a) (ID #27749) $100.00.
72. Koigen, David. DER MORALISCHE GOTT: EINE ABHANDLUNG =C3=9CBER DI=
E
BEZIEHUNGEN ZWISCHEN KULTUR UND RELIGION. Berlin; J=C3=BCdischer Verlag=
,
1922. Clothbound. 8vo. 218 pages. 22 cm. First edition. In German.
Title translates as: =E2=80=9CThe Moral God: a Treatise on the Relation=
s
between Culture and Religion. =E2=80=9D David Koigen (1879=E2=80=931933=
), =E2=80=9Cphilosopher
and sociologist. He was born in Wachniaki, Ukraine, and studied in
European universities. He lived in Germany until 1912, then returned to
Russia, and in 1921 was appointed professor of philosophy and sociology
at the Ukrainian University in Kiev. He wrote an autobiographical work,
Der apokalyptische Reiter (1925), about these years in Russia. He
returned to Germany, working mainly on Jewish problems and cultural
sociology. From 1925 to 1927 he edited the quarterly Ethos. His first
writings were on socialism, beginning with his thesis on the Young
Hegelians (1901), followed by Die Kulturanschauung des Sozialismus
(1903). He further developed his cultural-sociological approach in
Ideen zur Philosophic der Kultur (1910) and Die Kultur der Demokratie
(1912). In 1922 he published Der moralische Gott, a study of the
relationship of religion and culture, and in 1929 his main work on
sociology, Der Aufbau der sozialen Welt im Zeitalter der Wissenschaft.
After his death, some of his Jewish writings appeared, entitled Heimat
Israels (1939). Koigen tried to delineate the peculiarity of Jewish
experience in history and culture, pointing to the difficulty the Jew
has in gaining normal historical experience. Using methods like Max
Weber 's, he attempted to specify the elements involved in Jewish
existence in historical processes. =E2=80=9D (From the 2007 Encyclopedi=
a
Judaica). Subjects: Religion and ethics. Religion and culture. Covers
heavily soiled. Endpages aged and stained. First 16 pages browned,
remaining pages very fresh and clean. Good+ condition. (GER-36-42) (ID
#28893) $30.00. (RAB-36-4) |=E2=80=A2 Mendes-Flohr, Paul R. THE PHILOSO=
PHY OF
FRANZ ROSENZWEIG. Hanover: Published For Brandeis University Press By
University Press Of New England,, 1988. Cloth, 8vo. x, 260 pages. With
frontis piece portrait of Rosenzweig. Series: The Tauber Institute for
the Study of European Jewry series; 8; SUBJECT (S): Filosofie.
Rosenzweig, Franz, 1886-1929 -- Congresses. German philosophy. Note(s):
Meeting held Apr. 20-May 2, 1980 in Jerusalem. / "The Fourth Jerusalem
Philosophical Encounter was cosponsored by the Israel Academy of
Sciences and Humanities, the Van Leer Jerusalem Institute, and the
Embassy of the German Federal Republic in Israel"--P. Ix. / Includes
indexes. / Bibliography: p. 215-247. Rosenzweig, the renowned German
Jewish philosopher, =E2=80=9Cwas born in Kassel, Germany, the only son=
of
well-to-do parents. His father Georg financially supported many charity
institutions, including the Jewish community, but the family's
adherence to Judaism was minimal. In his youth, Franz came under the
influence of his great-uncle, Adam Rosenzweig, a bachelor, an artist
and a learned Jew, who lived in the Rosenzweig home and spent many
hours with Franz. Through him the young boy learned of the Jewish world
in an otherwise assimilated milieu. Unlike the rest of his family,
Rosenzweig fasted on Yom Kippur (the Day of Atonement) and also took
private Hebrew lessons=E2=80=A6In 1909, Rosenzweig tended towards assim=
ilation,
and justified the conversion of his cousin Hans Ehrenberg to
Christianity. He did not see the advantage that Judaism could have over
Christianity, the dominant culture, which would also help him obtain a
teaching position, almost impossible for a Jew to get. Another cousin
and friend, Rudolf Ehrenberg was already born a Christian. Eugen
Rosenstock, a Jewish convert to Christianity, became Rosenzweig's
closest friend. Rosenstock, who would become an important nonconformist
Protestant theologian, repeatedly urged him to abandon what he
considered Rosenzweig's merely nominal Judaism and to convert. After
months of deep conversations, and especially the catastrophic
conversation with Rosenstock during the night of July 7, 1913,
Rosenzweig decided to convert. But he then made the condition, to
convert not "as a pagan, " but "as a Jew. " All this led to a crisis
and almost to suicide. He left his converted friends for a few years
and refrained from having any contact with them. In the same year, on
Yom Kippur of 1913, he attended in Berlin the synagogue of Rabbi
Petuchowski and felt a profound identification with the praying Jewish
community. After a few days he wrote his friends, "I shall remain a
Jew. " He then reshaped his life, rethought his identity, and devoted
his further life to a sincere return to Judaism, moving from the
periphery of Jewish life to its center. =E2=80=9D (Meir, Horwitz, EJ, 2=
007).
Very good condition in Very good jacket. From the library of Dr. Fritz
Rothschild, Professor Emeritus of Jewish Philosophy at JTS, with
ex-libris stamp. Highlighting on a few pages and notes in red pencil
throughout. Very good + condition. (RAB-36-4) (ID #24580) $30.00.
73. Rosenzweig, Franz. BRIEFE. Berlin, Schocken Verlag, 1935. 1st
Edition. Cloth, 8vo, 743 pages. "Unter Mitwirkung von Ernst Simon,
ausgewaelt und herausgegeben von Edith Rosenzweig. " Wear to top of
spine, otherwise Very Good Condition (GER-15-26DW) xxx (ID #18684)
$60.00.
74. Rosenzweig, Franz. DIE =E2=80=9CGRITLI=E2=80=9D =E2=80=93 BRIEFE=
: BRIEFE AN MARGRIT
ROSENSTOCK-HUESSY. T=C3=BCbingen, BILAM Verlag, 2002. Original Softcove=
r.
Large 8vo. Vi, 860 pages. 24 cm. In German. Title translates to English
as, =E2=80=9CThe "Gritli" Letters: Letters to Margrit Rosenstock-Huessy=
=2E =E2=80=9D
=E2=80=9CGerman Jewish philosopher and theologian. These "Gritli" lette=
rs are
an example of the rare possibility of cross-cultural and transcultural
understanding. Unfortunately, scholars do not have Gritli's letters to
Rosenzweig. However, judging from Rosenzweig's letters to Gritli, with
whom he developed a close relationship, Gritli was attentive to Franz's
expressions of his Judaism. =E2=80=9D =E2=80=93EJ, 2007. Edited by Inke=
n R=C3=BChle and
Reinhold Mayer. With a preface by Rafael Rosenzweig. Covers lightly
worn but still solid. Internal pages are bright and clean. Very Good
Condition. (GER-32-3) (ID #28774) $100.00.
75. Rosenzweig, Franz. KLEINERE SCHRIFTEN. Berlin: Schocken,, 1937.
Original publisher=E2=80=99s cloth, 8vo. 551 pages. In German. 1st edit=
ion.
Forward by Edith Rosenzweig. Essays. Includes index. Encyclopaedia
Judaica vol 14, col. 299. - Dahm II, 849. - Walk 317. - Stern 309f.
SUBJECT (S): Judaism. Jodendom. Christendom. Rosenzweig, the renowned
German Jewish philosopher, =E2=80=9Cwas born in Kassel, Germany, the on=
ly son
of well-to-do parents. His father Georg financially supported many
charity institutions, including the Jewish community, but the family's
adherence to Judaism was minimal. In his youth, Franz came under the
influence of his great-uncle, Adam Rosenzweig, a bachelor, an artist
and a learned Jew, who lived in the Rosenzweig home and spent many
hours with Franz. Through him the young boy learned of the Jewish world
in an otherwise assimilated milieu. Unlike the rest of his family,
Rosenzweig fasted on Yom Kippur (the Day of Atonement) and also took
private Hebrew lessons=E2=80=A6In 1909, Rosenzweig tended towards assim=
ilation,
and justified the conversion of his cousin Hans Ehrenberg to
Christianity. He did not see the advantage that Judaism could have over
Christianity, the dominant culture, which would also help him obtain a
teaching position, almost impossible for a Jew to get. Another cousin
and friend, Rudolf Ehrenberg was already born a Christian. Eugen
Rosenstock, a Jewish convert to Christianity, became Rosenzweig's
closest friend. Rosenstock, who would become an important nonconformist
Protestant theologian, repeatedly urged him to abandon what he
considered Rosenzweig's merely nominal Judaism and to convert. After
months of deep conversations, and especially the catastrophic
conversation with Rosenstock during the night of July 7, 1913,
Rosenzweig decided to convert. But he then made the condition, to
convert not "as a pagan, " but "as a Jew. " All this led to a crisis
and almost to suicide. He left his converted friends for a few years
and refrained from having any contact with them. In the same year, on
Yom Kippur of 1913, he attended in Berlin the synagogue of Rabbi
Petuchowski and felt a profound identification with the praying Jewish
community. After a few days he wrote his friends, "I shall remain a
Jew. " He then reshaped his life, rethought his identity, and devoted
his further life to a sincere return to Judaism, moving from the
periphery of Jewish life to its center. =E2=80=9D (Meir, Horwitz, EJ, 2=
007)
From the library of Dr. Fritz Rothschild, Professor Emeritus of Jewish
Philosophy at JTS. Some underlining and a few margin notes. Publisher=
=E2=80=99s
advertisement for Rosenzweig=E2=80=99s Jehuda Halevi laid in. Pages sli=
ghtly
tanned, slight damp stain to bottom edge of last 100 pages. Otherwsie
good + condition. (RAB-36-2) (ID #24578) $100.00.
76. Rosenzweig, Franz. SECHZIG HYMNEN UND GEDICHTE DES JEHUDA
HALEVI: DEUTSCH. Konstanz, Oskar W=C3=B6hrle Verlag, 1924. Original clo=
th
binding, Large 4to. 175 pages. 25cm. In German. Medieval Hebrew poetry
in German. Rosenzweig, 1886-1929, theologian. His German renderings of
liturgical poems by Halevi are accompanied not only by a lengthy
introduction which deals with the philosophy & problems of translation
but also by many, often extended footnotes that discuss the religious &
theological subject matter of individual poems (EJ 14: 302). Halevi,
1075-1141, Hebrew poet & philosopher. Spine repaired with some tape,
boards fading. Good working copy. (SPEC32-13) (ID #27752) $50.00.
(RAB-36-3) |=E2=80=A2 Rosenzweig, Franz, 1886-1929. Amir, Yehoshua. Sch=
warcz,
Moshe. KOKHAV HA-GEULAH. Yerushalayim: Mosad Byalik: Ha-Makhon Al Shem
Leo Bek. 1970. (FT) Cloth, 8vo. 437 pages. In Hebrew. Includes a
portrait of the author, and facsimile of a page from the original
handwritten manuscript. Bibliographical references. SUBJECT(S):
Judaism. Religion -- Philosophy. Cosmology. Judaism -- Philosophy.
Original published in 1921, Der Stern der Erlosung (The Star of
Redemption), is one of Rosenzweig=E2=80=99s most important works. Rosen=
zweig,
the renowned German Jewish philosopher, =E2=80=9Cwas born in Kassel, Ge=
rmany,
the only son of well-to-do parents. His father Georg financially
supported many charity institutions, including the Jewish community,
but the family's adherence to Judaism was minimal. In his youth, Franz
came under the influence of his great-uncle, Adam Rosenzweig, a
bachelor, an artist and a learned Jew, who lived in the Rosenzweig home
and spent many hours with Franz. Through him the young boy learned of
the Jewish world in an otherwise assimilated milieu. Unlike the rest of
his family, Rosenzweig fasted on Yom Kippur (the Day of Atonement) and
also took private Hebrew lessons=E2=80=A6In 1909, Rosenzweig tended tow=
ards
assimilation, and justified the conversion of his cousin Hans Ehrenberg
to Christianity. He did not see the advantage that Judaism could have
over Christianity, the dominant culture, which would also help him
obtain a teaching position, almost impossible for a Jew to get. Another
cousin and friend, Rudolf Ehrenberg was already born a Christian. Eugen
Rosenstock, a Jewish convert to Christianity, became Rosenzweig's
closest friend. Rosenstock, who would become an important nonconformist
Protestant theologian, repeatedly urged him to abandon what he
considered Rosenzweig's merely nominal Judaism and to convert. After
months of deep conversations, and especially the catastrophic
conversation with Rosenstock during the night of July 7, 1913,
Rosenzweig decided to convert. But he then made the condition, to
convert not "as a pagan, " but "as a Jew. " All this led to a crisis
and almost to suicide. He left his converted friends for a few years
and refrained from having any contact with them. In the same year, on
Yom Kippur of 1913, he attended in Berlin the synagogue of Rabbi
Petuchowski and felt a profound identification with the praying Jewish
community. After a few days he wrote his friends, "I shall remain a
Jew. " He then reshaped his life, rethought his identity, and devoted
his further life to a sincere return to Judaism, moving from the
periphery of Jewish life to its center. =E2=80=9D (Meir, Horwitz, EJ, 2=
007).
Very good condition in Very good jacket. From the library of Dr. Fritz
Rothschild, Professor Emeritus of Jewish Philosophy at JTS, with
ex-libris stamp. (RAB-36-3) (ID #24579) $75.00.
77. Stein, Ludwig. DIE JUDEN IN DER NEUEREN PHILOSOPHIE. Berlin,
1919. Berlin, M.Poppelauer, 1919. Paper Wrappers, 12mo, 20 pages. 23
cm. "unter besonderer Ber=C3=BCcksichtigung Hermann Cohen's." Distribut=
ed by
the Centralverein deutscher Staatsb=C3=BCrger j=C3=BCdischen Glaubens.=
At head of
title: Verein f=C3=BCr j=C3=BCdische Geschichte und Literatur in Berlin=
E.B.
Series: Sammlung ausgew=C3=A4hlter Vortr=C3=A4ge, nr. 1. SUBJECT(S): Co=
hen,
Hermann, 1842-1918. OCLC lists only 3 institutions with holdings
worldwide, only 2 in the US, and none west of Cincinnati (HUC, Penn,
JNUL). Scarce. Paper starting to brown, but solid, Good+ Condition.
(GER-6-26) (ID #16633) $100.00.
78. Strauss, Leo. DIE RELIGIONSKRITIK SPINOZAS ALS GRUNDLAGE SEINER
BIBELWISSENSCHAFT; UNTERSUCHUNGEN ZU SPINOZAS THEOLOGISCH-POLITISCHEM
TRAKTAT. Berlin; Akademie-Verlag, 1930. Clothbound. 8vo. XII, 288
pages. 24 cm. First edition. In German. Original blue cloth with gold
gilt lettering on cover and spine. Title translates as: =E2=80=9CSpinoz=
a=E2=80=99s
Critique of Religion as the basis of Spinoza's biblical Science;
investigations of Spinoza's Theological-Political Treatise. =E2=80=9D T=
his
first published work of Leo Strauss, the renowned German-Jewish
political philosopher, is dedicated to an examination of Spinoza=E2=80=
=99s
ideas; Strauss identifies Spinoza as part of the tradition of
Enlightenment rationalism that eventually produced Modernity, and
argues that Spinoza and his works mark the beginning of Jewish
Modernity. Subjects: Spinoza, Benedictus de, 1632-1677. Tractatus
theologico-politicus. Political Theory. Theology. Religion. Covers
lightly soiled, slight wear on endpage and a faded stamp, possibly
ex-libris, on the title page. Edges lightly soiled, but pages fresh and
clean. Very good + condition. A beautiful copy (GER-33-46) (ID #28841)
$300.00.
79. Susman, Margarete; Bertha Badt-Strau=C3=9F; Martin Buber; Ernst
Simon; Jos.Prager; Victor Ehrenberg; Harmann Badt; Gerhard Scholem.
FRANZ ROSENZWEIG: EIN BUCH DES GEDENKENS. Berlin:
Soncino-Gesellschaft,, 1930. Half cloth, 4to. 56 pages. In German.
Limited edition of 800 copies. SONCINO GESELLSCHAFT "was a Jewish
bibliophile society, founded in Berlin in 1924, and liquidated by order
of the Nazi government of Prussia in 1937. The Society aimed at the
typographic improvement of the Jewish and Hebrew book; 15 regular
publications were primarily intended to introduce to the Jewish
book-world suitable models to be imitated by the commercial producers.
The Society, therefore, commissioned all the different types of
literary products likely to appear in print, such as scholarly works
and periodicals, novels, short stories, plays, texts illustrated by
modern artists, and reprints of interesting rare books. The texts were
chosen from Jewish literature of all periods and languages. Leading
master-printers selected the printing type, size, and paper of each
individual publication in order to design an external appearance in
accordance with its contents. " (Meyer, EJ, 2007) Wear to spine, Spine
and covers slightly sunned, corners bumped. Otherwise very good
condition. (BIB-7-10) (ID #23940) $120.00.
FREUD & SEX
80. Ascher, M. SEXUELLE FRAGEN VOM STANDPUNKTE DES JUDENTUMS.
Frankfurt A. M.: A. J. Hofmann, 1922. FT) Clothbound. 8vo. 80 pages. 22
cm. Only edition. In German, with some Hebrew. Title translates as:
=E2=80=9CSexual Questions from the Standpoint of Judaism. =E2=80=9C A v=
olume on sexual
ethics in Judaism by Dr. Maurice Ascher (1873-1965). Dr. Ascher, from
Bex-les-Bains, (home of the Ascher Institute, a boarding school) is the
author of numerous other books, including: The adolescent in sex and
education, Beitrag zur Ueberwindung der Krisen, Briefe =C3=BCber allerl=
ei
aus der j=C3=BCdischen Religion, and many others. Subjects: Sex -- Reli=
gious
aspects -- Judaism. Sexual ethics. Judentum. Hygiene. Corners on boards
lightly bumped. Previous owner=E2=80=99s name in ink on endpage. Pages=
lightly
aged and foxed, but fresh and clean. Very good + condition. (GER-36-5)
(ID #28855) $35.00.
81. Gamwell, Lynn and Richard Wells. SIGMUND FREUD AND ART: HIS
PERSONAL COLLECTION OF ANTIQUITIES. Binghamton: State University Of New
York; London: Freud Museum, 1989. Softcover, 4to, 192 pages,
illustrations (some color), 30 cm. Contents: Preface. Richard Wells --
Introduction Peter Gay -- The origins of Freud=E2=80=99s antiquities
collection. Lynn Gamwell -- A mighty metaphor: the analogy of
archaeology and psychoanalysis. Donald Kuspit -- Psychoanalysis and the
legacies of antiquity. Ellen Handler Spitz -- Science and art in
Freud=E2=80=99s life and work. Martin S. Bergmann =E2=80=93 Freud=E2=80=
=99s library and an
appendix of texts related to antiquities. Wendy Botting and J. Keith
Davies. SUBJECT(S): Descriptor: Antiquities -- Private collections --
England -- London -- Exhibitions. Psychoanalysis and art --
Exhibitions. Antiquites -- Collections privees -- Angleterre -- Londres
-- Expositions. Psychanalyse et art -- Expositions. =E2=80=9CIn associa=
tion
with Harry N. Abrams, Inc. Publishers, New York. =E2=80=9D Accompanies=
an
exhibition, The Sigmund Freud antiquities: fragments from a buried
past. Includes bibliographical references (page 188-192). Excellent
condition. (Art-3-6) (ID #25601) $30.00.
82. Goslar, Hans. DIE SEXUALETHIK DER J=C3=9CDISCHEN WIEDERGEBURT: E=
IN
WORT AN UNSERE JUGEND. Berlin; J=C3=BCdischer Verlag, 1919. Paper wrapp=
ers.
8vo. 47 pages. 23 cm. In German. Title translates as: =E2=80=9CThe rebi=
rth of
the Jewish Sexual Ethics: A word to our youth. =E2=80=9D Hans Goslar
(1889-1945) was a German-Jewish journalist and economist, Zionist, and
leading representative of the Jewish People=E2=80=99s Party and press c=
hief of
the Prussian State Ministry during the Weimar era. He fled to Amsterdam
in 1933 and spent many years in assisting German Jews to leave Nazi
Germany; he and his family were sent to Bergen-Belsen, where he
perished, though several family members were able to survive. His
daughter Hannah Goslar, who survived, was a childhood friend of Anne
Frank. Subjects: Sexual ethics. Jewish ethics. Systematic Theology.
Freimann 401. Covers browned and aged; bumped and lightly chipped
edges. Internal pages clean, aged, with bumped edges. Very good+
condition. (GER-36-6) (ID #28856) $30.00.
83. Leupold-L=C3=B6wenthal, Harald; Hans Lobner. SIGMUND FREUD-HAUS:
KATALOG. Wien; Verlag L=C3=B6cker & W=C3=B6genstein, 1975. Softbound. 8=
vo. 79
pages. 24 cm. Only edition. In German. =E2=80=9CSigmund Freud House Cat=
alog=E2=80=9D
published by the Sigmund Freud Society of Vienna, compiled and
annotated by Harald Leupold-L=C3=B6wenthal and Hans Lobner. Includes 13=
0
black and white plates; amongst which are biographic photographs of
Freud, his family and associates, photographs of manuscripts and book
covers, landscapes and objects within the Freud House, and
architectural maps of the house itself. A very finely illustrated
volume detailing the life activities, home, and everyday objects of
Sigmund Freud compiled by the Sigmund Freud House. Subjects: Museums.
Freud, Sigmund, 1856-1939 -- Homes and haunts -- Catalogs. Freud
Sigmund. Freud, Sigmund, 1856-1939. Lightly aged and soiled covers.
Near fine condition. (GER-36-47) XX (ID #28898) $30.00.
84. Rice, Emanuel. FREUD AND MOSES: THE LONG JOURNEY HOME. Albany;
State University Of New York Press, 1990. Softbound. 8vo. Xii, 266
pages. 24 cm. First Edition. Includes 25 plates; black and white
photographs and manuscript facsimiles. Table of Contents:
Illustrations; Preface; Introduction; Sigmund Freud's Jewish Identity;
The Freud Family Bible; Sigmund Freud's Knowledge of Hebrew; Jacob and
Amalia Freud=E2=80=94Orthodox or Reform Jews?; The Biblical Sources of=
the
Hebrew Dedication; The Latent Content of the Birthday Benediction;
Jacob Freud, Leopold Breuer, and Isaac Bernays=E2=80=94Divergent Approa=
ches to
the 'Haskalah'; 'One Must Close the Eyes'; Sigmund Freud=E2=80=94Theism=
vs.
Atheism; Freud and Moses=E2=80=94The Long Journey Home; The Last Chapte=
r;
Appendix I: Sigmund Freud's Formal Education; Appendix II: Higher
Biblical Criticism and the Documentary Hypothesis; Appendix III: Review
and Furthur Elaboration of Freud's Mosaic Hypothesis; Notes;
Bibliography; Index; Index of References. Dr. Emanuel Rice is Associate
Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at The Mount Sinai School of Medicine
of The City University of New York, and Associate Attending in
Psychiatry at The Mount Sinai Hospital. He is also engaged in private
practice and lives in New York City. "I think this is an important
contribution, particularly insofar as it mobilizes important
information that has hitherto not come to light, or has not been
sufficiently clarified and focused to provide us with a better
understanding of Freud's Jewish origins. The documentation of the more
orthodox aspects in Freud's family background, the information
regarding the degree of Talmudic sophistication attained by his father,
and the details of Freud's own Jewish training and education are
extremely important for the understanding of Freud's own life and of
his contributions to the understanding of religious experience. " -- W.
W. Meissner, S. J. M. D. Boston Psychoanalytic Institute; Professor,
Boston College; Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard University.
Subjects: Judaism and psychoanalysis. Psychoanalysts - Austria -
Biography. Judaism - Biography. Psychoanalysis - Biography. Freud,
Sigmund, 1856-1939 - Religion. Freud, Sigmund, 1856-1939 - Childhood
and youth. Contains a handwritten dedication on title page from Emanuel
Rice to =E2=80=9CIsrael and Nathalie, With Thanks and Best Wishes. =E2=
=80=9D Covers
worn and bumped, edges lightly soiled. Pages clean and fresh. Very good
+ condition. (GER-36-15) (ID #28866) $20.00.
WOMEN
85. Rosenak, Leopold. ZUR BEKAMPFUNG DES MADCHENHANDELS. REFERAT,
ERSTATTET IN DER RABBINVERSAMMLUNG ZU FRANKFURT A.M., AM 7. JULI 1902.
Frankfurt A. M. J. Kauffmann,, 1903. Rebound in modern paper wrappers,
14 pages, 8vo. In German. SUBJECT (S): Prostitution. OCLC lists 4
copies worldwide (NYPL, Hebrew Union, Bayerische, Nat Lib of Israel).
Light wear. Pages 10-14 text cut off at edge. Slight sunning to edges
of cover. Otherwise, very good condition. (BIB-16-2) (ID #24312)
$95.00.
86. Leiter, W (Wolf). DIE STELLUNG DER FRAU IM TALMUD. Amsterdam;
Joachimsthal's Stoomdrukkerij, 1918. Paper Wrappers. 8vo. 63 pages. 24
cm. First edition. In German, with Hebrew. Title translates as: =E2=80=
=9CThe
Position of Women in the Talmud. =E2=80=9D Commentary derived from bibl=
ical
exegesis on Women=E2=80=99s position, by the Rabbi of the religious soc=
iety
=E2=80=9CChowewei Hadath Wahajaduth=E2=80=9D of Amsterdam. Subjects: Wo=
men in
rabbinical literature. Jews in the Diaspora, Judaism; social history;
social conditions, relations; social groups; women. OCLC lists 18
copies worldwide. Paper wrappers shaken, worn, with bumped and chipped
edges. Page edges bumped, lightly aged, but clean. Fair condition.
Scarce (GER-38-32) XXX (ID #29035) $100.00. (GER-36-31) |=E2=80=A2 Fran=
kel,
Zacharias. GRUNDLINIEN DES MOSAISCH-TALMUDISCHER EHERECHTS. Leipzig,
Hunger, 1860. Clothbound. 4to. [1], XLVIII pages. 26 cm. First edition=
=2E
In German, with some Hebrew. Bound in marbled board. Title roughly
translates as: =E2=80=9CBasic lines of the Mosaic-Talmudic Marriage-Law=
=2E =E2=80=9D
Zecharias Frankel was a =E2=80=9CGerman theologian; born at Prague Sept=
=2E 30,
1801; died at Breslau Feb. 13, 1875. Frankel was the founder and the
most eminent member of the school of historical Judaism, which
advocates freedom of research, while in practical life it upholds the
authority of tradition, Frankel was, through his father, a descendant
of Vienna exiles of 1670 and of the famous rabbinical Spira family,
while on his mother's side he descended from the Fischel family, which
has given to the community of Prague a number of distinguished
Talmudists. =E2=80=A6 His outline of rabbinical marriage law, "Grundlin=
ien des
Mosaisch-Talmudischen Eherechts" (Breslau, 1860), was meant to serve as
a text-book on that subject. =E2=80=9D (from the 1906 Jewish Encycloped=
ia).
This copy does not contain the often missing abridged five page report
of the Judisch-theologisches seminar, Breslau. Subjects: Marriage --
Jews. OCLC lists 15 copies worldwide. Covers lightly worn, with bumped
edges. Pages aged, lightly soiled throughout, with light but profuse
liquid stains on last set of pages. All text legible. Very good
condition. (GER-36-31) (ID #28882) $200.00.
87. Jacob Freund, Of Breslau.; D Feuchtwang; Abraham Geiger;
Moritz G=C3=BCdemann. HANNA: GEBET- UND ANDACHTSBUCH FUR ISRAELITISCHE
FRAUEN UND MADCHEN. Breslau: J. B. Brandeis,, 1908. Cloth, 8vo. 303
Pages. In German. Jewish Women=E2=80=99s prayerbook. SUBJECT (S): Jews=
--
Prayer-books and devotions -- German. OCLC lists nine copies
worldwide. In publisher=E2=80=99s cardboard slipcase. In good condition
(GER24-19) (ID #25562) $35.00.
88. Another Copy. No slipcase, tear to backstrip, otherwise in very
good condition (GER-30-2) (ID #26881) $35.00.
89. Levi, Abraham. REBECCA ODER DAS J=C3=9CDISCHE WEIB IN IHREM
RELIGI=C3=96SEN BERUFE. EINE FEDERZEICHNUNG. Frankfurt, S=C3=A4nger & F=
riedberg,
1920. Hardcover, 8vo, Original Publisher's Cloth. 8vo. 105 pages. "2.
Verbesserte Auflage" [Second Revised Edition]. Some foxing. 2" chip to
bottom of spine, internal binding splitting inside, but paper remains
good. Fair condition. (SPEC23-19) (ID #10468) $50.00.
90. Tendlau, Abraham Moses. SHA=E2=80=99ARE SHAMAYIM. PFORTEN DES HI=
MMELS:
EIN BUCH ZUR HAUSLICHEN ANDACHT FUR ISRAELITEN, BESONDERS DEN FRAUEN IN
ISRAEL GEMIDMET. Frankfurt Am Main: Selbstverlage Des Verfassers, 1834.
(FT) Hardcover, 8vo, xii, 304 pages, 19 cm. In German. Rabbi Jacques J.
Lyons=E2=80=99 copy, with his ownership stamp on title page. Lyons was=
a
=E2=80=9Chazan, rabbi, and community leader=E2=80=A6.born in Surinam, D=
utch Guiana on
Menahem 25, 5573 (August 25, 1813). =E2=80=A6.Jacques began his career=
as a
hazan in Surinam in Congregation Nevie Shalom, a synagogue founded by
Spanish-Portuguese Jews. In 1836 he left for Philadelphia, his parents
home state, and was hired within a few months by Congregation Beth
Shalome of Richmond, Virginia. He served Beth Shalome for two years,
winning the high esteem of the congregation. In 1839, following the
death of Rev. Isaac B. Mendez Seixas, he was elected Seixas=E2=80=99 su=
ccessor
as minister of Congregation Shearith Israel of New York City. He
married Grace Nathan, daughter of Seixas Nathan and Sarah Mendes Seixas
in 1842=E2=80=A6.In 1854, Jacques and Rabbi Abraham de Sola of Montreal
collaborated in writing A Jewish Calendar for Fifty Years, a book that
contained a comprehensive Jewish calendar, an essay on the Jewish
calendar system, as well as historical information concerning Jewish
communities in the United States, Canada, and the West Indies=E2=80=A6.=
His
niece through marriage [was] Emma Lazarus=E2=80=A6.=E2=80=9D(AJHS).SUB=
JECT(S): Jewish
women -- Religious life -- Germany -- Handbooks, manuals, etc. OCLC
lists 1 copy worldwide (JTS). Light yellowing of pages. Lightly bumped
cover corners. Very good condition. (Spec-8-1) (ID #25466) $145.00.
91. Wengeroff, Pauline. MEMOIREN EINER GROSSMUTTER: BILDER AUS DER
KULTURGESCHICHTE DER JUDEN RUSSLANDS IM 19. JAHRHUNDERT, BAND I [ONLY,
OF 2]. Berlin: M. Poppelauer. 1908. 8vo. 200 pages. Illustrated with
frontispiece portrait of the author. In German. SUBJECT (S): Jews =E2=
=80=93
Soviet Union. OCLC lists 14 copies worldwide. Wengeroff (1833-1916)
=E2=80=9Cbecame renowned for her memoirs...Memoiren einer Grossmutter,=
Bilder
aus der Kulturgeschichte der Juden Russlands im 19.
Jahrhundert...[which] reflect the life of a wealthy Jewish family in
the period before the Haskalah and the crisis which ensued. =E2=80=9D(S=
lutsky,
EJ) Green cloth with gilt lettering and cloth bookmark. Pages very
lightly tanned. Very good condition. (MX-33-36) (ID #18387) $40.00.
ANTISEMITISM & THE JEWISH QUESTION
92. (Blood Libel) Lipschitz, Leopold, editor. CHRISTLICHE ZEUGNISSE
GEGEN DIE BLUTBESCHULDIGUNG DER JUDEN. Berlin, Walther & Apolant, 1882.
Paper Wrappers, 8vo, vi, 58 pages. Some edgewear. 27 cm. Vorbemerkung.
--Zeugnisse: A, von theologischen facultaten; B, von bischofen; C, von
professoren. (GR-2-10) No outer binding, signitures of pages
seperating. Paper good. (ID #4928) $80.00.
93. Bernfeld, Simon. SEFER HA-DEMA`OT: MEORA`OT HA-GEZEROT
VEHA-REDIFOT VE-HASHMADOT. VOLUME 1 ONLY (OF 3). Berlin: Eshkol. 1923.
Hardcover. (FT) 8vo. Volume one (of three) only. SUBJECT(S): Jews --
persecutions. "Bernfeld was born in Stanislav, Galicia, and was
educated in Koenigsberg and Berlin. In 1886 he was appointed chief
rabbi of the Sephardi community of Belgrade, Serbia; he remained there
until 1894, when he returned to Berlin and devoted himself to scholarly
pursuits. He continued his literary work until his death, despite
blindness in his later years. Bernfeld wrote several monographs in
Hebrew on Jewish history and philosophy, the earliest published when he
was only 19." (Klausner, EJ) Bookplate, front joint split, good
condition. (RAB-23-15) (ID #20477) $35.00.
94. Baron, Salo Wittmayer. DIE JUDENFRAGE AUF DEM WIENER KONGRESS,
AUF GRUND VON ZUM TEIL UNGEDRUCKTEN QUELLEN DARGESTELLT VON DR. SALO
BARON; HRSG. MIT UNTERST=C3=9CTZUNG DER HISTORISCHEN KOMMISSION DER
ISRAELITISCHEN KULTUSGEMEINDE IN WIEN. Wien Und Berlin; R. L=C3=B6wit,=
1920.
Clothbound. 8vo. 211 pages. 23 cm. First edition. In German. Published
under the auspices of the Israelitische Kultusgemeinde Wien;
Historische Kommission. Title translates as =E2=80=9CThe Jewish questio=
n
presented to the Congress of Vienna, on the basis of unprinted sources
by Dr. Salo Baron, editor, with the support of the Historical
Commission of the Jewish Community in Vienna. =E2=80=9D Solo Wittmayer=
Baron
(1895-1989), a Polish Jewish scholar, who emigrated to the United
States in 1930 and taught at Colombia university, and considered one of
the greatest Jewish historians of the twentieth century. This work,
written in the year Baron received rabbinical ordination at the Jewish
Theological Seminary in Vienna in 1920, is a report on period texts
which situate the social and political climate for Jews in an
increasingly anti-Semitic Europe. Subjects: Jews -- Germany. Jewish
question. Congress of Vienna. Light foxing to edges and bottom edges of
cover. Very clean and fresh copy. Very good + condition. (GER-33-31)
(ID #28827) $75.00.
95. Another Copy. Edgeworn, top corners bumped, fly leaf detached
and chipped, owner's name on half title page, text clean, good
condition. (GER-18-7) (ID #25787) $55.00.
96. Bernstein, S. DIE JUDENPOLITIK DER RUM=C3=84NISCHEN REGIERUNG.
Copenhagen, M. Truelsens Bogtrykkeri, 1918. Original Paper Wrappers.
8vo. 196 pages. 23 cm. In German. Title translates to English as, =E2=
=80=9CThe
Jewish Policy of the Rumanian Government. =E2=80=9D Corp Authors: Zioni=
st
Organisation.; Copenhagen office. CONTENTS: Die Juden in Rum=C3=A4nien=
bis
zum Berliner Vertrag -- Der Berliner Vertrag -- Die Judenfrage in
Rum=C3=A4nien zur zeit des Balkankrieges (1912-13) -- Die Lage der Jude=
n in
Rum=C3=A4nien set dem Ausbruch des Weltkrieges. SUBJECT(S): Jews -- Leg=
al
status, laws, etc. -- Romania. Jews -- Romania. Back cover absent;
front cover detached but present. Internal pages are nice and clean,
binding is tight. Good+ Condition. (SEF-37-5) (ID #28465) $100.00.
97. Bloch, Joseph S. Theodor N=C3=B6ldecke, and August W=C3=BCnsche.=
ISRAEL
UND DIE V=C3=96LKER: NACH J=C3=9CDISCHER LEHRE. Berlin & Wien, 1922. Be=
rlin &
Vienna: Benjamin Harz, 1922. Half leather; 8vo. Lii, 830 pages. Marbled
boards; raised bands; gilt titles. In German. Half-title: Israel und
die V=C3=B6lker nach j=C3=BCdischer Lehre mit ber=C3=BCcksichtigung s=
=C3=A4mtlicher
antisemitischer Textf=C3=A4lschungen in Talmud, Schulchan Aruch, Sohar=
und
anderen rabbinischen und kabbalistischen Schriften auf Grund der dem
Wiener Landesgericht aus Anlass des Prozesses Rohling contra block 1885
erstateten schriftlichen Gutachten der in Eid genommenen
sachverst=C3=A4ndigen Professor Dr. Theodor N=C3=B6ldeke und lic. Theol=
=2E Dr.
August W=C3=BCnsche systematisch dargestellt... "Dieses Buch...
Intendiert... Die Dienste eines Kompendiums f=C3=BCr j=C3=BCdische Apol=
ogetik zu
leisten. "--p. Lii. Bibliography: p. 791-797. Bloch was a rabbi,
publicist, and politician in Austria. "During the Tisza-Eszlar blood
libel trial in 1883, when August Rohling undertook to attest on oath
that Jews practiced ritual murder, Bloch attacked him in the press. He
challenged Rohling's competence as a scholar, accused him of lying, and
offered him 3, 000 florins for translating a random page of the Talmud.
Rohling was forced to sue Bloch for libel, but after two years'
investigations withdrew his action 13 days before the trial was due to
open...Israel und die Voelker (1922; Israel and the Nations, 1927) [is
a compendium of apologetics] based on the evidence of the experts in
connection with the Rohling trial. " (Meir Lamed, EJ) SUBJECT(S):
Judaism -- Apologetic works. Antisemitism. Judaism -- Controversial
literature -- History and criticism. Rohling, August, 1839-1931.
Edgewear; bit of foxing. Very good condition. (RAB-48-18) (ID #16017)
$75.00.
98. Blueher, Hans. SECESSIO JUDAICA: PHILOSOPHISCHE GRUNDLEGUNG DER
HISTORISCHEN SITUATION DES JUDENTUMS UND DER ANTISEMITISCHEN BEWEGUNG.
Berlin, W. Ritter, 1922. 1st Edition. Paper Wrappers, Light wear, small
tear at spine, Good+ Condition; 8vo; 66 pages; 23 cm. (Comhist-14-38)
(ID #4976) $50.00.
99. Blumenfeld, Kurt. Edited by Hans Tramer. ERLEBTE JUDENFRAGE: EIN
VIERTELJAHRHUNDERT DEUTSCHER ZIONISMUS. Stuttgart, Deutsche
Verlags-Anstalt, 1962. 1st Edition. Cloth, 8vo, 222 pages. 24cm.
Veroffentlichung des Leo Baeck Instituts. Includes frontis portrait.
Very Good jacket. (GEr-15-53dw) (ID #18711) $30.00.
100. Bodmer, M. J. (Pseud. ), edited by Ernst Jaeckh. EIN NEUER
STAATENBUND UND DAS OSTJUDENPROBLEM. Stuttgart-berlin, Deutsche
Verlags-Anstalt, 1916. Paper Wrappers, Some wear to wrapper, Good
Condition; 36 pages; WW I-era analysis. "Der deutsche Krieg" series;
Politische Flugschriften 73. Heft. (MX-34-10) (ID #4810) $30.00.
101. Borut, Jacob. HAGENU `AL `ATSMEKHEM!: YISUD "HA-AGUDAH
HA-MERKAZIT SHEL EZRAHIM GERMANIYIM BA`ALE HA-EMUNAH HA-YEHUDIT"
(CENTRAL VEREIN). Yerushalayim: Hotsaat Merkaz Dinur. 1996. Paperback.
8vo. 152 pages. In Hebrew and German. SUBJECT (S): German language.
Hebrew language; Jews =E2=80=93 Germany =E2=80=93 Politics and governme=
nt -- 19th
century =E2=80=93 sources; Antisemitism =E2=80=93 Germany =E2=80=93 his=
tory -- 19th century =E2=80=93
sources; Germany =E2=80=93 ethnic relations. SERIES: Kuntresim, mekorot
u-mehkarim.; Sidrah 4; 2; OCLC lists 13 copies worldwide. Very good
condition. (GER-15-31) (ID #18810) $25.00.
102. Carlebach, Elisheva. DIVIDED SOULS: THE CONVERT CRITIQUE AND
THE CULTURE OF ASHKENAZ 1750-1800. New York, Berlin: Leo Baeck
Institute, 2003. Paper Wrappers, 8vo. 24 pages. In English. (Leo Baeck
Memorial Lecture; 46) Elisheva Carlebach is Professor of History at
Queens College and the Graduate Center, CUNY. On December 3, 2002, she
gave the 46th Leo Baeck Memorial Lecture at the Leo Baeck Institute New
York. The author examines what it meant for a Jew to convert to
Christianity in early modern Europe. She focuses on Germany, where it
generally meant profound unease and discomfort. The status of Jews who
converted, who retained elements of their Jewishness while not accepted
as true Christians, resulted in a figure that was often considered, at
least from the Christian perspective, a counterfeit human being. The
collective historical influence of the converts was complex and
enduring since they did not simply disappear within the majority.
Rather, they became the first German Jews to experience the
consequences of a dual identity, and the first to demonstrate that
leaving Judaism for Christianity was never a simple transformation.
Christians accepted them as baptized but not truly converted. Elisheva
Carlebach describes the dilemma of identity and the sense of alienation
and which are a persistent theme in the history of conversions out of
Judaism.SUBJECT (S): Jews -- Germany -- History -- 18th century.
Christian converts from Judaism -- Germany -- History -- 18th century.
Asjkenaziem. Bekering. In fine condition. (MX12-13). (ID #21332)
$30.00.
103. Deutsches Centralkomitee F=C3=BCr Die Russischen Juden (Germany=
).
STENOGRAPHISCHER BERICHT =C3=9CBER DIE DELEGIRTEN-VERSAMMLUNG ZUR BERAT=
HUNG
DER HILFS-AKTION F=C3=9CR DIE RUSSICHEN JUDEN, BERLIN, 20. UND 21. OCTO=
BER
1891. Berlin; Typ. H. S. Hermann, 1891. FT) Paper wrappers. 8vo. 134
pages. 23 cm. First edition. In German. =E2=80=9CStenographic report of=
the
delegates to the assembly to deliberate charity activity for Russian
Jews, Berlin, 20 and 21st October 1891.=E2=80=9D =E2=80=9CPublished by=
the business
executive committee of the "German Central Committee for Russian Jews.
" The German Central Committee for Russian Jews was a national
organization established in 1891, comprised of seventy seven local aid
societies throughout Germany which were essential in helping the
transmigration of thousand of Russian Jews to the United States and
Palestine. The delegates to the assembly are almost entirely Rabbis,
scholars, and philanthropists, from New York, Holland, Denmark, and all
over Germany. The reports and discussion of this assembly comprise an
interesting assessment of the situation of Eastern European Jews at the
close of the century. OCLC lists 15 copies worldwide. Covers soiled,
edges bumped. Pages lightly aged at edges, but clean and fresh. Very
good condition. (GER-33-23) (ID #28819) $250.00.
104. DIE MORAL DER EVANGELIEN UND DES TALMUD. EINE VERGLEICHENDE
STUDIE IM GEISTE UNSERER ZEIT. Brno, Bernhard Epstein, 1912. Cloth,
Contemporary cloth. 8vo. x, 58 pages. In German. Bound with: Durege,
Jenny: JUDENTUM UND CHRISTENTUM. VORTRAG GEHALTEN IN PRAG AM 12.
FEBRUAR 1912 IM S=C3=84ULENSAALDES DEUTSCHEN HAUSES. (Magdeburg: R.
Zacharias. 1912. 8vo. 27 pages. 2. Tausend). Gesamtverzeichnis
1700-1910, XXX. 474. Attractively bound together in period cloth. Very
Good Condition. (SPEC23-12) (ID #8124) $75.00. (GER-37-75) |=E2=80=A2 E=
loesser,
Arthur. VOM GHETTO NACH EUROPA: DAS JUDENTUM IM GEISTIGEN LEBEN DES 19.
JAHRHUNDERTS. Berlin, J=C3=BCdische Buch-Vereinigung, 1936. 1st Edition=
=2E
Cloth, 8vo, 292 pages. Good study of the Emancipation. Guido Kisch's
copy, with his attractive pre-war pargue bookplate. An outstanding copy
(GER-37-75) Very Good+ Condition Lacks Jacket. (ID #1988) $65.00.
105. Another Copy. 1st Edition. Cloth, 1" tear at backstrip,
otherwise a good solid copy.; 8vo; 292 pages; Good study of the
Emancipation. (GER-37-80) (ID #6264) $45.00.
106. Goldstein, Julius. RASSE UND POLITIK. Schl=C3=BCchtern,
Neuwerkverlag. 1921. Half cloth. 8vo. 152 pages. In German. First
edition. SUBJECT (S): Antisemitism; Race; Nationalism and nationality.
Goldstein (1873-1929) was a German philosopher who was born in Hamburg.
His philosophies were similar to William James', whose A Pluralistic
Universe he translated, and he was greatly concerned with the modern
civilization and culture around him. (Popkin, EJ) Pages darkened but
clean, binding tight, very good condition. (HOLO2-6-21) (ID #20766)
$30.00.
107. J=C3=BCdisch-Nationaler Akademischer Verein "emunah", Czernowit=
z.
HEIMKEHR: ESSAYS J=C3=9CDISCHER DENKER. Czernowitz, Verlag Louis Lam, 1=
912.
Original Publisher=E2=80=99s Cloth. 8vo. 188 pages. 24 cm. In German. T=
itle
translates to English as, =E2=80=9CHomecoming: Essays From Jewish Philo=
sophers.
=E2=80=9D CONTENTS: "Einiges zum Probleme des "Golus" - Ernst M=C3=BCll=
er; "Die
sieben L=C3=BCgen des heutigen Judentums" - Daniel Pasmanik; "Einsichte=
n und
Ausblicke" - Nathan Birnbaum; "Nationale Autonomie der Juden in
Oesterreich" - Max Rosenfeld; "Nordau" - Adolf Stand; "Achad-Haam" -
Salomon Schiller; "Was Herzl vorfand" - Leon Kellner; "Der Umschwung in
der T=C3=BCrkei und die j=C3=BCdischen Palaestina-Bestrebungen" - Davis=
Trietsch;
"Chasmonaer-Fest und Chanukah (Eine historische Studie) " - Samuel
Rappaport; "Der Anteil der Juden am europaeischen Gro=C3=9Fhandl mit de=
m
Orient" - Ignatz Schipper; "Italienische und spanische Aertze und
Apotheker in XVI. Und XVII. Jahrhundert in Krakau" - Majer Balaban;
"Die Mythen des Chassidismus" - Martin Buber. SUBJECT(S): Jewish
question. Jews -- Europe. Includes bibliographical references. Includes
foreword by Leon Kellner. Pictoral endpages, hinges cracking. Cover
lightly stained. Internal pages are nice and clean. Good+ condition.
(GER-32-4) (ID #28775) $200.00.
108. Kahn, Fritz. DIE JUDEN ALS RASSE UND KULTURVOLK. Berlin,
Welt-Verlag, 1921. Cloth, Lacks backstrip. Otherwise Good Condition;
8vo; 249 pages; 29 cm. Felix A. Levy's copy, with his ownership
signiture on the front endpaper. Levy (1884-1963) served for almost 50
years as Rabbi at Emmanuel Congregation in Chicago, and "influenced his
colleagues in modifying the attitude of Reform Judaism to halakhah and
the nature of Jewish identity. These changes were embodied, inter alia,
in the 1937 Columbus Platform adopted by the Central Conference of
American Rabbis under Levy's leadership as president (1935-37) " Wolfe
Kelman in EJ, 1971, 11: 157) (GER-37-70) (ID #6047) $40.00.
109. Kernholt, Otto. VOM GHETTO ZUR MACHT. DIE GESCHICHTE DES
AUFSTIEGS DER JUDEN AUF DEUTSCHEM BODEN. Leipzig, Berlin, Theodor
Weicher, 1921. 1st Edition. Paper Wrappers, Paper Wraps. 8vo. x, 319
pages. 23 cm. "Anmerkungen und Quellennachweise" on pages 297-306.
Antisemitic. Occationally cited on modern Antisemitic webpages. binding
repaired, previous owner's number on spine and endpaper, paper browning
but good and solid throughout. Good condition. (HOLO2-57-8). (ID #7854)
$75.00.
110. Liebesch=C3=BCtz, Hans. DAS JUDENTUM IN DER DEUTSCHEN UMWELT:
1800-1850: STUDIEN ZUR FR=C3=9CHGESCHICHTEDER EMANZIPATION. U. ARNOLD
PAUCKER. T=C3=BCbingen: Mohr, 1977. Cloth, 8vo, xii, 445 pages, 24 cm.
Includes indexes. Bibliography on pages 393-420 Subjects: Philippson,
Ludwig, 1811-1889. Hirsch, Samson Raphael, 1808-1888.
Jews--Germany--History--1800-1933.
Judaism--Germany--History--1815-1866. Series: Schriftenreihe
wissenschaftlicher Abhandlungen des Leo Baeck Instituts; 35. Variant
Series: Schriftenreihe wissenschaftlicher Abhandlungen des Leo Baeck
Instituts; 35 0459-097X. Gilt lettering on cover and spine, Very good
condition in worn jacket (Comhist-3-9) (ID #19728) $35.00.
111. Marsch, Wolf Dieter; and Karl Theime, editors. CHRISTEN UND
JUDEN IHR GEGEN=C3=9CBER VOM APOSTELKONZIL BIS HEUTE. Mainz,
Matthias-Grunewald-Verlag, 1961. 1st Edition. Very Good Condition in
Very Good Jacket.; 299 pages; In German. 21 cm. Guido Kisch's copy.
(GER-37-59) (ID #8255) $25.00.
112. Mosse, Werner E. ENTSCHEIDUNGSJAHR 1932: ZUR JUDENFRAGE IN DER
ENDPHASE DER WEIMARER REPUBLIK. T=C3=BCbingen: J. C. B. Mohr (Paul Sieb=
eck),
1965. 1st Edition. Cloth, Large 8vo; 608 pages; Near Fine condition in
Very Good dust jacket (Comhist3-2) (ID #19721) $40.00.
113. Offenburg, Benno. DAS ERWACHEN DES DEUTSCHEN
NATIONALBEWU=C3=9FTSEINS IN DER PREU=C3=9FISCH EN JUDENHEIT: VON MOSES
MENDELSSOHN BIS ZUM BEGINN DER REAKTION. Hamburg, Druck Von Arthur
Br=C3=BCnnler, 1933. 1st Edition. Paper Wrappers, 8vo, 87 pages.
"Dissertation zur Erlangung der Doktorw=C3=BCrde der Philosophischen
Fakult=C3=A4t der Hamburgischen Universitat. " Guido Kisch's Copy "Ein
geistesgeschichtlicher Beitrag zur Emanzipationsgeschichte der
deutschen Juden" (GER-37-51) Chipping to spine, but binding is solid. A
nice copy. (ID #1859) $60.00.
114. Oppeln-Bronikowski, Friedrich Von. GERECHTIGKEIT! ZUR LOSUNG
DER JUDENFRAGE. Berlin-wilmersdorf, J. G. Huch, 1932. Paper Wrappers,
Original Paper Wrappers. 8vo. 96 pages. 23 cm. In German. Weimar-era
philosemitic call for justice and calling on Germans and Jews to work
together (though, of course, they are seen as distinct). This copy
bears the rubber stamps of the Bibliothek zur Erforschung der
Judenfrage. Wear to cover & corners, spine cocked, but good and solid.
(HOLO2-65-3) (ID #4806) $55.00.
115. Another Copy. Backstrip has tears at top and bottom, title page
is torn and reattached with tape. Internal pages are nice and clean.
Good condition. (HOLO2-45-1). (ID #26565) $50.00.
116. Pfisterer, Rudolf. IM SCHATTEN DES KREUZES. Hamburg-bergstedt,
H. Reich, 1966. 1st Edition. Paperback, Very Good Condition.; 8vo; 155
pages; In German. 23 cm. Bibliographical footnotes. Christianity and
Antisemitism. (GER-37-39) (ID #8421) $40.00.
117. Reibmayr, Albert. INZUCHT UND VERMISCHUNG BEIM MENSCHEN.
Leipzig; Deuticke, 1897. Clothbound. 8vo. VI, 268 pages. 24 cm. First
edition. In German. Green cloth with gilt lettering. Title translates
as: =E2=80=9CInbreeding and Mixing in Humans. =E2=80=9D The first work=
by the Austrian
physician Albert Reibmayr details the existence of an inbred caste of
rulers, emerging from social and cultural progress out of the division
of labor and social differentiation. The work gives a particularly
detailed biological basis of the theory of historical cycles, that of a
transition from an inbred caste to a socially mixed caste, recommending
the superior role of the newly emerged mixed middle classes for social
rule, and recommends that intermixing is the only path to rejuvenation
of a crumbling society. This work was studied by Emile Durkheim, and
though swamped in late 19th century genetic theories, serves to
legitimate the toppling of =E2=80=9Cinbred=E2=80=9D rulers, and highlig=
hts the nomadic
and dynamic Semites as fit to rule over the inbred sedentary Aryans (!
) Subjects: In-breeding. Consanguinity. Miscegenation. Jews. Covers
lightly soiled, pages fresh and clean. Near fine condition. (GER-36-35)
(ID #28886) $175.00.
118. Reimann, Hans (Pseud.: Artur S=C3=BCnder). DIE DINTE WIDER DAS=
BLUT.
EIN ZEITROMAN. Hannover, P. Steegemann, 1921. Paper Wrappers, 12mo; 39
pages. Satire of Artur Dinter's vulgar anti-Semitic bestseller "The Sin
against the Blood"; "Having expressed critiques of the Nazis and
planned a Hitler parody under the title Mein Krampf (My Cramp), he
[Reimann] experienced great difficulties and was blacklisted by the
Nazi regime. He wrote under several pseudonyms and also co-wrote with
Heinrich Spoerl. A secret report by Carl Zuckmayer, who worked for a US
agency, suggested,that Reimann published in anti-semitic journals [he
did end up as editor of "The Nettle", the only Nazi satire magazine]
and found ways of arranging himself with the Nazis, (a similar
allegation by Moritz Lederer was in an 1958 court case judged
unfounded). After the fall of the 'Third Reich' in 1945, Reimann was
forbidden to publish in Allied-occupied Germany until 1948" (Wikipedia,
2012). Has a backwards swastika as part of its cover design. Light
wear, paper browning, Good Condition; (GER-37-16) (ID #4328) $30.00.
119. Robinsohn, Saul B. and Chaim Schatzker. J=C3=9CDISCHE GESCHICHT=
E IN
DEUTSCHEN GESCHICHTSLEHRB=C3=9CCHERN. Braunschweig, A. Limbach, 1963.
Original Paper Wrappers. 8vo. 53 pages. 24 cm. In German. Series:
Schriftenreihe des Internationalen Schulbuchinstituts, 7. Bd. Title
translates to English as, =E2=80=9CJewish History in German History Tex=
tbooks.
=E2=80=9D SUBJECT (S): Jews -- History -- Study and teaching -- Germany=
=2E
Textbooks -- Germany. Education -- Germany -- 20th century. Schulbuch.
Geschichtsunterricht. Geographic: Germany -- Historiography. Germany --
History -- 1945-1990. Juden. Deutschland. Includes bibliographical
references (pages 49-53). Light wear to cover. Internal pages are
slightly darkened, but all text is clear. Very good condition.
(HOLO2-60-20) (ID #27669) $35.00.
120. Rosenfeld, Max. NATIONALES SELBSTBESTIMMUNGSRECHT DER JUDEN IN
POLEN. Wien / Berlin; R. L=C3=B6wit Verlag, 1918. Paper wrappers. 8vo.=
62
pages. 23 cm. First edition. In German. Title translates as: =E2=80=9CN=
ational
Self-Determination of Jews in Poland. =E2=80=9D Dr. Max Rosenfeld 1884-=
1919)
was a socialist Paole Zionist from Galicia, who argued for Jewish
national autonomy in an Austrian Federation of nationalities, so as to
minimize any possible harm that would come to the Jews in the
Austrian-Hungarian empire were it to dissolve into separate fragmented
states; Rosenfeld foresaw the ideal situation being that of a strong
state overseeing the common concerns of the many nationalities in the
empire. His intention was for Jewish religious communities to transform
themselves into a Jewish national community. Subjects: Jews -- Legal
status, laws, etc. -- Poland. Polen. Juden. Pages uncut, chipped edges
on cover. Lightly aged and soiled, with bumped corners. Clean copy.
Good + condition (GER-36-41) (ID #28892) $30.00.
121. Sandor, Alexander. DER PHILOSEMIT. II. JAHRGANG, III. HEFT.
Prague: Druck Von Eugen Petschau, 1932. Paper wrappers. 8vo. 171-250
pages. In German. =E2=80=9CThe Philosemite. =E2=80=9D Scarce Jewish ser=
ial from Prague.
SUBJECT (S): Philosophy. Covers a little worn, particularly around the
edges, small tear on front along bottom edge and another at the bottom
of the spine, corners bumped, text clean, good condition. (GER-18-12)
(ID #25792) $50.00.
122. Scholl, Carl. DAS JUDENTHUM UND SEINE WELTMISSION. Leipzig,
Robert Friese, 1880. Softcover. 8vo. 26 pages. 21 cm. In German.
Philosemitic treatise, denouncing Antisemitism. Reprinted from, "Es
werde Licht! Monatsbl=C3=A4tter zur F=C3=B6rderung der Humanit=C3=A4t,=
Jahrg. XI
(1880), Februarheft, =E2=80=9D a monthly magazine published by Scholl t=
o
espouse free religious beliefs and speak out against anti-Semitism.
Title translates to English as, =E2=80=9CJudaism and Its World Mission.=
=E2=80=9D For
more on Scholl, see Dagmar Herzog=E2=80=99s fascinating article, =E2=80=
=9CCarl scholl,
Gustav Struve, and the problematics of philosemitism in 1840s Germany:
Radical Christian dissent and the reform Jewish response, =E2=80=9D ( i=
n Jewish
History Volume 9, Number 2, 53-72). SUBJECT(S): Judaism. Religion.
Judentum. OCLC lists 10 copies worldwide. "Surplus - Duplicate" stamp
on cover, book plate on front end page. Internal pages are darkened
with some damp stains but still nice. Margin notes on one page. All
text is clear. Good condition. Important imprint from the Judenfrage
debates of 19th Century Germany. (HOLO2-49-17). (ID #26324) $150.00.
123. Sombart, Werner. DIE DEUTSCHE VOLKSWIRTSCHAFT IM NEUNZEHNTEN
JAHRHUNDERT UND IM ANFANG DES 20. JAHRHUNDERTS. Berlin, G. Bondi, 1927.
4th Revised Edition. Cloth, xvi, 532 pages; In German. 23 cm. Includes
a great deal of material on Jews. Previously published under title: Die
deutsche Volkswirtschaft im neunzehnten Jahrhundert. Light wear to ends
of spine. Very good condition. (MX-34-26) (ID #8286) $60.00.
124. Strack, Hermann L. DAS BLUT IM GLAUBEN UND ABERGLAUBEN DER
MENSCHHEIT: MIT BESONDERER BER=C3=9CCKSICHTIGUNG DER "VOLKSMEDIZIN" UND=
DES
"J=C3=9CDISCHEN BLUTRITUS." M=C3=BCnchen [Munich]; Beck, 1900. Clothbo=
und. 8vo.
XVI, 208 pages. 21 cm. Eighth edition. In German. Title translates as:
=E2=80=9CThe Blood of Faith and Superstition in mankind: with special r=
eference
to =E2=80=9CFolk-medicine=E2=80=9D and the =E2=80=9CJewish blood ritual=
=2E =E2=80=9D Published under the
auspices of the Institutum Judaicum in Berlin. Hermann Strack,
(1848-1922) a =E2=80=9CGerman Protestant theologian and Orientalist; bo=
rn at
Berlin May 6, 1848. Since 1877 he has been assistant professor of Old
Testament exegesis and Semitic languages at the University of Berlin.
He is the foremost Christian authority in Germany on Talmudic and
rabbinic literature, and studied rabbinics under Steinschneider. Since
the reappearance of anti-Semitism in Germany Strack has been the
champion of the Jews against the attacks of such men as Hofprediger
St=C3=B6cker, Professor R=C3=B6hling, and others. In 1885 Strack became=
the
editor of "Nathanael. Zeitschrift f=C3=BCr die Arbeit der Evangelischen
Kirche an Israel, " which is published at Berlin; and in 1883 he
founded the Institutum Judaicum, which aims at the conversion of Jews
to Christianity. Strack is a member of the Foreign Board of Consulting
Editors of The Jewish Encyclopedia. =E2=80=9D (From the 1906 Jewish
Encyclopedia) OCLC lists 16 copies worldwide. Subjects: Blood.
Religious Studies. Judaism. Rite. Folk medicine. Covers worn, soiled at
edges, with bumped corners. First and last endpages chipped, brittle,
shaken. Pages lightly aged, clean and fresh. Very good + condition.
(GER-33-48) (ID #28843) $50.00.
125. Strack, Hermann L. DAS WESEN DES JUDENTUMS: VORTRAG, GEHALTEN
AUF DER INTERNATIONALEN KONFERENZ F=C3=9CR JUDENMISSION ZU AMSTERDAM.
Leipzig; Hinrichs, 1906. FT) Clothbound. 8vo. 23 pages. 24 cm. First
Edition. In German. Later bound cloth over boards with original paper
wrappers as title page. Title translates as: =E2=80=9CThe essence of Ju=
daism:
Paper presented at the International Conference in Amsterdam on
Missionary work among Jews. =E2=80=9D Hermann Strack, (1848-1922) a =E2=
=80=9CGerman
Protestant theologian and Orientalist; born at Berlin May 6, 1848.
Since 1877 he has been assistant professor of Old Testament exegesis
and Semitic languages at the University of Berlin. He is the foremost
Christian authority in Germany on Talmudic and rabbinic literature, and
studied rabbinics under Steinschneider. Since the reappearance of
anti-Semitism in Germany Strack has been the champion of the Jews
against the attacks of such men as Hofprediger St=C3=B6cker, Professor
R=C3=B6hling, and others. In 1885 Strack became the editor of "Nathanae=
l.
Zeitschrift f=C3=BCr die Arbeit der Evangelischen Kirche an Israel, " w=
hich
is published at Berlin; and in 1883 he founded the Institutum Judaicum,
which aims at the conversion of Jews to Christianity. Strack is a
member of the Foreign Board of Consulting Editors of The Jewish
Encyclopedia. =E2=80=9D (From the 1906 Jewish Encyclopedia) Subjects: J=
udaism.
Judenmission. Backstrip and original wrappers starting, but signatures
intact. Covers lightly soiled. Original wraps lightly aged. Pages fresh
and clean. Very good condition. (GER-33-45) (ID #28840) $30.00.
126. Strack, Hermann Leberecht. EINLEITUNG IN DEN TALMUD. Leipzig,
J. C. Hinrichs, 1908. Hardcover, viii, 182 pages, 23 cm. In German.
Series: Schriften des Instutum judaicum in Berlin.; Nr. 2. SUBJECT (S):
Judenmission. Talmud. Talmud -- Introduction. Talmud. Bibliography on
pages 81-82 and 139-175. Strack (1848-1922) was a =E2=80=9CGerman Orien=
talist
and theologian. Strack was born in Berlin, where he became professor of
Oriental languages and director-founder of the university=E2=80=99s Ins=
titutum
Judaicum. He was recognized as a leading non-Jewish scholar in the
field of Bible and Talmud, Hebrew and Aramaic linguistics, Masorah,
etc. Serving as an expert in German courts on a number of cases with
antisemitic overtones, Strack took a firm line in defense of Judaism,
and at the same time was active in the Protestant missionary movement.
In the field of linguistics his main publications were Grammatik des
Biblisch-Aramaeischen; Hebraeische Grammatik; Juedisches Woerterbuch, a
Yiddish dictionary; and Lehrbuch der neuhebraeischen Sprache und
Litteratur. Of importance for the study of Masorah was his Dikduke
ha-Te=E2=80=99amim des Ahron ben Moscheh ben Ascher, edited in cooperat=
ion with
S. Baer; Catalog der hebraeischen Bibelhandschriften der=E2=80=A6 Bibli=
othek in
St. Petersburg; and Prophetarum posteriorum Codex babylonicus
Petropolitanus. He also took part in the controversy surrounding the
Firkovich forgeries. Strack wrote Einleitung in das Alte Testament and
edited, together with O. Zoeckler, a short Bible commentary, to which
he contributed several biblical books; he also published a translation
of and commentary on Ben Sira. He wrote, with P. Billerbeck, a
commentary to the New Testament which was based on Talmud and Midrash
and demonstrated the Jewish rabbinic origin of most of Jesus=E2=80=99 s=
ayings.
He also issued annotated translations of several Mishnah tractates with
Billerbeck, including Avot, together with a vocalized text. Strack=E2=
=80=99s
Einleitung in Talmud und Midrash became a standard reference work, the
English edition, Introduction to the Talmud and Midrash, which is based
on the last but revised German one, being sponsored by the Central
Conference of American Rabbis. In fighting the malicious accusations
against Judaism, Strack wrote Das Blut im Glauben und Aberglauben der
Menschheit, which was translated into English by H. Blanchamp as The
Jew and Human Sacrifice =E2=80=A6. Works in the same vein include: Sind=
die
Juden Verbrecher von Religionswegen?; Juedische Geheimgesetze?; Herr
Adolf Stoecker christliche Liebe und Wahrhaftigkeit; and Die Aufhebung
der Juden-Emanzipation und ihre rechtliche Begruendung. Strack=E2=80=99=
s
courageous stand against growing German antisemitism brought him bitter
denunciation by antisemitic writers such as K. Erbsreich and Th.
Fritsch; on the other hand his missionary activities came under attack
from Jewish writers=E2=80=9D (Berenbaum and Skolnik in EJ, 2007). Light=
wear to
cover binding and edges. Yellowing to inside front and back cover. Very
good condition. (Heb-15A-16) (ID #26035) $30.00.
127. Strack, Hermann Leberecht. JOMA; DER MISCHNATRAKTAT
"VERS=C3=96HNUNGSTAG"; HERAUSGEGEBEN UND ERKL=C3=84RT VON HERMANN L. ST=
RACK.
Berlin; H. Reuther's Verlagsbuchhandlung, 1888. Clothbound. 8vo. 40
pages. 22 cm. Text in Hebrew, notes in German. Title translates as:
=E2=80=9CYOMA; The Mishnah Tractate =E2=80=98Atonement=E2=80=99; Issued=
and explained by
Hermann L. Strack. =E2=80=9D Printed as number 3 of =E2=80=9CSchriften=
des Institutum
Judaicum in Berlin=E2=80=9D, the Jewish Institute of Berlin. Hermann Le=
berecht
Strack (1848-1922) was a German Protestant theologian and Orientalist.
The 1906 Jewish Encyclopedia had this to say of him: =E2=80=9CHe is the
foremost Christian authority in Germany on Talmudic and rabbinic
literature, and studied rabbinics under Steinschneider. Since the
reappearance of anti-Semitism in Germany Strack has been the champion
of the Jews against the attacks of such men as Hofprediger St=C3=B6cker=
,
Professor R=C3=B6hling, and others. In 1885 Strack became the editor of
"Nathanael. Zeitschrift f=C3=BCr die Arbeit der Evangelischen Kirche an
Israel, " which is published at Berlin; and in 1883 he founded the
Institutum Judaicum, which aims at the conversion of Jews to
Christianity. In the beginning of his career the Prussian government
sent Strack to St. Petersburg to examine the Bible manuscripts there;
on this occasion he examined also the antiquities of the Firkovich
collection, which he declared to be forgeries. =E2=80=9D This short vol=
ume
constitutes one in a series of editions of the Mishnah tractates
published in the late 1880=E2=80=99s: Abot (Carlsruhe, 1882; 2d ed. Ber=
lin,
1888), Yoma (1888), 'Abodah Zarah (1888), and Shabbat (1890). Ephraim
Deinard=E2=80=99s copy, as noted on the bookplate: =E2=80=9CFrom the Li=
brary of Ephraim
Deinard. =E2=80=9D Subjects: Mishnah. Yoma -- Criticism, Textual. Cover=
s
lightly worn. Pages lightly aged, some edges bumped and chipped. Very
good condition. (GER-36-46) (ID #28897) $30.00.
128. Werner Sombart. DIE JUDEN UND DAS WIRTSCHAFTSLEBEN. Leipzig,
Duncker & Humblot, 1920. Cloth, 8vo. 476 Pages. In German. SUBJECT (S):
Jews -- Politics and government. Jews -- Social conditions. Economic
history. Joden. Economisch gedrag. Sombart, (1863-1941), was a German
political economist and sociologist. Born in Ermsleben, Sombart
acquired a reputation through his work Der Moderne Kapitalismus (2
vols., 1902, 19162) in which he traced the development of capitalism
from the later Middle Ages. In 1917 he was appointed professor of
political economy at the University of Berlin. He wrote two works on
capitalism and the Jews: Die Juden und das Wirtschlaftsleben (1911),
The Jews and Modern Capitalism (1913, 1951), and Die Zukunft der Juden
(1912) which aroused considerable controversy. (EJ, Staff) In good
condition (GER24-23) (ID #28752) $30.00.
129. Zipkes, Rudolf. J=C3=9CDISCHE SELBSTKRITIK; VON WESEN UND POLIT=
IK
DES J=C3=9CDISCHEN VOLKES. Z=C3=BCrich; Buchdruckerei A. G. 1941. Later=
Cloth.
8vo. 135 pages. 21 cm. First edition. In German. Holocaust-era imprint.
Beautiful later red cloth binding with gilt lettering on spine. Title
translates as: =E2=80=9CJewish Self-Critique; on the essence and politi=
cs of
the Jewish People=E2=80=9C, a conspicuous anti-zionist tract written by=
Rudolf
Zipkes, a Swiss-Jewish lawyer, art historian, film critic, and later
member of the Swiss supreme court. Translated chapter titles: The
Jewish Question, the people=E2=80=99s problem in the present - The fate=
of the
Jewish people - The historical disease: Messianism, Orthodoxy and
assimilation. Zionism and criticism - The structure of the Jewish
spirit of true emancipation - Principles of a realistic national
policy. Subjects: Jews. Selbstkritik. J=C3=BCdische Gemeinde. Geschicht=
e
(Zeit). Binding and endpages in fine condition. Pages lightly aged and
soiled at edges, with a light warping potentially owing to non-visible
dampstains. Text and pages fresh. Very good condition. (GER-33-34) (ID
#28830) $30.00.
130. Zollschan, Ignaz. DAS RASSENPROBLEM: UNTER BESONDERER
BER=C3=9CCKSICHTIGUNG DER THEORETISCHEN GRUNDLAGEN DER J=C3=9CDISCHEN
RASSENFRAGE. Wien, Leipzig; W. Braum=C3=BCller, 1911. Clothbound. 8vo.=
XVI,
509 pages. 24 cm. 2nd Revised Edition. In German. Marbled hardcover
with gilt lettering. Title translates as: =E2=80=9CThe race problem: Wi=
th
special reference to the theoretical bases of the Jewish race
question." Dr. Ignaz Zollschan (1877-1948) was an Austrian
anthropologist and physician. Zollschan, who was born in Erlach, Lower
Austria, graduated as a doctor and while working in private practice in
Carlsbad turned his interests to anthropology. To combat the
anti-Semitic racist theories of Houston S. Chamberlain, he published
his Das Rassenproblem unter besonderer Beruecksichtigung der
theoretischen Grundlagen der juedischen Rassenfrage (multiple
editions). As a Zionist he opposed Jewish Diaspora nationalism. In
Revision des juedischen Nationalismus (1919) he attacked the Jewish
demand for minority rights, and a revised edition of this work with a
supplement, "Der Weg zum Maximalismus," appeared in the following year.
In 1921 he analyzed the condition of Zionism in his Krise und
Sezessionsgefahr im Zionismus und deren Ursachen. His interpretation of
the Zionist problem stimulated the formulation of a current within
German Zionism called Binyan ha-Arez. This is one of the most important
anti-racialist anthropological studies of the "race problem". Subjects:
Jewish question. Race. Light soiling to covers and edges. Lightly
bumped edges. Near fine condition. (GER-36-9) (ID #28859) $45.00.
131. Another Copy. Light soiling to covers and edges. Clear tape
attached to backstrip, worn covers. Outer edges lightly soiled. Very
good + condition. (GER-36-9A) (ID #28860) $35.00.
ZIONISM
132. (Klatzkin, Jacob) B=C3=B6hm, Adolf. DIE ZIONISTISCHE BEWEGUNG,=
EINE
KURZE DARSTELLUNG IHRER ENTWICKLUNG VON ADOLF B=C3=96HM. 2 VOLUMES IN 1=
=2E
Berlin, Welt-Verlag, 1920. Cloth, Paper brown, binding cracked but
solid.; 8vo; 190, 363 pages; Includes 11-page index. I. Teil: Die
Bewegung bis zum Tode Theodor Herzls. II. Teil: Die Bewegung vom Tode
Herzls bis zum Ausbruch des Weltkrieges. Mit einem Anhang: Kurze
=C3=9Cbersicht der Entwickelung vom Ausbruch des Weltkrieges bis zur
gegenwart. Jacob Klatzkin's copy with his bookplate. Klatzkin was an
important Zionist philosopher who edited a number of early 20th Century
German and Hebrew Zionist and other Jewish periodicals. With nahum
Goldman he initiated in 1924 the ENCYCLOPAEDIA JUDAICA (cut short by
the rise of Hitler) as well as a parallel encyclopedia in Hebrew. The
author of numerous books, he believed that "the impulse of
self-preservation among Jews in modern times created a revoltuionary
situation, in which the Jewish people turned away from
over-intellectualization and spiritualization to the resumption of
national life in its own country, with its own language. A country and
a language, according to Klatzkin, determine the life of a nation, not
abstract religious or cultural ideas. " (Moshe Zeev Sole & Samuel
Scheps in EJ 1972, 10: 1088-1090) (GER-37-29) (ID #4366) $60.00.
133. (Map) Hugo Herrmann. PALASTINAKUNDE, EIN HAND-UND
NACHSCHLAGEBUCH, EIN LEITFADEN FUR VORTRAGENDE UND KURSE, SOWIE FUR DEN
UNTERRICHT. Wien, Fiba-Verlag, 1935. Cloth, 8vo. 566 Pages. In German.
SUBJECT (S): Palestine. OCLC lists 21 copies worldwide. Bookplate.
Herrmann, (1887=E2=80=931940), a Zionist author, editor, and propagandi=
st. Born
in Maehrisch-Truebau (Moravska Trebova), Moravia, Herrmann attended the
German University in Prague and became a teacher. He also was a member
of the editorial staff of Selbstwehr, the Prague Zionist weekly; his
cousin Leo Hermann was another member of the staff. (EJ, Kressel) In
very good condition with the scarce large map (ca 22"x40") by
Hermann, in pocket at rear, in fine condition. Book in Very Good+
Condition (GER24-3) (ID #25546) $100.00.
134. Antizionistisches Komitee, Berlin. ZIONISTISCHE TAKTIK. Berlin,
A. Rosenthal Nachf. 1919. 1st Edition (?). Paper Wrappers, 8vo, 32
pages. 22 cm. Schriften zur Aufklarung uber den Zionismus, #1. Jewish
Anti-Zionist pamphlet. Probably printed 1910-1920. (Ger-37-4) Heavy
wear, Good- Condition. (ID #28668) $30.00.
135. Birnbaum, Nathan. VOR DEM WANDERSTURM. Frankfurt Am Main; L.
S=C3=A4nger, 1919. Paper wrappers. 8vo. 31 pages. 23 cm. First edition.=
In
German. Title translates as: =E2=80=9CBefore the Wandering Tempest. =E2=
=80=9D Printed
in the pamphlet series =E2=80=9CJ=C3=BCdische Zeitfragen No. 1=E2=80=9D=
(Jewish Contemporary
Issues, no. 1) in the year 1919/5679. Nathan Birnbaum (1864=E2=80=93193=
7), a
writer (early pen name: Mathias Acher), philosopher, one of the
originators of Zionist ideology, later a leader of religious Judaism.
He was an early proponent of Zionism, founding =E2=80=9CKadimah, =E2=80=
=9D the first
Jewish nationalist students' organization (1882) with the aim of
criticizing assimilation and setting up a Jewish nationalist
consciousness. =E2=80=9CAfter the Second Zionist Congress (1898) Birnba=
um made
a fundamental turn in his political thinking: He became a spokesman for
"diaspora nationalism, " publishing articles in which he severely
criticized Herzl's "diplomatism, " the "inorganic" nature of the
Zionist movement, and the Zionist "negation of the Diaspora, " its
culture and language (Yiddish). He gradually withdrew from Zionism,
affirming that "Israel comes before Zion, " i. E. that the striving for
Eretz Israel must not entail neglect of the Jewish People itself. His
concept was now that of an interterritorial nation, comprising and
integrating all existing Jewish groups which had a cultural life of
their own. The most important group in his eyes was the
Yiddish-speaking one in Eastern Europe. =E2=80=A6 He repudiated his own=
former
"pagan-Jewish" life in Gottes Volk (1917), with further editions in
1918 and 1921 (translated into English under the title Confession,
1946). In Vom Freigeist zum Glaeubigen (1919) he described his
spiritual development. Upon the refounding of the Agudat Israel World
Organization (1919) he became its first general secretary. At that
time, after the war, revolution, and pogroms in Eastern Europe, he
devoted much effort to the problem of emigration and endeavored to
enlist general Jewish cooperation toward regulating on a big scale what
amounted to an unorganized, panic mass flight. His book Im Dienste der
Verheissung (1927) contains a critical analysis of the "activism" of
the Orthodox as a grafting of fashionable ideologies onto an organism
that was inherently of a different nature and suggested to the
"activists" a more fruitful field =E2=80=93 the gigantic task of creati=
ng the
necessary material preconditions toward effecting a metamorphosis. =E2=
=80=9D
(2007 Encyclopedia Judaica) Subjects: Jews -- Restoration. Judentum.
Migration. OCLC lists 20 copies worldwide. Lightly soiled front cover,
soiled back cover. Pages aged, browned, but clean. Good+ condition.
(GER-36-43) (ID #28894) $35.00.
136. Boczkowski, Hipolit Olgerd. GRUNDLAGEN DES NATIONALPROBLEMS;
EINFUHRUNG IN DIE NATIOLOGIE. Prag, 1937. Softcover, 95 pages, 8vo, 20
cm. In German. Nazi-era imprint. Series: Kleine zionistische B=C3=BCche=
rei,
Heft 1. SUBJECT (S): Nationalism and nationality. Cover title: Das
Nationalproblem. Literatur on pages 90-95. Czech imprint. OCLC lists 10
copies worldwide. Wear to edges and cover binding. Staining to back
cover. Hinge repair. Otherwise, very good condition. (BIB-11-3) (ID
#24042) $50.00.
137. Bonne, Alfred. PAL=C3=84STINA: LAND UND WIRTSCHAFT. Leipzig,
Deutsche Wissenschaftliche Buchhandlung, 1933. 2nd Edition. Paper
Wrappers, 8vo, 308 pages. In German. 24 cm. "Literatur" on pages
303-305. Includes index. Lacks attached paper jacket,otherwise Good
Condition. (GER-15-27DW) (ID #18685) $35.00.
138. Deutscher Verein Zur Erforschung Pal=C3=A4stinas. ZEITSCHRIFT D=
ES
DEUTSCHEN PAL=C3=84STINA-VEREINS. (BANDS 1, 2, 3, 5, 7, 8, 9, 11, 12, A=
ND 13
OF 67). Leipzig, O. Harrassowitz [Etc. ], 1890. Cloth, 8vo. In German.
Illustrated with multiple fold out maps. English translation: =E2=80=9C=
Journal
of the Palestine-German Society=E2=80=9D. Periodical published between=
1878 and
1945, for a run of 67 volumes. SUBJECT (S): Palestine -- Antiquities --
Periodicals. Ex-library with bookplates on inside front cover.
Dampstain and some warping to covers. Pages tanned, also with some
dampstain, but not affecting text. Maps intact. Good =E2=80=93 conditio=
n.
(SPEC-27-32) (ID #27922) $400.00.
139. Kundgebung Deutscher Juden; Albert Einstein; Leo Baeck. DAS
PAL=C3=84STINAWERK. Berlin; Keren Hajessod, 1926. Paper wrappers. 8vo.=
47
pages. 23 cm. Only edition. In German. Title page reads: =E2=80=9CDas
Pal=C3=A4stinawerk: eine Kundgebung deutscher Juden im ehemaligen Herre=
nhaus
zu Berlin, am 4. M=C3=A4rz 1926: stenographischer Bericht. =E2=80=9D Tr=
anslates as:
=E2=80=9CThe Palestine Movement: A declaration of German Jews in the fo=
rmer
manor house in Berlin on 4 March 1926: Stenographic Report=E2=80=9D. Ke=
ren
Hajessod was established at the World Zionist Conference in London on
July 7=E2=80=9324, 1920, and officially declared on December 24, 1920.=
The
resolution adopted called on "the whole Jewish people", Zionists and
non-Zionists alike to contribute toward the building of the Land of
Israel through Keren Hayesod. Jewish communities throughout the world
established local campaigns under the Keren Hayesod umbrella. This
stenographic report of a conference discussion includes contributions
by Oscar Aquarius, Leo Baeck, Albert Einstein, Alfred Lisser, Gotthold
Weil, Julius Magnus, Siegfried Hirsch, Felix Pinner, George Bernard,
Kurt Blumenfeld and Oscar Wassermann. OCLC lists 19 copies worldwide.
Subjects: Zionism - Germany. Paper wrappers aged, soiled, bumped edges,
with torn upper right corner, and staining and tear to lower backstrip.
Browning on author=E2=80=99s listing page. Pages water stained at outer=
most
edge, but very clean otherwise. Good + condition. (GER-33-40) (ID
#28835) $30.00.
140. Landauer, Georg. ZWISCHEN ZWEI REVOLUTIONEN: ZIONISTISCHE
BETRACHTUNGEN ZU EINIGEN FRAGEN DER =C3=9CBERGANGSZEIT. Tel Aviv, 1942.=
Tel
Aviv: Hitachduth Olej Germania we Olej Austria, 1942. Paper Wrappers,
12mo, 118 pages. 17 cm. In German. Born on November 17, 1895, in
Cologne, Germany. Georg Landauer was a lawyer, journalist, and Zionist
leader. He was active in the Zionist youth movement Blau-Weiss and the
student organization Kartell J=C3=BCdischer Verbindungen. He was a foun=
der
of the German branch of Ha-Poel Ha-Zair. Georg Landauer became director
of the Berlin Palestine Office in 1925 and in 1929 of the Zionist
Federation of Germany. After his emigration to Palestine in 1934, he
was involved in politics in the Yishuv, especially as founder of Aliyah
Hadasha, a party based in the German immigrant community, and in Aliyah
and absorption matters, particularly as financial director of Youth
Aliyah. Georg Landauer served twenty years (1934-1954) as a managing
director of the Jewish Agency Central Bureau for the Settlement of
German Jews. After the Second World War ended Georg Landauer was
involved in negotiating for reparations and restitution of the property
of German Jews in Germany. He emigrated to the United States in 1953
and died in New York City on February 4, 1954. (Leo Baeck Institute)
SUBJECT(S): Zionism. OCLC lists 5 copies worldwide (Stanford,
Princeton, NYPL, OSU, Oxford). Very Good Condition. (G-1-3) (ID #15960)
$125.00.
141. Nawratzki, Curt. DAS NEUE J=C3=9CDISCHE PAL=C3=84STINA. Berlin,=
J=C3=BCdischer
Verlag, 1919. 1st Edition. Cloth, Lacks backstrip, paper brown &
fragile, Fair Condition.; 8vo; 232 pages; In German. Includes tables &
large fold-out map made by the author. 24 cm. Iwan Salomon's copy with
his bookplate. (GER-37-33) (ID #8423) $20.00.
142. Reinharz, Jehuda. THE GERMAN ZIONIST CHALLENGE TO FAITH IN
EMANCIPATION, 1897-1914. Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv University, 1982. Original
Paper Wrappers. 8vo, 32 pages. SUBJECT (S): Jews, Germany, Politics and
Government, Zionism. Light wear to cover but still solid. Internal
pages are nice and clean; Very good condition. (SPEC23-31) (ID #27444)
$50.00. x
BIBLE
143. Budde, Karl. DIE F=C3=9CNF MEGILLOT: DAS HOHELIED, DAS BUCH RUT=
H,
DIE KLAGELIEDER, DER PREDIGER, DAS BUCH ESTHER. VOLUME 17. ONLY.
Freiburg I. B.: Mohr., 1898. Cloth. 8vo. Xxiv, 202 pages. In German.
Volume 17 only. SUBJECT (S): Bible. O. T. Ruth - commentaries; Bible.
O. T. Lamentations - commentaries; Bible. O. T. Esther - commentaries;
Bible. O. T. Ecclesiastes - commentaries; Bible. O. T. Song of Solomon
- commentaries. SERIES: Kurzer Hand-Commentar zum Alten Testament; Abt.
17. A German Protestant, Budde (1850-1933) taught Bible at Bonn,
Strasbourg, and Marburg, and, in 1888-89, gave a series of lectures at
Harvard. He was devoted to historical criticism; for example, in an
early book he attempted to find the original sources for Genesis 1-11.
He also investigated the history of Jewish literature, particularly the
tradition meters in Hebrew poetry. (EJ, 2007) Covers detached, stamp on
title page, pages clean, good condition. (RAB-21-9) (ID #21733) $30.00.
144. Holzinger, H. DAS BUCH JOSUA: ERKL=C3=84RT. Tubingen: J. C. B.
Mohr., 1901. Cloth. 8vo. Xxii, 103 pages. In German. SUBJECT (S):
Bible. O. T. Joshua - commentaries; Bible. O. T. Joshua - criticism,
interpretation, etc. SERIES: Kurzer Hand-Commentar zum Alten Testament;
Abt. 6. Ex library. Light water stain in top margin, cover edges
dented, good condition. (RAB-21-20) (ID #21744) $30.00.
145. Lazarus, L. Rabbiner Dr. DAS BUCH HIOB AUF DER OBERSTUFE DER
MITTELSCHULE. Wien, Wien, Der Wochenschrift, 1910. Paper Wrappers, 8vo,
15 pages. =E2=80=9CVortrag gehalten in Wien am Verbandstag der israelit=
ischen
Religionslebrer an den =C3=B6sterreichischen Mittelschulen am 28. Dezem=
ber
1909.=E2=80=9D =E2=80=9CSeparatabdruck aus =E2=80=98Dr. Blochs Oesterre=
ich. Wochenschrift, =E2=80=99
Nr. 6 und 7, vom 11. Und 18. Febuar 1910.=E2=80=9D No copies on OCLC, n=
or at
JTSA. Lacks original (blank? ) front cover. Spine repaired. Paper brown
and fragile as expected, tear to title page with some text affected.
Otherwise Good Condition. Very Scarce. (BIBLE-11-1) (ID #20895) $50.00.
146. Buttenwieser, Moses. DIE HEBRAISCHE ELIAS APOKALYPSE UND IHRE
IN DER APOKALYPTISCHEN LITTERATUR DES RABBINISCHEN SCHRIFTTUMS UND DER
KIRCHE. 1. HALFTE. Leipzig, Eduard Pfeiffer, 1897. Cloth, 8vo. 82
Pages. In German. 1st edition. OCLC lists 25 copies worldwide.
Buttenwieser (1862=E2=80=931939), was a Bible scholar. Buttenwieser stu=
died at
German universities and then went to the United States, and was
appointed professor of biblical exegesis at the Hebrew Union College,
Cincinnati, in 1897. He accepted the general approach of the K. H.
Graf-J. Wellhausen school, but did not follow it slavishly. He
drastically reconstructed the text of Job. (EJ, Bamberger) In fair
condition (GER24-21) (ID #25563) $125.00.
147. Staerk, W. ARAMAEISCHE URKUNDEN ZUR GESCHICHTE DES JUDENTUMS IM
VI UND V JAHRHUNDERT VOR CHR. Bonn: A. Marcus Und E. Weber. 1908. Paper
wrappers. 8vo. 16 pages. In German and Aramaic. First edition. SUBJECT
(S): Aramaic language =E2=80=93 texts; Manuscripts, Aramaic; Jews =E2=
=80=93 history =E2=80=93
to 70 C. E. -- sources. Series: Kleine texte f=C3=BCr vorlesungen und
=C3=BCbungen,; 32. Ex library. Spine repaired, top edge of cover has sm=
all
tear, good- condition. (BIBLE-8-4) (ID #21116) $50.00.
148. Geiger, Abraham. URSCHRIFT UND UEBERSETZUNGEN DER BIBEL IN
IHRER ABH=C3=84NGIGKEIT VON DER INNERN ENTWICKELUNG DES JUDENTHUMS. Bre=
slau,
1857. Breslau: Julius Hainauer, 1857. Cloth; 8vo. Viii, 500 pages.
First edition. In German. Bibliographical annotations. Abraham Geiger
"was a rabbi, son of an old-established family in Frankfort, one of the
leaders of the Reform movement in Judaism, and an outstanding scholar
of Wissenschaft des Judentums...Geiger's principal work was Urschrift
und Uebersetzungen der Bibel..., in which he correlates the history of
the biblical translations with the history of the sects in Israel
(particularly the Pharisees and Sadducees). He also supplemented the
work with comments, written in a fine rabbinic Hebrew (Ozar Nehmad, 3
(1860), 1-15, 116-21). " (Jacob S. Levinger, EJ) SUBJECT(S): Jews --
History. Bible. O. T. -- History. Bible. O. T. -- Criticism, Textual.
First edition of the principal work of one of the great leaders of the
German reform movement. Ex-library with minimal markings. Attractive
modern binding. Damp stain at top edge of first few leaves. Pages
heavily foxed. Very Good Condition. (GER-2-14RB) (ID #16500) $200.00.
149. K=C3=BCsel, Melchior; Johann Baptista Croph; Georg Laub. ICONES
BIBLIC=C3=86 VETERIS ET NOVI TESTAMENTI: FIGUREN BIBLISCHER HISTORIEN A=
LTEN
UND NEUEN TESTAMENTS [BIBLICAE]. Augustae Vind [Augsburg: A Melchoire
Kysel], 1680. (FT) Vellum binding. 4to. 245 leaves. 24 cm. First
edition. In Latin and German. Five parts in one volume. Later Vellum
with marbled endpages, gilt title on leather on spine, many pages
throughout restored and repaired at time of vellum binding. The
=E2=80=9CBiblical Icons of the Old and New Testament=E2=80=9D is engrav=
ed with 241
images throughout, except 4 leaves with dedication and a preface by
Georgius Laub dated Jan. 1, 1680. Latin and German verses by Johannes
Crophius are engraved on each leaf. There are also illustrated
half-titles and title pages to each Testament, bordered half-titles to
part two and three of the Old Testament and part two of the New
Testament, with a concluding leaf for the Old Testament, and a final
leaf dated 1679. A few of the engravings are signed: Melchior K=C3=BCse=
ll
sculpsit. Subjects: Bible -- Illustrations. Bible -- Picture Bibles.
Illustrated works -- 17th century. Engravings -- Germany -- 17th
century. A copy sold at auction in 2011 for 1200 E-U-R. Vellum soiled,
binding very steady. Pages restored, but heavily soiled, edges wavy and
soiled. Slight wormholing at edge of a few pages. Text crisp, images
crisp. Very good condition. (DREYFUS-5-17) (ID #28603) $1,500.00.
150. Zunz, Leopold. TORAH NEVI'IM KETUVIM. DIE VIER UND ZWANZIG
B=C3=9CCHER DER HEILIGEN SCHRIFT: NACH DEM MASORETISCHEN TEXTE. Berlin:
Veit. 1838. Cloth. (ft) 8vo. Iv, 815, 14 pages. In German. First
edition. SUBJECT(S): Bible. O. T. -- German. OCLC lists 15 copies
worldwide. Zunz (1794-1886), born and educated in Germany, was a
well-known historian. An heir to European Enlightenment, he was a
founded of the idea of the "Science of Judaism. " In that vein, he
fruitlessly hoped that Jewish studies would be taught in universities
as a regular academic discipline, and that he'd be able to do the
teaching. He believed that Jewish literature and learning was part of
the broader scope of human affairs, including the sciences, and should
not be shut up merely in discussions of religious matters. For his
seventieth birthday, a foundation was set up to fund Zunz's and other
similar scholarship. He continued to work until 1874, when his wife's
death left him seriously depressed. (Glatzer, EJ) Rebound. Edges foxed,
stain in fore margin throughout, some corners creased, good condition.
Scarce. (SPEC-7-7) (ID #24235) $375.00.
151. Jellinek, Adolph. EINLEITUNG IN DIE THORA: FUNF REDEN. Wien,
Herzfeld & Bauer, 1866. Cloth, Contemporary Cloth. 8vo. 72 pages. 22
cm. In German. Title translates to English as, "Introduction to the
Torah: Five Speeches." CONTENTS: Die doppelt=C3=B6nende Stimme der Thor=
a --
Der Mittelpunkt der Thora. Moses -- Israel -- Einem Volke, aber nicht
dem einzelnen Menschen, wird die Thora vorgelegt, aber nicht
aufgen=C3=B6tigt. Contemporary rebind, wear to boards, good, solid cond=
ition
(SPEC32-15) (ID #27756) $50.00.
152. Bloch, J. S. STUDIEN ZUR GESCHICHTE DER SAMMLUNG DER
ALTHEBR=C3=84ISCHEN LITERATUR. Breslau: H. Skutsch. 1876. 8vo. 160 page=
s. In
German. SUBJECT (S): German language; Bible O. T. -- canon. OCLC lists
19 copies worldwide. 12-word inscription by Bloch ("der Verfasser") on
title page. Bloch was seen as a "Hercules" against Antisemitism; his
history included a stint as torchbearer in the fight against Blood
Libel accusations: "A fanatical ultramodernist priest from the
Rheinland, Rohling published in1871 his DER TALMUDJUDE...a collection
of deliberately corrupted quotations, imaginary statements, and
forgeries against the Talmud...Rohling's challenger was Joseph Samuel
Bloch who, after repeated sorties against him, published a series of
articles in July 1883...in which he branded Rohling a liar and a
perjurer. " (Meir Lamed in EJ, 1971, 4: 1104 & Kenneth Scholberg in EJ,
1971, 14: 224). Edgewear throughout, some dampstains along top edge,
attractively bound in modern cloth. (GER-15-45) (ID #18824) $200.00.
153. Altsch=C3=BCler, Moritz. VIERTELJAHRSSCHRIFT F=C3=9CR BIBELKUND=
E:
TALMUDISCHE UND PATRISTISCHE STUDIEN (YEAR TWO, NUMBER TWO). Berlin; S.
Calvary, 1904. Clothbound serial publication. 8vo. [113-228] pages. 24
cm. In German with some Hebrew. Full title: =E2=80=9CVierteljahrsschrif=
t f=C3=BCr
Bibelkunde: talmudische und patristische Studien unter Mitwirkung von
zahlreichen namhaften j=C3=BCdischen und christlichen Gelehrten. =E2=80=
=9D Title
translates as: =E2=80=9CQuarterly Journal of Bible Studies: Talmudic an=
d
Patristic Studies with the assistance of numerous distinguished
Christian and Jewish scholars. =E2=80=9D The Quarterly journal of bible
studies, begun in 1903 and ending in 1909, was the product of various
distinguished German protestant, catholic, and Jewish theologians,
engaged with the undertaking of scholarly editions of early Hebrew and
Aramaic texts, as well as early Jewish History. Rabbi Moritz Altschuler
was the general editor, with assistance from Wilhelm Neumann, a
professor of theology, and August Wunsche, professor of Oriental
Studies. This second issue from the second year of the journal, dated
December 1904, contains essays on Jesus=E2=80=99 conflict with the Phar=
isees,
Hebrew songs, etc. Subjects: Theology -- Periodicals. Bible --
Periodicals. Talmud -- Periodicals. OCLC lists 12 copies worldwide.
Previous owner=E2=80=99s signature on title page, that of =E2=80=9CC. G=
=2E Montefiore,
Esq. =E2=80=9D a former president and vise president of the Jewish Hist=
orical
Society of England and a financial contributor to the Jews College
London. Ex-Libris Jews College Library London with stamp on title page
and on backstrip. Covers worn and aged. Pages lightly soiled in
margins, with a touch of foxing throughout. Clean and fresh. Very good
condition. (GER-38-27) (ID #29030) $75.00.
154. Beyer, Johann Franz. SAMMLUNG VON LIEDERN DER LIEBE IM
GESCHMACKE SALOMO'S. Marburg; Neue Akademische Buchhandlung, 1792.
Later Paper Wrappers. 12mo. XII, 120 pages. 19 cm. First edition. In
German, with Hebrew, Arabic, Latin, and Greek. Title translates as:
=E2=80=9CCollection of Songs of Love in the Style of Solomon. =E2=80=9D=
=E2=80=9CNewly written
with accompanying notes by the author. =E2=80=9D The =E2=80=9CCollectio=
n of Songs of
Love in the Style of Solomon=E2=80=9D constitutes both a vivid work of=
poetry,
written and updated so as to suit and entertain a =E2=80=9CGerman audie=
nce=E2=80=9D, as
well as serves as a detailed commentary on each section, with various
translations from Hebrew, Greek, and Arabic, of the Song of Songs. The
volume is parceled into five small separate chapters, with detailed
commentary and translation following each of the chapters. The stamp of
Michael Freidlander is found on the title page, and one can only assume
that Friedlander read this volume in his writing a German Commentary on
the Song of Songs: Michael Friedlander was =E2=80=9CPrincipal of Jews'=
College
[from where this volume came], London; born at Jutroschin, Prussia,
April 29, 1833. He studied at the universities of Berlin and Halle (Ph.
D. 1862), and concurrently with his university studies he read Talmud.
Settling in Berlin, he was appointed principal of the Talmud school,
which position he resigned in 1865 to accept that of principal of Jews'
College, London, in succession to Barnett Abrahams. In 1867 he
published a German commentary upon the Song of Songs. =E2=80=9D (1906 J=
ewish
Encyclopedia). Subjects: Poetry. Commentary. OCLC lists 7 copies
worldwide. Title page shaken, with bumped edges and light stain at
bottom corner. All edges bumped, with some corners torn or folded.
Pages lightly soiled and lightly foxed throughout, however, pages fresh
and text crisp, and overall this book is well preserved. Fair
condition. (GER-38-35) (ID #29038) $75.00.
155. F=C3=BCrst, Julius. LIBRORUM SACRORUM VETERIS TESTAMENTI
CONCORDANTIAE HEBRAICAE ATQUE CHALDAICAE. Lipsiae [Leipzig]; Sumtibus
Et Typis Caroll Tauchnitii, 1840. (FT) Clothbound. Folio. XII, 1428
pages. 36 cm. First edition. In Hebrew, Chaldean, Latin, Greek,
Aramaic. Latin title page reads: =E2=80=9CLibrorum sacrorum Veteris Tes=
tamenti
concordantiae Hebraicae atque Chaldaicae quibus ad omnia canonis sacri
vocabula tum Hebraica tum Chaldaica loci in quibus reperiuntur ad unum
omnes certo ordine recensentur: addito lexico linguae sacrae Hebraicae
et Chaldaicae duplici uno Neohebraice altero Latine scripto, quo
collatis interpretamentis translationibusque antiquissimis vocabulorum
origines ac formae historica atque analytical ratione explicantur:
adiecta sunt nomenclature. =E2=80=9D Title translates as: =E2=80=9CConc=
ordance of
Hebrew and Chaldaic in the Sacred Books of the Old Testament. =E2=80=9D=
This
large concordance, compiled by Julius Furst (1805-1873), a German
Hebraist and Orientalist. His Concordance is mentioned in the 1906
Jewish Encyclopedia as such: =E2=80=9CA highly valuable revision of the
concordance was undertaken by Julius F=C3=BCrst. In the Latin preface t=
o his
great work (Leipsic, 1840) he described the relation of the latter to
Buxtorf's concordance in the following words: "I admit that I have used
Buxtorf's concordance as the foundation for my own work; but I may
claim that I have not only revised and enlarged Buxtorf's work, but
have worked it over to such an extent that I do not hesitate to affix
my name to the concordance. I have enriched Buxtorf's work with many
additions; adding, for instance, Wolf Heidenheim's manuscript notes
contained in his copy of the book, and articles that Buxtorf had
omitted. All these additions are in accordance with the advances in
philology, and especially in etymology; and in some cases I have
followed an entirely new arrangement, founded upon a careful
examination of the origin and the form of the words. " F=C3=BCrst added=
new
material, and made some minor changes, especially by substituting
Arabic numbers for the quotations instead of the Hebrew letters. The
headings of the articles are entirely new, having been transformed into
interesting lexicographical articles in which the etymology and meaning
of the root are explained by the aid of comparative philology.
Unfortunately, however, F=C3=BCrst goes too far in applying his theory=
of
the primitive roots of the Semitic languages and of the original
relationship of the latter with the Indo-Germanic languages. This
theory had been propounded by F=C3=BCrst's pupil, Franz Delitzsch, in h=
is
work "Jesurun" (Grimma, 1838), which was designated as "Prolegomena to
F=C3=BCrst's Concordance of the Old Testament. " F=C3=BCrst's peculiar=
views on
certain Hebrew roots affected unfortunately the arrangement of the
concordance, as he often places a word in a connection in which it
would not be sought according to the commonly accepted view; as, for
instance, ("blood") under the root ("man"). The work has a number of
interesting appendices, including: an etymologic index to the
concordance; an alphabetical list of 2, 668 Biblical proper names, with
their etymologies, but without reference to the passages; a list of
about 600 Phenicio-Punic proper names; an index of Aramaic and
Neo-Hebrew words compared in the headings to the articles; an
etymological table of Hebrew and Aramaic particles; a systematic view
of the noun forms; "Propyl=C3=A6a Masor=C3=A6, " a view of the most imp=
ortant
topics of the Masorah; a synopsis of the history of the Hebrew
language, written in Hebrew; and a comparative glossary of Hebrew,
Aramaic, Syriac, and Arabic words. In the "Litteraturblatt" of the
periodical "Der Orient, " edited by F=C3=BCrst, additions and revisions=
to
the concordance repeatedly appeared in the years following 1840. B. B=
=C3=A4r
issued a new edition of Buxtorf's concordance=E2=80=94in quarto instead=
of in
folio=E2=80=94making use in part of F=C3=BCrst's work (Stettin, 1862, e=
t seq. ). An
English version by B. Davidson appeared in London in 1876.=E2=80=9C Sub=
jects:
Bible. O. T. -- Concordances, Hebrew. Bible. O. T. -- Concordances,
Aramaic. Leather backstrip rubbed. Covers lightly worn, outer edges
lightly soiled. Some pages, especially at the beginning, lightly
bumped, a handful have chipped edges. However, throughout, this volume
is very clean and the pages are fresh. Very good condition. (GER-38-34)
(ID #29037) $475.00.
156. Schmiedl, Adolf. SANSINNIM: BETRACHTUNGEN ZU DEN F=C3=9CNF B=C3=
=9CCHERN
MOSIS NACH ORDNUNG DER WOCHENABSCHNITTE. EINE BUCH F=C3=9CR SCHULE HAUS=
UND
TEMPEL. ZUR VERBREITUNG ERH=C3=96HTER KUNDE UND W=C3=9CRDIGUNG DES JUDE=
NTHUMS,
SOWIE ZUR F=C3=96RDERUNG RELIGI=C3=96SER W=C3=84RME UND INNINGKEIT. Pra=
g, 1859. Prag:
Wolf Pascheles, 1859. Half-Leather, xii, 288 pages. Includes
illustrations. 22 cm. In German. "SANSINNIM: Examinations of the five
Books of Moses in the order of the weekly readings. A book for school,
house, and temple. For the spreading of increased following and
appreciation of Judaism, as much as for the promotion of religious
committment and participation." OCLC lists 6 copies worldwide.
SUBJECT(S): Bible. O.T. Pentateuch -- Meditations. Owner Buttenwieser
inscribed. Chips to backstrip (spine), pages tanned, otherwise very
good condition (GER-37-85) (ID #28740) $100.00.
157. Aptowitzer, Victor. KAIN UND ABEL IN DER AGADA, DEN APOKRYPHEN,
DER HELLENISTISCHEN, CHRISTLICHEN UND MUHAMMEDANISCHEN LITERATUR. Wien,
Leipzig; R. L=C3=B6wit, 1922. Later Cloth. 8vo. VIII, 184 pages. 23 cm.
First Edition. In German, Hebrew, and Greek. Title translates as: Cain
and Abel in the Agadah; the Apocrypha, Hellenistic, Christian and
Muslim literature. =E2=80=9D Vigdor (Victor) Aptowitzer (March 16, 1871=
-
December 5, 1942) was a rabbinic and talmudic scholar, professor of
Talmud, Bible, Midrash and Jewish Philosophy at the Jewish Theological
Seminary, and member of the Mizrachi Zionist movement; he died in
Palestine in 1942. Subjects: Cain (Biblical figure). Very light pen and
pencil marks scattered throughout, mostly in margins, with some
underlining. Covers and endpages lightly soiled. First endpage shaken,
with slight tear. Pages fresh otherwise. Very good condition.
(GER-33-36) (ID #28831) $75.00.
158. Beer, B. (Bernhard). LEBEN ABRAHAM'S NACH AUFFASSUNG DER
JUEDISCHEN SAGE MIT ERLAEUTERNDEN ANMERKUNGEN UND NACHWEISUNGEN.
Leipzig, O. Leiner, 1859. 1st Edition. Cloth, 8vo, xiii, 215 page
pages. 8vo., 215 pages. Lebensgemaelde biblischer personen nach
Auffassung der juedischen Sage. "Erlaeuternde Anmerkungen und
Nachweisungen" on pages 93]-215. Beer was "the first Jew to give a
German sermon in a Dresden Synagogue. " His religious views "were
similar to those of his close friend, Zacharias Frankel...Beer was
regarded as a mediating influence between the proponents of tradition
and those of reform" (EJ 4: 376). Marbled text block. Light foxing to
first few pages. Very good condition. (SPEC-27-27) Bound in later
boards (original wrappers present), lacks 1 board. (ID #5363) $50.00.
159. Bloch, J. S. 1850-1923. (Josef Samuel). STUDIEN ZUR GESCHICHTE
DER SAMMLUNG DER ALTHEBR=C3=84ISCHEN LITERATUR. Wien, D. L=C3=B6wry,, 1=
882.
Rebound in modern paper wrappers, 8vo. 160 pages. In German. SUBJECT
(S): Bible. O. T. -- Criticism, interpretation, etc. German language.
Bible O. T. -- canon. Bloch was a "rabbi, publicist, and politician in
Austria. He acquired distinction for his defense of Judaism against the
blood libel and was praised by Adolf Jellinek as the "Hercules of the
antisemitic Augean stables. " Son of a poor baker in Dukla (east
Galicia), Bloch attended yeshivot at Lemberg and Eisenstadt and then
the universities of Munich and Zurich. After officiating in provincial
communities, he became rabbi of the Vienna suburb of Floridsdorf and a
teacher at Jellinek's bet ha-midrash. During the Tisza-Eszl=C3=A1r bloo=
d
libel trial in 1883, when August Rohling undertook to attest on oath
that Jews practiced ritual murder, Bloch attacked him in the press. He
challenged Rohling's competence as a scholar, accused him of lying, and
offered him 3, 000 florins for translating a random page of the Talmud.
Rohling was forced to sue Bloch for libel, but after two years'
investigations withdrew his action 13 days before the trial was due to
open...Bloch was elected in 1884, 1885, and 1891 to the Austrian
Parliament from a preponderantly Jewish constituency of Galicia, and
was the first parliamentarian to make Jewish affairs his main political
concern, regarding himself as an interpreter and defender of Jewish
thought to the non-Jewish public...Bloch saw the struggle for Jewish
rights as part of the fight for the principle of equality for all
nationalities in the empire, which the monarchy would have to recognize
in order to exist...For his work in the Jewish cause Bloch was warmly
received on visits to the United States in 1912, and again in 1920.
During World War I he raised funds on behalf of the Austrian government
in neutral countries. He published a compendium of apologetics, Israel
und die Voelker (1922; Israeland the Nations, 1927), based on the
evidence of the experts in connection with the Rohling trial, and his
memoirs Erinnerungen aus meinem Leben (1922; My Reminiscences, 1927).
He also wrote prolifically on Jewish lore. " (Lamed, EJ, 2007) OCLC
lists just 4 copies worldwide. Pages dark but clean and intact. Good +
condition. (RAB-45-9) (ID #24697) $100.00.
160. Bloch, J. S. 1850-1923. (Josef Samuel). URSPRUNG UND
ENTSTEHUNGSZEIT DES BUCHES KOHELET. NEUE UNTERSUCHUNGEN ZU EINER ALTEN
FRAGE. [Bamberg] Bamberger Handelsdruckerei,, 1872. Hardcover, 12mo.
152 pages. In German. First Edition. Title in English: Origin and
formation of Ecclesiastes. New studies on an old question. SUBJECT (S):
Bible. O. T. Ecclesiastes -- Criticism, interpretation, etc. Spine
chipped. Endpapers tanned and chipped. Very good condition. OCLC lists
13 copies worldwide. (RAB-45-2) (ID #24690) $100.00.
161. Cassel, Paulus. ZWEITES TARGUM ZUM BUCHE ESTHER: IM
VOCALISIRTEN URTEXT MIT SACHLICHEN UND SPRACHLICHEN ERL=C3=84UTERUNGEN.
Leipzig; W. Friedrich, 1885. FT) Later Cloth. 8vo. XIV, 74 pages. 22
cm. First Edition. In Hebrew and German. Bound in later black cloth
with marbled endpages. Title translates as: =E2=80=9CSecond Targum of t=
he Book
of Esther: the vocalists Original text with professional and linguistic
explanations. =E2=80=9D Paulus Stephanus Cassel, =E2=80=9Cconvert to Ch=
ristianity and
missionary to the Jews; born Feb. 27, 1821, in Gross-Glogau, Silesia;
died Dec. 23, 1892, in Friedenau, near Berlin. His father was a
sculptor, and his brother David was docent at the Berlin "Hochschule
f=C3=BCr die Wissenschaft des Judenthums. " Cassel studied at the gymna=
sium
at Schweidnitz and at the University of Berlin, where he followed with
special attention the lectures of Leopold Ranke. In 1849 he edited in
Erfurt "Die Constitutionelle Zeitung, " and in 1850-56 "Die Erfurter
Zeitung, " in a royalist spirit. He was baptized May 28, 1855, in
Buessleben, near Erfurt, and became librarian of the Royal Library and
secretary of the Academy in Erfurt in the following year. He remained
in Erfurt till 1859. Frederick William IV bestowed the title of
professor on Cassel in recognition of his loyal labors. In 1860 he
removed to Berlin, where he was a teacher at a gymnasium for a short
time, and occupied himself with literary work. In 1866-67 he was a
Conservative member of the Prussian Chamber of Deputies. In 1867 Cassel
was appointed missionary by the London Society for Promoting
Christianity Among the Jews, a position which he retained till March,
1891. At the same time (1867) Cassel was assigned to the pastorate of
the Christuskirche in Berlin, remaining in service for twenty-four
years. In a pamphlet published a short time before his death, he
complains of the inconsiderate treatment he had received at the hands
of his Christian friends (see "Sendschreiben an Freunde in Deutschland
und England =C3=BCber die Christuskirche in Berlin und Ihr Martyrium Du=
rch
die London Society, " Berlin, 1891). H. L. Strack confesses that it is
not clear what induced Cassel to join the Christian Church, though he
contends that Cassel's reasons were obviously not mercenary (see
Herzog-Hauck, "Real-Encyc. " iii. 744). Cassel combated anti-Semitism
with considerable warmth (in "Wider Heinrich von Treitschke f=C3=BCr di=
e
Juden, " Berlin, 1880; "Die Antisemiten und die Evangelische Kirche, "
2d ed. Berlin, 1881; "Ahasverus, die Sage vom Ewigen Juden mit einem
Kritischen Protest Wider Ed. Von Hartmann und Adolf St=C3=B6cker, " Ber=
lin,
1885; also "Der Judengott und Richard Wagner, eine Antwort an die
Bayreuther Bl=C3=A4tter"). =E2=80=A6 The original text of the Second Ta=
rgum Cassel
published in "Aus Litteratur und Gesch. " Berlin and Leipsic, 1885:
"Zweites Targum zum Buche Esther, im Vocalisierten Urtext mit
Sachlichen und Sprachlichen Erl=C3=A4uterungen Herausgegeben. " An Engl=
ish
translation by Aaron Bernstein was published in Edinburgh in 1888.=E2=
=80=9D
(From the 1906 Jewish Encyclopedia). The volume we have is solely that
of the =E2=80=9CZweites Targum. =E2=80=9D Subjects: Bible. O. T. Esther=
-- Criticism,
interpretation, etc. Original paper wrapper cover and back page aged,
covers very lightly soiled. Near fine condition. (GER-33-37) (ID
#28832) $75.00.
162. Copeland, Robert M. and Nathan Susskind. THE LANGUAGE OF HERZ=
=E2=80=99S
ESTHER: A STUDY IN JUDEO-GERMAN DIALECTOLOGY. The University Of Alabama
Press, 1976. Hardcover, 8vo, 439 pages. In Hebrew, German and English.
With transliteration, commentary, and lexicology by the editors. Tear
to dustjacket. Inscription on inside front cover. Good condition.
(Sef-13-2) (ID #24958) $30.00.
163. Ehrenpreis, Marcus. PROPHETEN UND GOTTESMANNER; VISIONEN.
Berlin, Der Heine-Bund, 1930. 1st German Edition. Cloth, 8vo; 256
pages; Includes 8 plates. Cloth used, but overall very good copy.
(GER-39-7) (ID #28766) $20.00.
164. Erich Klamroth. DIE WIRTSCHAFTLICHE LAGE UND DAS GEISTIGE LEBEN
DER J=C3=9CDISCHEN EXULANTEN IN BABYLON. 1912. K=C3=B6nigsberg i. P.: K=
=C3=BCmmel,
1912 Paper Wrappers, 34 pages. 8vo. Note: (Vollst. Als: Beitr=C3=A4ge z=
=2E
Wissensch. V. Alten Testament. H. 10) K=C3=B6nigsberg, Theol. Diss. V.=
9.
M=C3=A4rz 1912, Ref. L=C3=B6hr. (GER-37-27) (ID #9421) $50.00.
165. Friedemann, Walter. FISCH UND RING. Berlin; Reuss & Pollack,
1920. Paper wrappers. 8vo. 18 pages. 21 cm. 1st edition. In German.
Title translates as: =E2=80=9CFish and Ring. =E2=80=9D This short monog=
raph on the
metaphor of fish and rings in the Bible and Talmud and various
=E2=80=98popular=E2=80=99 manifestations of the usage and understanding=
of these
symbolic forms, was written by Walter Friedemann, a German-Jewish
novelist. With authors handwritten dedication from February 1920. OCLC
lists 2 copies worldwide (Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin, Natl Libr Of
Israel). Covers worn and aged, with slight chipping to backstrip and
outer edges. Corners bumped; crease-fold in the middle of the
publication, resulting in a few page tears along crease in the margins
of last few pages. Very good condition. (GER-36-48) (ID #28899) $75.00.
166. Fuks, Lajb. DAS ALTJIDDISCHE EPOS MELOKIM-BUK. II: HEBR=C3=84IS=
CHE
UND ARAM=C3=84ISCHE QUELLEN TEXTKRITISCHER APPARAT UND GLOSSAR [ONLY,=
OF 2
VOLUMES]. Assen, Van Gorcum, 1965. Cloth. 8vo. 161 pages. 24 cm. In
German with some Yiddish and Aramaic. Series: Das Altjiddische Epos
Melokim-Buk, 2. Publications of the Bibliotheca Rosenthaliana 2. Title
translates to English as, =E2=80=9CThe Old Yiddish epic 'Melokim-Buk. "=
II:
Hebrew and Aramaic text, Critical Apparatus and Glossary. =E2=80=9D Mel=
okim-Buk
(Mlokhim-Bukh) is a Yiddish religious verse epic by an unknown author,
which recounts the monarchy of Solomon and the ancient history of the
Hebrews up to the Babylonian Captivity. Inhalt: =E2=80=9CDie biblischen=
Quellen
des Melokim-Buk und Ubersicht des Inhalts, =E2=80=9D =E2=80=9CDie nachb=
iblischen
hebr=C3=A4ischen und aramaischen Quellen des Melokim-Buk, =E2=80=9D =E2=
=80=9COrthographie, =E2=80=9D
=E2=80=9CTextvarianten, =E2=80=9D =E2=80=9CTextkritische Bemerkungen.=
=E2=80=9D SUBJECTS: Mlokhim-Bukh.
Contains indexes. OCLC lists 9 copies worldwide. Light wear to cover
with some scratches and minor staining. Highlighting and margin notes
on several pages. Good condition. (HOLO2-49-14). (ID #26321) $30.00. .
(GER-37-35) |=E2=80=A2 Galling, Kurt. BIBLISCHES REALLEXIKON. T=C3=BCbi=
ngen, Mohr,
1937. 1st Edition. Cloth, Very Good Condition. A beautiful copy.; 8vo;
vi, 647 pages; In German. Handbuch zum Alten Testament. 1. Reihe, 1.
Includes 133 illustrations, as well as bibliographies and an index.
Shalom Spiegel's copy with his bookplate. Excellent Reference work.
(GER-37-35) (ID #8390) $50.00.
167. Golomb, David. SEFER HATORAH W=E2=80=99HATALMUD; PHILOLOGISCHER=
TRAKTAT
=C3=9CBER DIE BIBLISCHE, MISCHNA=C3=8DSCH UND TALMUDISCHE SPRACHE, ERFO=
RSCHT NACH
EINEM NEUEN SYSTEM DES BAUES UND DER ZUSAMMENSETZUNG DER NOMINA UND
VERBA, NEBST BILDUNG NEUER SYNONYMA. Berlin: Verlag Des Verfassers.
1923. Cloth. 8vo. 47, 161, xxviii, 648 pages. In Hebrew. SUBJECT (S):
Hebrew language; Bible =E2=80=93 language, style; Mishnah, Talmud; Talm=
ud =E2=80=93
hermeneutics. OCLC lists six copies worldwide. Hinges repaired, Good
Condtion. (GER-15-30) (ID #18809) $60.00.
168. Hans Zucker. UNTERSUCHUNGEN ZUR ORGANISATION DER JUDEN VOM
BABYLONISCHEN EXIL BIS ZUM ENDE DES PATRIARCHATS <597 V. CHR. BIS 425
N. CHR.>. 1936. Leipzig: O. Schmidt, 1936 Paper Wrappers, 190 pages.
8vo. Note: Berlin, Phil. Diss. V. 18. Juni 1936. Institutional stamp,
Very Good Condition. (GER-37-48) (ID #9411) $50.00. (HOLO2-60-5) |=E2=
=80=A2
Hartmann, Anton Theodor. MICHA: NEU =C3=9CBERSETZT UND ERL=C3=84UTERT U=
ND MIT 5
EXKURSEN BEGLEITET. Lemgo, Meyer, 1800. Paper Wrappers with later
boards. 12mo. XVI, 278, [3] pages. 1st edition. In German. Title
translates to English as, =E2=80=9CMicha: Newly Translated and Explaine=
d.
Accompanied with 5 Digressions. =E2=80=9D =E2=80=9CHartmann (1774-1838)=
was a German
author focusing primarily on the Old Testament and of Oriental
languages. =E2=80=9D (EJ) OCLC lists 19 copies worldwide. Rebound in la=
ter,
stiff boards. Brief notes from previous owner on inside of covers.
Internal pages are lightly soiled with some foxing but all text is
clear. Good+ condition. (HOLO2-60-5) (ID #27656) $100.00.
169. Hoelscher, Gustav. DAS BUCH HIOB. T=C3=BCbingen, Mohr, 1952. 2n=
d
Revised Edition. Cloth, Very Good Condition.; 102 pages; In German.
Handbuch zum Alten Testament 17. Shalom Spiegel's copy with his
bookplate. No copy listed at Harvard. (GER-37-32) (ID #8303) $50.00.
170. International Congress For The History Of Religions (8th
Congress, 1955, Rome). LA REGALITA SACRA. CONTRIBUTI AL TEMA DELL' VIII
CONGRESSO (ROMA, APRILE 1955) PUBBLICATI COL CONCORSO DELLA GIUNTA
CENTRALE PER GLI STUDI STORICI, ROMA - CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE CENTRAL
THEME OF THE VIIITH INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS (ROME, APRIL 1955). Leiden,
Brill, 1959. Cloth. Xv, 748 pages. 24 cm. Collection of scholarly
articles in English, French, German and Italian. Israel section
includes: =E2=80=9CGeneral Oriental and Specific Israelite Elements in=
the
Israelite Conception of the Sacral Kingdom=E2=80=9D by S. Mowinckel;=
=E2=80=9CKing
David and the Sons of Saul=E2=80=9D by A. S. Kapelrud; =E2=80=9CHerrsch=
aftsform und
Ichbewusstsein=E2=80=9D by J. Hempel; =E2=80=9CDas erste Buch des Psalt=
ers. Eine
Thronbesteigungsfestlitergie=E2=80=9D by M. Bic; =E2=80=9CLes apports d=
e Psaume CX
(vulg. CIX) a l=E2=80=99ideologie royale Israelite=E2=80=9D by J. Coppe=
ns; =E2=80=9CHasidic
Conceptions of Kingship in the Maccabean Period=E2=80=9D by M. A. Beek;=
=E2=80=9CThe
Consecration in the eighth Chapter of Testamentum Levi=E2=80=9D by H. L=
udin
Jansen. Series: Studies in the History of Religions. "Supplements to
Numen" 4. SUBJECT(S): Kings and rulers -- Religious aspects. Divine
right of kings. OCLC lists 27 copies worldwide. Slightly worn cover.
Nice, clean copy with tight binding. Very good condition. (BRILL 5-7)
(ID #25909) $70.00.
171. Knobel, August Wilhelm. DER PROPHETISMUS DER HEBRAER
VOLLSTANDIG DARGESTELLT (TWO VOLUMES IN ONE). Breslau, J. Max Und Komp,
1837. Hardcover, 8vo, 2 volumes in 1, 22 cm. In German. SUBJECT (S):
Prophecy, Biblical. Bumped cover corners. Wear to binding. Good
condition. (Heb-15-10) (ID #25829) $100.00.
172. K=C3=B6ster, Friedrich. DAS BUCH HIOB UND DER PREDIGER SALOMO'S=
NACH
IHRER STROPHISCHEN ANORDNUNG =C3=9CBERSETZT. Schleswig, 1831. Paper
wrappers, 8vo. 142 pages. In German (Black letter script). Copy signed
by former owner Dr. Moses Mielziner, the Rabbi and Professor of Talmud
at HUC in Cincinnati and charter member of the CCAR. Title in English:
=E2=80=9CThe Book of Job and the Preacher's Solomon. =E2=80=9D Covers f=
ragile and
chipped, some pages creased at corners. OCLC lists 1 copy worldwide
(Bayerische Staatsbibliothek) Good condition. (RAB-39-12) (ID #24640)
$200.00.
173. Leimbach, Karl A. MESSIANISCHE WEISSAGUNGEN DES ALTEN
TESTAMENTES. Regensburg, Manz, 1909. 1st Edition. Cloth, Attractively
rebound in period cloth. Very Good Condition.; 8vo; VIII, 146 pages;
"Popul=C3=A4r-wissenschaftlich ausgelegt. " With Imprimatur.
Gesamtverzeichnis 1700-1910, LXXXVI. 230. (GER-37-99) (ID #8138)
$60.00.
174. Nachmias, Josef Ibn. PERUSH AL SEFER MISHLE. KOMMENTAR ZU DEN
SPR=C3=9CCHEN SALOMOS. Berlin: Druck Von H. Itzkowski. 1970. Cloth. 8vo=
=2E
Xxiii, 196 pages. In Hebrew. Reprint [1911]. =E2=80=9CLe-rabi Yosef be=
-rabi
Yosef ibn Nachmiah; yotse le-=E2=80=98or ba-pa=E2=80=99am ha-rishonah a=
l pi ketav yad
yechidi be-oksford im... He=E2=80=99arot ve-tikunim be-siyua Shemuel Av=
raham
Poznanski; al yede Mosheh Aryeh Bamberger. =E2=80=9D OCLC lists one cop=
y
worldwide (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam). Good condition. (GER-15-1)
(ID #18781) $50.00.
175. Pedersen, Johannes. editor. INSCRIPTIONES SEMITICAE
COLLECTIONIS USTINOWIANAE. Oslo, Some Et Sociorum, 1928. Original Paper
Wrappers. 8vo. 70 pages. Ill. 24 cm. In German. Series: =E2=80=9CSymbol=
ae
Osloenses Fasciculi Suppletorii, 2.=E2=80=9D A study of a collection an=
cient
Hebrew inscriptions. Includes preface in Latin. SUBJECT (S):
Inscriptions, Semitic. Includes bibliographical references. Cover is
worn with some discoloration, but all text is clear. Internal pages are
nice and clean. Very good condition. (SPEC20-16). (ID #26859) $40.00.
176. Plessner, Salomon. MATERIALIEN FUER TIEFERE EINBLICKE IN DAS
ALTE TESTAMENT UND DIE RABBINISCHEN SCHRIFTEN FUER THEOLOGEN UND
ISRAELITEN. Berlin, Carl Heymann, 1836. Cloth, Later boards.8vo; 190
pages. In German. "Belehrungen und Erbauungen in Religioesn Vortraegen
zunaechst fuer Israeliten...Erster Jahrgang Erster Band. "Pages foxed,
substantial wear to boards but very solid. Good Condition. (SPEC23-7)
(ID #4920) $150.00.
177. Reventlow, Henning, Graf. W=C3=84CHTER =C3=9CBER ISRAEL: EZECHI=
EL UND
SEINE TRADITION. Berlin, A. Topelmann, 1962. 1st Edition. Paper
Wrappers, Ex-library with usual marks, otherwise Very Good Condition;
172 pages; In German. 25 cm. Beihefte zur Zeitschrift f=C3=BCr die
alttestamentlich e Wissenschaft, 82 Revised version of the author's
Habilitationsschrift, Kiel. Includes bibliographical references on
pages 169-172. (GER-39-3) (ID #8268) $30.00.
178. Rosmarin, Aaron (Rozmarin, Aharon). MOSES IM LICHTE DER AGADA.
New York, The Goldblatt Publishing Co. 1932. 1st Edition. Cloth, Lacks
front blank endpaper, otherwise Very Good Condition.; 8vo; 157 pages;
In German. 23 cm. Includes "Literaturverzeichnis" on pages 7-14 and
"Bibliograhie" on pages 151-152. (GER-37-15) (ID #8432) $40.00. x
179. Rudolph, Wilhelm. JEREMIA. T=C3=BCbingen, Mohr, 1958. 2nd Revis=
ed
Edition. Cloth, Very Good Condition; Large 8vo; XXIV, 301 pages; In
German. Handbuch zum Alten Testament Reihe 1, 12. Shalom Spiegel's copy
with his bookplate. (GER-37-34) (ID #8300) $50.00.
180. R=C3=BCthy, Albert Emil. Die Pflanze Und Ihre Teile Im
Biblisch-Hebr=C3=A4ischen Sprachgebrauch. Bern; A. Francke A. -G., 1942=
=2E
Paper wrappers. 8vo. 82 pages.24 cm. First edition. In German and
Hebrew. Holocaust-era imprint. Title translates as: =E2=80=9CThe plant=
and its
components in biblical Hebrew language. =E2=80=9D Albert Emil R=C3=BCth=
y
(1901-1980), studied theology and Semitic languages at Bern, Leipzig
and Basel, where in 1940 he received a doctorate in philosophy. In 1924
he was ordained a catholic priest. First a curate in Biel and Bern, and
then pastor in Kaiseraugst, in the years 1929-1938, pastor at St. Immer
in the years 1938-1941 and in the years 1941-1951 at Bern. Since 1940
Associate Professor and from 1951 to 1971 Professor of Old Testament
knowledge and liturgy in the Christian Theological Faculty of the
University of Bern. In the years 1958-1959 he was rector of the
University. He died in Bern. Subjects: Hebrew language - vocabulary -
Individual words. Plants - Bible. Plant Names - Hebrew. Bible - plants.
Covers lightly soiled, edges bumped. Covers starting. Pages clean, with
very light aging. Very good condition. (GER-33-44) (ID #28839) $30.00.
181. Sabottka, Liudger. ZEPHANJA: VERSUCH EINER NEU=C3=9CBERSETZUNG=
MIT
PHILOLOGISCHEM KOMMENTAR. Rome, 1972. Rom: Biblical Institute Press,
1972. Paperback, 8vo, xix, 177 pages, 25 cm. Added title: Bible. O. T.
Zephaniah. German. Sabottka. 1972. Series: Biblica et orientalia; Sacra
Scriptura antiquitatibus orientalibus illustrata, 25. Includes index.
Bibliography on pages 149-156. Subjects: Bible. -- O. T. -- Zephaniah
-- Criticism, interpretation, etc. Bible. -- O. T. -- Zephaniah --
Language, style. Ex library copy with usual marks. Good condition.
(BIBLE-12-6) (ID #10935) $40.00.
182. Soloweitschik, Max. DIE WELT DER BIBEL: EIN BILDERATLAS ZUR
GESCHICHTE UND KULTUR DES BIBLISCHEN ZEITALTERS. Berlin: Judischer
Verlag, 1926. Hardcover, 240 pages, 4 leaves of plates, illustrated,
some color, colored maps, 29 cm. In German. SUBJECT (S): Bible. O. T.
-- Antiquities. Bible. O. T. -- History of contemporary events.
Translation of: Sekhiyot ha-Mikra. Includes bibliographical references
on pages 235-236 and index. Wear to cover binding. Bumped cover corners
and spine edges. Light yellowing to edges of pages. Otherwise, very
good condition. (Art-8-3) (ID #25670) $30.00.
183. Wagner, Volker. RECHTSS=C3=84TZE IN GEBUNDENER SPRACHE UND
RECHTSSATZREIHEN IM ISRAELITISCHEN RECHT. EIN BEITRAG ZUR
GATTUNGSFORSCHUNG. Berlin, New York, De Gruyter, 1969. 1st Edition.
Cloth, Ex-library with usual marks, otherwise Very Good Condition.; 72
pages; In German. 24 cm. Beiheft zur Zeitschrift fur die
alttestamentliche Wissenschaft, 127. Originally presented as the
author's thesis, Leipzig, 1968. Bibliography on pages 70-72. (GER-39-2)
(ID #8275) $45.00.
SECOND TEMPLE
184. Fuchs, Leo. DIE JUDEN AEGYPTENS IN PTOLEM=C3=84ISCHER UND R=C3=
=96MISCHER
ZEIT. Wien, 1924. Vienna: M. Rath, 1924. Half cloth; 8vo. Xx, 156
pages. Gilt titles. In German. First edition. Series:
Ver=C3=B6ffentlichungen der Dr. A. S. Bettelheim Memorial Foundation.
Bibliographical annotations; bibliography at end. SUBJECT (S): Jews --
Egypt. Jews -- History. Wrappers bound in. Archival repair to front
wrapper. Stamped "B[oaz] Cohen" on verso of title page. Cohen was an
American rabbinic scholar who taught at the Jewish Theological
Seminary; he was "one of the first American-educated scholars to make
significant contributions to the scientific study of rabbinic
literature. His Kunteres ha-Teshuvot (1930), an annotated bibliography
of the rabbinic responsa of the Middle Ages, was one of the first
attempts to classify and describe the responsa literature and has
remained a standard reference work. " (EJ) Front and back cover
chipped, otherwise very good condition. (GER-39-6) (ID #28762) $75.00.
185. Graetz, Heinrich. GNOSTICISMUS UND JUDENTHUM. Krotoschin; B. L.
Monasch, 1846. Clothbound. 8vo. VII, 132 pages. 23 cm. First edition.
In German, with Greek and Hebrew. Title translates as =E2=80=9DGnostici=
sm and
Judaism. =E2=80=9D Professor Heinrich Hirsch Graetz (1817-1891) was bor=
n in
Posen and died in Munich, he was a renowned historian and exegete, and
a strong champion of orthodox Judasism: =E2=80=9CAt that time the contr=
oversy
between Orthodoxy and Reform was at its height, and Graetz, true to the
principles which he had imbibed from Samson Raphael Hirsch, began his
literary career by contributions to the "Orient, " edited by Julius
F=C3=BCrst, in which he severely criticized the Reform party, as well a=
s
Geiger's text-book of the Mishnah ("Orient, " 1844). These
contributions and his championship of the Conservative cause during the
time of the rabbinical conferences made him popular with the Orthodox
party. This was especially the case when he agitated for a vote of
confidence to be given to Zacharias Frankel after he had left the
Frankfort conference because of the stand which the majority had taken
on the question of the Hebrew language. After Graetz had obtained his
degree of Ph. D. From the University of Jena (his dissertation being
"De Auctoritate et Vi Quam Gnosis in Judaismum Habuerit, " 1845;
published a year later under the title "Gnosticismus und Judenthum"),
he was made principal of a religious school founded by the
Conservatives. =E2=80=9D (1906 Jewish Encyclopedia) This volume was pri=
nted and
published by a famous 19th century Hebrew press in Krotoschin, in
Poland: =E2=80=9CKrotoschin, like Posen, Lissa, and Kalisz, was one of=
the
leading communities of Great Poland, sending representatives to the
general synod of Great Poland and to the Council of Four Lands. In a
document dated 1773 it is called an "important community, with many
sages and men learned in the Law. " =E2=80=A6 In 1833 a Hebrew printing=
-press
was founded, which has issued a large number of works. This community
has numbered among its members many prominent scholars and writers,
authors of sermons and of halakic and haggadic novell=C3=A6, commentato=
rs on
the Bible, patrons of Jewish science, grammarians, bibliographers, and
printers. =E2=80=9D (1906 Jewish Encyclopedia) Subjects: Gnosticism. Ta=
lmud --
Theology. Sefer Yezirah. Binding repaired, covers worn. Pages clean,
but aged and foxed. Light stain on bottom of title page through first
five pages. Fair condition. Important (GER-38-30) (ID #29033) $150.00.
186. Brandes, Georg Morris Cohen. URCHRISTENTUM. Berlin, E. Reiss,
1927. 1st Edition. Cloth, Very Good Condition; 8vo; 149 pages
(GER-37-71) (ID #4368) $40.00.
187. Brucklmeier, Max. BEITRAGE ZUR RECHTLICHEN STELLUNG DER JUDEN
IM ROMISCHEN REICH. 1939. Paper Wrappers, Speyer, Pilger-Druckerei,
1939. xi, 66 pages. 1 l. 23 cm "Lebenslauf". "Literaturnachwe is":
pages v-viii. Inaug. -diss. --Munchen. (GER-37-52) (ID #9378) $65.00.
188. Friedl=C3=A4nder, Moriz. DIE RELIGI=C3=96SEN BEWEGUNGEN INNERHA=
LB DES
JUDENTUMS IM ZEITALTER JESU. Berlin; Reimer, 1905. FT) Clothbound. 8vo.
XXX, 380 pages. 23 cm. First edition. In German. Later decoarative
paper boards and cloth over original paper wrappers. Title roughly
translates to: =E2=80=9CThe religious movements within Judaism in the A=
ge of
Jesus. =E2=80=9D A study of the development and influence of apocalypti=
c,
Essene, and Am-haaretz movements in Palestinian Judaism of the
Sibylline. Moritz Friedl=C3=A4nder, 1844-1919, was a Galician born
theologian and later secretary of the Baron de Hirsch Fund whose
liberal views prevented him from a rabbinical career. Subjects: Judaism
-- History -- Talmudic period, 10-425. Am Ha'arets. Judentum.
Christentum. Edges lightly worn and soiled. Original paper wrappers and
title page lightly foxed, some soiling in margins of a few of the first
few pages, clean and crisp throughout. Near fine condition. (GER-33-5)
(ID #28801) $30.00.
189. Jo=C3=ABl, M. (Manuel). BLICKE IN DIE RELIGIONSGESCHICHTE ZU AN=
FANG
DES ZWEITEN CHRISTLICHEN JAHRHUNDERTS: I. DER TALMUD UND DIE
GRIECHISCHE SPRACHE. Breslau, 1880. Breslau: S. Schottlaender, 1880.
1st edition. Cloth, 12mo, 177 pages, 18 cm. Subjects: Talmud. Judaism
-- Relations -- Greek. Includes colored endpapers and marbled edges. Ex
library copy with usual marks. Good condition. (RAB-54-9) (ID #11021)
$75.00.
190. Joseph, Ha-Kohen, and M[e=C3=AFr] Wiener. EMEK HABACHA VON R.=
JOSEPH
HA COHEN. AUS DEM HEBR=C3=84ISCHEN INS DEUTSCHE =C3=9CBERTRAGEN, MIT EI=
NEM
VORWORTE, NOTEN UND REGISTERN VERSCHEN UND MIT HEBR=C3=84ISCHEN
HANDSCHRIFTLICHEN BEILAGEN BEREICHERT. Leipzig, 1858. Leipzig: Oskar
Leiner, 1858. Three quarter leather; 8vo. Xiv, 226, xxvi, [25] pages.
First edition. In German and Hebrew. Bibliographical annotations.
Addenda and indices at end. " Ha Cohen was a historian and physician of
the 16th century; in his "' Emek ha-Bakah, " "he dwells upon the
sorrows and sufferings the Jews endured in various countries in the
course of centuries. The book, which is a martyrology from beginning to
end, closes with the 24th of Tammuz, 5335 (1575). The author's
moderation and self-control are admirable. His work is valuable also on
account of its brilliant narrative, excellent characterization, and
fine Biblical style. Having lived in Italy from his childhood and
become acquainted with persons prominent politically, he is a valuable
source for the history of his time; concerning many events, he had
closely examined competent witnesses. He also mentions a number of
important facts ignored by other historians. " (Eduard Neumann and
Richard Gottheil, JE) SUBJECT(S): Jews -- History -- A. D. 70- Jews --
Persecutions. Backstrip missing, binding tight; slight wear to leather.
Previous owner's signature on title page. Text clean. Very Good
condition. (GER-8-6) (ID #16810) $125.00.
191. Unnik, W. C. Van (Willem Cornelis Van). FLAVIUS JOSEPHUS ALS
HISTORISCHER SCHRIFTSTELLER. Heidelberg, Schneider, 1978. 1st Edition
Thus. Paper Wrappers, Very Good Condition; 8vo; 67 pages; 24 cm. Franz
Delitzsch Vorlesungen; Neue Folge, 1972. Includes bibliographical
references. Guido Kisch's copy. (GER-37-42) (ID #7995) $35.00.
192. Mandelstamm, Leon (1819-1889). HORAE TALMUDICAE. Complete in 2
volumes. Berlin, Friedl=C3=A4ndersche Buchdruckerei, 1860. Cloth. 8vo,=
48,
48 pages. 23 cm. vol I in German, Vol. II in English (!),Series:
Thalmudische Studien Nr 2. Contents: Teil 1: Reform im Judenthum. Teil
2: Rabbi Joshua ben Hanania. "Eine Diskussion =C3=BCber Judenthum und
Christenthum, aus dem Anfange des zweiten Jahrhunderts der christlichen
Aera." SUBJECT(S) Judaism. Joshua ben Hananiah, 1st cent. OCLC lists
only 4 copies worldwide (Harvard, Yale, Yeshiva, JNUL), none in the US
outside the Northeast. Attractively bound in modern boards. Old stamps
of the "Eigenthum des J=C3=BCdisch-Theol: Seminars zu Breslau" on the
half-titles. Some old foxing and staining, Very Good Condition. A
scarce title. (HEB-19-17) (ID #17013) $325.00.
193. Meyer, Eduard. DER PAPYRUSFUND VON ELEPHANTINE: DOKUMENTE EINER
J=C3=9CDISCHEN GEMEINDE AUS DER PERSERZEIT UND DAS =C3=84LTESTE ERHALTE=
NE BUCH
DER WELTLITERATUR. Leipzig, J. C. Hinrichs, 1912. Original Publisher=E2=
=80=99s
Cloth. 8vo. 128 pages. 22 cm. In German. Title translates to English
as, =E2=80=9CThe Discovery of the Elephantine Papyri: Documents of a Je=
wish
Community from the Persian Period and the Oldest Surviving Book in
World Literature. =E2=80=9D SUBJECT (S): Manuscripts, Aramaic (Papyri).=
Jews --
History -- To 70 A. D. Geschichte. Judentum. Papyrus. Genre/Form:
Papyrusfund. Geographic: Elephantine (Egypt) -- Antiquities.
Elephantine. Includes bibliographical references. Underlining and
margin notes on a few pages, but mostly a nice, clean copy. Very good
condition. (SEF37-22) (ID #28481) $30.00.
194. Perles, F. BOUSSET=E2=80=99S RELIGION DES JUDENTUMS: IM
NEUTESTAMENTLICHEN ZEITALTER KRITISCH UNTERSUCHT. Berlin: W. Peiser,
1903. Hardcover, 8vo, vi, 133 pages, 24 cm. In German. SUBJECT (S):
Judaism -- History. Die Religion des Judentums im neutestamentlichen
Zeitalter (Bousset). Title Subject: Talmud. Lightly bumped corners.
Light staining to title page. Excellent condition. (Heb-14-1) (ID
#25809) $30.00.
195. Salvador, Joseph; Ludwig Eichler. GESCHICHTE DER
R=C3=96MERHERRSCHAFT IN JUD=C3=84A UND DER ZERST=C3=96RUNG JERUSALEMS.=
Bremen; F.
Schlodtmann, 1847. Clothbound. 8vo. XI, 444, VII, 483 pages. 22 cm.
First edition. 2 Volumes in one. In German, with Latin. Later
half-leather and cloth binding. With four maps of ancient Judea. Title
translates as: =E2=80=9CHistory of Roman rule in Judea and the destruct=
ion of
Jerusalem. =E2=80=9D This tome on the history of Judea under Roman rule=
is a
translation done by Ludwig Eichler from the French edition published in
1846: "Histoire de la Domination Romaine en Jud=C3=A9e et de la Ruine d=
e
J=C3=A9rusalem". The author, Joseph Salvador, was a =E2=80=9CFrench his=
torian; born
at Montpellier Jan. 5, 1796; died March 17, 1873, at Versailles;
buried, at his own request, in the Protestant cemetery of Le Vigan,
near Montpellier, in his brother's family vault, the rabbi of N=C3=AEme=
s
officiating. Salvador's paternal ancestors, who, according to family
traditions, were descendants of the Maccabees, the saviors of
Israel=E2=80=94the name "Salvador" meaning "savior"=E2=80=94emigrated f=
rom Africa to
Spain in the ninth century, and fled from the latter country, to escape
the Inquisition, in the fifteenth century, finding a refuge in France.
=E2=80=9D (1906 Jewish Encyclopedia. ) He studied medicine, but devoted=
his
life to writing histories; =E2=80=9Cin his work on the fall of Jerusale=
m
Salvador deals with his subject from the point of view of universal
history, and regards the destruction of the Temple as a necessary stage
in the spread among the peoples of what he would call the Christian
form of Judaism. =E2=80=9D (1906 Jewish Encyclopedia) Subjects: Jews --=
History
-- 586 B. C. -70 A. D. Backstrip absent from later cloth binding; a
portion of book repair tape covers a portion of the cover. Worn edges
of cover. Title page soiled and foxed. Internal pages very clean and in
excellent condition, though lightly foxed throughout. Very good
condition. (GER-36-23) (ID #28874) $100.00.
196. Wahrmann, Nahum. UNTERSUCHUNGEN =C3=9CBER DIE STELLUNG DER FRAU=
IM
JUDENTUM IM ZEITALTER DER TANNAITEN. HEFT 1 [ONLY]: DAS
ERMITTLUNGSVERFAHREN GEGEN EINE DES EHEBRUCHS VERD=C3=84CHTIGTE. Bresla=
u, L.
& H. Marcus, 1933. 1st Edition (?). Paper Wrappers, Paper & binding
very good.; 8vo; 54 pages; 22 cm. Heft 1 only. Das Ermittlungsverfahren
gegen eine des Ehebruchs verdachtigte. An expansion of the author's
thesis (doctoral-L udwigs Universitat, Giessen, 1926) presented under
title: Das Sotaverfahren im IV. Mose 5, 11-31 in der tannaitischen
Literatur. Bibliography: v. 1, vii-viii. Guido Kisch's copy (GR-2-23)
(ID #6364) $50.00.
197. Weinrich, William C. editor. THE NEW TESTAMENT AGE: ESSAYS IN
HONOR OF BO REICKE. Macon, GA. Mercer, 1984. Original Publisher=E2=80=
=99s
Cloth. 8vo. 2 volumes. Xiii, 579 pages. 24 cm. In English, French and
German. SUBJECT (S): Nieuwe Testament. Reicke, Bo, 1914-1987. Bible. N.
T. -- Criticism, interpretation, etc. Bibliography: vol 2, pages
[553]-560. Very good condition. (FEST1-62). Xx (ID #27394) $25.00.
198. Zucker, Hans. STUDIEN ZUR J=C3=9CDISCHEN SELBSTVERWALTUNG IM
ALTERTUM. Berlin: Schocken. 1936. Half cloth. 8vo. 199 pages. In
German. First edition. Nazi-era imprint. SUBJECT (S): Jews =E2=80=93his=
tory =E2=80=93
586 B. C. -70 A. D.; Jews =E2=80=93 history =E2=80=93 70-638; Jews =E2=
=80=93 politics and
government. Beautiful condition, in very good cardboard slipcase. With
original publishers advertisement laid in. (GERN-6-1) (ID #26756)
$100.00.
RABBINICS & MEDIEVAL
199. AMUDE HA- =E2=80=98AVODAH: RESHIMAT RASHE HA-PAYTANIM U-ME=E2=
=80=99AT MI
TOLDOTEHEM AL SEDAR ALFA BETA =E2=80=98IM MISPAR PIYUTEHEM HA-NIMTSAIM=
BE SIFRE
TEFILOT. Berlin: Bernstein, 1857. Hardback, (FT) 8vo. 130 Pages. In
Hebrew. SUBJECT(S): Hymn writers. Piyutim. In very good condition
(GER24-22) (ID #28751) $125.00.
200. Bacher, Wilhelm. TRADITION UND TRADENTEN IN DEN SCHULEN
PAL=C3=84STINAS UND BABYLONIENS: STUDIEN UND MATERIALIEN ZUR
ENTSTEHUNGSGESCHICHTE DES TALMUDS. Leipzig, Buchhandlung Gustav Fock
G.m.b.H., 1914. Hardcover, 8vo, Later Cloth. 8vo. 704 pages. In German.
A compilation of studies and materials about the history of the Talmud.
Title translates to English as, "Tradition and Narrators in the Schools
of Babylonia and Pal=C3=A4stinas: Studies and Materials about the Histo=
ry of
the Talmud." SUBJECT(S): Tradition (Judaism) Talmoed. Tanna=C3=AFm. Amo=
ra=C3=AFm.
Traditiegeschiedenis. Tradition (Juda=C3=AFsme) Entstehung. Geschichte.
Title Subject: Talmud -- History. Talmud -- Methodology. Talmud --
Histoire. Talmud. Edited by L. Blau and "Register" (pages 627-704) by
M. Guttmann. Includes bibliographical references. Nice, clean copy in
Very Good condition. (SPEC32-21) (ID #27766) $125.00.
201. Haarbr=C3=BCcker, Th. RABBI TANCHUM JERUSCHALMI. ARABISCHER
COMMENTAR ZUM BUCHE JOSUA. Berlin, Gedruckt Bei Rosenthal & Co. 1862.
Bound in later wrappers. 8vo. Iv, 40 pages. In Arabic with a foreword
in German. Title translates to English as, =E2=80=9CRabbi Tanhum Yerush=
almi.
Arabic Commentaries on the Book of Joshua. =E2=80=9D SUBJECT (S): Jewis=
h
literature -- History and criticism. Series: =E2=80=9CWissenschaftliche=
Blatter
aus der Veitel Heine Ephraim Schen Lehranstalt (Bet ha-Midrasch) In
Berlin [Erste Sammlung] =E2=80=93 =E2=80=9CScientific Pages from Veite=
l Heine Ephraim's
School (Beth ha-Midrash) in Berlin. Very Good Condition. (GER-32-29)
(ID #28906) $125.00.
202. Lebrecht, F. HANDSCHRIFTEN DES BABYLONISCHEN TALMUD. Berlin,
Gedruckt Bei Rosenthal & Co. 1862. Bound in later wrappers. 8vo. Pages.
23 cm. Viii, 114 pages. In German with some Hebrew. Title translates to
English as, =E2=80=9CManuscripts of the Babylonian Talmud. =E2=80=9D SU=
BJECT (S):
Jewish literature -- History and criticism. Series: =E2=80=9CWissenscha=
ftliche
Blaetter aus der Veitel Heine Ephraim Schen Lehranstalt (Bet
ha-Midrasch) In Berlin [Erste Sammlung] =E2=80=93 =E2=80=9CScientific=
Pages from Veitel
Heine Ephraim's School (Beth ha-Midrash) in Berlin. Very Good
Condition. (GER-32-10) (ID #28909) $135.00.
203. Lebrecht, F=C3=BCrchtegott. KRITISCHE LESE VERBESSERTER LESARTE=
N UND
ERKLARUNGEN ZUM TALMUD. Berlin, Peiser, 1864. Original Paper Wrappers.
8vo. X, 54 pages. 23 cm. In German. Title translates to English as,
=E2=80=9CImproved Critical Readings and Explanations About the Talmud.=
=E2=80=9D
CONTENTS: F=C3=BCrstensohn oder schwestersohn. --Selbstcensur. --Traum=
und
deutung. --Sterndeutung. --Schrift oder wort am meer, oder strom--Der
sohn Sirachs. --Erfolg der frugalit=C3=A4t. --G=C3=B6tzenbild und halle=
l. --Das
starke el. --R. Jochanan-Herkules. =E2=80=94Anhang. OCLC lists 6 copies
worldwide, none in the US. Pages darkened, but all text is clear and
paper is not fragile. Good+ condition. (GER-32-14) (ID #28783) $100.00.
204. Lichtenstaedter, Siegfried. SCHACHRTFRAGE UND J=C3=9CDISCHE
SPEISEGESETZE. OFFENE WORTE AN SCHACHTGEGNER UND JUDEN. Leipzig, Gustav
Engel, 1927. Original Stapled Wrappers. 8vo. 29 pages. In German.
SUBJECT (S): Halacha. OCLC lists 7 copies worldwide. Small wormholes on
back cover and several pages, but no loss of text. Some sunning to
cover, institutional stamp, but still nice. Very Good Condition.
(GER-32-20) (ID #28789) $100.00.
205. Zerahyah, Ha-Yevani, 14th Cent. Jacob Ben Meir Tam, 1100-1171.
SEFER HA-YASHAR HA-MEYUHAS LE-RABENU TAM. Frankfurt Am Main: I.
Kauffmann,, 1850. Period Quarter leather over boards, 12mo, 200 pages.
21 cm. In Hebrew & Judeo-German. SUBJECT (S): Jewish ethics. Added
title page in Judeo-German. Erroneously ascribed to Jacob b. Meir Tam.
=E2=80=9C...ve-turgam Ashkenazit Al yede Ayzikh Koyfman. OCLC lists 7 c=
opies
worldwide (NYPL, Stanford, UC Santa Barbara, Harvard, Vanderbilt,
Toronto, British Library). Stamp of Ets Hayim Library in Amsterdam on
title page. Spine repair, Good+ Condition. (HEB-45-5) (ID #28955)
$175.00.
206. Bloch, M. DIE ETHIK IN DER HALACHA. Budapest: Buchdruckerei Des
Athenaeum,, 1886. Hardcover, 96, 37 pages, 8vo, 24 cm. In German.
Series: Jahresbericht der Landes-Rabbinerschule in Budapest fur das
Schuljahr; 1885-86; SUBJECT (S): Jewish ethics. Tradition (Judaism).
Ex-library with usual markings. Hinge repair. Wear to binding. Browning
of pages. Otherwise, good condition. (rab-33-6) (ID #24160) $40.00.
(RAB-54-8) |=E2=80=A2 Epstein, J. N. DER GAONAISCHE KOMMENTAR ZUR ORDNU=
NG
TOHOROTH: EINE KRITISCHE EINLEITUNG ZU DEM R. HAI GAON ZUGESCHRIEBENEN
KOMMENTAR. Berlin: Mayer & Muller,, 1915. Hardcover, vi, 160 pages,
8vo, 25 cm. In German. Boaz Cohen=E2=80=99s copy with his signature on=
title
page. Notes on inside cover. SUBJECT (S): Geonic literature -- History
and criticism. Named Person: Hai ben Sherira, 939-1038. Title Subject:
Mishnah. Tohorot (Order) -- Commentaries. Includes bibliographical
references. Wear to binding. Wear to edges of cover and folding.
Otherwise, good condition. (RAB-54-8) (ID #28761) $30.00. xx
207. F=C3=BCrstenthal, R. J. RABBINISCHE ANTHOLOGIE: ODER SAMMLUNG V=
ON
ERZ=C3=84HLUNGEN, SPRICHW=C3=96RTERN, WEISHEITSREGELN, LEHREN UND MEINU=
NGEN DER
ALTER HEBR=C3=84ER; EIN UNTERHALTENDES UND ZUGLEICH BELEHRENDES BUCH F=
=C3=9CR
JEDERMANN; AUS DEN QUELLEN ENTNOMMEN, =C3=9CBERFEST UND ERL=C3=84UTERT=
UND MIT
DEN N=C3=96THIGEN REGISTERN VERFEHEN. Breslau, 1834. Breslau: M.
Friedl=C3=A4nder, 1834. 12mo. Xvi, 382 pages. In German. Indices; errat=
a.
F=C3=BCrstenthal was a German poet, translator, and writer, known chief=
ly
for his translations from Hebrew to German of liturgical works, and for
his poems on Hebrew nationalism. (JE) SUBJECT(S): Proverbs, Hebrew.
Aphorisms and apothegms. OCLC lists 17 copies worldwide. Ex-library
with minimal markings. Solomon Grayzel's copy; Stamped "Grayzel" on
front flyleaf (Solomon Grayzel, scholar, professor at Gratz College and
then Dropsie College, and editor-in-chief of the JPS). Lacks covers.
Usual age staining. Ink blot on outer edge of last 75 leaves, not
affecting text. Binding tight; text in very good condition. (GER-3-4)
(ID #16510) $135.00.
208. Ginzberg, Louis. EINE UNBEKANNTE JUDISCHE SEKTE. ERSTER TEIL.
New York: Im Selbstverlage Des Verfasers,, 1922. Hardcover, 8vo. x, 384
pages. In German. Boaz Cohen=E2=80=99s copy, with ownership signature.=
Title in
English: An Unknown Jewish Sect. SUBJECT (S): Zadokite documents. =E2=
=80=9CAn
early study of the Zadokite Fragment from the Genizah which later
turned out to be one of the Dead Sea Scrolls=E2=80=9D Ginzberg was =E2=
=80=9Cone of the
outstanding Talmud scholars of the first half of the 20th century;
leader and the major halakhic authority of the Conservative movement in
North America. Born in Kovno, Lithuania, Ginzberg received a typical
East European Jewish education: private tutors, four years of study at
the Telz and Slobodka yeshivot, and academic studies at three German
universities. After studying with Noeldeke at Strassburg, he received
his doctorate from the University of Heidelberg in 1898 for his study
of the midrashim quoted by the Church Fathers. Ginzberg was a direct
descendant (sixth generation) of Abraham, brother of Elijah, the Gaon
of Vilna=E2=80=A6Ginzberg's father and mother were extremely pious Jews=
and
even though he became more liberal when he left home at age 15, he
remained an observant Jew for the rest of his life. Nonetheless, he was
plagued until his death by a certain ambivalence about following the
path of Wissenschaft des Judentums. Ginzberg was a brilliant polymath,
"a walking encyclopedia. " He knew most of the Bible by heart at age
seven and had mastered much of rabbinic literature by age 14. His
magnum opus, The Legends of the Jews, contains 36, 000 references which
Ginzberg kept in his head. In addition to rabbinics, Ginzberg was an
expert in philosophy, Kabbalah, and mathematics and he knew at least 12
languages. =E2=80=9D (Golinkin, EJ, 2007) Ex-library with institutional=
stamp.
Spine repaired with black cloth tape. Chips and tears to title page,
first and last few pages. OCLC lists 4 copies worldwide (Danish
National Library Royal Library of Denmark, JTS, and Spertus) Good
condition. Scarce and important. (RAB-43-7) (ID #24760) $200.00.
209. Levi, Giuseppe and Ludwig Seligmann. PARABELN, LEGENDEN UND
GEDANKEN AUS THALMUD UND MIDRASCH. Leipzig: Leiner, 1863. Cloth, xiii,
400 pages, 8vo. In German. Series: Schriften-- herausgegeben vom
Institute zur Forderung der Israelitischen Literatur; 8. 1862/1863.
OCLC lists 3 copies worldwide (Universitatsbibliothek Hamburg,
Staatsbibliothek Zu Berlin, Forschungsbibliothek Erfurt). Solomon
Grayzel's copy with signature. Wear to binding. Stained pages.
Ex-library. Wear to edges and cover binding. Otherwise, good condition.
(RAB-34-2) (ID #21785) $75.00.
210. Lewy, J. EIN WORT =C3=9CBER DIE "MECHILTA DES R. SIMON". Bresla=
u,,
1889. Cloth, 40 pages, 8vo. In German. Lewy (1841-1917) "studied at the
Breslau Jewish Theological Seminary. At the opening of the Hochschule
fuer die Wissenschaft des Judentum in Berlin in 1872, he became its
lecturer in Talmud. In 1883 he returned to the Breslau Seminary in the
same capacity and as Seminarrabbiner. Apart from his erudition in all
branches of Jewish and general scholarship, Lewy brought a keen
analytical sense and conjectural brilliance to the field of talmudical
studies. He combined this freedom of enquiry with deep piety and strict
observance. Lewy's scholarly output is relatively small in quantity,
but terse in style and free of polemics. It mainly appeared in the
annual reports of the Hochschule and the Breslau seminary. "
(Rothschild in EJ, 2007). From library of Shalom Spiegel with
bookplate. Series: Jahresbericht des J=C3=BCdisch-theologischen Seminar=
s
"Fraenckel'scher Stiftung". Good Condition. Wear and tear on cover and
binding. Includes one page membership list with many names. (RAB-1-19)
(ID #21670) $75.00.
211. Schr=C3=B6ter, Dr. Robert . TESHUVOT DUNASH HA-LEVI BEN LABRAT,=
AL
RABI SEADYAH [SAADYA] GA'ON =3D KRITIK DES DUNASCH BEN LABRAT. ERSTES
HEFT. Breslau, Schletter'sche Buchhandlung, 1866. (FT) Original
Publisher's Cloth. 8vo. Xiv, 63 pages. 17 cm. In Hebrew with preface
and notes in German. Subtitle: "u=C2=A8ber einzelne Stellen aus Saadia'=
s
arabischer Uebersetzung des A. T. Und aus dessen grammatischen
Schriften, nach einem Codex des S. D. Luzzatto. Zum ersten Male hrsg.
Und mit kritischen Anmerkungen versehen von Robert Schro=C2=A8ter. " Ti=
tle
translates to English as, "Criticism of Dunash ben Labrat about
individual passages from Saadia's Arabic translation of the AT and from
its grammatical writings, according to a Code of SD Luzzatto. Ed for
the first time. And with critical notes by Robert Schr=C3=B6ter. "
SUBJECT(S): Sa=E2=80=99adia ben Joseph, 880-942. Bible. O. T. -- Critic=
ism,
interpretation, etc. OCLC lists 24 copies worldwide. Lacks covers and
backstrip. Internal pages wavy from water exposure with light staining
throughout, but all text is clear. Good condition. (GER-32-1) (ID
#28772) $125.00. (K-MX-1-8) |=E2=80=A2 Kisch, Guido. THE JEWS IN MEDIEV=
AL
GERMANY; A STUDY OF THEIR LEGAL AND SOCIAL STATUS. Chicago: University
of Chicago Press, 1949. First Edition; First Printing. Cloth, 8vo; xv,
655 pages; 24 cm. Bibliography on pages 565-605. First edition. Kisch
received the I. Hirschfield award for "Best non-fiction work on Jewish
history" for this work. Hinge repair. Tears to corners of cover,
binding, and top section of jacket. (K-Mx-1-8) (ID #21396) $50.00.
212. Dukes, Leopold. MOSES BEN ESRA AUS GRANADA: DARSTELLUNG SEINES
LEBENS UND LITERARISCHEN WIRKENS, NEBST HEBR=C3=84ISCHEN BEYLAGEN UND
DEUTSCHEN UBERSETZUNGEN. Altona; Gedruckt Bei Gebr=C3=BCder Bonn, 1839.
Later wrappers. 12mo. VI, [2], 115, [1] pages. 20 cm. First edition.=
In
German and Hebrew. Title translates as: =E2=80=9CMoses ben Ezra, of Gra=
nada:
Account of his Life and Literary Activity, along with Hebrew and German
translations. =E2=80=9D The translations include the works: "Tarshish"=
and
"Diwan. " "Dukes spent about 20 years in England, and from his
researches in the Bodleian library and the British Museum (which
contain two of the most valuable Hebrew libraries in the world) Dukes
was able to complete the work of Leopold Zunz. The most popular work of
Dukes was his Rabbinische Blumenlese (1844), in which he collected the
rabbinic proverbs and illustrated them from the gnomic literatures of
other peoples. Dukes made many contributions to philology, but his best
work was connected with the medieval Hebrew poetry, especially Ibn
Gabirol" (Wikipedia 2012). Moses ibn Ezra was a =E2=80=9CSpanish philos=
opher,
linguist, and poet; born at Granada about 1070; (died after 1138);
relative of Abraham ibn Ezra and pupil of Isaac ibn Ghayyat. =E2=80=A6=
He was a
distinguished philosopher, an able linguist, and, above all, a powerful
poet, of whom Judah al-Harizi said: "Moses ibn Ezra draws pearls from
the well of thought" =E2=80=A6 Ibn Ezra was an unrivaled master of the=
Hebrew
language. His poetical productions, both sacred and secular, are
distinguished by their beauty of form and style, and were, according to
Al-Harizi ("Tahkemoni, " iii. ), preferred by poets even to those of
Judah ha-Levi and Abraham ibn Ezra. Ibn Ezra's secular poems are
contained in two works: in the "Tarshish" (so called on account of the
1, 210 lines it comprised), or "'Anah. " (Arabic title "Zahr
al-Riyah"), and in the first part of his "Diwan. " The "Tarshish" is
divided into ten chapters, each of which contains in order the
twenty-two letters of the alphabet. It is written in the Arabic style
of poetry termed "tajnis, " which consists in the repetition of words
in every stanza, but with a different meaning in each repetition. The
first chapter is dedicated to a certain Abraham (certainly not Abraham
ibn Ezra), whose merits he exalts in Oriental fashion. In the nine
remaining chapters are discussed: (ch. Ii. ) wine, love, and song;
(iii. ) the beauty of country life; (iv. v. ) love-sickness and the
separation of lovers; (vi. ) unfaithful friends; (vii. ) old age;
(viii. ) vicissitudes of fortune, and death; (ix. ) confidence in God;
(x. ) the glory of poetry. =E2=80=9D (1906 Jewish Encyclopeda) Subjects=
:
Biography. Ibn Ezra, Moses, ca. 1060-ca. 1139. Jewish religious poetry,
Hebrew -- History and criticism. Foxing throughout, with light soiling
on title page. All text clear. Good condition. (GER-40-15) (ID #29070)
$175.00.
213. Dukes, Leopold. ZUR KENNTNISS DER NEUHEBR=C3=84ISCHEN RELIGI=C3=
=96SEN
POESIE: EIN BEITRAG ZUR LITERATURGESCHICHTE, NEBST HEBR=C3=84ISCHEN
BEILAGEN. Frankfurt Am Main; Bach'sche Buch Und Steindruckerei, 1842.
Later wrappers. 12mo. VII, 175, [1] pages. 20 cm. First edition. In
German and Hebrew. Title translates as: =E2=80=9CTowards the Knowledge=
of
Modern Hebrew Religious Poetry: a Contribution to Literary History,
together with Hebrew Inserts. =E2=80=9D This volume serves as a compreh=
ensive
survey of modern Hebrew poetry and grammatical innovations, with a
selections of Hebrew poems. Leopold Dukes was a =E2=80=9CHungarian hist=
orian of
Jewish literature; born at Presburg, Hungary, 1810; died at Vienna Aug.
3, 1891. He studied Talmudical literature in the yeshibah of Moses
Sofer, rabbi of Presburg; but his passion for Biblical studies, which
found no sympathy in his native town, led him to the yeshibah of
W=C3=B6rzburg, where he also devoted himself to the acquisition of a se=
cular
education. After a prolonged stay at W=C3=B6rzburg he returned home; bu=
t
displeased with the manners of his fellow citizens, and impelled by a
thirst for knowledge, he visited the principal European cities in which
there were libraries containing Hebrew manuscripts. He lived
successively at Munich, T=C3=BCbingen, Hanover, Hamburg, Paris, Leipsic=
,
Oxford, and then spent about twenty years in London. Dukes was an
original character, a fact due probably to his solitary life and
privations. His scholarship was extensive and exact, and his works
cover the fields of exegesis, Haggadah, grammar, Masorah, the history
of literature, ethics, and poetry. In all of these he made many
ingenious and important discoveries; and his books became indispensable
supplements to those of Zunz, Rapoport, and Krochmal. =E2=80=9D Dukes m=
ade many
contributions to philology, but his best work was connected with the
medieval Hebrew poetry (1906 Jewish Encyclopedia). Subjects: Jewish
religious poetry, Hebrew -- History and criticism. Jewish religious
poetry, Hebrew. Hebrew poetry -- History and criticism. Ex-libris Jews
College Library London. Foxed throughout, lightly soiled, text legible.
Good condition. (GER-40-14) (ID #29069) $75.00.
214. Dukes, Leopold. SALOMO BEN GABIROL AUS MALAGA UND DIE
ETHINSCHEN WERKE DESSELBEN, MIT EINER UEBERSICHT DER MEISTEN ETHISCHEN
WERKE DER ARABER; EIN BEITRAG ZUR LITERATURGESCHICHTE DER ARABER UND
JUDEN DES MITTLALTERS. Hannover; Druck Der Telgener'schen
Hofbuchdruookerei, 1860. Later wrappers. 12mo. XII, 124 pages. 20 cm.
First edition. In German, with Hebrew passages and notes. Erstes Band
(First Book), no others ever written. Title translates as: Solomon ben
Gabirol of Malaga and the Works on Ethics by the same, with one of the
most representative work of Ethics of the Arabs; A Contribution to the
Literary History of the Arabs and Jews of the Middle Ages. =E2=80=9D Le=
opold
Dukes was a =E2=80=9CHungarian historian of Jewish literature; born at
Presburg, Hungary, 1810; died at Vienna Aug. 3, 1891. He studied
Talmudical literature in the yeshibah of Moses Sofer, rabbi of
Presburg; but his passion for Biblical studies, which found no sympathy
in his native town, led him to the yeshibah of W=C3=B6rzburg, where he=
also
devoted himself to the acquisition of a secular education. After a
prolonged stay at W=C3=B6rzburg he returned home; but displeased with t=
he
manners of his fellow citizens, and impelled by a thirst for knowledge,
he visited the principal European cities in which there were libraries
containing Hebrew manuscripts. He lived successively at Munich,
T=C3=BCbingen, Hanover, Hamburg, Paris, Leipsic, Oxford, and then spent
about twenty years in London. Dukes was an original character, a fact
due probably to his solitary life and privations. His scholarship was
extensive and exact, and his works cover the fields of exegesis,
Haggadah, grammar, Masorah, the history of literature, ethics, and
poetry. In all of these he made many ingenious and important
discoveries; and his books became indispensable supplements to those of
Zunz, Rapoport, and Krochmal. =E2=80=9D (1906 Jewish Encyclopedia) Duke=
s made
many contributions to philology, but his best work was connected with
the medieval Hebrew poetry, especially his works on Solomon Ibn
Gabirol, a renowned =E2=80=9CSpanish poet, philosopher, and moralist; b=
orn in
Malaga about 1021; died about 1058 in Valencia. He is called by Gr=C3=
=A4tz
=E2=80=9Cthe Jewish Plato, " and by Steinschneider "the most original
philosophical writer among the Jews and Arabs. " (1906 Jewish
Encyclopedia) Subjects: Jews -- Social life and customs. Ibn Gabirol,
Shelomo ben Yehuda, 11th cent. OCLC lists 25 copies worldwide. Light
foxing and light soiling on title page and last page. Lightly bumped
edges. Internally clean and fresh. Very good condition. (GER-40-13) (ID
#29068) $135.00.
215. Kaufmann, David. DIE SINNE. BEITR=C3=84GE ZUR GESCHICHTE DER
PHYSIOLOGIE UND PSYCHOLOGIE IM MITTELALTER, AUS HEBR=C3=84ISCHEN UND
ARABISCHEN QUELLEN. Leipzig, Universit=C3=A4ts-Buchdruckerei, 1884.
Clothbound. 8vo. V, 199 pages. 22 cm. First edition. In German, with
Greek, Hebrew, and Arabic. =E2=80=9CThe Senses; Contribution to the his=
tory of
physiology and psychology in the middle ages, from Hebrew and Arabic
sources, =E2=80=9D followed by the Annual Report for the National Rabbi=
nical
School of Budapest for the Schoolyear of 1883-1884 (=E2=80=9CJahresberi=
cht der
Landes-Rabbinerschule in Budapest f=C3=BCr das Schuljahr l883-84=E2=80=
=9D). David
Kaufmann was an =E2=80=9CAustrian scholar; born at Kojetein, Moravia, J=
une 7,
1852; died at Karlsbad, Bohemia, July 6, 1899. He was educated at
Kojetein; and from 1861 to 1867 he attended the gymnasium at Kremsir,
where he studied the Bible and Talmud with Jacob Br=C3=BCll, rabbi of
Kojetein, and with the latter's son Nehemiah. In 1867 he went to the
Jewish Theological Seminary at Breslau, where he studied for ten years,
attending at the same time the university of that city. In the summer
of 1874 he received his Ph. D. From the University of Leipsic; and on
Jan. 29, 1877, he was ordained rabbi. In the latter year he declined
the offer of a professorship at the Jewish Theological Seminary,
Cincinnati, preferring to accept instead the chairs of history,
philosophy of religion, and homiletics at the newly founded rabbinical
school at Budapest, which he continued to hold till his death. He also
at the same time taught Greek and German in the preparatory school of
the same institution, carrying on this work in the Hungarian language,
which he had rapidly mastered. As librarian of the seminary he acquired
the large library of Lelio della Torre of Padua, the library of the
seminary becoming by this addition one of the most valuable Hebrew
libraries of Europe. As a teacher Kaufmann was highly successful; and
his relation to his students was that of friendly adviser. He
maintained a lively correspondence not only with the most eminent
Jewish scholars, but also with the leaders in other branches of
science. Kaufmann was a corresponding member of the Royal Academy of
Sciences of Madrid and a member of the executive committee of the
Budapest branch of the Alliance Isra=C3=A9lite Universelle. Kaufmann
displayed a many-sided literary activity. The bibliography of his works
which M. Brann compiled for the "Gedenkbuch zur Erinnerung an David
Kaufmann" (ed. M. Brann and F. Rosenthal, Breslau, 1900) includes 546
items, covering nearly every branch of Jewish science. His voluminous
contributions to the periodical literature of the last two decades of
the nineteenth century show him as a finished writer both of German and
of Hebrew. =E2=80=9D (1906 Jewish Encyclopedia) Subjects: Senses and se=
nsation
(Judaism) Physiology -- History. Psychology -- History. Binding
repaired. Endpages very aged, brittle, with torn edges. Pages
throughout clean and lightly aged. Good condition. (GER-38-18) (ID
#28927) $125.00.
216. Sa=E2=80=98adiah Ben Joseph; Judah Ben Saul Ibn Tibbon. SEFER H=
A-EMUNOT
VEHA-DE=E2=80=98OT. Leipzig; Y. Fishel, 1859. (FT) Later wrappers. 12mo=
=2E 202
pages. 19 cm. In Hebrew. =E2=80=9CJudah ben Saul ibn Tibbon, translator=
; born
at Granada, Spain, 1120; died after 1190. He left his native place in
1150, probably on account of persecution by the Almohades, and went to
Lunel in southern France. Benjamin of Tudela mentions him as a
physician there in 1160. Judah lived on terms of intimacy with
Meshullam ben Jacob and with Meshullam's two sons, Asher and Aaron,
whom in his will he recommends as friends to his only son, Samuel. He
was also a close friend of Abraham ben David of Posqui=C3=A8res and of
Zerahiah ha-Levi, the latter of whom he freely recognized as a greater
scholar than himself, and whose son he also wished to have as a friend
for his own son. He had two daughters whose marriage caused him much
anxiety. Judah was very active as a translator, his works including the
translation into Hebrew of the following: Saadia's "Kitab al-Amanat
wal-I'tiadat, " under the title "Sefer ha-Emunot weha-De'ot" (1186;
first ed. Constantinople, 1562). =E2=80=A6 The "Kitab al-Amanat wal-l't=
iadat, "
or "Book of the Articles of Faith and Doctrines of Dogma, " the first
systematic presentation and philosophic foundation of the dogmas of
Judaism, completed in 933. This work is better known under its Hebrew
title, "Sefer Emunot we-De'ot, " as translated by Judah ibn Tibbon, his
version having been first printed in Constantinople in 1562 and
frequently republished, while the original was edited by S. Landauer
(Leyden, 1880). Another translation, or rather paraphrase, of the
"Kitab al-Amanat, " of uncertain authorship, is contained in several
manuscripts; large portions of this rendering were edited by Gollancz
("The Ethical Treatises of Berachyah, " London, 1902; comp.
"Monatsschrift, " xlvi. 536). Of the ten sections or "maalat" of the
work, the seventh, treating of the resurrection, is contained in two
versions, the first of which, the basis of the translation of Ibn
Tibbon, has been edited by Bacher in the "Steinschneider Festschrift, "
pp. 98-112, and the second by Landauer. Subjects: Jewish philosophy --
Medieval. OCLC lists 6 copies worldwide. Ex- Libris Jews College
Library London. Very light ageing and light foxing throughout. Good
condition. (GER-40-16) (ID #29071) $150.00. (GER-15-32DW) |=E2=80=A2 Ab=
oab,
Isaac; R. J. F=C3=BCrstenthal; Ben-Zion Behrend. MENORATH HAMMAOR: LICH=
T
VERBREITENDER LEUCHTER. EINE MORALISCHE-RELIGI=C3=96SE UND ERBAULICHE
LEKT=C3=9CRE F=C3=9CR JUNG UND ALT. HEBR=C3=84ISCH VERFASST VON ISAAC A=
BOAB, UND INS
DEUTSCHE =C3=9CBERSETZT, BEGONNEN VON R.J. F=C3=9CRSTENTHAL, FORTGESETZ=
T VON
BENZION BEHREND. Complete in 3 volumes. Krotoschin, B. L. Monasch Und
Sohn, 1848. quarter, 8vo. 315, 558, 392 pages. The 2nd printing, with
Hebrew title page and "315" correctly on the last page. In Hebrew and
German. Damp stains and spotting throughout. Non-matching bindings.
Wear to boards. Vol III lacks backstrip and has both boards loose but
present. Good Condition. (GER-15-32dw) (ID #18690) $275.00.
217. Another Copy, Volume 3 only. Ex-Library with bookplate on
inside front cover. Wear to cover and spine. Damp stains throughout.
Good condition. (SPEC-27-21). (ID #27081) $100.00.
218. Another Copy, Volume 2 only. Some wear to covers including
minor chipping at top and bottom of spine. Internal pages worn with
some foxing, but all text is clear. Good condition. (SPEC-27-20). (ID
#27759) $100.00.
219. Albeck, Chanoch. UNTERSUCHUNGEN =C3=9CBER DIE HALAKISCHEN
MIDRASCHIM. Berlin; Akademie-Verlag, 1927. Softbound. 8vo. X, 163, [1]
pages. 24 cm. First edition. In German and Hebrew. Title translates as:
=E2=80=9CStudies on the Midrashim Halak=E2=80=9D; which constitutes Vol=
ume 3 of
Ver=C3=B6ffentlichungen der Akademie f=C3=BCr die Wissenschaft des Jude=
ntums.
Talmudische Sektion. Hanoch Albeck (1890 -1972) was a professor of
Talmud at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. He was one of the
foremost scholars of the Mishna in his time and he was one of the
founders of the scientific approach to the study of the Mishna. Hanoch
studied at the Vienna rabbinical academy and he received rabbinical
ordination in 1905. In 1921 he received a degree from the University of
Vienna. Between 1926 and 1936 Albeck taught in the Hochschule f=C3=BCr=
die
Wissenschaft des Judentums in Berlin. In 1936 he emigrated to Mandatory
Palestine where he was immediately appointed as professor and head of
the Talmud department at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, a position
he held for 25 years. Albeck, who was a religiously observant Jew,
published a number of books in Hebrew and German on rabbinical
literature, including "Introduction to the Mishna", "Studies in Baraita
and Tosephta", "Introduction to the Talmuds", and others. In addition,
he published numerous articles in the journal Tarbiz. Subjects: Jewish
law. Tradition (Judaism) Midrasch. Mishnah. Talmud. Ex Libris Jewish
Theological Seminary. Covers worn and bumped at edges. Edges lightly
bumped all around, but pages fresh and clean. Very good + condition.
(GER-33-43) (ID #28838) $75.00.
220. Aptowitzer, Victor. DAS SCHRIFTWORT IN DER RABBINISCHEN
LITERATUR. Wien; In Komission Bei Alfred Hodler, 1915. Clothbound. 8vo.
62, 78, VII, 173, 82 pages. 24 cm. Five volumes in one. First edition.
In German, with some Hebrew and Greek. Cloth with marbled half paper
over boards. Alexander Marx=E2=80=99s copy, historian and librarian at=
the
Jewish Theological Seminary, with his ownership stamps and occational
margin notes. Title translates as =E2=80=9CThe Written Word in Rabbinic
Literature. =E2=80=9C Volume contains: Heft 1. Prolegomena. - Heft 2. S=
amuel I.
- Heft 3. Samuel II. -Heft 4. Josua - Heft 5. Richter. The author,
Vigdor (Victor) Aptowitzer (March 16, 1871 - December 5, 1942), was a
rabbinic and talmudic scholar, professor of Talmud, Bible, Midrash and
Jewish Philosophy at the Jewish Theological Seminary, and member of the
Mizrachi Zionist movement; whom died in Palestine in 1942. This volume
contains his comprehensive work in German on the readings of Holy
Scripture in rabbinic literature. Subjects: Rabbinical literature -
History and criticism. Bible. O. T. - Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Jewish. Backstrip shaken, first and last signature shaken, ex-libris
copy. Pages fresh and clean. Very good condition. (GER-33-39) (ID
#28834) $135.00.
221. Bacher, Wilhelm; Lajos Blau; Michael Guttmann. TRADITION UND
TRADENTEN IN DEN SCHULEN PAL=C3=84STINAS UND BABYLONIENS: STUDIEN UND
MATERIALIEN ZUR ENTSTEHUNGSGESCHICHTE DES TALMUDS. Leipzig; G. Fock,
1914. Clothbound. 8vo. XI, 704 pages. 23 cm. First edition. In German
and Hebrew. Original cloth with gilt lettering on cover and spine,
decorative endpages, and decorative outer edges. Title translates as:
=E2=80=9CTradition and traditionists in the schools of Palestine and Ba=
bylonia:
Studies and materials on the origin of the Talmud. =E2=80=9D Forward by=
Ludwig
Blau: =E2=80=9C"The register has been produced by the author using the=
sacred
Hebrew material left behind by Prof. Dr. M. Guttmann. =E2=80=9D Rabbi W=
ilhelm
Bacher (1850-1913), Talmudic scholar, orientalist, and rector of the
Rabbinical Seminary of Budapest, he was a descendant of the
eighteenth-century German rabbi Ya=E2=80=99ir Ayim Bacharach, and a son=
of
Hebrew poet Simon Bacher. This pioneering volume printed under the
auspices of the Society for the Advancement of Jewish Studies develops
the philological transmission of the attributed traditions of the
Talmud. Subjects: Talmud - History. Tradition - j=C3=BCdische. Ex-libri=
s
markings from a Temple library in Hamburg. Cover and edges lightly
soiled. Pages lightly aged, with small pencil marks in some margins.
Very good + condition. (GER-33-47) (ID #28842) $65.00.
222. Caro, Georg. SOZIAL- UND WIRTSCHAFTSGESCHICHTE DER JUDEN IM
MITTELALTER UND DER NEUZEIT. VOL I ONLY: "DAS FR=C3=9CHERE UND DAS HOHE
MITTELALTER". Frankfurt A. /Main, J. Kauffmann, 1924. 2nd Edition.
Paper Wrappers, Large 8vo, 514 pages. In the original German This
Volume stands on its own and contains 2 parts: Die soziale Stellung und
wirtschaftliche Taetigkeit der Juden vom Ausgang des Altertums bis zum
Kreuzzuege; and Die soziale Stellung und Wirtschaftliche Taetigkeit der
Juden im Zeitalter der Kreuzzuege. Some wear to wrappers, pencil
underlining on a few pages, Very Good Condition, (ger-15-63dw) (ID
#18722) $65.00.
223. Chajim Bloch. TALMUDISCHE WEISHEIT: ALTJUDISCHE
WECHSELGESPRACHE, EINE AUSWAHL FUR DIE JUDISCHE JUGEND. Wien: Verlag
=E2=80=9Cdas Leben=E2=80=9D, 1921. Softcover, 16mo, 44 pages. In German=
=2E OCLC lists 1
copy worldwide. (Danish Union Natl Lib). Bumped and lightly chipped
corners. Light wear to edges. Otherwise, very good condition.
(HEB-17-9) (ID #26724) $40.00.
224. Danzig, Abraham Ben Jehiel Michal. SEFER HAYE ADAM: BO NIKBETSU
U-VAU BE-SEDER NAKHON KOL HA-MITSVOT ASHER YAASEH OTAM HA-ADAM KOL YEME
HELDO; VA-YEKABETS HA-MEHABER... ET KOL HA-DINIM VEHA-HALAKHOT
HA-KETUVI... Berlin: Be-Defus Yulius Zittenfeld, 1862. Hardcover, 8vo,
520 pages, 22 cm. In Hebrew. SUBJECT (S): Jewish law. Judaism --
Customs and practices. In Hebrew. Other Titles: Haye adam. Danzig
(1748-1820) was a =E2=80=9Ccodifier. Born in Danzig, he studied in Prag=
ue at
the yeshivot of Joseph Liebermann and Ezekiel Landau. True to his
family tradition, he refused to derive any material gain from his
studies and earned his livelihood as a merchant. Although required at
times to travel long distances to trade fairs in Germany, he continued
to learn with great devotion. From 1794 to 1812 he served as dayyan in
Vilna, in an honorary capacity; only in his old age, after losing his
possessions, was he obliged to accept remuneration for his services.
Danzig wrote a number of halakhic works, but his fame rests upon two
publications: (1) Hayei Adam ("Man's Life"), covering all the laws of
the Shulhan Arukh dealing with daily conduct, based on the Orah Hayyim
sections, with an addendum called Nishmat Adam, in which he justified
his decisions which were not in accordance with the accepted view; and
(2) Hokhmat Adam ("Man's Wisdom"), covering all the laws of the Shulhan
Arukh dealing with the dietary regulations, etc. contained in the Yoreh
De=E2=80=99ah section, with an addendum called Binat Adam, which includ=
ed
discussions on various relevant halakhic subjects and responsa. Both
works were initially intended for youthful students and for educated
laymen not fully versed in rabbinic literature who, in attempting to
determine Jewish law, found themselves unable to grapple with the
intricacies of the Shulhan Arukh and with its maze of conflicting
opinions. In these works, Danzig shows himself possessed of
considerable pedagogical talent. He arranges the laws methodically,
defines his terms lucidly and precisely, presents the various views and
their sources, and renders his own decisions and his reasons for them=
=E2=80=93
all in clear, simple language. The pleasant tenor of his writing, which
is suffused with unquestioning faith and true piety, contributed
largely toward the acceptance of his works. Hayyei Adam appeared in
almost a hundred editions. Groups called =E2=80=9CHevrot Hayyei Adam=E2=
=80=9D were
formed in several communities for the regular study of the code.
Danzig=E2=80=99s merits as a codifier were recognized also by renowned=
rabbis
and codifiers, who gave due consideration to his decisions. His books
include much of historical interest with regard to the daily life of
Lithuanian Jewry in his generation=E2=80=9D (Schlesinger in EJ, 2007).=
OCLC
lists 1 copy worldwide (U of Denver). Hinge repair. Light staining to
some pages. Wear and chipping to cover edges and corners. Notes inside
back cover. Otherwise, good condition. (HEB-15A-14) (ID #26033)
$200.00.
225. Dr. B Levin. GINZE KEDEM. A GEONITIC SCIENTIFIC PERIODICAL. VOL
2 ONLY. Berlin: Druck: Von H Itzkowski, 1923. HARDBACK, 8vo. 50 pages.
Volume 2 only. In Hebrew. In good condition. (SPEC4-15) (ID #20430)
$35.00.
226. Dukes, Leopold. ZUR KENNTNISS DER NEUHEBR=C3=84ISCHEN RELIGI=C3=
=96SEN
POESIE: EIN BEITRAG ZUR LITERATURGESCHICHTE, NEBST HEBR=C3=84ISCHEN BEI=
LAGEN
[BOUND WITH]:. RABBINISCHE BLUMENLESE, ENTHALTEND: EINE SAMMLUNG,
=C3=9CBERSETZUNG UND ERL=C3=84UTERUNG DER HEBR=C3=84ISCHEN UND CHALD=C3=
=84ISCHEN SPR=C3=9CCHE
DES SIRACH, TALMUDISCHER SPRICHW=C3=96RTER, SENTENZEN UND MAXIMEN, NEBS=
T
EINEM ANHANGE, LEICHENREDEN UND EINEM GLOSSAR. Frankfurt Am Main; Bach
/ Leipzig; Hahn, 1844. Contemporary Cloth. 8vo. VII, [5], 175 / VIII,
333 pages. 23 cm. First edition. In German and Hebrew. Two volumes
bound together in quarter leather and cloth, with decorative gilt
lettering on backstrip. The titles of the volumes translate as: =E2=80=
=9CFor
the knowledge of modern Hebrew poetry. A contribution to literary
history, together with Hebrew inserts=E2=80=9D And =E2=80=9CRabbinic an=
thology
containing: A collection, translation and explanation of the Hebrew and
Chaldean Proverbs of Sirach, Talmudic proverbs, aphorisms and maxims,
together with an appendix and a funeral orations. =E2=80=9D Leopold Duk=
es was a
=E2=80=9CHungarian historian of Jewish literature; born at Presburg, Hu=
ngary,
1810; died at Vienna Aug. 3, 1891. He studied Talmudical literature in
the yeshibah of Moses Sofer, rabbi of Presburg; but his passion for
Biblical studies, which found no sympathy in his native town, led him
to the yeshibah of W=C3=B6rzburg, where he also devoted himself to the
acquisition of a secular education. After a prolonged stay at W=C3=B6rz=
burg
he returned home; but displeased with the manners of his fellow
citizens, and impelled by a thirst for knowledge, he visited the
principal European cities in which there were libraries containing
Hebrew manuscripts. He lived successively at Munich, T=C3=BCbingen, Han=
over,
Hamburg, Paris, Leipsic, Oxford, and then spent about twenty years in
London. Dukes was an original character, a fact due probably to his
solitary life and privations. His scholarship was extensive and exact,
and his works cover the fields of exegesis, Haggadah, grammar, Masorah,
the history of literature, ethics, and poetry. In all of these he made
many ingenious and important discoveries; and his books became
indispensable supplements to those of Zunz, Rapoport, and Krochmal. =E2=
=80=9D
(1906 Jewish Encyclopedia) Subjects: Jewish religious poetry, Hebrew --
History and criticism. Jewish religious poetry, Hebrew. Hebrew poetry
-- History and criticism. Proverbs, Hebrew. Bible.; O. T.; Apocrypha.;
Ecclesiasticus.; Hebrew.; Selections.; 1844.; Bible.; O. T.;
Apocrypha.; Ecclesiasticus.; Aramaic.; Selections.; 1844.; Talmud.;
Selections.; Hebrew & German. Edges of cover lightly worn, with leather
lightly rubbed. First endpages torn and bumped, page VII contains a rip
at the bottom margin. Pages very lightly foxed throughout. Pages very
clean and fresh. Good condition. (GER-38-45) (ID #29047) $100.00.
227. Ehrentheil, Moritz. DER GEIST DES TALMUD. QUELLENGEMASSE
DARSTELLUNG DER TALMUDISCHEN ANSCHAUUNG =C3=9CBER GOTT, MENSCH, STAAT,
JUSTIZWESEN, NACHSTENLIEBE, WOHLTHATIGKEIT, ARMEN-PFLEGE, VERHALTEN
GEGEN DIE HEIDEN, THIERQUALEREI, ARBEIT, ERZIEHUNG UND UNTERRICHT,
WAHRHAFTIGKEIT... Budapest, Druck Von M. Burian, 1887. Hardcover, 8vo,
240 pages, 23 cm. InGerman. SUBJECT (S): Talmud. Label of the publisher
=E2=80=9DM. E. Lowey=E2=80=99s sohn=E2=80=9D mounted over imprint. OCLC=
lists 20 copies
worldwide. Light staining. Stamps inside front cover. Hinge repair.
Wear to edges of cover corners and binding. Good condition. (HEB-15A-4)
(ID #26023) $50.00.
228. Eidelberg, Shlomo. THE JEWS AND THE CRUSADERS: THE HEBREW
CHRONICLES OF THE FIRST AND SECOND CRUSADES. Madison: University of
Wisconsin Press. 1977. Cloth. 8vo. Xii, 186 pages. Illustrated. First
edition. Maps on endpapers. SUBJECT (S): Jews =E2=80=93 Germany =E2=80=
=93 history =E2=80=93
1069-1147 =E2=80=93 sources; Jews =E2=80=93 persecutions =E2=80=93 Germ=
any =E2=80=93 sources; Crusades
=E2=80=93 First, 1096-1099 =E2=80=93 sources; Crusades, Second, 1147-11=
49 =E2=80=93 sources.
CONTENTS: The chronicle of Solomon bar Simson. --The chronicle of Rabbi
Eliezer bar Nathan. --The narrative of the Old Persecutions, or Mainz
anonymous. --Sefer Zekhirah, or The book of remembrance, of Rabbi
Ephraim of Bonn. ISBN: 0299070603. Spine tanned. Small closed tear to
jacket. Very good condition in very good jacket. (RAB-28-13) (ID
#20696) $30.00.
229. Eisler, Moritz. VORLESUNGEN UBER DIE JUDISCHEN PHILOSOPHEN DES
MITTELALTERS. ABTHEILUNG I. Wien, Bruder Winter, 1876. Pape Wrappers,
8vo, 119 pages. Includes Saadia, Bachia, Ibn Gabirol, Jehuda Halevi,
and Ibn Ezra. Includes a list of the publisher's other publications on
back cover. Original paper wrappers, spine repaired.Wear and staining
to covers, pages stained in margins, brown and fragile. Fair condition.
(RAB-45-21) (ID #24684) $75.00. (RAB-45-22) |=E2=80=A2 Eisler, Moritz.
VORLESUNGEN UBER DIE JUDISCHEN PHILOSOPHEN DES MITTELALTERS. ABTHEILUNG
II. Wien, Verlag Der Wallishausser'schen Buchhandlung, 1870. Boards,
8vo, 140 pages. Marbled boards and textblock, first few pages creased.
Small stain and tear to title page. Some pencil notes in margins.Good +
condition. (RAB-45-22) (ID #24685) $75.00. (GR-6-15) |=E2=80=A2 Eppenst=
ein,
Simon. BEITR=C3=84GE ZUR GESCHICHTE UND LITERATUR IM GEON=C3=84ISCHEN Z=
EITALTER.
Berlin, 1913. Berlin: Louis Lamm, 1913. Cloth; 8vo. 218 pages. In
German. Bibliographical annotations. Contents: Vorwort. --Bostanai.
--Das gegenseitige verh=C3=A4ltnis zwischen exilarchat und gaonat und d=
ie
lehrverfassung der metibtas. --Die geistige t=C3=A4tigkeit in Pal=C3=A4=
stina bis
zum beginn des 10. Jahrhunderts. --Saadja Gaon, sein leben und seine
schriften. --Die erz=C3=A4hlung von den vier gefangenen talmudisten.
--Nachtr=C3=A4ge und berichtigungen. Note (s): "Separatabzug aus der
Monatsschrift, jahrg=C3=A4nge 1908, 1910-1913"--Vorwort. SUBJECT(S): Ge=
onim.
Geonic literature -- History and criticism. OCLC lists 20 copies
worldwide. Edgeworn. Cover nearly detached. Interior clean and bright.
Good condition. (GR-6-15) (ID #15930) $125.00.
230. Epstein, J. N. (Jacob Nahum). DER GAON=C3=84ISCHE KOMMENTAR ZUR
ORDNUNG TOHOROTH: EINE KRITISCHE EINLEITUNG ZU DEM R. HAI GAON
ZUGESCHRIEBENEN KOMMENTAR. Berlin; Mayer & M=C3=BCller, 1915. FT) Paper
wrappers. 8vo. VI, 160 pages. 25 cm. First Edition. In German, Hebrew,
Arabic, and Aramaic. Title translates as =E2=80=9CThe Geonic commentari=
es on
rules of the Tohoroth: a critical introduction to the commentaries
ascribed to R Hai Gaon. =E2=80=9D Jacob Nahum Epstein was born in Lithu=
ania in
1878 into an old rabbinical family, obtained a doctorate in Semitic
Philology at Vienna in 1913, and taught in Berlin until 1925, when he
left for Jerusalem as part of the first staff at the Hebrew University,
and was a professor of Talmudic studies there until his death in 1952.
Hai ben Sherira (or Hai b. Sherira (Gaon), Hebrew: ; better known as
Hai Gaon, Hebrew: ), was a medieval Jewish theologian, rabbi and
scholar who served as Gaon of the Talmudic academy of Pumbedita during
the early 11th century. He was born in 939 and died on March 28, 1038.
=E2=80=9CHai b. Sherira's philological abilities were directed to the
expounding of the Mishnah; of this work only the portion on Seder
Ohorot is extant; it was published by T. Rosenberg in "Hobeh Ma'aseh"
(Berlin, 1856). This commentary contains especially interesting
linguistic notes, Arabic and Aramaic being often adduced for
comparison. The author quotes the Mishnah, the two Talmuds, the
Tosefta, the Sifra, Targums Onklos and Jonathan, the Septuagint, the
works of Saadia, the "Sifre Refu'ah, " and other anonymous sources. He
also quotes his own commentary on Zera'im. (p. 34) and on Baba Batra
(p. 43). These quotations, and many others cited by the 'Aruk, prove
that the commentary extended to the whole Mishnah, containing among
other explanations and historical and archeological notes. =E2=80=9D (J=
ewish
Encylopedia, 1906). Subjects: Geonic literature -- History and
criticism. Hai ben Sherira, 939-1038. Mishnah. Tohorot (Order) --
Commentaries. Covers lightly soiled, slight tears to cover on backstrip
and back page in upper corner. All edges soiled. Pages lightly aged and
bumped at edges, but very clean throughout. Very good condition.
(GER-33-22) (ID #28818) $30.00.
231. Fassel, Hirsch B. 1802-1883. TSEDEK U-MISHPAT. TUGEND - UND
RECHTSLEHRE: BEARBEITET NACH DEN PRINCIPIEN DES TALMUDS UND NACH DER
FORM DER PHILOSOPHIE. Wien: Gedruckt Bei Ulrich Klopf Sen. Und
Alexander Eurich,, 1848. Hardcover, 8vo. 252, [2] pages. In German.
First Edition. Title in English: Virtue And Legal Theory: According to
the Principles of the Talmud and the Form of Philosophy. SUBJECT (S):
Jewish law -- Study and teaching. Justice -- Religious aspects --
Judaism. OCLC lists 19 copies worlwide. Pages tanned. Very good
condition. (RAB-45-4) (ID #24692) $70.00.
232. Goldschmidt, Lazarus,; 1871-1950. DER BABYLONISCHE TALMUD: NACH
DER ERSTEN ZENSURFREIEN AUSGABE UNTER BER=C3=9CCKSICHTIGUNG DER NEUEREN
AUSGABEN UND HANDSCHRIFTLICHEN MATERIALS (BANDS 2, 4, 5, 6 & 7 OF 12).
Berlin: J=C3=BCdischer Verlag,, 1936. 3/4 Leather, 12mo. 6 Bands, each=
band
consists of 2 volumes, with 2-4 tractates contained in each band.
MISSING BANDS 1, 3 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12. In German. Contents: 2. Bd.
(703 pages) Erubin. Pesahim. Seqalim -- 4. Bd. (765 pages) Megilla.
Moed qatan. Hagiga. Jabmuth -- 5. Bd. (693 pages) Kethuboth. Nedarim.
Nazir -- 6. Bd. (802 pages) Sota. Gittin. Qiddusin -- 7. Bd. (865
pages) Baba qamma. Baba mecia. Goldschmidt was a =E2=80=9C scholar,
bibliophile, and translator of the Talmud into German. Goldschmidt, who
was born in Plongian, Lithuania, studied first at the Slobodka yeshivah
at Kaunas (Kovno) and later at the universities of Berlin and
Strasbourg. His early studies were devoted to Ethiopian language and
its literature. He published the Ethiopic version of the Book of Enoch
(I Enoch) with Hebrew translation (1892) and Biblioteca Ethiopica
(1895). Goldschmidt published an edition of the Sefer Yezirah (1894), a
Hebrew translation of the Koran (1916), and prepared a new edition of
Jacob Levy's Woerterbuch zum Talmud und Midrasch (1924). On the rise of
Hitler to power in 1933 Goldschmidt left Germany for England and lived
in London. His bibliographical works include Hebrew Incunables (1948),
and the Earliest Editions of the Hebrew Bible (1950). Some of his works
were published under the pseudonym Arselaj bar Bargelaj. Goldschmidt's
major contribution was his translation of the entire Babylonian Talmud
into German. It appeared in two editions, a nine-volume work containing
the original text and variant readings (1897=E2=80=931935) and a 12-vol=
ume
edition without the original text (1929=E2=80=9336). This translation,=
which
was severely criticized by David Zvi Hoffman (ZHB 1, 1896), was
nevertheless considered to be an important and standard work in
talmudic studies. =E2=80=9D (EJ, 2007) SUBJECT(S): Babylonische Talmoed=
=2E Talmud
Bavli. Babylonian Talmud. Note(s): Bands. 3-7 printed in
Czechoslovakia. Each band includes a red and black title page, and
index. Endpapers decorated in gold star motif, speckled design on text
block. Some edge wear to covers. Very good condition. Each volume
available individually, price is per volume. (RAB-39-7) (ID #24636)
$30.00.
233. G=C3=BCdemann, Dr. Moritz. DAS J=C3=9CDISCHE UNTERRICHTSWESEN W=
=C3=84HREND DER
SPANISCH-ARABISCHEN PERIODE. Vienna, Verlag Von Carl Gerold=E2=80=99s S=
ohn,
1873. Bound in later wrappers. 8vo. Ii, 198, 62, pages. 22 cm. In
German and Hebrew with some Arabic. Title translates to English as,
=E2=80=9CJewish Education During the Spanish-Arab Period: With Suppleme=
ntal
Manuscripts in Arabic and Hebrew. =E2=80=9D Subtitle: =E2=80=9CNebst ha=
ndschriftlichen
arabischen und hebr=C3=A4ischen beilagen. =E2=80=9D SUBJECT (S): Jews -=
- Education.
Jewish learning and scholarship. Named Person: Aknin, Joseph ben Judah
ben Jacob Ibn, ca. 1150-1220. Internal pages are darkened but not
fragile. Very Good condition. (GER-32-5) (ID #28908) $45.00.
234. G=C3=BCdemann, Dr. Moritz. GESCHICHTE DES ERZIEHUNGSWESENS UND=
DER
CULTUR DER JUDEN IN DEUTSCHLAND WAHREND DES XIV - XV JAHRHUNDERTS.
Vienna, Alfred H=C3=B6lder. 1888. Bound in later wrappers. 8vo. X, 303
pages. In German. Title translates to English as, =E2=80=9CHistory of e=
ducation
and culture of Jews in Germany During the XIV - XV centuries. =E2=80=9D=
Series:
Geschichte des Erziehungswesens und der Cultur der Abendl=C3=A4ndischen
Juden wahrend des Mittelalters und der Neueren Zeit. Bd. III. [History
of Education and the Culture of the Occidental Jews during the Middle
Ages and Modern Times. Vol. III]. Internal pages bright and clean. Very
Good Condition. (GER-32-28) (ID #28905) $90.00.
235. G=C3=BCdemann, Dr. Moritz. GESCHICHTE DES ERZIEHUNGSWESENS UND=
DER
CULTUR DER JUDEN IN FRANKREICH UND DEUTSCHLAND VON DER BEGR=C3=9CNDUNG=
DER
J=C3=9CDISCHEN WISSENSCHAFT IN DIESEN L=C3=84NDERN BIS ZUR VERTREIBUNG=
DER JUDEN
AUS FRANKREICH. (X. - XIV JAHRHUNDERT). Vienna, Alfred H=C3=B6lder, 188=
0.
Bound in later wrappers. 8vo. Iv, 299 pages. In German. Title
translates to English as, =E2=80=9CHistory of education and the culture=
of the
Jews in France and Germany on the grounds of Jewish science in this
country until the expulsion of Jews from France. (X - XIV Century). =E2=
=80=9D
Series: Geschichte des Erziehungswesens und der Cultur der
Abendl=C3=A4ndischen Juden wahrend des Mittelalters und der Neueren Zei=
t.
[History of Education and the Culture of the Occidental Jews during th=
e
Middle Ages and Modern Times]. Internal pages are darkened but not
fragile. Nice, clean copy in Very Good Condition. (GER-32-27) (ID
#28904) $90.00.
236. G=C3=BCdemann, Moritz. QUELLENSCHRIFTEN ZUR GESCHICHTE DES
UNTERRICHTS UND DER ERZIEHUNG BEI DEN DEUTSCHEN JUDEN. VON DEN =C3=84LT=
ESTEN
ZEITEN BIS AUF MENDELSSOHN. Berlin; A. Hofmann, 1891. Clothbound. 8vo.
XXXII, 324 pages. 25 cm. First edition. In German and Hebrew. Later
cloth and decorative paper over boards, with original paper wrappers.
=E2=80=9CSource documents on the history of teaching and education for=
the
German Jews. From the earliest times down to Mendelssohn. =E2=80=9D Con=
tains an
introductory essay, and dozens of reproductions of legal and
pedagogical documents from 1050 to 1769, annotated by the author;
contains an index of names in German, as well as an index of names in
Hebrew. Moritz G=C3=BCdemann, an =E2=80=9CAustrian rabbi; born at Hilde=
sheim,
Germany, Feb. 19, 1835. He was educated at Breslau (Ph. D. 1858), and
took his rabbinical diploma (1862) at the Jewish Theological Seminary
of that city. In the latter year he was called to the rabbinate of
Magdeburg; in 1866 he went to Vienna as preacher, where he became rabbi
in 1868, and chief rabbi in 1890. G=C3=BCdemann has especially distingu=
ished
himself by his investigations into the history of Jewish education and
culture. =E2=80=9D (1906 Jewish Encyclopedia). Subjects: Jews -- Educat=
ion.
Jews -- Germany. J=C3=BCdische Erziehung. Covers worn at edges. Wear to=
some
pages, pen marks in margins on a half dozen pages throughout, light
wear and aging to pages, but very clean and bright. Good + condition.
(GER-33-16) (ID #28812) $30.00.
237. Gudemann, Moritz. DAS J=C3=9CDISCHE UNTERRICHTSWESEN WAHREND DE=
R
SPANISCHARABISCHEN PERIODE, NEBST HANDSCHRIFTLICHEN ARABISCHEN UND
HEBRAISCHEN. Wien, 1873. Wien, Carl Gerold's Sohn, 1873. 1st edition.
Cloth, 8vo, ii, 198, 62 pages, 23 cm. Dr. Alexander Kohut's copy, with
his ownership signiture, later belonging to Shalom Spiegel, with his
bookplate. Subject: Jewish Spain. Jews -- Education -- History. Jewish
learning and scholarship. Heavy wear to boards, hinges repaired, paper
browning, (GER-15-34DW) (ID #15881) $75.00. (GR-6-10) |=E2=80=A2 G=C3=
=BCdemann,
Moritz. GESCHICHTE DES ERZIEHUNGSWESENS UND DER CULTUR DER JUDEN IN
FRANKREICH UND DEUTSCHLAND, VON DER BEGR=C3=9CNDUNG DER J=C3=9CDISCHEN
WISSENSCHAFT IN DIESEN L=C3=84NDERN BIS ZUR VERTREIBUNG DER JUDEN AUS
FRANKREICH (X.-XIV. JAHRHUNDERT). Wien, 1880. Vienna: Alfred Holder,
1880. Half cloth; 8vo. Iv, 299 pages. In German. Series: Geschichte des
erziehungswesens und der cultur der abendl=C3=A4ndischen Juden w=C3=A4h=
rend des
mittelalters und der neueren zeit. Bibliographical references. Errata.
G=C3=BCdemann was chief rabbi of Vienna at the turn of the century, who
"especially distinguished himself by his investigations into the
history of Jewish education and culture. " He was opposed to Zionism's
tendency to stress nationalism rather than the religious character of
Judaism. SUBJECT (S): Jews -- Education. Jews -- Intellectual life.
Jews -- Social life and customs. Jews -- France -- History. Jews --
Germany -- History -- 1096-1800. Edgeworn; backstrip missing. Pages
dark and brittle. Good condition. (GR-6-10) (ID #15925) $90.00.
238. Gulkowitsch, Lazar. DER HASIDISMUS; RELIGIONSWISSENSCHAFTLICH
UNTERSUCHT. Leipzig; E. Pfeiffer, 1927. FT) Paper wrappers. 8vo. 81
pages. 25 cm. First edition. In German. The dissertation in philosophy
of Lazar Gulkowitsch, presented under the auspices of the Publications
of the Research Institute for Comparative Religious History at the
University of Leipzig, Series 2, issue 6. Lazar Gulkowitsch (1898-1941)
was an eminent Jewish Studies scholar, chair of the Jewish Studies
department at Leipzig in the 1920=E2=80=99s and 1930=E2=80=99s. =E2=80=
=9CHasidism, religious
studies examined=E2=80=9D is a historical exposition of Hasidism with a=
n
emphasis on the study of mysticism, a tendency Gulkowitsch was critical
of. He published, in the last few years of his life, three longer
studies on different aspects of Hasidism, studies which scholars
consider more thorough then this first well known study from 1927,
which have never been republished and are hard to obtain. Subjects:
Hasidism. Chassidismus. Paper wrappers loose, covers lightly soiled.
First signature loose, last signature shaken. Pages aged, but clean.
Good + condition. (GER-33-18) (ID #28814) $30.00.
239. Guttmann, Jacob. DIE SCHOLASTIK DES DREIZEHNTEN JAHRHUNDERTS IN
IHREN BEZIEHUNGEN ZUM JUDENTHUM UND ZUR J=C3=9CDISCHEN LITERATUR. Bresl=
au;
M. & H. Marcus, 1902. Paper wrappers. 8vo. VIII, 188 pages. 24 cm.
First edition. In German. =E2=80=9CThe Scholasticism of the Thirteenth=
Century
in its Relations to Judaism and to Jewish Literature. =E2=80=9D Rabbi J=
akob
Guttmann (1845 - 1919) was a German Jewish theologian, philosopher of
religion, Rabbi of the synagogue of Breslau at time of writing,
contributor to the 1906 Jewish Encyclopedia, and later chairman of the
=E2=80=9CGesellschaft zur F=C3=B6rderung der Wissenschaft des Judentums=
=2E =E2=80=9D This
volume explores the contributions of John Duns Scotus, Roger Bacon,
Albert Magnus, Nicolas von Cusa, Maimonides, amongst others, in their
individual contributions, differences and interconnected modes of
approaching Jewish literature. Subjects: Scholasticism. Jewish
philosophy. Scholastiek. Jodendom. Joodse literatuur. Edges worn and
quite soiled. Rear paper wrapper quite soiled, with torn portion on
side and bottom. Cover paper wrapper soiled around edges, with small
tear at top. Pages clean and fresh though, other then the edges, and a
few soiled margins towards the first and last pages. (GER-33-15) (ID
#28811) $30.00.
240. Hirsch, Menko Max, Ed. FRUCHT VOM BAUM DES LEBENS: OZER PEROTH
EZ CHAJIM. Berlin-antwerpen, Soncino Gesellschaft Der Freunde Des
Judischen Buches, 1937. 1st Edition. Large 4to, 10, 365 pages. Original
Paper Wrappers. 4to. 10, 365 pages. In German. Published by the Soncino
Gesellschaft der Freunde des Juedischen Buches. 1 of 1000 copies.
German abstracts of the 953 extant responsa originally issued in the
Hebrew periodical "Peri Eitz Chaim" (1691-1807), the organ of
Amsterdam's esteemed Ets Hayim Talmudical Academy. Insightful work on
Jewish life in Amsterdam of the time. Some wear and light staining to
covers; internal pages are nice and clean. Very good condition.
(SPEC29-17) (ID #27638) $240.00. x
241. Holzer, Jekutiel S. GEHEIMNISSVOLLE WELT DES TALMUD.
Wellington, N. Z. 1968. Later Wrappers, 8vo. 361 Pages. Illustrations.
In German. SUBJECT (S): Talmud -- Psychology. Proofs of actual book,
never been bound. In good condition. (GER24-28) (ID #28757) $30.00.
242. Horovitz, Saul. (1858=E2=80=931921). DIE STELLUNG DES ARISTOTEL=
ES BEI
DEN JUDEN DES MITTELALTERS. Leipzig,, 1911. Paper Wrappers. 18 pages.
On title page: Schriften herausgegeben von der Gesellschaft zur
F=C3=B6rderung der Wissenschaft des Judentums. Horovitz was a =E2=80=9C=
scholar of
talmudic literature and medieval religious philosophy. Horovitz was
born in Szanto, Hungary. He studied at the Warsaw yeshivah of J. B.
Soloveitchik; at the Breslau Jewish Theological Seminary, where he was
deeply influenced by Israel Levy; and at Breslau and Munich
universities. After a decade as rabbi in Bielitz, Silesia, he was
appointed lecturer in 1896 on religious philosophy and homiletics and
later was also rabbinical tutor at the Breslau seminary. Horovitz, who
had a comprehensive knowledge of Jewish lore and of Latin, Greek, and
Arabic, made a significant contribution to Jewish and Islamic
philosophical studies in his dissertation "Prophetologie in der
juedischen Religionsphilosophie" (1883), and Die Psychologie bei den
juedischen Religionsphilosophen des Mittelalters =E2=80=A6 (4 vols. 189=
8=E2=80=931912),
Der Mikrokosmos des Joseph ibn Saddik (1903), Ueber den Einfluss der
griechischen Philosophie auf die Entwicklung des Kalam (1909), Die
Stellung des Aristoteles bei den Juden des Mittelalters (1911), Abraham
ibn David (1912), and Der Einfluss der griechischen Skepsis auf die
Entwicklung der Philosophie bei den Arabern (1915). =E2=80=9D (Herr, EJ=
, 2007)
Lacks covers, spine repaired. Chips and tears to edges of pages, not
obscuring text. Good =E2=80=93 condition. (RAB-43-3) (ID #24756) $30.00=
=2E
243. Horowitz, Chaim M. SINUYE NUSHAOT WE-GIRSAOT LE-SEFER MISNEH
TORAH O YAD HA-HAZAQAH (HA-RAMBA"M): DEFUS AMSTERDAM [5]462 `AL PI
KETAV YAD YASAN NOSAN `AD MEOD, ASER TIVO WE-`INYANO U-MEQORAW MEVOARIM
BEHA-HAQDAMAH... =3D ABWEICHUNGEN DES GEDRUCKTEN TEXTES DER JAD
HACHASAKA.: (AMSTERDAMER AUSGABE 1702) VON EINER HANDSCHRIFT AUS ANFANG
DES XIV. JAHRHUNDERTS, DIE AUS DER SAMMLUNG DES MARCHESE CARLO
TRIVULZIO IN MAILAND IN DEN BESITZ VON JULIUS HAMBURGER IN FRANKFURT
A.M. =C3=9CBERGEGANGEN IST. Frankfurt, A. M.: J. Koifmann., 1889. Paper
wrappers. 8vo. 148 pages. In Hebrew. Facsimile edition. SUBJECT (S):
Hebrew language. OCLC lists five copies worldwide (Library of Congress,
Ohio State, Penn State, Univ of Texas =E2=80=93 Austin, Univ van Amster=
dam).
Tape on spine, wear to covers, edges of some pages chipped. (GER-15-21)
(ID #18801) $50.00.
244. Ibn Ezra, Abraham Ben Me=C3=AFr; Michael Creizenach. YESOD MORA=
:
GRUNDLAGE DER GOTTESVEREHRUNG; ODER UNTERSUCHUNGEN =C3=9CBER DAS MOSASI=
CHE
GESETZ UND DIE GRUNDPRINZIPIEN DER ISRAELITISCHEN RELIGION VON ABRAHAM
IBN EZRA; IN EINER PARAPHRASTISCHEN VERDEUTSCHUNG VON M. CREIZENACH.
Frankfurt A M.; J. Baer, 1840. (FT) Softbound. 16mo. 51, 142 pages. 17
cm. First German edition. In German and Hebrew. Title translates as:
=E2=80=9CYesod Mora: Basis of Worship, or Studies on the laws of Mosais=
m and
the Principles of the Israelite Religion; by Abraham Ibn Ezra, edited
in a German translation by Michael Creizenach. =E2=80=9D Abraham Ben Me=
ir Ibn
Ezra (1089=E2=80=931164), =E2=80=9Cone of the most important Jewish Bib=
le exegetes;
also a poet, composer of piyyutim, grammarian, translator, philosopher,
astronomer, and astrologer. Exceptionally erudite, he was among the
last creative geniuses of the Spanish "golden age. " Nevertheless,
despite the customary image of him, Ibn Ezra was neither a talmudic
scholar (the suggestion that he studied in the yeshivahin Lucena has
been refuted by Goldberg) nor a physician (his opposition in principle
to medicine is detailed in his Long and Short commentaries to Exodus
21: 19). He also lacked the requisite skills for business or public
office, and therefore was unable to make a living in the accustomed
professions of his social class =E2=80=93 as a rabbi, dayyan, physician=
,
businessman, or courtier. For lack of alternative, he became a
professional poet, supported by patrons who loved poetry and sought
fame. Ibn Ezra's dependence on a succession of benefactors is evident
in the exaggerated praise he showered on them in his eulogies. The need
to move from patron to patron, and his restless character forced Ibn
Ezra to a life of wandering: besides his birthplace Tudela, we know
that prior to 1140 he lived in Cordoba, Seville (where he raised his
son Isaac), Christian Toledo (to which he apparently refers in his poem
"Mi =E2=80=98Alah Shamayim" by the name "Edom, " a rabbinic code-word f=
or Rome
and thus for Christianity), Gabes (Tunisia), Algeria, and Morocco. He
did not, however, reach Egypt or the Land of Israel. His poetry (e. G.
his poem "Gavhu She=E2=80=99akim") refers to the adverse effect his pro=
longed
wandering had on his family life. =E2=80=9D (2007 Encyclopedia Judaica)=
=E2=80=9CIn
1158 Ibn Ezra was in London, where he wrote his religio-philosophic
work "Yesod Mora" for his pupil Joseph b. Jacob, a tract on the
division of and reasons for the Biblical commandments. =E2=80=9D (1906=
Jewish
Encyclopedia) =E2=80=9CLike Ibn Janah and Judah Halevi, Ibn Ezra fierce=
ly
rejects even cautious attempts at conjectural emendation of the text,
and holds that the work of the Masoretes was flawless: "Due to them the
Divine Torah and Sacred Books stood in their perfection, without
additions or omissions" (Yesod Mora, ch. 1). Accordingly, he insists
that any interpretation respects the punctuational functions of the
cantillation signs and the division into verses; rejects as a "lone
view" the tannaitic tradition of the "eighteen emendations of the
Scribes"; and deals with differences between qere and ketiv, alternate
versions of parallel texts (such as the two versions of the Decalogue
and of several Psalms), and the discrepancies between Pseudo-Jonathan
and the Masoretic text as exegetical problems rather than textual
phenomena. =E2=80=9D (2007 Encyclopedia Judaica) The translator and edi=
tor,
Michael Creizenach, was a =E2=80=9CGerman educator and theologian; born=
in
Mayence May 16, 1789; died in Frankfort-on-the-Main Aug. 5, 1842.
Creizenach is one of the most typical representatives of the era of
transition, following the epoch of Mendelssohn, whose chief aim was the
regeneration of Judaism by the methods of Talmudic dialecticism, which,
as they imagined, would win over the Orthodox and yet achieve the
necessary progress. Creizenach was educated in the traditional way,
devoting his whole time to Talmudic studies; and he was sixteen years
old when he began to acquire the elements of secular knowledge. This
was during the French occupation, when a liberal spirit, greeted
enthusiastically by both Jews and Christians, permeated the society of
the ancient center of Catholic Germany. He studied mathematics with
great zeal, and wrote text-books of the science. Through his influence
a Jewish school was founded in Mayence, whose principal he was, at the
same time giving private instruction. He was a very popular teacher,
and counted many Christians among his pupils. =E2=80=9D (1906 Jewish
Encyclopedia) Subjects: Judaism -- Works to 1900. Jewish philosophy --
Early works to 1800. Backstrip repaired, signatures shaken. Light wear
to covers, with some tears at outer edges. All edges bumped and lightly
soiled. Pages lightly foxed around text, clean and fresh otherwise.
Fair condition. (GER-38-42) (ID #29044) $175.00.
245. J=C3=B6el, M. DON CHASDAI CRESKAS' RELIGIONSPHILOSOPHISCHE LEHR=
EN IN
IHREN GESCHICHTLICHEN EINFLUSSE. Breslau, Schletter, 1866. Rebound in
marbled boards. 8vo. 83 pages. First edition. In German and Hebrew.
Creskas was a Spanish philosopher, theologian and statesman. His
activities as a merchant and communal leader can be traced as far back
as 1367. As a delegate from the Catalonian Jewish community he
negotiated with the king of Aragon for the renewal and extension of
Jewish privileges in 1383. Throughout his life he sought to protect the
rights of Spanish Jews and worked with various governments to this end.
He is seen as one of Spinoza's chief influences. J=C3=B6el was a religi=
ous
philosopher who researched, among other Jewish figures, Creskas (EJ).
OCLC lists 26 copies worldwide. Missing original covers. Very Good
condition. (SPEC32-11). (ID #27750) $50.00.
246. Joseph Wochenmark. DIE SCHICKSALSIDEE IM JUDENTUM. 1933.
Stuttgart: Kohlhammer, 1933 Paper Wrappers, IX, 91 pages. 8vo. Series:
(Ver=C3=B6ffentl. D. Oriental. Seminars d. Univ. T=C3=BCbingen; 6) Note=
:
T=C3=BCbingen, phil. Diss. Institutional stamp, Very Good Condition.
(GER-37-53) (ID #9409) $50.00.
247. Judah, Ha-Levi. translated Into German with A Biographical
Sketch by Emil Bernhard. EIN DIWAN. Berlin, E. Reiss, 1921. Cloth,
Spine & inside hinge repaired, lacks blank endpape (?), ex-library with
minimal marks, about Good Condition; 8vo; 165 pages; 23 cm.
"Quellennachweis" on pages 162-165.One of 1200 machine numbered copies
available for sale, this being number 1222 (! ), over which someone has
penned "0000" (GER-37-43) (ID #8023) $25.00.
248. Judah, Ha-Levi. translated Into German with A Biographical
Sketch by Emil Bernhard. EIN DIWAN. Berlin, E. Reiss, 1921. Cloth, 8vo;
165 pages; 23 cm. "Quellennachweis" on pages 162-165. Very Good
Condition. (GER-15-56dw) (ID #18714) $25.00.
249. Kayserling, Meyer, 1829-1905. SEPHARDIM. ROMANISCHE POESIEN DER
JUDEN IN SPANIEN. EIN BEITRAG ZUR LITERATUR UND GESCHICHTE DER
SPANISCH-PORTUGIESISCHEN JUDEN. Leipzig, H. Mendelssohn,, 1859. Paper
wrappers, xii, 370 pages. In German. 1st edition. Title in English:
Romance-Language Poetry of The Jews in Spain. A Contribution to The
Literature and History of the Spanish-Portuguese Jews. Kayserling was a
German-born rabbi and historian, and a prolific author. From 1870 he
was rabbi and preacher in Budapest. (JE) SUBJECT(S): Spanish literature
-- Jewish authors. Portuguese literature -- Jewish authors. Pages
uncut. Small chip to spine. Some staining to edges of pages, not
obscuring text. Slight edgewear to cover, corner of back cover creased.
Good + condition. (RAB-39-4) (ID #24633) $150.00.
250. Kisch, Guido. FORSCHUNGEN ZUR RECHTS- UND SOZIALGESCHICHTE DER
JUDEN IN DEUTSCHLAND WAHREND DES MITTELALTERS. Sigmaringen, Jan
Thorbecke Verlag, 1978. 2nd Revised Edition. 1st Printing. Cloth, 8vo,
336 pages. 24 cm. Bibliography on pages 269-299. Kisch's own copy.
Slight yellowing to pages. Wear to cover. Otherwise, very good
condition. (K-MX-1-6) (ID #21394) $85.00.
251. Krauss, Samuel. TALMUDISCHE ARCHAOLOGIE. COMPLETE IN THREE
VOLUMES. Leipzig, 1910. Leipzig: Gustav Fock, 1910-12. Half leather;
8vo. Xiii, 720, vii, 722, vii, 491 pages. Raised bands; gilt titles;
spattered edges. Illustrated. In German. Includes bibliographical
references and indices. Series: Schriften / Gesellschaft zur f=C3=BCrde=
rrung
der wissenschaft des Judentums; Grundriss der gesamtswissenschaft des
Judentums; Samuel Krauss was a historian, philologist, and talmudic
scholar, author of over 1300 articles and monographs. "Krauss's
greatest work is his Talmudische Archaeologie, a classic description of
every aspect of life reflected in talmudic and midrashic literature.
Still a rich source on the daily life and economic and social
conditions of the period. " (EJ) SUBJECT(S): Jews -- Iraq -- Babylonia
-- Social life and customs. Jews -- Palestine -- Social life and
customs. Babylonia -- Social life and customs. Palestine -- Social life
and customs. Talmud -- Antiquities. Corners and edges worn; boards
scuffed. Front hinge of volume III starting. Two-inch section of lower
right corner of title page missing, not affecting text. Interior clean
and bright, in very good condition. (GR-1-10) (ID #15974) $300.00.
252. Lazarus, M. DIE ETHIK DES JUDENTHUMS. [VOL I] ONLY. Frankfurt,
1898. Frankfurt: J. Kauffmann, 1898. Three quarter leather; 8vo. Xxv,
469 pages. First edition. Gold lettering and rules to spine. In German.
Bibliographical notes and index. Lazarus was a German philosopher and
psychologist; Ethik des Judentums was his major work. In it, "Lazarus
presents Jewish ethics as an 'objective-immanent' system. This system
is based on an empirical, positivistic approach toward Jewish studies
which holds that Jewish teachings on any subject must be derived from
an analysis of Jewish sources. In selecting this approach, Lazarus
departs from the 'constructive-speculative' philosophies of his
19th-century predecessors Solomon Formstecher and Samuel Hirsch, who
brought a philosophic formalism to the analysis of the Jewish sources.
Thus, philosophy, according to Lazarus, does not provide a preexistent
scheme for Wissenschaft des Judentums ('Science of Judaism'), but is a
methodological aid for discovering the objective unity of the "ethical
cosmos, " as it appears throughout the Jewish literary tradition.
Lazarus distinguishes between the subjective-formal approach to Jewish
ethics, in which a philosophic formalism provides the starting point of
investigation, and the objective-content one, in which the
investigation begins with the sources themselves. He takes the latter
approach as his own. He does this because in biblical and rabbinic
literature, will, intent, and the Jewish way of life, rather than
reflection and speculation, are the primary principles. (Franz
Rosenzweig later based his existential philosophy on the same idea. )
Lazarus accepts this position for another reason: A Jewish ethical
world view based on this conception possesses greater depth and clarity
than one based on formal concepts and theoretical speculation. Lazarus
emphasizes the religious character of obligation in Jewish ethics. God
is the supreme, hidden principle on whom Judaism depends and who makes
its whole legal structure necessary. Lazarus conceives of Jewish ethics
in line with the autonomous ethics of Kant, holding that the absolute
characteristic of Jewish ethics is expressed in immediate inner
certainty, though he does not follow Kant completely. Such
conceptualization was made possible by establishing an ethical norm as
the highest source of the moral imperative, to which even God is
subordinate. Lazarus was ambiguous with regard to the heteronomous
character of Jewish ethics, and this ambiguity was the basis of attack
against his system, both by those who accused him of inconsistency and
by those who held that he had not done justice to the heteronomous
character of Jewish ethics. In Lazarus' conception Jewish ethics is
fundamentally social-universal. This position countered the
particularist trends of Judaism and, in particular, of 19th-century
Jewish theology. However, the fact of a universal aspect to Jewish
ethics does not entail teaching and disseminating Jewish beliefs
throughout the world. Rather, its existence reflects an attitude and a
total way of life, based on the threefold conception God, the world,
and mankind, that Jews should embrace. The central concept underlying
this view of Jewish life is holiness. Holiness, according to Lazarus,
is not numinous, nor transcendental, but a quality to be embodied in
human life. It is defined as the 'ultimate goal of morality. '" (Moshe
Schwarcz, EJ) SUBJECT(S): Jewish ethics. Ethics. Missing front cover.
Wear and flaking to leather on spine. Pages slightly tanned. Title page
chipped. Good condition. (RAB-48-15) (ID #24764) $50.00.
253. Lippe, K. DIE AUSTREIBUNG DER JUDEN AUS SPANIEN AM 9. AB 5252
(1. AUGUST 1492). EIN VORTRAG GEHALTEN IM TEMPEL "BETH IACOB" [sic] ZU
JASSY AM VORABENDE DES 9. AB 5652 VOR DER RECITATION DER KLAGELIEDER.
Jassy, Vereine "ohle Schem", 1892. 1st Edition. 1/2 Leather, 8vo, Small
8vo., 210 pages. Scarce. Attractive leather spine with gold lettering
and design. Solid, tight binding. Pages tanned. Light wear to spine.
Good + condition. (SEF-36-1) (ID #8370) $100.00.
254. Lippe, K. RABBINISCH-WISSENSCHAFTLICHE VORTRA=C2=A8GE. Drohobyc=
z,
Selbstverlag Des Verfassers; Druck Von A. H. Zupnik,, 1897. Cloth, 112
pages, 22 cm. In German. Wear and tear on cover and binding. Stained
pages. Book not attached to cover, otherwise in good condition.
(K-RAB-1-23) (ID #21674) $75.00.
255. Luria, Solomon Ben Jehiel. SEFER YAM SHEL SHELOMOH MI-MASEKHET
HULIN... Furth, 1766. (FT) Hardcover, 92 leaves, large 4to, 34cm. In
Hebrew. SUBJECT(S): Talmud -- Commentaries. Talmud. Hullin --
Commentaries. OCLC lists 4 copies worldwide (Yale, Spertus, JTS,
Cambridge). Ex-library with usual markings. Notes inside front cover.
Water stain to bottom of pages throughout book. Wear and chipping to
edges of front and back cover. Wear to cover binding. Stained pages.
Otherwise, good condition. (BIB-15-13) (ID #24283) $350.00.
256. Luria, Solomon Ben Jehiel. YAM SHEL SHELOMOH: MI-MASEKHET YOM
TOV [BETSAH]. Fiyorda (Furth): Bi-Defus Yosef Fetshoya, Germany, 1766.
(FT) Hardcover, 76 pages (38 leaves), large 8vo, 32 cm. In Hebrew.
SUBJECT(S): Talmud. Yom Tov -- Commentaries. Talmud. Bezah --
Commentaries. Ex-library with usual markings. Browning of some pages.
Hinge repair. Fold to cover. Wear to edges and corners of covers.
Otherwise, very good condition. (BIB-15-12) (ID #24282) $300.00.
257. Marcu, Valeriu. DIE VERTREIBUNG DER JUDEN AUS SPANIEN.
Amsterdam, Querido Verlag, 1934. 1st Edition. Paper Wrappers, Lacks
front & rear cover, otherwise Good Solid Condition.; 12mo; 215 pages;
In German. 19 cm. (GER-37-37) (ID #8433) $25.00.
258. Martin Salomonski. GEM=C3=9CSEBAU UND -GEW=C3=84CHSE IN PAL=C3=
=84STINA ZUR
ZEIT DER MISCHNAH;. Berlin, 1911. Berlin: Itzkowski, 1911 Paper
Wrappers, 71 pages. 8vo. T=C3=BCbingen, Phil. Diss. V. 21. Juli 1911, R=
ef.
Seybold. SUBJECT(S): Vegetables -- Palestine. Includes bibliographical
references and index. Institutional stamp, Very Good Condition
(GER-37-44) (ID #9427) $50.00.
259. Max Koschland. DIE SCH=E2=80=99TAR ISKO-BESTIMMUNGEN IM JUDISCH=
EN
BANKENGEWERBE. Z=C3=BCrich: Koschland & Hepner, 1956. Paper Wrappers, 8=
vo.
10 Pages. In German. SUBJECT (S): Interest (Jewish law) OCLC lists 8
copies worldwide. In good condition. (GER24-5) (ID #25548) $40.00.
260. Meiri, Menahem Ben Solomon; Schreiber, Abraham. BET HA-BEHIRAH
=E2=80=98AL MASEKHET SANHEDRIN. Frankfurt Am Main: Hotsa=E2=80=99at =E2=
=80=9Chermon=E2=80=9D, 1929.
(FT) Softcover, 8vo, 4, 343, viii pages, 24 cm. In Hebrew. SUBJECT(S):
Title Subject: Talmud. Sanhedrin -- Commentaries. Talmud. Sanhedrin --
Commentaries. Romanized. OCLC lists 21 copies worldwide. Wear to
binding. Page 168 wrinkled with damp stains. Good condition. (HEB-31-3)
(ID #27981) $75.00. (GER-37-54) |=E2=80=A2 Moses K=C3=B6nig. DIE PHILOS=
OPHIE DES
JEHUDA HALEVI UND DES ABRAHAM IBN DAUD. 1929. Berlin: Ebering, 1929
Paper Wrappers, 63 pages. 8vo. Note: Gie=C3=9Fen, Phil. Diss. V.
Institutional stamp, Very Good Condition. (GER-37-54) (ID #9392)
$60.00.
261. Qalonymos Ben Qalonymos Ben Meir [Kalonymos Ben Kalonymos Ben
Meir], Wolf Alois Meisel and Meyer Kayserling. DER PRUFSTEIN. EVEN
BOHAN: SITTENSPIEGEL DES KALONYMOS BEN KALONYMOS. Budapest: Eigenthum
Des Rabbi Meisel-Vereines, 1878. Hardcover, 8vo, xi, 292 pages, 21 cm.
In German. SUBJECT (S): Satire, Hebrew. Jewish ethics -- Early works to
1800. =E2=80=9CVorwort=E2=80=9D by Dr. M. Kayserling. Includes bibliogr=
aphical
references. Kayserling (1829-1905) was a =E2=80=9CGerman rabbi and hist=
orian.
Kayserling, born in Hanover, studied with S. R. Hirsch in Nikolsburg,
S. J. Rapoport in Prague, and S. B. Bamberger in Wuerzburg and at Halle
University. From 1861 to 1870 he was rabbi at Endingen, Switzerland,
where he fought strenuously for Jewish rights; thereafter he was rabbi
and preacher in Budapest. Kayserling published a large number of works
on various aspects of Jewish history, literature, and religion, mostly
in German, which were very popular in their day, including Moses
Mendelssohn: sein Leben und seine Werke; Bibliothek juedischer
Kanzelredner; Die juedischen Frauen in der Geschichte =E2=80=A6; and a=
popular
Jewish history, Lehrbuch der juedischen Geschichte und Lite ratur;
which ultimately went through ten editions. He also contributed the
section on modern Jewish literature to Winter and Wuensche=E2=80=99s ha=
ndbook
on post-biblical Jewish literature, Juedische Literatur seit dem
Abschluss des Kanons =E2=80=A6But Kayserling=E2=80=99s reputation rests=
on his long
series of pioneering publications on the history of Spanish Jewry and
the Marranos, based to a great degree on original and, in some cases
manuscript, sources. His Geschichte der Juden in Spanien und Portugal,
which in fact covered mainly Navarre and the Balearic Islands and
Portugal, was the first work in which Hebrew sources were consistently
used. His works on Marrano history and literature put the study on a
new footing and were the basis of all subsequent treatments. They
include Sephardim: Romanische Poesien der Juden in Spanien; Menasseh
ben Israel; Christoph Columbus und der Anteil der Juden an den
spanischen und portugiesischen Entdeckungen, written at the request of
the Spanish government on the occasion of the 400th anniversary of the
discovery of America; and his great bibliography of Marrano literature
Bibliotheca espanola-portugueza-judaica. In addition, the articles he
contributed to the Jewish Encyclopedia on these subjects have retained
their importance. Many of his works were translated into English and
some into Hebrew. More than 100 of his articles on Jewish history and
literature published before 1900 are listed in M. Schwab=E2=80=99s Repe=
rtoire
des articles relatifs a l=E2=80=99histoire et a la litterature juives=
=E2=80=A6(Roth in
EJ, 2007). OCLC lists 21 copies worldwide. Light staining and wear to
some pages. Hinge repair. Light chipping to cover binding and edges.
Otherwise, good condition. (HEB-15A-3) (ID #26022) $125.00.
262. Rapaport, Mordche W. DER TALMUD UND SEIN RECHT. Berlin, Verlag
Von Louis Lamm, 1912. Paper Wrappers, 8vo; 148 + 69 pages; 2nd printing
of this offprint from the Zeitschrift fur vergleichende
Rechstwissenschaft, Vol. XIV, XV, & XVI. Spine repair, good condition.
(K-MX2-45) (ID #2653) $30.00.
263. Rosenthal, Ludwig A. =C3=9CBER DEN ZUSAMMENHANG, DIE QUELLEN UN=
D DIE
ENTSTEHUNG DER MISCHNA. Berlin: G. Wechselmann. 1918. Cloth. 8vo. 164,
84, 132 pages. In German. SUBJECT (S): Mishnah. OCLC lists 17 copies
worldwide. SERIES: Schriften zur beleuchtung der lehrwise und
entwicklung des Talmuds. =E2=80=9CRosenthal [1855-1928], who was born=
in
Putzig, Western Prussia, served as rabbi in Koethen, Rogasen,
Preussisch Stargard, and Berlin, where he also lectured in the
preparatory department of the Hochschule (Lehranstalt) fuer die
Wissenschaft des Judentums. Of importance are his Mishnah studies, in
particular his Ueber den Zusammenhang, Quellen und Entstehung der
Mischna (3 vols. 19182). Rosenthal took an active part in the
controversy over Friedrich F. Delitzsch's views (Babel und Bible, 1902;
Hammurabi Gesetz, 1903), and wrote a comparative study on Joel, Nahum,
and Habakkuk (1905). He acted as editor of Rahmer's Juedisches
Literaturblatt, and edited the 10th edition of Kayserling's Lehrbuch
der juedischen Geschichte und Literatur (1922). He also wrote a
biography of Lazarus Geiger (1884). His other articles were published
in Gesammelte Schriften (1926). =E2=80=9D (EJ, 2007) Ex library. Some p=
ages
tanned, covers a little worn, hinges starting, good- condition.
(BIBLE-9-16) (ID #21152) $40.00.
264. Rubin, Simon. DAS TALMUDISCHE RECHT, AUF DEN VERSCHIEDENEN
STUFEN SEINER ENTWICKLUNG MIT DEM R=C3=96MISCHEN VERGLICHEN UND SYSTEMA=
TISCH
DARGESTELLT. SACHENRECHT. Vienna, Steinmann, 1938. Original Paper
Wrappers. 8vo. 253 pages. In German. Very late (1938) Austrian Jewish
publication. SUBJECT(S): Jewish law -- History. Roman law. Comparative
law. OCLC lists 22 copies worldwide. Cover worn with chipping to
corners and edges of backstrip. Previous owner's name on title page.
Internal pages browning at edges, but all text is clear. Last 50 pages
slightly chipping at corners. Overall, good condition. (HOLO2-66-6) (ID
#27053) $40.00.
265. Schipper, Ignacy. ANF=C3=84NGE DES KAPITALISMUS BEI DEN
ABENDL=C3=84NDISCHEN JUDEN IM FR=C3=9CHEREN MITTELALTER (BIS ZUM AUSGAN=
G DES XII.
JAHRHUNDERTS). Wien Und Leipzig; Wilhelm Braum=C3=BCller, 1907. Paper
wrappers. 4to. 66 pages. 26 cm. First edition. In German. =E2=80=9COrig=
ins of
capitalism among the occidental Jews in the early Middle Ages (up to
the end of the twelfth century) =E2=80=9D, a study of various theories=
on the
source and disposition of Jewish Capital in medieval Western Europe, by
Dr. (Yitzhak) Ignacy Schipper (1884-1943), a well known Polish-Jewish
historian, scholar, and communal activist in pre-war Poland. Subjects:
Jews -- Economic conditions -- History. Capitalism. Joden. Vroege
middeleeuwen. Covers heavily worn with some tears at edges, and heavy
soiling. Pages bumped at edges, lightly soiled in bottom margins, but
clean. Good condition. (GER-33-26) (ID #28822) $125.00.
266. Schwarz, Adolf. DER HERMENEUTISCHE KONTEXT IN DER TALMUDISCHEN
LITERATUR: EINE VERSPHATETE JUBIL=C3=84UMSSCHRIFT. Wien; Selbstverlage=
Des
Verfassers, 1921. Clothbound. 8vo. 208 pages. 24 cm. First edition. In
German, with Hebrew. Later red cloth. Title translates as: =E2=80=9CThe
Hermeneutic Context in Talmudic Literature. =E2=80=9D Adolf Schwarz
(1846=E2=80=931931), a rabbi and scholar, born =E2=80=9Cin Hungary, Sch=
warz studied at
the Breslau Juedisch-theologisches Seminar, where he was Z. Frankel's
favorite pupil and intimate friend. From 1875 he was rabbi in
Karlsruhe, a post he accepted at Frankel's behest in spite of his
misgivings about the use of the organ in the Karlsruhe synagogue. In
1893 he became head of the newly founded Israelitisch-theologische
Lehranstalt in Vienna, where he trained several generations of modern
rabbis and teachers as leaders of traditional Judaism. =E2=80=A6 His sc=
holarly
work was a conscious effort to continue in the paths of his teacher
Frankel and was devoted mainly to the understanding of the Talmud and
its methodology. =E2=80=A6 His principal contribution to talmudic schol=
arship
was his Controversen der Schammaiten und Hilleliten (1893) which was
followed by six monographs on the hermeneutic rules: Die hermeneutische
Analogie in der talmudischen Literatur (1897), Der hermeneutische
Syllogismus in der talmudischen Literatur (1901), Die hermeneutische
Induktion (1909), Die hermeneutische Antinomie in der talmudischen
Literatur (1913), Quantitaetsrelation (1916), and Der hermeneutische
Kontext (1921). A summary of these appeared in 1923 (Hauptergebnisse
der wissenschaftlich-hermeneutischen Forschung, 1923). =E2=80=9D (From=
the 2007
Encyclopedia Judaica) Subjects: Talmud - Hermeneutics. OCLC lists 18
copies worldwide. Edges significantly soiled. Page margins lightly
aged, pages throughout clean and crisp. Very good condition.
(GER-36-28) (ID #28879) $165.00.
267. Schwarz, Samuel. YEMOT HA-MASHIAH =3D DIE MESSIAS ZEIT:
ERLA=C2=A8UTERUNGEN DER TALMUDSTELLEN, DIE BEZUG AUF ISRAELS ZUKUNFT HA=
BEN,
MIT RU=C2=A8CKSICHT AUF UNSERE ZEIT. Wien; Adalbert Della Torre, 1860.=
FT)
Paper wrappers. 12mo. 82 pages. 19 cm. Second Edition. In German with
some Hebrew. Title translates as: =E2=80=9CMessianic Time: Explanations=
of the
Talmudic parts, which have relations to Israels Future, in
Consideration to our Contemporary Time. =E2=80=9D This is the second ed=
ition of
this work on the Messianic era in Judaism, with references from the
Talmud. The title concludes with the "rhetorical" question =E2=80=93 is=
it out
of consideration in our time? The text is in German with occasional
paragraph-sized selections in Hebrew (or Aramaic). Subjects: Messiah --
Prophecies. Messiah -- Judaism. Messianic era (Judaism) Israel. Talmud
-- Criticism, interpretation, etc. OCLC lists 13 copies worldwide.
Covers worn, soiled, with tears and bumped edges. Loose fifth
signature. Light foxing throughout, but clean and crisp. Good +
condition. (GER-36-29) (ID #28880) $120.00.
268. Stein, Ludwig. DIE WILLENSFREIHEIT UND IHR VERH=C3=84LTNISS ZUR
G=C3=96TTLICHEN PR=C3=84SCIENZ UND PROVIDENZ: BEI DEN J=C3=9CDISCHEN PH=
ILOSOPHEN DES
MITTELALTERS. Berlin; H. Itzkowski, 1882. FT) Clothbound. 8vo. VI, 142
pages. 22 cm. First edition. In German, with some footnotes containing
Hebrew, Greek, and Arabic. Later cloth bound over original paper
wrappers. =E2=80=9CFree Will and Divine Foreknowledge and its relation=
to
Providence: among the Jewish Philosophers of the Middle Ages. =E2=80=9D=
Ludwig
Stein, 1859-1930, born in Hungary and lived his adult life in Germany,
had a distinguished career as an orthodox Rabbi in Berlin, professor,
publicist, and philosopher of evolutionary optimism. Subjects: Jewish
philosophy. Philosophy, Medieval. Free will and determinism. Covers
lightly soiled. Paper wrappers and first pages lighly debossed with an
previous inkless stamp, former owners name on cover. Pages aged on
edges, clean and fresh. For its age, near fine condition. (GER-33-12)
(ID #28808) $100.00.
269. Strack, Hermann L. EINLEITUNG IN DEN THALMUD. ZWEITE,
NEUBEARBEITETE AUFLAGE. Leipzig, 1894. Leipzig: J. C. Hinrich, 1894.
Rebound in modern paper wrappers, 8vo. Viii, 136 pages. In German.
Includes bibliographical annotations. Series: Schriften des Instutum
judaicum in Berlin, Number. 2. Strack was a German Protestant
theologian and Orientalist; assistant professor of Old Testament
exegesis and Semitic languages at the University of Berlin; and "the
foremost Christian authority in Germany on Talmudic and rabbinic
literature, [who] studied rabbinics under Steinschneider. Since the
reappearance of anti-Semitism in Germany Strack has been the champion
of the Jews..."Einleitung in den Talmud" [is] a revised reprint of his
article on the subject in Herzog-Hauck's "Real-Encyklop=C3=A4die, " to=
which
he made a whole series of contributions on rabbinic subjects. " (JE)
SUBJECT(S): Talmud. Missing original covers, small stain to corner of
title page. Very good condition. (GR-6-17) (ID #24686) $50.00.
270. Tykocinski, H. DIE GAON=C3=84ISCHEN VERORDNUNGEN [Proofs?]. Be=
rlin,
1928. Berlin: Akademie, 1928 [Not 1929]. Unbound; 8vo. Vii, 159 pages.
In German. List of abbreviations and errata following table of
contents. Veroffentlichungen der Akademie fur die Wissenschaft des
Judentums. Historische Sektion; Bd. 5. Scholarly source study of the
geonic {Takkanot}. This unbound edition is dated 1928 and ends at page
159, which is the same as page 159 in the standard 1st edition of 1929.
It is possible, however, that 159 was the final page of the proofs, as
a previous owner's tape-binding showed this to be the final page.
SUBJECT (S): Jewish law. Geonic literature. Tape stain to edge of first
and last pages, Good Condition. (GER-15-59DW) (ID #18719) $50.00.
271. Tykocinski, H. DIE GAON=C3=84ISCHEN VERORDNUNGEN. Berlin, 1929.
Berlin: Akademie, 1929. Cloth; 8vo. Vii, 186 pages. In German. First
edition. With the scarce publisher's card, announcing the publicatin of
this work as a memorial to the 2nd Jahrzeit of Eli Michael, laid in.
Gilt titles. List of abbreviations and errata following table of
contents. Veroffentlichungen der Akademie fur die Wissenschaft des
Judentums. Historische Sektion; Bd. 5. Scholarly source study of the
geonic {Takkanot}. SUBJECT (S): Jewish law. Geonic literature. Wear to
spine, Good Condition. (GER-15-59dw) (ID #18718) $50.00.
272. Vogelstein, Hermann. DIE ANF=C3=84NGE DES TALMUDS UND DIE ENTST=
EHUNG
DES CHRISTENTUMS: VORTRAG GEHALTEN IM VEREIN F=C3=9CR J=C3=9CDISCHE GES=
CHICHTE
UND LITERATUR ZU K=C3=96NIGSBERG AM 19. FEBRUAR 1902. K=C3=B6nigsberg;
Ostdeutsche Buchhandlung, 1902. Paper Wrappers. 8vo. 28 pages. 21 cm.
First edition. In German. Title translates as: =E2=80=9CThe beginnings=
of the
Talmud and the rise of Christianity: Paper presented at Association for
Jewish history and literature at K=C3=B6nigsberg on 19 February 1902.=
=E2=80=9D
Published under the auspices of the =E2=80=9CVerein f=C3=BCr j=C3=BCdis=
che Geschichte und
Literatur zu K=C3=B6nigsberg=E2=80=9D (Association for Jewish History a=
nd Literature
at Konigsberg). Hermann Vogelstein (1870-1942) was a German Rabbi and
Historian, whom occupied rabbinical posts at Oppeln (Opole),
Koenigsberg, and Breslau. In 1938 he emigrated to the United States. He
is well known for the two volume History of the Jews of Rome he
co-wrote with Paul Rieger. Subjects: Judaism - Relations -
Christianity. Christianity and other religions - Judaism. Christianity
in rabbinical literature. Talmud. OCLC lists 20 copies worldwide.
Wrappers shaken, torn, crumbled, bumped and soiled. Pages lightly aged,
but clean and fresh. Fair condition. (GER-38-11) (ID #28920) $30.00.
273. Wiener, Adolf. DIE J=C3=9CDISCHEN SPEISEGESETZE: NACH IHREN
VESCHIEDENEN GESICHTSPUNKTEN ZUM ERSTEN MALE
WISSENSCHAFTLICH-METHODISCH GEORDNET UND KRITISCH BELEUCHTET. Breslau;
Schlesische Buchdruckerei, 1895. Full Leather. 8vo. XIV, 524 pages. 22
cm. First edition. In German and Hebrew. Added title page in Latin: =E2=
=80=9CDe
ciborum e legibus divinis (biblicis) atque rabbinicis vetitorum indole
et sententia: zum ersten Male wissenschaftlich-methodisch geordnet und
kritisch beleuchtet=E2=80=9D Title roughly translates as: =E2=80=9CThe=
Jewish Dietary
Laws: according to their different points of view for the first time
scientifically and methodically arranged. =E2=80=9D Adolf Wiener was a=
=E2=80=9CGerman
rabbi; born in Murowana-Goslin, Posen, 1811; died in Oppeln, Prussian
Silesia, Aug. 25, 1895. Having acquired his diploma as Ph. D. he went
as rabbi to Posen, where he introduced a modern synagogal service with
German sermons. He met, however, strong opposition, headed by Solomon
Eger; and the services could take place only under police protection.
In 1845 Wiener was called as rabbi to Oppeln, where he officiated until
his death. He was one of the most progressive rabbis of his time; and
at the synods of Cassel (1844), Leipsic (1869), and Augsburg (1870) he
advocated the following reforms in Judaism: revision of the
prayer-book; employment of the organ in divine service; permission to
travel on Sabbaths; and the abolition of all second days of festivals.
His chief ambition, however, was to release the Jews from what he
called the authority of the Talmud. Wiener was the author of the
following works: "Die Opfer- und Akeda-Gebete. Ein Beitrag zur
Orientierung in der Cultusfrage" (Breslau, 1869); "Worte Gesprochen an
der Bahre der Seligen Frau Rosalie Verwitwete Cohn" (Oppeln, 1871); and
"Die J=C3=BCdischen Speisegesetze" (Breslau, 1895), a very radical crit=
icism
of the dietary laws. =E2=80=9D (From the 1906 Encyclopedia Judaica). Su=
bjects:
Jews - Dietary laws. Halacha. OCLC lists 20 copies worldwide. Previous
owner of this copy was Stanley Dreyfus. Some wear to edges of leather,
lightly bumped corners. Pages aged, but very crisp and clean. Very good
+ condition. (GER-36-8) (ID #28858) $150.00.
274. Wiesner, J. (Jonas). DER BANN IN SEINER GESCHICHTLICHEN
ENTWICKELUNG AUF DEM BODEN DES JUDENTHUMES. Leipzig; Oskar Leiner,
1864. FT) Clothbound. 12mo.106 pages. 19 cm. First edition. In German.
Later half leather over marbled boards. =E2=80=9CThe ban in its histori=
c
developments on the grounds of Judaism=E2=80=9D, a study on excommunica=
tion in
Talmudic law published under the auspices of the Institute for the
Advancement of Israelite literature [Institut zur F=C3=B6rderung der
Israelitischen Literatur], in its ninth year, by Jonas Wiesner.
Subjects: Excommunication (Jewish law) J=C3=BCdisches Recht. J=C3=BCdis=
che
Erziehung. OCLC lists 8 copies worldwide. Wear to edges, with some
leather on backstrip rubbed. Endpapers extremely soiled, edges soiled,
light aging to internal pages, very light soiling and wear to first few
pages. Text crisp and clean. Good+ condition. (GER-33-7) (ID #28803)
$75.00.
275. Wiesner, J. (Jonas); Institut Zur F=C3=B6rderung Der Israelitis=
chen
Literatur. SCHOLIEN ZUM BABYLONISCHEN TALMUD. COMPLETE IN 3 VOLUMES.
Prag: S. Freund,, 1867. 1859-1867 Three quarter leather, large 8vo. 3
vols. In 1; 22 cm. In German. First Edition. Contents: Heft 1.
Berachoth (1859, 159 p. ). Heft 2. Sabbath. (1862, 277 p. ) Heft 3.
Erubin und Pesachim. (1867, 176 p. ) SUBJECT(S): Talmud --
Commentaries. Note(s): Heft 2. Has title: Scholien zum babylonischen
Talmud, verfasst und mit Unterst=C3=BCtzung des verehrlichen Instituts=
zur
F=C3=B6rderung isr. Literatur. BOUND WITH: Duschak, Moritz; DIE
BIBLISCH-TALMUDISCHE GLAUBENSLEHRE NEBST EINER DAZU GEH=C3=96RIGEN BEIL=
AGE
=C3=9CBER STAAT UND KIRCHE Breslau: W. Jacobsohn, 1885, 256 p.; Duschak=
,
Moritz; DIE MORAL DER EVANGELIEN UND DES TALMUD: EINE VERGLEICHENDE
STUDIE IM GEISTE UNSERER ZEIT. Breslau: W. Jacobsohn, 1885, 58 p.;
Rabbinovicz, Raphael Nathan Nata; MAAMAR AL HADPASAT HA-TALMUD. Minkhen
(Munchen): A. Huver, 1877. 132 p. Strack, Hermann Leberecht; PIRKE
AVOT. DIE SPRUCHE DER VATER: EIN ETHISCHER MISCHNA-TRAKTAT. Karlsruhe:
H. Reuther, 1882, 58 p. Some wear to spine leather. Handwritten list of
contents on flyleaf. Ownership signature. Very good condition.
(RAB-45-3) (ID #24691) $100.00.
276. Wohlgemuth, Joseph. DAS JUDISCHE RELIGIONSGESETZ IN JUDISCHER
BELEUCHTUNG. HEFT 2 ONLY. Berlin, Buckdruckerei H. Itzkowski, 1912.
Cloth, Later boards. 8vo, 116 pages. In German. "Wissenschaftliche
Beilage zum Jahresbericht des Rabbiner-Semin ars zu Berlin fuer
1918/19." Heft 2 taken from the 1912 edition. Expertly rebound. Pages
browned but not fragile; all text is clear. Good Condition. (SPEC23-8)
(ID #4343) $65.00.
277. Wolf, B. Die Speisegesetze. Koeln, 1913. Cloth, 8vo. 160 Pages.
In German. Text in German with some Hebrew. Contents: Einleitung. 1)
Allgemeine Vorschriften =C3=BCber den Fleischgenu=C3=9F 2. Das Salzen 3=
=2E Das
Besehen der Pflanzenkost 4. Tierische Erzeugnisse 5. Allgemeine
Bestimmungen, Trennung der Mahlzeiten, Ber=C3=BChrung von Milch und Fle=
isch
in kaltem Zustande, Ber=C3=BChrung von scharfen Fleisch- und Milchspeis=
en,
Mittelbare Ber=C3=BChrung von Milch und Fleisch bei frischen und
abgestandenen Speisen, Verwendbarkeit der Geschirre in denen vermischt
wurde 6. Vermischung sonstiger verbotener Speisen mit erlaubten.
Allgemeine Grunds=C3=A4tze, Besondere Bestimmungen 7. 8. Cenu=C3=9Fverb=
ote aus
dem Pflanzenbereich 9. Vorbeugestimmungen der Weisen. Anhang. Wolf was
a rabbi in Cologne. SUBJECT(S): Jews -- Dietary laws. In good
condition. (GER24-25) (ID #28754) $30.00.
278. Yehezkel, 1667?-1749. SH. U-T. KENESET YEHEZKEL. Altona: [Aaro=
n
B. Elijah Cohen & Ephraim B. Hayyim Hekscher], 1732. (FT) Hardcover,
folio, 260 pages, 31 cm. In Hebrew. 1st edition. SUBJECT(S): Responsa
-- 1600-1800. Hebrew imprints -- Germany -- Altona. Title within
ornamental border. Verso of title-page includes a diagram and a poem.
OCLC lists 14 copies worldwide. Back cover missing. Wear to binding.
Repair to spine. Bumped corners and edges. Yellowing of pages.
(Heb-37-7) (ID #27629) $750.00. (GER-33-19)|=E2=80=A2 Bergel, Joseph. S=
tudien
=C3=9CBER DIE NATURWISSENSCHAFTLICHEN KENNTNISSE DER TALMUDISTEN. Leipz=
ig;
W. Friedrich, 1880. Paper wrappers. 8vo. IV, 102 pages. 23 cm. First
edition. In German, with some Hebrew. =E2=80=9CStudies on the knowledge=
of the
natural sciences of the Talmud. =E2=80=9D Section titles of this volume=
:
Anatomy, Physiology, Pathology, Zoology, Chemistry, Geology, Physics,
Astronomy. Joseph Bergel, a =E2=80=9CHungarian physician and author; bo=
rn Sept.
2, 1802, at Prossnitz, died 1885 at Kaposvar. He was well versed in
rabbinical and modern Hebrew literature, and attempted to introduce a
new meter into Hebrew poetry in a work he published under the title
"Pirke Leshon 'Eber" (Hebrew songs), Gross-Kanizsa, 1873. In the German
language he wrote: "Studien =C3=BCber die Naturwissenschaftlichen Kennt=
nisse
der Talmudisten, " Leipsic, 1880; "Die Eheverh=C3=A4ltnisse der Alten J=
uden
im Vergleich mit den Griechischen und R=C3=B6mischen, " ib. 1881; "Der
Himmel und Seine Wunder, eine Arch=C3=A4ologische Studie nach Alten
J=C3=BCdischen Mythografien, " which was also published in Leipsic in t=
he
same year under the title "Mythologie der Alten Hebr=C3=A4er, " 1882. H=
is
most important work is "Die Medizin der Talmudisten" (Leipsic and
Berlin, 1885), with an appendix on anthropology as it is found in
ancient Hebrew writings. These works are not very profound, but they
bring together a certain amount of useful information. Bergel also
wrote "Geschichte der Juden in Ungarn, " published in 1879 in Hungarian
and German. =E2=80=9D (Jewish Encyclopedia 1906) Subjects: Talmud. Pape=
r
wrappers soiled, with edges chipped. Light pencil marks on cover and
title page, with stamp of Wilhelm Friedrich bookseller Leipzig on
cover. Pages clean, edges chipped and worn. Good condition overall.
(GER-33-19) (ID #28815) $60.00.
RAMBAM
279. Maimonides, Moses; Joseph Zivi. DER COMMENTAR DES MAIMONIDES
ZUM TRACTAT DEMAI: ARABISCHER TEXT MIT HEBR=C3=84ISCHER UEBERSETZUNG UN=
D
ANMERKUNGEN. MASEKHET DEMAI SERAH HA-RAV MOSHEH BEN-MAIMON =3D MASEKHET
DEMAI 'IM PERUSH HA-RAV MOSHEH BEN MAIMON: YOSE RI'SHONAH LA'OR
BI-LESHON 'ARAVI. Berlin, 1891. Berlin: s. N, 1891. Half Cloth. 8vo.
27, 43 pages. In German and Hebrew. Maimonides was a 12th century
rabbinic authority, codifier, philosopher andd royal physician. During
his life he lived in North Africa and Spain, where he was an important
leader in various Jewish communities (EJ). OCLC lists 1 copies
worldwide (JTS). Lacks original covers, rebound in attractive modern
wrappers. Some chipping to pages. Good condition (RAB-41-8). (ID
#17269) $75.00.
280. Bamberger, Fritz. DAS SYSTEM DES MAIMONIDES: EINE ANALYSE DES
MORE NEWUCHIM VOM GOTTESBEGRIFF AUS. Berlin: Schocken. 1935. Hardcover.
8vo. 137 pages. In German. SUBJECT (S): Maimonides, Moses, 1135-1204=
=E2=80=93
Dalalat al-hairin. =E2=80=9CBorn in Frankfurt, Bamberger [1902-1984] f=
rom 1926
to 1933 was a research fellow of the Akademie fuer die Wissenschaft des
Judentums and until 1938 occupied various teaching posts in Berlin.
Emigrating from Germany to the United States, he became professor of
philosophy at the College for Jewish Studies, Chicago, from 1939 to
1942, and was on the staff and later editor in chief of Coronet
magazine from 1942 to 1961. He was a founder of the Society of Jewish
Bibliophiles. From 1962 Bamberger was professor of intellectual history
and assistant to the president of the Hebrew Union College-Jewish
Institute of Religion in New York. His collection of Spinoziana was
considered to be the finest private collection of its kind. =E2=80=9D (=
EJ,
2007) Top half inch of backstrip missing, boards rubbed, good
condition. (GER-39-15) (ID #28938) $30.00.
281. (Maimonides Festschrift) Frankel, Zacharias; Heinemann, Isaak.
MONATSSCHRIFT F=C3=9CR GESCHICHTE UND WISSENSCHAFT DES JUDENTUMS: MAIMO=
NIDES
- FESTSCHRIFT (VOLUME 79, NR. 2 MARCH/APRIL 1935). Breslau, 1935. 1st
Edition. Cloth, 8vo, 208 pages. In German. From Shalom Spiegel's
library, with bookplate. Special issue: Maimonides - Festschrift,
includes writing by I. Elbogen, Heinz Wolff, Isaak Heinemann, Michael
Guttmann, Nachum Wahrmann and others. Founded by Zacharias Frankel in
1851, The Monatschrift over the years was headed by editors which
included Heinrich Graetz, Pinkus Frankl, Markus Brann, David Kaufmann,
Isaak Heinemann, & Leo Baeck. Though founded by Frankel as a
"Periodical for the religious interest of Judaism, " it soon became the
most important forum for the history and science of Judaism. Probably
because of its strictly scientific appraoch it was able to survivein
the Nazi period until the end of 1939. The final monumental volume,
editoed by Baeck in cooperation with Jewish scholars in Germany and
abroad, appeared as a complet volume in October of 1939 and reached
only a few subscribers (Burgers, n. D. ) Binding solid, original paper
wrappers tanned but intact. Text in Very good + condition. (RAB-45-24)
Ex-library with usual marks in later cloth. Defects as noted. (ID
#24769) $50.00.
282. Jo=C3=ABl, M. (Manuel). DIE RELIGIONSPHILOSOPHIE DES MOSE BEN M=
AIMON
(MAIMONIDES) / VERH=C3=84LTNISS ALBERT DES GROSSEN ZU MOSES MAIMONIDES:=
EIN
BEITRAG ZUR GESCHICHTE DER MITTELALTERLICHEN PHILOSOPHIE. Breslau;
Wilh. Gottl. Korn; Schletter'schen Buchhandlung, 1863. Clothbound. 4to.
50, 5, [1], XXVII pages. 27 cm. First edition. In German. Two volumes
bound together in one. Title of the first volume translates as: =E2=80=
=9CThe
religious philosophy of Moses ben Maimon (Maimonides). =E2=80=9D The se=
cond
title translates as: =E2=80=9CRelation of Albert the Great to Moses Mai=
monides:
A contribution to the history of medieval philosophy. =E2=80=9D Manuel=
Joel, a
German rabbi (1826-1890), =E2=80=9Cson of Rabbi Heimann Jo=C3=ABl of Bi=
rnbaum. In
1849 he went to the University of Berlin to study classical philology
and philosophy. In 1852 Jo=C3=ABl passed his examination as "Oberlehrer=
, "
and took the Ph. D. Degree at Halle in 1854. In that year he accepted a
call to the Jewish Theological Seminary of Breslau, where he taught for
nine years. In 1864 he was appointed successor to Abraham Geiger, rabbi
of the Breslau congregation. =E2=80=A6 Jo=C3=ABl turned his attention t=
o Maimonides,
devoting two papers to him, one being a comprehensive account of
Maimonides' system ("Die Religionsphilosophie des Moses ben Maimon, "
in the Breslau Jew. Theol. Seminary Program of 1859; reprinted in
"Beitr=C3=A4ge, " i. ), the other proving him to be one of the sources=
of
Albertus Magnus ("Verh=C3=A4ltniss Albert des Grossen zu Maimonides, "=
in
the Breslau Jew. Theol. Seminary Program of 1863; reprinted in his
"Beitr=C3=A4ge, " i. ). =E2=80=9D (From the 1906 Jewish Encyclopedia) S=
ubjects:
Religion -- Philosophy. Philosophy, Jewish -- Medieval. Maimonides,
Moses, 1135-1204. Albertus, Magnus, Saint, 1193? -1280. Maimonides,
Moses, 1135-1204. Former copy of Abram Samuel Isaacs, a later
nineteenth century American Rabbi and professor of Hebrew and German
Literature. Covers worn at edges, lightly soiled. Endpages chipped at
edges. Original wrappers worn and soiled. Pages lightly aged and
lightly soiled throughout, with some creases in first signature, but
overall in excellent condition and quite clean. Very good condition.
(GER-36-32) (ID #28883) $250.00.
283. Meiri, Menahem Ben Solomon; Chanoch Albeck. SEFER BET
HA-BEHIRAH `AL MASEKHET YEVAMOT. Berlin: Ts. H. Itskovski. 1922. Cloth.
(FT) 4to. Viii, 465 pages. In Hebrew. SUBJECT(S): Talmud. Yevamot -
commentaries. OCLC lists 6 copies worldwide. A member of the
anti-Maimonides faction, Meiri (1249-1316) was born and lived in
Perpignan, Provence, and was a member of an important family. He
corresponded with Solomon ben Abraham Adret, though Meiri did not
completely support restriction of thought and inquiry, as his
acquaintance did; he himself had a great interest in secular studies.
Meiri was influential due to an "extraordinary literary fecundity" and
his ability to synthesize the work of others into a unified Jewish
culture. Due to the length of his writings, many works were not
published until even the 20th century. Bet ha-behirah took him more
than a decade to write, and is an incredibly dense study of the Talmud.
He also, among other things, commentaries on Proverbs and Psalms, a
commentary on the Haggadah, and Sefer ha-Middot, a guide to conduct.
(Ta-Shma, EJ) Some pages tanned, bumped corners, bookplate, front hinge
repaired, good condition. (RAB-20-19) (ID #21778) $30.00.
284. Lerner, Ralph. MAIMONIDES' VORBILDER MENSCHLICHER
VOLLKOMMENHEIT: VORTRAG GEHALTEN IN DER CARL FRIEDRICH VON SIEMENS
STIFTUNG AM 6. MAI 1993. M=C3=BCnchen, Carl Friedrich Von Siemens Stift=
ung,
1993. 1st Edition. Paperback, Very Good Condition.; 12mo; 48 pages; In
German. Themen, 63. (GER-37-38) (ID #8287) $25.00.
285. Moses Maimonides; Gotthold Weil. =C3=9CBER DIE LEBENSDAUER. Bas=
el,
Karger, 1953. Staples, 8vo. 59 pages. In very good condition. (MX17-11)
(ID #21491) $40.00.
286. Moses Maimonides; Gotthold Weil. =C3=9CBER DIE LEBENSDAUER: EIN
UNEDIERTES RESPONSUM. Basel, Karger, 1953. Paper Wrappers, Original
Paper Wrappers. 8vo. 59 pages. Title translates to English as, "About
Life: An Unedited Response." In German with some Hebrew. In very good
condition. (MX17-11A) (ID #27746) $40.00.
AGADA
287. Bacher, Wilhelm. Die Agada Der Gelehrten: Beitrag Zur
Geschichte Der Anonymen Agada. Budapest, [Adolf Alkalay], 1914. Later
Paper Wrappers, 8vo. 104 pages. 22 cm. In German. Title translates to
English as, =E2=80=9CThe Legends of the Scholars: Essay on the History=
of
Anonymous Legends. =E2=80=9D Includes bibliographical references. Text=
clear
and bright. Good condition. (GER-32-6) (ID #28776) $45.00.
288. Bergmann, Juda. DIE LEGENDEN DER JUDEN. Berlin, A. Schwetschke
& Sohn, 1919. 1st Edition. Cloth, Edgewear to boards, lacks much of
spine, internally Very Good+ Condition; 8vo; 166 pages; 24 cm. Contents
include: Das Wesen und Werden der Legende; Die Lieblinge Gottes; Die
Wundertater; Engel und Damonen; Der Fromme und die Tiere; Von den
Toten; Der Prophet Elia; Die Himmelsstimm e; etc. Also includes
endnotes and an index. (GER-37-69) (ID #6292) $35.00.
289. Bernhard Kuttner. J=C3=9CDISCHE SAGEN UND LEGENDEN F=C3=9CR JUN=
G UND ALT.
Frankfurt Am Main, J. Kauffmann, 1902. Cloth, 8vo. 72 Pages. In German.
SUBJECT (S): Legends, Jewish. OCLC lists 12 copies worldwide. Front
cover board detached. In fair condition. (GER24-8) (ID #25551) $30.00.
290. Eliasberg, Alexander. SAGEN POLNISCHER JUDEN. M=C3=BCnchen; G.
M=C3=BCller, 1916. Hardbound. 8vo. 220 pages. 19 cm. First edition. In
German. Title translates as: =E2=80=9CTales of the Polish Jews=E2=80=9D=
=2E Alexander
Eliasberg (1878-1924) was a Russian-Jewish translator, historian,
editor, and writer, who contributed greatly, since his emigration to
Munich in 1905, to the reception and publishing of Russian and Yiddish
writers. He was the translator into German of various canonical Russian
novelists of the 19th century, including Dostoyevsky, Gogol, Pushkin,
Tolstoy, and Chekhov. This volume deals with the world of Chasidic
tales as they were to be found in Poland in the late 19th century.
Subjects: Jews -- Folklore. Jews -- Poland. Slight tear at bottom of
backstrip. Covers lightly faded. Pages lightly aged but in clean and
near fine condition. Very good + condition. (GER-36-24) (ID #28875)
$45.00.
291. Freund, Leopold. BL=C3=9CTHEN VON DEN GEFILDEN JUDA'S. TRADUKTI=
ONEN
UND VERSIONEN AUF DEM GEBIETE DES J=C3=9CDISCHEN SCHRIFTTHUMS. Budapest=
;
Selbstverlag Des Verfassers, 1882. Later cloth. 8vo. XIV, [1], 150, [=
1]
pages. 23 cm. First edition. In German and Hebrew. Later black cloth
with elaborate gilt lettering on spine and original cover pastedown.
Approximate translation of title: =E2=80=9DFlowers from the fields of J=
udah. =E2=80=9D
Contents: Prologue - folk wisdom and proverbs - moral parable and
poetry - Worldly wisdom, Dietary rules - astrology, meteorology,
horoscope - epigrams, riddles, puns and fixed vocal prayer - blessing
and cursing speeches - epilogue - opportunities. OCLC lists 19 copies
worldwide. Corners lightly bumped, pages lightly aged. Pages 129-131
bumped, with slight tears at edges, all other pages in near fine
condition. Very good+ condition. (GER-33-33) (ID #28829) $50.00.
292. Gesellschaft F=C3=BCr J=C3=BCdische Volkskunde. MITTEILUNGEN DE=
R
GESELLSCHAFT F=C3=9CR J=C3=9CDISCHE VOLKSKUNDE HEFT 2. New York; Johnso=
n Reprint
Corp. 1964. FT) Softbound. 8vo. 89 pages. 21 cm. In German. Reprint of
the 1898 volume of the Vienna journal. =E2=80=9CMitteilungen der Gesell=
schaft
f=C3=BCr J=C3=BCdische Volkskunde=E2=80=9D, or, =E2=80=9CAnnouncements=
of the Society for Jewish
folklore=E2=80=9D, ran from 1898-1904, ceasing with number 32. Heft (Bu=
lletin)
number two, here, includes a members directory, questions, an essay on
fairy tales and legends of German Jews, a linguistics chart of
Russian-Jewish by Leo Wiener, amongst other sections. =E2=80=9CIn 1898,=
Max
Grunwald (1871=E2=80=931953), a rabbi living in Hamburg and then Vienna=
,
established the Gesellschaft f=C3=BCr J=C3=BCdische Volkskunde, Mitteil=
ungen (der
Gesellschaft) f=C3=BCr J=C3=BCdische Volkskunde (1898=E2=80=931929) and=
Museum f=C3=BCr
J=C3=BCdische Volkskunde, having issued a call to collect materials and=
a
questionnaire in 1896. Grunwald hoped that Jewish Volkskunde would
preserve a record of a disappearing way of life and, by demonstrating
the beauty of traditions and encouraging their revival, help stem the
tide of assimilation; he also hoped that by showing the connectedness
of Jews to other peoples and their universal values, Jewish Volkskunde
might counteract anthropological characterizations of Jews as an
immutable and degenerate race. =E2=80=9D (from the YIVO encyclopedia 20=
10).
Subjects: Jews -- Folklore -- Periodicals. Jews -- Social life and
customs -- Periodicals. Covers aged and faded at edges, pages lightly
aged in margins, very clean. Very good + condition (GER-33-13) (ID
#28809) $50.00.
293. Olsvanger, Immanuel. AUS DER VOLKSLITERATUR DER OSTJUDEN:
SCHW=C3=84NKE, ERZ=C3=84HLUNGEN, SPRICHW=C3=96RTER UND R=C3=84TSEL. Bas=
el; Schweizerischen
Gesellschaft F=C3=BCr Volkskunde, 1920. Paper wrappers. 8vo. XXXVIII, 2=
99
pages. 25 cm. First edition. In German and Yiddish. Title translates as
=E2=80=9CFrom the folk literature of the East European Jews: Anecdotes,
stories, proverbs and riddles. =E2=80=9D Printed under the auspices of=
the
Swiss Commission for Jewish Folklore. Immanuel Olsvanger, 1888-1961,
was a Jewish folklorist, translator, journalist and Zionist activist.
His collections of Yiddish anecdotes, stories, proverbs and songs,
transcribed into Latin script from Lithuanian Yiddish, has experienced
numerous editions. The volume was conceived as a German language
accessible collection of Yiddish tales. Subjects: Folk tales, Jewish.
Folk songs, Jewish. Wit and humor, Jewish. Riddles, Jewish. Yiddish
literature (Collections) Jewish folk literature. Entire volume has
bumped and lightly aged edges, some folds at corners, but quite clean
and crisp. Good condition. (GER-33-24) (ID #28820) $70.00.
CABALA
294. Bloch, Philipp. DIE KABBALAH AUF IHREM HOHEPUNKT UND IHRE
MEISTER. Pressburg, Adolf Alkalay & Sohn, 1905. Paper Wrappers, 8vo, 46
pages. Schriften der "Gesellschaft zur Foerderung der Wissenschaft des
Judentums. " Missing cover and flyleaf. Wear to binding and back cover.
Brown, stained pages. (MX-31-10) (ID #21422) $50.00.
295. Gershom Gerhard Scholem. URSPRUNG UND ANFANGE DER KABBALA.
Berlin, 1962. Hardcover, 8vo, viii, 434 pages. In German. Series:
Studia judaica. Bd. 3. Scholem (1898-1982) was =E2=80=9Cthe most import=
ant
scholar of Jewish mysticism and a towering figure in Jewish
intellectual life. Born to an assimilated family in Berlin, he was
attracted in his youth to Judaism and Zionism and studied major Hebrew
Jewish texts and Kabbalah by himself. After completing a Ph. D. Thesis
in 1923 on Sefer ha-Bahir, he arrived in Israel, and taught at the
Hebrew University, becoming the first professor to devote all his
studies and teaching to the topic of Jewish mysticism. His achievement
in surveying all the major stages and writings belonging to this topic
is staggering. In the difficult times of the 1920s and 1930s, he
traveled to all the major European libraries and systematically studied
all the available manuscripts. In 1939 he delivered a series of
lectures in New York, which became the first comprehensive analysis of
the historical and phenomenological aspects of the entire range of
Jewish mysticism: Major Trends in Jewish Mysticism, which is also his
most influential and widely read book. One of the chapters of this
book, dealing with the Heikhalot literature, was complemented by a
collection of studies printed in New York, under the title Jewish
Gnosticism, Merkabah Mysticism, and the Talmudic Tradition=E2=80=A6 Sch=
olem was
widely recognized as the leading scholar in Judaica in the 20th century
and was accorded numerous prizes and honorary titles, among them the
Israel Prize, the Bialik Prize, and the Rothschild Prize, and served as
the head of the Israeli Academy of Science and Humanities. He wrote an
autobiography, From Berlin to Jerusalem, and corresponded with many
persons, including Walter Benjamin. Several monographs have been
dedicated to his life and thought: e. G. David Biale, Gershom Scholem,
Kabbalah and Counter-History, and Joseph Dan, Gershom Scholem and the
Mystical Dimension of Jewish History. His rich library is indubitably
the best one in the field of Jewish mysticism, and it became part of
the Jewish National and University Library, serving as a major resource
for studies in the field. A catalogue raisonne of his library has been
printed in two volumes, edited by Joseph Dan and Esther Liebes, The
Library of Gershom Scholem on Jewish Mysticism=E2=80=9D (Idel in EJ, 20=
07).
Chipping and light staining to edges of dust jacket. Light wear.
Otherwise, good condition. (HEB-17-6) (ID #26721) $35.00. (RAB-44-3) |=
=E2=80=A2
Wiener, M. DIE LYRIK DER KABBALAH; EINE ANTHOLOGIE. Wien, R. Lowit
Verlag,, 1920. Hardcover, 8vo, 188 pages, 23 cm. In German. Series: His
Die geistliche Lyrik der Juden; Variation: Wiener, M.; (Meir),
1893-1941. Geistliche Lyrik der Juden. SUBJECT(S): Cabala. Jewish
religious poetry. Weiner (1893=E2=80=931941) was a =E2=80=9Cpoet, novel=
ist, and
literary critic. Born in Cracow, Wiener received a traditional and
secular education and was influenced by his tutor, Ben-Zion Rappaport=
=E2=80=A6.
Until his departure for the Soviet Union he wrote mostly in German,
including Messias, a collection of mystical meditative elegies; Die
Lyrik der Kabbalah, a selection of Hebrew religious poetry in free
translation with introductory notes=E2=80=A6. He attempted to define Je=
wish
identity and destiny while vacillating between spiritual Zionism and
Martin Buber 's teaching on the one hand, and social political
radicalism and expressionistic trends in art and literature on the
other. He probed deeply into traditional Hebrew poetry and Jewish
mysticism and their human and religious significance for modern people
in general, and the Jews in particular. His personal and ideological
disappointments, lack of a sense of mission, and absence of a place in
the intellectual life in Western and Central Europe, as well as his
contacts with leftist circles in Berlin and Vienna, including Soviet
Yiddish authors Leyb Kvitko and Der Nister, caused him to immigrate to
the Soviet Union, where he concentrated his energy and talents on
Yiddish literature. His main work there was devoted to the research and
publications of the Jewish scientific institutes in Kharkov, Kiev, and
Moscow in the 1920s and 1930s, where he also played an important role
as counselor, editor, and teacher. He headed the Department of Yiddish
Language and Literature at Moscow State Pedagogical Institute and
directed and participated in the editing of Yiddish literature ranging
from folk-song collections and the anonymous comedy Di Genarte Velt, to
the writings of Solomon Ettinger, Israel Axenfeld, Sholem Yankev
Abramovitsh, and Sholem Aleichem. His editions have served as models
ever since; his prefaces to these editions were collected along with
additional articles and published in his book Tsu der Geshikhte fun der
Yidisher Lite ratur in Nayntsentn Yorhundert=E2=80=A6. Despite his decl=
ared
allegiance to Marxist criticism, he had to defend himself in 1932
against critics who accused him of =E2=80=98dangerous deviationism. =E2=
=80=99=E2=80=9D (Shmeruk
and Krutikov in EJ, 2007). Tear to cover binding. Light wear to edges
and corners. Light wear to binding. Very good condition. (RAB-44-3) (ID
#24711) $45.00.
LITURGY
296. Verband Der Deutschen Juden. FELDGEBETBUCH F=C3=9CR DIE J=C3=9C=
DISCHEN
MANNSCHAFTEN DES HEERES FELDGEBETBUCH F=C3=9CR DIE J=C3=9CDISCHEN MANNS=
CHAFTEN
DES HEERES FELDGEBETBUCH F=C3=9CR DIE J=C3=9CDISCHEN MANNSCHAFTEN DES H=
EERES.
Berlin; H. Itzkowski, 1916. (FT) Paper wrappers. 16mo. 31, 33 pages. 14
cm. Second edition. In German and Hebrew. Black leatherette over wraps,
staple bound. Title translates as: =E2=80=9CJewish Prayerbook for the I=
nfantry
of the Army.=E2=80=9D This Hebrew and German Tefillot Siddur was publis=
hed
yearly throughout the first world war in Berlin by the Association for
German Jews; ostensibly given to thousands of German Jewish soldiers.
Contains daily prayers and prayers for festivals and celebrations
throughout the year (the first edition, 1914, was limited in the amount
of celebrations expected to be necessary; the duration of the war
forced a longer prayer book to be adopted. ). Subjects: Judaism --
Germany -- Liturgy -- Texts. Jewish soldiers -- Prayers and devotions.
OCLC lists 4 copies worldwide (HUC, Harvard, National Library of
Israel, StaatsBiblio zu Berlin). A very clean copy, with lightly worn
covers, bumped corners, and aged pages. Very good condition. (GER-38-3)
(ID #28912) $100.00.
297. MOAUS ZUR; EIN CHANUKKAHBUCH. Berlin, J=C3=BCdischer Verlag, 19=
18.
Stiff Wrappers, Small chip at spine, some wear, Good Condition; Small
8vo; 144 pages (GER-37-77) (ID #4358) $35.00.
298. Ascher, M. DER SABBAT. Amsterdam, Weltverbandes F=C3=BCr
Sabbathschutz, 1932. Original Stapled Wrappers. 8vo. 12 pages. 21 cm.
In German. Title translates to English as, =E2=80=9CThe Sabbath. =E2=80=
=9D SUBJECT (S):
Sabbath (Jewish law). OCLC lists 10 copies worldwide. Closed tear to
back cover corner. Otherwise a nice, clean copy in Very Good Condition.
(GER-32-15) (ID #28784) $30.00.
299. Ormann, Gustav. DAS S=C3=9CNDENBEKENNTNIS DES VERS=C3=96HNUNGST=
AGES, SEIN
AUFBAU UND SEINE ENTWICKLUNG, IN VERBINDUNG MIT GENIZA-TEXTEN
UNTERSUCHT. Frankfurt, [Droller], 1934. Paper Wraps. 8vo. Vii, 36
pages. 24 cm. In German with some Hebrew. Nazi-era imprint.
Dissertation: Inaug. --Bonn. Title translates to English as, =E2=80=9CT=
he
Confession of Yom Kippur, its Structure and its Evolution, Studied in
Connection with Geniza Texts. =E2=80=9D SUBJECT (S): Confession (Liturg=
y) --
Judaism. Title Subject: Mahzor. Yom Kippur. Vita. Bibliography: page
vii. OCLC lists 25 copies worldwide. Lacks backstrip and back cover.
Front cover chipping at edges with tear along top of spine, but all
text is clear. Internal pages darkened at edges, but still nice. Good+
condition. (SPEC-14-4). (ID #26445) $30.00.
300. Zunz, Leopold. DIE GOTTESDIENSTLICHEN VORTR=C3=84GE DER JUDEN
HISTORISCH ENTWICKELT; EIN BEITRAG ZUR ALTERTHUMSKUNDE UND BIBLISCHEN
KRITIK, ZUR LITERATUR- UND RELIGIONSGESCHICHTE. Frankfurt A. /M, 1892.
Frankfurt a. M. J. Kauffmann, 1892. 2nd Edition. Three quarter Leather,
8vo, xvi, 516 pages. 23 cm. In German. Bibliography on pages [497]-498=
=2E
This second edition is "nach dem Handexemplar des Verfassers
berichtigte und mit einem Register vermehrte Auflage, im Auftrage der
Zunz-Stiftung hrsg. Von Dr. N. Br=C3=BCll. " Leopold Zunz (1794-1886) w=
as
the founding father of the 'Wissenschaft des Judentums. ' This book
deals with biblical interpretation and homiletics from the Bible up to
his own time. It is still a standard work. SUBJECT(S): Judaism --
Liturgy. Judaism -- History of doctrines. Hebrew literature -- History
and criticism. Judaism -- Works to 1900. Jews -- Antiquities. Worship
-- History. Bible. O. T. -- Criticism, interpretation, etc. Sholem
Spiegel's copy with his bookplate. Lacks backstrip (spine covering),
otherwise Good Condition. (RAB-48-16) (ID #16851) $60.00.
301. Auerbach, B. H. (Rabbi Tzvi Binyomin). BERIT AVRAHAM: SEDER
HA-MILAH... 1860. Frankfurt am Main, No Publisher. Cloth, 8vo, vi, 122
pages. 21 cm. In Hebrew & German, with added title page and table of
contents in German as well. SUBJECT(S): Circumcision. OCLC lists 3
copies worldwide (Columbia, Harvard, Florida), none east of Florida.
Rabbi Tzvi Binyomin Auerbach of Halberstadt was notorious for partially
forging Sefer HaEshkol. Scarce. Lacks backstrip (spine covering), some
foxing, paper and binding Good Condition. (RAB-21-36) (ID #21189)
$150.00.
302. [Heidenheim, Wolf Ben Simson]. GEBETBUCH AM SCHABUOTFEST: MIT
DEUTSCHER UEBERSETZUNG, NEBST NEUEN GEBETEN. Sulzbach; H. Frankschen,
1845. Clothbound. 12mo. 200, 22 pages.19 cm. In Hebrew and German.
Title translates as: =E2=80=9CPrayer book for the Feast of Weeks: with=
German
Translation along with new Prayers. =E2=80=9D Wolf Ben Simson Heidenhei=
m
(Benjamin Ze'ev; 1757=E2=80=931832), was a Hebrew grammarian, masoretic
scholar, exegete, and commentator on the liturgy. This volume
constitutes one of the many prayer books for the high holidays
published posthumously in Sulzbach in 1845. Subjects: Fasts and feasts
-- Judaism. Shavu`oth (Feast of Weeks) OCLC lists 2 copies worldwide
(Gordon Libr, Gratz College). Covers worn and soiled, bumped edges,
backstrip shaken, bottom third of backstrip absent. Pages aged, lightly
foxed, but clean and crisp throughout. Good condition. (GER-38-10) (ID
#28919) $100.00.
303. Landau, M. I. (Moses Israel). DIE ALTEN GEBETE DER ISRAELITEN /
SEDER `IYUN TEFILAH: KOLEL HA-TEFILOT MI-KOL HA-SHANAH. Prague: M. I.
Landau, 1839. (FT) Clothbound. 16mo. 397 pages. 17 cm. First edition.
Hebrew and German in parallel columns. Title translates as: =E2=80=9CAn=
cient
Prayers of the Israelites: Ordered Prayer Study: Daily prayers for the
entire year. =E2=80=9D Translated and explained, with notes, by Moses I=
srael
Landau: =E2=80=9CAustrian printer, publisher, and lexicographer; born D=
ec. 28,
1788, at Prague; died there May 4, 1852; grandson of Ezekiel Landau.
After finishing his studies at a yeshibah of his native town he
established a Hebrew and Oriental printing-press in Prague, which
became important in the annals of Hebrew typography. In 1819 he was
elected superintendent of the Jewish school in Prague, and shortly
afterward was made one of the board of directors of the Jewish
community. He was elected alderman ("Stadtverordneter") in 1849, and a
member of the city council ("Stadtrath") in 1850. Landau began his
literary career by publishing a volume of poems entitled "Amaranten" in
1820. He followed this up in 1824 with his almanac for the friends of
Hebrew literature, entitled "Bikkure ha-'Ittim. " As a preparation for
his Aramaic-Talmudic dictionary Landau published his book on the "Geist
und Sprache der Hebr=C3=A4er nach dem Zweiten Tempelbau, " Prague, 1822
(part i. history of language; part ii. chrestomathy from the Talmud,
Zohar, and Midrashim). In 1819 he had begun a new edition of the
"'Aruk" of R. Nathan of Rome, to which he added Benjamin Mussafia's
"Mussaf he-'Aruk. " His "Rabbinisch-Aram=C3=A4isches W=C3=B6rterbuch zu=
m
Verst=C3=A4ndnis des Talmuds, der Targumim und Midraschim" (Prague, 181=
9-24;
2d ed. Ib. 1834-35) contains valuable observations and numerous
treatises of philosophical, historical, archeological, and geographical
character. Landau's collection of all the foreign words found in Rashi
(on the Bible and Talmud), in the Tosafot, in Maimonides, and in Rosh,
is of lasting value. The work, entitled "Marpe Lashon, " was published
first in his edition of the Mishnah (Prague, 1829-31), then in the
editions of the Talmud (ib. 1829-31 and 1839-45) and in his edition of
the Bible (ib. 1833-37). It has also appeared separately (Odessa,
1865), with notes by Dormitzer. Landau's chief merit as a typographer
is due to the fact that he always personally supervised the correction
of the works published in his establishment, so that they issued from
the press with scarcely a fault. In his will Landau left his Hebrew
library to the orphan asylum established by him, and his other Oriental
works to a Jewish theological seminary to be founded in the future. =E2=
=80=9D
(1906 Jewish Encyclopedia) Subjects: Judaism -- Liturgy -- Texts. Daily
prayers. German & Hebrew; Siddur. OCLC lists 13 copies worldwide.
Binding repaired. Cloth worn. Pages clean and fresh, with a light stain
in bottom portion of last 50 pages. Page 386 previously repaired with
tape. Good condition. (GER-38-31) (ID #29034) $75.00.
304. Heinrich, Pinkas. FRAGMENT EINES GEBETBUCHES AUS YEMEN.
Vienna,, 1902. Original Paper Wrappers. 8vo. 16 pages. 23 cm. In
German. Title translates to English as, =E2=80=9CFragment of a Prayer B=
ook from
Yemen. =E2=80=9D Cover subtitle: =E2=80=9CEin Beitrag zur Geschichte de=
r j=C3=BCdischen und
j=C3=BCdisch-arabischen Synagogalpoesie und zur Kenntnis der arabischen
Vulg=C3=A4rdialects in Yemen. Inaugural-Dissertation zur Erlangung der
philosophischen Doctorw=C3=BCrde an der I. Section der philosophischen
Facult=C3=A4t Z=C3=BCrich=E2=80=9D [A contribution to the history of J=
ewish and
Jewish-Arab Synagogalpoesie and knowledge of Arab vernacular dialects
in Yemen. Inaugural-Dissertation for Doctor of philosophical dignity to
the First Section of the philosophical faculty of Zurich]. SUBJECT (S):
Jews. Hebrew poetry. Jews -- Yemen (Republic). Arabic language --
Dialects -- Yemen (Republic). Pages lightly tanned, some
chipping/closed tears at edges, with no loss of text. Good condition.
(SEF37-13) (ID #28473) $50.00.
305. Hubscher, Jakob. DAS KADDISCH-GEBET: DESSEN SINN, BEDEUTUNG UND
TENDENZ. Berlin, Selbstverlag Des Verfassers, 1912. Paper Wrappers,
Small 8vo; 47 pages;Later paper wrappers, inscription, waterdamaged,
but paper is very solid; Scarce (GR-2-21) (ID #4906) $50.00.
306. Jampel, Sigmund, Rabbi. ESTHER UND PURIM IM LICHTE DER
GESCHICHTE. Berlin, H. Itzkowski, 1911. 1st Edition (?). Paper
Wrappers, Light wear to covers, Very Good Condition.; 8vo; 27 pages;
Jampel was Rabbi at Schwedt am Domau. (GR-2-15) (ID #6709) $40.00.
307. Perles, J. (Joseph). DIE LEICHENFEIERLICHKEITEN IM
NACHBIBLISCHEN JUDENTHUME. EINE ARCHAEOLOGISCHE STUDIE. Breslau, Verlag
Der Schletter'schen., Paper Wrappers, Some wear, Good Condition; 8vo;
32 pages; Funeral rites and ceremonies. "Seperat-Abdruck aus dem X.
Jahrgange der Frankel'schen Monatsschrift. " (GR-2-22) (ID #4808)
$40.00.
308. Posner, Arthur. FREITAGE ABENDGEBETE: =C3=9CBERSETZT, SOWIE SAC=
HLICH
UND SPRACHLICH ERL=C3=84UTERT. Bratislava, Selbstverlag, 1929. 1st Edit=
ion.
Paper Wrappers, 8vo; 81 pages; " Sonderabdruck einer Aufsatzreihe, die
1928 im J=C3=BCdischen Familienblatt, Bratislava erschienen ist. " Guid=
o
Kisch's copy. Spine repair, paper browning but good. (GR-2-14) (ID
#6365) $30.00.
309. Seligmann, Caesar. DENKSCHRIFT ZU DEM AUFTRAG DER ISRAEL.
GEMEINDE IN FRANKFURT A. M.; BEARBEITETEN NEUEN ISRAELITISCHEN
GEBETBUCH. Frankfurt A. M.; Voigt & Gleiber, 1912. Paper wrappers.
12mo. 70 pages. 19 cm. Only edition. In German. =E2=80=9CMemorandum on=
behalf
of the Jewish Community in Frankfurt A. M.; new Israelite prayer book
edited. =E2=80=9D Caesar Seligmann was rabbi of the Jewish community fr=
om 1903
to 1932, and was one of the leading protagonists of the Jewish Reform
Movement at the beginning of the 20th century. Seligmann was born in
1860 of an old rabbinical family in Landau in the Pfalz region. He was
ordained as a rabbi at the Jewish Theological Seminary in Breslaw, and
graduated in Halle. After preaching from 1889 to 1902 at the "Tempel",
a liberal synagogue in Hamburg, he was called to Frankfurt in 1903,
where his task was to revitalise the somewhat depleted Jewish Reform
Movement. While in Frankfurt Seligmann became the leader of the
religious liberal movement in Germany. He first wrote a new liberal
prayerbook for the Frankfurt community, then a unified prayerbook for
liberal Jewish synagogue services. He founded the periodical "Liberal
Judaism" and took a major part in the unifying of liberals throughout
Germany. In 1912 he published the "Guidelines" which set out to provide
the foundations and future plans for a new Judaism based on spiritual
liberalism. The "Guidelines" aroused vigorous dissent within the
community and it proved impossible to incorporate them into daily
religious life. He retired in 1932. He managed to emigrate to England
in 1939. In London he became cofounder of a community of emigre
Frankfurt Jews, and died there in 1950. His many published works
include essays, sermons, and lectures, his annotated edition of the
Pesach Haggadah, and his principal work, the "History of the Jewish
Reform Movement" printed in 1922. (Infobank Judengasse Frankfurt am
Main) Subjects: Jews -- Germany -- Frankfurt am Main -- History --
Sources. Israelitische Gemeinde, Frankfurt am Main. OCLC lists 10
copies worldwide. Covers lightly soiled, with small tears at backstrip.
Pages soiled at edges, endpapers lightly soiled. Pages lightly yellowed
with age, some light soiling at edges of margins, very few light pencil
marks in margins. Very good condition. (GER-33-27) (ID #28823) $110.00.
310. Wolff, Lion. HOCHZEITS-AGENDE: NEBST ANHANG: TRAUUNGS-AGENDE.
Breslau; Wilh. Jacobsohn & Co. 1885. Clothbound. 8vo. 109, [3] pages.
22 cm. First edition. In German, with some Hebrew. Title translates as:
=E2=80=9CWedding-Liturgy; with appendix on Agendas for Weddings. =E2=80=
=9D Rabbi Lion
Wolff (1845-1934) was for twenty five years the Rabbi at the
Congregation Tempelburg in Pomerania. His retirement from the
congregation was widely celebrated as at the time he was the oldest
Rabbi in all of Germany. He was also known for his writing on pedagogy.
Subjects: Jewish marriage customs and rites. OCLC lists 6 copies
worldwide. Covers soiled, endpages lightly soiled, pages lightly aged,
edges lightly bumped, however, pages clean and fresh. Good + condition.
(GER-38-9) (ID #28918) $50.00.
311. Zunz, Leopold. ISRAEL'S GOTTESDIENSTLICHE POESIE: VORTRAG
GEHALTEN AM 11. JANUAR 1870. Berlin, A. Asher & Co. 1870. Staplebound
paper wraps. 8vo. 14 pages. 23 cm. In German. Title translates to
English as, =E2=80=9CIsrael's Liturgical Poetry: Paper Presented on 11=
January
1870.=E2=80=9D Zunz was a German Reform rabbi and writer, the founder o=
f what
has been termed the "Science of Judaism, =E2=80=9D the critical investi=
gation
of Jewish literature, hymnology and ritual. Zunz's historical
investigations and contemporary writings had an important influence on
contemporary Judaism. SUBJECT (S): Judaism -- Liturgy. OCLC lists 16
copies worldwide. Front cover darkened and chipping at edges, detached
but present. Internal pages are darkended at edges and chipping, but
all text is clear. Good condition. (SPEC16-29). (ID #26843) $75.00.
312. Zunz, Leopold. DIE GOTTESDIENSTLICHEN VORTR=C3=84GE DER JUDEN,
HISTORISCH EN WICKELT. EIN BEITRAG ZUR ALTERTHUMSKUNDE UND BIBLISCHEN
KRITIK, ZUR LITERATUR-UND RELIGIONSGESCHICHTE. Berlin, 1832. Berlin: A.
Asher, 1832. Cloth; 8vo. Xv, 481 pages. Deckled edges. First edition.
In German. Bibliographical citations. "Verzeichnis der benutzten...
Werke": [2] pages following page 481. SUBJECT (S): Judaism -- Liturgy.
Hebrew literature -- History and criticism. Bible. O. T. -- Criticism,
interpretation, etc. Leopold Zunz was the founder of the modern
"science of Judaism; " this work was "destined to be the most important
Jewish work published in the nineteenth century. In the preface, which
was no less remarkable than the contents, the German authorities were
arraigned for their refusal to grant the Jews the justice due them by
right and for their reluctance to accord them liberty instead of
special rights and privileges. The Jews were entitled to be citizens of
Germany. Jewish science too ought no longer to be excluded from
governmental patronage, but should have institutions provided for its
development. In the synagogues the living word was once more to
resound, for the sermon had always been an institution of Judaism. The
book afforded the proof, and its purpose was to trace the historic
growth of this synagogal institution. This preface was suppressed by
the government and cut out from most copies of the first edition. The
work itself was a masterly exposition of the gradual growth and
evolution of homiletic literature, traced through the Midrash, the
Haggadah, and the prayer-book. It was the first book to assign dates
and to disclose the relative interdependence of the various documents.
Besides showing that the sermon was thoroughly Jewish, the book
demonstrated that Judaism had a science which could justly claim
equality with the studies admitted to university standing. It proved,
furthermore, that Judaism was a growing force, not a crystallized law.
Scientific throughout, the book had a powerful influence in shaping the
principles of Reform Judaism, especially as applied to the
prayer-books. For all time to come the "Gottesdienstliche Vortr=C3=A4ge=
"
fixed the method which the literary exploration of Jewish
literaturemust follow to a certain degree, even though the merely
formal criterion of the mention of a literary document is urged too
strongly as decisive in assigning to it its date and place. With this
book Zunz rose at once to the pinnacle of recognized leadership. His
discriminating insight, his power of combination, his sound
scholarship, his classic reserve, and his dignity of presentation
proclaimed him master. No second edition of the "Gottesdienstliche
Vortr=C3=A4ge" was prepared by the author, but it was reprinted after h=
is
death (Frankfort-on-the-Main, 1892; comp. E. G. Hirsch, "Die Jubil=C3=
=A4en
Zweier Werke, " in "Der Zeitgeist, " 1882). " (JE) Previous owners'
signatures on inside front cover and title page. Wear and damp stain to
covers, spine chipped. Previous repair with black cloth tape on top
section of spine. Binding tight. Text in very good condition.
(RAB-48-14) (ID #24766) $350.00.
HAGADOTH & PESACH
313. Jacobson, Bernhard S. PESAH: ARBEITSPLAN UND STOFFSAMMLUNG.
Hamburg, Tenuat Tora Wa'awoda in Deutschland, 1936. Paper wrappers,
Original Paper Wrappers. 12mo. 47 pages. In German with some Hebrew on
cover. Passover preparation guide published in Germany during Hitler's
reign. SUBJECT(S): Passover - customs and practices. OCLC lists 8
copies worldwide. Covers worn with small chip to front, no loss of
text. Very Good condition. (MX-21-12) (ID #27757) $60.00.
314. Joseph Ben David; Of Leipnik. Green, Aaron Asher. HAGADAH SHEL
PESAH: ALTONA, GERMANY, 1738. Tel Aviv: W. Turnowsky, 1987. (ft)
Hardcover, 4to, 62 pages, all color facsims. Text in Hebrew; rubrics in
Yiddish. SUBJECT(S): Descriptor: Haggadot -- Texts. Seder -- Liturgy --
Texts. Judaism -- Liturgy -- Texts. Jewish illumination of books and
manuscripts. Manuscripts, Hebrew -- Facsimiles. Colophon title. Spine
title: Hagadah. Caption title: Zeh ha-seder Hagadah shel Pesah.
Accompanied by reprinted text of English translation of the Haggadah by
Aaron Asher Green, London, 1898; and by one folded manuscript
description sheet with text in English and Hebrew. Issued in slipcase.
Excellent condition. (ART-3-16A) (ID #25857) $100.00.
315. Khvol=E2=80=99son, D. A. (Daniil Avraamovich). DAS LETZTE PASSA=
MAHL
CHRIST UND DER TAG SEINES TODES, NACH DEN IN =C3=9CBEREINSTIMMUNG GEBRA=
CHTEN
BERICHTEN DER SYNOPTIKER UND DES EVANGELIUM JOHANNIS. Leipzig; H.
Haessel, 1908. Paper wrappers. Folio. XI, 190 pages. 34 cm. Second
edition. In German, with Hebrew, Greek, Arabic. Title translates as:
=E2=80=9CThe last Passover meal of Christ and the day of his death, acc=
ording
to the report of the Synoptics put into accordance with the Gospel of
John. =E2=80=9D Anastatic reprint of the edition of 1892, with three
supplements, containing additions and improvements of the author. D. A.
Chwolson (Daniel Avraamovich Khvolson, 1819=E2=80=931911) was a Russian
Orientalist. =E2=80=9CChwolson was born of poor, devout Jewish parents=
in
Vilna. In 1841 he went to Breslau, where Abraham *Geiger befriended him
and helped him prepare for matriculation at the university. Later he
returned to Russia, settling in St. Petersburg. In 1855 Chwolson became
a convert of the Russian Orthodox Church. He was then appointed
professor of Hebrew, Syriac, and Chaldaic philology at the University
of St. Petersburg, and three years later he was given the corresponding
chair at both the Russian Orthodox and Roman Catholic theological
academies in the same city. In this triple capacity he taught
practically every eminent Semitic scholar in Russia during the second
half of the 19th century and after. Among his disciples were the
greatest Russian Orientalists. Despite his conversion, Chwolson
remained well disposed toward Jews and Judaism and retained his
friendship with many eminent Jewish scholars and leaders. He was
particularly welcome in Jewish Orthodox circles because of his frequent
intervention on their behalf when government officials threatened the
yeshivot or the publication of the Talmud. =E2=80=9CDas letzte Passahma=
hl
Christi und der Tag seines Todes=E2=80=9D (1892), while meant as an ans=
wer to
antisemitic accusations, is a learned and detailed investigation of the
circumstances of Jesus' trial and condemnation. In it Chwolson
attempted to prove that Jesus was sentenced to death by the Sadducean
high court and that therefore the Pharisees and masses of Jews bear no
guilt. =E2=80=9D (2007 Encyclopedia Judaica). =E2=80=9CThe deep-rooted=
belief that
Jesus was crucified by the Jews being the principal cause of the
prejudice against them on the part of the Christians, Chwolson, in a
dissertation entitled "Poslyedniyaya Paskhalnaya Vecherya Isusa Christa
I Den yevo Smerti, " in "Christianskoe Chtenie, " St. Petersburg, 1875
(German translation, "Das Letzte Passamal Christi, " ib. 1892), shows
the groundlessness of this belief. He points out that the proceedings
of the trial and condemnation of Jesus, as related in the Gospels, were
in violation of the rabbinical laws, and consequently could not have
been conducted by a Jewish tribunal. =E2=80=9D (1906 Jewish Encyclopedi=
a).
Subjects: Last Supper. Jesus Christ - Crucifixion. Jesus Christ -
Chronology. Bible. N. T. Gospels - Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Bible. N. T. Gospels - Chronology. Covers worn and soiled, with edges
chipped. Back cover detached and missing upper third. Pages soiled in
margins, but clean and fresh. Outer edges bumped with some tears. Last
page torn, affecting text on page 189-190. Fair condition. (GER-38-15)
(ID #28924) $200.00.
KARAISM
316. Gitelsohn, Dr. S. DIE CIVIL-GESETZE DER KAR=C3=84ER VON SAMUEL
AL-MAGREBI. Loius Lamm, Berlin, 1904. Original Paper Wrappers, 8vo. 27
+ 42+1 page. Interesting work on the civil laws of the Karaites.
Karaite Judaism or Karaism is a Jewish movement characterized by the
sole reliance on the Tanakh as scripture and the rejection of the
Mishnah and the Talmud. Text in German, English, Hebrew and Arabic.
Light Wear. About Very Good Condition. (RAB-33-20) (ID #24470) $135.00.
317. Neubauer, Adolf. AUS DER PETERSBURGER BIBLIOTHEK. BEITR=C3=84GE=
UND
DOCUMENTE ZUR GESCHICHTE DES KAR=C3=84ERTHUMS UND DER KAR=C3=84ISCHEN L=
ITERATUR.
Leipzig, 1866. Leipzig: Oskar Leiner, 1866. Half cloth; 12mo. X, 150,
[66] pages. In German and Hebrew. Series: Schriften (Institut zur
F=C3=B6rderung der israelitischen Literatur). Includes: Sefer Apiryon `=
asah
lo and Sefer Levush Malkhut, 66 pages at end. Includes bibliographical
references. Neubauer was a Hungarian scholar, author, librarian, and
bibliographer. He settled in England and became librarian at the
Bodleian Library, Oxford, which he enriched by judicious purchases,
particularly from the Cairo Genizah. He authored many books and
contributed a stream of articles, notes, and book reviews to most of
the learned Jewish (and many non-Jewish) periodicals of his time. (EJ)
SUBJECT(S): Karaitic literature. Karaites. OCLC lists one copy
worldwide of this edition (NY Public Library). Boards edgeworn. Rear
flyleaf has 1-1/2" chip. Text in very good condition. (GER-4-15) (ID
#16569) $100.00.
SERMONS & ESSAYS
318. Solomon Ben Abraham, 1610?-Ca. 1683.?. SEFER RATSUF AHAVAH
VE-HU MAHBERET BE=E2=80=99UR DIBURE HA-TOSAFOT HA-SHAYAKHIM LE-INYAN DE=
RASHA...
ASHER HIBARTI SHELOMOH ALGAZI. Frankfurt De-Odrah: Yohanan Kristif
Bekman,, 1692. 452 [1691 or 1692]. Cloth, 8vo, 104 leaves. 22 cm.
Subject (s): Tosafot -- Early works to 1800. Aggada -- Early works to
1800. Homiletical illustrations, Jewish -- Early works to 1800. Other
titles: Ahavat Olam; Apiryon Shelomoh. OCLC lists 7 copies worldwide.
JTS keeps their copy, which lacks the final 4 leaves, in their rare
book room. Bit of margin wear to first and final leaves, minor worming
here and there, otherwise a nice copy. (HEB-37-12) (ID #27637) $425.00.
319. Flesch, H. VIER REDEN. Bratislava, Adolf Alkalay & Sohn, 1901.
Original Stapled Wrappers. 8vo. 32 pages. 24 cm. In German. Title
translates to =E2=80=9CFour Speeches. =E2=80=9D CONTENTS: Israels Trost=
[Israel's
Consolation] --- Es werde Licht [Let There Be Light] --- Wahre
Elternliebe [True Parental Love] --- Lebensregel [A Rule of Life].
Dedicated to Rabbi Leo Munk on his 25th anniversary in office. OCLC
lists 6 copies worldwide. Covers worn with some chipping at edges.
Internal pages are somewhat darkened, but all text is clear. Good+
condition. (GER-32-25) (ID #28794) $100.00.
320. Nobel, Josef. THABOR: BETRACHTUNGEN =C3=9CBER DIE HAFTARAS VOM
GANZEN JAHRE. Frankfurt A. M.: J. Kauffman, 1899. Cloth. 8vo. Vi, 352
pages. In German. SUBJECT (S): Jewish sermons; Sermons, German. OCLC
lists 18 copies worldwide. Wear to cover and binding. Slight chippings
on bottom and top edges of cover binding. Inscription on inside cover
from Mr. Krug. Otherwise, good condition. (K-MX2-2) (ID #21412) $30.00.
321. Jellinek, Adolph. AUS DER WIENER ISRAELITISCHEN CULTUSGEMEINDE
5624: SIEBEN ZEIT-PREDIGTEN. Wien, 1864. Wien: Hertzfeld & Bauer,1864.
Bound in later cloth, 90 pages.19 cm. In German. SUBJECT(S): Jewish
sermons, German. Jewish sermons -- Austria -- Vienna. OCLC lists 5
holdings worldwide (OSU, U of Amsterdam, Bayerische Staatsbib., Penn,
HUC). Library bookplate and stamp on endpapers, no stamps on text or
title page, no markings on cloth, Very Good Condition. (k-ger-1-4) (ID
#20891) $100.00.
322. Bacher, Wilhelm. DIE PRO=C3=96MIEN DER ALTEN J=C3=9CDISCHEN HOM=
ILIE:
BEITRAG ZUR GESCHICHTE DER J=C3=9CDISCHEN SCHRIFTAUSLEGUNG UND HOMILETI=
K.
Leipzig; J. C. Hinrichs, 1913. Later Cloth. 8vo. 126 pages. 23 cm. In
German and Hebrew. Title translates as: =E2=80=9CThe Pro=C3=B6mien the=
ancient
Jewish homily: contribution to the history of Jewish exegesis and
homiletics. =E2=80=9D Wilhelm Bacher was a =E2=80=9CHungarian scholar a=
nd Orientalist;
son of the Hebrew writer Simon; born in Lipt=C3=B3-Szent-Mikl=C3=B3s, H=
ungary,
Jan. 12, 1850; he attended the Hebrew schools in Szucs=C3=A1n and in hi=
s
native town, and passed through the higher classes of the Evangelical
Lyceum at Presburg from 1863 to 1867, at the same time diligently
prosecuting Talmudic studies. In 1867 he began the study of philosophy
and of Oriental languages=E2=80=94the latter under V=C3=A1mb=C3=A9ry=E2=
=80=94at the University of
Budapest, and also attended the lectures on the Talmud given by Samuel
L=C3=B6b Brill. In 1868, he went to Breslau, where he continued the stu=
dy of
philosophy and philology at the University, and that of theology at the
Jewish-Theological Seminary. He graduated at the University of Leipsic
in 1870. His graduation thesis, "Niz=C3=A2m=C3=AE's Leben und Werke, un=
d der
Zweite Theil des Niz=C3=A2m=C3=AE'schen Alexanderbuches, " appeared in=
1871, and
was translated into English in 1873 by S. Robinson. This was afterward
incorporated in the collection entitled "Persian Poetry for English
Readers. " In 1876, Bacher graduated as rabbi, and shortly afterward
was appointed to the rabbinate in Szegedin, which had become vacant in
consequence of the death of Leopold L=C3=B6w. On July 1, 1877, together=
with
Moses Bloch and David Kaufmann, he was appointed by the Hungarian
government to the professorship of the newly created
Landesrabbinerschule of Budapest. This institution was inaugurated Oct.
4, 1877, Bacher delivering the address in the name of the faculty, and
since that time he has been teacher of the Biblical sciences, of Jewish
history, and of various other branches at that institution=E2=80=9D (19=
06
Jewish Encyclopedia) This volume was one of his last works published
before his death in 1913. Subjects: Jewish preaching - History.
Exegese. Homiletik. Judentum. Bible. O. T. - Hermeneutics. Cloth
lightly soiled, endpapers chipped or torn, light pen of previous owner
on title page, fresh and clean throughout. Very good + condition.
(GER-33-38) (ID #28833) $40.00.
323. Breuer, Raphael. PROGRAMMREDE GEHALTEN VON SR. EHRW=C3=9CRDEN H=
ERRN
DISTRIKTSRABBINER DR. RAPHAEL BREUER IM VOLKSBILDUNGSHEIM ZU FRANKFURT
AM MAIN AM 17. MAI 1927 / 15. IJAR 5687. Frankfurt A. M. 1927. 1st
Edition. Paper Wrappers, Few spots on cover, otherwise Very Good
Condition; 8vo; 16 pages; Sermon. Pamphlet. (K-MX2-47) (ID #6233)
$60.00.
324. Dessauer, M. DANIEL, IN SIEBEN-KANZELREDEN F=C3=9CR DAS NEUJAHR=
S-
UND VERS=C3=96HNUNGSFEST. Frankfurt A. Main, Kauffmann Verlag, 1875. 1s=
t
Edition. Paper Wrappers, Original Paper Wrappers. 8vo. 55 pages. 22 cm.
In German. Title translates to English as, "Daniel: In Seven Pulpit
Speeches for the New year and Day of Atonement." Some light
discoloration and edgewear but still nice. Very Good condition.
(SPEC32-19) (ID #8374) $40.00.
325. Dessauer, Moritz. DANIEL, IN SIEBEN-KANZELREDEN FUER DAS
NEUJAHRS- UND VERSOHNUNGSFEST. Breslau, H. Skutsch, 1875. Paper
Wrappers, 8vo; 55 pages; 22 cm. Max Freudenthal's copy, with his
ownership stamp and (presumeably his) occational margin notes in
pencil. Rear page clipped, but appears to be no text loss. Small
library stamp on copyright page. Spine replaced. (GR-2-20) (ID #4916)
$50.00.
326. Dukes, Leopold. ZUR RABBINISCHEN SPRUCHKUNDE: EINE SAMMLUNG
RABBINISCHER SENTENZEN, SPRICHW=C3=96RTER UND SPRICHW=C3=96RTLICHER RED=
ENSARTEN.
Wien; Torre, 1851. Clothbound. 8vo. IV, 97pages. 23 cm. First edition.
In German, with some Hebrew. Title translates as: =E2=80=9CFor Rabbinic=
al
Homiletics: A collection of Rabbinic Sayings, Proverbs and proverbial
phrases edited and explained. =E2=80=9D This collection of proverbs in=
the
original Hebrew with German translations and explanations was written
by Leopold Dukes (Judah Loeb; 1810=E2=80=931891), =E2=80=9Chistorian of=
Jewish
literature. Dukes was born in Pressburg, Hungary. He was a student of
R. Moses Sofer and of R. Ayyim Joseph Pollak; the latter introduced him
to secular study. An inveterate, though poor, traveler, Dukes visited
most of the important libraries in Europe, researching Jewish
manuscripts and uncovering many hitherto unknown medieval works. His
research covered various aspects of language and literature: aggadic
literature, Bible exegesis, medieval Jewish literature, Hebrew grammar
and the masoretic text, and talmudic maxims and truisms. =E2=80=9D (200=
7
Encyclopedia Judaica) Subjects: Proverbs, Jewish. Original boards
repaired, with noticeable wear and rubbing. First endpage very brittle
and chipped. Pages in good condition, and fresh, except that the last
30 pages are lightly stained, though not affecting text. Fair
condition. (GER-38-44) (ID #29046) $60.00.
327. Ehrentheil, Adolf. HADASIM. MYRTENZWEIGE. TRAUUNGS-REDEN.
Frankfurt A. /M, 1883. Frankfurt a.M.: Verlag von I. Kauffmann, 1883.
Cloth, 12mo, 167 pages. 20 cm. Satin endpapers. In German, with
occasional Hebrew phrasing. Author was "t.t. Feldrabbiner [Jewish
Military Chaplain] im M.F. in Horic (B=C3=B6hmen)" Bohemia. OCLC lists=
2
copies worldwide (NYPL & Bar-Ilan Univ). SUBJECT(S): Wedding sermons,
Jewish. Wear to boards, hinges starting, otherwise Good Condition.
(GER-37-78) (ID #15565) $150.00.
328. Jellinek, Adolph. AUS DER WIENER ISRAELITISCHEN CULTUSGEMEINDE
5624: SIEBEN ZEIT-PREDIGTEN. Wien, 1864. Wien: Hertzfeld &
Bauer,1864Original Paper Wrappers, 90 pages.19 cm. In German.
SUBJECT(S): Jewish sermons, German. Jewish sermons -- Austria --
Vienna. OCLC lists 5 holdings worldwide (OSU, U of Amsterdam,
Bayerische Staatsbib., Penn, HUC). Light wear to covers, Good+
Condition. (ger-15-63) (ID #20048) $100.00.
329. Jellinek, Adolph, DIE HEBR=C3=84ISCHE SPRACHE: REDE, AN SCHEMIN=
I
AZERET 5639 GEHALTEN. Wien: M. Waizner,, 1878. Original paper wrappers,
8vo. 16 pages. First Edition. In German. SUBJECT (S): Jewish sermons.
Jellinek was a "Vienna preacher and scholar...In 1862 Jellinek founded
the Beit ha-Midrash Academy where public lectures were delivered by
himself, Isaac Hirsch Weiss, and Meir Friedmann. A scholarly
periodical, also called Beit ha-Midrash, was published under its
auspices. =E2=80=A6Jellinek was considered the greatest preacher of his=
day and
some 200 of his sermons were published, some were translated into
Hebrew and into other languages. Their most striking characteristic was
that, while related to actual problems of the day, they made brilliant
and original use of aggadah and Midrash. Personally lenient in matters
of ritual, he advocated a moderately liberal line, striving for unity
in the community. Thus although he wanted to install an organ in the
synagogue "to attract the indifferent, " he took I. N. Mannheimer 's
advice and abandoned the idea. He also opposed the omission from the
prayer book of references to Zion and prayers for the restoration of
sacrifices. Due to the conciliatory attitude of both Jellinek and the
leader of the Orthodox group, Solomon Benjamin Spitzer, a split in the
community was avoided. " (Scholem and Lamed, EJ, 2007) OCLC lists 8
copies worldwide. Covers darkened and brittle, edges chipped. Pages and
text clean. Good + condition. (RAB-45-15) (ID #24703) $75.00.
330. Jellinek, Adolph, 1821-1893. ZEITSTIMMEN (VOLUMES 1 AND 2).
Wien: Herzfeld & Bauer,, 1871. Three quarter leather, 8vo. 2 volumes -
80, 109 pages. First Edition. In German. SUBJECT (S): Jewish sermons --
Germany. Sermons, German -- Jewish authors. OCLC lists 21 copies
worldwide. BOUND WITH: Jellinek, Adolph. DER KAMPF ISRAEL'S IN DER
GESCHICHTE: REDE AM 7. TAGE DES PASSAH-FESTES. Wien: Druck und Verlag
von Jacob Schlossberg,, 1880. 16 pages. OCLC lists 7 copies worldwide.
Jellinek was a "Vienna preacher and scholar...In 1862 Jellinek founded
the Beit ha-Midrash Academy where public lectures were delivered by
himself, Isaac Hirsch Weiss, and Meir Friedmann. A scholarly
periodical, also called Beit ha-Midrash, was published under its
auspices. His eldest son, GEORGE J. JELLINEK (1851-1911), a professor
of public law at Basle and Heidelberg, was baptized after Jellinek's
death. Jellinek was considered the greatest preacher of his day and
some 200 of his sermons were published, some were translated into
Hebrew and into other languages. Their most striking characteristic was
that, while related to actual problems of the day, they made brilliant
and original use of aggadah and Midrash. Personally lenient in matters
of ritual, he advocated a moderately liberal line, striving for unity
in the community. Thus although he wanted to install an organ in the
synagogue "to attract the indifferent, " he took I. N. Mannheimer 's
advice and abandoned the idea. He also opposed the omission from the
prayer book of references to Zion and prayers for the restoration of
sacrifices. Due to the conciliatory attitude of both Jellinek and the
leader of the Orthodox group, Solomon Benjamin Spitzer, a split in the
community was avoided. " (Scholem and Lamed, EJ, 2007) Handwritten
contents on flyleaf. Spine repaired in black cloth tape. Wear and
flaking to leather on covers. Pages slightly tanned. Tight, clean copy.
Very good condition. (RAB-45-16) (ID #24704) $150.00.
331. Kaufmann, David. SIEBEN FESTPREDIGTEN IN DER BERLINER
GEMEINDESYNAGOGEN. Berlin; L. Gerschel, 1877. Clothbound. 8vo. 92
pages. 23 cm. First edition. In German with some Hebrew. Title
translates as: =E2=80=9CSeven festival sermons in the Berlin community
synagogues. =E2=80=9C Contents: the sermon on the first day of Shavuot,=
on the
second day of Shavuot, the first New Year's day, on the second New
Year's day, on the eve of Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement, and final
sermon on the Day of Atonement. David Kaufmann (1852-1899) was a
Jewish-Austrian scholar. =E2=80=9CHe was educated at Kojetein; and from=
1861 to
1867 he attended the gymnasium at Kremsir, where he studied the Bible
and Talmud with Jacob Br=C3=BCll, rabbi of Kojetein, and with the latte=
r's
son Nehemiah. In 1867 he went to the Jewish Theological Seminary at
Breslau, where he studied for ten years, attending at the same time the
university of that city. In the summer of 1874 he received his Ph. D.
From the University of Leipsic; and on Jan. 29, 1877, he was ordained
rabbi. In the latter year he declined the offer of a professorship at
the Jewish Theological Seminary, Cincinnati [sic, New York], preferrin=
g
to accept instead the chairs of history, philosophy of religion, and
homiletics at the newly founded rabbinical school at Budapest, which he
continued to hold till his death. He also at the same time taught Greek
and German in the preparatory school of the same institution, carrying
on this work in the Hungarian language, which he had rapidly mastered.
As librarian of the seminary he acquired the large library of Lelio
della Torre of Padua, the library of the seminary becoming by this
addition one of the most valuable Hebrew libraries of Europe. As a
teacher Kaufmann was highly successful; and his relation to his
students was that of friendly adviser. He maintained a lively
correspondence not only with the most eminent Jewish scholars, but also
with the leaders in other branches of science. Kaufmann was a
corresponding member of the Royal Academy of Sciences of Madrid and a
member of the executive committee of the Budapest branch of the
Alliance Isra=C3=A9lite Universelle. =E2=80=9D (From the 1906 Jewish En=
cyclopedia).
Subjects: Jewish sermons -- Germany. OCLC lists 14 copies worldwide.
Backstrip shaken. Covers lightly worn. First endpage loose, pages
lightly aged, but clean and fresh. Good + condition. (GER-36-36) (ID
#28887) $45.00.
332. Meisel, Wolf Alois. ZEKHUT AVOT: HOMILIEN UBER DIE SPRUCHE DER
VATER [PIRKE AVOT] ZUR ERBAUENDEN BELEHRUNG UBER BERUF UND PFLICHT DES
ISRAELITEN. Stettin: F. Nagel, 1855. (FT) Hardcover, 8vo, xi, 712
pages, 21 cm. In German. SUBJECT(S): Mishnah. Avot -- Commentaries.
Includes bibliographical references. Romanized record. OCLC lists 18
copies worldwide. Handwritten notes on inside cover. Worn binding. Wear
to cover. Bumped corners. Otherwise good condition. (HEB-14-6) (ID
#25814) $100.00.
333. Philippson, Ludwig. GESAMMELTE ABHANDLUNGEN (2 VOLUMES).
Leipzig, G. Fock, 1911. Clothbound. 8vo. 391, 486 pages. 24 cm. First
edition. In German. The =E2=80=9CCollected Essays=E2=80=9D of Ludwig Ph=
ilippson. Two
volumes bound in red cloth with gilt lettering. These two volumes
constitute the collected published writings in various periodicals of
Ludwig Philippson (1811=E2=80=931889), who =E2=80=9Cachieved renown as=
the founder of
the Allgemeine Zeitung des Judenthums (AZJ, 1837=E2=80=931922), which h=
e edited
until his death. Ludwig was an avid student of both Hebrew and
classical literature in Dessau and Halle. After graduation from Berlin
University (1829=E2=80=9333), aged 22, he took up the position of a pre=
acher
and teacher in the Magdeburg Jewish community. Though following the
practice of Reform Judaism =E2=80=93 he preached in German and introduc=
ed the
organ and the rite of confirmation =E2=80=93 he tried to steer a middle=
course
between Reform and Orthodoxy. He was among the initiators of the
Rabbinical Conferences of Brunswick (1844), Frankfurt/Main (1845), and
Breslau (1846), but was critical of their decisions. One of his
projects was the establishment of a modern institution for training
scholars, rabbis, and teachers. From 1834 Philippson started editing
several periodicals, first the monthly Israelitisches Predigt- und
Schulmagazin (1834=E2=80=9336), followed by his famous AZJ, the most im=
portant
Jewish weekly of the 19th century, which was also dedicated to the
struggle for emancipation in all parts of Germany and Europe and fought
discrimination and antisemitism. From 1839=E2=80=9353, he published a p=
opular
translation and commentary of the Bible, which went through three
editions, together with a revised edition illustrated by Gustav Dor=C3=
=A9
(1875). Along with I. M. Jost, A. Jellinek, and others he founded the
Institut zur Foerderung der Israelitischen Literatur (1854=E2=80=9373),=
whose
main achievement was the publication of H. Graetz 's Geschichte der
Juden (1853=E2=80=9376). In 1862, he had to resign as rabbi of Magdebur=
g
because he had become almost blind. He moved to Bonn, where he
continued his journalistic and literary work until his death. He was
among the founders of the Israelitische Bibelanstalt (1862), the
Deutsch-Israelitischer Gemeindebund (1869), and the Hochschule fuer die
Wissenschaft des Judentums (1872). =E2=80=9D (2007 Encyclopedia Judaica=
) The
second volume includes an appendix, that of an essay by Rabbi Hermann
Cohen on the importance of the writings of the young Ludwig Philippson.
Subjects: Judaism. Jews -- Civilization. Judentum. Germany --
Intellectual life. Covers lightly worn, backstrip lightly rubbed. Pages
lightly aged, but clean and fresh. Very good condition. (GER-38-14) (ID
#28923) $50.00.
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=09=09<a href=3D"http://danwymanbooks.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=3D=
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=09=09<a href=3D"http://danwymanbooks.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=3D=
f69c18f23e79a1b7dc8f80d21&id=3D9d69704252&e=3De11b527302" style=3D"color:=
#336699;font-weight: normal;text-decoration: underline;">REFORM</a></li>
=09<li>
=09=09<a href=3D"http://danwymanbooks.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=3D=
f69c18f23e79a1b7dc8f80d21&id=3D4d9de2e3db&e=3De11b527302" style=3D"color:=
#336699;font-weight: normal;text-decoration: underline;">ORTHODOXY</a></l=
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=09=09<a href=3D"http://danwymanbooks.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=3D=
f69c18f23e79a1b7dc8f80d21&id=3D7aa50031cf&e=3De11b527302" style=3D"color:=
#336699;font-weight: normal;text-decoration: underline;">ROSENZWEIG, BUBE=
R, & 20TH CENTURY GERMAN JEWISH PHILOSOPHY</a></li>
=09<li>
=09=09<a href=3D"http://danwymanbooks.us4.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=
=3Df69c18f23e79a1b7dc8f80d21&id=3D7ad68e66be&e=3De11b527302" style=3D"col=
or: #336699;font-weight: normal;text-decoration: underline;">FREUD & S=
EX</a></li>
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=09=09<a href=3D"http://danwymanbooks.us4.list-manage2.com/track/click?u=
=3Df69c18f23e79a1b7dc8f80d21&id=3Dd0c7822584&e=3De11b527302" style=3D"col=
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=09<li>
=09=09<a href=3D"http://danwymanbooks.us4.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=
=3Df69c18f23e79a1b7dc8f80d21&id=3D40c0623019&e=3De11b527302" style=3D"col=
or: #336699;font-weight: normal;text-decoration: underline;">ANTISEMITISM=
& THE JEWISH QUESTION</a></li>
=09<li>
=09=09<a href=3D"http://danwymanbooks.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=3D=
f69c18f23e79a1b7dc8f80d21&id=3D8e309a35ce&e=3De11b527302" style=3D"color:=
#336699;font-weight: normal;text-decoration: underline;">ZIONISM</a></li>
=09<li>
=09=09<a href=3D"http://danwymanbooks.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=3D=
f69c18f23e79a1b7dc8f80d21&id=3D71b836cef6&e=3De11b527302" style=3D"color:=
#336699;font-weight: normal;text-decoration: underline;">BIBLE</a></li>
=09<li>
=09=09<a href=3D"http://danwymanbooks.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=3D=
f69c18f23e79a1b7dc8f80d21&id=3D47dfdbe4ef&e=3De11b527302" style=3D"color:=
#336699;font-weight: normal;text-decoration: underline;">SECOND TEMPLE</a=
></li>
=09<li>
=09=09<a href=3D"http://danwymanbooks.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=3D=
f69c18f23e79a1b7dc8f80d21&id=3D874a7f8a09&e=3De11b527302" style=3D"color:=
#336699;font-weight: normal;text-decoration: underline;">RABBINICS &=
MEDIEVAL</a></li>
=09<li>
=09=09<a href=3D"http://danwymanbooks.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=3D=
f69c18f23e79a1b7dc8f80d21&id=3Dcd4d811952&e=3De11b527302" style=3D"color:=
#336699;font-weight: normal;text-decoration: underline;">RAMBAM</a></li>
=09<li>
=09=09<a href=3D"http://danwymanbooks.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=3D=
f69c18f23e79a1b7dc8f80d21&id=3Dce5a8227dd&e=3De11b527302" style=3D"color:=
#336699;font-weight: normal;text-decoration: underline;">AGADA</a></li>
=09<li>
=09=09<a href=3D"http://danwymanbooks.us4.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=
=3Df69c18f23e79a1b7dc8f80d21&id=3D6913c2f28c&e=3De11b527302" style=3D"col=
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i>
=09<li>
=09=09<a href=3D"http://danwymanbooks.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=3D=
f69c18f23e79a1b7dc8f80d21&id=3D80409aac6f&e=3De11b527302" style=3D"color:=
#336699;font-weight: normal;text-decoration: underline;">LITURGY</a></li>
=09<li>
=09=09<a href=3D"http://danwymanbooks.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=3D=
f69c18f23e79a1b7dc8f80d21&id=3Dfb895918e6&e=3De11b527302" style=3D"color:=
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ESACH</a></li>
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=09=09<a href=3D"http://danwymanbooks.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=3D=
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=09=09<a href=3D"http://danwymanbooks.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=3D=
f69c18f23e79a1b7dc8f80d21&id=3D17b540553a&e=3De11b527302" style=3D"color:=
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SAYS</a></li>
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BJECTS<br>
Over 300 Titles<br>
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CONTENTS<br>
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• SPECIAL<br>
• HASKALAH<br>
• SPINOZA<br>
• REFORM<br>
• ORTHODOXY<br>
• ROSENZWEIG, BUBER, & 20TH CENTURY GERMAN JEWI=
SH PHILOSOPHY<br>
• FREUD & SEX<br>
• WOMEN<br>
• ANTISEMITISM & THE JEWISH QUESTION<br>
• ZIONISM<br>
• BIBLE<br>
• SECOND TEMPLE<br>
• RABBINICS & MEDIEVAL<br>
• RAMBAM<br>
• AGADA<br>
• CABALA<br>
• LITURGY<br>
• HAGADOTH & PESACH<br>
• KARAISM<br>
• SERMONS & ESSAYS<br>
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1. [Leipzig: Commercial Law; Leipziger Juden-Ordnung].=
DER CHURFÜRSTL. SÄCHS. HANDELSTADT LEIPZIGK KAUF- UND HANDELS-R=
ECHT. [Leipzig]; Christolph Günther, 1683. Boards bound with Latin m=
issal with musical notation. 16mo. (4), 132, 4 pages. Only edition. In Ger=
man. A compendium of regulations of the City of Leipzig. Of special intere=
st are the edicts concerning Jews: "Leipziger Juden-Ordnung de anno 1=
682." The relationship between this city in Saxony and the Jews is an=
anomaly. On the one hand, Jews were banished from Saxony in 1430 - (it to=
ok three centuries for them to be readmitted to Leipzig). On the other han=
d, on account of the seasonal Leipzig Fair, the number of Jewish merchants=
present in the City would swell to the point that these visitors were for=
mally authorized to conduct gatherings in their own prayer-rooms ("Ju=
denschulen"). Indeed, permitted to attend the Fair were not only Germ=
an Jews, but Jews of Eastern Europe as well. In the present text, Johann-G=
eorg III, Duke of Saxony, mandates several laws concerning Jewish tradesme=
n and the nature of Jewish participation in the Fair. In order to attend,=
the Jew required attestation to his professional honesty ("ein Ehrli=
cher Handelsmann") (par. 1); he was forbidden to lodge in the suburbs=
(par. 2); and at all times, he must be in possession of his various indiv=
idual passes (pars. 3-6). Also, legal-clauses are addressed to the wives,=
children and servants of the Jewish tradesmen visiting (pars.10-12). Of p=
eculiar note: Jewish musicians were barred from trading altogether (par. 2=
1). See JE, Vol. VII, pp. 673-4. Subjects: German Law. Books before 1700.=
OCLC lists 14 copies worldwide. Backstrip detached. Binding very solid. P=
aper missal over boards torn in places and foxed. All edges lightly bumped=
=2E Pages lightly foxed around text throughout, fresh and clean otherwise. G=
ood condition. (GER-38-46) (ID #29048) $1,000.00.<br>
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2. (Wessely, Naphtali Herz) Friedrichsfeld, David.ZEKHER=
TSADIK:...VE-DIVRE YEME HAYE...NAFTALI HIRTS VAIZEL. Amsterdam: Be-Vet Uv=
i-Defus S. Props,, 1809. 1st edition. Period Marbled wrappers, 8vo, 85 pag=
es. 21 cm. The first biography of Wessely. Friedrichsfeld was “born=
in Berlin, where he was influenced by the Jewish Enlightenment movement.=
In 1781 he settled in Amsterdam, where he became one of the leaders in th=
e fight for Jewish emancipation. After Amsterdam was occupied by the Frenc=
h revolutionary forces, he became one of the leaders of the Felix Libertat=
e society. [He was ]A follower of Moses Mendelssohn” (EJ, 2007). In=
Hebrew. “Wessely influenced his contemporaries in various direction=
s. As a scholar he contributed, by his profound philological researches, t=
o the reconstruction of the language of the Bible, though his work is marr=
ed by prolixity and by his refusal to admit shades of meaning in synonyms.=
As a poet he possessed perfection of style, but lacked feeling and artist=
ic imagination. No one exerted a greater influence than he on the dissemin=
ation of modern Hebrew, and no one, on the other hand, did more to retard=
the development of pure art and of poetic intuition. Because of his energ=
etic commitment to the cause of Jewish emancipation, Wessely may be regard=
ed as a leader of the Maskilim” (Wikipedia 2012). British Jewish lea=
der Rabbi Berman Berliner’s copy, with his stamp (“B. Berliner=
”) on title page. SUBJECT(S): Rabbis -- Biography. Authors, Hebrew -=
- Germany -- Biography. Haskalah -- Germany. Wessely, Naphtali Herz, 1725-=
1805. OCLC lists 10 copies worldwide. Ex-library with usual marks, wear, b=
ut heavy rag paper has held up very well. Good. (Heb-45-7) (ID #28957) $27=
5.00.<br>
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3. Bertinoro, Obadiah (Ca. 1450-Ca. 1516); Heller, Yom T=
ov Lipmann Ben Nathan Ha-Levi Ben Wallerstein (1579-1654); Teomim, Joshua=
Feivel (Ca. 1680 Or 1685-1728); Friedla¨nder, David. PIRKE 'AVOT=
MENUKAD A. P. DIKDUK IM P. MEL'O KHAF NAHAT / SHPRIKHI DER FETER. Vin=
[Wien, Vienna]: Hrashantski,, 1791. 2nd edition. Period Marbled boards,=
12mo, 80 leaves, 23 cm. In Hebrew & Judeo-German. Mishnah. Avot -- Co=
mmentaries, Yiddish -- Early works to 1800. Mishnah. Avot. 1791.; Shprikhi=
der Feter; Mishnah.; Avot.; Yiddish.; 1791. “Faivish... Asher izen=
ve-hiker ve-lakat mi-shene me'orot... Ovadyah mi-Bertinorah veha-Ga&#=
39;on baal T. Y. Ve-Im ha-targum Ashkenazi / David Fridlender. ” Fri=
edländer was “the son-in-law of the rich banker Daniel Itzig, a=
nd [as] a friend, pupil, and subsequently intellectual successor of Moses=
Mendelssohn, he occupied a prominent position in both Jewish and non-Jewi=
sh circles of Berlin. His endeavors on behalf of the Jews and Judaism incl=
uded the emancipation of the Jews of Berlin and the various reforms connec=
ted therewith. Frederick William II, on his accession, called a committee=
whose duty was to acquaint him with the grievances of the Jews, Friedl&au=
ml;nder and Itzig being chosen as general delegates…. Friedlän=
der and his friends in the community of Berlin…[later] turned thei=
r attention to the reform of worship in harmony with modern ideas and the=
changed social position of the Jews…. He was one of the founders o=
f a Jewish free school (1778), which he directed in association with his b=
rother-in-law, Isaac Daniel Itzig…. Friedländer also wrote tex=
t-books, and was one of the first to translate the Hebrew prayer-book into=
German” (Wikipedia, 2012) OCLC lists 2 copies worldwide (JTS, Cambr=
idge). Stamps old signitures on blank endpapers, some old stains, Very Goo=
d Condition. (HEB-45-1) (ID #28945) $400.00.<br>
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4. Maimonides, Moses; Salomon, Gotthold. HELKAT MEHOKEK:=
KOLEL SHEMONAH PERAKIM. Dessa: Moses Philippsohn,, 1809. 1st edition. Per=
iod Marbled Boards, 12mo, [4] 83 leaves, 19 cm. In Hebrew and Judeo-Germa=
n. SUBJECT (S): Ethics, Jewish. Translated into Judeo-German by Gotthold S=
alomon. “Le-Rambam. Iberzetst und mit... Anmerkungen ferzehen me-et=
Shelomoh Zalman b, kh. H. R. R. Lipman le-vet ha-Levi. ” In 1801, S=
alomon “was appointed teacher at the Jewish Free School, subsequentl=
y called ‘Franzschule für Hebräische und Deutsche Sprache,=
’ where he had as colleagues David Fränkel and Moses Philippso=
n…. [and edited]…the periodical ‘Sulamith, ’&he=
llip; of which six volumes appeared…. In 1818 he was called as prea=
cher to the newly founded congregation at Hamburg, as associate to Eduard=
Kley…. In 1835 he engaged in polemics with the theologian Hartmann=
of Rostock, who publicly opposed the emancipation of the Jews, Salomon an=
swering with his ‘Briefe an Hartmann. ’ In 1837 he issued the=
"Deutsche Volks- und Schulbibel für Israeliten" with the a=
ssistance of Isaac Noah Mannheimer and with the financial support of the H=
amburg philanthropist Solomon Heine, uncle of Heinrich Heine. In 1841 the=
famous temple controversy (‘Tempelstreit’) arose in Hamburg o=
n the occasion of the publication of Salomon's prayer-book, which was=
put under the ban by Hakam Isaac Bernays…. Salomon, who was one of=
the most eloquent Jewish preachers of the nineteenth century, was often i=
nvited to deliver discourses in various cities, e. G. in London, Frankfort=
, Vienna, and Prague. Aside from his polemical writings, a great number of=
sermons and liturgical poems which were included in the hymnal of the Ham=
burg Temple, Salomon published: a German translation, with notes, of the M=
inor Prophets (1806); a translation, with notes, of the ‘Shemonah Pe=
rakim’ of Maimonides (1809) ” (JE, 1906). OCLC lists 7 copies=
worldwide (UCLA, JTSA, Yale, Spertus, Harvard, HUC, UToronto). Light wear=
to boards, Very Good Condition. (HEB-45-2) (ID #28946) $275.00.<br>
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5. Minden, Yehuda Leb Ben Yo'el. SEFER MILIM LE-ELOH=
A: VE-HU SEFER MEVA'ER KOL SHEM U-FO'AL U-MILAH SHEBA-TORAH NEVI&#=
39;IM U-KHETUVIM: BE'URAN BI-L. HA-K. VE-TARGUMAN BI-LASHON ASHKENAZ..=
=2E Berlin, 1760. Later Paper Wrappers, Square 8vo, 2, 155 leaves. 21 cm. In=
Hebrew & Judeo-German. First Hebrew dictionary by Jewish author with=
German translations (in Hebrew letters). Title page states (translated):=
“Book explains all words in the Torah, Neviim and Ketuvim in Hebrew=
and translated into Ashkenaz with accompanying references from the Bible.=
Text is arranged alphabetically according to the root of each word as fou=
nd in Sefer ha-Shorashim by R. David Kimhi. ” At bottom of title pag=
e is an illustration of the coat of arms of Fredericus Rex, the Prussian k=
ing, and the last page has illustration of vase of flowers. SUBJECT(S): Bi=
ble. O. T. -- Concordances, Hebrew. Bible. O. T. -- Dictionaries. Hebrew.=
Bible. O. T. -- Dictionaries. German. Bible. O. T. -- Dictionaries. Yiddi=
sh. OCLC lists 17 copies worldwide. Wear & some stains, but good, soli=
d condition. (HEB-45-8) (ID #28958) $350.00.<br>
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6. Wessely [Weisel], Naphtali Herz. SHIRE TIF'ERET:=
HIBUR KOLEL SHEMONAH AS´AR SHIRIM... 5 Volumes, Complete As Issued.=
Berlin-Prag: No Publisher (Landau?), 1809. Period quarter leather & m=
arbled boards, 8vo, 5 vols. In 1. 21 cm. [A 6th volume, not included here=
, was published 20 years later in 1829 with with the separate title page &=
ldquo;Die Mosaide. ”] In Hebrew. In 1788 Wessely “published in=
Berlin his ethical treatise Sefer ha-Middot (The Book of Virtues), a work=
of Musar Literature. He also published several odes; elegies, and other p=
oems; but his masterwork is his Shire Tif'eret…describing in rh=
etorical style the exodus from Egypt. This work, through which he earned t=
he admiration of his contemporaries, was translated into German…and=
partly into French (by Michel Berr; Paris, 1815). His commentaries on the=
Bible were published by the society Meie Nirdamim (Lyck, 1868-75) under t=
he title Imre Shefer. Wessely influenced his contemporaries in various dir=
ections. As a scholar he contributed, by his profound philological researc=
hes, to the reconstruction of the language of the Bible, though his work i=
s marred by prolixity and by his refusal to admit shades of meaning in syn=
onyms. As a poet he possessed perfection of style, but lacked feeling and=
artistic imagination. No one exerted a greater influence than he on the d=
issemination of modern Hebrew, and no one, on the other hand, did more to=
retard the development of pure art and of poetic intuition. Because of hi=
s energetic commitment to the cause of Jewish emancipation, Wessely may be=
regarded as a leader of the Maskilim” (Wikipedia 2012). SUBJECT(S):=
Epic poetry, Hebrew. Moses (Biblical leader) -- Poetry. OCLC lists 17 cop=
ies worldwide. Light wear to period boards, a very attractive copy in peri=
od binding. (HEB-45-3) (ID #28947) $300.00.<br>
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7. • Euchel, Isak Abraham. GEBETE DER HOCHDEUTSCHEN=
UND POLNISCHEN JUDEN: AUS DEM HEBRÄISCHEN ÜBERSETZT UND MIT ANM=
ERKUNGEN BEGLEITET. Vienna, A. Schmid, 1815. Original Publisher’s Cl=
oth. 12mo. 458 pages. 19 cm. In German. Title translates to English as, &l=
dquo;Prayers of the High German and Polish Jews: Translated from Hebrew an=
d Accompanied with Notes. ” Isaac Abraham Euchel was a “Hebrew=
author; born at Copenhagen 1758; died at Berlin (June?) 14, 1804. He stud=
ied at the University of Königsberg under Immanuel Kant, and acquired=
a fine Hebrew style from Moses Mendelssohn and Naphtali Wessely. A propos=
al to appoint him professor of Oriental languages at the University of K&o=
uml;nigsberg was resisted by Kant, as dean of the faculty of philosophy, o=
n the ground that "it is hardly possible for a Jewish teacher of the=
Hebrew language to abstain from the rabbinic expositions to which he has=
been accustomed from his youth. " Euchel was one of the founders of=
the periodical "Ha-Meassef" (1783), the organ of the Biurists.=
For some time subsequently he was bookkeeper in the establishment of Meye=
r Warburg in Berlin. In the winter of 1791 he founded, with other young sc=
holars, like Joseph Mendelssohn, E. Wolfssohn, and N. Oppenheimer, the Ges=
ellschaft der Freunde in Berlin" (EJ, 2007) SUBJECT (S): Judaism -- L=
iturgy -- Texts. OCLC lists 12 copies worldwide. Stanley Dreyfus’ co=
py with his name on internal cover. Non-archival tape along spine. Interna=
l pages somewhat foxed throughout, but all text is clear. Good condition.=
(DREYFUS-3-15) (ID #28664) $225.00.<br>
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8. Mendelsohn, Moses. PHÄDON ODER ÜBER DIE UNS=
TERBLICHKEIT DER SEELE IN DREY GESPRÄCHEN. Karlsruhe; Schmiederischen=
Buchhandlung, 1780. (FT) Quarter leather over marbled board. 12 mo. [14]=
52, 224 pages. 17 cm. In German. Title translates as “Phaedo or on=
the Immortality of Souls in three discussions. ” Beautiful gilt let=
tering and ornate decoration on spine with marbled endpages. Mendelssohn&r=
squo;s Phaedon, for which he became known as the “Jewish Socrates, &=
rdquo; was sold out within four months of its first printing. “The &=
lsquo;Phädon’ was the most widely read book of its time. Its sp=
ecial charm was its elegant and lucid style. Never before in Germany had p=
hilosophical questions been treated in such clear language; so that his co=
ntemporaries with justice called him the ‘German Plato. ’ The=
"Phädon" is one of the best productions of classic German=
prose; it was reprinted fifteen times and translated into nearly all the=
European languages, while a number of Hebrew versions were made. The Crow=
n Prince of Brunswick was so delighted with it that during a visit to his=
royal uncle in Berlin in the autumn of 1769, he invited the author to vis=
it him at the castle, and expressed the wish that he might induce him to c=
ome to Brunswick. ” (Jewish Encyclopedia 1906) Subjects: Immortality=
- Early works to 1800. Covers worn at edges, with top headband shaken, li=
ght pencil marks at endpages, pages clean, with light foxing scattered thr=
oughout. Very good + condition. (DREYFUS-5-9) (ID #28595) $400.00.<br>
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10. Rabe, Johann Jacob. MISCHNAH ODER DER TEXT DES TALMU=
DS: DAS IST, SAMMLUNG DER AUFSÄTZE DER AELTESTEN, UND MÜNDLICHEN=
UEBERLIEFERUNGEN ODER TRADITIONEN ALS DER GRUND DES HEUTIGEN PHARISAISCHE=
N JUDENTHUMS. Onolzbach, J. C. Posch, 1763. Original Publisher’s Clo=
th. Large 8vo. 6 volumes in 3 books. [14], 268, [8]; 294, [4]; 250, [4=
], [7], 306, [5]; 294, [4], 420, [5] pages. 24 cm. In German. The firs=
t German translation of the Mishnah. Title translates to English as, &ldqu=
o;Mishnah, or the Text of the Talmud: A Collection of the Oldest Papers an=
d Oral Traditions as the Basis of Today's Pharisees Judaism. ” &=
quot;'This man [Rabe] is a strong Talmudist,' wrote Moses Mendels=
sohn to Herder under date of Dec. 3, 1771, 'and I wonder at his patien=
ce. He has translated into German the first three parts of the Babylonian=
and the JerusalemTalmud, as he informs me, and has them ready for the pri=
nter, but can find no publisher for them'" (JE, 1906). CONTENTS:=
Vol. 1. Seraim. -- Vol. 2. Moed. -- Vol. 3. Naschim. -- Vol. 4. Nesikin.=
-- Vol. 5. Kodaschim. -- Vol. 6. Tohoroth. SUBJECT (S): Mishnah -- Commen=
taries. Includes indexes. SUBJECT(S): Mishnah -- Commentaries. Includes in=
dexes. “Verkauft: 1827” (sold) stamp on title page of each boo=
k. Endpages are darkened and somewhat fragile. Backstrips are rubbed and w=
orn. Internal pages are lightly darkened, but not fragile, and all text is=
clear. Good+ Condition. (DREYFUS-3-14) (ID #28663) $300.00.<br>
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11. Altmann, Alexander. MOSES MENDELSSOHN--A BIOGRAPHICA=
L STUDY. London, Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1973. 1st Edition. Cloth, Lar=
ge 8vo, 900 pages. Massive tome. Includes 25-page index. Author inscriptio=
n on front page. Very good in very good Jacket. (GER-39-13) (ID #28937) $4=
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12. Mendelssohn, Moses. DIE PSALMEN. Berlin; Bey Friedri=
ch Maurer, 1783. (FT) Full calf. 12mo. XII, 354 pages. 18 cm. First Editio=
n. In German. Marbled endpages. The Book of Psalms, translated into German=
by Moses Mendelssohn, was the result of ten years of work, completed shor=
tly after his masterful translation of the Pentateuch into German, which c=
aused a stir of denunciation amongst both conservative Rabbis and Gentiles=
of the time. Subjects: Bible. O. T. Psalms. Early printed books - 1783. C=
overs worn, binding still very tight. Very light foxing throughout; in rem=
arkably clean condition. Very good condition. (GER-39-19) (ID #29066) $400=
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13. Euchel, Isaac Abraham. TOLDOT HA-RAV HA-KOLEL HE-HAK=
HAM... MOSHEH BEN MENAHEM ZATSAL. Vienna; Gedruckt Bey G. Holzinger, 1814.=
(FT) Later Paper Wrappers. 12mo. 144 pages. 19cm. Second edition. In Hebr=
ew. Title translates as: “Autobiography of Moses Mendelsohn, with ex=
cerpts from his work ‘Jerusalem’. ” Isaac Abraham Euchel=
was a “Hebrew author; born at Copenhagen 1758; died at Berlin (June=
? ) 14, 1804. He studied at the University of Königsberg under Immanu=
el Kant, and acquired a fine Hebrew style from Moses Mendelssohn and Napht=
ali Wessely. A proposal to appoint him professor of Oriental languages at=
the University of Königsberg was resisted by Kant, as dean of the fa=
culty of philosophy, on the ground that "it is hardly possible for a=
Jewish teacher of the Hebrew language to abstain from the rabbinic exposi=
tions to which he has been accustomed from his youth. " Euchel was on=
e of the founders of the periodical "Ha-Meassef" (1783), the org=
an of the Biurists. For some time subsequently he was bookkeeper in the es=
tablishment of Meyer Warburg in Berlin. In the winter of 1791 he founded,=
with other young scholars, like Joseph Mendelssohn, E. Wolfssohn, and N.=
Oppenheimer, the Gesellschaft der Freunde in Berlin. … The most br=
illiant example of Euchel's Hebrew style is found in his biography of=
Moses Mendelssohn, entitled "Toledot Rambeman: Lebensgeschichte Mos.=
Mendelssohns, mit Excerpten aus Seinem 'Jerusalem'" (Berlin,=
1789; Vienna, 1804)” (EJ, 2007). Subjects: Jews - Biography. Rabbis=
- Biography. Mendelssohn, Moses, 1729-1786. OCLC lists 3 copies worldwide=
(American Jewish Univ, U of Manchester, Royal Danish Library). Some signa=
tures shaken. Edges lightly bumped. Text crisp. Fair condition. Rare and i=
mportant. (GER-38-36) (ID #29039) $375.00.<br>
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14. Pinner, Efrajim Moseh. COMPENDIUM DES HIEROSOLYMITAN=
ISCHEN UND BABYLONISCHEN THALMUD: EIN BEITRAG ZUR GESCHICHTE DER ISRAELITE=
N UND EINE PROBESCHRIFT DER ZU ERSCHEINENDEN DEUTSCHEN UEBERSETZUNG DES GA=
NZEN THALMUD. Berlin; Beim Verfasser, 1832. (FT) ...Clothbound. 8vo. XLVII=
I, 132 pages. 24 cm. First edition. In Hebrew and German. Red cloth with g=
ilt lettering on spine. Title translates as: "Compendium of the Jerus=
alem Talmud and of the Babylonian Talmud; a contribution to the history of=
the Israelites with a sample of the script appearing in German translatio=
n of the entire Talmud. ” Labeled as the first volume (no more publi=
shed), outlaying the origin, language, and authenticity of the Talmud, as=
well as the life and deeds of Rabbi Simon, the son of Yochai. Ephraim Mos=
es Pinner (1800-1880) was a “German Talmudist and archeologist; born=
in Pinne about 1800; died in Berlin 1880. His first work, bearing the pre=
tentious title of "I Ur Talmud Yerushalmi we-Talmud Babli" =3D &=
quot;Compendium of the Jerusalem Talmud and of the Babylonian Talmud"=
(Berlin, 1831), contained specimens of translation of both Talmuds and an=
attempted biography of the tanna Simeon b. Yohai. It was published as the=
forerunner of his proposed translation of the Talmud; and his travels thr=
ough Germany, France, England, Italy, Turkey, and Russia were probably und=
ertaken for the purpose of furthering that plan. Pinner went from Constant=
inople to St. Petersburg in 1837, and secured the permission of Emperor Ni=
cholas I to dedicate the translation to him. It was to have been completed=
in twenty-eight folio volumes; but only one appeared, the tractate Berako=
t, which was published five years later (Berlin, 1842). This is a splendid=
ly printed book, dedicated to the emperor, who also heads the list of subs=
cribers. The latter includes the names of the kings of Prussia, Holland, B=
elgium, and Denmark, and of about twenty-five dukes, princes, archbishops,=
and bishops. The volume contains approbations from several rabbis, none o=
f whom lived in Russia, in which country only representatives of Haskalah,=
like Abraham Stern, Isaac Baer Levinsohn, Jacob Tugendhold of Warsaw, and=
Abraham b. Joseph Sack of Wilna, favored the undertaking. Their approval=
was given in signed eulogies, which follow the approbations of the non-Ru=
ssian rabbis. ” (1906 Jewish Encyclopedia) Subjects: Simeon bar Yoha=
i, 2nd cent. Talmud -- Introductions. Talmud Yerushalmi -- Introductions.=
Ex-Libris Herzlian Teachers Academy (in South Africa). Covers lightly wor=
n, with white paint marks on uppermost edge of cover. Pages lightly foxed=
in margins and lightly wavy near binding throughout; but clean and very f=
resh otherwise. Good + condition. (GER-38-21) (ID #28930) $120.00.<br>
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15. Altmann, Alexander. MOSES MENDELSSOHN ON MIRACLES. L=
ouvain; Peeters, 1980. Paper wrappers. 8vo. 15 pages. 24 cm. Offprint from=
the volume: “Hommage à Georges Vajda: études d'hi=
stoire et de pensée juives. ” This offprint includes a handwr=
itten dedication from the author, addressed to Fred Lessing, and also incl=
udes a laid in handwritten letter in English written on Brandeis Universit=
y stationery from the author to Fred Lessing, dated August 19th, 1980. Ale=
xander Altmann (1906–1987), “rabbi, teacher, and scholar. His=
father was Adolf Altmann (1879–1944), a Hungarian-born rabbi who of=
ficiated in Trier in 1920–38 and wrote a history of the Jews there a=
nd in Salzburg. He died in Auschwitz, together with his wife and other mem=
bers of his family. Alexander commemorated them in "A Filial Memoir,=
" which appeared in the Leo Baeck Yearbook, 26 (1981). In 1931, Altm=
ann received both a doctorate in philosophy from Berlin University and ord=
ination from the Hildesheimer Rabbinical Seminary in Berlin, where he taug=
ht from 1932. He served as rabbi in Berlin from 1931 and established there=
the Rambam Lehrhaus, a public institute for adult education, in 1935. Alt=
mann was obliged to flee Germany in 1938, and was then appointed communal=
rabbi in Manchester, England, serving in that capacity until 1959. In 195=
4 he founded the Institute of Jewish Studies in Manchester, serving as its=
director until his departure from England, when the Institute moved to Un=
iversity College, London, under the watchful eyes of his devoted brother,=
Manfred. In 1959, Altmann was appointed Lown Professor of Jewish Philosop=
hy and History of Ideas at Brandeis University, where he taught until his=
retirement in 1976. He established the Lown Institute for Advanced Judaic=
Studies at Brandeis and directed it from 1960 to 1965. Altmann's scho=
larship was primarily in the fields of medieval Jewish philosophy and myst=
icism, as well as in the writings of Moses Mendelssohn. His initial German=
essays were theological and contemporary in nature and appeared in transl=
ation as The Meaning of Jewish Existence (1992). Altmann's work includ=
es Des Rabbi Mosche Ben Maimon More Newuchim (abridged German translation,=
1935); Saadya Gaon: The Book of Doctrines and Beliefs (1946, abridged Eng=
lish translation and commentary); Isaac Israeli (together with S. M. Stern=
, 1969); Moses Mendelssohns Fruehschriften Zur Metaphysik (1969); Studies=
in Religious Philosophy and Mysticism (1969); Moses Mendelssohn: A Biogra=
phical Study (1973); Essays in Jewish Intellectual History (1981); Moses M=
endelssohn, Jerusalem or On Religious Power and Judaism (introduction and=
commentary; translation by Allan Arkush, 1983); Von der Mittlealterlichen=
zur Modernen Aufklaerung: Studien Zur Juedischen Geistesgeschichte (1987)=
=2E Altmann was the editor of Scripta Judaica (jointly with J. G. Weiss) and=
the Journal of Jewish Studies (1954–58); of Studies and Texts of th=
e Lown Institute (four volumes, 1963–67); and editor in chief of the=
Moses Mendelssohn Gesammelte Schriften Jubilaeumsausgabe from 1970 until=
his death in 1987. In that period, he was sole editor of five volumes in=
that series and part editor of five more. A complete bibliography of Altm=
ann's work is found in Perspectives on Jewish Thought and Mysticism, e=
dited by A. L. Ivry, E. R. Wolfson, and A. Arkush (1998). An appreciation=
of his manifold contributions to scholarship is given in the Leo Baeck Ye=
arbook, 34 (1989) and in the Hebrew publication In Memory of Alexander Alt=
mann (1990), published by the Israel Academy of Sciences and the Hebrew Un=
iversity of Jerusalem. Subjects: Mendelssohn, Moses, 1729-1786. Judaism --=
History. Light aging to covers, otherwise fine. Very good condition. (GER=
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16. Aristotle; Meir Ben Solomon Alguadez; Joseph Ben She=
m-Tob.; Isaac Satanow. SEFER HA-MIDOT LE-ARISTOTELES. Berlin: Orientalisch=
e Buchdruckerey. 1790. Cloth. 8vo. In Hebrew. Fascimile reprint from 1790=
edition. SUBJECT (S): Hebrew language; Aristotle – Ethics. OCLC lis=
ts one copy worldwide (UCLA). Fine condition. (GER-15-23) (ID #18803) $75.=
00.<br>
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17. Bamberger, Fritz. FOUR UNPUBLISHED LETTERS TO MOSES=
MENDELSSOHN. [New York], 1963. Paper wrappers. 8vo. 9 pages. 23 cm. Offp=
rint from “Living Legacy, essays in honor of Hugo Hahn. ” Thes=
e four unpublished letters to Moses Mendelssohn were obtained by Bamberger=
in the wake of the “Judenrein” of a Leipzig publishing house=
in 1937. Bamberger dedicated the publication of these letters (from Johan=
n Freidrich Lowen, Johann Theophilus Lessing, Johann Jacob Dusch, and Chri=
stian Wilhelm Von Dohm) to Hugo Hahn, and this edited collection of letter=
s was originally published in the Festschrift “Living Legacy”=
in 1963. “Bamberger's main interest in the field of Jewish phil=
osophy centered on Moses Mendelssohn (Moses Mendelssohns geistige Gestalt=
(1929) and "Moses Mendelssohns Begriff vom Judentum, " in: Wiss=
enschaft des Judentums im deutschen Sprachbereich, ed. By K. Wilhelm (1967=
), 521ff. ), and he edited three volumes of the bicentenary edition of Men=
delssohn's writings (1929–32; cf. Also Denkmal der Freundschaft=
(1929), and Living Legacy (1963), 86ff. ). ” (2007 Encyclopedia Jud=
aica) Subjects: Mendelssohn, Moses, 1729-1786. Biography. Bound in paper a=
nd archival tape over staples, on thick paper. Paper lightly aged, but cle=
an. Very good condition. (GER-40-3) (ID #29056) $30.00.<br>
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18. Elbogen, Ismar; J. Bergmann; S. Bernfeld; Max Freude=
nthal; Leopold Hirschberg; A. Lewkowitz; Paul Michael; Franz Muncker; Hann=
s Reissner; Franz Rosenzweig. GEDENKBUCH FÜR MOSES MENDELSSOHN 1729-1=
929. Berlin; M. Poppelauer, 1929. Clothbound. 8vo. 171 pages. 23 cm. First=
edition. In German. Brown cloth with gilt lettering and frontispiece of a=
bust of Moses Mendelssohn. Title translates as: “Memorial Book for=
Moses Mendelssohn. ” Printed under the auspices of the Federation o=
f Societies for Jewish History and Literature in Germany, this collection=
of writings and biographical sketches commemorates the two hundredth year=
after the birth of the famous German Jewish Enlightenment poet and philos=
opher, Moses Mendelssohn. Subjects: Mendelssohn, Moses, 1729-1786. Light r=
ubbing to backstrip, light aging to pages. Clean and fresh. Very good +con=
dition. (GER-36-14) (ID #28865) $35.00.<br>
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19. Hensel, Sebastian. DIE FAMILIE MENDELSSOHN 1729-1847=
=2E NACH BRIEFEN UND TAGEBÜCHERN. COMPLETE IN 2 VOLUMES. Berlin: H. Beh=
r, 1880. Original Publisher’s cloth with gilt lettering on front and=
spine, 8vo, ix, 383, 400 pages. “Mit 8 Portraits, gezeichnet von Wi=
lhelm Hensel 2. Durchges. Aufl. ” The letters are for the most part=
by Felix Mendelssohn and his sister Fanny Hensel. Contents: - Moses Mende=
lssohn -- Joseph und Nathan Mendelssohn -- Die Töchter Moses Mendelss=
ohns -- Abraham Mendelssohn-Bartholdy -- Wilhelm Hensel -- Die Schweizer R=
eise -- Leipzigerstrasse No. 3 -- Felix in England 1829 -- 1830-1834 -- Gu=
stav Peter Lejeune Dirichlet -- Das Jahr 1835 -- 1836-1839 -- Italien -- N=
eapel bis Berlin -- 1841. Hier sind wir denn vorerst ganz still zu Haus --=
Die Jahre 1842 und 1843 -- Reise- und Heimathbriefe -- Wiedersehen in Ita=
lien. Chip to bottom of Vol I spine, otherwise Very Good Condition, a very=
attractive set. (holo2-47-35) (ID #26307) $55.00.<br>
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20. Herz, Marcus. MARCUS HERZ ÜBER DIE FRÜHE B=
EERDIGUNG DER JUDEN: AN DIE HERAUSGEBER DES HEBRÄISCHEN SAMMLERS. Ber=
lin; Bey Christian Friedrich Voss Und Sohn, 1788. Original Paper Wrappers.=
8vo. 60 pages. 21 cm. In German, with some French and Hebrew. Revised and=
enlarged from the 1787 1st edition. Engraving on title page by L. W. Chod=
owiecki. In original paper wrappers, printed on fine paper. Title translat=
es as: “Marcus Herz on the Early Burial of the Jews: To the Editor o=
f the Hebrew Collector. ” Hame’assef (Hebrew: ; literally &quo=
t;the collector"), first Hebrew organ of the Haskalah. Founded in 178=
3 in Koenigsberg by pupils of Moses Mendelssohn, Hame'assef was devote=
d to the education of youth, the increased use of the Hebrew language, and=
raising the general cultural level of the people. Although the organ was=
planned as a monthly, it actually appeared as a quarterly whose numbers w=
ere collected into annual volumes. The first three volumes were published=
in Koenigsberg from 1783 to 1786; the next three in Berlin, 1788–90=
; four issues of the seventh volume in Breslau, 1794–97; and three v=
olumes of the renewed Hame'assef in Berlin, Altona, and Dessau (1809&n=
dash;11), after which it ceased publication. “Marcus Herz (1747&ndas=
h;1803), German physician and philosopher. Herz was born in Berlin, where=
his father was a Torah scribe. At the age of 15, Herz left for Koenigsber=
g, where he worked as a clerk. He attended lectures at the University of K=
oenigsberg from 1766 but had to stop in 1770 because of his financial situ=
ation. He became friendly with Immanuel Kant, who asked him to serve as hi=
s "advocate" on the occasion of his submitting his dissertation.=
In his book Betrachtungen aus der spekulativen Weltweishei (1771) Herz fo=
rmulated his interpretation of Kant's views. In 1770 Herz returned to=
Berlin, where he joined Moses Mendelssohn 's circle. Supported by Dav=
id Friedlander, he completed his medical studies at Halle. In 1774 he was=
appointed physician at the Berlin Jewish Hospital and was reputed to be o=
ne of the best doctors of his time. He married Henriette De Lemons from a=
Portuguese Jewish family from Hamburg. She was a social leader who gather=
ed at her salon some of the most prominent intellectual figures in Berlin=
of her time and was known for her intellect. In 1777 Herz started lecturi=
ng in his home on philosophy and experimental physics. These lectures were=
attended by important persons, including members of the royal family, amo=
ng them the future Frederick William III. In 1787 the king of Prussia best=
owed the title of "professor" on Herz with the right to receive=
an income for life. Kant corresponded with Herz for many years, and these=
letters are of great importance for understanding both the development of=
Kant's views before the publication of Critique of Pure Reason in 178=
1 and the relationship between Kant and Salomon Maimon. Herz published sev=
eral essays on philosophy and on the human soul. His Versuch ueber den Ges=
chmack und die Ursachen seiner Verschiedenheit (1776) developed the concep=
tion of perfect beauty (in the spirit of Winckelmanns). In 1786 Herz publi=
shed his Versuch der Kuenste. In 1786 he published his Versuch ueber den S=
chwindel, and in 1777–84 his Briefe an Aerzte. At Mendelsshon's=
request he translated from English into German Vindiciae Juaeorum, a defe=
nse of Judaism by Manasseh Ben Israel. In his work Freimuetige Kaffeegespr=
ache zweier juedischer Zuschauerinnen ueber Juden Pinkus (1772), Herz crit=
icized the self-hatred found among Jews. He also wrote, at the request of=
the editor of Ha-Me'assef, a pamphlet in which he argued against quic=
k burial, the traditional custom among Jews. He was for a long time the un=
known translator of the so-called "Prayer of the Jewish Physician, &q=
uot; attributed to Maimonides, from Hebrew into German. ” Subjects:=
Burial laws (Jewish law). Jewish funeral rites and ceremonies. Burial, Pr=
emature. OCLC lists 16 copies worldwide. Light foxing to wraps, with some=
tears along backstrip. Light soiling to title page. Edges of pages lightl=
y bumped. Pages exceedingly clean and fresh, owing to the fine quality pap=
er and preservation. Very good condition. (GER-40-1) (ID #29054) $675.00.<=
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21. Katsh, Abraham I. NACHMAN KROCHMAL AND THE GERMAN ID=
EALISTS. KROCHMAL'S PHILOSOPHY AND ZIONIST THOUGHT. New York: No Publi=
sher, 1949. Paper wrappers. 8vo. 24 pages. Reprinted from Jewish Social St=
udies, Vol. VIII, No. 2 and from The Jewish Review, Vol. IV, No. 3. Not an=
offprint. SUBJECT (S): Zionism; Philosophy; Krochmal, Nachman. OCLC lists=
1 copy worldwide (Brandeis). Katsh (1908-1998) was born in Poland and emi=
grated to the U. S. In 1925. In 1933, he began teaching at New York Univer=
sity, and over the following three decades taught Hebrew education, cultur=
e, language and literature there. In 1957 He founded the National Associat=
ion of Professors of Hebrew in American Universities, and was elected pres=
ident of Dropsie College in 1967, where he served until 1976. His scholars=
hip won him many awards and fellowships, including the Jewish Teachers Ass=
ociation of New York's Avodah Award, the Rabbi Kaniel Prize of the Mun=
icipality of Haifa, and the first Charles Kramer Research Fellow of the In=
stitute for Jewish Policy Planning and Research of the Synagogue Council o=
f America. Katsh is well known for his studies of Hebrew manuscripts and f=
ragments from Russia and Eastern Europe, his translations, and his essays=
on Jewish studies in the United States. (EJ) Crease down front cover, edg=
eworn, good condition. (Katsh-1-9) (ID #19587) $30.00.<br>
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22. Kayserling, M. MOSES MENDELSSOHN: SEIN LEBEN UND SEI=
NE WERKE. Leipzig, Hermann Mendelssohn, 1862. 1st Edition (?). 3/4 Leather=
, 569 pages; "Schriften herausgegeben vom Institute zur Förderun=
g der israelitischen Literatur... 7. Jg. " "Mit Heinrich Graetz=
und Leopold Zunz gehört Kayserling zu den Bahnbrechern der Geschicht=
sschreibung der Juden" (NDB). Lacks title page. Gilt spine title, bin=
ding tight. Light wear to leather. Staining to corner of some pages. Very=
Good Condition, nice copy. (RAB-45-23) (ID #24687) $75.00.<br>
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23. Mendelssohn, Moses. SEFER ZEMIROT YISRAEL: KOLEL SEF=
ER TEHILIM (COMPLETE IN FIVE VOLUMES). Ofenbakh: Al Yede Ha-Madpis Avraham=
Ben Hirsh Segal,, 1825. Half leather, (FT) Hardcover, 44, 70, 68, 42, 38,=
82 pages 5 volumes in two, 8vo, 20 cm. In Hebrew and German in Hebrew cha=
racters (Judeo-German). SUBJECT(S): Bible. O. T. Psalms -- Commentaries. O=
ther Titles: Bible. O. T. Psalms. Hebrew. 1824.; Bible.; O. T.; Psalms.; Y=
iddish.; 1824.; Zemirot Yisrael. OCLC lists 6 copies worldwide (Harvard, S=
tanford, Baltimore Hebrew Univ, Gratz Col, Texas at Austin, Texas at Austi=
n, Harry Ransom). Volume 1-2 missing backstrip, leather rubbed off of fron=
t cover. Some stained pages to Volumes 1-2. Volume 3 - 5 solid, tight bind=
ing. Good condition. (music-1-2) (ID #24176) $400.00.<br>
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24. Natonek, Josef, 1813-1892. WISSENSCHAFT - RELIGION;=
EINE PRO- UND CONTRA-BELEUCHTUNG DES MATERIALISMUS, DARWIN, HAECKEL, B&Uu=
ml;CHNER ETC., NACH NATURWISSENSCHAFTLICHEN GRUNDSÄTZEN DER MOS. ENTS=
TEHUNGSGESCHICHTE, NEBST HISTORISCHER BEWEISFÜHRUNG FÜR EINE WAL=
TENDE GÖTTLICHE VORSETZUNG. Budapest, Pester Buchdruckerei,, 1876. Pr=
ofessionally rebound in modern boards, 16mo. 151 pages. 1st edition. In Ge=
rman. “ Science - Religion; Pros and Cons of Materialism, Darwin, Ha=
eckel, Büchner etc. After Scientific Principles of Man’s Origin=
s, History, with Evidence for the Divine. ” Natonek “obtained=
his rabbinical diploma from Rabbi Moses Sofer, of Pressburg…. He g=
ave up his rabbinate to devote himself wholly to the reclamation of Palest=
ine. In concurrence with the Alliance Israelite Universelle and Sir Moses=
Montifiore, he negotiated unsuccessfully with the grand vizier at Constan=
tinople. He returned to Hungary, settling in Budapest, where he edited wha=
t may be considered the first Zionist weekly, Das einige Israel (1870). &r=
dquo; (UJE, 1942). SUBJECT(S): Judaism and science. OCLC lists only 10 cop=
ies worldwide. Ex-library with minimal markings. Very good + condition. (R=
AB-42-5) (ID #24677) $100.00.<br>
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25. Plessner, Salomon. TRAUUNGSREDEN FÜR ISRAELITEN=
=2E Berlin; G. Eichler, 1839. Paper Wrappers. 8vo. Viii, 182 pages. 21 cm. F=
irst edition. In German. Title translates as: “Jewish Wedding Sermon=
s. ” This collection of Wedding Sermons were written and published b=
y Salomon Plessner, a “German preacher and Bible commentator; born a=
t Breslau April 23, 1797; died at Posen Aug. 28, 1883. Having lost his fat=
her when very young, Plessner had to support his mother and himself. He en=
gaged in business, but found time to study Hebrew, rabbinics, and German,=
under Wessely's influence. At the age of seventeen Plessner began to=
study Wessely's Hebrew translation of the Apocrypha, resolving to con=
tinue the translation himself. He indeed published at Breslau in 1819 his=
Hebrew translation of the Apocryphal additions to the Book of Esther, und=
er the title "Hosafah li-Megillat Ester, " with a literary-histo=
rical introduction. At the same time he became known as an eloquent preach=
er. Many of his sermons were published, among them his funeral oration on=
the death of Abraham Tiktin, bearing the Hebrew title "Zeker Addili-=
Berakah" (Breslau, 1821). In 1830 Plessner removed to Berlin, where f=
or a short time he was a teacher in the normal school. Although possessing=
all the knowledge necessary for an Orthodox rabbi, he persistently declin=
ed rabbinical office, preferring freedom of speech. He earned a livelihood=
by preaching every other Saturday in the Berlin bet ha-midrash, continuin=
g at the same time his study of the Apocrypha. In 1832 his "Nozelim M=
in Lebanon" was published in Berlin. This work consisted of a Hebrew=
translation of a part of the Apocrypha, with an appendix, entitled "=
Duda'im, " containing exegetical notes, verses in Hebrew and Germ=
an, and sermons. The following year he was invited to dedicate the new syn=
agogue at Bromberg, for which occasion he composed poems in Hebrew and in=
German, which were published under the title "Shirim la-Anukkat Bet=
ha-Tefillah" (Berlin, 1834). In his sermons Plessner adopted the exp=
ressions of the most eminent Christian preachers, interspersing his senten=
ces with verses of Schiller and Goethe, and rejecting the derashic or homi=
letic interpretation of the Bible. In 1834 he began to publish his sermons=
in yearly volumes under the general title "Belehrungen und Erbauunge=
n" (2d ed. Berlin, 1840, under the title "Religiöse Vortr&a=
uml;ge"). In 1838 Plessner published his "Dat Mosheh wi-Yehudit,=
" a catechism in twelve parts, preceded by an introduction, on the n=
ature and history of Jewish religious instruction. His oratorical talent i=
s particularly exhibited in his "Mira'e Odesh" (Berlin, 1841=
), a collection of holy-day sermons for the years 1835 to 1839.” (19=
06 Jewish Encyclopedia) Subjects: Jewish wedding sermons. Jewish sermons,=
German. OCLC lists 21 copies worldwide. Original paper wrappers absent. T=
itle page very soiled around edges. All edges very bumped and soiled. Page=
s lightly foxed and lightly soiled throughout. However, all text legible,=
and pages quite crisp. Fair condition. (GER-38-49) (ID #29051) $100.00.<b=
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26. Auerbach, Berthold. B.V. SPINOZA'S SÄMMTLIC=
HE WERKE: AUS DEM LATEINISCHEN MIT DEM LEBEN SPINOZA'S. Stuttgart: J.=
Scheible. 1841. Half leather. 12mo. 284 pages. In German. SUBJECT (S): Ge=
rman language; Philosophy. OCLC lists 24 copies worldwide. Auerbach (1812&=
ndash;1882) was a German author and a leader of Jewish emancipation. Born=
at Nordstetten in Wuerttemberg, he, after some initial training for the r=
abbinate at Karlsruhe (1827–29), became interested in law and philos=
ophy and continued his studies at the universities of Tuebingen, Munich, a=
nd Heidelberg. Auerbach's interest in Spinoza prompted his first novel=
, Spinoza, Ein Denkerleben (1837), and his five-volume translation of the=
philosopher's works (1841). (EJ) Ex-library, Lacks backstrip (spine c=
overing), Good Condition (GER-15-17) (ID #18797) $175.00.<br>
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27. Grunwald, Max. SPINOZA IN DEUTSCHLAND. GEKRÖNTE=
PREISSCHRIFT. Berlin, 1897. Berlin, S. Calvary & Co. 1897. 1st editio=
n. Modern Cloth, 8vo, iv, 380 pages. 23 cm. In German. "Beiträge=
zur Spinoza-bibliographie"on pages [361]-370. SUBJECT (S): Philosop=
hy, German. Institutional blindstamp on title page. Paper wrinkled and chi=
pped, not suitable for institutional library, working copy only. (GER-17-6=
B) (ID #16465) $40.00.<br>
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28. Glasscheib, Hermann Samuel. BARUCH SPINOZA: DRAMA IN=
EINEM VORSPIEL UND SIEBEN BILDERN. Frankfurt Am Main; Ner-Tamid,, 1964. S=
oftcover, 8vo, 112 pages, 20 cm. In German. SUBJECT (S): Spinoza, Benedict=
us de, 1632-1677 -- Drama. OCLC lists 11 copies worldwide. Wear to cover e=
dges. Very good condition. (Rab-46-15) xx (ID #24745) $30.00.<br>
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29. Rabbiner Versammlung. PROTOKOLLE UND AKTENSTUCKE DER=
ZWEITEN RABBINER VERSAMMLUNG ABGEHALTEN IN FRANKFURT UM MAIN, VOM 15TEN B=
IS ZUM 28TEN JULI 1845. Frankfurt Am Main, E. Ullmann, 1845. Original Publ=
isher’s Cloth. 8vo. Vi, [2], 382 pages. 22 cm. Reform. In German wi=
th some Hebrew. Title translates to English as, “Protocols and file=
pieces of the second rabbi meeting held in Frankfurt at Main, from 15th t=
o 28th July, 1845.” “It was at this conference that the irreco=
ncilable differences between the traditionalists and the reformers receive=
d decisive expression. The discussions had shown that many of the members=
held radical views on a number of vital points connected with the ritual.=
Zacharias Frankel, who declared himself to be a champion of positive hist=
orical Judaism, desired the conference to issue a statement of definite pr=
inciples. In this he was opposed particularly by Geiger and Holdheim, and,=
although a majority of the meeting was in sympathy with Frankel's vie=
ws, yet the conference supported his two chief opponents in their contenti=
on that no definite declaration of principles should be formulated, becaus=
e such a theoretical document would result only in antagonisms and would n=
ot assist in solving the burning questions of the day. Frankel withdrew fr=
om the conference, and became the leader of the adherents of so-called &qu=
ot;positive historical" Judaism. Frankel issued a call in May, 1846,=
for a conference of Jewish theologians, to be held in the fall of that ye=
ar, and to be the organ of the opposition to the Reform conferences; but t=
he meeting did not take place” (JE, 1906). SUBJECT(S): Judaism. Rabb=
is -- Germany. OCLC lists 25 copies worldwide. Some wear to cover, especia=
lly at corners. Lacks most of backstrip. Some dampstains to second half of=
book, but all text is clear. Institutional blind stamp on title page. Goo=
d+ condition. (GER-35-2). (ID #26860) $150.00.<br>
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30. PROTOKOLLE DER DRITTEN VERSAMMLUNG DEUTSCHER RABBINE=
R, ABGEHALTEN ZU BRESLAU, VOM 13. BIS 24. JULI 1846. Wroclaw, Leuckart F.=
E. C. 1847. 1st Edition. cloth, 8vo., vi, 317 pages. Later cloth binding.=
"The chief interest in the Breslau Conference centres about the Sabb=
ath discussions. Possibly nowhere was the conflict between the commands of=
rabbinical Judaism and the demands of life so apparent as in the matter o=
f Sabbath observance...Was there any method of reconciliation? Could the S=
abbath be preserved and the deamnds of life be satisfied at the same time?=
Here, if anywhere, the people looked for help and guidance to their relig=
ious leaders" (Philipson in JQR, July 1906). Additionally, "Duri=
ng the Breslau Rabbinic Conference in 1846 the status of women was present=
ed as an issue and addressed to be more equalized, but no major practical=
action toward the equalization of Jewish women was taken" (Wilhelm i=
n Jnl of Amer J. Archives, Vol 54, nr 1). (GER-30-12) Rebound in period cl=
oth, without original paper covers, some old waterdamage to barods, but in=
ternal paper and binding to have escaped with only dampstains to the margi=
ns. Good Solid Condition. (ID #7815) $150.00.<br>
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31. Bet Din Tsedek (Hamburg). ELEH DIVRE HA-BERIT:...PES=
AK DIN ASHER YATSA MI-PI BET DIN TSEDEK DE...HAMBURG... Altona, 1819. (FT)=
Hardcover, 8vo, xvi, 132 pages, 22 cm. In Hebrew. SUBJECT(S): Descriptor:=
Responsa -- 1600-1800. Responsa -- 1800. Reform Judaism -- Controversial=
literature. Jewish law. Jews -- Germany -- Hamburg. Publication date from=
publisher's preface. Collection of opinions written by German, Polish=
, and Italian rabbis against the introduction of a Reform temple and praye=
r book in Hamburg. Like his mentor Wessely, Cohen might be considered the=
traditionalist element within the burgeoning Haskalah movement. He was op=
posed to the liberties taken in the Hamburg Temple, beachhead of the Refor=
m movement. It was none other than Cohen who translated into German the re=
sponsa of leading rabbis in condemnation of the Hamburg Temple that were i=
ncluded in the well-known Eleh Divrei ha- Berith (Altona, 1819). The first=
Reform Temple was inaugurated in Hamburg in the year 1818 by Israel Jacob=
son. What marked the service as Reform was the abbreviation of the liturgy=
, choral singing with organ accompaniment, and supplementing the standard=
Hebrew prayers with prayers in the vernacular. The following year of 1819=
, the Hamburg Temple issued its first prayer book. One of the most egregio=
us innovations in the eyes of the Orthodox rabbinate was that the revised=
text of the liturgy no longer shared the traditional longing for a return=
to Zion and the restoration of the Temple in Jerusalem. This radical ideo=
logical shift is refl ected in the Hebrew text on p.105: “May it be=
Your will...that you accept the service of our lips in place of the sacri=
fices. ” Orthodox reaction was swift. The three rabbis of Hamburg, B=
aruch Ozer, Moses Jacob Jaffe, and Jechiel Michael Speier issued a ban aga=
inst the recent heresies. However, the appeal of the Orthodox to the Hambu=
rg Senate to have the Temple closed was turned down. The reformers attempt=
ed to garner rabbinical support for their innovations, publishing a tract=
Nogah Tzedek (Dessau, 1818) presenting several opinions in favor of their=
efforts. The Orthodox rabbinate of Hamburg likewise appealed to their fel=
low rabbis to come to their aid. They subsequently produced Eileh Divrei h=
a-Berith (Altona, 1819), a collection of twenty-two response denouncing th=
e new movement. See EJ, Vol. XIV, cols. 23-24; JE, Vol. X, pp. 354-355; E.=
M. Klugman, Rabbi Samson Raphael Hirsch, pp. 20-21, 25-27. OCLC lists 20=
copies worldwide. Hinge repair. Wear to binding. Light staining to pages.=
Repair to spine. (Heb-33-17) (ID #28046) $300.00.<br>
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32. Formstecher, Salomon, 1808-1889. DIE RELIGION DES GE=
ISTES: EINE WISSENSCHAFTLICHE DARSTELLUNG DES JUDENTHUMS NACH SEINEM CHARA=
KTER, ENTWICKLUNGSGANGE UND BERUFE IN DER MENSCHHEIT. Frankfurt Am Main; J=
=2E C. Hermann, 1841. Contemporary boards. 8vo. VIII, 452 [1] pages. 20 cm.=
First edition. In German. Quarter leather with red cloth and gilt letteri=
ng on spine. Title translates as: The Religion of the Spirit: a scientific=
view of Judaism according to its character and gradual progressive develo=
pment of humanity. ” Salomon Formstecher, (1808-1889) was a “G=
erman rabbi; born at Offenbach July 28, 1808; died there April 24, 1889. A=
fter graduating (Ph. D. 1831) from the Giessen University, he settled in h=
is native city as preacher, succeeding Rabbi Metz in 1842; he filled this=
office until his death. During his long ministry he strove to harmonize t=
he religious and social life of the Jews with the requirements of modern c=
ivilization. His aims were expressed at Brunswick, Frankfort-on-the-Main,=
Breslau, and Cassel in the conferences of the German rabbis. The most imp=
ortant of his works is "Religion des Geistes" (Frankfort-on-the-=
Main, 1841). It contains a systematic analysis of the principles of Judais=
m. The author endeavors to demonstrate that Judaism was a necessary manife=
station, and that its evolution tends in the direction of a universal reli=
gion for civilized mankind. Judaism, in contrast with paganism, considers=
the Divinity to be a Being separate from nature, and allows no doubt of G=
od's existence. Consequently any theogony, any emanation, any dualism=
must be rejected. Formstecher concludes his work with a history of Judais=
m which is a valuable contribution to Jewish religious philosophy. "=
(1906 Jewish Encyclopedia) Subjects: Judaism -- Works to 1900. Jewish phi=
losophy. Judaism -- Doctrines. Light wear to covers, with rubbing at edges=
on leather. Jewish book distributor stamp on title page. Pages very clean=
and fresh, with light spots of foxing throughout, and slightly wavy pages=
=2E Binding very solid. Good + condition. (GER-38-39) (ID #29041) $350.00.<b=
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33. Geiger, Abraham. KOVETS VIKUHIM. Breslau, 1844. (FT)=
Softcover, 12mo, un-paginated. In Hebrew. Geiger was a “pioneer of=
the Wissenschaft des Judentums and founder of Reform Judaism. Geiger was=
born in Frankfurt am Main to an Orthodox family and received a traditiona=
l religious education. Already in his childhood, he began studying classic=
al history, which gave rise to doubts concerning biblical claims to divine=
authority. At the age of 17, Geiger began writing a study of the Mishnah,=
differentiating its legal style from biblical and talmudic law, and a dic=
tionary of Mishnaic Hebrew. With funding from friends, Geiger began univer=
sity studies at the University of Heidelberg in April 1829, to the dismay=
of his family. He concentrated on philology, Syriac, Hebrew, and classics=
, but also attended lectures in Old Testament, philosophy, and archaeology=
=2E After one semester, he moved to the University of Bonn, where he joined=
a group of Jewish students, many of whom were preparing for careers in th=
e rabbinate, that included Samson Raphael Hirsch, Solomon Munk, Joseph Der=
enbourg, and other future scholars of Judaism” (Heschel in EJ 2010).=
OCLC lists 10 copies worldwide. Wear to binding. Name written on front co=
ver. Staining to cover. Bumped corners. (HEB-37-2) (ID #27626) $135.00.<br=
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34. Geiger, Abraham. WISSENSCHAFTLICHE ZEITSCHRIFT FUR J=
UDISCHE THEOLOGIE (VOLUME 1 ONLY). Frankfurt Am Main: J. D. Sauerlander, 1=
835. Hardcover, 8vo, 22 cm. In German. SUBJECT (S): Judaism -- Works to 19=
00. Judaism -- Doctrines. Reform Judaism. The first volume of this importa=
nt journal, which ran a total of 6 volumes 1835-1847. Geiger (1810–1=
874) was a “pioneer of the Wissenschaft des Judentums and founder of=
Reform Judaism. Geiger was born in Frankfurt am Main to an Orthodox famil=
y and received a traditional religious education. Already in his childhood=
, he began studying classical history, which gave rise to doubts concernin=
g biblical claims to divine authority. At the age of 17, Geiger began writ=
ing a study of the Mishnah, differentiating its legal style from biblical=
and talmudic law, and a dictionary of Mishnaic Hebrew. The two journals h=
e edited contain numerous articles of scholarly and theological significan=
ce: Wissenschaftliche Zeitschrift fuer juedische Theologie (1835–39)=
and Juedische Zeitschrift fuer Wissenschaft und Leben (1862–75) &rd=
quo; (Heschel in EJ 2007). OCLC lists 33 copies worldwide. Wear to cover L=
ightly bumped corners. Otherwise beautiful condition. (SPEC-11-1) (ID #254=
50) $200.00.<br>
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35. Geiger, Abraham; Geiger, Ludwig. ABRAHAM GEIGER'=
S NACHGELASSENE SCHRIFTEN. DRITTER BAND. ONLY. Breslau, Jacobsohn & Co=
=2E, 1885. Cloth, 8vo. 344 pages. In German. This volume only. SUBJECT (S):=
Judaism; Jews – Germany; Jewish question; Geiger, Abraham, 1810-187=
4. Abraham Geiger (1810-1847) was a Reform movement leader. In 1832, he be=
came the rabbi of Wiesbaden, and began his program of reform; five years l=
ater, he hosted the first meeting of Reform rabbis there. He also served i=
n Breslau and Frankfurt, his hometown. His well-known Orthodox opponents w=
ere S. R. Hirsch and A Titkin. Cover is worn, especially at edges; lacks b=
ackstrip. Internal pages are nice and clean. All text is clear and binding=
is tight. Good condition. (GER-30-8). (ID #26902) $35.00.<br>
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36. Geiger, Abraham; Geiger, Ludwig. ABRAHAM GEIGER'=
S NACHGELASSENE SCHRIFTEN. DRITTER BAND. ONLY. Berlin: L. Gerschel. 1876.=
Cloth, 8vo. 326 pages. In German. First edition. This volume only. SUBJEC=
T (S): Judaism; Jews – Germany; Jewish question; Geiger, Abraham, 18=
10-1874. Abraham Geiger (1810-1847) was a Reform movement leader. In 1832,=
he became the rabbi of Wiesbaden, and began his program of reform; five y=
ears later, he hosted the first meeting of Reform rabbis there. He also se=
rved in Breslau and Frankfurt, his hometown. His well-known Orthodox oppon=
ents were S. R. Hirsch and A Titkin. Ex library with minimal markings, cov=
ers and front flyleaf missing, back flyleaf and edges marbled, a couple sm=
all tears in text, fair condition. (GER-18-11) (ID #25791) $35.00.<br>
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37. (Holdheim) Ritter, Immanuel Heinrich. SAMUEL HOLDHEI=
M: SEIN LEBEN UND SEINE WERKE: EIN BEITRAG ZU DEN NEUESTEN REFORMBESTREBUN=
GEN IM JUDENTHUME. Berlin; W. J. Peiser, 1865. Half-leather. 8vo. VIII, 30=
7, [1] pages. 23 cm. First edition. In German. Half-leather over boards,=
gilt lettering on spine. Title translates as: “Samuel Holdheim: his=
Life and his Works: a Contribution to the Recent Reform Efforts in Judais=
m”. Contains notes on the Hebrew texts of the Old Testament, togethe=
r with a translation of the Book of Job, and a grammatical appendix. Rabbi=
Samuel Holdheim was a leader of the Reform movement in German Judaism ear=
ly in the 19th century, considered a pioneer in modern Jewish homiletics.=
The author, Immanuel Heinrich Ritter, was a “German rabbi; born Mar=
ch 13, 1825, in Ratibor, Prussian Silesia; died July 9, 1890, in Johannisb=
ad, Bohemia. While studying at the gymnasium of his native town he receive=
d his Talmudic instruction under Rabbi Loewe. At the University of Breslau=
classical philology and history formed his special studies (Ph. D. 1849).=
During an audience with the Cultusminister von Raumer in 1851, the latter=
gave the young candidate to understand that only baptism could entitle hi=
m to an appointment as professor at a college. Ritter thereupon accepted a=
position as teacher of religion and reader at the Berlin Reform congregat=
ion, becoming later assistant to the senior preacher of the temple, Samuel=
Holdheim. His first ten sermons were published as "Kanzelvorträ=
ge aus dem Gotteshause der Jüdischen Reformgemeinde" (Berlin, 18=
56), which placed him at once among the foremost Jewish preachers of his t=
ime. In 1859 his "Beleuchtung der Wagner'schen Schrift, " pu=
blished against "Das Judenthum und der Staat" by Wagner, member=
of the Prussian Diet, created a stir. Ritter's principal work was his=
"Geschichte der Jüdischen Reform, " in four parts (Berlin,=
1858-1902): I. "Mendelssohn und Lessing. " II. "David Frie=
dländer. " III. "Samuel Holdheim. " IV. "Die J&uu=
ml;dische Reformgemeinde in Berlin" (edited by S. Samuel, rabbi in Us=
sen). In the first part Ritter demonstrates that Moses Mendelssohn's l=
ack of understanding of historical criticism concerning Judaism was one of=
the main reasons why his own children and many of his friends became apos=
tates from the religion of their fathers. He further shows that Lessing ha=
d a better conception of Judaism than Mendelssohn. Mendelssohn's false=
view of revelation, a view which identifies Judaism with legalism, makes=
him a representative of conservatism and even of retrogression. ” (=
from the 1906 Jewish Encyclopedia). Subjects: Reform Judaism - Germany - H=
istory -- 19th century. Holdheim, Samuel, 1806-1860. OCLC lists 13 copies=
worldwide. Front cover hinge starting. Covers lightly soiled. Pages light=
ly foxed through. Very good condition. (GER-36-21) (ID #28872) $225.00.<br=
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38. Holdheim, Samuel. DIVRE HA-SHEM. WORTE GOTTES, ODER=
GOTTESDIENSTLICHE VORTRÄGE GEHALTEN IN DER SYNAGOGE ZU FRANKFURT A.=
O. Frankfurt A. O.; In Commission Bei F. J. Tempel, 1839. FT) Clothbound.=
8vo. XX, 208 pages. 21 cm. First edition. In German. Three volumes in one=
=2E Half leather and cloth with gilt lettering on spine. Title translates as=
: “Words of God, or liturgical presentation; Sermons and lectures in=
the synagogue at Frankfort-on-the-Oder. ” Samuel Holdheim (1806-186=
0), a renowned extreme reform Rabbi, starting his Rabbinical career in 193=
6 at the synagogue at Frankfort-on-the-Oder, where these sermons were cond=
ucted. The Jewish Encylopedia relates his career and ideas during this per=
iod of writing thus: “Here he remained until 1840, encountering many=
difficulties, due both to the distrust of those within the congregation w=
ho suspected the piety of a rabbi able to speak grammatical German, and wh=
o was a graduate of a German university, and to the peculiar legislation w=
hich in Prussia under Frederick William III. Regulated the status of the J=
ewish congregations. To bring about a change in this state of affairs was=
the purpose of Holdheim. In the preface to his "Gottesdienstliche Vo=
rträge" (Frankfort-on-the-Oder, 1839) he appealed both to the go=
vernment to accord the modern rabbinate the dignity due to it, and to the=
congregations to cease regarding the rabbi as an expert in Jewish casuist=
ics mainly charged with the duty of answering "she'elot" (ri=
tual questions) and inquiries concerning dietary laws. He insisted upon th=
e recognition of the rabbi as preacher and teacher, who at the same time g=
ives attention to the practical requirements of his office as the expert i=
n Talmudical law. While in Frankfort, Holdheim scrupulously decided every=
question according to the Halakah. In his pulpit discourses belonging to=
this period the intention is plain to steer clear of mere rationalistic m=
oralizing, on the one hand, and dry legalizing and unscientific speculatio=
n (in the style of the old "derashah"), on the other. Holdheim t=
hus deserves to be remembered as one of the pioneers in the field of moder=
n Jewish Homiletics, who showed what use should be made of the Midrashim a=
nd other Jewish writings. He also repeatedly took pains to arouse his cong=
regation to help carry out Geiger's and Philippson's project of fo=
unding a Jewish theological faculty. Judaism even then had ceased for Hold=
heim to be an end unto itself. He had begun to view it as a force in the l=
arger life of humanity. ” Subjects: Jewish sermons, German. Jews --=
Poland -- Slubice. OCLC lists 12 copies worldwide. Covers soiled, leather=
rubbed. Pages wavy, foxed throughout, but clean, and pages firm. Very goo=
d condition. (GER-36-39) (ID #28890) $150.00.<br>
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39. Holdheim, Samuel. UEBER DIE BESCHNEIDUNG ZUNÄCH=
T IN RELIGIÖS-DOGMATISCHER BEZIEHUNG. Schwerin: Kurschner. 1844. Clot=
h. 8vo. 88 pages. In German. SUBJECT (S): Circumcision. OCLC lists 11 copi=
es worldwide. Holdheim (1806-1860) was a German Reform leader. He preached=
in German, established modern schools, and held services on Sundays. His=
general idea was to separate Jews' religious imperative from their ci=
vic duties owed to the countries they lived in. (Levinger, EJ) Boards worn=
, pages foxed, good condition. (MX-21-4) (ID #23883) $200.00.<br>
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40. Holdheim, Samuel. MA’AMAR HA-ISHUT: ‘AL=
TEKHUNAT HA-RABANIM VEHA-KARA’IM: KOLEL HAKIROT SHONOT BE-MAHLOKET=
HA-TSEDUKIM VEHA-PERUSHIM, HA-KARA’IM VEHA-RABANIM. Berlin: The Aut=
hor, 1860. (FT) Hardcover, 8vo, 173 pages, 23 cm. In Hebrew. SUBJECT(S): M=
arriage (Karaite law) Divorce (Karaite law) Divorce (Jewish law) Marriage=
(Jewish law) Selbstverlage der wittwe des sel, Verfassers. Holdheim (1806=
–1860) was a “leader of Reform Judaism in Germany. Born in Kem=
pno near Poznan, Holdheim received a talmudic education, but began to stud=
y German and secular subjects after marrying a woman with a modern educati=
on, daughter of a Poznan rabbi. The marriage was unsuccessful and after hi=
s divorce he moved to Prague where he began to study philosophy at the uni=
versity. Holdheim’s principal thesis was the separation of the relig=
ious and ethical content of Judaism (which should be binding) from the pol=
itical-national content (which should not be binding), since Jews are citi=
zens of the countries in which they are living. In Ma’amar ha-Ishut=
al Tekhunat ha-Rabbanim ve-ha-Kara’im (1861), a historical work wri=
tten in Hebrew and published posthumously, Holdheim attempts, inter alia,=
to refute Geiger's opinion on the nature of the controversy between t=
he Pharisees and the Sadducees and defends the traditional thesis that the=
principle in dispute was whether interpretation of the Scripture should b=
e based on the primary meaning (Sadducees) as opposed to midrashic exegesi=
s (Pharisees) ” (Levinger in EJ 2011). Repair to binding. Edwewear,=
good condition. (Heb-43-7) (ID #28031) $50.00.<br>
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41. Holdheim, Samuel. NEUE SAMMLUNG JÜDISCHER PREDI=
GTEN, WORUNTER ÜBER ALLE FESTE DES JAHRES, GEHALTEN IM GOTTESHAUSE DE=
R JÜDISCHEN REFORM-GEMEINDE ZU BERLIN [Erster Band]. Berlin; C. Davi=
d, 1852. Clothbound. 8vo. VIII, [2], 318, [1] pages. 22 cm. First editio=
n. In German. Marbled covers with decorative title pastedown on spine. Tit=
le translates as: “New collection of Jewish sermons, among which are=
held on all the festivals of the year, in God's house of the Jewish R=
eform congregation in Berlin. First book. ” The first of four volume=
s of sermons given at the Reform German Synagogue in Berlin by Samuel Hold=
heim. The published titles of the four volumes printed from 1852-1869 have=
varied titles; Volume 1 has title: Neue Sammlung juedischer Predigten wor=
unter ueber alle Feste des Jahres.../ Volume 2 has subtitle: Ein Buch der=
religioesen Belehrung und Erbauung fuer's juedische Haus. / Volumes 3=
-4 have title: Predigten über die jüdische Religion. Volume 4 ha=
s also special title: Fest- und Gelegenheitspredigten. Volume 3 has imprin=
t: Berlin, J. Springer, volume 4 has imprint: Berlin, J. Benzian. Rabbi Sa=
muel Holdheim (1806-1860) “emerged as a representative of the extrem=
ist trend in the Reform movement. In 1847 he was asked to serve as rabbi o=
f the new Reform congregation founded in Berlin where he officiated until=
his death. In Berlin he introduced radical reforms in the ritual. Service=
s were conducted on both Saturdays and Sundays and after a while on Sunday=
s only. Holdheim's principal thesis was the separation of the religiou=
s and ethical content of Judaism (which should be binding) from the politi=
cal-national content (which should not be binding), since Jews are citizen=
s of the countries in which they are living. The Sabbath, for instance, is=
included in the religious category, while the prohibition on mixed marria=
ges is of a political-national nature, and hence no longer binding. &rdquo=
; Subjects: Jewish sermons -- Germany. Sermons, German -- Jewish authors.=
Jewish festival-day sermons. OCLC lists 18 copies worldwide. Covers light=
ly worn, bumped corners. Pages clean, lightly aged, lightly soiled, lightl=
y foxed. Very good condition. (GER-36-38) (ID #28889) $100.00.<br>
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42. Holdheim, Samuel; Leopold Stein. PREDIGTEN ÜBER=
DIE JUDISCHE RELIGION [Volumes 2, 4, 3] / KOHOLETH; EINE AUSWAHL GOTTESD=
IENSTLICHER VORTRÄGE GEHALTEN in DER HAUPT-SYNAGOGE ZU FRANKFURT AM M=
AIN in DEN JAHREN 1844-1846. Berlin; C. David / Frankfurt Am Main; Sauerl&=
auml;nder, 1863. Clothbound. 8vo. XIV, 310, [4]; VI, 214; 72; XVI, 366 pa=
ges. 22 cm. First edition. Four volumes bound together. In German and Hebr=
ew. Green cloth with gilt lettering on spine, includes a handwritten table=
of contents from time of binding. The first three volumes constitute volu=
mes two, four, and three (bound in that order) of the “Sermons on th=
e Jewish religion. Held in the church of the Jewish Reform Congregation in=
Berlin “ by Samuel Holdheim (1806-1860), a renowned extreme German=
Reform Rabbi. The imprint of these latter volumes varies: volume 3, Berli=
n, J. Springer; volume 4, Berlin, J. Benzian. The last volume, “Koho=
leth; a selection of Sermons held in the main synagogue in Frankfurt am Ma=
in in the years 1844-1846” by the reform Rabbi Leopold Stein (1810-1=
882), constituting sermons from his first two years (of an eighteen year c=
areer as Rabbi at) the synagogue at Frankfurt am Main. A fine collection o=
f mid-19th century German Reform Sermons. Subjects: Jewish sermons -- Germ=
any. Sermons, German -- Jewish authors. Judaism. Sermons, German. Covers l=
ightly worn, first endpage shaken. Margins stained with pink fluid in firs=
t volume in last hundred pages, not affecting text. Light water stain to b=
ottom margin of Koholeth, last page repaired on back portion. All text cle=
an, pages overall very fresh and clean. Very good condition. (GER-36-40) (=
ID #28891) $400.00.<br>
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43. Isaak, Bernhard. DER RELIGIONSLIBERALISMUS IM DEUTSC=
HEN JUDENTUM. 1933. Leipzig, Druckerei der Werkgemeinschaft G. M. B. H. 19=
33. DESCRIPTION 76 pages. 22 cm. NOTES Curriculum vitae. Inaugural-Dissert=
ation--Leipzig, 1933. "Quellen-Verzeichnis und Literatur-Nachweis, &q=
uot; at end. Institutional Stamp, Very Good Condition (GER-37-46) (ID #939=
0) $60.00.<br>
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44. Plaut, W. Gunther. THE RISE OF REFORM JUDAISM. VOLUM=
E ONE. A SOURCEBOOK OF ITS EUROPEAN ORIGINS. New York; World Union For Pro=
gressive Judaism, 1963. Clothbound. 8vo. XXXII, 288 pages. 25 cm. First ed=
ition. Red cloth with gilt lettering; with dustjacket. Gunther Plaut is a=
German-born Reform Rabbi in Toronto, who escaped Nazi Germany in 1935 and=
studied at the Hebrew Union College and served in the US army as a chapla=
in during the second world war. The Rise of Reform Judaism constitutes a d=
etailed and respected history of the ideas, texts and works, temples, pray=
er books, conferences, worship, and community life of Reform Judaism. Subj=
ects: Reform Judaism - History. Reform Judaism - History - Sources. Judais=
m - History - Modern period, 1750- - Sources. Dustjacket worn with a porti=
on torn at upper edge. Edges lightly aged and soiled. Pages fresh and clea=
n. Very good + condition. (GER-36-17) (ID #28868) $25.00.<br>
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45. Wohlgemuth, J. DIE "RICHTLINIEN ZU EINEM PROGRA=
MM FÜR DAS LIBERALE JUDENTUM". Frankfurt A. M. Verlag Des Israel=
it G. M. B. 1913. Paper Wrappers, Few chips to cover, otherwise Good Solid=
Condition.; 12mo (small); 80 pages, Guido Kisch's copy. (GER-39-5) (I=
D #3058) $40.00.<br>
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46. BLATTER HERAUSGEGEBEN VON DEM GRUPPENVERBAND DER AGU=
DAS JISROEL UND DER AGUDAS JISROEL JUGEND-ORGANISATION. Frankfurt: AM, 191=
8. Paper Wrappers, 8vo. 16 pages. In German. "Agudat Yisrael was foun=
ded in Katowice (Upper Silesia, now in the southwestern part of Poland), i=
n 1912, with purpose of providing an umbrella organization for observant J=
ews, who opposed the Zionist movement" (Wikipedia 2012). In good cond=
ition. (MX17-19) (ID #21499) $30.00.<br>
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47. BLATTER HERAUSGEGEBEN VON DER AGUDAS JISROEL JUGEND-=
ORGANISATION. Siebentes Blatt. Frankfurt: AM, 1916. Paper Wrappers, 8vo. 2=
0 pages. In German. In good condition. (MX17-18) (ID #21498) $30.00.<br>
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48. Breuer, Isaac. LEHRE, GESETZ UND NATION, EINE HISTOR=
ISCH-KRITISCHE UNTERSUCHUNG UBER DAS WESEN DES JUDENTUME. Frankfurt A. M.=
Verlag Des Israelit, 1914. Paper Wrappers, Front cover repair, paper brow=
ning but good; 12mo (small); 40 pages (MX-22-19) (ID #4894) $50.00.<br>
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49. Breuer, Isaac. MESSIASSPUREN. Frankfurt A. M. R. L.=
Hammon, 1918. 1st Edition (?). Cloth, Previous owner's name inked out=
on title page, otherwise Very Good Condition.; 12mo; 131 pages; 19 cm. Fr=
eimann 402. (GER-17-6A) (ID #8191) $75.00.<br>
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50. Carlebach, Joseph. LIBERALES JUDENTUM UND JÜDIS=
CHE TRADITION AUFSÄTZE. Frankfurt; Verlag D. "israelit,", 1=
913. FT) Clothbound. 12mo. 107 pages. 19 cm. First edition. In German. Mar=
bled paper and cloth over boards, with decorative edges. “Liberal Ju=
daism and Jewish tradition” a collection of essays by Dr. Joseph Car=
lebach, a later famous mathematician, natural scientist, philosopher, peda=
gogue, and Rabbi, who during the time of these essays was finishing up his=
rabbinical studies. Subjects: Orthodox Judaism -- Germany. Reform Judaism=
-- Germany -- Controversial literature. OCLC lists 5 copies worldwide. Li=
ght soiling to covers, with yellow and white pen and paint at cloth edge n=
ear spine. Light pencil marks on endpages. Pages fresh and clean, with a s=
light tear at bottom of page 17. Near fine condition. (GER-33-9) (ID #2880=
5) $70.00.<br>
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51. Carlebach, Joseph, 1883-1942. RENEGATENTUM DES GEIST=
ES. Frankfurt A/M.; Israelit Und Hermon, 1937. Paper wrappers. 8vo. 47 pag=
es. 23 cm. First edition. In German. Nazi-era imprint. “Apostasy of=
the Mind; first part, criticism of Elias Auerbach: "Wilderness and P=
romised Land", a critique and exposition of historical exegesis of bi=
blical commentaries written by Dr. Joseph Carlebach: mathematician, natura=
l scientist, philosopher, pedagogue, and during the time of writing Chief=
Rabbi of Hamburg. He was murdered in 1942 in Latvia, but his name and leg=
acy is remembered in Hamburg and Israel through various building and stree=
t dedications, institutes, and scholarly prizes. Subjects: Bible -- Critic=
ism, interpretation, etc. Old Testament. Exegesis. Wetenschappelijke techn=
ieken. OCLC lists nine copies worldwide. Covers lightly soiled, with torn=
upper right edge, tears at backstrip, and small portion torn on back edge=
of cover. Title page lightly soiled. Pages lightly aged but clean and cri=
sp, yet with small crease in upper right corner of pages. Very good condit=
ion. (GER-33-28) (ID #28824) $45.00.<br>
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52. Carlebach, Naphtali. JOSEPH CARLEBACH AND HIS GENERA=
TION; BIOGRAPHY OF THE LATE CHIEF RABBI OF ALTONA AND HAMBURG. New York, J=
oseph Carlebach Memorial Foundation, 1959. Clothbound. 8vo. XV, 316 pages.=
24 cm. First edition. Beige cloth with gilt lettering. A detailed biograp=
hy of the brilliant Rabbi Joseph Carlebach; written by his brother. Dr. Na=
phtali Hartwig Carlebach was rabbi of the Passauerstrasse Synagogue of Ber=
lin from 1917 to 1931. This was one of the few synagogues in Germany that=
did not discriminate in any manner against Jews of Eastern European origi=
n, when it came to the right to vote on congregational issues or to the el=
ection of officers and board members. One of the by-laws of the congregati=
on stated explicitly that at least two of the seven members of the board o=
f the synagogue had to be of eastern European extraction. This synagogue,=
too, was perhaps the only one in all Germany to make extensive structural=
changes in its interior, so that it might conform in every detail with st=
rict traditional rules. The act brought the congregation and its leader to=
the attention of the great rabbis of Poland and Lithuania, who henceforth=
made it their custom to speak from the pulpit of the Passauerstrasse Syna=
gogue whenever they were in Berlin. From 1931 to 1938 Naphtali Carlebach w=
as Chief Rabbi at Baden near Vienna, Austria. Later he became the spiritua=
l leader of Congregation Kehilath Jacob in New York City. Subjects: Carleb=
ach, Joseph, 1883-1942. Covers and edges lightly soiled, pages fresh. Very=
good condition. (GER-36-20) (ID #28871) $45.00.<br>
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53. Hermann Schwab. CHACHME ASHKENAZ; A CONCISE RECORD O=
F THE LIFE AND WORK OF ORTHODOX JEWISH SCHOLARS OF GERMANY FROM THE 18TH T=
O THE 20TH CENTURY. London, Mitre Press, 1964. Hardcover, 8vo, 131 pages,=
portraits, 23 cm. SUBJECT (S): Jews -- Germany – Biography. Jews --=
Germany -- Bio-bibliography. Schwab (1879-1962) was a “German journ=
alist and historical writer. In his native Frankfurt Schwab joined the sch=
ool of the Israelitische Religionsgesellschaft. He was employed from 1902=
to 1927 in the metal enterprises of Aron Hirsch near Berlin and in Halber=
stadt. He also worked as a journalist for the Frankfurter Zeitung, the Vos=
sische Zeitung and other newspapers, was editor of the Juedischer Volkssch=
riftenverlag, and author of Orthodox children’s books. A supporter o=
f Agudat Israel and its founder, Jacob Rosenheim, Schwab organized its war=
orphans’ fund during World War I, which established a number of orp=
hanages in Poland. From 1927 he ran a press service in Berlin which he con=
tinued after emigrating to England in 1934. In London, he became president=
of the Golders Green Beth Hamidrash. His main published works are: Kinder=
traeume: Ein Maerchenbuch fuer juedische Kinder; Orthodoxie und Zionismus&=
hellip;; Aus der Schuetzenstrasse; A World in Ruins: History, Life and Wor=
k of German Jewry; The History of Orthodox Jewry in Germany; 1933: Ein Tag=
ebuch; Jewish Rural Communities in Germany; and Chachme Ashkenaz” (A=
rchiv Bibliographia Judaica in EJ, 2007). Light wear to edges of dust jack=
et. Otherwise, very good condition. (Heb-17-3)xx (ID #26718) $45.00.<br>
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54. Hildesheimer, Ezriel. GESAMMELTE AUFSÄTZE. Fran=
kfurt Am Main; Hermon, 5684. Clothbound. 8vo. XX, 228 pages. 24 cm. First=
edition. In German, with some Hebrew. “Collected Essays” of E=
zriel Hildesheimer (1820-1899), Orthodox Jewish Rabbi and scholar, founder=
and director of the Berlin Rabbinical Seminary and of an Orthodox weekly=
newspaper, Judische Presse. This volume of his collected essays includes=
12 essays, not limited to, Talmudic commentaries, Jewish Law, Emigration=
to Palestine, and on Reform Judaism (which the author was determinedly op=
posed to). Subjects: Jewish Law. Covers shaken, worn edges, with some chip=
ping at edges. Gilt lettering on backstrip rubbed. First signature loose.=
Pages visibly aged, especially in margins, but clean and in good conditio=
n. Good +condition. (GER-33-30) (ID #28826) $50.00.<br>
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55. Hirsch, Mendel. DIE KLAGELIEDER NACH UBERSETZUNG VON=
MENDEL HIRSCH NEBST ANMERKUNGEN. Frankfurt Am Main, J. Kauffmann, 1903. C=
loth, 8vo. 21 pages. In German. OCLC lists 4 copies worldwide (University=
of California Los Angeles; University of California S REg Library Fac; Ge=
orge Washington University, Florida Atlantic University). Mendel, (1833&nd=
ash;1900), was an educator and a writer. The eldest son of Samson Raphael=
Hirsch, from 1855 he taught Jewish and general subjects at the high schoo=
ls founded by his father in Frankfort. From 1877 he was their principal an=
d for 17 years was also headmaster of the Jewish elementary school. He con=
tributed a series of articles on pedagogical subjects to the monthly Jesch=
urun, published by his father. (EJ, Staff) In Good condition. (MX17-21) (I=
D #21501) $50.00.<br>
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56. Moshe Leib Lyeitsch Rosenbaum. SHA’AREI EMET A=
ND BEIT ARYEH. Pressburg, 1866. Hardcover, 8vo, 40 leaves, 24.5 cm. On tit=
le-page a handwritten self dedication: “Gift from the author, Azriel=
Hildesheimer” and ink stamp of the rabbi. On the inner side of the=
bidning Ex-Libris of (his grandson), Rabbi “Azriel Hildesheimer&rdq=
uo;. Rabbi Azriel Hildesheimer (1820-1899) was among the leading Torah aut=
horities of his generation. Disciple of the Aruch LaNer and of Rabbi Yitzc=
hak Bernays of Hamburg. He served as Rabbi of Eisenstadt in years 1851-186=
9, and during that time established there one of the major Yehsivot of Hun=
gary and Germany. In 1869 he was appointed as Rabbi of Berlin, where he es=
tablished the Beit Midrash LaRabbanim. He led the Orthodox Jewry of German=
y. Binding repair. Chipped and worn cover edges and corners. Some lightly=
stained pages. Good condition. (Hag-2-6) (ID #27522) $325.00.<br>
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57. Sachs, Michael & Moritz Veit. edited by Ludwig G=
eiger. MICHAEL SACHS UND MORITZ VEIT: BRIEFWECHSEL. Frankfurt A. M. J. Kau=
ffmann, 1897. 1st Edition. Cloth, Original Publisher's Cloth. 8vo. xxi=
v, 108 pages. 23 cm. In German. Includes decorrated endpapers and tissued=
frontis plates of Sachs & Veit. Sachs "was one of the first Jewi=
sh graduates from the modern universities, earning a Ph.D. degree in 1836.=
He was appointed Rabbi in Prague in 1836, and in Berlin in 1844. He took=
the conservative side against the Reform agitation, and so strongly oppos=
ed the introduction of the organ into the Synagogue that he retired from t=
he Rabbinate rather than acquiesce. Sachs was one of the greatest preacher=
s of his age, and published two volumes of Sermons (Predigten, 1866–=
1891). He co-operated with Leopold Zunz in a new translation of the Bible.=
Sachs is best remembered for his work on Hebrew poetry, Religiöse Po=
esie der Juden in Spanien (1845); his more ambitious critical work (Beitr&=
auml;ge zur Sprach- und Alterthumsforschung, 2 vols., 1852–1854) is=
of less lasting value. He turned his poetic gifts to admirable account in=
his translation of the Festival Prayers (Machzor, 9 vols., 1855), a new f=
eature of which was the metrical rendering of the medieval Hebrew hymns. A=
nother very popular work by Sachs contains poetic paraphrases of Rabbinic=
legends (Stimmen vom Jordan und Euphrat, 1853)" (Wikipedia 2012). Ni=
ce, clean copy in very good condition. (SPEC23-9) (ID #8430) $55.00.<br>
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58. Rosenzweig, Franz, 1886-1929. Mongin, Olivier,; 1951=
-...; (editor). FRANZ ROSENZWEIG. Paris: La Nuit Surveillée,, 1982.=
Paper wrappers, 8vo. 237 pages. In French. First book in the series: Les=
Cahiers de la Nuit surveillée Includes writings by Rosenzweig, Ger=
shom Scholem, Emanual Levinas, and others on religion and philosophy. Incl=
udes bibliography on p. 235 - 237. Additional editors: Jacques Rolland and=
Alexandre Derczanski. With four high quality black and white photographic=
plates, including a facsimile of the original cover of Rosenzweig’s=
“Der Stern der Erlosung”. Very slight tanning to cover. Very=
good condition, beautiful printing. (RAB-36-9) (ID #24585) $100.00.<br>
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59. Buber, Martin and Franz Rosenzweig. DIE SCHRIFT (COM=
PLETE IN 15 VOLUMES). Berlin, Verlag Lambert Schneider (Vol. 1-11) / Schoc=
ken (Vol. 12-15), 1934. Original Publisher’s boards. 8vo. 203; 175;=
125; 168; 145; 102; 112; 259; 270; 278; 295; 228; 237, [1]; 276; 88 page=
s. 20 cm. In German. Books one through ten translated by Buber and Rosenzw=
eig; 11-15 completed by Buber alone. “In [Buber and Rosenzweig&rsqu=
o;s] translation, they wanted to recapture the spoken character (Gesproche=
nheit) of the Bible, so that the reader could become a listener of the ong=
oing Divine voice. They stayed close to the Hebrew original, to the Hebrew=
sentence structure and rhythm, to the Hebrew words and sounds. They did n=
ot Germanize Hebrew, they surprised German with Hebrew culture. The very f=
act of the translation itself was a bridging of German and Jewish cultures=
=2E ” –EJ, 2007. CONTENTS: Bd. 1. Das Buch Im Anfang -- Bd. 2. D=
as Buch Namen -- Bd. 3. Das Buch Er rief -- Bd. 4. Das Buch In der Wü=
ste -- Bd. 5. Das Buch Reden -- Bd. 6. Das Buch Jehoschua -- Bd. 7. Das Bu=
ch Richter -- Bd. 8. Das Buch Schmuel -- Bd. 9. Das Buch Könige -- Bd=
=2E 10. Das Buch Jeschajahu -- Bd. 11. Das Buch Jirmejahu -- Bd. 12. Das Buc=
h Jecheskel -- Bd. 13. Das Buch der Zwölf -- Bd. 14. Das Buch der Pre=
isungen -- Bd. 15. Das Buch Gleichsprüche. Grey boards with black wri=
ting. Light bumping to the covers of a few volumes, but still nice. Volume=
one with some chipping at top of backstrip. Otherwise bright, clean copie=
s in Very Good Condition. (DREYFUS-3-10) (ID #28659) $375.00. [Additional=
individual volumes, in velum, also available, please enquire<br>
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60. Horwitz, Rivka; Leo Baeck Institute. ADELE ROSENZWEI=
GS JUGENDENNERUNGEN (IN BULLETIN DES LEO BAECK INSTITUTS). Tel-Aviv, Bitao=
n. 1977. Serial, 8vo. 14 pages bound with staples. In German. Series: Publ=
ikationen - Leo Baeck Institute of Jews from Germany. Title in English: Ad=
ele Rosenzweig's childhood memories. Adele Rosenzweig (1867 – 19=
33), was the mother of Franz Rosenzweig, a “well-cultured and learne=
d person. It was Adele Rosenzweig who later took interest in [Franz Rosenz=
weig’s] spiritual and intellectual pursuits. ” (Betz, Vanderbi=
lt University Divinity Library). SUBJECT(S): Jews -- Germany -- History --=
Periodicals. Slight wear, highlighting on cover. Cover slightly tanned. (=
RAB-36-5) (ID #24581) $40.00.<br>
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61. Buber, Martin. VOM GEIST DES JUDENTUMS: REDEN UND GE=
LEITWORTE. Leipzig, J. Wolff, 1916. 1st Edition. Cloth, 8vo, 191 pages. 24=
cm. Ex-library, lacks backstrip (spine covering), otherwise Good Conditio=
n (GER-15-48dw) (ID #18706) $30.00.<br>
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62. Brod, Max. HEIDENTUM, CHRISTENTUM, JUDENTUM: EIN BEK=
ENNTNISBUCH. München [Munich]; K. Wolff, 1921. FT) Clothbound. 12mo.=
319, 369 pages. 19 cm. Two Volumes. First Edition. In German. Title trans=
lated as “Paganism, Christianity, Judaism; a confession of faith. &l=
dquo; Title page in red and black ink, original half cloth with green boar=
ds. Max Brod (May 27, 1884, Prague – December 20, 1968, Tel Aviv) wa=
s a German-speaking Czech Jewish, later Israeli, author, composer, and jou=
rnalist. Although he was a prolific writer in his own right, he is most fa=
mous as the friend, biographer, and literary executor of Franz Kafka. The=
work on Paganism, Christianity and Judaism was widely read in his day, wr=
itten passionately by the young Max Brod, on the subjects of the differenc=
es and interconnections between the “three powers”, with chapt=
ers on humility and freedom in Judaism to readings of Dante, Kierkegaard,=
Paul and Jesus. Subjects: Religion -- Philosophy. Light wear and soiling=
to edges and covers, with very light pencil marks on end pages. Otherwise=
, near fine condition. (GER-33-6) (ID #28802) $30.00.<br>
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63. Buber, Martin; and Franz Rosenzweig, German translat=
ions. DIE TROESTUNG ISRAELS: AUS JESCHAJAHU, KAPITEL 40 BIS 55. Berlin, Sc=
hocken, 1933. 1st Edition. Hardback, Light edgewear, but much better than=
usual found, Good+ Condition; 12mo; 83 pages; In German. Bücherei de=
s Schocken Verlags, Nr. 1 (! ). Hebrew and German on facing pages. (GER-37=
-94) (ID #8288) $45.00.<br>
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64. Buber, Martin, editor. DER JUDE. EINE MONATSSCHRIFT.=
Vol II, Nr 12. Berlin-Wien, 1917. Softcover, 8vo, Berlin-Wien: Löwit=
h, 1917-18. Paper Wrappers, 8vo. Aprox 64 pages each monthly issue. Origin=
ally published in 10 volumes between 1916-1928, with Vol. 9 published as s=
pecial issues 1-4, and Vol. 10 put out as a special issue celebrating the=
50th birthday of Martin Buber. SUBJECT(S): Jews -- Periodicals. Judaism -=
- Periodicals. Covers worn & foxed with paper browning, as usually fou=
nd but overall about good condition. (GER-37-13) (ID #13562) $30.00.<br>
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65. Buber, Martin, editor. DER JUDE. EINE MONATSSCHRIFT.=
Vol V, Nr 3, June 1920. Berlin, 1920. Softcover, 8vo, Berlin, Jüdisc=
her Verlag, 1920. Paper Wrappers, 8vo. Aprox 64 pages each monthly issue.=
Originally published in 10 volumes between 1916-1928, with Vol. 9 publish=
ed as special issues 1-4, and Vol. 10 put out as a special issue celebrati=
ng the 50th birthday of Martin Buber. SUBJECT(S): Jews -- Periodicals. Jud=
aism -- Periodicals. Covers worn & foxed with paper browning, as usual=
ly found but overall about good condition. (GER-37-11) (ID #13563) $30.00.=
. (GER-37-12) |• Buber, Martin, editor. DER JUDE. EINE MONATSSCHRIFT=
=2E Vol VII, Nr 12, Dezember 1923. Berlin, 1923. Softcover, 8vo, Berlin, J&u=
uml;discher Verlag, 1923. Paper Wrappers, 8vo. Aprox 64 pages each monthly=
issue. Originally published in 10 volumes between 1916-1928, with Vol. 9=
published as special issues 1-4, and Vol. 10 put out as a special issue c=
elebrating the 50th birthday of Martin Buber. SUBJECT(S): Jews -- Periodic=
als. Judaism -- Periodicals. Covers worn & foxed with paper browning,=
as usually found but overall about good condition. (GER-37-12) (ID #13564=
) $30.00. . (RAB-36-6) |• Cohen, Carl. FRANZ ROSENZWEIG (IN CONSERVAT=
IVE JUDAISM VOL. VIII, NO. 1 NOVEMBER 1951). New York: Rabbinical Assembly=
Of America, 1951. Serial, 8vo. 31 pages. Essay on pages 1-13 on Rosenzwei=
g, including sections on his education, his philosophy, religious crisis,=
Judaism and Metaphysics, and role as an educator. Rosenzweig, the renowne=
d German Jewish philosopher, “was born in Kassel, Germany, the only=
son of well-to-do parents. His father Georg financially supported many ch=
arity institutions, including the Jewish community, but the family's a=
dherence to Judaism was minimal. In his youth, Franz came under the influe=
nce of his great-uncle, Adam Rosenzweig, a bachelor, an artist and a learn=
ed Jew, who lived in the Rosenzweig home and spent many hours with Franz.=
Through him the young boy learned of the Jewish world in an otherwise ass=
imilated milieu. Unlike the rest of his family, Rosenzweig fasted on Yom K=
ippur (the Day of Atonement) and also took private Hebrew lessons…I=
n 1909, Rosenzweig tended towards assimilation, and justified the conversi=
on of his cousin Hans Ehrenberg to Christianity. He did not see the advant=
age that Judaism could have over Christianity, the dominant culture, which=
would also help him obtain a teaching position, almost impossible for a J=
ew to get. Another cousin and friend, Rudolf Ehrenberg was already born a=
Christian. Eugen Rosenstock, a Jewish convert to Christianity, became Ros=
enzweig's closest friend. Rosenstock, who would become an important no=
nconformist Protestant theologian, repeatedly urged him to abandon what he=
considered Rosenzweig's merely nominal Judaism and to convert. After=
months of deep conversations, and especially the catastrophic conversatio=
n with Rosenstock during the night of July 7, 1913, Rosenzweig decided to=
convert. But he then made the condition, to convert not "as a pagan,=
" but "as a Jew. " All this led to a crisis and almost to=
suicide. He left his converted friends for a few years and refrained from=
having any contact with them. In the same year, on Yom Kippur of 1913, he=
attended in Berlin the synagogue of Rabbi Petuchowski and felt a profound=
identification with the praying Jewish community. After a few days he wro=
te his friends, "I shall remain a Jew. " He then reshaped his li=
fe, rethought his identity, and devoted his further life to a sincere retu=
rn to Judaism, moving from the periphery of Jewish life to its center. &rd=
quo; (Meir, Horwitz, EJ, 2007). Also includes an article on prayer, and on=
Professor Louis Ginzberg. Cover slightly tanned. Very good condition. (RA=
B-36-6) (ID #24582) $40.00.<br>
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66. Cohen, Hermann. DER BEGRIFF DER RELIGION IM SYSTEM D=
ER PHILOSOPHIE. Giessen, A. Topelmann,, 1915. Softcover, 8vo, viii, 164 pa=
ges, 23 cm. In German. Series: Philosophische Arbeiten, 10. Bd. 1. Heft. S=
UBJECT (S): Philosophy and religion. Godsdienst. Filosofie. Cohen (1842-19=
18) was a “German Jewish philosopher. Born in Cowsig, the son of a c=
antor, Cohen studied at the Jewish Theological Seminary at Breslau, but ga=
ve up his initial plans to become a rabbi. He turned to philosophy, studyi=
ng first at the University of Breslau and then at the University of Berlin=
=2E He received his doctorate at the University of Halle in 1865. In 1873 he=
was invited by F. A. Lange, the well-known author of The History of Mater=
ialism, to become a privatdozent (lecturer) in philosophy at the Universit=
y of Marburg. Appointed full professor after only three years, Cohen taugh=
t in Marburg until 1912. He spent the last years of his life in Berlin, wh=
ere he taught at the Hochschule fuer die Wissenschaft des Judentums”=
(Bergman and Amir in EJ, 2007). Wear to edges and cover binding. Slight t=
ear to cover binding. Good condition. (Rab-46-14) (ID #24744) $45.00.<br>
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67. Fleischman, Yaakov. FRANZ ROSENZWEIG AS A CRITIC OF=
ZIONISM (IN CONSERVATIVE JUDAISM VOL. XXII, NO. 1 FALL 1967). New York: R=
abbinical Assembly Of America, 1951. Serial, 8vo. 94 pages. Essay on pages=
54-66 on Rosenzweig’s views on Zionism. Rosenzweig, the renowned Ge=
rman Jewish philosopher, “was born in Kassel, Germany, the only son=
of well-to-do parents. His father Georg financially supported many charit=
y institutions, including the Jewish community, but the family's adher=
ence to Judaism was minimal. In his youth, Franz came under the influence=
of his great-uncle, Adam Rosenzweig, a bachelor, an artist and a learned=
Jew, who lived in the Rosenzweig home and spent many hours with Franz. Th=
rough him the young boy learned of the Jewish world in an otherwise assimi=
lated milieu. Unlike the rest of his family, Rosenzweig fasted on Yom Kipp=
ur (the Day of Atonement) and also took private Hebrew lessons…In 1=
909, Rosenzweig tended towards assimilation, and justified the conversion=
of his cousin Hans Ehrenberg to Christianity. He did not see the advantag=
e that Judaism could have over Christianity, the dominant culture, which w=
ould also help him obtain a teaching position, almost impossible for a Jew=
to get. Another cousin and friend, Rudolf Ehrenberg was already born a Ch=
ristian. Eugen Rosenstock, a Jewish convert to Christianity, became Rosenz=
weig's closest friend. Rosenstock, who would become an important nonco=
nformist Protestant theologian, repeatedly urged him to abandon what he co=
nsidered Rosenzweig's merely nominal Judaism and to convert. After mon=
ths of deep conversations, and especially the catastrophic conversation wi=
th Rosenstock during the night of July 7, 1913, Rosenzweig decided to conv=
ert. But he then made the condition, to convert not "as a pagan, &quo=
t; but "as a Jew. " All this led to a crisis and almost to suici=
de. He left his converted friends for a few years and refrained from havin=
g any contact with them. In the same year, on Yom Kippur of 1913, he atten=
ded in Berlin the synagogue of Rabbi Petuchowski and felt a profound ident=
ification with the praying Jewish community. After a few days he wrote his=
friends, "I shall remain a Jew. " He then reshaped his life, re=
thought his identity, and devoted his further life to a sincere return to=
Judaism, moving from the periphery of Jewish life to its center. ”=
(Meir, Horwitz, EJ, 2007) Also includes other essays, poetry and reviews.=
Page 43 torn at bottom corner, effecting text. Pencil marking on cover. V=
ery good condition. (RAB-36-7) (ID #24583) $35.00.<br>
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68. Freund, Else. DIE EXISTENZPHILOSOPHIE FRANZ ROSENZWE=
IGS; EIN BEITRAG ZUR ANALYSE SEINES WERKES "DER STERN DER ERLÖSU=
NG." Hamburg; F. Meiner, 1959. Paperback. 8vo. VIII, 196 pages. 22 cm=
=2E Second revised edition. In German. Title translates as: “Franz Ros=
enzweig's philosophy of existence: an analysis of the Star of Redempti=
on." This work constitutes the revised edition of Else Freund's 1=
933 doctoral dissertation, a close reading of the Rosenzweig's most im=
portant work, the Star of Redemption. The copy of Fritz A. Rothschild, for=
mer professor of philosophy at the JTS; includes his original purchase rec=
eipt of this volume from 1970. Subjects: Judaism. Cosmology. Religion - Ph=
ilosophy. Judaïsme. Cosmologie. Religion - Philosophie. Covers lightl=
y worn, taped at upper and bottom of backstrip. A few pages earmarked, a f=
ew pages with underlining, and pencil marks in the margins. Good condition=
=2E (GER-33-49) (ID #28844) $30.00.<br>
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69. Hermann Cohen. DIE RELIGION DER VERNUNFT AUS DEN QUE=
LLEN DES JUDENTUMS. Leipzig, Gustav Fock, 1919. Hardcover, 8vo, vi, 629 pa=
ges. In German. Series Title: Schriften- hrsg. Von d. Gesellschaft zur For=
derung d. Wissenschaft d. Judentums; Grundrib der Gesamtwissenschaft des J=
udentums. SUBJECT (S): Judentum. Cohen (1842-1918) was a “German Jew=
ish philosopher. Born in Cowsig, the son of a cantor, Cohen studied at the=
Jewish Theological Seminary at Breslau, but gave up his initial plans to=
become a rabbi. He turned to philosophy, studying first at the University=
of Breslau and then at the University of Berlin. He received his doctorat=
e at the University of Halle in 1865. In 1873 he was invited by F. A. Lang=
e, the well-known author of The History of Materialism, to become a privat=
dozent (lecturer) in philosophy at the University of Marburg. Appointed fu=
ll professor after only three years, Cohen taught in Marburg until 1912. H=
e spent the last years of his life in Berlin, where he taught at the Hochs=
chule fuer die Wissenschaft des Judentums… The religious significan=
ce of Jewish existence was one of the bases for Cohen’s devotion to=
Jewish religious law. Using Kantian terminology and criteria, he argues s=
harply against Kant’s notion of autonomy and the philosopher’s=
negation of Jewish law. Cohen interprets "mitzvah" to mean both=
"law" and "duty. " The law originates in God, the sen=
se of duty in man. The law is at the same time duty; duty at the same time=
law. God issued commandments to man, and man of his own free will takes u=
pon himself the "yoke of the commandments. " With the "yoke=
of the commandments, " one simultaneously accepts the "yoke of=
the kingdom of God. " Thus, the law leads to the messianic ideal&rdq=
uo; (Bergman and Amir in EJ, 2007). OCLC list 27 copies worldwide. Hinge r=
epair. Yellowing to edges of pages. Notes written on some pages. Wear to c=
over binding and lightly chipped edges. Bumped corners. Otherwise, good co=
ndition. (HEB-17-4) (ID #26719) $50.00.<br>
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70. Klatzkin, Jakob. HERMANN COHEN. Berlin: Judischer Ve=
rlag, 1919. Softcover, 100 pages, portrait, 22 cm. In German. SUBJECT (S);=
Cohen, Hermann, 1842-1918. Bibliography on pages 95-100. Klatzkin (1882-1=
948) was an “author, philosopher, and Zionist. Klatzkin was born in=
Bereza Kartuska, Brest-Litovsk district, today Belarus. The son of Elijah=
Klatzkin, a prominent rabbinical scholar, who gave him a thorough educati=
on in all branches of traditional Jewish studies. At the age of 18, Klatzk=
in went to Germany, first to Frankfurt on the Main and then to Marburg, wh=
ere he studied philosophy under Hermann Cohen. He received his doctorate f=
rom the University of Berne in 1912. In the following years Klatzkin was a=
ctive in Germany as a writer for Hebrew periodicals, including Ha-Zeman, H=
a-Shilo’ah, and Ha-Tekufah, and as editor of Die Welt, the organ of=
the Zionist Organization, and later in Heidelberg, of the Freie Zionistis=
che Blaetter. From 1912 to 1915 he was director of the Jewish National Fun=
d in Cologne. From 1915 to 1919 he edited the Swiss Bulletin Juif, which c=
overed world events of special relevance to Jews during World War I and es=
tablished the publishing firm Al ha-Mishmar, which issued a series of book=
s on Jewish problems in French and German. In Berlin Klatzkin founded anot=
her publishing house, Eshkol, and continued writing for the Jewish press.=
In 1924 he and his lifelong friend Nahum Goldmann initiated the Encyclopa=
edia Judaica, of which ten volumes appeared between 1928 and 1934. Two vol=
umes of a parallel Hebrew edition, Enziklopedyah Yisre’elit, were is=
sued in 1929–32. Klatzkin acted as editor in chief in cooperation wi=
th leading Jewish scholars…Klatzkin was a student of philosophy as=
well as a brilliant Hebrew essayist. In philosophy Klatzkin opposed his t=
eacher Cohen, whose philosophy and interpretation of Judaism he submitted=
to searching criticism in the monograph Hermann Cohen. He also devoted a=
critical study to Spinoza, Baruch Spinoza, in which he stressed the Jewis=
h influences in his intellectual background and style; he translated Spino=
za’s Ethics from the Latin to Hebrew as Torat ha-Middot. Klatzkin de=
veloped his own philosophy, which may be described as vitalistic, emphasiz=
ing the biological, instinctive aspect of life rather than the intellectua=
l one, in Sheki'at ha-Hayyim, and in Der Erkenntnistrieb als Lebens un=
d Todesprinzip” (Sole and Scheps in EJ, 2007). Wear and chipping to=
cover and some page edges. Fragile cover. Otherwise, good condition. (RAB=
-46-11) (ID #24741) $100.00.<br>
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71. Another Copy. Berlin, Jüdischer Verlag, 1921. C=
loth, Original Publisher's Cloth. 8vo. 132 pages, portrait, 22 cm. Lac=
ks part of bacsktrip. Internal pages are nice and clean. Very good conditi=
on. (Rab-46-11a) (ID #27749) $100.00.<br>
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72. Koigen, David. DER MORALISCHE GOTT: EINE ABHANDLUNG=
ÜBER DIE BEZIEHUNGEN ZWISCHEN KULTUR UND RELIGION. Berlin; Jüdi=
scher Verlag, 1922. Clothbound. 8vo. 218 pages. 22 cm. First edition. In G=
erman. Title translates as: “The Moral God: a Treatise on the Relati=
ons between Culture and Religion. ” David Koigen (1879–1933),=
“philosopher and sociologist. He was born in Wachniaki, Ukraine, an=
d studied in European universities. He lived in Germany until 1912, then r=
eturned to Russia, and in 1921 was appointed professor of philosophy and s=
ociology at the Ukrainian University in Kiev. He wrote an autobiographical=
work, Der apokalyptische Reiter (1925), about these years in Russia. He r=
eturned to Germany, working mainly on Jewish problems and cultural sociolo=
gy. From 1925 to 1927 he edited the quarterly Ethos. His first writings we=
re on socialism, beginning with his thesis on the Young Hegelians (1901),=
followed by Die Kulturanschauung des Sozialismus (1903). He further devel=
oped his cultural-sociological approach in Ideen zur Philosophic der Kultu=
r (1910) and Die Kultur der Demokratie (1912). In 1922 he published Der mo=
ralische Gott, a study of the relationship of religion and culture, and in=
1929 his main work on sociology, Der Aufbau der sozialen Welt im Zeitalte=
r der Wissenschaft. After his death, some of his Jewish writings appeared,=
entitled Heimat Israels (1939). Koigen tried to delineate the peculiarity=
of Jewish experience in history and culture, pointing to the difficulty t=
he Jew has in gaining normal historical experience. Using methods like Max=
Weber 's, he attempted to specify the elements involved in Jewish exi=
stence in historical processes. ” (From the 2007 Encyclopedia Judaic=
a). Subjects: Religion and ethics. Religion and culture. Covers heavily so=
iled. Endpages aged and stained. First 16 pages browned, remaining pages v=
ery fresh and clean. Good+ condition. (GER-36-42) (ID #28893) $30.00. (RAB=
-36-4) |• Mendes-Flohr, Paul R. THE PHILOSOPHY OF FRANZ ROSENZWEIG. H=
anover: Published For Brandeis University Press By University Press Of New=
England,, 1988. Cloth, 8vo. x, 260 pages. With frontis piece portrait of=
Rosenzweig. Series: The Tauber Institute for the Study of European Jewry=
series; 8; SUBJECT (S): Filosofie. Rosenzweig, Franz, 1886-1929 -- Congre=
sses. German philosophy. Note(s): Meeting held Apr. 20-May 2, 1980 in Jeru=
salem. / "The Fourth Jerusalem Philosophical Encounter was cosponsore=
d by the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities, the Van Leer Jerusalem=
Institute, and the Embassy of the German Federal Republic in Israel"=
--P. Ix. / Includes indexes. / Bibliography: p. 215-247. Rosenzweig, the r=
enowned German Jewish philosopher, “was born in Kassel, Germany, the=
only son of well-to-do parents. His father Georg financially supported ma=
ny charity institutions, including the Jewish community, but the family=
9;s adherence to Judaism was minimal. In his youth, Franz came under the i=
nfluence of his great-uncle, Adam Rosenzweig, a bachelor, an artist and a=
learned Jew, who lived in the Rosenzweig home and spent many hours with F=
ranz. Through him the young boy learned of the Jewish world in an otherwis=
e assimilated milieu. Unlike the rest of his family, Rosenzweig fasted on=
Yom Kippur (the Day of Atonement) and also took private Hebrew lessons&he=
llip;In 1909, Rosenzweig tended towards assimilation, and justified the co=
nversion of his cousin Hans Ehrenberg to Christianity. He did not see the=
advantage that Judaism could have over Christianity, the dominant culture=
, which would also help him obtain a teaching position, almost impossible=
for a Jew to get. Another cousin and friend, Rudolf Ehrenberg was already=
born a Christian. Eugen Rosenstock, a Jewish convert to Christianity, bec=
ame Rosenzweig's closest friend. Rosenstock, who would become an impor=
tant nonconformist Protestant theologian, repeatedly urged him to abandon=
what he considered Rosenzweig's merely nominal Judaism and to convert=
=2E After months of deep conversations, and especially the catastrophic conv=
ersation with Rosenstock during the night of July 7, 1913, Rosenzweig deci=
ded to convert. But he then made the condition, to convert not "as a=
pagan, " but "as a Jew. " All this led to a crisis and alm=
ost to suicide. He left his converted friends for a few years and refraine=
d from having any contact with them. In the same year, on Yom Kippur of 19=
13, he attended in Berlin the synagogue of Rabbi Petuchowski and felt a pr=
ofound identification with the praying Jewish community. After a few days=
he wrote his friends, "I shall remain a Jew. " He then reshaped=
his life, rethought his identity, and devoted his further life to a since=
re return to Judaism, moving from the periphery of Jewish life to its cent=
er. ” (Meir, Horwitz, EJ, 2007). Very good condition in Very good ja=
cket. From the library of Dr. Fritz Rothschild, Professor Emeritus of Jewi=
sh Philosophy at JTS, with ex-libris stamp. Highlighting on a few pages an=
d notes in red pencil throughout. Very good + condition. (RAB-36-4) (ID #2=
4580) $30.00.<br>
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73. Rosenzweig, Franz. BRIEFE. Berlin, Schocken Verlag,=
1935. 1st Edition. Cloth, 8vo, 743 pages. "Unter Mitwirkung von Erns=
t Simon, ausgewaelt und herausgegeben von Edith Rosenzweig. " Wear to=
top of spine, otherwise Very Good Condition (GER-15-26DW) xxx (ID #18684)=
$60.00.<br>
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74. Rosenzweig, Franz. DIE “GRITLI” –=
BRIEFE: BRIEFE AN MARGRIT ROSENSTOCK-HUESSY. Tübingen, BILAM Verlag,=
2002. Original Softcover. Large 8vo. Vi, 860 pages. 24 cm. In German. Tit=
le translates to English as, “The "Gritli" Letters: Letter=
s to Margrit Rosenstock-Huessy. ” “German Jewish philosopher a=
nd theologian. These "Gritli" letters are an example of the rare=
possibility of cross-cultural and transcultural understanding. Unfortunat=
ely, scholars do not have Gritli's letters to Rosenzweig. However, jud=
ging from Rosenzweig's letters to Gritli, with whom he developed a clo=
se relationship, Gritli was attentive to Franz's expressions of his Ju=
daism. ” –EJ, 2007. Edited by Inken Rühle and Reinhold Ma=
yer. With a preface by Rafael Rosenzweig. Covers lightly worn but still so=
lid. Internal pages are bright and clean. Very Good Condition. (GER-32-3)=
(ID #28774) $100.00.<br>
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75. Rosenzweig, Franz. KLEINERE SCHRIFTEN. Berlin: Schoc=
ken,, 1937. Original publisher’s cloth, 8vo. 551 pages. In German. 1=
st edition. Forward by Edith Rosenzweig. Essays. Includes index. Encyclopa=
edia Judaica vol 14, col. 299. - Dahm II, 849. - Walk 317. - Stern 309f. S=
UBJECT (S): Judaism. Jodendom. Christendom. Rosenzweig, the renowned Germa=
n Jewish philosopher, “was born in Kassel, Germany, the only son of=
well-to-do parents. His father Georg financially supported many charity i=
nstitutions, including the Jewish community, but the family's adherenc=
e to Judaism was minimal. In his youth, Franz came under the influence of=
his great-uncle, Adam Rosenzweig, a bachelor, an artist and a learned Jew=
, who lived in the Rosenzweig home and spent many hours with Franz. Throug=
h him the young boy learned of the Jewish world in an otherwise assimilate=
d milieu. Unlike the rest of his family, Rosenzweig fasted on Yom Kippur (=
the Day of Atonement) and also took private Hebrew lessons…In 1909,=
Rosenzweig tended towards assimilation, and justified the conversion of h=
is cousin Hans Ehrenberg to Christianity. He did not see the advantage tha=
t Judaism could have over Christianity, the dominant culture, which would=
also help him obtain a teaching position, almost impossible for a Jew to=
get. Another cousin and friend, Rudolf Ehrenberg was already born a Chris=
tian. Eugen Rosenstock, a Jewish convert to Christianity, became Rosenzwei=
g's closest friend. Rosenstock, who would become an important nonconfo=
rmist Protestant theologian, repeatedly urged him to abandon what he consi=
dered Rosenzweig's merely nominal Judaism and to convert. After months=
of deep conversations, and especially the catastrophic conversation with=
Rosenstock during the night of July 7, 1913, Rosenzweig decided to conver=
t. But he then made the condition, to convert not "as a pagan, "=
but "as a Jew. " All this led to a crisis and almost to suicide=
=2E He left his converted friends for a few years and refrained from having=
any contact with them. In the same year, on Yom Kippur of 1913, he attend=
ed in Berlin the synagogue of Rabbi Petuchowski and felt a profound identi=
fication with the praying Jewish community. After a few days he wrote his=
friends, "I shall remain a Jew. " He then reshaped his life, re=
thought his identity, and devoted his further life to a sincere return to=
Judaism, moving from the periphery of Jewish life to its center. ”=
(Meir, Horwitz, EJ, 2007) From the library of Dr. Fritz Rothschild, Profe=
ssor Emeritus of Jewish Philosophy at JTS. Some underlining and a few marg=
in notes. Publisher’s advertisement for Rosenzweig’s Jehuda Ha=
levi laid in. Pages slightly tanned, slight damp stain to bottom edge of l=
ast 100 pages. Otherwsie good + condition. (RAB-36-2) (ID #24578) $100.00.=
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76. Rosenzweig, Franz. SECHZIG HYMNEN UND GEDICHTE DES J=
EHUDA HALEVI: DEUTSCH. Konstanz, Oskar Wöhrle Verlag, 1924. Original=
cloth binding, Large 4to. 175 pages. 25cm. In German. Medieval Hebrew poe=
try in German. Rosenzweig, 1886-1929, theologian. His German renderings of=
liturgical poems by Halevi are accompanied not only by a lengthy introduc=
tion which deals with the philosophy & problems of translation but als=
o by many, often extended footnotes that discuss the religious & theol=
ogical subject matter of individual poems (EJ 14: 302). Halevi, 1075-1141,=
Hebrew poet & philosopher. Spine repaired with some tape, boards fadi=
ng. Good working copy. (SPEC32-13) (ID #27752) $50.00. (RAB-36-3) |•=
Rosenzweig, Franz, 1886-1929. Amir, Yehoshua. Schwarcz, Moshe. KOKHAV HA-=
GEULAH. Yerushalayim: Mosad Byalik: Ha-Makhon Al Shem Leo Bek. 1970. (FT)=
Cloth, 8vo. 437 pages. In Hebrew. Includes a portrait of the author, and=
facsimile of a page from the original handwritten manuscript. Bibliograph=
ical references. SUBJECT(S): Judaism. Religion -- Philosophy. Cosmology. J=
udaism -- Philosophy. Original published in 1921, Der Stern der Erlosung (=
The Star of Redemption), is one of Rosenzweig’s most important works=
=2E Rosenzweig, the renowned German Jewish philosopher, “was born in K=
assel, Germany, the only son of well-to-do parents. His father Georg finan=
cially supported many charity institutions, including the Jewish community=
, but the family's adherence to Judaism was minimal. In his youth, Fra=
nz came under the influence of his great-uncle, Adam Rosenzweig, a bachelo=
r, an artist and a learned Jew, who lived in the Rosenzweig home and spent=
many hours with Franz. Through him the young boy learned of the Jewish wo=
rld in an otherwise assimilated milieu. Unlike the rest of his family, Ros=
enzweig fasted on Yom Kippur (the Day of Atonement) and also took private=
Hebrew lessons…In 1909, Rosenzweig tended towards assimilation, an=
d justified the conversion of his cousin Hans Ehrenberg to Christianity. H=
e did not see the advantage that Judaism could have over Christianity, the=
dominant culture, which would also help him obtain a teaching position, a=
lmost impossible for a Jew to get. Another cousin and friend, Rudolf Ehren=
berg was already born a Christian. Eugen Rosenstock, a Jewish convert to C=
hristianity, became Rosenzweig's closest friend. Rosenstock, who would=
become an important nonconformist Protestant theologian, repeatedly urged=
him to abandon what he considered Rosenzweig's merely nominal Judaism=
and to convert. After months of deep conversations, and especially the ca=
tastrophic conversation with Rosenstock during the night of July 7, 1913,=
Rosenzweig decided to convert. But he then made the condition, to convert=
not "as a pagan, " but "as a Jew. " All this led to a=
crisis and almost to suicide. He left his converted friends for a few yea=
rs and refrained from having any contact with them. In the same year, on Y=
om Kippur of 1913, he attended in Berlin the synagogue of Rabbi Petuchowsk=
i and felt a profound identification with the praying Jewish community. Af=
ter a few days he wrote his friends, "I shall remain a Jew. " He=
then reshaped his life, rethought his identity, and devoted his further l=
ife to a sincere return to Judaism, moving from the periphery of Jewish li=
fe to its center. ” (Meir, Horwitz, EJ, 2007). Very good condition i=
n Very good jacket. From the library of Dr. Fritz Rothschild, Professor Em=
eritus of Jewish Philosophy at JTS, with ex-libris stamp. (RAB-36-3) (ID #=
24579) $75.00.<br>
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77. Stein, Ludwig. DIE JUDEN IN DER NEUEREN PHILOSOPHIE.=
Berlin, 1919. Berlin, M.Poppelauer, 1919. Paper Wrappers, 12mo, 20 pages.=
23 cm. "unter besonderer Berücksichtigung Hermann Cohen's.&=
quot; Distributed by the Centralverein deutscher Staatsbürger jü=
dischen Glaubens. At head of title: Verein für jüdische Geschich=
te und Literatur in Berlin E.B. Series: Sammlung ausgewählter Vortr&a=
uml;ge, nr. 1. SUBJECT(S): Cohen, Hermann, 1842-1918. OCLC lists only 3 in=
stitutions with holdings worldwide, only 2 in the US, and none west of Cin=
cinnati (HUC, Penn, JNUL). Scarce. Paper starting to brown, but solid, Goo=
d+ Condition. (GER-6-26) (ID #16633) $100.00.<br>
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78. Strauss, Leo. DIE RELIGIONSKRITIK SPINOZAS ALS GRUND=
LAGE SEINER BIBELWISSENSCHAFT; UNTERSUCHUNGEN ZU SPINOZAS THEOLOGISCH-POLI=
TISCHEM TRAKTAT. Berlin; Akademie-Verlag, 1930. Clothbound. 8vo. XII, 288=
pages. 24 cm. First edition. In German. Original blue cloth with gold gil=
t lettering on cover and spine. Title translates as: “Spinoza’=
s Critique of Religion as the basis of Spinoza's biblical Science; inv=
estigations of Spinoza's Theological-Political Treatise. ” This=
first published work of Leo Strauss, the renowned German-Jewish political=
philosopher, is dedicated to an examination of Spinoza’s ideas; Str=
auss identifies Spinoza as part of the tradition of Enlightenment rational=
ism that eventually produced Modernity, and argues that Spinoza and his wo=
rks mark the beginning of Jewish Modernity. Subjects: Spinoza, Benedictus=
de, 1632-1677. Tractatus theologico-politicus. Political Theory. Theology=
=2E Religion. Covers lightly soiled, slight wear on endpage and a faded stam=
p, possibly ex-libris, on the title page. Edges lightly soiled, but pages=
fresh and clean. Very good + condition. A beautiful copy (GER-33-46) (ID=
#28841) $300.00.<br>
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79. Susman, Margarete; Bertha Badt-Strauß; Martin=
Buber; Ernst Simon; Jos.Prager; Victor Ehrenberg; Harmann Badt; Gerhard S=
cholem. FRANZ ROSENZWEIG: EIN BUCH DES GEDENKENS. Berlin: Soncino-Gesellsc=
haft,, 1930. Half cloth, 4to. 56 pages. In German. Limited edition of 800=
copies. SONCINO GESELLSCHAFT "was a Jewish bibliophile society, foun=
ded in Berlin in 1924, and liquidated by order of the Nazi government of P=
russia in 1937. The Society aimed at the typographic improvement of the Je=
wish and Hebrew book; 15 regular publications were primarily intended to i=
ntroduce to the Jewish book-world suitable models to be imitated by the co=
mmercial producers. The Society, therefore, commissioned all the different=
types of literary products likely to appear in print, such as scholarly w=
orks and periodicals, novels, short stories, plays, texts illustrated by m=
odern artists, and reprints of interesting rare books. The texts were chos=
en from Jewish literature of all periods and languages. Leading master-pri=
nters selected the printing type, size, and paper of each individual publi=
cation in order to design an external appearance in accordance with its co=
ntents. " (Meyer, EJ, 2007) Wear to spine, Spine and covers slightly=
sunned, corners bumped. Otherwise very good condition. (BIB-7-10) (ID #23=
940) $120.00.<br>
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80. Ascher, M. SEXUELLE FRAGEN VOM STANDPUNKTE DES JUDEN=
TUMS. Frankfurt A. M.: A. J. Hofmann, 1922. FT) Clothbound. 8vo. 80 pages.=
22 cm. Only edition. In German, with some Hebrew. Title translates as: &l=
dquo;Sexual Questions from the Standpoint of Judaism. “ A volume on=
sexual ethics in Judaism by Dr. Maurice Ascher (1873-1965). Dr. Ascher, f=
rom Bex-les-Bains, (home of the Ascher Institute, a boarding school) is th=
e author of numerous other books, including: The adolescent in sex and edu=
cation, Beitrag zur Ueberwindung der Krisen, Briefe über allerlei aus=
der jüdischen Religion, and many others. Subjects: Sex -- Religious=
aspects -- Judaism. Sexual ethics. Judentum. Hygiene. Corners on boards l=
ightly bumped. Previous owner’s name in ink on endpage. Pages lightl=
y aged and foxed, but fresh and clean. Very good + condition. (GER-36-5) (=
ID #28855) $35.00.<br>
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81. Gamwell, Lynn and Richard Wells. SIGMUND FREUD AND A=
RT: HIS PERSONAL COLLECTION OF ANTIQUITIES. Binghamton: State University O=
f New York; London: Freud Museum, 1989. Softcover, 4to, 192 pages, illustr=
ations (some color), 30 cm. Contents: Preface. Richard Wells -- Introducti=
on Peter Gay -- The origins of Freud’s antiquities collection. Lynn=
Gamwell -- A mighty metaphor: the analogy of archaeology and psychoanalys=
is. Donald Kuspit -- Psychoanalysis and the legacies of antiquity. Ellen H=
andler Spitz -- Science and art in Freud’s life and work. Martin S.=
Bergmann – Freud’s library and an appendix of texts related t=
o antiquities. Wendy Botting and J. Keith Davies. SUBJECT(S): Descriptor:=
Antiquities -- Private collections -- England -- London -- Exhibitions. P=
sychoanalysis and art -- Exhibitions. Antiquites -- Collections privees --=
Angleterre -- Londres -- Expositions. Psychanalyse et art -- Expositions.=
“In association with Harry N. Abrams, Inc. Publishers, New York. &r=
dquo; Accompanies an exhibition, The Sigmund Freud antiquities: fragments=
from a buried past. Includes bibliographical references (page 188-192). E=
xcellent condition. (Art-3-6) (ID #25601) $30.00.<br>
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82. Goslar, Hans. DIE SEXUALETHIK DER JÜDISCHEN WIE=
DERGEBURT: EIN WORT AN UNSERE JUGEND. Berlin; Jüdischer Verlag, 1919.=
Paper wrappers. 8vo. 47 pages. 23 cm. In German. Title translates as: &ld=
quo;The rebirth of the Jewish Sexual Ethics: A word to our youth. ”=
Hans Goslar (1889-1945) was a German-Jewish journalist and economist, Zio=
nist, and leading representative of the Jewish People’s Party and pr=
ess chief of the Prussian State Ministry during the Weimar era. He fled to=
Amsterdam in 1933 and spent many years in assisting German Jews to leave=
Nazi Germany; he and his family were sent to Bergen-Belsen, where he peri=
shed, though several family members were able to survive. His daughter Han=
nah Goslar, who survived, was a childhood friend of Anne Frank. Subjects:=
Sexual ethics. Jewish ethics. Systematic Theology. Freimann 401. Covers b=
rowned and aged; bumped and lightly chipped edges. Internal pages clean, a=
ged, with bumped edges. Very good+ condition. (GER-36-6) (ID #28856) $30.0=
0.<br>
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83. Leupold-Löwenthal, Harald; Hans Lobner. SIGMUND=
FREUD-HAUS: KATALOG. Wien; Verlag Löcker & Wögenstein, 1975=
=2E Softbound. 8vo. 79 pages. 24 cm. Only edition. In German. “Sigmund=
Freud House Catalog” published by the Sigmund Freud Society of Vien=
na, compiled and annotated by Harald Leupold-Löwenthal and Hans Lobne=
r. Includes 130 black and white plates; amongst which are biographic photo=
graphs of Freud, his family and associates, photographs of manuscripts and=
book covers, landscapes and objects within the Freud House, and architect=
ural maps of the house itself. A very finely illustrated volume detailing=
the life activities, home, and everyday objects of Sigmund Freud compiled=
by the Sigmund Freud House. Subjects: Museums. Freud, Sigmund, 1856-1939=
-- Homes and haunts -- Catalogs. Freud Sigmund. Freud, Sigmund, 1856-1939=
=2E Lightly aged and soiled covers. Near fine condition. (GER-36-47) XX (ID=
#28898) $30.00.<br>
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84. Rice, Emanuel. FREUD AND MOSES: THE LONG JOURNEY HOM=
E. Albany; State University Of New York Press, 1990. Softbound. 8vo. Xii,=
266 pages. 24 cm. First Edition. Includes 25 plates; black and white phot=
ographs and manuscript facsimiles. Table of Contents: Illustrations; Prefa=
ce; Introduction; Sigmund Freud's Jewish Identity; The Freud Family Bi=
ble; Sigmund Freud's Knowledge of Hebrew; Jacob and Amalia Freud&mdash=
;Orthodox or Reform Jews?; The Biblical Sources of the Hebrew Dedication;=
The Latent Content of the Birthday Benediction; Jacob Freud, Leopold Breu=
er, and Isaac Bernays—Divergent Approaches to the 'Haskalah'=
; 'One Must Close the Eyes'; Sigmund Freud—Theism vs. Atheis=
m; Freud and Moses—The Long Journey Home; The Last Chapter; Appendix=
I: Sigmund Freud's Formal Education; Appendix II: Higher Biblical Cri=
ticism and the Documentary Hypothesis; Appendix III: Review and Furthur El=
aboration of Freud's Mosaic Hypothesis; Notes; Bibliography; Index; In=
dex of References. Dr. Emanuel Rice is Associate Clinical Professor of Psy=
chiatry at The Mount Sinai School of Medicine of The City University of Ne=
w York, and Associate Attending in Psychiatry at The Mount Sinai Hospital.=
He is also engaged in private practice and lives in New York City. "=
I think this is an important contribution, particularly insofar as it mobi=
lizes important information that has hitherto not come to light, or has no=
t been sufficiently clarified and focused to provide us with a better unde=
rstanding of Freud's Jewish origins. The documentation of the more ort=
hodox aspects in Freud's family background, the information regarding=
the degree of Talmudic sophistication attained by his father, and the det=
ails of Freud's own Jewish training and education are extremely import=
ant for the understanding of Freud's own life and of his contributions=
to the understanding of religious experience. " -- W. W. Meissner, S=
=2E J. M. D. Boston Psychoanalytic Institute; Professor, Boston College; Cli=
nical Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard University. Subjects: Judaism and p=
sychoanalysis. Psychoanalysts - Austria - Biography. Judaism - Biography.=
Psychoanalysis - Biography. Freud, Sigmund, 1856-1939 - Religion. Freud,=
Sigmund, 1856-1939 - Childhood and youth. Contains a handwritten dedicati=
on on title page from Emanuel Rice to “Israel and Nathalie, With Tha=
nks and Best Wishes. ” Covers worn and bumped, edges lightly soiled.=
Pages clean and fresh. Very good + condition. (GER-36-15) (ID #28866) $20=
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85. Rosenak, Leopold. ZUR BEKAMPFUNG DES MADCHENHANDELS.=
REFERAT, ERSTATTET IN DER RABBINVERSAMMLUNG ZU FRANKFURT A.M., AM 7. JULI=
1902. Frankfurt A. M. J. Kauffmann,, 1903. Rebound in modern paper wrappe=
rs, 14 pages, 8vo. In German. SUBJECT (S): Prostitution. OCLC lists 4 copi=
es worldwide (NYPL, Hebrew Union, Bayerische, Nat Lib of Israel). Light we=
ar. Pages 10-14 text cut off at edge. Slight sunning to edges of cover. Ot=
herwise, very good condition. (BIB-16-2) (ID #24312) $95.00.<br>
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86. Leiter, W (Wolf). DIE STELLUNG DER FRAU IM TALMUD. A=
msterdam; Joachimsthal's Stoomdrukkerij, 1918. Paper Wrappers. 8vo. 63=
pages. 24 cm. First edition. In German, with Hebrew. Title translates as:=
“The Position of Women in the Talmud. ” Commentary derived fr=
om biblical exegesis on Women’s position, by the Rabbi of the religi=
ous society “Chowewei Hadath Wahajaduth” of Amsterdam. Subject=
s: Women in rabbinical literature. Jews in the Diaspora, Judaism; social h=
istory; social conditions, relations; social groups; women. OCLC lists 18=
copies worldwide. Paper wrappers shaken, worn, with bumped and chipped ed=
ges. Page edges bumped, lightly aged, but clean. Fair condition. Scarce (G=
ER-38-32) XXX (ID #29035) $100.00. (GER-36-31) |• Frankel, Zacharias.=
GRUNDLINIEN DES MOSAISCH-TALMUDISCHER EHERECHTS. Leipzig, Hunger, 1860. C=
lothbound. 4to. [1], XLVIII pages. 26 cm. First edition. In German, with=
some Hebrew. Bound in marbled board. Title roughly translates as: “=
Basic lines of the Mosaic-Talmudic Marriage-Law. ” Zecharias Frankel=
was a “German theologian; born at Prague Sept. 30, 1801; died at Br=
eslau Feb. 13, 1875. Frankel was the founder and the most eminent member o=
f the school of historical Judaism, which advocates freedom of research, w=
hile in practical life it upholds the authority of tradition, Frankel was,=
through his father, a descendant of Vienna exiles of 1670 and of the famo=
us rabbinical Spira family, while on his mother's side he descended fr=
om the Fischel family, which has given to the community of Prague a number=
of distinguished Talmudists. … His outline of rabbinical marriage=
law, "Grundlinien des Mosaisch-Talmudischen Eherechts" (Breslau=
, 1860), was meant to serve as a text-book on that subject. ” (from=
the 1906 Jewish Encyclopedia). This copy does not contain the often missi=
ng abridged five page report of the Judisch-theologisches seminar, Breslau=
=2E Subjects: Marriage -- Jews. OCLC lists 15 copies worldwide. Covers light=
ly worn, with bumped edges. Pages aged, lightly soiled throughout, with li=
ght but profuse liquid stains on last set of pages. All text legible. Very=
good condition. (GER-36-31) (ID #28882) $200.00.<br>
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87. Jacob Freund, Of Breslau.; D Feuchtwang;=
Abraham Geiger; Moritz Güdemann. HANNA: GEBE=
T- UND ANDACHTSBUCH FUR ISRAELITISCHE FRAUEN UND MADCHEN. Breslau: J. B. B=
randeis,, 1908. Cloth, 8vo. 303 Pages. In German. Jewish Women’s pra=
yerbook. SUBJECT (S): Jews -- Prayer-books and devotions -- German. &=
nbsp; OCLC lists nine copies worldwide. In publisher’s cardboard sli=
pcase. In good condition (GER24-19) (ID #25562) $35.00.<br>
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ise in very good condition (GER-30-2) (ID #26881) $35.00.<br>
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89. Levi, Abraham. REBECCA ODER DAS JÜDISCHE WEIB I=
N IHREM RELIGIÖSEN BERUFE. EINE FEDERZEICHNUNG. Frankfurt, Sänge=
r & Friedberg, 1920. Hardcover, 8vo, Original Publisher's Cloth. 8=
vo. 105 pages. "2. Verbesserte Auflage" [Second Revised Edition=
]. Some foxing. 2" chip to bottom of spine, internal binding splittin=
g inside, but paper remains good. Fair condition. (SPEC23-19) (ID #10468)=
$50.00.<br>
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90. Tendlau, Abraham Moses. SHA’ARE SHAMAYIM. PFOR=
TEN DES HIMMELS: EIN BUCH ZUR HAUSLICHEN ANDACHT FUR ISRAELITEN, BESONDERS=
DEN FRAUEN IN ISRAEL GEMIDMET. Frankfurt Am Main: Selbstverlage Des Verfa=
ssers, 1834. (FT) Hardcover, 8vo, xii, 304 pages, 19 cm. In German. Rabbi=
Jacques J. Lyons’ copy, with his ownership stamp on title page. Lyo=
ns was a “hazan, rabbi, and community leader….born in Surinam=
, Dutch Guiana on Menahem 25, 5573 (August 25, 1813). ….Jacques beg=
an his career as a hazan in Surinam in Congregation Nevie Shalom, a synago=
gue founded by Spanish-Portuguese Jews. In 1836 he left for Philadelphia,=
his parents home state, and was hired within a few months by Congregation=
Beth Shalome of Richmond, Virginia. He served Beth Shalome for two years,=
winning the high esteem of the congregation. In 1839, following the death=
of Rev. Isaac B. Mendez Seixas, he was elected Seixas’ successor as=
minister of Congregation Shearith Israel of New York City. He married Gra=
ce Nathan, daughter of Seixas Nathan and Sarah Mendes Seixas in 1842&helli=
p;.In 1854, Jacques and Rabbi Abraham de Sola of Montreal collaborated in=
writing A Jewish Calendar for Fifty Years, a book that contained a compre=
hensive Jewish calendar, an essay on the Jewish calendar system, as well a=
s historical information concerning Jewish communities in the United State=
s, Canada, and the West Indies….His niece through marriage [was] E=
mma Lazarus….”(AJHS).SUBJECT(S): Jewish women -- Religious li=
fe -- Germany -- Handbooks, manuals, etc. OCLC lists 1 copy worldwide (JTS=
). Light yellowing of pages. Lightly bumped cover corners. Very good condi=
tion. (Spec-8-1) (ID #25466) $145.00.<br>
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91. Wengeroff, Pauline. MEMOIREN EINER GROSSMUTTER: BILD=
ER AUS DER KULTURGESCHICHTE DER JUDEN RUSSLANDS IM 19. JAHRHUNDERT, BAND I=
[ONLY, OF 2]. Berlin: M. Poppelauer. 1908. 8vo. 200 pages. Illustrated w=
ith frontispiece portrait of the author. In German. SUBJECT (S): Jews &nda=
sh; Soviet Union. OCLC lists 14 copies worldwide. Wengeroff (1833-1916) &l=
dquo;became renowned for her memoirs...Memoiren einer Grossmutter, Bilder=
aus der Kulturgeschichte der Juden Russlands im 19. Jahrhundert...[which=
] reflect the life of a wealthy Jewish family in the period before the Has=
kalah and the crisis which ensued. ”(Slutsky, EJ) Green cloth with g=
ilt lettering and cloth bookmark. Pages very lightly tanned. Very good con=
dition. (MX-33-36) (ID #18387) $40.00.<br>
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92. (Blood Libel) Lipschitz, Leopold, editor. CHRISTLICH=
E ZEUGNISSE GEGEN DIE BLUTBESCHULDIGUNG DER JUDEN. Berlin, Walther & A=
polant, 1882. Paper Wrappers, 8vo, vi, 58 pages. Some edgewear. 27 cm. Vor=
bemerkung. --Zeugnisse: A, von theologischen facultaten; B, von bischofen;=
C, von professoren. (GR-2-10) No outer binding, signitures of pages seper=
ating. Paper good. (ID #4928) $80.00.<br>
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93. Bernfeld, Simon. SEFER HA-DEMA`OT: MEORA`OT HA-GEZER=
OT VEHA-REDIFOT VE-HASHMADOT. VOLUME 1 ONLY (OF 3). Berlin: Eshkol. 1923.=
Hardcover. (FT) 8vo. Volume one (of three) only. SUBJECT(S): Jews -- pers=
ecutions. "Bernfeld was born in Stanislav, Galicia, and was educated=
in Koenigsberg and Berlin. In 1886 he was appointed chief rabbi of the Se=
phardi community of Belgrade, Serbia; he remained there until 1894, when h=
e returned to Berlin and devoted himself to scholarly pursuits. He continu=
ed his literary work until his death, despite blindness in his later years=
=2E Bernfeld wrote several monographs in Hebrew on Jewish history and philos=
ophy, the earliest published when he was only 19." (Klausner, EJ) Boo=
kplate, front joint split, good condition. (RAB-23-15) (ID #20477) $35.00.=
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94. Baron, Salo Wittmayer. DIE JUDENFRAGE AUF DEM WIENER=
KONGRESS, AUF GRUND VON ZUM TEIL UNGEDRUCKTEN QUELLEN DARGESTELLT VON DR.=
SALO BARON; HRSG. MIT UNTERSTÜTZUNG DER HISTORISCHEN KOMMISSION DER=
ISRAELITISCHEN KULTUSGEMEINDE IN WIEN. Wien Und Berlin; R. Löwit, 19=
20. Clothbound. 8vo. 211 pages. 23 cm. First edition. In German. Published=
under the auspices of the Israelitische Kultusgemeinde Wien; Historische=
Kommission. Title translates as “The Jewish question presented to t=
he Congress of Vienna, on the basis of unprinted sources by Dr. Salo Baron=
, editor, with the support of the Historical Commission of the Jewish Comm=
unity in Vienna. ” Solo Wittmayer Baron (1895-1989), a Polish Jewish=
scholar, who emigrated to the United States in 1930 and taught at Colombi=
a university, and considered one of the greatest Jewish historians of the=
twentieth century. This work, written in the year Baron received rabbinic=
al ordination at the Jewish Theological Seminary in Vienna in 1920, is a r=
eport on period texts which situate the social and political climate for J=
ews in an increasingly anti-Semitic Europe. Subjects: Jews -- Germany. Jew=
ish question. Congress of Vienna. Light foxing to edges and bottom edges o=
f cover. Very clean and fresh copy. Very good + condition. (GER-33-31) (ID=
#28827) $75.00.<br>
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95. Another Copy. Edgeworn, top corners bumped, fly leaf=
detached and chipped, owner's name on half title page, text clean, go=
od condition. (GER-18-7) (ID #25787) $55.00.<br>
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96. Bernstein, S. DIE JUDENPOLITIK DER RUMÄNISCHEN=
REGIERUNG. Copenhagen, M. Truelsens Bogtrykkeri, 1918. Original Paper Wra=
ppers. 8vo. 196 pages. 23 cm. In German. Title translates to English as, &=
ldquo;The Jewish Policy of the Rumanian Government. ” Corp Authors:=
Zionist Organisation.; Copenhagen office. CONTENTS: Die Juden in Rumä=
;nien bis zum Berliner Vertrag -- Der Berliner Vertrag -- Die Judenfrage i=
n Rumänien zur zeit des Balkankrieges (1912-13) -- Die Lage der Juden=
in Rumänien set dem Ausbruch des Weltkrieges. SUBJECT(S): Jews -- Le=
gal status, laws, etc. -- Romania. Jews -- Romania. Back cover absent; fro=
nt cover detached but present. Internal pages are nice and clean, binding=
is tight. Good+ Condition. (SEF-37-5) (ID #28465) $100.00.<br>
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97. Bloch, Joseph S. Theodor Nöldecke, and August W=
ünsche. ISRAEL UND DIE VÖLKER: NACH JÜDISCHER LEHRE. Berlin=
& Wien, 1922. Berlin & Vienna: Benjamin Harz, 1922. Half leather;=
8vo. Lii, 830 pages. Marbled boards; raised bands; gilt titles. In German=
=2E Half-title: Israel und die Völker nach jüdischer Lehre mit ber=
ücksichtigung sämtlicher antisemitischer Textfälschungen in=
Talmud, Schulchan Aruch, Sohar und anderen rabbinischen und kabbalistisch=
en Schriften auf Grund der dem Wiener Landesgericht aus Anlass des Prozess=
es Rohling contra block 1885 erstateten schriftlichen Gutachten der in Eid=
genommenen sachverständigen Professor Dr. Theodor Nöldeke und l=
ic. Theol. Dr. August Wünsche systematisch dargestellt... "Diese=
s Buch... Intendiert... Die Dienste eines Kompendiums für jüdisc=
he Apologetik zu leisten. "--p. Lii. Bibliography: p. 791-797. Bloch=
was a rabbi, publicist, and politician in Austria. "During the Tisza=
-Eszlar blood libel trial in 1883, when August Rohling undertook to attest=
on oath that Jews practiced ritual murder, Bloch attacked him in the pres=
s. He challenged Rohling's competence as a scholar, accused him of lyi=
ng, and offered him 3, 000 florins for translating a random page of the Ta=
lmud. Rohling was forced to sue Bloch for libel, but after two years'=
investigations withdrew his action 13 days before the trial was due to op=
en...Israel und die Voelker (1922; Israel and the Nations, 1927) [is a co=
mpendium of apologetics] based on the evidence of the experts in connectio=
n with the Rohling trial. " (Meir Lamed, EJ) SUBJECT(S): Judaism -- A=
pologetic works. Antisemitism. Judaism -- Controversial literature -- Hist=
ory and criticism. Rohling, August, 1839-1931. Edgewear; bit of foxing. Ve=
ry good condition. (RAB-48-18) (ID #16017) $75.00.<br>
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98. Blueher, Hans. SECESSIO JUDAICA: PHILOSOPHISCHE GRUN=
DLEGUNG DER HISTORISCHEN SITUATION DES JUDENTUMS UND DER ANTISEMITISCHEN B=
EWEGUNG. Berlin, W. Ritter, 1922. 1st Edition. Paper Wrappers, Light wear,=
small tear at spine, Good+ Condition; 8vo; 66 pages; 23 cm. (Comhist-14-3=
8) (ID #4976) $50.00.<br>
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99. Blumenfeld, Kurt. Edited by Hans Tramer. ERLEBTE JUD=
ENFRAGE: EIN VIERTELJAHRHUNDERT DEUTSCHER ZIONISMUS. Stuttgart, Deutsche V=
erlags-Anstalt, 1962. 1st Edition. Cloth, 8vo, 222 pages. 24cm. Veroffentl=
ichung des Leo Baeck Instituts. Includes frontis portrait. Very Good jacke=
t. (GEr-15-53dw) (ID #18711) $30.00.<br>
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100. Bodmer, M. J. (Pseud. ), edited by Ernst Jaeckh. EI=
N NEUER STAATENBUND UND DAS OSTJUDENPROBLEM. Stuttgart-berlin, Deutsche Ve=
rlags-Anstalt, 1916. Paper Wrappers, Some wear to wrapper, Good Condition;=
36 pages; WW I-era analysis. "Der deutsche Krieg" series; Polit=
ische Flugschriften 73. Heft. (MX-34-10) (ID #4810) $30.00.<br>
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101. Borut, Jacob. HAGENU `AL `ATSMEKHEM!: YISUD "H=
A-AGUDAH HA-MERKAZIT SHEL EZRAHIM GERMANIYIM BA`ALE HA-EMUNAH HA-YEHUDIT&q=
uot; (CENTRAL VEREIN). Yerushalayim: Hotsaat Merkaz Dinur. 1996. Paperback=
=2E 8vo. 152 pages. In Hebrew and German. SUBJECT (S): German language. Hebr=
ew language; Jews – Germany – Politics and government -- 19th=
century – sources; Antisemitism – Germany – history --=
19th century – sources; Germany – ethnic relations. SERIES: K=
untresim, mekorot u-mehkarim.; Sidrah 4; 2; OCLC lists 13 copies worldwide=
=2E Very good condition. (GER-15-31) (ID #18810) $25.00.<br>
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102. Carlebach, Elisheva. DIVIDED SOULS: THE CONVERT CRI=
TIQUE AND THE CULTURE OF ASHKENAZ 1750-1800. New York, Berlin: Leo Baeck I=
nstitute, 2003. Paper Wrappers, 8vo. 24 pages. In English. (Leo Baeck Memo=
rial Lecture; 46) Elisheva Carlebach is Professor of History at Queens Col=
lege and the Graduate Center, CUNY. On December 3, 2002, she gave the 46th=
Leo Baeck Memorial Lecture at the Leo Baeck Institute New York. The autho=
r examines what it meant for a Jew to convert to Christianity in early mod=
ern Europe. She focuses on Germany, where it generally meant profound unea=
se and discomfort. The status of Jews who converted, who retained elements=
of their Jewishness while not accepted as true Christians, resulted in a=
figure that was often considered, at least from the Christian perspective=
, a counterfeit human being. The collective historical influence of the co=
nverts was complex and enduring since they did not simply disappear within=
the majority. Rather, they became the first German Jews to experience the=
consequences of a dual identity, and the first to demonstrate that leavin=
g Judaism for Christianity was never a simple transformation. Christians a=
ccepted them as baptized but not truly converted. Elisheva Carlebach descr=
ibes the dilemma of identity and the sense of alienation and which are a p=
ersistent theme in the history of conversions out of Judaism.SUBJECT (S):=
Jews -- Germany -- History -- 18th century. Christian converts from Judai=
sm -- Germany -- History -- 18th century. Asjkenaziem. Bekerin=
g. In fine condition. (MX12-13). (ID #21332) $30.00.<br>
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103. Deutsches Centralkomitee Für Die Russischen Ju=
den (Germany). STENOGRAPHISCHER BERICHT ÜBER DIE DELEGIRTEN-VERSAMMLU=
NG ZUR BERATHUNG DER HILFS-AKTION FÜR DIE RUSSICHEN JUDEN, BERLIN, 20=
=2E UND 21. OCTOBER 1891. Berlin; Typ. H. S. Hermann, 1891. FT) Paper wrappe=
rs. 8vo. 134 pages. 23 cm. First edition. In German. “Stenographic r=
eport of the delegates to the assembly to deliberate charity activity for=
Russian Jews, Berlin, 20 and 21st October 1891.” “Published b=
y the business executive committee of the "German Central Committee f=
or Russian Jews. " The German Central Committee for Russian Jews was=
a national organization established in 1891, comprised of seventy seven l=
ocal aid societies throughout Germany which were essential in helping the=
transmigration of thousand of Russian Jews to the United States and Pales=
tine. The delegates to the assembly are almost entirely Rabbis, scholars,=
and philanthropists, from New York, Holland, Denmark, and all over German=
y. The reports and discussion of this assembly comprise an interesting ass=
essment of the situation of Eastern European Jews at the close of the cent=
ury. OCLC lists 15 copies worldwide. Covers soiled, edges bumped. Pages li=
ghtly aged at edges, but clean and fresh. Very good condition. (GER-33-23)=
(ID #28819) $250.00.<br>
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104. DIE MORAL DER EVANGELIEN UND DES TALMUD. EINE VERGL=
EICHENDE STUDIE IM GEISTE UNSERER ZEIT. Brno, Bernhard Epstein, 1912. Clot=
h, Contemporary cloth. 8vo. x, 58 pages. In German. Bound with: Durege, Je=
nny: JUDENTUM UND CHRISTENTUM. VORTRAG GEHALTEN IN PRAG AM 12. FEBRUAR 191=
2 IM SÄULENSAALDES DEUTSCHEN HAUSES. (Magdeburg: R. Zacharias. 1912.=
8vo. 27 pages. 2. Tausend). Gesamtverzeichnis 1700-1910, XXX. 474. Attrac=
tively bound together in period cloth. Very Good Condition. (SPEC23-12) (I=
D #8124) $75.00. (GER-37-75) |• Eloesser, Arthur. VOM GHETTO NACH EUR=
OPA: DAS JUDENTUM IM GEISTIGEN LEBEN DES 19. JAHRHUNDERTS. Berlin, Jü=
dische Buch-Vereinigung, 1936. 1st Edition. Cloth, 8vo, 292 pages. Good st=
udy of the Emancipation. Guido Kisch's copy, with his attractive pre-w=
ar pargue bookplate. An outstanding copy (GER-37-75) Very Good+ Condition=
Lacks Jacket. (ID #1988) $65.00.<br>
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105. Another Copy. 1st Edition. Cloth, 1" tear at b=
ackstrip, otherwise a good solid copy.; 8vo; 292 pages; Good study of the=
Emancipation. (GER-37-80) (ID #6264) $45.00.<br>
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106. Goldstein, Julius. RASSE UND POLITIK. Schlücht=
ern, Neuwerkverlag. 1921. Half cloth. 8vo. 152 pages. In German. First edi=
tion. SUBJECT (S): Antisemitism; Race; Nationalism and nationality. Goldst=
ein (1873-1929) was a German philosopher who was born in Hamburg. His phil=
osophies were similar to William James', whose A Pluralistic Universe=
he translated, and he was greatly concerned with the modern civilization=
and culture around him. (Popkin, EJ) Pages darkened but clean, binding ti=
ght, very good condition. (HOLO2-6-21) (ID #20766) $30.00.<br>
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107. Jüdisch-Nationaler Akademischer Verein "e=
munah", Czernowitz. HEIMKEHR: ESSAYS JÜDISCHER DENKER. Czernowit=
z, Verlag Louis Lam, 1912. Original Publisher’s Cloth. 8vo. 188 page=
s. 24 cm. In German. Title translates to English as, “Homecoming: Es=
says From Jewish Philosophers. ” CONTENTS: "Einiges zum Problem=
e des "Golus" - Ernst Müller; "Die sieben Lügen d=
es heutigen Judentums" - Daniel Pasmanik; "Einsichten und Ausbli=
cke" - Nathan Birnbaum; "Nationale Autonomie der Juden in Oester=
reich" - Max Rosenfeld; "Nordau" - Adolf Stand; "Achad=
-Haam" - Salomon Schiller; "Was Herzl vorfand" - Leon Kelln=
er; "Der Umschwung in der Türkei und die jüdischen Palaesti=
na-Bestrebungen" - Davis Trietsch; "Chasmonaer-Fest und Chanukah=
(Eine historische Studie) " - Samuel Rappaport; "Der Anteil der=
Juden am europaeischen Großhandl mit dem Orient" - Ignatz Schi=
pper; "Italienische und spanische Aertze und Apotheker in XVI. Und XV=
II. Jahrhundert in Krakau" - Majer Balaban; "Die Mythen des Chas=
sidismus" - Martin Buber. SUBJECT(S): Jewish question. Jews -- Europe=
=2E Includes bibliographical references. Includes foreword by Leon Kellner.=
Pictoral endpages, hinges cracking. Cover lightly stained. Internal pages=
are nice and clean. Good+ condition. (GER-32-4) (ID #28775) $200.00.<br>
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108. Kahn, Fritz. DIE JUDEN ALS RASSE UND KULTURVOLK. Be=
rlin, Welt-Verlag, 1921. Cloth, Lacks backstrip. Otherwise Good Condition;=
8vo; 249 pages; 29 cm. Felix A. Levy's copy, with his ownership signi=
ture on the front endpaper. Levy (1884-1963) served for almost 50 years as=
Rabbi at Emmanuel Congregation in Chicago, and "influenced his colle=
agues in modifying the attitude of Reform Judaism to halakhah and the natu=
re of Jewish identity. These changes were embodied, inter alia, in the 193=
7 Columbus Platform adopted by the Central Conference of American Rabbis u=
nder Levy's leadership as president (1935-37) " Wolfe Kelman in E=
J, 1971, 11: 157) (GER-37-70) (ID #6047) $40.00.<br>
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109. Kernholt, Otto. VOM GHETTO ZUR MACHT. DIE GESCHICHT=
E DES AUFSTIEGS DER JUDEN AUF DEUTSCHEM BODEN. Leipzig, Berlin, Theodor We=
icher, 1921. 1st Edition. Paper Wrappers, Paper Wraps. 8vo. x, 319 pages.=
23 cm. "Anmerkungen und Quellennachweise" on pages 297-306. Ant=
isemitic. Occationally cited on modern Antisemitic webpages. binding repai=
red, previous owner's number on spine and endpaper, paper browning but=
good and solid throughout. Good condition. (HOLO2-57-8). (ID #7854) $75.0=
0.<br>
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110. Liebeschütz, Hans. DAS JUDENTUM IN DER DEUTSCH=
EN UMWELT: 1800-1850: STUDIEN ZUR FRÜHGESCHICHTEDER EMANZIPATION. U.=
ARNOLD PAUCKER. Tübingen: Mohr, 1977. Cloth, 8vo, xii, 445 pages, 24=
cm. Includes indexes. Bibliography on pages 393-420 Subjects: Philippson,=
Ludwig, 1811-1889. Hirsch, Samson Raphael, 1808-1888. Jews--Germany--Hist=
ory--1800-1933. Judaism--Germany--History--1815-1866. Series: Schriftenrei=
he wissenschaftlicher Abhandlungen des Leo Baeck Instituts; 35. Variant Se=
ries: Schriftenreihe wissenschaftlicher Abhandlungen des Leo Baeck Institu=
ts; 35 0459-097X. Gilt lettering on cover and spine, Very good condition i=
n worn jacket (Comhist-3-9) (ID #19728) $35.00.<br>
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111. Marsch, Wolf Dieter; and Karl Theime, editors. CHRI=
STEN UND JUDEN IHR GEGENÜBER VOM APOSTELKONZIL BIS HEUTE. Mainz, Matt=
hias-Grunewald-Verlag, 1961. 1st Edition. Very Good Condition in Very Good=
Jacket.; 299 pages; In German. 21 cm. Guido Kisch's copy. (GER-37-59)=
(ID #8255) $25.00.<br>
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112. Mosse, Werner E. ENTSCHEIDUNGSJAHR 1932: ZUR JUDENF=
RAGE IN DER ENDPHASE DER WEIMARER REPUBLIK. Tübingen: J. C. B. Mohr (=
Paul Siebeck), 1965. 1st Edition. Cloth, Large 8vo; 608 pages; Near Fine c=
ondition in Very Good dust jacket (Comhist3-2) (ID #19721) $40.00.<br>
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113. Offenburg, Benno. DAS ERWACHEN DES DEUTSCHEN NATION=
ALBEWUßTSEINS IN DER PREUßISCH EN JUDENHEIT: VON MOSES MENDELS=
SOHN BIS ZUM BEGINN DER REAKTION. Hamburg, Druck Von Arthur Brünnler,=
1933. 1st Edition. Paper Wrappers, 8vo, 87 pages. "Dissertation zur=
Erlangung der Doktorwürde der Philosophischen Fakultät der Hamb=
urgischen Universitat. " Guido Kisch's Copy "Ein geistesgesc=
hichtlicher Beitrag zur Emanzipationsgeschichte der deutschen Juden"=
(GER-37-51) Chipping to spine, but binding is solid. A nice copy. (ID #18=
59) $60.00.<br>
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114. Oppeln-Bronikowski, Friedrich Von. GERECHTIGKEIT! Z=
UR LOSUNG DER JUDENFRAGE. Berlin-wilmersdorf, J. G. Huch, 1932. Paper Wrap=
pers, Original Paper Wrappers. 8vo. 96 pages. 23 cm. In German. Weimar-era=
philosemitic call for justice and calling on Germans and Jews to work tog=
ether (though, of course, they are seen as distinct). This copy bears the=
rubber stamps of the Bibliothek zur Erforschung der Judenfrage. Wear to c=
over & corners, spine cocked, but good and solid. (HOLO2-65-3) (ID #48=
06) $55.00.<br>
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115. Another Copy. Backstrip has tears at top and bottom=
, title page is torn and reattached with tape. Internal pages are nice and=
clean. Good condition. (HOLO2-45-1). (ID #26565) $50.00.<br>
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116. Pfisterer, Rudolf. IM SCHATTEN DES KREUZES. Hamburg=
-bergstedt, H. Reich, 1966. 1st Edition. Paperback, Very Good Condition.;=
8vo; 155 pages; In German. 23 cm. Bibliographical footnotes. Christianity=
and Antisemitism. (GER-37-39) (ID #8421) $40.00.<br>
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117. Reibmayr, Albert. INZUCHT UND VERMISCHUNG BEIM MENS=
CHEN. Leipzig; Deuticke, 1897. Clothbound. 8vo. VI, 268 pages. 24 cm. Firs=
t edition. In German. Green cloth with gilt lettering. Title translates as=
: “Inbreeding and Mixing in Humans. ” The first work by the Au=
strian physician Albert Reibmayr details the existence of an inbred caste=
of rulers, emerging from social and cultural progress out of the division=
of labor and social differentiation. The work gives a particularly detail=
ed biological basis of the theory of historical cycles, that of a transiti=
on from an inbred caste to a socially mixed caste, recommending the superi=
or role of the newly emerged mixed middle classes for social rule, and rec=
ommends that intermixing is the only path to rejuvenation of a crumbling s=
ociety. This work was studied by Emile Durkheim, and though swamped in lat=
e 19th century genetic theories, serves to legitimate the toppling of &ldq=
uo;inbred” rulers, and highlights the nomadic and dynamic Semites as=
fit to rule over the inbred sedentary Aryans (! ) Subjects: In-breeding.=
Consanguinity. Miscegenation. Jews. Covers lightly soiled, pages fresh an=
d clean. Near fine condition. (GER-36-35) (ID #28886) $175.00.<br>
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118. Reimann, Hans (Pseud.: Artur Sünder). DIE DINT=
E WIDER DAS BLUT. EIN ZEITROMAN. Hannover, P. Steegemann, 1921. Paper Wrap=
pers, 12mo; 39 pages. Satire of Artur Dinter's vulgar anti-Semitic bes=
tseller "The Sin against the Blood"; "Having expressed crit=
iques of the Nazis and planned a Hitler parody under the title Mein Krampf=
(My Cramp), he [Reimann] experienced great difficulties and was blacklis=
ted by the Nazi regime. He wrote under several pseudonyms and also co-wrot=
e with Heinrich Spoerl. A secret report by Carl Zuckmayer, who worked for=
a US agency, suggested,that Reimann published in anti-semitic journals [=
he did end up as editor of "The Nettle", the only Nazi satire ma=
gazine] and found ways of arranging himself with the Nazis, (a similar all=
egation by Moritz Lederer was in an 1958 court case judged unfounded). Aft=
er the fall of the 'Third Reich' in 1945, Reimann was forbidden to=
publish in Allied-occupied Germany until 1948" (Wikipedia, 2012). Ha=
s a backwards swastika as part of its cover design. Light wear, paper brow=
ning, Good Condition; (GER-37-16) (ID #4328) $30.00.<br>
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119. Robinsohn, Saul B. and Chaim Schatzker. JÜDISC=
HE GESCHICHTE IN DEUTSCHEN GESCHICHTSLEHRBÜCHERN. Braunschweig, A. Li=
mbach, 1963. Original Paper Wrappers. 8vo. 53 pages. 24 cm. In German. Ser=
ies: Schriftenreihe des Internationalen Schulbuchinstituts, 7. Bd. Title t=
ranslates to English as, “Jewish History in German History Textbooks=
=2E ” SUBJECT (S): Jews -- History -- Study and teaching -- Germany. T=
extbooks -- Germany. Education -- Germany -- 20th century. Schulbuch. Gesc=
hichtsunterricht. Geographic: Germany -- Historiography. Germany -- Histor=
y -- 1945-1990. Juden. Deutschland. Includes bibliographical references (p=
ages 49-53). Light wear to cover. Internal pages are slightly darkened, bu=
t all text is clear. Very good condition. (HOLO2-60-20) (ID #27669) $35.00=
=2E<br>
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120. Rosenfeld, Max. NATIONALES SELBSTBESTIMMUNGSRECHT D=
ER JUDEN IN POLEN. Wien / Berlin; R. Löwit Verlag, 1918. Paper wrappe=
rs. 8vo. 62 pages. 23 cm. First edition. In German. Title translates as: &=
ldquo;National Self-Determination of Jews in Poland. ” Dr. Max Rosen=
feld 1884-1919) was a socialist Paole Zionist from Galicia, who argued for=
Jewish national autonomy in an Austrian Federation of nationalities, so a=
s to minimize any possible harm that would come to the Jews in the Austria=
n-Hungarian empire were it to dissolve into separate fragmented states; Ro=
senfeld foresaw the ideal situation being that of a strong state overseein=
g the common concerns of the many nationalities in the empire. His intenti=
on was for Jewish religious communities to transform themselves into a Jew=
ish national community. Subjects: Jews -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- Pola=
nd. Polen. Juden. Pages uncut, chipped edges on cover. Lightly aged and so=
iled, with bumped corners. Clean copy. Good + condition (GER-36-41) (ID #2=
8892) $30.00.<br>
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121. Sandor, Alexander. DER PHILOSEMIT. II. JAHRGANG, II=
I. HEFT. Prague: Druck Von Eugen Petschau, 1932. Paper wrappers. 8vo. 171-=
250 pages. In German. “The Philosemite. ” Scarce Jewish serial=
from Prague. SUBJECT (S): Philosophy. Covers a little worn, particularly=
around the edges, small tear on front along bottom edge and another at th=
e bottom of the spine, corners bumped, text clean, good condition. (GER-18=
-12) (ID #25792) $50.00.<br>
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122. Scholl, Carl. DAS JUDENTHUM UND SEINE WELTMISSION.=
Leipzig, Robert Friese, 1880. Softcover. 8vo. 26 pages. 21 cm. In German.=
Philosemitic treatise, denouncing Antisemitism. Reprinted from, "Es=
werde Licht! Monatsblätter zur Förderung der Humanität, Ja=
hrg. XI (1880), Februarheft, ” a monthly magazine published by Schol=
l to espouse free religious beliefs and speak out against anti-Semitism. T=
itle translates to English as, “Judaism and Its World Mission. &rdqu=
o; For more on Scholl, see Dagmar Herzog’s fascinating article, &ldq=
uo;Carl scholl, Gustav Struve, and the problematics of philosemitism in 18=
40s Germany: Radical Christian dissent and the reform Jewish response, &rd=
quo; ( in Jewish History Volume 9, Number 2, 53-72). SUBJECT(S): Judaism.=
Religion. Judentum. OCLC lists 10 copies worldwide. "Surplus - Dupli=
cate" stamp on cover, book plate on front end page. Internal pages ar=
e darkened with some damp stains but still nice. Margin notes on one page.=
All text is clear. Good condition. Important imprint from the Judenfrage=
debates of 19th Century Germany. (HOLO2-49-17). (ID #26324) $150.00.<br>
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123. Sombart, Werner. DIE DEUTSCHE VOLKSWIRTSCHAFT IM NE=
UNZEHNTEN JAHRHUNDERT UND IM ANFANG DES 20. JAHRHUNDERTS. Berlin, G. Bondi=
, 1927. 4th Revised Edition. Cloth, xvi, 532 pages; In German. 23 cm. Incl=
udes a great deal of material on Jews. Previously published under title: D=
ie deutsche Volkswirtschaft im neunzehnten Jahrhundert. Light wear to ends=
of spine. Very good condition. (MX-34-26) (ID #8286) $60.00.<br>
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124. Strack, Hermann L. DAS BLUT IM GLAUBEN UND ABERGLAU=
BEN DER MENSCHHEIT: MIT BESONDERER BERÜCKSICHTIGUNG DER "VOLKSME=
DIZIN" UND DES "JÜDISCHEN BLUTRITUS." München [M=
unich]; Beck, 1900. Clothbound. 8vo. XVI, 208 pages. 21 cm. Eighth edition=
=2E In German. Title translates as: “The Blood of Faith and Superstiti=
on in mankind: with special reference to “Folk-medicine” and t=
he “Jewish blood ritual. ” Published under the auspices of the=
Institutum Judaicum in Berlin. Hermann Strack, (1848-1922) a “Germa=
n Protestant theologian and Orientalist; born at Berlin May 6, 1848. Since=
1877 he has been assistant professor of Old Testament exegesis and Semiti=
c languages at the University of Berlin. He is the foremost Christian auth=
ority in Germany on Talmudic and rabbinic literature, and studied rabbinic=
s under Steinschneider. Since the reappearance of anti-Semitism in Germany=
Strack has been the champion of the Jews against the attacks of such men=
as Hofprediger Stöcker, Professor Röhling, and others. In 1885=
Strack became the editor of "Nathanael. Zeitschrift für die Arb=
eit der Evangelischen Kirche an Israel, " which is published at Berli=
n; and in 1883 he founded the Institutum Judaicum, which aims at the conve=
rsion of Jews to Christianity. Strack is a member of the Foreign Board of=
Consulting Editors of The Jewish Encyclopedia. ” (From the 1906 Jew=
ish Encyclopedia) OCLC lists 16 copies worldwide. Subjects: Blood. Religio=
us Studies. Judaism. Rite. Folk medicine. Covers worn, soiled at edges, wi=
th bumped corners. First and last endpages chipped, brittle, shaken. Pages=
lightly aged, clean and fresh. Very good + condition. (GER-33-48) (ID #28=
843) $50.00.<br>
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125. Strack, Hermann L. DAS WESEN DES JUDENTUMS: VORTRAG=
, GEHALTEN AUF DER INTERNATIONALEN KONFERENZ FÜR JUDENMISSION ZU AMST=
ERDAM. Leipzig; Hinrichs, 1906. FT) Clothbound. 8vo. 23 pages. 24 cm. Firs=
t Edition. In German. Later bound cloth over boards with original paper wr=
appers as title page. Title translates as: “The essence of Judaism:=
Paper presented at the International Conference in Amsterdam on Missionar=
y work among Jews. ” Hermann Strack, (1848-1922) a “German Pro=
testant theologian and Orientalist; born at Berlin May 6, 1848. Since 1877=
he has been assistant professor of Old Testament exegesis and Semitic lan=
guages at the University of Berlin. He is the foremost Christian authority=
in Germany on Talmudic and rabbinic literature, and studied rabbinics und=
er Steinschneider. Since the reappearance of anti-Semitism in Germany Stra=
ck has been the champion of the Jews against the attacks of such men as Ho=
fprediger Stöcker, Professor Röhling, and others. In 1885 Strack=
became the editor of "Nathanael. Zeitschrift für die Arbeit der=
Evangelischen Kirche an Israel, " which is published at Berlin; and=
in 1883 he founded the Institutum Judaicum, which aims at the conversion=
of Jews to Christianity. Strack is a member of the Foreign Board of Consu=
lting Editors of The Jewish Encyclopedia. ” (From the 1906 Jewish En=
cyclopedia) Subjects: Judaism. Judenmission. Backstrip and original wrappe=
rs starting, but signatures intact. Covers lightly soiled. Original wraps=
lightly aged. Pages fresh and clean. Very good condition. (GER-33-45) (ID=
#28840) $30.00.<br>
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126. Strack, Hermann Leberecht. EINLEITUNG IN DEN TALMUD=
=2E Leipzig, J. C. Hinrichs, 1908. Hardcover, viii, 182 pages, 23 cm. In Ger=
man. Series: Schriften des Instutum judaicum in Berlin.; Nr. 2. SUBJECT (S=
): Judenmission. Talmud. Talmud -- Introduction. Talmud. Bibliography on p=
ages 81-82 and 139-175. Strack (1848-1922) was a “German Orientalist=
and theologian. Strack was born in Berlin, where he became professor of O=
riental languages and director-founder of the university’s Institutu=
m Judaicum. He was recognized as a leading non-Jewish scholar in the field=
of Bible and Talmud, Hebrew and Aramaic linguistics, Masorah, etc. Servin=
g as an expert in German courts on a number of cases with antisemitic over=
tones, Strack took a firm line in defense of Judaism, and at the same time=
was active in the Protestant missionary movement. In the field of linguis=
tics his main publications were Grammatik des Biblisch-Aramaeischen; Hebra=
eische Grammatik; Juedisches Woerterbuch, a Yiddish dictionary; and Lehrbu=
ch der neuhebraeischen Sprache und Litteratur. Of importance for the study=
of Masorah was his Dikduke ha-Te’amim des Ahron ben Moscheh ben Asc=
her, edited in cooperation with S. Baer; Catalog der hebraeischen Bibelhan=
dschriften der… Bibliothek in St. Petersburg; and Prophetarum poste=
riorum Codex babylonicus Petropolitanus. He also took part in the controve=
rsy surrounding the Firkovich forgeries. Strack wrote Einleitung in das Al=
te Testament and edited, together with O. Zoeckler, a short Bible commenta=
ry, to which he contributed several biblical books; he also published a tr=
anslation of and commentary on Ben Sira. He wrote, with P. Billerbeck, a c=
ommentary to the New Testament which was based on Talmud and Midrash and d=
emonstrated the Jewish rabbinic origin of most of Jesus’ sayings. He=
also issued annotated translations of several Mishnah tractates with Bill=
erbeck, including Avot, together with a vocalized text. Strack’s Ein=
leitung in Talmud und Midrash became a standard reference work, the Englis=
h edition, Introduction to the Talmud and Midrash, which is based on the l=
ast but revised German one, being sponsored by the Central Conference of A=
merican Rabbis. In fighting the malicious accusations against Judaism, Str=
ack wrote Das Blut im Glauben und Aberglauben der Menschheit, which was tr=
anslated into English by H. Blanchamp as The Jew and Human Sacrifice &hell=
ip;. Works in the same vein include: Sind die Juden Verbrecher von Religio=
nswegen?; Juedische Geheimgesetze?; Herr Adolf Stoecker christliche Liebe=
und Wahrhaftigkeit; and Die Aufhebung der Juden-Emanzipation und ihre rec=
htliche Begruendung. Strack’s courageous stand against growing Germa=
n antisemitism brought him bitter denunciation by antisemitic writers such=
as K. Erbsreich and Th. Fritsch; on the other hand his missionary activit=
ies came under attack from Jewish writers” (Berenbaum and Skolnik in=
EJ, 2007). Light wear to cover binding and edges. Yellowing to inside fro=
nt and back cover. Very good condition. (Heb-15A-16) (ID #26035) $30.00.<b=
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127. Strack, Hermann Leberecht. JOMA; DER MISCHNATRAKTAT=
"VERSÖHNUNGSTAG"; HERAUSGEGEBEN UND ERKLÄRT VON HERMA=
NN L. STRACK. Berlin; H. Reuther's Verlagsbuchhandlung, 1888. Clothbou=
nd. 8vo. 40 pages. 22 cm. Text in Hebrew, notes in German. Title translate=
s as: “YOMA; The Mishnah Tractate ‘Atonement’; Issued an=
d explained by Hermann L. Strack. ” Printed as number 3 of “Sc=
hriften des Institutum Judaicum in Berlin”, the Jewish Institute of=
Berlin. Hermann Leberecht Strack (1848-1922) was a German Protestant theo=
logian and Orientalist. The 1906 Jewish Encyclopedia had this to say of hi=
m: “He is the foremost Christian authority in Germany on Talmudic an=
d rabbinic literature, and studied rabbinics under Steinschneider. Since t=
he reappearance of anti-Semitism in Germany Strack has been the champion o=
f the Jews against the attacks of such men as Hofprediger Stöcker, Pr=
ofessor Röhling, and others. In 1885 Strack became the editor of &quo=
t;Nathanael. Zeitschrift für die Arbeit der Evangelischen Kirche an I=
srael, " which is published at Berlin; and in 1883 he founded the Ins=
titutum Judaicum, which aims at the conversion of Jews to Christianity. In=
the beginning of his career the Prussian government sent Strack to St. Pe=
tersburg to examine the Bible manuscripts there; on this occasion he exami=
ned also the antiquities of the Firkovich collection, which he declared to=
be forgeries. ” This short volume constitutes one in a series of ed=
itions of the Mishnah tractates published in the late 1880’s: Abot (=
Carlsruhe, 1882; 2d ed. Berlin, 1888), Yoma (1888), 'Abodah Zarah (188=
8), and Shabbat (1890). Ephraim Deinard’s copy, as noted on the book=
plate: “From the Library of Ephraim Deinard. ” Subjects: Mishn=
ah. Yoma -- Criticism, Textual. Covers lightly worn. Pages lightly aged, s=
ome edges bumped and chipped. Very good condition. (GER-36-46) (ID #28897)=
$30.00.<br>
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128. Werner Sombart. DIE JUDEN UND DAS WIRTSCHAFTSLEBEN.=
Leipzig, Duncker & Humblot, 1920. Cloth, 8vo. 476 Pages. In German. S=
UBJECT (S): Jews -- Politics and government. Jews -- Social conditions. Ec=
onomic history. Joden. Economisch gedrag. Sombart, (1863-1941), was a Germ=
an political economist and sociologist. Born in Ermsleben, Sombart acquire=
d a reputation through his work Der Moderne Kapitalismus (2 vols., 1902, 1=
9162) in which he traced the development of capitalism from the later Midd=
le Ages. In 1917 he was appointed professor of political economy at the Un=
iversity of Berlin. He wrote two works on capitalism and the Jews: Die Jud=
en und das Wirtschlaftsleben (1911), The Jews and Modern Capitalism (1913,=
1951), and Die Zukunft der Juden (1912) which aroused considerable contro=
versy. (EJ, Staff) In good condition (GER24-23) (ID #28752) $30.00.<br>
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129. Zipkes, Rudolf. JÜDISCHE SELBSTKRITIK; VON WES=
EN UND POLITIK DES JÜDISCHEN VOLKES. Zürich; Buchdruckerei A. G.=
1941. Later Cloth. 8vo. 135 pages. 21 cm. First edition. In German. Holoc=
aust-era imprint. Beautiful later red cloth binding with gilt lettering on=
spine. Title translates as: “Jewish Self-Critique; on the essence a=
nd politics of the Jewish People“, a conspicuous anti-zionist tract=
written by Rudolf Zipkes, a Swiss-Jewish lawyer, art historian, film crit=
ic, and later member of the Swiss supreme court. Translated chapter titles=
: The Jewish Question, the people’s problem in the present - The fat=
e of the Jewish people - The historical disease: Messianism, Orthodoxy and=
assimilation. Zionism and criticism - The structure of the Jewish spirit=
of true emancipation - Principles of a realistic national policy. Subject=
s: Jews. Selbstkritik. Jüdische Gemeinde. Geschichte (Zeit). Binding=
and endpages in fine condition. Pages lightly aged and soiled at edges, w=
ith a light warping potentially owing to non-visible dampstains. Text and=
pages fresh. Very good condition. (GER-33-34) (ID #28830) $30.00.<br>
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130. Zollschan, Ignaz. DAS RASSENPROBLEM: UNTER BESONDER=
ER BERÜCKSICHTIGUNG DER THEORETISCHEN GRUNDLAGEN DER JÜDISCHEN R=
ASSENFRAGE. Wien, Leipzig; W. Braumüller, 1911. Clothbound. 8vo. XVI,=
509 pages. 24 cm. 2nd Revised Edition. In German. Marbled hardcover with=
gilt lettering. Title translates as: “The race problem: With specia=
l reference to the theoretical bases of the Jewish race question." Dr=
=2E Ignaz Zollschan (1877-1948) was an Austrian anthropologist and physician=
=2E Zollschan, who was born in Erlach, Lower Austria, graduated as a doctor=
and while working in private practice in Carlsbad turned his interests to=
anthropology. To combat the anti-Semitic racist theories of Houston S. Ch=
amberlain, he published his Das Rassenproblem unter besonderer Beruecksich=
tigung der theoretischen Grundlagen der juedischen Rassenfrage (multiple e=
ditions). As a Zionist he opposed Jewish Diaspora nationalism. In Revision=
des juedischen Nationalismus (1919) he attacked the Jewish demand for min=
ority rights, and a revised edition of this work with a supplement, "=
Der Weg zum Maximalismus," appeared in the following year. In 1921 he=
analyzed the condition of Zionism in his Krise und Sezessionsgefahr im Zi=
onismus und deren Ursachen. His interpretation of the Zionist problem stim=
ulated the formulation of a current within German Zionism called Binyan ha=
-Arez. This is one of the most important anti-racialist anthropological st=
udies of the "race problem". Subjects: Jewish question. Race. Li=
ght soiling to covers and edges. Lightly bumped edges. Near fine condition=
=2E (GER-36-9) (ID #28859) $45.00.<br>
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131. Another Copy. Light soiling to covers and edges. Cl=
ear tape attached to backstrip, worn covers. Outer edges lightly soiled. V=
ery good + condition. (GER-36-9A) (ID #28860) $35.00.<br>
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132. (Klatzkin, Jacob) Böhm, Adolf. DIE ZIONISTISCH=
E BEWEGUNG, EINE KURZE DARSTELLUNG IHRER ENTWICKLUNG VON ADOLF BÖHM.=
2 VOLUMES IN 1. Berlin, Welt-Verlag, 1920. Cloth, Paper brown, binding cr=
acked but solid.; 8vo; 190, 363 pages; Includes 11-page index. I. Teil: Di=
e Bewegung bis zum Tode Theodor Herzls. II. Teil: Die Bewegung vom Tode He=
rzls bis zum Ausbruch des Weltkrieges. Mit einem Anhang: Kurze Übersi=
cht der Entwickelung vom Ausbruch des Weltkrieges bis zur gegenwart. Jacob=
Klatzkin's copy with his bookplate. Klatzkin was an important Zionist=
philosopher who edited a number of early 20th Century German and Hebrew Z=
ionist and other Jewish periodicals. With nahum Goldman he initiated in 19=
24 the ENCYCLOPAEDIA JUDAICA (cut short by the rise of Hitler) as well as=
a parallel encyclopedia in Hebrew. The author of numerous books, he belie=
ved that "the impulse of self-preservation among Jews in modern times=
created a revoltuionary situation, in which the Jewish people turned away=
from over-intellectualization and spiritualization to the resumption of n=
ational life in its own country, with its own language. A country and a la=
nguage, according to Klatzkin, determine the life of a nation, not abstrac=
t religious or cultural ideas. " (Moshe Zeev Sole & Samuel Scheps=
in EJ 1972, 10: 1088-1090) (GER-37-29) (ID #4366) $60.00.<br>
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133. (Map) Hugo Herrmann. PALASTINAKUNDE, EIN HAND-UND N=
ACHSCHLAGEBUCH, EIN LEITFADEN FUR VORTRAGENDE UND KURSE, SOWIE FUR DEN UNT=
ERRICHT. Wien, Fiba-Verlag, 1935. Cloth, 8vo. 566 Pages. In German. SUBJEC=
T (S): Palestine. OCLC lists 21 copies worldwide. Bookplate. Herrmann, (18=
87–1940), a Zionist author, editor, and propagandist. Born in Maehri=
sch-Truebau (Moravska Trebova), Moravia, Herrmann attended the German Univ=
ersity in Prague and became a teacher. He also was a member of the editori=
al staff of Selbstwehr, the Prague Zionist weekly; his cousin Leo Hermann=
was another member of the staff. (EJ, Kressel) In very good condition wit=
h the scarce large map (ca 22"x40") by Hermann, in p=
ocket at rear, in fine condition. Book in Very Good+ Condition (GER24-3) (=
ID #25546) $100.00.<br>
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134. Antizionistisches Komitee, Berlin. ZIONISTISCHE TAK=
TIK. Berlin, A. Rosenthal Nachf. 1919. 1st Edition (?). Paper Wrappers, 8v=
o, 32 pages. 22 cm. Schriften zur Aufklarung uber den Zionismus, #1. Jewis=
h Anti-Zionist pamphlet. Probably printed 1910-1920. (Ger-37-4) Heavy wear=
, Good- Condition. (ID #28668) $30.00.<br>
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135. Birnbaum, Nathan. VOR DEM WANDERSTURM. Frankfurt Am=
Main; L. Sänger, 1919. Paper wrappers. 8vo. 31 pages. 23 cm. First e=
dition. In German. Title translates as: “Before the Wandering Tempes=
t. ” Printed in the pamphlet series “Jüdische Zeitfragen=
No. 1” (Jewish Contemporary Issues, no. 1) in the year 1919/5679. N=
athan Birnbaum (1864–1937), a writer (early pen name: Mathias Acher)=
, philosopher, one of the originators of Zionist ideology, later a leader=
of religious Judaism. He was an early proponent of Zionism, founding &ldq=
uo;Kadimah, ” the first Jewish nationalist students' organizatio=
n (1882) with the aim of criticizing assimilation and setting up a Jewish=
nationalist consciousness. “After the Second Zionist Congress (1898=
) Birnbaum made a fundamental turn in his political thinking: He became a=
spokesman for "diaspora nationalism, " publishing articles in w=
hich he severely criticized Herzl's "diplomatism, " the &quo=
t;inorganic" nature of the Zionist movement, and the Zionist "ne=
gation of the Diaspora, " its culture and language (Yiddish). He grad=
ually withdrew from Zionism, affirming that "Israel comes before Zion=
, " i. E. that the striving for Eretz Israel must not entail neglect=
of the Jewish People itself. His concept was now that of an interterritor=
ial nation, comprising and integrating all existing Jewish groups which ha=
d a cultural life of their own. The most important group in his eyes was t=
he Yiddish-speaking one in Eastern Europe. … He repudiated his own=
former "pagan-Jewish" life in Gottes Volk (1917), with further=
editions in 1918 and 1921 (translated into English under the title Confes=
sion, 1946). In Vom Freigeist zum Glaeubigen (1919) he described his spiri=
tual development. Upon the refounding of the Agudat Israel World Organizat=
ion (1919) he became its first general secretary. At that time, after the=
war, revolution, and pogroms in Eastern Europe, he devoted much effort to=
the problem of emigration and endeavored to enlist general Jewish coopera=
tion toward regulating on a big scale what amounted to an unorganized, pan=
ic mass flight. His book Im Dienste der Verheissung (1927) contains a crit=
ical analysis of the "activism" of the Orthodox as a grafting of=
fashionable ideologies onto an organism that was inherently of a differen=
t nature and suggested to the "activists" a more fruitful field=
– the gigantic task of creating the necessary material precondition=
s toward effecting a metamorphosis. ” (2007 Encyclopedia Judaica) Su=
bjects: Jews -- Restoration. Judentum. Migration. OCLC lists 20 copies wor=
ldwide. Lightly soiled front cover, soiled back cover. Pages aged, browned=
, but clean. Good+ condition. (GER-36-43) (ID #28894) $35.00.<br>
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136. Boczkowski, Hipolit Olgerd. GRUNDLAGEN DES NATIONAL=
PROBLEMS; EINFUHRUNG IN DIE NATIOLOGIE. Prag, 1937. Softcover, 95 pages, 8=
vo, 20 cm. In German. Nazi-era imprint. Series: Kleine zionistische Bü=
;cherei, Heft 1. SUBJECT (S): Nationalism and nationality. Cover title: Da=
s Nationalproblem. Literatur on pages 90-95. Czech imprint. OCLC lists 10=
copies worldwide. Wear to edges and cover binding. Staining to back cover=
=2E Hinge repair. Otherwise, very good condition. (BIB-11-3) (ID #24042) $50=
=2E00.<br>
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137. Bonne, Alfred. PALÄSTINA: LAND UND WIRTSCHAFT.=
Leipzig, Deutsche Wissenschaftliche Buchhandlung, 1933. 2nd Edition. Pape=
r Wrappers, 8vo, 308 pages. In German. 24 cm. "Literatur" on pag=
es 303-305. Includes index. Lacks attached paper jacket,otherwise Good Con=
dition. (GER-15-27DW) (ID #18685) $35.00.<br>
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138. Deutscher Verein Zur Erforschung Palästinas. Z=
EITSCHRIFT DES DEUTSCHEN PALÄSTINA-VEREINS. (BANDS 1, 2, 3, 5, 7, 8,=
9, 11, 12, AND 13 OF 67). Leipzig, O. Harrassowitz [Etc. ], 1890. Cloth,=
8vo. In German. Illustrated with multiple fold out maps. English translat=
ion: “Journal of the Palestine-German Society”. Periodical pub=
lished between 1878 and 1945, for a run of 67 volumes. SUBJECT (S): Palest=
ine -- Antiquities -- Periodicals. Ex-library with bookplates on inside fr=
ont cover. Dampstain and some warping to covers. Pages tanned, also with s=
ome dampstain, but not affecting text. Maps intact. Good – condition=
=2E (SPEC-27-32) (ID #27922) $400.00.<br>
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139. Kundgebung Deutscher Juden; Albert Einstein; Leo Ba=
eck. DAS PALÄSTINAWERK. Berlin; Keren Hajessod, 1926. Paper wrappers.=
8vo. 47 pages. 23 cm. Only edition. In German. Title page reads: “D=
as Palästinawerk: eine Kundgebung deutscher Juden im ehemaligen Herre=
nhaus zu Berlin, am 4. März 1926: stenographischer Bericht. ” T=
ranslates as: “The Palestine Movement: A declaration of German Jews=
in the former manor house in Berlin on 4 March 1926: Stenographic Report&=
rdquo;. Keren Hajessod was established at the World Zionist Conference in=
London on July 7–24, 1920, and officially declared on December 24,=
1920. The resolution adopted called on "the whole Jewish people"=
;, Zionists and non-Zionists alike to contribute toward the building of th=
e Land of Israel through Keren Hayesod. Jewish communities throughout the=
world established local campaigns under the Keren Hayesod umbrella. This=
stenographic report of a conference discussion includes contributions by=
Oscar Aquarius, Leo Baeck, Albert Einstein, Alfred Lisser, Gotthold Weil,=
Julius Magnus, Siegfried Hirsch, Felix Pinner, George Bernard, Kurt Blume=
nfeld and Oscar Wassermann. OCLC lists 19 copies worldwide. Subjects: Zion=
ism - Germany. Paper wrappers aged, soiled, bumped edges, with torn upper=
right corner, and staining and tear to lower backstrip. Browning on autho=
r’s listing page. Pages water stained at outermost edge, but very cl=
ean otherwise. Good + condition. (GER-33-40) (ID #28835) $30.00.<br>
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140. Landauer, Georg. ZWISCHEN ZWEI REVOLUTIONEN: ZIONIS=
TISCHE BETRACHTUNGEN ZU EINIGEN FRAGEN DER ÜBERGANGSZEIT. Tel Aviv, 1=
942. Tel Aviv: Hitachduth Olej Germania we Olej Austria, 1942. Paper Wrapp=
ers, 12mo, 118 pages. 17 cm. In German. Born on November 17, 1895, in Colo=
gne, Germany. Georg Landauer was a lawyer, journalist, and Zionist leader.=
He was active in the Zionist youth movement Blau-Weiss and the student or=
ganization Kartell Jüdischer Verbindungen. He was a founder of the Ge=
rman branch of Ha-Poel Ha-Zair. Georg Landauer became director of the Berl=
in Palestine Office in 1925 and in 1929 of the Zionist Federation of Germa=
ny. After his emigration to Palestine in 1934, he was involved in politics=
in the Yishuv, especially as founder of Aliyah Hadasha, a party based in=
the German immigrant community, and in Aliyah and absorption matters, par=
ticularly as financial director of Youth Aliyah. Georg Landauer served twe=
nty years (1934-1954) as a managing director of the Jewish Agency Central=
Bureau for the Settlement of German Jews. After the Second World War ende=
d Georg Landauer was involved in negotiating for reparations and restituti=
on of the property of German Jews in Germany. He emigrated to the United S=
tates in 1953 and died in New York City on February 4, 1954. (Leo Baeck In=
stitute) SUBJECT(S): Zionism. OCLC lists 5 copies worldwide (Stanford, Pri=
nceton, NYPL, OSU, Oxford). Very Good Condition. (G-1-3) (ID #15960) $125.=
00.<br>
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141. Nawratzki, Curt. DAS NEUE JÜDISCHE PALÄST=
INA. Berlin, Jüdischer Verlag, 1919. 1st Edition. Cloth, Lacks backst=
rip, paper brown & fragile, Fair Condition.; 8vo; 232 pages; In German=
=2E Includes tables & large fold-out map made by the author. 24 cm. Iwan=
Salomon's copy with his bookplate. (GER-37-33) (ID #8423) $20.00.<br>
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142. Reinharz, Jehuda. THE GERMAN ZIONIST CHALLENGE TO F=
AITH IN EMANCIPATION, 1897-1914. Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv University, 1982. Orig=
inal Paper Wrappers. 8vo, 32 pages. SUBJECT (S): Jews, Germany, Politics a=
nd Government, Zionism. Light wear to cover but still solid. Internal page=
s are nice and clean; Very good condition. (SPEC23-31) (ID #27444) $50.00.=
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BIBLE<br>
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143. Budde, Karl. DIE FÜNF MEGILLOT: DAS HOHELIED,=
DAS BUCH RUTH, DIE KLAGELIEDER, DER PREDIGER, DAS BUCH ESTHER. VOLUME 17.=
ONLY. Freiburg I. B.: Mohr., 1898. Cloth. 8vo. Xxiv, 202 pages. In German=
=2E Volume 17 only. SUBJECT (S): Bible. O. T. Ruth - commentaries; Bible. O.=
T. Lamentations - commentaries; Bible. O. T. Esther - commentaries; Bible=
=2E O. T. Ecclesiastes - commentaries; Bible. O. T. Song of Solomon - commen=
taries. SERIES: Kurzer Hand-Commentar zum Alten Testament; Abt. 17. A Germ=
an Protestant, Budde (1850-1933) taught Bible at Bonn, Strasbourg, and Mar=
burg, and, in 1888-89, gave a series of lectures at Harvard. He was devote=
d to historical criticism; for example, in an early book he attempted to f=
ind the original sources for Genesis 1-11. He also investigated the histor=
y of Jewish literature, particularly the tradition meters in Hebrew poetry=
=2E (EJ, 2007) Covers detached, stamp on title page, pages clean, good condi=
tion. (RAB-21-9) (ID #21733) $30.00.<br>
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144. Holzinger, H. DAS BUCH JOSUA: ERKLÄRT. Tubinge=
n: J. C. B. Mohr., 1901. Cloth. 8vo. Xxii, 103 pages. In German. SUBJECT (=
S): Bible. O. T. Joshua - commentaries; Bible. O. T. Joshua - criticism, i=
nterpretation, etc. SERIES: Kurzer Hand-Commentar zum Alten Testament; Abt=
=2E 6. Ex library. Light water stain in top margin, cover edges dented, good=
condition. (RAB-21-20) (ID #21744) $30.00.<br>
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145. Lazarus, L. Rabbiner Dr. DAS BUCH HIOB AUF DER OBER=
STUFE DER MITTELSCHULE. Wien, Wien, Der Wochenschrift, 1910. Paper Wrapper=
s, 8vo, 15 pages. “Vortrag gehalten in Wien am Verbandstag der israe=
litischen Religionslebrer an den österreichischen Mittelschulen am 28=
=2E Dezember 1909.” “Separatabdruck aus ‘Dr. Blochs Oester=
reich. Wochenschrift, ’ Nr. 6 und 7, vom 11. Und 18. Febuar 1910.&rd=
quo; No copies on OCLC, nor at JTSA. Lacks original (blank? ) front cover.=
Spine repaired. Paper brown and fragile as expected, tear to title page w=
ith some text affected. Otherwise Good Condition. Very Scarce. (BIBLE-11-1=
) (ID #20895) $50.00.<br>
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146. Buttenwieser, Moses. DIE HEBRAISCHE ELIAS APOKALYPS=
E UND IHRE IN DER APOKALYPTISCHEN LITTERATUR DES RABBINISCHEN SCHRIFTTUMS=
UND DER KIRCHE. 1. HALFTE. Leipzig, Eduard Pfeiffer, 1897. Cloth, 8vo. 82=
Pages. In German. 1st edition. OCLC lists 25 copies worldwide. Buttenwies=
er (1862–1939), was a Bible scholar. Buttenwieser studied at German=
universities and then went to the United States, and was appointed profes=
sor of biblical exegesis at the Hebrew Union College, Cincinnati, in 1897.=
He accepted the general approach of the K. H. Graf-J. Wellhausen school,=
but did not follow it slavishly. He drastically reconstructed the text of=
Job. (EJ, Bamberger) In fair condition (GER24-21) (ID #25563) $125.00.<br=
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147. Staerk, W. ARAMAEISCHE URKUNDEN ZUR GESCHICHTE DES=
JUDENTUMS IM VI UND V JAHRHUNDERT VOR CHR. Bonn: A. Marcus Und E. Weber.=
1908. Paper wrappers. 8vo. 16 pages. In German and Aramaic. First edition=
=2E SUBJECT (S): Aramaic language – texts; Manuscripts, Aramaic; Jews=
– history – to 70 C. E. -- sources. Series: Kleine texte f&uu=
ml;r vorlesungen und übungen,; 32. Ex library. Spine repaired, top ed=
ge of cover has small tear, good- condition. (BIBLE-8-4) (ID #21116) $50.0=
0.<br>
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148. Geiger, Abraham. URSCHRIFT UND UEBERSETZUNGEN DER B=
IBEL IN IHRER ABHÄNGIGKEIT VON DER INNERN ENTWICKELUNG DES JUDENTHUMS=
=2E Breslau, 1857. Breslau: Julius Hainauer, 1857. Cloth; 8vo. Viii, 500 pag=
es. First edition. In German. Bibliographical annotations. Abraham Geiger=
"was a rabbi, son of an old-established family in Frankfort, one of=
the leaders of the Reform movement in Judaism, and an outstanding scholar=
of Wissenschaft des Judentums...Geiger's principal work was Urschrift=
und Uebersetzungen der Bibel..., in which he correlates the history of th=
e biblical translations with the history of the sects in Israel (particula=
rly the Pharisees and Sadducees). He also supplemented the work with comme=
nts, written in a fine rabbinic Hebrew (Ozar Nehmad, 3 (1860), 1-15, 116-2=
1). " (Jacob S. Levinger, EJ) SUBJECT(S): Jews -- History. Bible. O.=
T. -- History. Bible. O. T. -- Criticism, Textual. First edition of the p=
rincipal work of one of the great leaders of the German reform movement. E=
x-library with minimal markings. Attractive modern binding. Damp stain at=
top edge of first few leaves. Pages heavily foxed. Very Good Condition. (=
GER-2-14RB) (ID #16500) $200.00.<br>
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149. Küsel, Melchior; Johann Baptista Croph; Georg=
Laub. ICONES BIBLICÆ VETERIS ET NOVI TESTAMENTI: FIGUREN BIBLISCHER=
HISTORIEN ALTEN UND NEUEN TESTAMENTS [BIBLICAE]. Augustae Vind [Augsbur=
g: A Melchoire Kysel], 1680. (FT) Vellum binding. 4to. 245 leaves. 24 cm.=
First edition. In Latin and German. Five parts in one volume. Later Vellu=
m with marbled endpages, gilt title on leather on spine, many pages throug=
hout restored and repaired at time of vellum binding. The “Biblical=
Icons of the Old and New Testament” is engraved with 241 images thr=
oughout, except 4 leaves with dedication and a preface by Georgius Laub da=
ted Jan. 1, 1680. Latin and German verses by Johannes Crophius are engrave=
d on each leaf. There are also illustrated half-titles and title pages to=
each Testament, bordered half-titles to part two and three of the Old Tes=
tament and part two of the New Testament, with a concluding leaf for the O=
ld Testament, and a final leaf dated 1679. A few of the engravings are sig=
ned: Melchior Küsell sculpsit. Subjects: Bible -- Illustrations. Bibl=
e -- Picture Bibles. Illustrated works -- 17th century. Engravings -- Germ=
any -- 17th century. A copy sold at auction in 2011 for 1200 E-U-R. Vellum=
soiled, binding very steady. Pages restored, but heavily soiled, edges wa=
vy and soiled. Slight wormholing at edge of a few pages. Text crisp, image=
s crisp. Very good condition. (DREYFUS-5-17) (ID #28603) $1,500.00.<br>
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150. Zunz, Leopold. TORAH NEVI'IM KETUVIM. DIE VIER=
UND ZWANZIG BÜCHER DER HEILIGEN SCHRIFT: NACH DEM MASORETISCHEN TEXT=
E. Berlin: Veit. 1838. Cloth. (ft) 8vo. Iv, 815, 14 pages. In German. Firs=
t edition. SUBJECT(S): Bible. O. T. -- German. OCLC lists 15 copies worldw=
ide. Zunz (1794-1886), born and educated in Germany, was a well-known hist=
orian. An heir to European Enlightenment, he was a founded of the idea of=
the "Science of Judaism. " In that vein, he fruitlessly hoped t=
hat Jewish studies would be taught in universities as a regular academic d=
iscipline, and that he'd be able to do the teaching. He believed that=
Jewish literature and learning was part of the broader scope of human aff=
airs, including the sciences, and should not be shut up merely in discussi=
ons of religious matters. For his seventieth birthday, a foundation was se=
t up to fund Zunz's and other similar scholarship. He continued to wor=
k until 1874, when his wife's death left him seriously depressed. (Gla=
tzer, EJ) Rebound. Edges foxed, stain in fore margin throughout, some corn=
ers creased, good condition. Scarce. (SPEC-7-7) (ID #24235) $375.00.<br>
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151. Jellinek, Adolph. EINLEITUNG IN DIE THORA: FUNF RED=
EN. Wien, Herzfeld & Bauer, 1866. Cloth, Contemporary Cloth. 8vo. 72 p=
ages. 22 cm. In German. Title translates to English as, "Introduction=
to the Torah: Five Speeches." CONTENTS: Die doppeltönende Stimm=
e der Thora -- Der Mittelpunkt der Thora. Moses -- Israel -- Einem Volke,=
aber nicht dem einzelnen Menschen, wird die Thora vorgelegt, aber nicht a=
ufgenötigt. Contemporary rebind, wear to boards, good, solid conditio=
n (SPEC32-15) (ID #27756) $50.00.<br>
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152. Bloch, J. S. STUDIEN ZUR GESCHICHTE DER SAMMLUNG DE=
R ALTHEBRÄISCHEN LITERATUR. Breslau: H. Skutsch. 1876. 8vo. 160 pages=
=2E In German. SUBJECT (S): German language; Bible O. T. -- canon. OCLC list=
s 19 copies worldwide. 12-word inscription by Bloch ("der Verfasser&q=
uot;) on title page. Bloch was seen as a "Hercules" against Anti=
semitism; his history included a stint as torchbearer in the fight against=
Blood Libel accusations: "A fanatical ultramodernist priest from the=
Rheinland, Rohling published in1871 his DER TALMUDJUDE...a collection of=
deliberately corrupted quotations, imaginary statements, and forgeries ag=
ainst the Talmud...Rohling's challenger was Joseph Samuel Bloch who, a=
fter repeated sorties against him, published a series of articles in July=
1883...in which he branded Rohling a liar and a perjurer. " (Meir La=
med in EJ, 1971, 4: 1104 & Kenneth Scholberg in EJ, 1971, 14: 224). Ed=
gewear throughout, some dampstains along top edge, attractively bound in m=
odern cloth. (GER-15-45) (ID #18824) $200.00.<br>
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153. Altschüler, Moritz. VIERTELJAHRSSCHRIFT FÜ=
;R BIBELKUNDE: TALMUDISCHE UND PATRISTISCHE STUDIEN (YEAR TWO, NUMBER TWO)=
=2E Berlin; S. Calvary, 1904. Clothbound serial publication. 8vo. [113-228]=
pages. 24 cm. In German with some Hebrew. Full title: “Vierteljahrs=
schrift für Bibelkunde: talmudische und patristische Studien unter Mi=
twirkung von zahlreichen namhaften jüdischen und christlichen Gelehrt=
en. ” Title translates as: “Quarterly Journal of Bible Studies=
: Talmudic and Patristic Studies with the assistance of numerous distingui=
shed Christian and Jewish scholars. ” The Quarterly journal of bible=
studies, begun in 1903 and ending in 1909, was the product of various dis=
tinguished German protestant, catholic, and Jewish theologians, engaged wi=
th the undertaking of scholarly editions of early Hebrew and Aramaic texts=
, as well as early Jewish History. Rabbi Moritz Altschuler was the general=
editor, with assistance from Wilhelm Neumann, a professor of theology, an=
d August Wunsche, professor of Oriental Studies. This second issue from th=
e second year of the journal, dated December 1904, contains essays on Jesu=
s’ conflict with the Pharisees, Hebrew songs, etc. Subjects: Theolog=
y -- Periodicals. Bible -- Periodicals. Talmud -- Periodicals. OCLC lists=
12 copies worldwide. Previous owner’s signature on title page, that=
of “C. G. Montefiore, Esq. ” a former president and vise pres=
ident of the Jewish Historical Society of England and a financial contribu=
tor to the Jews College London. Ex-Libris Jews College Library London with=
stamp on title page and on backstrip. Covers worn and aged. Pages lightly=
soiled in margins, with a touch of foxing throughout. Clean and fresh. Ve=
ry good condition. (GER-38-27) (ID #29030) $75.00.<br>
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154. Beyer, Johann Franz. SAMMLUNG VON LIEDERN DER LIEBE=
IM GESCHMACKE SALOMO'S. Marburg; Neue Akademische Buchhandlung, 1792.=
Later Paper Wrappers. 12mo. XII, 120 pages. 19 cm. First edition. In Germ=
an, with Hebrew, Arabic, Latin, and Greek. Title translates as: “Col=
lection of Songs of Love in the Style of Solomon. ” “Newly wri=
tten with accompanying notes by the author. ” The “Collection=
of Songs of Love in the Style of Solomon” constitutes both a vivid=
work of poetry, written and updated so as to suit and entertain a “=
German audience”, as well as serves as a detailed commentary on each=
section, with various translations from Hebrew, Greek, and Arabic, of the=
Song of Songs. The volume is parceled into five small separate chapters,=
with detailed commentary and translation following each of the chapters.=
The stamp of Michael Freidlander is found on the title page, and one can=
only assume that Friedlander read this volume in his writing a German Com=
mentary on the Song of Songs: Michael Friedlander was “Principal of=
Jews' College [from where this volume came], London; born at Jutrosc=
hin, Prussia, April 29, 1833. He studied at the universities of Berlin and=
Halle (Ph. D. 1862), and concurrently with his university studies he read=
Talmud. Settling in Berlin, he was appointed principal of the Talmud scho=
ol, which position he resigned in 1865 to accept that of principal of Jews=
' College, London, in succession to Barnett Abrahams. In 1867 he publi=
shed a German commentary upon the Song of Songs. ” (1906 Jewish Ency=
clopedia). Subjects: Poetry. Commentary. OCLC lists 7 copies worldwide. Ti=
tle page shaken, with bumped edges and light stain at bottom corner. All e=
dges bumped, with some corners torn or folded. Pages lightly soiled and li=
ghtly foxed throughout, however, pages fresh and text crisp, and overall t=
his book is well preserved. Fair condition. (GER-38-35) (ID #29038) $75.00=
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155. Fürst, Julius. LIBRORUM SACRORUM VETERIS TESTA=
MENTI CONCORDANTIAE HEBRAICAE ATQUE CHALDAICAE. Lipsiae [Leipzig]; Sumtib=
us Et Typis Caroll Tauchnitii, 1840. (FT) Clothbound. Folio. XII, 1428 pag=
es. 36 cm. First edition. In Hebrew, Chaldean, Latin, Greek, Aramaic. Lati=
n title page reads: “Librorum sacrorum Veteris Testamenti concordant=
iae Hebraicae atque Chaldaicae quibus ad omnia canonis sacri vocabula tum=
Hebraica tum Chaldaica loci in quibus reperiuntur ad unum omnes certo ord=
ine recensentur: addito lexico linguae sacrae Hebraicae et Chaldaicae dupl=
ici uno Neohebraice altero Latine scripto, quo collatis interpretamentis t=
ranslationibusque antiquissimis vocabulorum origines ac formae historica a=
tque analytical ratione explicantur: adiecta sunt nomenclature. ” Ti=
tle translates as: “Concordance of Hebrew and Chaldaic in the Sacred=
Books of the Old Testament. ” This large concordance, compiled by J=
ulius Furst (1805-1873), a German Hebraist and Orientalist. His Concordanc=
e is mentioned in the 1906 Jewish Encyclopedia as such: “A highly va=
luable revision of the concordance was undertaken by Julius Fürst. In=
the Latin preface to his great work (Leipsic, 1840) he described the rela=
tion of the latter to Buxtorf's concordance in the following words: &q=
uot;I admit that I have used Buxtorf's concordance as the foundation f=
or my own work; but I may claim that I have not only revised and enlarged=
Buxtorf's work, but have worked it over to such an extent that I do n=
ot hesitate to affix my name to the concordance. I have enriched Buxtorf&#=
39;s work with many additions; adding, for instance, Wolf Heidenheim's=
manuscript notes contained in his copy of the book, and articles that Bux=
torf had omitted. All these additions are in accordance with the advances=
in philology, and especially in etymology; and in some cases I have follo=
wed an entirely new arrangement, founded upon a careful examination of the=
origin and the form of the words. " Fürst added new material, a=
nd made some minor changes, especially by substituting Arabic numbers for=
the quotations instead of the Hebrew letters. The headings of the article=
s are entirely new, having been transformed into interesting lexicographic=
al articles in which the etymology and meaning of the root are explained b=
y the aid of comparative philology. Unfortunately, however, Fürst goe=
s too far in applying his theory of the primitive roots of the Semitic lan=
guages and of the original relationship of the latter with the Indo-German=
ic languages. This theory had been propounded by Fürst's pupil, F=
ranz Delitzsch, in his work "Jesurun" (Grimma, 1838), which was=
designated as "Prolegomena to Fürst's Concordance of the Ol=
d Testament. " Fürst's peculiar views on certain Hebrew root=
s affected unfortunately the arrangement of the concordance, as he often p=
laces a word in a connection in which it would not be sought according to=
the commonly accepted view; as, for instance, ("blood") under t=
he root ("man"). The work has a number of interesting appendices=
, including: an etymologic index to the concordance; an alphabetical list=
of 2, 668 Biblical proper names, with their etymologies, but without refe=
rence to the passages; a list of about 600 Phenicio-Punic proper names; an=
index of Aramaic and Neo-Hebrew words compared in the headings to the art=
icles; an etymological table of Hebrew and Aramaic particles; a systematic=
view of the noun forms; "Propylæa Masoræ, " a view=
of the most important topics of the Masorah; a synopsis of the history of=
the Hebrew language, written in Hebrew; and a comparative glossary of Heb=
rew, Aramaic, Syriac, and Arabic words. In the "Litteraturblatt"=
of the periodical "Der Orient, " edited by Fürst, addition=
s and revisions to the concordance repeatedly appeared in the years follow=
ing 1840. B. Bär issued a new edition of Buxtorf's concordance&md=
ash;in quarto instead of in folio—making use in part of Fürst&#=
39;s work (Stettin, 1862, et seq. ). An English version by B. Davidson app=
eared in London in 1876.“ Subjects: Bible. O. T. -- Concordances, He=
brew. Bible. O. T. -- Concordances, Aramaic. Leather backstrip rubbed. Cov=
ers lightly worn, outer edges lightly soiled. Some pages, especially at th=
e beginning, lightly bumped, a handful have chipped edges. However, throug=
hout, this volume is very clean and the pages are fresh. Very good conditi=
on. (GER-38-34) (ID #29037) $475.00.<br>
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156. Schmiedl, Adolf. SANSINNIM: BETRACHTUNGEN ZU DEN F&=
Uuml;NF BÜCHERN MOSIS NACH ORDNUNG DER WOCHENABSCHNITTE. EINE BUCH F&=
Uuml;R SCHULE HAUS UND TEMPEL. ZUR VERBREITUNG ERHÖHTER KUNDE UND W&U=
uml;RDIGUNG DES JUDENTHUMS, SOWIE ZUR FÖRDERUNG RELIGIÖSER W&Aum=
l;RME UND INNINGKEIT. Prag, 1859. Prag: Wolf Pascheles, 1859. Half-Leather=
, xii, 288 pages. Includes illustrations. 22 cm. In German. "SANSINNI=
M: Examinations of the five Books of Moses in the order of the weekly read=
ings. A book for school, house, and temple. For the spreading of increased=
following and appreciation of Judaism, as much as for the promotion of re=
ligious committment and participation." OCLC lists 6 copies worldwide=
=2E SUBJECT(S): Bible. O.T. Pentateuch -- Meditations. Owner Buttenwieser in=
scribed. Chips to backstrip (spine), pages tanned, otherwise very good con=
dition (GER-37-85) (ID #28740) $100.00.<br>
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157. Aptowitzer, Victor. KAIN UND ABEL IN DER AGADA, DEN=
APOKRYPHEN, DER HELLENISTISCHEN, CHRISTLICHEN UND MUHAMMEDANISCHEN LITERA=
TUR. Wien, Leipzig; R. Löwit, 1922. Later Cloth. 8vo. VIII, 184 pages=
=2E 23 cm. First Edition. In German, Hebrew, and Greek. Title translates as:=
Cain and Abel in the Agadah; the Apocrypha, Hellenistic, Christian and Mu=
slim literature. ” Vigdor (Victor) Aptowitzer (March 16, 1871 - Dece=
mber 5, 1942) was a rabbinic and talmudic scholar, professor of Talmud, Bi=
ble, Midrash and Jewish Philosophy at the Jewish Theological Seminary, and=
member of the Mizrachi Zionist movement; he died in Palestine in 1942. Su=
bjects: Cain (Biblical figure). Very light pen and pencil marks scattered=
throughout, mostly in margins, with some underlining. Covers and endpages=
lightly soiled. First endpage shaken, with slight tear. Pages fresh other=
wise. Very good condition. (GER-33-36) (ID #28831) $75.00.<br>
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158. Beer, B. (Bernhard). LEBEN ABRAHAM'S NACH AUFFA=
SSUNG DER JUEDISCHEN SAGE MIT ERLAEUTERNDEN ANMERKUNGEN UND NACHWEISUNGEN.=
Leipzig, O. Leiner, 1859. 1st Edition. Cloth, 8vo, xiii, 215 page pages.=
8vo., 215 pages. Lebensgemaelde biblischer personen nach Auffassung der j=
uedischen Sage. "Erlaeuternde Anmerkungen und Nachweisungen" on=
pages 93]-215. Beer was "the first Jew to give a German sermon in a=
Dresden Synagogue. " His religious views "were similar to those=
of his close friend, Zacharias Frankel...Beer was regarded as a mediating=
influence between the proponents of tradition and those of reform" (=
EJ 4: 376). Marbled text block. Light foxing to first few pages. Very good=
condition. (SPEC-27-27) Bound in later boards (original wrappers present)=
, lacks 1 board. (ID #5363) $50.00.<br>
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159. Bloch, J. S. 1850-1923. (Josef Samuel). STUDIEN ZUR=
GESCHICHTE DER SAMMLUNG DER ALTHEBRÄISCHEN LITERATUR. Wien, D. L&oum=
l;wry,, 1882. Rebound in modern paper wrappers, 8vo. 160 pages. In German.=
SUBJECT (S): Bible. O. T. -- Criticism, interpretation, etc. German langu=
age. Bible O. T. -- canon. Bloch was a "rabbi, publicist, and politic=
ian in Austria. He acquired distinction for his defense of Judaism against=
the blood libel and was praised by Adolf Jellinek as the "Hercules o=
f the antisemitic Augean stables. " Son of a poor baker in Dukla (eas=
t Galicia), Bloch attended yeshivot at Lemberg and Eisenstadt and then the=
universities of Munich and Zurich. After officiating in provincial commun=
ities, he became rabbi of the Vienna suburb of Floridsdorf and a teacher a=
t Jellinek's bet ha-midrash. During the Tisza-Eszlár blood libe=
l trial in 1883, when August Rohling undertook to attest on oath that Jews=
practiced ritual murder, Bloch attacked him in the press. He challenged R=
ohling's competence as a scholar, accused him of lying, and offered hi=
m 3, 000 florins for translating a random page of the Talmud. Rohling was=
forced to sue Bloch for libel, but after two years' investigations wi=
thdrew his action 13 days before the trial was due to open...Bloch was ele=
cted in 1884, 1885, and 1891 to the Austrian Parliament from a preponderan=
tly Jewish constituency of Galicia, and was the first parliamentarian to m=
ake Jewish affairs his main political concern, regarding himself as an int=
erpreter and defender of Jewish thought to the non-Jewish public...Bloch s=
aw the struggle for Jewish rights as part of the fight for the principle o=
f equality for all nationalities in the empire, which the monarchy would h=
ave to recognize in order to exist...For his work in the Jewish cause Bloc=
h was warmly received on visits to the United States in 1912, and again in=
1920. During World War I he raised funds on behalf of the Austrian govern=
ment in neutral countries. He published a compendium of apologetics, Israe=
l und die Voelker (1922; Israeland the Nations, 1927), based on the eviden=
ce of the experts in connection with the Rohling trial, and his memoirs Er=
innerungen aus meinem Leben (1922; My Reminiscences, 1927). He also wrote=
prolifically on Jewish lore. " (Lamed, EJ, 2007) OCLC lists just 4 c=
opies worldwide. Pages dark but clean and intact. Good + condition. (RAB-4=
5-9) (ID #24697) $100.00.<br>
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160. Bloch, J. S. 1850-1923. (Josef Samuel). URSPRUNG UN=
D ENTSTEHUNGSZEIT DES BUCHES KOHELET. NEUE UNTERSUCHUNGEN ZU EINER ALTEN F=
RAGE. [Bamberg] Bamberger Handelsdruckerei,, 1872. Hardcover, 12mo. 152 p=
ages. In German. First Edition. Title in English: Origin and formation of=
Ecclesiastes. New studies on an old question. SUBJECT (S): Bible. O. T. E=
cclesiastes -- Criticism, interpretation, etc. Spine chipped. Endpapers ta=
nned and chipped. Very good condition. OCLC lists 13 copies worldwide. (RA=
B-45-2) (ID #24690) $100.00.<br>
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161. Cassel, Paulus. ZWEITES TARGUM ZUM BUCHE ESTHER: IM=
VOCALISIRTEN URTEXT MIT SACHLICHEN UND SPRACHLICHEN ERLÄUTERUNGEN. L=
eipzig; W. Friedrich, 1885. FT) Later Cloth. 8vo. XIV, 74 pages. 22 cm. Fi=
rst Edition. In Hebrew and German. Bound in later black cloth with marbled=
endpages. Title translates as: “Second Targum of the Book of Esther=
: the vocalists Original text with professional and linguistic explanation=
s. ” Paulus Stephanus Cassel, “convert to Christianity and mis=
sionary to the Jews; born Feb. 27, 1821, in Gross-Glogau, Silesia; died De=
c. 23, 1892, in Friedenau, near Berlin. His father was a sculptor, and his=
brother David was docent at the Berlin "Hochschule für die Wiss=
enschaft des Judenthums. " Cassel studied at the gymnasium at Schweid=
nitz and at the University of Berlin, where he followed with special atten=
tion the lectures of Leopold Ranke. In 1849 he edited in Erfurt "Die=
Constitutionelle Zeitung, " and in 1850-56 "Die Erfurter Zeitun=
g, " in a royalist spirit. He was baptized May 28, 1855, in Buesslebe=
n, near Erfurt, and became librarian of the Royal Library and secretary of=
the Academy in Erfurt in the following year. He remained in Erfurt till 1=
859. Frederick William IV bestowed the title of professor on Cassel in rec=
ognition of his loyal labors. In 1860 he removed to Berlin, where he was a=
teacher at a gymnasium for a short time, and occupied himself with litera=
ry work. In 1866-67 he was a Conservative member of the Prussian Chamber o=
f Deputies. In 1867 Cassel was appointed missionary by the London Society=
for Promoting Christianity Among the Jews, a position which he retained t=
ill March, 1891. At the same time (1867) Cassel was assigned to the pastor=
ate of the Christuskirche in Berlin, remaining in service for twenty-four=
years. In a pamphlet published a short time before his death, he complain=
s of the inconsiderate treatment he had received at the hands of his Chris=
tian friends (see "Sendschreiben an Freunde in Deutschland und Englan=
d über die Christuskirche in Berlin und Ihr Martyrium Durch die Londo=
n Society, " Berlin, 1891). H. L. Strack confesses that it is not cle=
ar what induced Cassel to join the Christian Church, though he contends th=
at Cassel's reasons were obviously not mercenary (see Herzog-Hauck, &q=
uot;Real-Encyc. " iii. 744). Cassel combated anti-Semitism with consi=
derable warmth (in "Wider Heinrich von Treitschke für die Juden,=
" Berlin, 1880; "Die Antisemiten und die Evangelische Kirche, &=
quot; 2d ed. Berlin, 1881; "Ahasverus, die Sage vom Ewigen Juden mit=
einem Kritischen Protest Wider Ed. Von Hartmann und Adolf Stöcker, &=
quot; Berlin, 1885; also "Der Judengott und Richard Wagner, eine Antw=
ort an die Bayreuther Blätter"). … The original text of t=
he Second Targum Cassel published in "Aus Litteratur und Gesch. "=
; Berlin and Leipsic, 1885: "Zweites Targum zum Buche Esther, im Voca=
lisierten Urtext mit Sachlichen und Sprachlichen Erläuterungen Heraus=
gegeben. " An English translation by Aaron Bernstein was published in=
Edinburgh in 1888.” (From the 1906 Jewish Encyclopedia). The volume=
we have is solely that of the “Zweites Targum. ” Subjects: Bi=
ble. O. T. Esther -- Criticism, interpretation, etc. Original paper wrappe=
r cover and back page aged, covers very lightly soiled. Near fine conditio=
n. (GER-33-37) (ID #28832) $75.00.<br>
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162. Copeland, Robert M. and Nathan Susskind. THE LANGUA=
GE OF HERZ’S ESTHER: A STUDY IN JUDEO-GERMAN DIALECTOLOGY. The Unive=
rsity Of Alabama Press, 1976. Hardcover, 8vo, 439 pages. In Hebrew, German=
and English. With transliteration, commentary, and lexicology by the edit=
ors. Tear to dustjacket. Inscription on inside front cover. Good condition=
=2E (Sef-13-2) (ID #24958) $30.00.<br>
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163. Ehrenpreis, Marcus. PROPHETEN UND GOTTESMANNER; VIS=
IONEN. Berlin, Der Heine-Bund, 1930. 1st German Edition. Cloth, 8vo; 256 p=
ages; Includes 8 plates. Cloth used, but overall very good copy. (GER-39-7=
) (ID #28766) $20.00.<br>
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164. Erich Klamroth. DIE WIRTSCHAFTLICHE LAGE UND DAS GE=
ISTIGE LEBEN DER JÜDISCHEN EXULANTEN IN BABYLON. 1912. Königsber=
g i. P.: Kümmel, 1912 Paper Wrappers, 34 pages. 8vo. Note: (Vollst. A=
ls: Beiträge z. Wissensch. V. Alten Testament. H. 10) Königsberg=
, Theol. Diss. V. 9. März 1912, Ref. Löhr. (GER-37-27) (ID #9421=
) $50.00.<br>
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165. Friedemann, Walter. FISCH UND RING. Berlin; Reuss &=
amp; Pollack, 1920. Paper wrappers. 8vo. 18 pages. 21 cm. 1st edition. In=
German. Title translates as: “Fish and Ring. ” This short mon=
ograph on the metaphor of fish and rings in the Bible and Talmud and vario=
us ‘popular’ manifestations of the usage and understanding of=
these symbolic forms, was written by Walter Friedemann, a German-Jewish n=
ovelist. With authors handwritten dedication from February 1920. OCLC list=
s 2 copies worldwide (Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin, Natl Libr Of Israel). Co=
vers worn and aged, with slight chipping to backstrip and outer edges. Cor=
ners bumped; crease-fold in the middle of the publication, resulting in a=
few page tears along crease in the margins of last few pages. Very good c=
ondition. (GER-36-48) (ID #28899) $75.00.<br>
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166. Fuks, Lajb. DAS ALTJIDDISCHE EPOS MELOKIM-BUK. II:=
HEBRÄISCHE UND ARAMÄISCHE QUELLEN TEXTKRITISCHER APPARAT UND GL=
OSSAR [ONLY, OF 2 VOLUMES]. Assen, Van Gorcum, 1965. Cloth. 8vo. 161 page=
s. 24 cm. In German with some Yiddish and Aramaic. Series: Das Altjiddisch=
e Epos Melokim-Buk, 2. Publications of the Bibliotheca Rosenthaliana 2. Ti=
tle translates to English as, “The Old Yiddish epic 'Melokim-Buk=
=2E " II: Hebrew and Aramaic text, Critical Apparatus and Glossary. &rd=
quo; Melokim-Buk (Mlokhim-Bukh) is a Yiddish religious verse epic by an un=
known author, which recounts the monarchy of Solomon and the ancient histo=
ry of the Hebrews up to the Babylonian Captivity. Inhalt: “Die bibli=
schen Quellen des Melokim-Buk und Ubersicht des Inhalts, ” “Di=
e nachbiblischen hebräischen und aramaischen Quellen des Melokim-Buk,=
” “Orthographie, ” “Textvarianten, ” &ldquo=
;Textkritische Bemerkungen. ” SUBJECTS: Mlokhim-Bukh. Contains index=
es. OCLC lists 9 copies worldwide. Light wear to cover with some scratches=
and minor staining. Highlighting and margin notes on several pages. Good=
condition. (HOLO2-49-14). (ID #26321) $30.00. . (GER-37-35) |• Galli=
ng, Kurt. BIBLISCHES REALLEXIKON. Tübingen, Mohr, 1937. 1st Edition.=
Cloth, Very Good Condition. A beautiful copy.; 8vo; vi, 647 pages; In Ger=
man. Handbuch zum Alten Testament. 1. Reihe, 1. Includes 133 illustrations=
, as well as bibliographies and an index. Shalom Spiegel's copy with h=
is bookplate. Excellent Reference work. (GER-37-35) (ID #8390) $50.00.<br>
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167. Golomb, David. SEFER HATORAH W’HATALMUD; PHIL=
OLOGISCHER TRAKTAT ÜBER DIE BIBLISCHE, MISCHNAÍSCH UND TALMUDI=
SCHE SPRACHE, ERFORSCHT NACH EINEM NEUEN SYSTEM DES BAUES UND DER ZUSAMMEN=
SETZUNG DER NOMINA UND VERBA, NEBST BILDUNG NEUER SYNONYMA. Berlin: Verlag=
Des Verfassers. 1923. Cloth. 8vo. 47, 161, xxviii, 648 pages. In Hebrew.=
SUBJECT (S): Hebrew language; Bible – language, style; Mishnah, Tal=
mud; Talmud – hermeneutics. OCLC lists six copies worldwide. Hinges=
repaired, Good Condtion. (GER-15-30) (ID #18809) $60.00.<br>
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168. Hans Zucker. UNTERSUCHUNGEN ZUR ORGANISATION DER JU=
DEN VOM BABYLONISCHEN EXIL BIS ZUM ENDE DES PATRIARCHATS <597 V. CHR. B=
IS 425 N. CHR.>. 1936. Leipzig: O. Schmidt, 1936 Paper Wrappers, 190 pa=
ges. 8vo. Note: Berlin, Phil. Diss. V. 18. Juni 1936. Institutional stamp,=
Very Good Condition. (GER-37-48) (ID #9411) $50.00. (HOLO2-60-5) |•=
Hartmann, Anton Theodor. MICHA: NEU ÜBERSETZT UND ERLÄUTERT UND=
MIT 5 EXKURSEN BEGLEITET. Lemgo, Meyer, 1800. Paper Wrappers with later b=
oards. 12mo. XVI, 278, [3] pages. 1st edition. In German. Title translate=
s to English as, “Micha: Newly Translated and Explained. Accompanied=
with 5 Digressions. ” “Hartmann (1774-1838) was a German auth=
or focusing primarily on the Old Testament and of Oriental languages. &rdq=
uo; (EJ) OCLC lists 19 copies worldwide. Rebound in later, stiff boards. B=
rief notes from previous owner on inside of covers. Internal pages are lig=
htly soiled with some foxing but all text is clear. Good+ condition. (HOLO=
2-60-5) (ID #27656) $100.00.<br>
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169. Hoelscher, Gustav. DAS BUCH HIOB. Tübingen, Mo=
hr, 1952. 2nd Revised Edition. Cloth, Very Good Condition.; 102 pages; In=
German. Handbuch zum Alten Testament 17. Shalom Spiegel's copy with h=
is bookplate. No copy listed at Harvard. (GER-37-32) (ID #8303) $50.00.<br=
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170. International Congress For The History Of Religions=
(8th Congress, 1955, Rome). LA REGALITA SACRA. CONTRIBUTI AL TEMA DELL=
9; VIII CONGRESSO (ROMA, APRILE 1955) PUBBLICATI COL CONCORSO DELLA GIUNTA=
CENTRALE PER GLI STUDI STORICI, ROMA - CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE CENTRAL THEME=
OF THE VIIITH INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS (ROME, APRIL 1955). Leiden, Brill, 1=
959. Cloth. Xv, 748 pages. 24 cm. Collection of scholarly articles in Engl=
ish, French, German and Italian. Israel section includes: “General O=
riental and Specific Israelite Elements in the Israelite Conception of the=
Sacral Kingdom” by S. Mowinckel; “King David and the Sons of=
Saul” by A. S. Kapelrud; “Herrschaftsform und Ichbewusstsein&=
rdquo; by J. Hempel; “Das erste Buch des Psalters. Eine Thronbesteig=
ungsfestlitergie” by M. Bic; “Les apports de Psaume CX (vulg.=
CIX) a l’ideologie royale Israelite” by J. Coppens; “Ha=
sidic Conceptions of Kingship in the Maccabean Period” by M. A. Beek=
; “The Consecration in the eighth Chapter of Testamentum Levi”=
by H. Ludin Jansen. Series: Studies in the History of Religions. "Su=
pplements to Numen" 4. SUBJECT(S): Kings and rulers -- Religious aspe=
cts. Divine right of kings. OCLC lists 27 copies worldwide. Slightly worn=
cover. Nice, clean copy with tight binding. Very good condition. (BRILL 5=
-7) (ID #25909) $70.00.<br>
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171. Knobel, August Wilhelm. DER PROPHETISMUS DER HEBRAE=
R VOLLSTANDIG DARGESTELLT (TWO VOLUMES IN ONE). Breslau, J. Max Und Komp,=
1837. Hardcover, 8vo, 2 volumes in 1, 22 cm. In German. SUBJECT (S): Prop=
hecy, Biblical. Bumped cover corners. Wear to binding. Good condition. (He=
b-15-10) (ID #25829) $100.00.<br>
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172. Köster, Friedrich. DAS BUCH HIOB UND DER PREDI=
GER SALOMO'S NACH IHRER STROPHISCHEN ANORDNUNG ÜBERSETZT. Schlesw=
ig, 1831. Paper wrappers, 8vo. 142 pages. In German (Black letter script).=
Copy signed by former owner Dr. Moses Mielziner, the Rabbi and Professor=
of Talmud at HUC in Cincinnati and charter member of the CCAR. Title in E=
nglish: “The Book of Job and the Preacher's Solomon. ” Cov=
ers fragile and chipped, some pages creased at corners. OCLC lists 1 copy=
worldwide (Bayerische Staatsbibliothek) Good condition. (RAB-39-12) (ID #=
24640) $200.00.<br>
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173. Leimbach, Karl A. MESSIANISCHE WEISSAGUNGEN DES ALT=
EN TESTAMENTES. Regensburg, Manz, 1909. 1st Edition. Cloth, Attractively r=
ebound in period cloth. Very Good Condition.; 8vo; VIII, 146 pages; "=
Populär-wissenschaftlich ausgelegt. " With Imprimatur. Gesamtver=
zeichnis 1700-1910, LXXXVI. 230. (GER-37-99) (ID #8138) $60.00.<br>
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174. Nachmias, Josef Ibn. PERUSH AL SEFER MISHLE. KOMMEN=
TAR ZU DEN SPRÜCHEN SALOMOS. Berlin: Druck Von H. Itzkowski. 1970. Cl=
oth. 8vo. Xxiii, 196 pages. In Hebrew. Reprint [1911]. “Le-rabi Yos=
ef be-rabi Yosef ibn Nachmiah; yotse le-‘or ba-pa’am ha-rishon=
ah al pi ketav yad yechidi be-oksford im... He’arot ve-tikunim be-si=
yua Shemuel Avraham Poznanski; al yede Mosheh Aryeh Bamberger. ” OCL=
C lists one copy worldwide (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam). Good condition.=
(GER-15-1) (ID #18781) $50.00.<br>
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175. Pedersen, Johannes. editor. INSCRIPTIONES SEMITICAE=
COLLECTIONIS USTINOWIANAE. Oslo, Some Et Sociorum, 1928. Original Paper W=
rappers. 8vo. 70 pages. Ill. 24 cm. In German. Series: “Symbolae Osl=
oenses Fasciculi Suppletorii, 2.” A study of a collection ancient He=
brew inscriptions. Includes preface in Latin. SUBJECT (S): Inscriptions, S=
emitic. Includes bibliographical references. Cover is worn with some disco=
loration, but all text is clear. Internal pages are nice and clean. Very g=
ood condition. (SPEC20-16). (ID #26859) $40.00.<br>
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176. Plessner, Salomon. MATERIALIEN FUER TIEFERE EINBLIC=
KE IN DAS ALTE TESTAMENT UND DIE RABBINISCHEN SCHRIFTEN FUER THEOLOGEN UND=
ISRAELITEN. Berlin, Carl Heymann, 1836. Cloth, Later boards.8vo; 190 page=
s. In German. "Belehrungen und Erbauungen in Religioesn Vortraegen zu=
naechst fuer Israeliten...Erster Jahrgang Erster Band. "Pages foxed,=
substantial wear to boards but very solid. Good Condition. (SPEC23-7) (ID=
#4920) $150.00.<br>
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177. Reventlow, Henning, Graf. WÄCHTER ÜBER IS=
RAEL: EZECHIEL UND SEINE TRADITION. Berlin, A. Topelmann, 1962. 1st Editio=
n. Paper Wrappers, Ex-library with usual marks, otherwise Very Good Condit=
ion; 172 pages; In German. 25 cm. Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für die al=
ttestamentlich e Wissenschaft, 82 Revised version of the author's Habi=
litationsschrift, Kiel. Includes bibliographical references on pages 169-1=
72. (GER-39-3) (ID #8268) $30.00.<br>
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178. Rosmarin, Aaron (Rozmarin, Aharon). MOSES IM LICHTE=
DER AGADA. New York, The Goldblatt Publishing Co. 1932. 1st Edition. Clot=
h, Lacks front blank endpaper, otherwise Very Good Condition.; 8vo; 157 pa=
ges; In German. 23 cm. Includes "Literaturverzeichnis" on pages=
7-14 and "Bibliograhie" on pages 151-152. (GER-37-15) (ID #8432=
) $40.00. x<br>
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179. Rudolph, Wilhelm. JEREMIA. Tübingen, Mohr, 195=
8. 2nd Revised Edition. Cloth, Very Good Condition; Large 8vo; XXIV, 301 p=
ages; In German. Handbuch zum Alten Testament Reihe 1, 12. Shalom Spiegel&=
#39;s copy with his bookplate. (GER-37-34) (ID #8300) $50.00.<br>
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180. Rüthy, Albert Emil. Die Pflanze Und Ihre Teile=
Im Biblisch-Hebräischen Sprachgebrauch. Bern; A. Francke A. -G., 194=
2. Paper wrappers. 8vo. 82 pages.24 cm. First edition. In German and Hebre=
w. Holocaust-era imprint. Title translates as: “The plant and its co=
mponents in biblical Hebrew language. ” Albert Emil Rüthy (1901=
-1980), studied theology and Semitic languages at Bern, Leipzig and Basel,=
where in 1940 he received a doctorate in philosophy. In 1924 he was ordai=
ned a catholic priest. First a curate in Biel and Bern, and then pastor in=
Kaiseraugst, in the years 1929-1938, pastor at St. Immer in the years 193=
8-1941 and in the years 1941-1951 at Bern. Since 1940 Associate Professor=
and from 1951 to 1971 Professor of Old Testament knowledge and liturgy in=
the Christian Theological Faculty of the University of Bern. In the years=
1958-1959 he was rector of the University. He died in Bern. Subjects: Heb=
rew language - vocabulary - Individual words. Plants - Bible. Plant Names=
- Hebrew. Bible - plants. Covers lightly soiled, edges bumped. Covers sta=
rting. Pages clean, with very light aging. Very good condition. (GER-33-44=
) (ID #28839) $30.00.<br>
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181. Sabottka, Liudger. ZEPHANJA: VERSUCH EINER NEUÜ=
;BERSETZUNG MIT PHILOLOGISCHEM KOMMENTAR. Rome, 1972. Rom: Biblical Instit=
ute Press, 1972. Paperback, 8vo, xix, 177 pages, 25 cm. Added title: Bible=
=2E O. T. Zephaniah. German. Sabottka. 1972. Series: Biblica et orientalia;=
Sacra Scriptura antiquitatibus orientalibus illustrata, 25. Includes inde=
x. Bibliography on pages 149-156. Subjects: Bible. -- O. T. -- Zephaniah -=
- Criticism, interpretation, etc. Bible. -- O. T. -- Zephaniah -- Language=
, style. Ex library copy with usual marks. Good condition. (BIBLE-12-6) (I=
D #10935) $40.00.<br>
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182. Soloweitschik, Max. DIE WELT DER BIBEL: EIN BILDERA=
TLAS ZUR GESCHICHTE UND KULTUR DES BIBLISCHEN ZEITALTERS. Berlin: Judische=
r Verlag, 1926. Hardcover, 240 pages, 4 leaves of plates, illustrated, som=
e color, colored maps, 29 cm. In German. SUBJECT (S): Bible. O. T. -- Anti=
quities. Bible. O. T. -- History of contemporary events. Translation of: S=
ekhiyot ha-Mikra. Includes bibliographical references on pages 235-236 and=
index. Wear to cover binding. Bumped cover corners and spine edges. Light=
yellowing to edges of pages. Otherwise, very good condition. (Art-8-3) (I=
D #25670) $30.00.<br>
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183. Wagner, Volker. RECHTSSÄTZE IN GEBUNDENER SPRA=
CHE UND RECHTSSATZREIHEN IM ISRAELITISCHEN RECHT. EIN BEITRAG ZUR GATTUNGS=
FORSCHUNG. Berlin, New York, De Gruyter, 1969. 1st Edition. Cloth, Ex-libr=
ary with usual marks, otherwise Very Good Condition.; 72 pages; In German.=
24 cm. Beiheft zur Zeitschrift fur die alttestamentliche Wissenschaft, 12=
7. Originally presented as the author's thesis, Leipzig, 1968. Bibliog=
raphy on pages 70-72. (GER-39-2) (ID #8275) $45.00.<br>
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184. Fuchs, Leo. DIE JUDEN AEGYPTENS IN PTOLEMÄISCH=
ER UND RÖMISCHER ZEIT. Wien, 1924. Vienna: M. Rath, 1924. Half cloth;=
8vo. Xx, 156 pages. Gilt titles. In German. First edition. Series: Ver&ou=
ml;ffentlichungen der Dr. A. S. Bettelheim Memorial Foundation. Bibliograp=
hical annotations; bibliography at end. SUBJECT (S): Jews -- Egypt. Jews -=
- History. Wrappers bound in. Archival repair to front wrapper. Stamped &q=
uot;B[oaz] Cohen" on verso of title page. Cohen was an American rabb=
inic scholar who taught at the Jewish Theological Seminary; he was "o=
ne of the first American-educated scholars to make significant contributio=
ns to the scientific study of rabbinic literature. His Kunteres ha-Teshuvo=
t (1930), an annotated bibliography of the rabbinic responsa of the Middle=
Ages, was one of the first attempts to classify and describe the responsa=
literature and has remained a standard reference work. " (EJ) Front=
and back cover chipped, otherwise very good condition. (GER-39-6) (ID #28=
762) $75.00.<br>
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185. Graetz, Heinrich. GNOSTICISMUS UND JUDENTHUM. Kroto=
schin; B. L. Monasch, 1846. Clothbound. 8vo. VII, 132 pages. 23 cm. First=
edition. In German, with Greek and Hebrew. Title translates as ”Gno=
sticism and Judaism. ” Professor Heinrich Hirsch Graetz (1817-1891)=
was born in Posen and died in Munich, he was a renowned historian and exe=
gete, and a strong champion of orthodox Judasism: “At that time the=
controversy between Orthodoxy and Reform was at its height, and Graetz, t=
rue to the principles which he had imbibed from Samson Raphael Hirsch, beg=
an his literary career by contributions to the "Orient, " edited=
by Julius Fürst, in which he severely criticized the Reform party, a=
s well as Geiger's text-book of the Mishnah ("Orient, " 1844=
). These contributions and his championship of the Conservative cause duri=
ng the time of the rabbinical conferences made him popular with the Orthod=
ox party. This was especially the case when he agitated for a vote of conf=
idence to be given to Zacharias Frankel after he had left the Frankfort co=
nference because of the stand which the majority had taken on the question=
of the Hebrew language. After Graetz had obtained his degree of Ph. D. Fr=
om the University of Jena (his dissertation being "De Auctoritate et=
Vi Quam Gnosis in Judaismum Habuerit, " 1845; published a year later=
under the title "Gnosticismus und Judenthum"), he was made prin=
cipal of a religious school founded by the Conservatives. ” (1906 Je=
wish Encyclopedia) This volume was printed and published by a famous 19th=
century Hebrew press in Krotoschin, in Poland: “Krotoschin, like Po=
sen, Lissa, and Kalisz, was one of the leading communities of Great Poland=
, sending representatives to the general synod of Great Poland and to the=
Council of Four Lands. In a document dated 1773 it is called an "imp=
ortant community, with many sages and men learned in the Law. " &hell=
ip; In 1833 a Hebrew printing-press was founded, which has issued a large=
number of works. This community has numbered among its members many promi=
nent scholars and writers, authors of sermons and of halakic and haggadic=
novellæ, commentators on the Bible, patrons of Jewish science, gram=
marians, bibliographers, and printers. ” (1906 Jewish Encyclopedia)=
Subjects: Gnosticism. Talmud -- Theology. Sefer Yezirah. Binding repaired=
, covers worn. Pages clean, but aged and foxed. Light stain on bottom of t=
itle page through first five pages. Fair condition. Important (GER-38-30)=
(ID #29033) $150.00.<br>
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186. Brandes, Georg Morris Cohen. URCHRISTENTUM. Berlin,=
E. Reiss, 1927. 1st Edition. Cloth, Very Good Condition; 8vo; 149 pages (=
GER-37-71) (ID #4368) $40.00.<br>
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187. Brucklmeier, Max. BEITRAGE ZUR RECHTLICHEN STELLUNG=
DER JUDEN IM ROMISCHEN REICH. 1939. Paper Wrappers, Speyer, Pilger-Drucke=
rei, 1939. xi, 66 pages. 1 l. 23 cm "Lebenslauf". "Literatu=
rnachwe is": pages v-viii. Inaug. -diss. --Munchen. (GER-37-52) (ID #=
9378) $65.00.<br>
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188. Friedländer, Moriz. DIE RELIGIÖSEN BEWEGU=
NGEN INNERHALB DES JUDENTUMS IM ZEITALTER JESU. Berlin; Reimer, 1905. FT)=
Clothbound. 8vo. XXX, 380 pages. 23 cm. First edition. In German. Later d=
ecoarative paper boards and cloth over original paper wrappers. Title roug=
hly translates to: “The religious movements within Judaism in the Ag=
e of Jesus. ” A study of the development and influence of apocalypti=
c, Essene, and Am-haaretz movements in Palestinian Judaism of the Sibyllin=
e. Moritz Friedländer, 1844-1919, was a Galician born theologian and=
later secretary of the Baron de Hirsch Fund whose liberal views prevented=
him from a rabbinical career. Subjects: Judaism -- History -- Talmudic pe=
riod, 10-425. Am Ha'arets. Judentum. Christentum. Edges lightly worn a=
nd soiled. Original paper wrappers and title page lightly foxed, some soil=
ing in margins of a few of the first few pages, clean and crisp throughout=
=2E Near fine condition. (GER-33-5) (ID #28801) $30.00.<br>
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189. Joël, M. (Manuel). BLICKE IN DIE RELIGIONSGESC=
HICHTE ZU ANFANG DES ZWEITEN CHRISTLICHEN JAHRHUNDERTS: I. DER TALMUD UND=
DIE GRIECHISCHE SPRACHE. Breslau, 1880. Breslau: S. Schottlaender, 1880.=
1st edition. Cloth, 12mo, 177 pages, 18 cm. Subjects: Talmud. Judaism --=
Relations -- Greek. Includes colored endpapers and marbled edges. Ex libr=
ary copy with usual marks. Good condition. (RAB-54-9) (ID #11021) $75.00.<=
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190. Joseph, Ha-Kohen, and M[eïr] Wiener. EMEK HAB=
ACHA VON R. JOSEPH HA COHEN. AUS DEM HEBRÄISCHEN INS DEUTSCHE ÜB=
ERTRAGEN, MIT EINEM VORWORTE, NOTEN UND REGISTERN VERSCHEN UND MIT HEBR&Au=
ml;ISCHEN HANDSCHRIFTLICHEN BEILAGEN BEREICHERT. Leipzig, 1858. Leipzig: O=
skar Leiner, 1858. Three quarter leather; 8vo. Xiv, 226, xxvi, [25] pages=
=2E First edition. In German and Hebrew. Bibliographical annotations. Addend=
a and indices at end. " Ha Cohen was a historian and physician of the=
16th century; in his "' Emek ha-Bakah, " "he dwells up=
on the sorrows and sufferings the Jews endured in various countries in the=
course of centuries. The book, which is a martyrology from beginning to e=
nd, closes with the 24th of Tammuz, 5335 (1575). The author's moderati=
on and self-control are admirable. His work is valuable also on account of=
its brilliant narrative, excellent characterization, and fine Biblical st=
yle. Having lived in Italy from his childhood and become acquainted with p=
ersons prominent politically, he is a valuable source for the history of h=
is time; concerning many events, he had closely examined competent witness=
es. He also mentions a number of important facts ignored by other historia=
ns. " (Eduard Neumann and Richard Gottheil, JE) SUBJECT(S): Jews -- H=
istory -- A. D. 70- Jews -- Persecutions. Backstrip missing, binding tight=
; slight wear to leather. Previous owner's signature on title page. Te=
xt clean. Very Good condition. (GER-8-6) (ID #16810) $125.00.<br>
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191. Unnik, W. C. Van (Willem Cornelis Van). FLAVIUS JOS=
EPHUS ALS HISTORISCHER SCHRIFTSTELLER. Heidelberg, Schneider, 1978. 1st Ed=
ition Thus. Paper Wrappers, Very Good Condition; 8vo; 67 pages; 24 cm. Fra=
nz Delitzsch Vorlesungen; Neue Folge, 1972. Includes bibliographical refer=
ences. Guido Kisch's copy. (GER-37-42) (ID #7995) $35.00.<br>
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192. Mandelstamm, Leon (1819-1889). HORAE TALMUDICAE. Co=
mplete in 2 volumes. Berlin, Friedländersche Buchdruckerei, 1860. Clo=
th. 8vo, 48, 48 pages. 23 cm. vol I in German, Vol. II in English (!),Seri=
es: Thalmudische Studien Nr 2. Contents: Teil 1: Reform im Judenthum. Teil=
2: Rabbi Joshua ben Hanania. "Eine Diskussion über Judenthum un=
d Christenthum, aus dem Anfange des zweiten Jahrhunderts der christlichen=
Aera." SUBJECT(S) Judaism. Joshua ben Hananiah, 1st cent. OCLC lists=
only 4 copies worldwide (Harvard, Yale, Yeshiva, JNUL), none in the US ou=
tside the Northeast. Attractively bound in modern boards. Old stamps of th=
e "Eigenthum des Jüdisch-Theol: Seminars zu Breslau" on the=
half-titles. Some old foxing and staining, Very Good Condition. A scarce=
title. (HEB-19-17) (ID #17013) $325.00.<br>
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193. Meyer, Eduard. DER PAPYRUSFUND VON ELEPHANTINE: DOK=
UMENTE EINER JÜDISCHEN GEMEINDE AUS DER PERSERZEIT UND DAS ÄLTES=
TE ERHALTENE BUCH DER WELTLITERATUR. Leipzig, J. C. Hinrichs, 1912. Origin=
al Publisher’s Cloth. 8vo. 128 pages. 22 cm. In German. Title transl=
ates to English as, “The Discovery of the Elephantine Papyri: Docume=
nts of a Jewish Community from the Persian Period and the Oldest Surviving=
Book in World Literature. ” SUBJECT (S): Manuscripts, Aramaic (Papy=
ri). Jews -- History -- To 70 A. D. Geschichte. Judentum. Papyrus. Genre/F=
orm: Papyrusfund. Geographic: Elephantine (Egypt) -- Antiquities. Elephant=
ine. Includes bibliographical references. Underlining and margin notes on=
a few pages, but mostly a nice, clean copy. Very good condition. (SEF37-2=
2) (ID #28481) $30.00.<br>
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194. Perles, F. BOUSSET’S RELIGION DES JUDENTUMS:=
IM NEUTESTAMENTLICHEN ZEITALTER KRITISCH UNTERSUCHT. Berlin: W. Peiser, 1=
903. Hardcover, 8vo, vi, 133 pages, 24 cm. In German. SUBJECT (S): Judaism=
-- History. Die Religion des Judentums im neutestamentlichen Zeitalter (B=
ousset). Title Subject: Talmud. Lightly bumped corners. Light staining to=
title page. Excellent condition. (Heb-14-1) (ID #25809) $30.00.<br>
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195. Salvador, Joseph; Ludwig Eichler. GESCHICHTE DER R&=
Ouml;MERHERRSCHAFT IN JUDÄA UND DER ZERSTÖRUNG JERUSALEMS. Breme=
n; F. Schlodtmann, 1847. Clothbound. 8vo. XI, 444, VII, 483 pages. 22 cm.=
First edition. 2 Volumes in one. In German, with Latin. Later half-leathe=
r and cloth binding. With four maps of ancient Judea. Title translates as:=
“History of Roman rule in Judea and the destruction of Jerusalem. &=
rdquo; This tome on the history of Judea under Roman rule is a translation=
done by Ludwig Eichler from the French edition published in 1846: "H=
istoire de la Domination Romaine en Judée et de la Ruine de J&eacut=
e;rusalem". The author, Joseph Salvador, was a “French historia=
n; born at Montpellier Jan. 5, 1796; died March 17, 1873, at Versailles; b=
uried, at his own request, in the Protestant cemetery of Le Vigan, near Mo=
ntpellier, in his brother's family vault, the rabbi of Nîmes off=
iciating. Salvador's paternal ancestors, who, according to family trad=
itions, were descendants of the Maccabees, the saviors of Israel—the=
name "Salvador" meaning "savior"—emigrated from=
Africa to Spain in the ninth century, and fled from the latter country, t=
o escape the Inquisition, in the fifteenth century, finding a refuge in Fr=
ance. ” (1906 Jewish Encyclopedia. ) He studied medicine, but devote=
d his life to writing histories; “in his work on the fall of Jerusal=
em Salvador deals with his subject from the point of view of universal his=
tory, and regards the destruction of the Temple as a necessary stage in th=
e spread among the peoples of what he would call the Christian form of Jud=
aism. ” (1906 Jewish Encyclopedia) Subjects: Jews -- History -- 586=
B. C. -70 A. D. Backstrip absent from later cloth binding; a portion of b=
ook repair tape covers a portion of the cover. Worn edges of cover. Title=
page soiled and foxed. Internal pages very clean and in excellent conditi=
on, though lightly foxed throughout. Very good condition. (GER-36-23) (ID=
#28874) $100.00.<br>
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196. Wahrmann, Nahum. UNTERSUCHUNGEN ÜBER DIE STELL=
UNG DER FRAU IM JUDENTUM IM ZEITALTER DER TANNAITEN. HEFT 1 [ONLY]: DAS E=
RMITTLUNGSVERFAHREN GEGEN EINE DES EHEBRUCHS VERDÄCHTIGTE. Breslau, L=
=2E & H. Marcus, 1933. 1st Edition (?). Paper Wrappers, Paper & bind=
ing very good.; 8vo; 54 pages; 22 cm. Heft 1 only. Das Ermittlungsverfahre=
n gegen eine des Ehebruchs verdachtigte. An expansion of the author's=
thesis (doctoral-L udwigs Universitat, Giessen, 1926) presented under tit=
le: Das Sotaverfahren im IV. Mose 5, 11-31 in der tannaitischen Literatur.=
Bibliography: v. 1, vii-viii. Guido Kisch's copy (GR-2-23) (ID #6364)=
$50.00.<br>
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197. Weinrich, William C. editor. THE NEW TESTAMENT AGE:=
ESSAYS IN HONOR OF BO REICKE. Macon, GA. Mercer, 1984. Original Publisher=
’s Cloth. 8vo. 2 volumes. Xiii, 579 pages. 24 cm. In English, French=
and German. SUBJECT (S): Nieuwe Testament. Reicke, Bo, 1914-1987. Bible.=
N. T. -- Criticism, interpretation, etc. Bibliography: vol 2, pages [553=
]-560. Very good condition. (FEST1-62). Xx (ID #27394) $25.00.<br>
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198. Zucker, Hans. STUDIEN ZUR JÜDISCHEN SELBSTVERW=
ALTUNG IM ALTERTUM. Berlin: Schocken. 1936. Half cloth. 8vo. 199 pages. In=
German. First edition. Nazi-era imprint. SUBJECT (S): Jews –history=
– 586 B. C. -70 A. D.; Jews – history – 70-638; Jews &n=
dash; politics and government. Beautiful condition, in very good cardboard=
slipcase. With original publishers advertisement laid in. (GERN-6-1) (ID=
#26756) $100.00.<br>
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199. AMUDE HA- ‘AVODAH: RESHIMAT RASHE HA-PAYTANIM=
U-ME’AT MI TOLDOTEHEM AL SEDAR ALFA BETA ‘IM MISPAR PIYUTEHEM=
HA-NIMTSAIM BE SIFRE TEFILOT. Berlin: Bernstein, 1857. Hardback, (FT) 8vo=
=2E 130 Pages. In Hebrew. SUBJECT(S): Hymn writers. Piyutim. In very good co=
ndition (GER24-22) (ID #28751) $125.00.<br>
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200. Bacher, Wilhelm. TRADITION UND TRADENTEN IN DEN SCH=
ULEN PALÄSTINAS UND BABYLONIENS: STUDIEN UND MATERIALIEN ZUR ENTSTEHU=
NGSGESCHICHTE DES TALMUDS. Leipzig, Buchhandlung Gustav Fock G.m.b.H., 191=
4. Hardcover, 8vo, Later Cloth. 8vo. 704 pages. In German. A compilation o=
f studies and materials about the history of the Talmud. Title translates=
to English as, "Tradition and Narrators in the Schools of Babylonia=
and Palästinas: Studies and Materials about the History of the Talmu=
d." SUBJECT(S): Tradition (Judaism) Talmoed. Tannaïm. Amoraï=
;m. Traditiegeschiedenis. Tradition (Judaïsme) Entstehung. Geschichte=
=2E Title Subject: Talmud -- History. Talmud -- Methodology. Talmud -- Histo=
ire. Talmud. Edited by L. Blau and "Register" (pages 627-704) by=
M. Guttmann. Includes bibliographical references. Nice, clean copy in Ver=
y Good condition. (SPEC32-21) (ID #27766) $125.00.<br>
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201. Haarbrücker, Th. RABBI TANCHUM JERUSCHALMI. AR=
ABISCHER COMMENTAR ZUM BUCHE JOSUA. Berlin, Gedruckt Bei Rosenthal & C=
o. 1862. Bound in later wrappers. 8vo. Iv, 40 pages. In Arabic with a fore=
word in German. Title translates to English as, “Rabbi Tanhum Yerush=
almi. Arabic Commentaries on the Book of Joshua. ” SUBJECT (S): Jewi=
sh literature -- History and criticism. Series: “Wissenschaftliche B=
latter aus der Veitel Heine Ephraim Schen Lehranstalt (Bet ha-Midrasch) In=
Berlin [Erste Sammlung] – “Scientific Pages from Veitel Hein=
e Ephraim's School (Beth ha-Midrash) in Berlin. Very Good Condition. (=
GER-32-29) (ID #28906) $125.00.<br>
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202. Lebrecht, F. HANDSCHRIFTEN DES BABYLONISCHEN TALMUD=
=2E Berlin, Gedruckt Bei Rosenthal & Co. 1862. Bound in later wrappers.=
8vo. Pages. 23 cm. Viii, 114 pages. In German with some Hebrew. Title tra=
nslates to English as, “Manuscripts of the Babylonian Talmud. &rdquo=
; SUBJECT (S): Jewish literature -- History and criticism. Series: “=
Wissenschaftliche Blaetter aus der Veitel Heine Ephraim Schen Lehranstalt=
(Bet ha-Midrasch) In Berlin [Erste Sammlung] – “Scientific P=
ages from Veitel Heine Ephraim's School (Beth ha-Midrash) in Berlin. V=
ery Good Condition. (GER-32-10) (ID #28909) $135.00.<br>
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203. Lebrecht, Fürchtegott. KRITISCHE LESE VERBESSE=
RTER LESARTEN UND ERKLARUNGEN ZUM TALMUD. Berlin, Peiser, 1864. Original P=
aper Wrappers. 8vo. X, 54 pages. 23 cm. In German. Title translates to Eng=
lish as, “Improved Critical Readings and Explanations About the Talm=
ud. ” CONTENTS: Fürstensohn oder schwestersohn. --Selbstcensur.=
--Traum und deutung. --Sterndeutung. --Schrift oder wort am meer, oder st=
rom--Der sohn Sirachs. --Erfolg der frugalität. --Götzenbild und=
hallel. --Das starke el. --R. Jochanan-Herkules. —Anhang. OCLC list=
s 6 copies worldwide, none in the US. Pages darkened, but all text is clea=
r and paper is not fragile. Good+ condition. (GER-32-14) (ID #28783) $100.=
00.<br>
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204. Lichtenstaedter, Siegfried. SCHACHRTFRAGE UND J&Uum=
l;DISCHE SPEISEGESETZE. OFFENE WORTE AN SCHACHTGEGNER UND JUDEN. Leipzig,=
Gustav Engel, 1927. Original Stapled Wrappers. 8vo. 29 pages. In German.=
SUBJECT (S): Halacha. OCLC lists 7 copies worldwide. Small wormholes on b=
ack cover and several pages, but no loss of text. Some sunning to cover, i=
nstitutional stamp, but still nice. Very Good Condition. (GER-32-20) (ID #=
28789) $100.00.<br>
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205. Zerahyah, Ha-Yevani, 14th Cent. Jacob Ben Meir Tam,=
1100-1171. SEFER HA-YASHAR HA-MEYUHAS LE-RABENU TAM. Frankfurt Am Main: I=
=2E Kauffmann,, 1850. Period Quarter leather over boards, 12mo, 200 pages. 2=
1 cm. In Hebrew & Judeo-German. SUBJECT (S): Jewish ethics. Added titl=
e page in Judeo-German. Erroneously ascribed to Jacob b. Meir Tam. “=
=2E..ve-turgam Ashkenazit Al yede Ayzikh Koyfman. OCLC lists 7 copies worldw=
ide (NYPL, Stanford, UC Santa Barbara, Harvard, Vanderbilt, Toronto, Briti=
sh Library). Stamp of Ets Hayim Library in Amsterdam on title page. Spine=
repair, Good+ Condition. (HEB-45-5) (ID #28955) $175.00.<br>
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206. Bloch, M. DIE ETHIK IN DER HALACHA. Budapest: Buchd=
ruckerei Des Athenaeum,, 1886. Hardcover, 96, 37 pages, 8vo, 24 cm. In Ger=
man. Series: Jahresbericht der Landes-Rabbinerschule in Budapest fur das S=
chuljahr; 1885-86; SUBJECT (S): Jewish ethics. Tradition (Judaism). Ex-lib=
rary with usual markings. Hinge repair. Wear to binding. Browning of pages=
=2E Otherwise, good condition. (rab-33-6) (ID #24160) $40.00. (RAB-54-8) |&b=
ull; Epstein, J. N. DER GAONAISCHE KOMMENTAR ZUR ORDNUNG TOHOROTH: EINE KR=
ITISCHE EINLEITUNG ZU DEM R. HAI GAON ZUGESCHRIEBENEN KOMMENTAR. Berlin: M=
ayer & Muller,, 1915. Hardcover, vi, 160 pages, 8vo, 25 cm. In German.=
Boaz Cohen’s copy with his signature on title page. Notes on inside=
cover. SUBJECT (S): Geonic literature -- History and criticism. Named Per=
son: Hai ben Sherira, 939-1038. Title Subject: Mishnah. Tohorot (Order) --=
Commentaries. Includes bibliographical references. Wear to binding. Wear=
to edges of cover and folding. Otherwise, good condition. (RAB-54-8) (ID=
#28761) $30.00. xx<br>
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207. Fürstenthal, R. J. RABBINISCHE ANTHOLOGIE: ODE=
R SAMMLUNG VON ERZÄHLUNGEN, SPRICHWÖRTERN, WEISHEITSREGELN, LEHR=
EN UND MEINUNGEN DER ALTER HEBRÄER; EIN UNTERHALTENDES UND ZUGLEICH B=
ELEHRENDES BUCH FÜR JEDERMANN; AUS DEN QUELLEN ENTNOMMEN, ÜBERFE=
ST UND ERLÄUTERT UND MIT DEN NÖTHIGEN REGISTERN VERFEHEN. Bresla=
u, 1834. Breslau: M. Friedländer, 1834. 12mo. Xvi, 382 pages. In Germ=
an. Indices; errata. Fürstenthal was a German poet, translator, and w=
riter, known chiefly for his translations from Hebrew to German of liturgi=
cal works, and for his poems on Hebrew nationalism. (JE) SUBJECT(S): Prove=
rbs, Hebrew. Aphorisms and apothegms. OCLC lists 17 copies worldwide. Ex-l=
ibrary with minimal markings. Solomon Grayzel's copy; Stamped "Gr=
ayzel" on front flyleaf (Solomon Grayzel, scholar, professor at Gratz=
College and then Dropsie College, and editor-in-chief of the JPS). Lacks=
covers. Usual age staining. Ink blot on outer edge of last 75 leaves, not=
affecting text. Binding tight; text in very good condition. (GER-3-4) (ID=
#16510) $135.00.<br>
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208. Ginzberg, Louis. EINE UNBEKANNTE JUDISCHE SEKTE. ER=
STER TEIL. New York: Im Selbstverlage Des Verfasers,, 1922. Hardcover, 8vo=
=2E x, 384 pages. In German. Boaz Cohen’s copy, with ownership signatu=
re. Title in English: An Unknown Jewish Sect. SUBJECT (S): Zadokite docume=
nts. “An early study of the Zadokite Fragment from the Genizah which=
later turned out to be one of the Dead Sea Scrolls” Ginzberg was &l=
dquo;one of the outstanding Talmud scholars of the first half of the 20th=
century; leader and the major halakhic authority of the Conservative move=
ment in North America. Born in Kovno, Lithuania, Ginzberg received a typic=
al East European Jewish education: private tutors, four years of study at=
the Telz and Slobodka yeshivot, and academic studies at three German univ=
ersities. After studying with Noeldeke at Strassburg, he received his doct=
orate from the University of Heidelberg in 1898 for his study of the midra=
shim quoted by the Church Fathers. Ginzberg was a direct descendant (sixth=
generation) of Abraham, brother of Elijah, the Gaon of Vilna…Ginzb=
erg's father and mother were extremely pious Jews and even though he b=
ecame more liberal when he left home at age 15, he remained an observant J=
ew for the rest of his life. Nonetheless, he was plagued until his death b=
y a certain ambivalence about following the path of Wissenschaft des Juden=
tums. Ginzberg was a brilliant polymath, "a walking encyclopedia. &qu=
ot; He knew most of the Bible by heart at age seven and had mastered much=
of rabbinic literature by age 14. His magnum opus, The Legends of the Jew=
s, contains 36, 000 references which Ginzberg kept in his head. In additio=
n to rabbinics, Ginzberg was an expert in philosophy, Kabbalah, and mathem=
atics and he knew at least 12 languages. ” (Golinkin, EJ, 2007) Ex-l=
ibrary with institutional stamp. Spine repaired with black cloth tape. Chi=
ps and tears to title page, first and last few pages. OCLC lists 4 copies=
worldwide (Danish National Library Royal Library of Denmark, JTS, and Spe=
rtus) Good condition. Scarce and important. (RAB-43-7) (ID #24760) $200.00=
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209. Levi, Giuseppe and Ludwig Seligmann. PARABELN, LEGE=
NDEN UND GEDANKEN AUS THALMUD UND MIDRASCH. Leipzig: Leiner, 1863. Cloth,=
xiii, 400 pages, 8vo. In German. Series: Schriften-- herausgegeben vom In=
stitute zur Forderung der Israelitischen Literatur; 8. 1862/1863. OCLC lis=
ts 3 copies worldwide (Universitatsbibliothek Hamburg, Staatsbibliothek Zu=
Berlin, Forschungsbibliothek Erfurt). Solomon Grayzel's copy with sig=
nature. Wear to binding. Stained pages. Ex-library. Wear to edges and cove=
r binding. Otherwise, good condition. (RAB-34-2) (ID #21785) $75.00.<br>
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210. Lewy, J. EIN WORT ÜBER DIE "MECHILTA DES=
R. SIMON". Breslau,, 1889. Cloth, 40 pages, 8vo. In German. Lewy (18=
41-1917) "studied at the Breslau Jewish Theological Seminary. At the=
opening of the Hochschule fuer die Wissenschaft des Judentum in Berlin in=
1872, he became its lecturer in Talmud. In 1883 he returned to the Bresla=
u Seminary in the same capacity and as Seminarrabbiner. Apart from his eru=
dition in all branches of Jewish and general scholarship, Lewy brought a k=
een analytical sense and conjectural brilliance to the field of talmudical=
studies. He combined this freedom of enquiry with deep piety and strict o=
bservance. Lewy's scholarly output is relatively small in quantity, bu=
t terse in style and free of polemics. It mainly appeared in the annual re=
ports of the Hochschule and the Breslau seminary. " (Rothschild in EJ=
, 2007). From library of Shalom Spiegel with bookplate. Series: Jahresberi=
cht des Jüdisch-theologischen Seminars "Fraenckel'scher Stif=
tung". Good Condition. Wear and tear on cover and binding. Includes o=
ne page membership list with many names. (RAB-1-19) (ID #21670) $75.00.<br=
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211. Schröter, Dr. Robert . TESHUVOT DUNASH HA-LEVI=
BEN LABRAT, AL RABI SEADYAH [SAADYA] GA'ON =3D KRITIK DES DUNASCH BE=
N LABRAT. ERSTES HEFT. Breslau, Schletter'sche Buchhandlung, 1866. (FT=
) Original Publisher's Cloth. 8vo. Xiv, 63 pages. 17 cm. In Hebrew wit=
h preface and notes in German. Subtitle: "u¨ber einzelne Stellen=
aus Saadia's arabischer Uebersetzung des A. T. Und aus dessen grammat=
ischen Schriften, nach einem Codex des S. D. Luzzatto. Zum ersten Male hrs=
g. Und mit kritischen Anmerkungen versehen von Robert Schro¨ter. "=
; Title translates to English as, "Criticism of Dunash ben Labrat abo=
ut individual passages from Saadia's Arabic translation of the AT and=
from its grammatical writings, according to a Code of SD Luzzatto. Ed for=
the first time. And with critical notes by Robert Schröter. " S=
UBJECT(S): Sa’adia ben Joseph, 880-942. Bible. O. T. -- Criticism, i=
nterpretation, etc. OCLC lists 24 copies worldwide. Lacks covers and backs=
trip. Internal pages wavy from water exposure with light staining througho=
ut, but all text is clear. Good condition. (GER-32-1) (ID #28772) $125.00.=
(K-MX-1-8) |• Kisch, Guido. THE JEWS IN MEDIEVAL GERMANY; A STUDY OF=
THEIR LEGAL AND SOCIAL STATUS. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1949=
=2E First Edition; First Printing. Cloth, 8vo; xv, 655 pages; 24 cm. Bibliog=
raphy on pages 565-605. First edition. Kisch received the I. Hirschfield a=
ward for "Best non-fiction work on Jewish history" for this work=
=2E Hinge repair. Tears to corners of cover, binding, and top section of jac=
ket. (K-Mx-1-8) (ID #21396) $50.00.<br>
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212. Dukes, Leopold. MOSES BEN ESRA AUS GRANADA: DARSTEL=
LUNG SEINES LEBENS UND LITERARISCHEN WIRKENS, NEBST HEBRÄISCHEN BEYLA=
GEN UND DEUTSCHEN UBERSETZUNGEN. Altona; Gedruckt Bei Gebrüder Bonn,=
1839. Later wrappers. 12mo. VI, [2], 115, [1] pages. 20 cm. First editi=
on. In German and Hebrew. Title translates as: “Moses ben Ezra, of G=
ranada: Account of his Life and Literary Activity, along with Hebrew and G=
erman translations. ” The translations include the works: "Tars=
hish" and "Diwan. " "Dukes spent about 20 years in Eng=
land, and from his researches in the Bodleian library and the British Muse=
um (which contain two of the most valuable Hebrew libraries in the world)=
Dukes was able to complete the work of Leopold Zunz. The most popular wor=
k of Dukes was his Rabbinische Blumenlese (1844), in which he collected th=
e rabbinic proverbs and illustrated them from the gnomic literatures of ot=
her peoples. Dukes made many contributions to philology, but his best work=
was connected with the medieval Hebrew poetry, especially Ibn Gabirol&quo=
t; (Wikipedia 2012). Moses ibn Ezra was a “Spanish philosopher, ling=
uist, and poet; born at Granada about 1070; (died after 1138); relative of=
Abraham ibn Ezra and pupil of Isaac ibn Ghayyat. … He was a distin=
guished philosopher, an able linguist, and, above all, a powerful poet, of=
whom Judah al-Harizi said: "Moses ibn Ezra draws pearls from the wel=
l of thought" … Ibn Ezra was an unrivaled master of the Hebrew=
language. His poetical productions, both sacred and secular, are distingu=
ished by their beauty of form and style, and were, according to Al-Harizi=
("Tahkemoni, " iii. ), preferred by poets even to those of Juda=
h ha-Levi and Abraham ibn Ezra. Ibn Ezra's secular poems are contained=
in two works: in the "Tarshish" (so called on account of the 1,=
210 lines it comprised), or "'Anah. " (Arabic title "Z=
ahr al-Riyah"), and in the first part of his "Diwan. " The=
"Tarshish" is divided into ten chapters, each of which contains=
in order the twenty-two letters of the alphabet. It is written in the Ara=
bic style of poetry termed "tajnis, " which consists in the repe=
tition of words in every stanza, but with a different meaning in each repe=
tition. The first chapter is dedicated to a certain Abraham (certainly not=
Abraham ibn Ezra), whose merits he exalts in Oriental fashion. In the nin=
e remaining chapters are discussed: (ch. Ii. ) wine, love, and song; (iii.=
) the beauty of country life; (iv. v. ) love-sickness and the separation=
of lovers; (vi. ) unfaithful friends; (vii. ) old age; (viii. ) vicissitu=
des of fortune, and death; (ix. ) confidence in God; (x. ) the glory of po=
etry. ” (1906 Jewish Encyclopeda) Subjects: Biography. Ibn Ezra, Mos=
es, ca. 1060-ca. 1139. Jewish religious poetry, Hebrew -- History and crit=
icism. Foxing throughout, with light soiling on title page. All text clear=
=2E Good condition. (GER-40-15) (ID #29070) $175.00.<br>
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213. Dukes, Leopold. ZUR KENNTNISS DER NEUHEBRÄISCH=
EN RELIGIÖSEN POESIE: EIN BEITRAG ZUR LITERATURGESCHICHTE, NEBST HEBR=
ÄISCHEN BEILAGEN. Frankfurt Am Main; Bach'sche Buch Und Steindruc=
kerei, 1842. Later wrappers. 12mo. VII, 175, [1] pages. 20 cm. First edit=
ion. In German and Hebrew. Title translates as: “Towards the Knowled=
ge of Modern Hebrew Religious Poetry: a Contribution to Literary History,=
together with Hebrew Inserts. ” This volume serves as a comprehensi=
ve survey of modern Hebrew poetry and grammatical innovations, with a sele=
ctions of Hebrew poems. Leopold Dukes was a “Hungarian historian of=
Jewish literature; born at Presburg, Hungary, 1810; died at Vienna Aug. 3=
, 1891. He studied Talmudical literature in the yeshibah of Moses Sofer, r=
abbi of Presburg; but his passion for Biblical studies, which found no sym=
pathy in his native town, led him to the yeshibah of Wörzburg, where=
he also devoted himself to the acquisition of a secular education. After=
a prolonged stay at Wörzburg he returned home; but displeased with t=
he manners of his fellow citizens, and impelled by a thirst for knowledge,=
he visited the principal European cities in which there were libraries co=
ntaining Hebrew manuscripts. He lived successively at Munich, Tübinge=
n, Hanover, Hamburg, Paris, Leipsic, Oxford, and then spent about twenty y=
ears in London. Dukes was an original character, a fact due probably to hi=
s solitary life and privations. His scholarship was extensive and exact, a=
nd his works cover the fields of exegesis, Haggadah, grammar, Masorah, the=
history of literature, ethics, and poetry. In all of these he made many i=
ngenious and important discoveries; and his books became indispensable sup=
plements to those of Zunz, Rapoport, and Krochmal. ” Dukes made many=
contributions to philology, but his best work was connected with the medi=
eval Hebrew poetry (1906 Jewish Encyclopedia). Subjects: Jewish religious=
poetry, Hebrew -- History and criticism. Jewish religious poetry, Hebrew.=
Hebrew poetry -- History and criticism. Ex-libris Jews College Library Lo=
ndon. Foxed throughout, lightly soiled, text legible. Good condition. (GER=
-40-14) (ID #29069) $75.00.<br>
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214. Dukes, Leopold. SALOMO BEN GABIROL AUS MALAGA UND D=
IE ETHINSCHEN WERKE DESSELBEN, MIT EINER UEBERSICHT DER MEISTEN ETHISCHEN=
WERKE DER ARABER; EIN BEITRAG ZUR LITERATURGESCHICHTE DER ARABER UND JUDE=
N DES MITTLALTERS. Hannover; Druck Der Telgener'schen Hofbuchdruookere=
i, 1860. Later wrappers. 12mo. XII, 124 pages. 20 cm. First edition. In Ge=
rman, with Hebrew passages and notes. Erstes Band (First Book), no others=
ever written. Title translates as: Solomon ben Gabirol of Malaga and the=
Works on Ethics by the same, with one of the most representative work of=
Ethics of the Arabs; A Contribution to the Literary History of the Arabs=
and Jews of the Middle Ages. ” Leopold Dukes was a “Hungarian=
historian of Jewish literature; born at Presburg, Hungary, 1810; died at=
Vienna Aug. 3, 1891. He studied Talmudical literature in the yeshibah of=
Moses Sofer, rabbi of Presburg; but his passion for Biblical studies, whi=
ch found no sympathy in his native town, led him to the yeshibah of Wö=
;rzburg, where he also devoted himself to the acquisition of a secular edu=
cation. After a prolonged stay at Wörzburg he returned home; but disp=
leased with the manners of his fellow citizens, and impelled by a thirst f=
or knowledge, he visited the principal European cities in which there were=
libraries containing Hebrew manuscripts. He lived successively at Munich,=
Tübingen, Hanover, Hamburg, Paris, Leipsic, Oxford, and then spent a=
bout twenty years in London. Dukes was an original character, a fact due p=
robably to his solitary life and privations. His scholarship was extensive=
and exact, and his works cover the fields of exegesis, Haggadah, grammar,=
Masorah, the history of literature, ethics, and poetry. In all of these h=
e made many ingenious and important discoveries; and his books became indi=
spensable supplements to those of Zunz, Rapoport, and Krochmal. ” (1=
906 Jewish Encyclopedia) Dukes made many contributions to philology, but h=
is best work was connected with the medieval Hebrew poetry, especially his=
works on Solomon Ibn Gabirol, a renowned “Spanish poet, philosopher=
, and moralist; born in Malaga about 1021; died about 1058 in Valencia. He=
is called by Grätz “the Jewish Plato, " and by Steinschne=
ider "the most original philosophical writer among the Jews and Arabs=
=2E " (1906 Jewish Encyclopedia) Subjects: Jews -- Social life and cust=
oms. Ibn Gabirol, Shelomo ben Yehuda, 11th cent. OCLC lists 25 copies worl=
dwide. Light foxing and light soiling on title page and last page. Lightly=
bumped edges. Internally clean and fresh. Very good condition. (GER-40-13=
) (ID #29068) $135.00.<br>
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215. Kaufmann, David. DIE SINNE. BEITRÄGE ZUR GESCH=
ICHTE DER PHYSIOLOGIE UND PSYCHOLOGIE IM MITTELALTER, AUS HEBRÄISCHEN=
UND ARABISCHEN QUELLEN. Leipzig, Universitäts-Buchdruckerei, 1884. C=
lothbound. 8vo. V, 199 pages. 22 cm. First edition. In German, with Greek,=
Hebrew, and Arabic. “The Senses; Contribution to the history of phy=
siology and psychology in the middle ages, from Hebrew and Arabic sources,=
” followed by the Annual Report for the National Rabbinical School=
of Budapest for the Schoolyear of 1883-1884 (“Jahresbericht der Lan=
des-Rabbinerschule in Budapest für das Schuljahr l883-84”). Dav=
id Kaufmann was an “Austrian scholar; born at Kojetein, Moravia, Jun=
e 7, 1852; died at Karlsbad, Bohemia, July 6, 1899. He was educated at Koj=
etein; and from 1861 to 1867 he attended the gymnasium at Kremsir, where h=
e studied the Bible and Talmud with Jacob Brüll, rabbi of Kojetein, a=
nd with the latter's son Nehemiah. In 1867 he went to the Jewish Theol=
ogical Seminary at Breslau, where he studied for ten years, attending at t=
he same time the university of that city. In the summer of 1874 he receive=
d his Ph. D. From the University of Leipsic; and on Jan. 29, 1877, he was=
ordained rabbi. In the latter year he declined the offer of a professorsh=
ip at the Jewish Theological Seminary, Cincinnati, preferring to accept in=
stead the chairs of history, philosophy of religion, and homiletics at the=
newly founded rabbinical school at Budapest, which he continued to hold t=
ill his death. He also at the same time taught Greek and German in the pre=
paratory school of the same institution, carrying on this work in the Hung=
arian language, which he had rapidly mastered. As librarian of the seminar=
y he acquired the large library of Lelio della Torre of Padua, the library=
of the seminary becoming by this addition one of the most valuable Hebrew=
libraries of Europe. As a teacher Kaufmann was highly successful; and his=
relation to his students was that of friendly adviser. He maintained a li=
vely correspondence not only with the most eminent Jewish scholars, but al=
so with the leaders in other branches of science. Kaufmann was a correspon=
ding member of the Royal Academy of Sciences of Madrid and a member of the=
executive committee of the Budapest branch of the Alliance Israéli=
te Universelle. Kaufmann displayed a many-sided literary activity. The bib=
liography of his works which M. Brann compiled for the "Gedenkbuch zu=
r Erinnerung an David Kaufmann" (ed. M. Brann and F. Rosenthal, Bresl=
au, 1900) includes 546 items, covering nearly every branch of Jewish scien=
ce. His voluminous contributions to the periodical literature of the last=
two decades of the nineteenth century show him as a finished writer both=
of German and of Hebrew. ” (1906 Jewish Encyclopedia) Subjects: Sen=
ses and sensation (Judaism) Physiology -- History. Psychology -- History.=
Binding repaired. Endpages very aged, brittle, with torn edges. Pages thr=
oughout clean and lightly aged. Good condition. (GER-38-18) (ID #28927) $1=
25.00.<br>
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216. Sa‘adiah Ben Joseph; Judah Ben Saul Ibn Tibbo=
n. SEFER HA-EMUNOT VEHA-DE‘OT. Leipzig; Y. Fishel, 1859. (FT) Later=
wrappers. 12mo. 202 pages. 19 cm. In Hebrew. “Judah ben Saul ibn Ti=
bbon, translator; born at Granada, Spain, 1120; died after 1190. He left h=
is native place in 1150, probably on account of persecution by the Almohad=
es, and went to Lunel in southern France. Benjamin of Tudela mentions him=
as a physician there in 1160. Judah lived on terms of intimacy with Meshu=
llam ben Jacob and with Meshullam's two sons, Asher and Aaron, whom in=
his will he recommends as friends to his only son, Samuel. He was also a=
close friend of Abraham ben David of Posquières and of Zerahiah ha=
-Levi, the latter of whom he freely recognized as a greater scholar than h=
imself, and whose son he also wished to have as a friend for his own son.=
He had two daughters whose marriage caused him much anxiety. Judah was ve=
ry active as a translator, his works including the translation into Hebrew=
of the following: Saadia's "Kitab al-Amanat wal-I'tiadat, &q=
uot; under the title "Sefer ha-Emunot weha-De'ot" (1186; fir=
st ed. Constantinople, 1562). … The "Kitab al-Amanat wal-l'=
;tiadat, " or "Book of the Articles of Faith and Doctrines of Do=
gma, " the first systematic presentation and philosophic foundation o=
f the dogmas of Judaism, completed in 933. This work is better known under=
its Hebrew title, "Sefer Emunot we-De'ot, " as translated b=
y Judah ibn Tibbon, his version having been first printed in Constantinopl=
e in 1562 and frequently republished, while the original was edited by S.=
Landauer (Leyden, 1880). Another translation, or rather paraphrase, of th=
e "Kitab al-Amanat, " of uncertain authorship, is contained in s=
everal manuscripts; large portions of this rendering were edited by Gollan=
cz ("The Ethical Treatises of Berachyah, " London, 1902; comp. &=
quot;Monatsschrift, " xlvi. 536). Of the ten sections or "maalat=
" of the work, the seventh, treating of the resurrection, is containe=
d in two versions, the first of which, the basis of the translation of Ibn=
Tibbon, has been edited by Bacher in the "Steinschneider Festschrift=
, " pp. 98-112, and the second by Landauer. Subjects: Jewish philosop=
hy -- Medieval. OCLC lists 6 copies worldwide. Ex- Libris Jews College Lib=
rary London. Very light ageing and light foxing throughout. Good condition=
=2E (GER-40-16) (ID #29071) $150.00. (GER-15-32DW) |• Aboab, Isaac; R.=
J. Fürstenthal; Ben-Zion Behrend. MENORATH HAMMAOR: LICHT VERBREITEN=
DER LEUCHTER. EINE MORALISCHE-RELIGIÖSE UND ERBAULICHE LEKTÜRE F=
ÜR JUNG UND ALT. HEBRÄISCH VERFASST VON ISAAC ABOAB, UND INS DEU=
TSCHE ÜBERSETZT, BEGONNEN VON R.J. FÜRSTENTHAL, FORTGESETZT VON=
BENZION BEHREND. Complete in 3 volumes. Krotoschin, B. L. Monasch Und Soh=
n, 1848. quarter, 8vo. 315, 558, 392 pages. The 2nd printing, with Hebrew=
title page and "315" correctly on the last page. In Hebrew and=
German. Damp stains and spotting throughout. Non-matching bindings. Wear=
to boards. Vol III lacks backstrip and has both boards loose but present.=
Good Condition. (GER-15-32dw) (ID #18690) $275.00.<br>
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217. Another Copy, Volume 3 only. Ex-Library with bookpl=
ate on inside front cover. Wear to cover and spine. Damp stains throughout=
=2E Good condition. (SPEC-27-21). (ID #27081) $100.00.<br>
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218. Another Copy, Volume 2 only. Some wear to covers in=
cluding minor chipping at top and bottom of spine. Internal pages worn wit=
h some foxing, but all text is clear. Good condition. (SPEC-27-20). (ID #2=
7759) $100.00.<br>
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219. Albeck, Chanoch. UNTERSUCHUNGEN ÜBER DIE HALAK=
ISCHEN MIDRASCHIM. Berlin; Akademie-Verlag, 1927. Softbound. 8vo. X, 163,=
[1] pages. 24 cm. First edition. In German and Hebrew. Title translates=
as: “Studies on the Midrashim Halak”; which constitutes Volum=
e 3 of Veröffentlichungen der Akademie für die Wissenschaft des=
Judentums. Talmudische Sektion. Hanoch Albeck (1890 -1972) was a professo=
r of Talmud at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. He was one of the forem=
ost scholars of the Mishna in his time and he was one of the founders of t=
he scientific approach to the study of the Mishna. Hanoch studied at the V=
ienna rabbinical academy and he received rabbinical ordination in 1905. In=
1921 he received a degree from the University of Vienna. Between 1926 and=
1936 Albeck taught in the Hochschule für die Wissenschaft des Judent=
ums in Berlin. In 1936 he emigrated to Mandatory Palestine where he was im=
mediately appointed as professor and head of the Talmud department at the=
Hebrew University in Jerusalem, a position he held for 25 years. Albeck,=
who was a religiously observant Jew, published a number of books in Hebre=
w and German on rabbinical literature, including "Introduction to the=
Mishna", "Studies in Baraita and Tosephta", "Introduc=
tion to the Talmuds", and others. In addition, he published numerous=
articles in the journal Tarbiz. Subjects: Jewish law. Tradition (Judaism)=
Midrasch. Mishnah. Talmud. Ex Libris Jewish Theological Seminary. Covers=
worn and bumped at edges. Edges lightly bumped all around, but pages fres=
h and clean. Very good + condition. (GER-33-43) (ID #28838) $75.00.<br>
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220. Aptowitzer, Victor. DAS SCHRIFTWORT IN DER RABBINIS=
CHEN LITERATUR. Wien; In Komission Bei Alfred Hodler, 1915. Clothbound. 8v=
o. 62, 78, VII, 173, 82 pages. 24 cm. Five volumes in one. First edition.=
In German, with some Hebrew and Greek. Cloth with marbled half paper over=
boards. Alexander Marx’s copy, historian and librarian at the Jewis=
h Theological Seminary, with his ownership stamps and occational margin no=
tes. Title translates as “The Written Word in Rabbinic Literature. &=
ldquo; Volume contains: Heft 1. Prolegomena. - Heft 2. Samuel I. - Heft 3.=
Samuel II. -Heft 4. Josua - Heft 5. Richter. The author, Vigdor (Victor)=
Aptowitzer (March 16, 1871 - December 5, 1942), was a rabbinic and talmud=
ic scholar, professor of Talmud, Bible, Midrash and Jewish Philosophy at t=
he Jewish Theological Seminary, and member of the Mizrachi Zionist movemen=
t; whom died in Palestine in 1942. This volume contains his comprehensive=
work in German on the readings of Holy Scripture in rabbinic literature.=
Subjects: Rabbinical literature - History and criticism. Bible. O. T. - C=
riticism, interpretation, etc. Jewish. Backstrip shaken, first and last si=
gnature shaken, ex-libris copy. Pages fresh and clean. Very good condition=
=2E (GER-33-39) (ID #28834) $135.00.<br>
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221. Bacher, Wilhelm; Lajos Blau; Michael Guttmann. TRAD=
ITION UND TRADENTEN IN DEN SCHULEN PALÄSTINAS UND BABYLONIENS: STUDIE=
N UND MATERIALIEN ZUR ENTSTEHUNGSGESCHICHTE DES TALMUDS. Leipzig; G. Fock,=
1914. Clothbound. 8vo. XI, 704 pages. 23 cm. First edition. In German and=
Hebrew. Original cloth with gilt lettering on cover and spine, decorative=
endpages, and decorative outer edges. Title translates as: “Traditi=
on and traditionists in the schools of Palestine and Babylonia: Studies an=
d materials on the origin of the Talmud. ” Forward by Ludwig Blau: &=
ldquo;"The register has been produced by the author using the sacred=
Hebrew material left behind by Prof. Dr. M. Guttmann. ” Rabbi Wilhe=
lm Bacher (1850-1913), Talmudic scholar, orientalist, and rector of the Ra=
bbinical Seminary of Budapest, he was a descendant of the eighteenth-centu=
ry German rabbi Ya’ir Ayim Bacharach, and a son of Hebrew poet Simon=
Bacher. This pioneering volume printed under the auspices of the Society=
for the Advancement of Jewish Studies develops the philological transmiss=
ion of the attributed traditions of the Talmud. Subjects: Talmud - History=
=2E Tradition - jüdische. Ex-libris markings from a Temple library in H=
amburg. Cover and edges lightly soiled. Pages lightly aged, with small pen=
cil marks in some margins. Very good + condition. (GER-33-47) (ID #28842)=
$65.00.<br>
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222. Caro, Georg. SOZIAL- UND WIRTSCHAFTSGESCHICHTE DER=
JUDEN IM MITTELALTER UND DER NEUZEIT. VOL I ONLY: "DAS FRÜHERE=
UND DAS HOHE MITTELALTER". Frankfurt A. /Main, J. Kauffmann, 1924. 2=
nd Edition. Paper Wrappers, Large 8vo, 514 pages. In the original German T=
his Volume stands on its own and contains 2 parts: Die soziale Stellung un=
d wirtschaftliche Taetigkeit der Juden vom Ausgang des Altertums bis zum K=
reuzzuege; and Die soziale Stellung und Wirtschaftliche Taetigkeit der Jud=
en im Zeitalter der Kreuzzuege. Some wear to wrappers, pencil underlining=
on a few pages, Very Good Condition, (ger-15-63dw) (ID #18722) $65.00.<br=
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223. Chajim Bloch. TALMUDISCHE WEISHEIT: ALTJUDISCHE WEC=
HSELGESPRACHE, EINE AUSWAHL FUR DIE JUDISCHE JUGEND. Wien: Verlag “d=
as Leben”, 1921. Softcover, 16mo, 44 pages. In German. OCLC lists 1=
copy worldwide. (Danish Union Natl Lib). Bumped and lightly chipped corne=
rs. Light wear to edges. Otherwise, very good condition. (HEB-17-9) (ID #2=
6724) $40.00.<br>
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224. Danzig, Abraham Ben Jehiel Michal. SEFER HAYE ADAM:=
BO NIKBETSU U-VAU BE-SEDER NAKHON KOL HA-MITSVOT ASHER YAASEH OTAM HA-ADA=
M KOL YEME HELDO; VA-YEKABETS HA-MEHABER... ET KOL HA-DINIM VEHA-HALAKHOT=
HA-KETUVI... Berlin: Be-Defus Yulius Zittenfeld, 1862. Hardcover, 8vo, 52=
0 pages, 22 cm. In Hebrew. SUBJECT (S): Jewish law. Judaism -- Customs and=
practices. In Hebrew. Other Titles: Haye adam. Danzig (1748-1820) was a &=
ldquo;codifier. Born in Danzig, he studied in Prague at the yeshivot of Jo=
seph Liebermann and Ezekiel Landau. True to his family tradition, he refus=
ed to derive any material gain from his studies and earned his livelihood=
as a merchant. Although required at times to travel long distances to tra=
de fairs in Germany, he continued to learn with great devotion. From 1794=
to 1812 he served as dayyan in Vilna, in an honorary capacity; only in hi=
s old age, after losing his possessions, was he obliged to accept remunera=
tion for his services. Danzig wrote a number of halakhic works, but his fa=
me rests upon two publications: (1) Hayei Adam ("Man's Life"=
), covering all the laws of the Shulhan Arukh dealing with daily conduct,=
based on the Orah Hayyim sections, with an addendum called Nishmat Adam,=
in which he justified his decisions which were not in accordance with the=
accepted view; and (2) Hokhmat Adam ("Man's Wisdom"), cover=
ing all the laws of the Shulhan Arukh dealing with the dietary regulations=
, etc. contained in the Yoreh De’ah section, with an addendum called=
Binat Adam, which included discussions on various relevant halakhic subje=
cts and responsa. Both works were initially intended for youthful students=
and for educated laymen not fully versed in rabbinic literature who, in a=
ttempting to determine Jewish law, found themselves unable to grapple with=
the intricacies of the Shulhan Arukh and with its maze of conflicting opi=
nions. In these works, Danzig shows himself possessed of considerable peda=
gogical talent. He arranges the laws methodically, defines his terms lucid=
ly and precisely, presents the various views and their sources, and render=
s his own decisions and his reasons for them – all in clear, simple=
language. The pleasant tenor of his writing, which is suffused with unque=
stioning faith and true piety, contributed largely toward the acceptance o=
f his works. Hayyei Adam appeared in almost a hundred editions. Groups cal=
led “Hevrot Hayyei Adam” were formed in several communities fo=
r the regular study of the code. Danzig’s merits as a codifier were=
recognized also by renowned rabbis and codifiers, who gave due considerat=
ion to his decisions. His books include much of historical interest with r=
egard to the daily life of Lithuanian Jewry in his generation” (Schl=
esinger in EJ, 2007). OCLC lists 1 copy worldwide (U of Denver). Hinge rep=
air. Light staining to some pages. Wear and chipping to cover edges and co=
rners. Notes inside back cover. Otherwise, good condition. (HEB-15A-14) (I=
D #26033) $200.00.<br>
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225. Dr. B Levin. GINZE KEDEM. A GEONITIC SCIENTIFIC PER=
IODICAL. VOL 2 ONLY. Berlin: Druck: Von H Itzkowski, 1923. HARDBACK, 8vo.=
50 pages. Volume 2 only. In Hebrew. In good condition. (SPEC4-15) (ID #20=
430) $35.00.<br>
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226. Dukes, Leopold. ZUR KENNTNISS DER NEUHEBRÄISCH=
EN RELIGIÖSEN POESIE: EIN BEITRAG ZUR LITERATURGESCHICHTE, NEBST HEBR=
ÄISCHEN BEILAGEN [BOUND WITH]:. RABBINISCHE BLUMENLESE, ENTHALTEND:=
EINE SAMMLUNG, ÜBERSETZUNG UND ERLÄUTERUNG DER HEBRÄISCHEN=
UND CHALDÄISCHEN SPRÜCHE DES SIRACH, TALMUDISCHER SPRICHWÖ=
RTER, SENTENZEN UND MAXIMEN, NEBST EINEM ANHANGE, LEICHENREDEN UND EINEM G=
LOSSAR. Frankfurt Am Main; Bach / Leipzig; Hahn, 1844. Contemporary Cloth.=
8vo. VII, [5], 175 / VIII, 333 pages. 23 cm. First edition. In German an=
d Hebrew. Two volumes bound together in quarter leather and cloth, with de=
corative gilt lettering on backstrip. The titles of the volumes translate=
as: “For the knowledge of modern Hebrew poetry. A contribution to l=
iterary history, together with Hebrew inserts” And “Rabbinic a=
nthology containing: A collection, translation and explanation of the Hebr=
ew and Chaldean Proverbs of Sirach, Talmudic proverbs, aphorisms and maxim=
s, together with an appendix and a funeral orations. ” Leopold Dukes=
was a “Hungarian historian of Jewish literature; born at Presburg,=
Hungary, 1810; died at Vienna Aug. 3, 1891. He studied Talmudical literat=
ure in the yeshibah of Moses Sofer, rabbi of Presburg; but his passion for=
Biblical studies, which found no sympathy in his native town, led him to=
the yeshibah of Wörzburg, where he also devoted himself to the acqui=
sition of a secular education. After a prolonged stay at Wörzburg he=
returned home; but displeased with the manners of his fellow citizens, an=
d impelled by a thirst for knowledge, he visited the principal European ci=
ties in which there were libraries containing Hebrew manuscripts. He lived=
successively at Munich, Tübingen, Hanover, Hamburg, Paris, Leipsic,=
Oxford, and then spent about twenty years in London. Dukes was an origina=
l character, a fact due probably to his solitary life and privations. His=
scholarship was extensive and exact, and his works cover the fields of ex=
egesis, Haggadah, grammar, Masorah, the history of literature, ethics, and=
poetry. In all of these he made many ingenious and important discoveries;=
and his books became indispensable supplements to those of Zunz, Rapoport=
, and Krochmal. ” (1906 Jewish Encyclopedia) Subjects: Jewish religi=
ous poetry, Hebrew -- History and criticism. Jewish religious poetry, Hebr=
ew. Hebrew poetry -- History and criticism. Proverbs, Hebrew. Bible.; O. T=
=2E; Apocrypha.; Ecclesiasticus.; Hebrew.; Selections.; 1844.; Bible.; O. T.=
; Apocrypha.; Ecclesiasticus.; Aramaic.; Selections.; 1844.; Talmud.; Sele=
ctions.; Hebrew & German. Edges of cover lightly worn, with leather li=
ghtly rubbed. First endpages torn and bumped, page VII contains a rip at t=
he bottom margin. Pages very lightly foxed throughout. Pages very clean an=
d fresh. Good condition. (GER-38-45) (ID #29047) $100.00.<br>
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227. Ehrentheil, Moritz. DER GEIST DES TALMUD. QUELLENGE=
MASSE DARSTELLUNG DER TALMUDISCHEN ANSCHAUUNG ÜBER GOTT, MENSCH, STAA=
T, JUSTIZWESEN, NACHSTENLIEBE, WOHLTHATIGKEIT, ARMEN-PFLEGE, VERHALTEN GEG=
EN DIE HEIDEN, THIERQUALEREI, ARBEIT, ERZIEHUNG UND UNTERRICHT, WAHRHAFTIG=
KEIT... Budapest, Druck Von M. Burian, 1887. Hardcover, 8vo, 240 pages, 23=
cm. InGerman. SUBJECT (S): Talmud. Label of the publisher ”M. E. Lo=
wey’s sohn” mounted over imprint. OCLC lists 20 copies worldwi=
de. Light staining. Stamps inside front cover. Hinge repair. Wear to edges=
of cover corners and binding. Good condition. (HEB-15A-4) (ID #26023) $50=
=2E00.<br>
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228. Eidelberg, Shlomo. THE JEWS AND THE CRUSADERS: THE=
HEBREW CHRONICLES OF THE FIRST AND SECOND CRUSADES. Madison: University o=
f Wisconsin Press. 1977. Cloth. 8vo. Xii, 186 pages. Illustrated. First ed=
ition. Maps on endpapers. SUBJECT (S): Jews – Germany – histor=
y – 1069-1147 – sources; Jews – persecutions – Ger=
many – sources; Crusades – First, 1096-1099 – sources; C=
rusades, Second, 1147-1149 – sources. CONTENTS: The chronicle of Sol=
omon bar Simson. --The chronicle of Rabbi Eliezer bar Nathan. --The narrat=
ive of the Old Persecutions, or Mainz anonymous. --Sefer Zekhirah, or The=
book of remembrance, of Rabbi Ephraim of Bonn. ISBN: 0299070603. Spine ta=
nned. Small closed tear to jacket. Very good condition in very good jacket=
=2E (RAB-28-13) (ID #20696) $30.00.<br>
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229. Eisler, Moritz. VORLESUNGEN UBER DIE JUDISCHEN PHIL=
OSOPHEN DES MITTELALTERS. ABTHEILUNG I. Wien, Bruder Winter, 1876. Pape Wr=
appers, 8vo, 119 pages. Includes Saadia, Bachia, Ibn Gabirol, Jehuda Halev=
i, and Ibn Ezra. Includes a list of the publisher's other publications=
on back cover. Original paper wrappers, spine repaired.Wear and staining=
to covers, pages stained in margins, brown and fragile. Fair condition. (=
RAB-45-21) (ID #24684) $75.00. (RAB-45-22) |• Eisler, Moritz. VORLESU=
NGEN UBER DIE JUDISCHEN PHILOSOPHEN DES MITTELALTERS. ABTHEILUNG II. Wien,=
Verlag Der Wallishausser'schen Buchhandlung, 1870. Boards, 8vo, 140 p=
ages. Marbled boards and textblock, first few pages creased. Small stain a=
nd tear to title page. Some pencil notes in margins.Good + condition. (RAB=
-45-22) (ID #24685) $75.00. (GR-6-15) |• Eppenstein, Simon. BEITR&Aum=
l;GE ZUR GESCHICHTE UND LITERATUR IM GEONÄISCHEN ZEITALTER. Berlin, 1=
913. Berlin: Louis Lamm, 1913. Cloth; 8vo. 218 pages. In German. Bibliogra=
phical annotations. Contents: Vorwort. --Bostanai. --Das gegenseitige verh=
ältnis zwischen exilarchat und gaonat und die lehrverfassung der meti=
btas. --Die geistige tätigkeit in Palästina bis zum beginn des 1=
0. Jahrhunderts. --Saadja Gaon, sein leben und seine schriften. --Die erz&=
auml;hlung von den vier gefangenen talmudisten. --Nachträge und beric=
htigungen. Note (s): "Separatabzug aus der Monatsschrift, jahrgä=
nge 1908, 1910-1913"--Vorwort. SUBJECT(S): Geonim. Geonic literature=
-- History and criticism. OCLC lists 20 copies worldwide. Edgeworn. Cover=
nearly detached. Interior clean and bright. Good condition. (GR-6-15) (ID=
#15930) $125.00.<br>
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230. Epstein, J. N. (Jacob Nahum). DER GAONÄISCHE K=
OMMENTAR ZUR ORDNUNG TOHOROTH: EINE KRITISCHE EINLEITUNG ZU DEM R. HAI GAO=
N ZUGESCHRIEBENEN KOMMENTAR. Berlin; Mayer & Müller, 1915. FT) Pa=
per wrappers. 8vo. VI, 160 pages. 25 cm. First Edition. In German, Hebrew,=
Arabic, and Aramaic. Title translates as “The Geonic commentaries o=
n rules of the Tohoroth: a critical introduction to the commentaries ascri=
bed to R Hai Gaon. ” Jacob Nahum Epstein was born in Lithuania in 18=
78 into an old rabbinical family, obtained a doctorate in Semitic Philolog=
y at Vienna in 1913, and taught in Berlin until 1925, when he left for Jer=
usalem as part of the first staff at the Hebrew University, and was a prof=
essor of Talmudic studies there until his death in 1952. Hai ben Sherira (=
or Hai b. Sherira (Gaon), Hebrew: ; better known as Hai Gaon, Hebrew: ), w=
as a medieval Jewish theologian, rabbi and scholar who served as Gaon of t=
he Talmudic academy of Pumbedita during the early 11th century. He was bor=
n in 939 and died on March 28, 1038. “Hai b. Sherira's philologi=
cal abilities were directed to the expounding of the Mishnah; of this work=
only the portion on Seder Ohorot is extant; it was published by T. Rosenb=
erg in "Hobeh Ma'aseh" (Berlin, 1856). This commentary conta=
ins especially interesting linguistic notes, Arabic and Aramaic being ofte=
n adduced for comparison. The author quotes the Mishnah, the two Talmuds,=
the Tosefta, the Sifra, Targums Onklos and Jonathan, the Septuagint, the=
works of Saadia, the "Sifre Refu'ah, " and other anonymous=
sources. He also quotes his own commentary on Zera'im. (p. 34) and on=
Baba Batra (p. 43). These quotations, and many others cited by the 'A=
ruk, prove that the commentary extended to the whole Mishnah, containing a=
mong other explanations and historical and archeological notes. ” (J=
ewish Encylopedia, 1906). Subjects: Geonic literature -- History and criti=
cism. Hai ben Sherira, 939-1038. Mishnah. Tohorot (Order) -- Commentaries.=
Covers lightly soiled, slight tears to cover on backstrip and back page i=
n upper corner. All edges soiled. Pages lightly aged and bumped at edges,=
but very clean throughout. Very good condition. (GER-33-22) (ID #28818) $=
30.00.<br>
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231. Fassel, Hirsch B. 1802-1883. TSEDEK U-MISHPAT. TUGE=
ND - UND RECHTSLEHRE: BEARBEITET NACH DEN PRINCIPIEN DES TALMUDS UND NACH=
DER FORM DER PHILOSOPHIE. Wien: Gedruckt Bei Ulrich Klopf Sen. Und Alexan=
der Eurich,, 1848. Hardcover, 8vo. 252, [2] pages. In German. First Editi=
on. Title in English: Virtue And Legal Theory: According to the Principles=
of the Talmud and the Form of Philosophy. SUBJECT (S): Jewish law -- Stud=
y and teaching. Justice -- Religious aspects -- Judaism. OCLC lists 19 cop=
ies worlwide. Pages tanned. Very good condition. (RAB-45-4) (ID #24692) $7=
0.00.<br>
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232. Goldschmidt, Lazarus,; 1871-1950. DER BABYLONISCHE=
TALMUD: NACH DER ERSTEN ZENSURFREIEN AUSGABE UNTER BERÜCKSICHTIGUNG=
DER NEUEREN AUSGABEN UND HANDSCHRIFTLICHEN MATERIALS (BANDS 2, 4, 5, 6 &a=
mp; 7 OF 12). Berlin: Jüdischer Verlag,, 1936. 3/4 Leather, 12mo. 6 B=
ands, each band consists of 2 volumes, with 2-4 tractates contained in eac=
h band. MISSING BANDS 1, 3 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12. In German. Contents: 2. Bd=
=2E (703 pages) Erubin. Pesahim. Seqalim -- 4. Bd. (765 pages) Megilla. Moed=
qatan. Hagiga. Jabmuth -- 5. Bd. (693 pages) Kethuboth. Nedarim. Nazir --=
6. Bd. (802 pages) Sota. Gittin. Qiddusin -- 7. Bd. (865 pages) Baba qamm=
a. Baba mecia. Goldschmidt was a “ scholar, bibliophile, and transla=
tor of the Talmud into German. Goldschmidt, who was born in Plongian, Lith=
uania, studied first at the Slobodka yeshivah at Kaunas (Kovno) and later=
at the universities of Berlin and Strasbourg. His early studies were devo=
ted to Ethiopian language and its literature. He published the Ethiopic ve=
rsion of the Book of Enoch (I Enoch) with Hebrew translation (1892) and Bi=
blioteca Ethiopica (1895). Goldschmidt published an edition of the Sefer Y=
ezirah (1894), a Hebrew translation of the Koran (1916), and prepared a ne=
w edition of Jacob Levy's Woerterbuch zum Talmud und Midrasch (1924).=
On the rise of Hitler to power in 1933 Goldschmidt left Germany for Engla=
nd and lived in London. His bibliographical works include Hebrew Incunable=
s (1948), and the Earliest Editions of the Hebrew Bible (1950). Some of hi=
s works were published under the pseudonym Arselaj bar Bargelaj. Goldschmi=
dt's major contribution was his translation of the entire Babylonian T=
almud into German. It appeared in two editions, a nine-volume work contain=
ing the original text and variant readings (1897–1935) and a 12-volu=
me edition without the original text (1929–36). This translation, wh=
ich was severely criticized by David Zvi Hoffman (ZHB 1, 1896), was nevert=
heless considered to be an important and standard work in talmudic studies=
=2E ” (EJ, 2007) SUBJECT(S): Babylonische Talmoed. Talmud Bavli. Babyl=
onian Talmud. Note(s): Bands. 3-7 printed in Czechoslovakia. Each band inc=
ludes a red and black title page, and index. Endpapers decorated in gold s=
tar motif, speckled design on text block. Some edge wear to covers. Very g=
ood condition. Each volume available individually, price is per volume. (R=
AB-39-7) (ID #24636) $30.00.<br>
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233. Güdemann, Dr. Moritz. DAS JÜDISCHE UNTERR=
ICHTSWESEN WÄHREND DER SPANISCH-ARABISCHEN PERIODE. Vienna, Verlag Vo=
n Carl Gerold’s Sohn, 1873. Bound in later wrappers. 8vo. Ii, 198, 6=
2, pages. 22 cm. In German and Hebrew with some Arabic. Title translates t=
o English as, “Jewish Education During the Spanish-Arab Period: With=
Supplemental Manuscripts in Arabic and Hebrew. ” Subtitle: “N=
ebst handschriftlichen arabischen und hebräischen beilagen. ” S=
UBJECT (S): Jews -- Education. Jewish learning and scholarship. Named Pers=
on: Aknin, Joseph ben Judah ben Jacob Ibn, ca. 1150-1220. Internal pages a=
re darkened but not fragile. Very Good condition. (GER-32-5) (ID #28908) $=
45.00.<br>
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234. Güdemann, Dr. Moritz. GESCHICHTE DES ERZIEHUNG=
SWESENS UND DER CULTUR DER JUDEN IN DEUTSCHLAND WAHREND DES XIV - XV JAHRH=
UNDERTS. Vienna, Alfred Hölder. 1888. Bound in later wrappers. 8vo. X=
, 303 pages. In German. Title translates to English as, “History of=
education and culture of Jews in Germany During the XIV - XV centuries. &=
rdquo; Series: Geschichte des Erziehungswesens und der Cultur der Abendl&a=
uml;ndischen Juden wahrend des Mittelalters und der Neueren Zeit. Bd. III.=
[History of Education and the Culture of the Occidental Jews during the=
Middle Ages and Modern Times. Vol. III]. Internal pages bright and clean.=
Very Good Condition. (GER-32-28) (ID #28905) $90.00.<br>
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235. Güdemann, Dr. Moritz. GESCHICHTE DES ERZIEHUNG=
SWESENS UND DER CULTUR DER JUDEN IN FRANKREICH UND DEUTSCHLAND VON DER BEG=
RÜNDUNG DER JÜDISCHEN WISSENSCHAFT IN DIESEN LÄNDERN BIS ZU=
R VERTREIBUNG DER JUDEN AUS FRANKREICH. (X. - XIV JAHRHUNDERT). Vienna, Al=
fred Hölder, 1880. Bound in later wrappers. 8vo. Iv, 299 pages. In Ge=
rman. Title translates to English as, “History of education and the=
culture of the Jews in France and Germany on the grounds of Jewish scienc=
e in this country until the expulsion of Jews from France. (X - XIV Centur=
y). ” Series: Geschichte des Erziehungswesens und der Cultur der Abe=
ndländischen Juden wahrend des Mittelalters und der Neueren Zeit. [H=
istory of Education and the Culture of the Occidental Jews during the Midd=
le Ages and Modern Times]. Internal pages are darkened but not fragile. Ni=
ce, clean copy in Very Good Condition. (GER-32-27) (ID #28904) $90.00.<br>
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236. Güdemann, Moritz. QUELLENSCHRIFTEN ZUR GESCHIC=
HTE DES UNTERRICHTS UND DER ERZIEHUNG BEI DEN DEUTSCHEN JUDEN. VON DEN &Au=
ml;LTESTEN ZEITEN BIS AUF MENDELSSOHN. Berlin; A. Hofmann, 1891. Clothboun=
d. 8vo. XXXII, 324 pages. 25 cm. First edition. In German and Hebrew. Late=
r cloth and decorative paper over boards, with original paper wrappers. &l=
dquo;Source documents on the history of teaching and education for the Ger=
man Jews. From the earliest times down to Mendelssohn. ” Contains an=
introductory essay, and dozens of reproductions of legal and pedagogical=
documents from 1050 to 1769, annotated by the author; contains an index o=
f names in German, as well as an index of names in Hebrew. Moritz Güd=
emann, an “Austrian rabbi; born at Hildesheim, Germany, Feb. 19, 183=
5. He was educated at Breslau (Ph. D. 1858), and took his rabbinical diplo=
ma (1862) at the Jewish Theological Seminary of that city. In the latter y=
ear he was called to the rabbinate of Magdeburg; in 1866 he went to Vienna=
as preacher, where he became rabbi in 1868, and chief rabbi in 1890. G&uu=
ml;demann has especially distinguished himself by his investigations into=
the history of Jewish education and culture. ” (1906 Jewish Encyclo=
pedia). Subjects: Jews -- Education. Jews -- Germany. Jüdische Erzieh=
ung. Covers worn at edges. Wear to some pages, pen marks in margins on a h=
alf dozen pages throughout, light wear and aging to pages, but very clean=
and bright. Good + condition. (GER-33-16) (ID #28812) $30.00.<br>
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237. Gudemann, Moritz. DAS JÜDISCHE UNTERRICHTSWESE=
N WAHREND DER SPANISCHARABISCHEN PERIODE, NEBST HANDSCHRIFTLICHEN ARABISCH=
EN UND HEBRAISCHEN. Wien, 1873. Wien, Carl Gerold's Sohn, 1873. 1st ed=
ition. Cloth, 8vo, ii, 198, 62 pages, 23 cm. Dr. Alexander Kohut's cop=
y, with his ownership signiture, later belonging to Shalom Spiegel, with h=
is bookplate. Subject: Jewish Spain. Jews -- Education -- History. Jewish=
learning and scholarship. Heavy wear to boards, hinges repaired, paper br=
owning, (GER-15-34DW) (ID #15881) $75.00. (GR-6-10) |• Güdemann,=
Moritz. GESCHICHTE DES ERZIEHUNGSWESENS UND DER CULTUR DER JUDEN IN FRANK=
REICH UND DEUTSCHLAND, VON DER BEGRÜNDUNG DER JÜDISCHEN WISSENSC=
HAFT IN DIESEN LÄNDERN BIS ZUR VERTREIBUNG DER JUDEN AUS FRANKREICH (=
X.-XIV. JAHRHUNDERT). Wien, 1880. Vienna: Alfred Holder, 1880. Half cloth;=
8vo. Iv, 299 pages. In German. Series: Geschichte des erziehungswesens un=
d der cultur der abendländischen Juden während des mittelalters=
und der neueren zeit. Bibliographical references. Errata. Güdemann w=
as chief rabbi of Vienna at the turn of the century, who "especially=
distinguished himself by his investigations into the history of Jewish ed=
ucation and culture. " He was opposed to Zionism's tendency to st=
ress nationalism rather than the religious character of Judaism. SUBJECT (=
S): Jews -- Education. Jews -- Intellectual life. Jews -- Social life and=
customs. Jews -- France -- History. Jews -- Germany -- History -- 1096-18=
00. Edgeworn; backstrip missing. Pages dark and brittle. Good condition. (=
GR-6-10) (ID #15925) $90.00.<br>
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238. Gulkowitsch, Lazar. DER HASIDISMUS; RELIGIONSWISSEN=
SCHAFTLICH UNTERSUCHT. Leipzig; E. Pfeiffer, 1927. FT) Paper wrappers. 8vo=
=2E 81 pages. 25 cm. First edition. In German. The dissertation in philosoph=
y of Lazar Gulkowitsch, presented under the auspices of the Publications o=
f the Research Institute for Comparative Religious History at the Universi=
ty of Leipzig, Series 2, issue 6. Lazar Gulkowitsch (1898-1941) was an emi=
nent Jewish Studies scholar, chair of the Jewish Studies department at Lei=
pzig in the 1920’s and 1930’s. “Hasidism, religious stud=
ies examined” is a historical exposition of Hasidism with an emphasi=
s on the study of mysticism, a tendency Gulkowitsch was critical of. He pu=
blished, in the last few years of his life, three longer studies on differ=
ent aspects of Hasidism, studies which scholars consider more thorough the=
n this first well known study from 1927, which have never been republished=
and are hard to obtain. Subjects: Hasidism. Chassidismus. Paper wrappers=
loose, covers lightly soiled. First signature loose, last signature shake=
n. Pages aged, but clean. Good + condition. (GER-33-18) (ID #28814) $30.00=
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239. Guttmann, Jacob. DIE SCHOLASTIK DES DREIZEHNTEN JAH=
RHUNDERTS IN IHREN BEZIEHUNGEN ZUM JUDENTHUM UND ZUR JÜDISCHEN LITERA=
TUR. Breslau; M. & H. Marcus, 1902. Paper wrappers. 8vo. VIII, 188 pag=
es. 24 cm. First edition. In German. “The Scholasticism of the Thirt=
eenth Century in its Relations to Judaism and to Jewish Literature. &rdquo=
; Rabbi Jakob Guttmann (1845 - 1919) was a German Jewish theologian, philo=
sopher of religion, Rabbi of the synagogue of Breslau at time of writing,=
contributor to the 1906 Jewish Encyclopedia, and later chairman of the &l=
dquo;Gesellschaft zur Förderung der Wissenschaft des Judentums. &rdqu=
o; This volume explores the contributions of John Duns Scotus, Roger Bacon=
, Albert Magnus, Nicolas von Cusa, Maimonides, amongst others, in their in=
dividual contributions, differences and interconnected modes of approachin=
g Jewish literature. Subjects: Scholasticism. Jewish philosophy. Scholasti=
ek. Jodendom. Joodse literatuur. Edges worn and quite soiled. Rear paper w=
rapper quite soiled, with torn portion on side and bottom. Cover paper wra=
pper soiled around edges, with small tear at top. Pages clean and fresh th=
ough, other then the edges, and a few soiled margins towards the first and=
last pages. (GER-33-15) (ID #28811) $30.00.<br>
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240. Hirsch, Menko Max, Ed. FRUCHT VOM BAUM DES LEBENS:=
OZER PEROTH EZ CHAJIM. Berlin-antwerpen, Soncino Gesellschaft Der Freunde=
Des Judischen Buches, 1937. 1st Edition. Large 4to, 10, 365 pages. Origin=
al Paper Wrappers. 4to. 10, 365 pages. In German. Published by the Soncino=
Gesellschaft der Freunde des Juedischen Buches. 1 of 1000 copies. German=
abstracts of the 953 extant responsa originally issued in the Hebrew peri=
odical "Peri Eitz Chaim" (1691-1807), the organ of Amsterdam'=
;s esteemed Ets Hayim Talmudical Academy. Insightful work on Jewish life i=
n Amsterdam of the time. Some wear and light staining to covers; internal=
pages are nice and clean. Very good condition. (SPEC29-17) (ID #27638) $2=
40.00. x<br>
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241. Holzer, Jekutiel S. GEHEIMNISSVOLLE WELT DES TALMUD=
=2E Wellington, N. Z. 1968. Later Wrappers, 8vo. 361 Pages. Illustrations. I=
n German. SUBJECT (S): Talmud -- Psychology. Proofs of actual book, never=
been bound. In good condition. (GER24-28) (ID #28757) $30.00.<br>
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242. Horovitz, Saul. (1858–1921). DIE STELLUNG DES=
ARISTOTELES BEI DEN JUDEN DES MITTELALTERS. Leipzig,, 1911. Paper Wrapper=
s. 18 pages. On title page: Schriften herausgegeben von der Gesellschaft z=
ur Förderung der Wissenschaft des Judentums. Horovitz was a “sc=
holar of talmudic literature and medieval religious philosophy. Horovitz w=
as born in Szanto, Hungary. He studied at the Warsaw yeshivah of J. B. Sol=
oveitchik; at the Breslau Jewish Theological Seminary, where he was deeply=
influenced by Israel Levy; and at Breslau and Munich universities. After=
a decade as rabbi in Bielitz, Silesia, he was appointed lecturer in 1896=
on religious philosophy and homiletics and later was also rabbinical tuto=
r at the Breslau seminary. Horovitz, who had a comprehensive knowledge of=
Jewish lore and of Latin, Greek, and Arabic, made a significant contribut=
ion to Jewish and Islamic philosophical studies in his dissertation "=
Prophetologie in der juedischen Religionsphilosophie" (1883), and Die=
Psychologie bei den juedischen Religionsphilosophen des Mittelalters &hel=
lip; (4 vols. 1898–1912), Der Mikrokosmos des Joseph ibn Saddik (190=
3), Ueber den Einfluss der griechischen Philosophie auf die Entwicklung de=
s Kalam (1909), Die Stellung des Aristoteles bei den Juden des Mittelalter=
s (1911), Abraham ibn David (1912), and Der Einfluss der griechischen Skep=
sis auf die Entwicklung der Philosophie bei den Arabern (1915). ” (H=
err, EJ, 2007) Lacks covers, spine repaired. Chips and tears to edges of p=
ages, not obscuring text. Good – condition. (RAB-43-3) (ID #24756) $=
30.00.<br>
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243. Horowitz, Chaim M. SINUYE NUSHAOT WE-GIRSAOT LE-SEF=
ER MISNEH TORAH O YAD HA-HAZAQAH (HA-RAMBA"M): DEFUS AMSTERDAM [5]46=
2 `AL PI KETAV YAD YASAN NOSAN `AD MEOD, ASER TIVO WE-`INYANO U-MEQORAW ME=
VOARIM BEHA-HAQDAMAH... =3D ABWEICHUNGEN DES GEDRUCKTEN TEXTES DER JAD HAC=
HASAKA.: (AMSTERDAMER AUSGABE 1702) VON EINER HANDSCHRIFT AUS ANFANG DES X=
IV. JAHRHUNDERTS, DIE AUS DER SAMMLUNG DES MARCHESE CARLO TRIVULZIO IN MAI=
LAND IN DEN BESITZ VON JULIUS HAMBURGER IN FRANKFURT A.M. ÜBERGEGANGE=
N IST. Frankfurt, A. M.: J. Koifmann., 1889. Paper wrappers. 8vo. 148 page=
s. In Hebrew. Facsimile edition. SUBJECT (S): Hebrew language. OCLC lists=
five copies worldwide (Library of Congress, Ohio State, Penn State, Univ=
of Texas – Austin, Univ van Amsterdam). Tape on spine, wear to cove=
rs, edges of some pages chipped. (GER-15-21) (ID #18801) $50.00.<br>
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244. Ibn Ezra, Abraham Ben Meïr; Michael Creizenach=
=2E YESOD MORA: GRUNDLAGE DER GOTTESVEREHRUNG; ODER UNTERSUCHUNGEN ÜBER=
DAS MOSASICHE GESETZ UND DIE GRUNDPRINZIPIEN DER ISRAELITISCHEN RELIGION=
VON ABRAHAM IBN EZRA; IN EINER PARAPHRASTISCHEN VERDEUTSCHUNG VON M. CREI=
ZENACH. Frankfurt A M.; J. Baer, 1840. (FT) Softbound. 16mo. 51, 142 pages=
=2E 17 cm. First German edition. In German and Hebrew. Title translates as:=
“Yesod Mora: Basis of Worship, or Studies on the laws of Mosaism an=
d the Principles of the Israelite Religion; by Abraham Ibn Ezra, edited in=
a German translation by Michael Creizenach. ” Abraham Ben Meir Ibn=
Ezra (1089–1164), “one of the most important Jewish Bible exe=
getes; also a poet, composer of piyyutim, grammarian, translator, philosop=
her, astronomer, and astrologer. Exceptionally erudite, he was among the l=
ast creative geniuses of the Spanish "golden age. " Nevertheless=
, despite the customary image of him, Ibn Ezra was neither a talmudic scho=
lar (the suggestion that he studied in the yeshivahin Lucena has been refu=
ted by Goldberg) nor a physician (his opposition in principle to medicine=
is detailed in his Long and Short commentaries to Exodus 21: 19). He also=
lacked the requisite skills for business or public office, and therefore=
was unable to make a living in the accustomed professions of his social c=
lass – as a rabbi, dayyan, physician, businessman, or courtier. For=
lack of alternative, he became a professional poet, supported by patrons=
who loved poetry and sought fame. Ibn Ezra's dependence on a successi=
on of benefactors is evident in the exaggerated praise he showered on them=
in his eulogies. The need to move from patron to patron, and his restless=
character forced Ibn Ezra to a life of wandering: besides his birthplace=
Tudela, we know that prior to 1140 he lived in Cordoba, Seville (where he=
raised his son Isaac), Christian Toledo (to which he apparently refers in=
his poem "Mi ‘Alah Shamayim" by the name "Edom, &quo=
t; a rabbinic code-word for Rome and thus for Christianity), Gabes (Tunisi=
a), Algeria, and Morocco. He did not, however, reach Egypt or the Land of=
Israel. His poetry (e. G. his poem "Gavhu She’akim") refe=
rs to the adverse effect his prolonged wandering had on his family life. &=
rdquo; (2007 Encyclopedia Judaica) “In 1158 Ibn Ezra was in London,=
where he wrote his religio-philosophic work "Yesod Mora" for hi=
s pupil Joseph b. Jacob, a tract on the division of and reasons for the Bi=
blical commandments. ” (1906 Jewish Encyclopedia) “Like Ibn Ja=
nah and Judah Halevi, Ibn Ezra fiercely rejects even cautious attempts at=
conjectural emendation of the text, and holds that the work of the Masore=
tes was flawless: "Due to them the Divine Torah and Sacred Books stoo=
d in their perfection, without additions or omissions" (Yesod Mora, c=
h. 1). Accordingly, he insists that any interpretation respects the punctu=
ational functions of the cantillation signs and the division into verses;=
rejects as a "lone view" the tannaitic tradition of the "e=
ighteen emendations of the Scribes"; and deals with differences betwe=
en qere and ketiv, alternate versions of parallel texts (such as the two v=
ersions of the Decalogue and of several Psalms), and the discrepancies bet=
ween Pseudo-Jonathan and the Masoretic text as exegetical problems rather=
than textual phenomena. ” (2007 Encyclopedia Judaica) The translato=
r and editor, Michael Creizenach, was a “German educator and theolog=
ian; born in Mayence May 16, 1789; died in Frankfort-on-the-Main Aug. 5, 1=
842. Creizenach is one of the most typical representatives of the era of t=
ransition, following the epoch of Mendelssohn, whose chief aim was the reg=
eneration of Judaism by the methods of Talmudic dialecticism, which, as th=
ey imagined, would win over the Orthodox and yet achieve the necessary pro=
gress. Creizenach was educated in the traditional way, devoting his whole=
time to Talmudic studies; and he was sixteen years old when he began to a=
cquire the elements of secular knowledge. This was during the French occup=
ation, when a liberal spirit, greeted enthusiastically by both Jews and Ch=
ristians, permeated the society of the ancient center of Catholic Germany.=
He studied mathematics with great zeal, and wrote text-books of the scien=
ce. Through his influence a Jewish school was founded in Mayence, whose pr=
incipal he was, at the same time giving private instruction. He was a very=
popular teacher, and counted many Christians among his pupils. ” (1=
906 Jewish Encyclopedia) Subjects: Judaism -- Works to 1900. Jewish philos=
ophy -- Early works to 1800. Backstrip repaired, signatures shaken. Light=
wear to covers, with some tears at outer edges. All edges bumped and ligh=
tly soiled. Pages lightly foxed around text, clean and fresh otherwise. Fa=
ir condition. (GER-38-42) (ID #29044) $175.00.<br>
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245. Jöel, M. DON CHASDAI CRESKAS' RELIGIONSPHI=
LOSOPHISCHE LEHREN IN IHREN GESCHICHTLICHEN EINFLUSSE. Breslau, Schletter,=
1866. Rebound in marbled boards. 8vo. 83 pages. First edition. In German=
and Hebrew. Creskas was a Spanish philosopher, theologian and statesman.=
His activities as a merchant and communal leader can be traced as far bac=
k as 1367. As a delegate from the Catalonian Jewish community he negotiate=
d with the king of Aragon for the renewal and extension of Jewish privileg=
es in 1383. Throughout his life he sought to protect the rights of Spanish=
Jews and worked with various governments to this end. He is seen as one o=
f Spinoza's chief influences. Jöel was a religious philosopher wh=
o researched, among other Jewish figures, Creskas (EJ). OCLC lists 26 copi=
es worldwide. Missing original covers. Very Good condition. (SPEC32-11). (=
ID #27750) $50.00.<br>
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246. Joseph Wochenmark. DIE SCHICKSALSIDEE IM JUDENTUM.=
1933. Stuttgart: Kohlhammer, 1933 Paper Wrappers, IX, 91 pages. 8vo. Seri=
es: (Veröffentl. D. Oriental. Seminars d. Univ. Tübingen; 6) Not=
e: Tübingen, phil. Diss. Institutional stamp, Very Good Condition. (G=
ER-37-53) (ID #9409) $50.00.<br>
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247. Judah, Ha-Levi. translated Into German with A Biogr=
aphical Sketch by Emil Bernhard. EIN DIWAN. Berlin, E. Reiss, 1921. Cloth,=
Spine & inside hinge repaired, lacks blank endpape (?), ex-library wi=
th minimal marks, about Good Condition; 8vo; 165 pages; 23 cm. "Quell=
ennachweis" on pages 162-165.One of 1200 machine numbered copies avai=
lable for sale, this being number 1222 (! ), over which someone has penned=
"0000" (GER-37-43) (ID #8023) $25.00.<br>
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248. Judah, Ha-Levi. translated Into German with A Biogr=
aphical Sketch by Emil Bernhard. EIN DIWAN. Berlin, E. Reiss, 1921. Cloth,=
8vo; 165 pages; 23 cm. "Quellennachweis" on pages 162-165. Very=
Good Condition. (GER-15-56dw) (ID #18714) $25.00.<br>
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249. Kayserling, Meyer, 1829-1905. SEPHARDIM. ROMANISCHE=
POESIEN DER JUDEN IN SPANIEN. EIN BEITRAG ZUR LITERATUR UND GESCHICHTE DE=
R SPANISCH-PORTUGIESISCHEN JUDEN. Leipzig, H. Mendelssohn,, 1859. Paper wr=
appers, xii, 370 pages. In German. 1st edition. Title in English: Romance-=
Language Poetry of The Jews in Spain. A Contribution to The Literature and=
History of the Spanish-Portuguese Jews. Kayserling was a German-born rabb=
i and historian, and a prolific author. From 1870 he was rabbi and preache=
r in Budapest. (JE) SUBJECT(S): Spanish literature -- Jewish authors. Port=
uguese literature -- Jewish authors. Pages uncut. Small chip to spine. Som=
e staining to edges of pages, not obscuring text. Slight edgewear to cover=
, corner of back cover creased. Good + condition. (RAB-39-4) (ID #24633) $=
150.00.<br>
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250. Kisch, Guido. FORSCHUNGEN ZUR RECHTS- UND SOZIALGES=
CHICHTE DER JUDEN IN DEUTSCHLAND WAHREND DES MITTELALTERS. Sigmaringen, Ja=
n Thorbecke Verlag, 1978. 2nd Revised Edition. 1st Printing. Cloth, 8vo, 3=
36 pages. 24 cm. Bibliography on pages 269-299. Kisch's own copy. Slig=
ht yellowing to pages. Wear to cover. Otherwise, very good condition. (K-M=
X-1-6) (ID #21394) $85.00.<br>
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251. Krauss, Samuel. TALMUDISCHE ARCHAOLOGIE. COMPLETE I=
N THREE VOLUMES. Leipzig, 1910. Leipzig: Gustav Fock, 1910-12. Half leathe=
r; 8vo. Xiii, 720, vii, 722, vii, 491 pages. Raised bands; gilt titles; sp=
attered edges. Illustrated. In German. Includes bibliographical references=
and indices. Series: Schriften / Gesellschaft zur fürderrung der wis=
senschaft des Judentums; Grundriss der gesamtswissenschaft des Judentums;=
Samuel Krauss was a historian, philologist, and talmudic scholar, author=
of over 1300 articles and monographs. "Krauss's greatest work is=
his Talmudische Archaeologie, a classic description of every aspect of li=
fe reflected in talmudic and midrashic literature. Still a rich source on=
the daily life and economic and social conditions of the period. " (=
EJ) SUBJECT(S): Jews -- Iraq -- Babylonia -- Social life and customs. Jews=
-- Palestine -- Social life and customs. Babylonia -- Social life and cus=
toms. Palestine -- Social life and customs. Talmud -- Antiquities. Corners=
and edges worn; boards scuffed. Front hinge of volume III starting. Two-i=
nch section of lower right corner of title page missing, not affecting tex=
t. Interior clean and bright, in very good condition. (GR-1-10) (ID #15974=
) $300.00.<br>
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252. Lazarus, M. DIE ETHIK DES JUDENTHUMS. [VOL I] ONLY=
=2E Frankfurt, 1898. Frankfurt: J. Kauffmann, 1898. Three quarter leather; 8=
vo. Xxv, 469 pages. First edition. Gold lettering and rules to spine. In G=
erman. Bibliographical notes and index. Lazarus was a German philosopher a=
nd psychologist; Ethik des Judentums was his major work. In it, "Laza=
rus presents Jewish ethics as an 'objective-immanent' system. This=
system is based on an empirical, positivistic approach toward Jewish stud=
ies which holds that Jewish teachings on any subject must be derived from=
an analysis of Jewish sources. In selecting this approach, Lazarus depart=
s from the 'constructive-speculative' philosophies of his 19th-cen=
tury predecessors Solomon Formstecher and Samuel Hirsch, who brought a phi=
losophic formalism to the analysis of the Jewish sources. Thus, philosophy=
, according to Lazarus, does not provide a preexistent scheme for Wissensc=
haft des Judentums ('Science of Judaism'), but is a methodological=
aid for discovering the objective unity of the "ethical cosmos, &quo=
t; as it appears throughout the Jewish literary tradition. Lazarus disting=
uishes between the subjective-formal approach to Jewish ethics, in which a=
philosophic formalism provides the starting point of investigation, and t=
he objective-content one, in which the investigation begins with the sourc=
es themselves. He takes the latter approach as his own. He does this becau=
se in biblical and rabbinic literature, will, intent, and the Jewish way o=
f life, rather than reflection and speculation, are the primary principles=
=2E (Franz Rosenzweig later based his existential philosophy on the same ide=
a. ) Lazarus accepts this position for another reason: A Jewish ethical wo=
rld view based on this conception possesses greater depth and clarity than=
one based on formal concepts and theoretical speculation. Lazarus emphasi=
zes the religious character of obligation in Jewish ethics. God is the sup=
reme, hidden principle on whom Judaism depends and who makes its whole leg=
al structure necessary. Lazarus conceives of Jewish ethics in line with th=
e autonomous ethics of Kant, holding that the absolute characteristic of J=
ewish ethics is expressed in immediate inner certainty, though he does not=
follow Kant completely. Such conceptualization was made possible by estab=
lishing an ethical norm as the highest source of the moral imperative, to=
which even God is subordinate. Lazarus was ambiguous with regard to the h=
eteronomous character of Jewish ethics, and this ambiguity was the basis o=
f attack against his system, both by those who accused him of inconsistenc=
y and by those who held that he had not done justice to the heteronomous c=
haracter of Jewish ethics. In Lazarus' conception Jewish ethics is fun=
damentally social-universal. This position countered the particularist tre=
nds of Judaism and, in particular, of 19th-century Jewish theology. Howeve=
r, the fact of a universal aspect to Jewish ethics does not entail teachin=
g and disseminating Jewish beliefs throughout the world. Rather, its exist=
ence reflects an attitude and a total way of life, based on the threefold=
conception God, the world, and mankind, that Jews should embrace. The cen=
tral concept underlying this view of Jewish life is holiness. Holiness, ac=
cording to Lazarus, is not numinous, nor transcendental, but a quality to=
be embodied in human life. It is defined as the 'ultimate goal of mor=
ality. '" (Moshe Schwarcz, EJ) SUBJECT(S): Jewish ethics. Ethics.=
Missing front cover. Wear and flaking to leather on spine. Pages slightly=
tanned. Title page chipped. Good condition. (RAB-48-15) (ID #24764) $50.0=
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253. Lippe, K. DIE AUSTREIBUNG DER JUDEN AUS SPANIEN AM=
9. AB 5252 (1. AUGUST 1492). EIN VORTRAG GEHALTEN IM TEMPEL "BETH IA=
COB" [sic] ZU JASSY AM VORABENDE DES 9. AB 5652 VOR DER RECITATION D=
ER KLAGELIEDER. Jassy, Vereine "ohle Schem", 1892. 1st Edition.=
1/2 Leather, 8vo, Small 8vo., 210 pages. Scarce. Attractive leather spine=
with gold lettering and design. Solid, tight binding. Pages tanned. Light=
wear to spine. Good + condition. (SEF-36-1) (ID #8370) $100.00.<br>
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254. Lippe, K. RABBINISCH-WISSENSCHAFTLICHE VORTRA¨G=
E. Drohobycz, Selbstverlag Des Verfassers; Druck Von A. H. Zupnik,, 1897.=
Cloth, 112 pages, 22 cm. In German. Wear and tear on cover and binding. S=
tained pages. Book not attached to cover, otherwise in good condition. (K-=
RAB-1-23) (ID #21674) $75.00.<br>
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255. Luria, Solomon Ben Jehiel. SEFER YAM SHEL SHELOMOH=
MI-MASEKHET HULIN... Furth, 1766. (FT) Hardcover, 92 leaves, large 4to, 3=
4cm. In Hebrew. SUBJECT(S): Talmud -- Commentaries. Talmud. Hullin -- Comm=
entaries. OCLC lists 4 copies worldwide (Yale, Spertus, JTS, Cambridge). E=
x-library with usual markings. Notes inside front cover. Water stain to bo=
ttom of pages throughout book. Wear and chipping to edges of front and bac=
k cover. Wear to cover binding. Stained pages. Otherwise, good condition.=
(BIB-15-13) (ID #24283) $350.00.<br>
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256. Luria, Solomon Ben Jehiel. YAM SHEL SHELOMOH: MI-MA=
SEKHET YOM TOV [BETSAH]. Fiyorda (Furth): Bi-Defus Yosef Fetshoya, German=
y, 1766. (FT) Hardcover, 76 pages (38 leaves), large 8vo, 32 cm. In Hebrew=
=2E SUBJECT(S): Talmud. Yom Tov -- Commentaries. Talmud. Bezah -- Commentari=
es. Ex-library with usual markings. Browning of some pages. Hinge repair.=
Fold to cover. Wear to edges and corners of covers. Otherwise, very good=
condition. (BIB-15-12) (ID #24282) $300.00.<br>
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257. Marcu, Valeriu. DIE VERTREIBUNG DER JUDEN AUS SPANI=
EN. Amsterdam, Querido Verlag, 1934. 1st Edition. Paper Wrappers, Lacks fr=
ont & rear cover, otherwise Good Solid Condition.; 12mo; 215 pages; In=
German. 19 cm. (GER-37-37) (ID #8433) $25.00.<br>
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258. Martin Salomonski. GEMÜSEBAU UND -GEWÄCHS=
E IN PALÄSTINA ZUR ZEIT DER MISCHNAH;. Berlin, 1911. Berlin: Itzkowsk=
i, 1911 Paper Wrappers, 71 pages. 8vo. Tübingen, Phil. Diss. V. 21. J=
uli 1911, Ref. Seybold. SUBJECT(S): Vegetables -- Palestine. Includes bibl=
iographical references and index. Institutional stamp, Very Good Condition=
(GER-37-44) (ID #9427) $50.00.<br>
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259. Max Koschland. DIE SCH’TAR ISKO-BESTIMMUNGEN=
IM JUDISCHEN BANKENGEWERBE. Zürich: Koschland & Hepner, 1956. Pa=
per Wrappers, 8vo. 10 Pages. In German. SUBJECT (S): Interest (Jewish law)=
OCLC lists 8 copies worldwide. In good condition. (GER24-5) (=
ID #25548) $40.00.<br>
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260. Meiri, Menahem Ben Solomon; Schreiber, Abraham. BET=
HA-BEHIRAH ‘AL MASEKHET SANHEDRIN. Frankfurt Am Main: Hotsa’a=
t “hermon”, 1929. (FT) Softcover, 8vo, 4, 343, viii pages, 24=
cm. In Hebrew. SUBJECT(S): Title Subject: Talmud. Sanhedrin -- Commentari=
es. Talmud. Sanhedrin -- Commentaries. Romanized. OCLC lists 21 copies wor=
ldwide. Wear to binding. Page 168 wrinkled with damp stains. Good conditio=
n. (HEB-31-3) (ID #27981) $75.00. (GER-37-54) |• Moses König. DI=
E PHILOSOPHIE DES JEHUDA HALEVI UND DES ABRAHAM IBN DAUD. 1929. Berlin: Eb=
ering, 1929 Paper Wrappers, 63 pages. 8vo. Note: Gießen, Phil. Diss.=
V. Institutional stamp, Very Good Condition. (GER-37-54) (ID #9392) $60.0=
0.<br>
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261. Qalonymos Ben Qalonymos Ben Meir [Kalonymos Ben Ka=
lonymos Ben Meir], Wolf Alois Meisel and Meyer Kayserling. DER PRUFSTEIN.=
EVEN BOHAN: SITTENSPIEGEL DES KALONYMOS BEN KALONYMOS. Budapest: Eigenthu=
m Des Rabbi Meisel-Vereines, 1878. Hardcover, 8vo, xi, 292 pages, 21 cm. I=
n German. SUBJECT (S): Satire, Hebrew. Jewish ethics -- Early works to 180=
0. “Vorwort” by Dr. M. Kayserling. Includes bibliographical re=
ferences. Kayserling (1829-1905) was a “German rabbi and historian.=
Kayserling, born in Hanover, studied with S. R. Hirsch in Nikolsburg, S.=
J. Rapoport in Prague, and S. B. Bamberger in Wuerzburg and at Halle Univ=
ersity. From 1861 to 1870 he was rabbi at Endingen, Switzerland, where he=
fought strenuously for Jewish rights; thereafter he was rabbi and preache=
r in Budapest. Kayserling published a large number of works on various asp=
ects of Jewish history, literature, and religion, mostly in German, which=
were very popular in their day, including Moses Mendelssohn: sein Leben u=
nd seine Werke; Bibliothek juedischer Kanzelredner; Die juedischen Frauen=
in der Geschichte …; and a popular Jewish history, Lehrbuch der ju=
edischen Geschichte und Lite ratur; which ultimately went through ten edit=
ions. He also contributed the section on modern Jewish literature to Winte=
r and Wuensche’s handbook on post-biblical Jewish literature, Juedis=
che Literatur seit dem Abschluss des Kanons …But Kayserling’s=
reputation rests on his long series of pioneering publications on the his=
tory of Spanish Jewry and the Marranos, based to a great degree on origina=
l and, in some cases manuscript, sources. His Geschichte der Juden in Span=
ien und Portugal, which in fact covered mainly Navarre and the Balearic Is=
lands and Portugal, was the first work in which Hebrew sources were consis=
tently used. His works on Marrano history and literature put the study on=
a new footing and were the basis of all subsequent treatments. They inclu=
de Sephardim: Romanische Poesien der Juden in Spanien; Menasseh ben Israel=
; Christoph Columbus und der Anteil der Juden an den spanischen und portug=
iesischen Entdeckungen, written at the request of the Spanish government o=
n the occasion of the 400th anniversary of the discovery of America; and h=
is great bibliography of Marrano literature Bibliotheca espanola-portuguez=
a-judaica. In addition, the articles he contributed to the Jewish Encyclop=
edia on these subjects have retained their importance. Many of his works w=
ere translated into English and some into Hebrew. More than 100 of his art=
icles on Jewish history and literature published before 1900 are listed in=
M. Schwab’s Repertoire des articles relatifs a l’histoire et=
a la litterature juives…(Roth in EJ, 2007). OCLC lists 21 copies w=
orldwide. Light staining and wear to some pages. Hinge repair. Light chipp=
ing to cover binding and edges. Otherwise, good condition. (HEB-15A-3) (ID=
#26022) $125.00.<br>
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262. Rapaport, Mordche W. DER TALMUD UND SEIN RECHT. Ber=
lin, Verlag Von Louis Lamm, 1912. Paper Wrappers, 8vo; 148 + 69 pages; 2nd=
printing of this offprint from the Zeitschrift fur vergleichende Rechstwi=
ssenschaft, Vol. XIV, XV, & XVI. Spine repair, good condition. (K-MX2-=
45) (ID #2653) $30.00.<br>
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263. Rosenthal, Ludwig A. ÜBER DEN ZUSAMMENHANG, DI=
E QUELLEN UND DIE ENTSTEHUNG DER MISCHNA. Berlin: G. Wechselmann. 1918. Cl=
oth. 8vo. 164, 84, 132 pages. In German. SUBJECT (S): Mishnah. OCLC lists=
17 copies worldwide. SERIES: Schriften zur beleuchtung der lehrwise und e=
ntwicklung des Talmuds. “Rosenthal [1855-1928], who was born in Put=
zig, Western Prussia, served as rabbi in Koethen, Rogasen, Preussisch Star=
gard, and Berlin, where he also lectured in the preparatory department of=
the Hochschule (Lehranstalt) fuer die Wissenschaft des Judentums. Of impo=
rtance are his Mishnah studies, in particular his Ueber den Zusammenhang,=
Quellen und Entstehung der Mischna (3 vols. 19182). Rosenthal took an act=
ive part in the controversy over Friedrich F. Delitzsch's views (Babel=
und Bible, 1902; Hammurabi Gesetz, 1903), and wrote a comparative study o=
n Joel, Nahum, and Habakkuk (1905). He acted as editor of Rahmer's Jue=
disches Literaturblatt, and edited the 10th edition of Kayserling's Le=
hrbuch der juedischen Geschichte und Literatur (1922). He also wrote a bio=
graphy of Lazarus Geiger (1884). His other articles were published in Gesa=
mmelte Schriften (1926). ” (EJ, 2007) Ex library. Some pages tanned,=
covers a little worn, hinges starting, good- condition. (BIBLE-9-16) (ID=
#21152) $40.00.<br>
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264. Rubin, Simon. DAS TALMUDISCHE RECHT, AUF DEN VERSCH=
IEDENEN STUFEN SEINER ENTWICKLUNG MIT DEM RÖMISCHEN VERGLICHEN UND SY=
STEMATISCH DARGESTELLT. SACHENRECHT. Vienna, Steinmann, 1938. Original Pap=
er Wrappers. 8vo. 253 pages. In German. Very late (1938) Austrian Jewish p=
ublication. SUBJECT(S): Jewish law -- History. Roman law. Comparative law.=
OCLC lists 22 copies worldwide. Cover worn with chipping to corners and e=
dges of backstrip. Previous owner's name on title page. Internal pages=
browning at edges, but all text is clear. Last 50 pages slightly chipping=
at corners. Overall, good condition. (HOLO2-66-6) (ID #27053) $40.00.<br>
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265. Schipper, Ignacy. ANFÄNGE DES KAPITALISMUS BEI=
DEN ABENDLÄNDISCHEN JUDEN IM FRÜHEREN MITTELALTER (BIS ZUM AUSG=
ANG DES XII. JAHRHUNDERTS). Wien Und Leipzig; Wilhelm Braumüller, 190=
7. Paper wrappers. 4to. 66 pages. 26 cm. First edition. In German. “=
Origins of capitalism among the occidental Jews in the early Middle Ages (=
up to the end of the twelfth century) ”, a study of various theories=
on the source and disposition of Jewish Capital in medieval Western Europ=
e, by Dr. (Yitzhak) Ignacy Schipper (1884-1943), a well known Polish-Jewis=
h historian, scholar, and communal activist in pre-war Poland. Subjects: J=
ews -- Economic conditions -- History. Capitalism. Joden. Vroege middeleeu=
wen. Covers heavily worn with some tears at edges, and heavy soiling. Page=
s bumped at edges, lightly soiled in bottom margins, but clean. Good condi=
tion. (GER-33-26) (ID #28822) $125.00.<br>
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266. Schwarz, Adolf. DER HERMENEUTISCHE KONTEXT IN DER T=
ALMUDISCHEN LITERATUR: EINE VERSPHATETE JUBILÄUMSSCHRIFT. Wien; Selbs=
tverlage Des Verfassers, 1921. Clothbound. 8vo. 208 pages. 24 cm. First ed=
ition. In German, with Hebrew. Later red cloth. Title translates as: &ldqu=
o;The Hermeneutic Context in Talmudic Literature. ” Adolf Schwarz (1=
846–1931), a rabbi and scholar, born “in Hungary, Schwarz stud=
ied at the Breslau Juedisch-theologisches Seminar, where he was Z. Frankel=
's favorite pupil and intimate friend. From 1875 he was rabbi in Karls=
ruhe, a post he accepted at Frankel's behest in spite of his misgiving=
s about the use of the organ in the Karlsruhe synagogue. In 1893 he became=
head of the newly founded Israelitisch-theologische Lehranstalt in Vienna=
, where he trained several generations of modern rabbis and teachers as le=
aders of traditional Judaism. … His scholarly work was a conscious=
effort to continue in the paths of his teacher Frankel and was devoted ma=
inly to the understanding of the Talmud and its methodology. … His=
principal contribution to talmudic scholarship was his Controversen der S=
chammaiten und Hilleliten (1893) which was followed by six monographs on t=
he hermeneutic rules: Die hermeneutische Analogie in der talmudischen Lite=
ratur (1897), Der hermeneutische Syllogismus in der talmudischen Literatur=
(1901), Die hermeneutische Induktion (1909), Die hermeneutische Antinomie=
in der talmudischen Literatur (1913), Quantitaetsrelation (1916), and Der=
hermeneutische Kontext (1921). A summary of these appeared in 1923 (Haupt=
ergebnisse der wissenschaftlich-hermeneutischen Forschung, 1923). ”=
(From the 2007 Encyclopedia Judaica) Subjects: Talmud - Hermeneutics. OCL=
C lists 18 copies worldwide. Edges significantly soiled. Page margins ligh=
tly aged, pages throughout clean and crisp. Very good condition. (GER-36-2=
8) (ID #28879) $165.00.<br>
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267. Schwarz, Samuel. YEMOT HA-MASHIAH =3D DIE MESSIAS Z=
EIT: ERLA¨UTERUNGEN DER TALMUDSTELLEN, DIE BEZUG AUF ISRAELS ZUKUNFT H=
ABEN, MIT RU¨CKSICHT AUF UNSERE ZEIT. Wien; Adalbert Della Torre, 1860=
=2E FT) Paper wrappers. 12mo. 82 pages. 19 cm. Second Edition. In German wit=
h some Hebrew. Title translates as: “Messianic Time: Explanations of=
the Talmudic parts, which have relations to Israels Future, in Considerat=
ion to our Contemporary Time. ” This is the second edition of this w=
ork on the Messianic era in Judaism, with references from the Talmud. The=
title concludes with the "rhetorical" question – is it ou=
t of consideration in our time? The text is in German with occasional para=
graph-sized selections in Hebrew (or Aramaic). Subjects: Messiah -- Prophe=
cies. Messiah -- Judaism. Messianic era (Judaism) Israel. Talmud -- Critic=
ism, interpretation, etc. OCLC lists 13 copies worldwide. Covers worn, soi=
led, with tears and bumped edges. Loose fifth signature. Light foxing thro=
ughout, but clean and crisp. Good + condition. (GER-36-29) (ID #28880) $12=
0.00.<br>
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268. Stein, Ludwig. DIE WILLENSFREIHEIT UND IHR VERH&Aum=
l;LTNISS ZUR GÖTTLICHEN PRÄSCIENZ UND PROVIDENZ: BEI DEN JÜ=
DISCHEN PHILOSOPHEN DES MITTELALTERS. Berlin; H. Itzkowski, 1882. FT) Clot=
hbound. 8vo. VI, 142 pages. 22 cm. First edition. In German, with some foo=
tnotes containing Hebrew, Greek, and Arabic. Later cloth bound over origin=
al paper wrappers. “Free Will and Divine Foreknowledge and its relat=
ion to Providence: among the Jewish Philosophers of the Middle Ages. &rdqu=
o; Ludwig Stein, 1859-1930, born in Hungary and lived his adult life in Ge=
rmany, had a distinguished career as an orthodox Rabbi in Berlin, professo=
r, publicist, and philosopher of evolutionary optimism. Subjects: Jewish p=
hilosophy. Philosophy, Medieval. Free will and determinism. Covers lightly=
soiled. Paper wrappers and first pages lighly debossed with an previous i=
nkless stamp, former owners name on cover. Pages aged on edges, clean and=
fresh. For its age, near fine condition. (GER-33-12) (ID #28808) $100.00.=
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269. Strack, Hermann L. EINLEITUNG IN DEN THALMUD. ZWEIT=
E, NEUBEARBEITETE AUFLAGE. Leipzig, 1894. Leipzig: J. C. Hinrich, 1894. Re=
bound in modern paper wrappers, 8vo. Viii, 136 pages. In German. Includes=
bibliographical annotations. Series: Schriften des Instutum judaicum in B=
erlin, Number. 2. Strack was a German Protestant theologian and Orientalis=
t; assistant professor of Old Testament exegesis and Semitic languages at=
the University of Berlin; and "the foremost Christian authority in G=
ermany on Talmudic and rabbinic literature, [who] studied rabbinics under=
Steinschneider. Since the reappearance of anti-Semitism in Germany Strack=
has been the champion of the Jews..."Einleitung in den Talmud"=
[is] a revised reprint of his article on the subject in Herzog-Hauck'=
;s "Real-Encyklopädie, " to which he made a whole series of=
contributions on rabbinic subjects. " (JE) SUBJECT(S): Talmud. Missi=
ng original covers, small stain to corner of title page. Very good conditi=
on. (GR-6-17) (ID #24686) $50.00.<br>
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270. Tykocinski, H. DIE GAONÄISCHEN VERORDNUNGEN [=
Proofs?]. Berlin, 1928. Berlin: Akademie, 1928 [Not 1929]. Unbound; 8vo.=
Vii, 159 pages. In German. List of abbreviations and errata following tab=
le of contents. Veroffentlichungen der Akademie fur die Wissenschaft des J=
udentums. Historische Sektion; Bd. 5. Scholarly source study of the geonic=
{Takkanot}. This unbound edition is dated 1928 and ends at page 159, whic=
h is the same as page 159 in the standard 1st edition of 1929. It is possi=
ble, however, that 159 was the final page of the proofs, as a previous own=
er's tape-binding showed this to be the final page. SUBJECT (S): Jewis=
h law. Geonic literature. Tape stain to edge of first and last pages, Good=
Condition. (GER-15-59DW) (ID #18719) $50.00.<br>
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271. Tykocinski, H. DIE GAONÄISCHEN VERORDNUNGEN. B=
erlin, 1929. Berlin: Akademie, 1929. Cloth; 8vo. Vii, 186 pages. In German=
=2E First edition. With the scarce publisher's card, announcing the publ=
icatin of this work as a memorial to the 2nd Jahrzeit of Eli Michael, laid=
in. Gilt titles. List of abbreviations and errata following table of cont=
ents. Veroffentlichungen der Akademie fur die Wissenschaft des Judentums.=
Historische Sektion; Bd. 5. Scholarly source study of the geonic {Takkano=
t}. SUBJECT (S): Jewish law. Geonic literature. Wear to spine, Good Condit=
ion. (GER-15-59dw) (ID #18718) $50.00.<br>
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272. Vogelstein, Hermann. DIE ANFÄNGE DES TALMUDS U=
ND DIE ENTSTEHUNG DES CHRISTENTUMS: VORTRAG GEHALTEN IM VEREIN FÜR J&=
Uuml;DISCHE GESCHICHTE UND LITERATUR ZU KÖNIGSBERG AM 19. FEBRUAR 190=
2. Königsberg; Ostdeutsche Buchhandlung, 1902. Paper Wrappers. 8vo. 2=
8 pages. 21 cm. First edition. In German. Title translates as: “The=
beginnings of the Talmud and the rise of Christianity: Paper presented at=
Association for Jewish history and literature at Königsberg on 19 Fe=
bruary 1902.” Published under the auspices of the “Verein f&uu=
ml;r jüdische Geschichte und Literatur zu Königsberg” (Ass=
ociation for Jewish History and Literature at Konigsberg). Hermann Vogelst=
ein (1870-1942) was a German Rabbi and Historian, whom occupied rabbinical=
posts at Oppeln (Opole), Koenigsberg, and Breslau. In 1938 he emigrated t=
o the United States. He is well known for the two volume History of the Je=
ws of Rome he co-wrote with Paul Rieger. Subjects: Judaism - Relations - C=
hristianity. Christianity and other religions - Judaism. Christianity in r=
abbinical literature. Talmud. OCLC lists 20 copies worldwide. Wrappers sha=
ken, torn, crumbled, bumped and soiled. Pages lightly aged, but clean and=
fresh. Fair condition. (GER-38-11) (ID #28920) $30.00.<br>
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273. Wiener, Adolf. DIE JÜDISCHEN SPEISEGESETZE: NA=
CH IHREN VESCHIEDENEN GESICHTSPUNKTEN ZUM ERSTEN MALE WISSENSCHAFTLICH-MET=
HODISCH GEORDNET UND KRITISCH BELEUCHTET. Breslau; Schlesische Buchdrucker=
ei, 1895. Full Leather. 8vo. XIV, 524 pages. 22 cm. First edition. In Germ=
an and Hebrew. Added title page in Latin: “De ciborum e legibus divi=
nis (biblicis) atque rabbinicis vetitorum indole et sententia: zum ersten=
Male wissenschaftlich-methodisch geordnet und kritisch beleuchtet”=
Title roughly translates as: “The Jewish Dietary Laws: according to=
their different points of view for the first time scientifically and meth=
odically arranged. ” Adolf Wiener was a “German rabbi; born in=
Murowana-Goslin, Posen, 1811; died in Oppeln, Prussian Silesia, Aug. 25,=
1895. Having acquired his diploma as Ph. D. he went as rabbi to Posen, wh=
ere he introduced a modern synagogal service with German sermons. He met,=
however, strong opposition, headed by Solomon Eger; and the services coul=
d take place only under police protection. In 1845 Wiener was called as ra=
bbi to Oppeln, where he officiated until his death. He was one of the most=
progressive rabbis of his time; and at the synods of Cassel (1844), Leips=
ic (1869), and Augsburg (1870) he advocated the following reforms in Judai=
sm: revision of the prayer-book; employment of the organ in divine service=
; permission to travel on Sabbaths; and the abolition of all second days o=
f festivals. His chief ambition, however, was to release the Jews from wha=
t he called the authority of the Talmud. Wiener was the author of the foll=
owing works: "Die Opfer- und Akeda-Gebete. Ein Beitrag zur Orientieru=
ng in der Cultusfrage" (Breslau, 1869); "Worte Gesprochen an der=
Bahre der Seligen Frau Rosalie Verwitwete Cohn" (Oppeln, 1871); and=
"Die Jüdischen Speisegesetze" (Breslau, 1895), a very radi=
cal criticism of the dietary laws. ” (From the 1906 Encyclopedia Jud=
aica). Subjects: Jews - Dietary laws. Halacha. OCLC lists 20 copies worldw=
ide. Previous owner of this copy was Stanley Dreyfus. Some wear to edges o=
f leather, lightly bumped corners. Pages aged, but very crisp and clean. V=
ery good + condition. (GER-36-8) (ID #28858) $150.00.<br>
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274. Wiesner, J. (Jonas). DER BANN IN SEINER GESCHICHTLI=
CHEN ENTWICKELUNG AUF DEM BODEN DES JUDENTHUMES. Leipzig; Oskar Leiner, 18=
64. FT) Clothbound. 12mo.106 pages. 19 cm. First edition. In German. Later=
half leather over marbled boards. “The ban in its historic developm=
ents on the grounds of Judaism”, a study on excommunication in Talmu=
dic law published under the auspices of the Institute for the Advancement=
of Israelite literature [Institut zur Förderung der Israelitischen=
Literatur], in its ninth year, by Jonas Wiesner. Subjects: Excommunicatio=
n (Jewish law) Jüdisches Recht. Jüdische Erziehung. OCLC lists 8=
copies worldwide. Wear to edges, with some leather on backstrip rubbed. E=
ndpapers extremely soiled, edges soiled, light aging to internal pages, ve=
ry light soiling and wear to first few pages. Text crisp and clean. Good+=
condition. (GER-33-7) (ID #28803) $75.00.<br>
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275. Wiesner, J. (Jonas); Institut Zur Förderung De=
r Israelitischen Literatur. SCHOLIEN ZUM BABYLONISCHEN TALMUD. COMPLETE IN=
3 VOLUMES. Prag: S. Freund,, 1867. 1859-1867 Three quarter leather, large=
8vo. 3 vols. In 1; 22 cm. In German. First Edition. Contents: Heft 1. Ber=
achoth (1859, 159 p. ). Heft 2. Sabbath. (1862, 277 p. ) Heft 3. Erubin un=
d Pesachim. (1867, 176 p. ) SUBJECT(S): Talmud -- Commentaries. Note(s): H=
eft 2. Has title: Scholien zum babylonischen Talmud, verfasst und mit Unte=
rstützung des verehrlichen Instituts zur Förderung isr. Literatu=
r. BOUND WITH: Duschak, Moritz; DIE BIBLISCH-TALMUDISCHE GLAUBENSLEHRE NEB=
ST EINER DAZU GEHÖRIGEN BEILAGE ÜBER STAAT UND KIRCHE Breslau: W=
=2E Jacobsohn, 1885, 256 p.; Duschak, Moritz; DIE MORAL DER EVANGELIEN UND D=
ES TALMUD: EINE VERGLEICHENDE STUDIE IM GEISTE UNSERER ZEIT. Breslau: W. J=
acobsohn, 1885, 58 p.; Rabbinovicz, Raphael Nathan Nata; MAAMAR AL HADPASA=
T HA-TALMUD. Minkhen (Munchen): A. Huver, 1877. 132 p. Strack, Hermann Leb=
erecht; PIRKE AVOT. DIE SPRUCHE DER VATER: EIN ETHISCHER MISCHNA-TRAKTAT.=
Karlsruhe: H. Reuther, 1882, 58 p. Some wear to spine leather. Handwritte=
n list of contents on flyleaf. Ownership signature. Very good condition. (=
RAB-45-3) (ID #24691) $100.00.<br>
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276. Wohlgemuth, Joseph. DAS JUDISCHE RELIGIONSGESETZ IN=
JUDISCHER BELEUCHTUNG. HEFT 2 ONLY. Berlin, Buckdruckerei H. Itzkowski, 1=
912. Cloth, Later boards. 8vo, 116 pages. In German. "Wissenschaftlic=
he Beilage zum Jahresbericht des Rabbiner-Semin ars zu Berlin fuer 1918/19=
=2E" Heft 2 taken from the 1912 edition. Expertly rebound. Pages browne=
d but not fragile; all text is clear. Good Condition. (SPEC23-8) (ID #4343=
) $65.00.<br>
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277. Wolf, B. Die Speisegesetze. Koeln, 1913. Cloth, 8vo=
=2E 160 Pages. In German. Text in German with some Hebrew. Contents: Einleit=
ung. 1) Allgemeine Vorschriften über den Fleischgenuß 2. Das Sa=
lzen 3. Das Besehen der Pflanzenkost 4. Tierische Erzeugnisse 5. Allgemein=
e Bestimmungen, Trennung der Mahlzeiten, Berührung von Milch und Flei=
sch in kaltem Zustande, Berührung von scharfen Fleisch- und Milchspei=
sen, Mittelbare Berührung von Milch und Fleisch bei frischen und abge=
standenen Speisen, Verwendbarkeit der Geschirre in denen vermischt wurde 6=
=2E Vermischung sonstiger verbotener Speisen mit erlaubten. Allgemeine Grund=
sätze, Besondere Bestimmungen 7. 8. Cenußverbote aus dem Pflanz=
enbereich 9. Vorbeugestimmungen der Weisen. Anhang. Wolf was a rabbi in Co=
logne. SUBJECT(S): Jews -- Dietary laws. In good condition. (GER24-25) (ID=
#28754) $30.00.<br>
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278. Yehezkel, 1667?-1749. SH. U-T. KENESET YEHEZKEL. Al=
tona: [Aaron B. Elijah Cohen & Ephraim B. Hayyim Hekscher], 1732. (FT=
) Hardcover, folio, 260 pages, 31 cm. In Hebrew. 1st edition. SUBJECT(S):=
Responsa -- 1600-1800. Hebrew imprints -- Germany -- Altona. Title within=
ornamental border. Verso of title-page includes a diagram and a poem. OCL=
C lists 14 copies worldwide. Back cover missing. Wear to binding. Repair t=
o spine. Bumped corners and edges. Yellowing of pages. (Heb-37-7) (ID #276=
29) $750.00. (GER-33-19)|• Bergel, Joseph. Studien ÜBER DIE NATU=
RWISSENSCHAFTLICHEN KENNTNISSE DER TALMUDISTEN. Leipzig; W. Friedrich, 188=
0. Paper wrappers. 8vo. IV, 102 pages. 23 cm. First edition. In German, wi=
th some Hebrew. “Studies on the knowledge of the natural sciences of=
the Talmud. ” Section titles of this volume: Anatomy, Physiology, P=
athology, Zoology, Chemistry, Geology, Physics, Astronomy. Joseph Bergel,=
a “Hungarian physician and author; born Sept. 2, 1802, at Prossnitz=
, died 1885 at Kaposvar. He was well versed in rabbinical and modern Hebre=
w literature, and attempted to introduce a new meter into Hebrew poetry in=
a work he published under the title "Pirke Leshon 'Eber" (H=
ebrew songs), Gross-Kanizsa, 1873. In the German language he wrote: "=
Studien über die Naturwissenschaftlichen Kenntnisse der Talmudisten,=
" Leipsic, 1880; "Die Eheverhältnisse der Alten Juden im V=
ergleich mit den Griechischen und Römischen, " ib. 1881; "D=
er Himmel und Seine Wunder, eine Archäologische Studie nach Alten J&u=
uml;dischen Mythografien, " which was also published in Leipsic in th=
e same year under the title "Mythologie der Alten Hebräer, "=
; 1882. His most important work is "Die Medizin der Talmudisten"=
(Leipsic and Berlin, 1885), with an appendix on anthropology as it is fou=
nd in ancient Hebrew writings. These works are not very profound, but they=
bring together a certain amount of useful information. Bergel also wrote=
"Geschichte der Juden in Ungarn, " published in 1879 in Hungari=
an and German. ” (Jewish Encyclopedia 1906) Subjects: Talmud. Paper=
wrappers soiled, with edges chipped. Light pencil marks on cover and titl=
e page, with stamp of Wilhelm Friedrich bookseller Leipzig on cover. Pages=
clean, edges chipped and worn. Good condition overall. (GER-33-19) (ID #2=
8815) $60.00.<br>
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279. Maimonides, Moses; Joseph Zivi. DER COMMENTAR DES M=
AIMONIDES ZUM TRACTAT DEMAI: ARABISCHER TEXT MIT HEBRÄISCHER UEBERSET=
ZUNG UND ANMERKUNGEN. MASEKHET DEMAI SERAH HA-RAV MOSHEH BEN-MAIMON =3D MA=
SEKHET DEMAI 'IM PERUSH HA-RAV MOSHEH BEN MAIMON: YOSE RI'SHONAH L=
A'OR BI-LESHON 'ARAVI. Berlin, 1891. Berlin: s. N, 1891. Half Clot=
h. 8vo. 27, 43 pages. In German and Hebrew. Maimonides was a 12th century=
rabbinic authority, codifier, philosopher andd royal physician. During hi=
s life he lived in North Africa and Spain, where he was an important leade=
r in various Jewish communities (EJ). OCLC lists 1 copies worldwide (JTS).=
Lacks original covers, rebound in attractive modern wrappers. Some chippi=
ng to pages. Good condition (RAB-41-8). (ID #17269) $75.00.<br>
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280. Bamberger, Fritz. DAS SYSTEM DES MAIMONIDES: EINE A=
NALYSE DES MORE NEWUCHIM VOM GOTTESBEGRIFF AUS. Berlin: Schocken. 1935. Ha=
rdcover. 8vo. 137 pages. In German. SUBJECT (S): Maimonides, Moses, 1135-1=
204 – Dalalat al-hairin. “Born in Frankfurt, Bamberger [1902-=
1984] from 1926 to 1933 was a research fellow of the Akademie fuer die Wis=
senschaft des Judentums and until 1938 occupied various teaching posts in=
Berlin. Emigrating from Germany to the United States, he became professor=
of philosophy at the College for Jewish Studies, Chicago, from 1939 to 19=
42, and was on the staff and later editor in chief of Coronet magazine fro=
m 1942 to 1961. He was a founder of the Society of Jewish Bibliophiles. Fr=
om 1962 Bamberger was professor of intellectual history and assistant to t=
he president of the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion in N=
ew York. His collection of Spinoziana was considered to be the finest priv=
ate collection of its kind. ” (EJ, 2007) Top half inch of backstrip=
missing, boards rubbed, good condition. (GER-39-15) (ID #28938) $30.00.<b=
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281. (Maimonides Festschrift) Frankel, Zacharias; Heinem=
ann, Isaak. MONATSSCHRIFT FÜR GESCHICHTE UND WISSENSCHAFT DES JUDENTU=
MS: MAIMONIDES - FESTSCHRIFT (VOLUME 79, NR. 2 MARCH/APRIL 1935). Breslau,=
1935. 1st Edition. Cloth, 8vo, 208 pages. In German. From Shalom Spiegel&=
#39;s library, with bookplate. Special issue: Maimonides - Festschrift, in=
cludes writing by I. Elbogen, Heinz Wolff, Isaak Heinemann, Michael Guttma=
nn, Nachum Wahrmann and others. Founded by Zacharias Frankel in 1851, The=
Monatschrift over the years was headed by editors which included Heinrich=
Graetz, Pinkus Frankl, Markus Brann, David Kaufmann, Isaak Heinemann, &am=
p; Leo Baeck. Though founded by Frankel as a "Periodical for the reli=
gious interest of Judaism, " it soon became the most important forum=
for the history and science of Judaism. Probably because of its strictly=
scientific appraoch it was able to survivein the Nazi period until the en=
d of 1939. The final monumental volume, editoed by Baeck in cooperation wi=
th Jewish scholars in Germany and abroad, appeared as a complet volume in=
October of 1939 and reached only a few subscribers (Burgers, n. D. ) Bind=
ing solid, original paper wrappers tanned but intact. Text in Very good +=
condition. (RAB-45-24) Ex-library with usual marks in later cloth. Defect=
s as noted. (ID #24769) $50.00.<br>
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282. Joël, M. (Manuel). DIE RELIGIONSPHILOSOPHIE DE=
S MOSE BEN MAIMON (MAIMONIDES) / VERHÄLTNISS ALBERT DES GROSSEN ZU MO=
SES MAIMONIDES: EIN BEITRAG ZUR GESCHICHTE DER MITTELALTERLICHEN PHILOSOPH=
IE. Breslau; Wilh. Gottl. Korn; Schletter'schen Buchhandlung, 1863. Cl=
othbound. 4to. 50, 5, [1], XXVII pages. 27 cm. First edition. In German.=
Two volumes bound together in one. Title of the first volume translates a=
s: “The religious philosophy of Moses ben Maimon (Maimonides). &rdqu=
o; The second title translates as: “Relation of Albert the Great to=
Moses Maimonides: A contribution to the history of medieval philosophy. &=
rdquo; Manuel Joel, a German rabbi (1826-1890), “son of Rabbi Heiman=
n Joël of Birnbaum. In 1849 he went to the University of Berlin to st=
udy classical philology and philosophy. In 1852 Joël passed his exami=
nation as "Oberlehrer, " and took the Ph. D. Degree at Halle in=
1854. In that year he accepted a call to the Jewish Theological Seminary=
of Breslau, where he taught for nine years. In 1864 he was appointed succ=
essor to Abraham Geiger, rabbi of the Breslau congregation. … Jo&eu=
ml;l turned his attention to Maimonides, devoting two papers to him, one b=
eing a comprehensive account of Maimonides' system ("Die Religion=
sphilosophie des Moses ben Maimon, " in the Breslau Jew. Theol. Semin=
ary Program of 1859; reprinted in "Beiträge, " i. ), the ot=
her proving him to be one of the sources of Albertus Magnus ("Verh&au=
ml;ltniss Albert des Grossen zu Maimonides, " in the Breslau Jew. The=
ol. Seminary Program of 1863; reprinted in his "Beiträge, "=
i. ). ” (From the 1906 Jewish Encyclopedia) Subjects: Religion -- P=
hilosophy. Philosophy, Jewish -- Medieval. Maimonides, Moses, 1135-1204. A=
lbertus, Magnus, Saint, 1193? -1280. Maimonides, Moses, 1135-1204. Former=
copy of Abram Samuel Isaacs, a later nineteenth century American Rabbi an=
d professor of Hebrew and German Literature. Covers worn at edges, lightly=
soiled. Endpages chipped at edges. Original wrappers worn and soiled. Pag=
es lightly aged and lightly soiled throughout, with some creases in first=
signature, but overall in excellent condition and quite clean. Very good=
condition. (GER-36-32) (ID #28883) $250.00.<br>
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283. Meiri, Menahem Ben Solomon; Chanoch Albeck. SEFER B=
ET HA-BEHIRAH `AL MASEKHET YEVAMOT. Berlin: Ts. H. Itskovski. 1922. Cloth.=
(FT) 4to. Viii, 465 pages. In Hebrew. SUBJECT(S): Talmud. Yevamot - comme=
ntaries. OCLC lists 6 copies worldwide. A member of the anti-Maimonides fa=
ction, Meiri (1249-1316) was born and lived in Perpignan, Provence, and wa=
s a member of an important family. He corresponded with Solomon ben Abraha=
m Adret, though Meiri did not completely support restriction of thought an=
d inquiry, as his acquaintance did; he himself had a great interest in sec=
ular studies. Meiri was influential due to an "extraordinary literary=
fecundity" and his ability to synthesize the work of others into a u=
nified Jewish culture. Due to the length of his writings, many works were=
not published until even the 20th century. Bet ha-behirah took him more t=
han a decade to write, and is an incredibly dense study of the Talmud. He=
also, among other things, commentaries on Proverbs and Psalms, a commenta=
ry on the Haggadah, and Sefer ha-Middot, a guide to conduct. (Ta-Shma, EJ)=
Some pages tanned, bumped corners, bookplate, front hinge repaired, good=
condition. (RAB-20-19) (ID #21778) $30.00.<br>
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284. Lerner, Ralph. MAIMONIDES' VORBILDER MENSCHLICH=
ER VOLLKOMMENHEIT: VORTRAG GEHALTEN IN DER CARL FRIEDRICH VON SIEMENS STIF=
TUNG AM 6. MAI 1993. München, Carl Friedrich Von Siemens Stiftung, 19=
93. 1st Edition. Paperback, Very Good Condition.; 12mo; 48 pages; In Germa=
n. Themen, 63. (GER-37-38) (ID #8287) $25.00.<br>
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285. Moses Maimonides; Gotthold Weil. ÜBER DIE LEBE=
NSDAUER. Basel, Karger, 1953. Staples, 8vo. 59 pages. In very good conditi=
on. (MX17-11) (ID #21491) $40.00.<br>
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286. Moses Maimonides; Gotthold Weil. ÜBER DIE LEBE=
NSDAUER: EIN UNEDIERTES RESPONSUM. Basel, Karger, 1953. Paper Wrappers, Or=
iginal Paper Wrappers. 8vo. 59 pages. Title translates to English as, &quo=
t;About Life: An Unedited Response." In German with some Hebrew. In v=
ery good condition. (MX17-11A) (ID #27746) $40.00.<br>
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287. Bacher, Wilhelm. Die Agada Der Gelehrten: Beitrag Z=
ur Geschichte Der Anonymen Agada. Budapest, [Adolf Alkalay], 1914. Later=
Paper Wrappers, 8vo. 104 pages. 22 cm. In German. Title translates to Eng=
lish as, “The Legends of the Scholars: Essay on the History of Anony=
mous Legends. ” Includes bibliographical references. Text clear and=
bright. Good condition. (GER-32-6) (ID #28776) $45.00.<br>
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288. Bergmann, Juda. DIE LEGENDEN DER JUDEN. Berlin, A.=
Schwetschke & Sohn, 1919. 1st Edition. Cloth, Edgewear to boards, lac=
ks much of spine, internally Very Good+ Condition; 8vo; 166 pages; 24 cm.=
Contents include: Das Wesen und Werden der Legende; Die Lieblinge Gottes;=
Die Wundertater; Engel und Damonen; Der Fromme und die Tiere; Von den Tot=
en; Der Prophet Elia; Die Himmelsstimm e; etc. Also includes endnotes and=
an index. (GER-37-69) (ID #6292) $35.00.<br>
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289. Bernhard Kuttner. JÜDISCHE SAGEN UND LEGENDEN=
FÜR JUNG UND ALT. Frankfurt Am Main, J. Kauffmann, 1902. Cloth, 8vo.=
72 Pages. In German. SUBJECT (S): Legends, Jewish. OCLC lists 12 co=
pies worldwide. Front cover board detached. In fair condition. (GER24-8) (=
ID #25551) $30.00.<br>
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290. Eliasberg, Alexander. SAGEN POLNISCHER JUDEN. M&uum=
l;nchen; G. Müller, 1916. Hardbound. 8vo. 220 pages. 19 cm. First edi=
tion. In German. Title translates as: “Tales of the Polish Jews&rdqu=
o;. Alexander Eliasberg (1878-1924) was a Russian-Jewish translator, histo=
rian, editor, and writer, who contributed greatly, since his emigration to=
Munich in 1905, to the reception and publishing of Russian and Yiddish wr=
iters. He was the translator into German of various canonical Russian nove=
lists of the 19th century, including Dostoyevsky, Gogol, Pushkin, Tolstoy,=
and Chekhov. This volume deals with the world of Chasidic tales as they w=
ere to be found in Poland in the late 19th century. Subjects: Jews -- Folk=
lore. Jews -- Poland. Slight tear at bottom of backstrip. Covers lightly f=
aded. Pages lightly aged but in clean and near fine condition. Very good +=
condition. (GER-36-24) (ID #28875) $45.00.<br>
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291. Freund, Leopold. BLÜTHEN VON DEN GEFILDEN JUDA=
'S. TRADUKTIONEN UND VERSIONEN AUF DEM GEBIETE DES JÜDISCHEN SCHR=
IFTTHUMS. Budapest; Selbstverlag Des Verfassers, 1882. Later cloth. 8vo. X=
IV, [1], 150, [1] pages. 23 cm. First edition. In German and Hebrew. Lat=
er black cloth with elaborate gilt lettering on spine and original cover p=
astedown. Approximate translation of title: ”Flowers from the fields=
of Judah. ” Contents: Prologue - folk wisdom and proverbs - moral p=
arable and poetry - Worldly wisdom, Dietary rules - astrology, meteorology=
, horoscope - epigrams, riddles, puns and fixed vocal prayer - blessing an=
d cursing speeches - epilogue - opportunities. OCLC lists 19 copies worldw=
ide. Corners lightly bumped, pages lightly aged. Pages 129-131 bumped, wit=
h slight tears at edges, all other pages in near fine condition. Very good=
+ condition. (GER-33-33) (ID #28829) $50.00.<br>
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292. Gesellschaft Für Jüdische Volkskunde. MIT=
TEILUNGEN DER GESELLSCHAFT FÜR JÜDISCHE VOLKSKUNDE HEFT 2. New Y=
ork; Johnson Reprint Corp. 1964. FT) Softbound. 8vo. 89 pages. 21 cm. In G=
erman. Reprint of the 1898 volume of the Vienna journal. “Mitteilung=
en der Gesellschaft für Jüdische Volkskunde”, or, “A=
nnouncements of the Society for Jewish folklore”, ran from 1898-1904=
, ceasing with number 32. Heft (Bulletin) number two, here, includes a mem=
bers directory, questions, an essay on fairy tales and legends of German J=
ews, a linguistics chart of Russian-Jewish by Leo Wiener, amongst other se=
ctions. “In 1898, Max Grunwald (1871–1953), a rabbi living in=
Hamburg and then Vienna, established the Gesellschaft für Jüdis=
che Volkskunde, Mitteilungen (der Gesellschaft) für Jüdische Vol=
kskunde (1898–1929) and Museum für Jüdische Volkskunde, ha=
ving issued a call to collect materials and a questionnaire in 1896. Grunw=
ald hoped that Jewish Volkskunde would preserve a record of a disappearing=
way of life and, by demonstrating the beauty of traditions and encouragin=
g their revival, help stem the tide of assimilation; he also hoped that by=
showing the connectedness of Jews to other peoples and their universal va=
lues, Jewish Volkskunde might counteract anthropological characterizations=
of Jews as an immutable and degenerate race. ” (from the YIVO encyc=
lopedia 2010). Subjects: Jews -- Folklore -- Periodicals. Jews -- Social l=
ife and customs -- Periodicals. Covers aged and faded at edges, pages ligh=
tly aged in margins, very clean. Very good + condition (GER-33-13) (ID #28=
809) $50.00.<br>
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293. Olsvanger, Immanuel. AUS DER VOLKSLITERATUR DER OST=
JUDEN: SCHWÄNKE, ERZÄHLUNGEN, SPRICHWÖRTER UND RÄTSEL.=
Basel; Schweizerischen Gesellschaft Für Volkskunde, 1920. Paper wrap=
pers. 8vo. XXXVIII, 299 pages. 25 cm. First edition. In German and Yiddish=
=2E Title translates as “From the folk literature of the East European=
Jews: Anecdotes, stories, proverbs and riddles. ” Printed under the=
auspices of the Swiss Commission for Jewish Folklore. Immanuel Olsvanger,=
1888-1961, was a Jewish folklorist, translator, journalist and Zionist ac=
tivist. His collections of Yiddish anecdotes, stories, proverbs and songs,=
transcribed into Latin script from Lithuanian Yiddish, has experienced nu=
merous editions. The volume was conceived as a German language accessible=
collection of Yiddish tales. Subjects: Folk tales, Jewish. Folk songs, Je=
wish. Wit and humor, Jewish. Riddles, Jewish. Yiddish literature (Collecti=
ons) Jewish folk literature. Entire volume has bumped and lightly aged edg=
es, some folds at corners, but quite clean and crisp. Good condition. (GER=
-33-24) (ID #28820) $70.00.<br>
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294. Bloch, Philipp. DIE KABBALAH AUF IHREM HOHEPUNKT UN=
D IHRE MEISTER. Pressburg, Adolf Alkalay & Sohn, 1905. Paper Wrappers,=
8vo, 46 pages. Schriften der "Gesellschaft zur Foerderung der Wissen=
schaft des Judentums. " Missing cover and flyleaf. Wear to binding an=
d back cover. Brown, stained pages. (MX-31-10) (ID #21422) $50.00.<br>
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295. Gershom Gerhard Scholem. URSPRUNG UND ANFANGE DER K=
ABBALA. Berlin, 1962. Hardcover, 8vo, viii, 434 pages. In German. Series:=
Studia judaica. Bd. 3. Scholem (1898-1982) was “the most important=
scholar of Jewish mysticism and a towering figure in Jewish intellectual=
life. Born to an assimilated family in Berlin, he was attracted in his yo=
uth to Judaism and Zionism and studied major Hebrew Jewish texts and Kabba=
lah by himself. After completing a Ph. D. Thesis in 1923 on Sefer ha-Bahir=
, he arrived in Israel, and taught at the Hebrew University, becoming the=
first professor to devote all his studies and teaching to the topic of Je=
wish mysticism. His achievement in surveying all the major stages and writ=
ings belonging to this topic is staggering. In the difficult times of the=
1920s and 1930s, he traveled to all the major European libraries and syst=
ematically studied all the available manuscripts. In 1939 he delivered a s=
eries of lectures in New York, which became the first comprehensive analys=
is of the historical and phenomenological aspects of the entire range of J=
ewish mysticism: Major Trends in Jewish Mysticism, which is also his most=
influential and widely read book. One of the chapters of this book, deali=
ng with the Heikhalot literature, was complemented by a collection of stud=
ies printed in New York, under the title Jewish Gnosticism, Merkabah Mysti=
cism, and the Talmudic Tradition… Scholem was widely recognized as=
the leading scholar in Judaica in the 20th century and was accorded numer=
ous prizes and honorary titles, among them the Israel Prize, the Bialik Pr=
ize, and the Rothschild Prize, and served as the head of the Israeli Acade=
my of Science and Humanities. He wrote an autobiography, From Berlin to Je=
rusalem, and corresponded with many persons, including Walter Benjamin. Se=
veral monographs have been dedicated to his life and thought: e. G. David=
Biale, Gershom Scholem, Kabbalah and Counter-History, and Joseph Dan, Ger=
shom Scholem and the Mystical Dimension of Jewish History. His rich librar=
y is indubitably the best one in the field of Jewish mysticism, and it bec=
ame part of the Jewish National and University Library, serving as a major=
resource for studies in the field. A catalogue raisonne of his library ha=
s been printed in two volumes, edited by Joseph Dan and Esther Liebes, The=
Library of Gershom Scholem on Jewish Mysticism” (Idel in EJ, 2007).=
Chipping and light staining to edges of dust jacket. Light wear. Otherwis=
e, good condition. (HEB-17-6) (ID #26721) $35.00. (RAB-44-3) |• Wiene=
r, M. DIE LYRIK DER KABBALAH; EINE ANTHOLOGIE. Wien, R. Lowit Verlag,, 192=
0. Hardcover, 8vo, 188 pages, 23 cm. In German. Series: His Die geistliche=
Lyrik der Juden; Variation: Wiener, M.; (Meir), 1893-1941. Geistliche Lyr=
ik der Juden. SUBJECT(S): Cabala. Jewish religious poetry. Weiner (1893&nd=
ash;1941) was a “poet, novelist, and literary critic. Born in Cracow=
, Wiener received a traditional and secular education and was influenced b=
y his tutor, Ben-Zion Rappaport…. Until his departure for the Sovie=
t Union he wrote mostly in German, including Messias, a collection of myst=
ical meditative elegies; Die Lyrik der Kabbalah, a selection of Hebrew rel=
igious poetry in free translation with introductory notes…. He atte=
mpted to define Jewish identity and destiny while vacillating between spir=
itual Zionism and Martin Buber 's teaching on the one hand, and social=
political radicalism and expressionistic trends in art and literature on=
the other. He probed deeply into traditional Hebrew poetry and Jewish mys=
ticism and their human and religious significance for modern people in gen=
eral, and the Jews in particular. His personal and ideological disappointm=
ents, lack of a sense of mission, and absence of a place in the intellectu=
al life in Western and Central Europe, as well as his contacts with leftis=
t circles in Berlin and Vienna, including Soviet Yiddish authors Leyb Kvit=
ko and Der Nister, caused him to immigrate to the Soviet Union, where he c=
oncentrated his energy and talents on Yiddish literature. His main work th=
ere was devoted to the research and publications of the Jewish scientific=
institutes in Kharkov, Kiev, and Moscow in the 1920s and 1930s, where he=
also played an important role as counselor, editor, and teacher. He heade=
d the Department of Yiddish Language and Literature at Moscow State Pedago=
gical Institute and directed and participated in the editing of Yiddish li=
terature ranging from folk-song collections and the anonymous comedy Di Ge=
narte Velt, to the writings of Solomon Ettinger, Israel Axenfeld, Sholem Y=
ankev Abramovitsh, and Sholem Aleichem. His editions have served as models=
ever since; his prefaces to these editions were collected along with addi=
tional articles and published in his book Tsu der Geshikhte fun der Yidish=
er Lite ratur in Nayntsentn Yorhundert…. Despite his declared alleg=
iance to Marxist criticism, he had to defend himself in 1932 against criti=
cs who accused him of ‘dangerous deviationism. ’” (Shmer=
uk and Krutikov in EJ, 2007). Tear to cover binding. Light wear to edges a=
nd corners. Light wear to binding. Very good condition. (RAB-44-3) (ID #24=
711) $45.00.<br>
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296. Verband Der Deutschen Juden. FELDGEBETBUCH FÜR=
DIE JÜDISCHEN MANNSCHAFTEN DES HEERES FELDGEBETBUCH FÜR DIE J&U=
uml;DISCHEN MANNSCHAFTEN DES HEERES FELDGEBETBUCH FÜR DIE JÜDISC=
HEN MANNSCHAFTEN DES HEERES. Berlin; H. Itzkowski, 1916. (FT) Paper wrappe=
rs. 16mo. 31, 33 pages. 14 cm. Second edition. In German and Hebrew. Black=
leatherette over wraps, staple bound. Title translates as: “Jewish=
Prayerbook for the Infantry of the Army.” This Hebrew and German Te=
fillot Siddur was published yearly throughout the first world war in Berli=
n by the Association for German Jews; ostensibly given to thousands of Ger=
man Jewish soldiers. Contains daily prayers and prayers for festivals and=
celebrations throughout the year (the first edition, 1914, was limited in=
the amount of celebrations expected to be necessary; the duration of the=
war forced a longer prayer book to be adopted. ). Subjects: Judaism -- Ge=
rmany -- Liturgy -- Texts. Jewish soldiers -- Prayers and devotions. OCLC=
lists 4 copies worldwide (HUC, Harvard, National Library of Israel, Staat=
sBiblio zu Berlin). A very clean copy, with lightly worn covers, bumped co=
rners, and aged pages. Very good condition. (GER-38-3) (ID #28912) $100.00=
=2E<br>
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297. MOAUS ZUR; EIN CHANUKKAHBUCH. Berlin, Jüdische=
r Verlag, 1918. Stiff Wrappers, Small chip at spine, some wear, Good Condi=
tion; Small 8vo; 144 pages (GER-37-77) (ID #4358) $35.00.<br>
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298. Ascher, M. DER SABBAT. Amsterdam, Weltverbandes F&u=
uml;r Sabbathschutz, 1932. Original Stapled Wrappers. 8vo. 12 pages. 21 cm=
=2E In German. Title translates to English as, “The Sabbath. ” S=
UBJECT (S): Sabbath (Jewish law). OCLC lists 10 copies worldwide. Closed t=
ear to back cover corner. Otherwise a nice, clean copy in Very Good Condit=
ion. (GER-32-15) (ID #28784) $30.00.<br>
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299. Ormann, Gustav. DAS SÜNDENBEKENNTNIS DES VERS&=
Ouml;HNUNGSTAGES, SEIN AUFBAU UND SEINE ENTWICKLUNG, IN VERBINDUNG MIT GEN=
IZA-TEXTEN UNTERSUCHT. Frankfurt, [Droller], 1934. Paper Wraps. 8vo. Vii,=
36 pages. 24 cm. In German with some Hebrew. Nazi-era imprint. Dissertati=
on: Inaug. --Bonn. Title translates to English as, “The Confession o=
f Yom Kippur, its Structure and its Evolution, Studied in Connection with=
Geniza Texts. ” SUBJECT (S): Confession (Liturgy) -- Judaism. Title=
Subject: Mahzor. Yom Kippur. Vita. Bibliography: page vii. OCLC lists 25=
copies worldwide. Lacks backstrip and back cover. Front cover chipping at=
edges with tear along top of spine, but all text is clear. Internal pages=
darkened at edges, but still nice. Good+ condition. (SPEC-14-4). (ID #264=
45) $30.00.<br>
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300. Zunz, Leopold. DIE GOTTESDIENSTLICHEN VORTRÄGE=
DER JUDEN HISTORISCH ENTWICKELT; EIN BEITRAG ZUR ALTERTHUMSKUNDE UND BIBL=
ISCHEN KRITIK, ZUR LITERATUR- UND RELIGIONSGESCHICHTE. Frankfurt A. /M, 18=
92. Frankfurt a. M. J. Kauffmann, 1892. 2nd Edition. Three quarter Leather=
, 8vo, xvi, 516 pages. 23 cm. In German. Bibliography on pages [497]-498.=
This second edition is "nach dem Handexemplar des Verfassers bericht=
igte und mit einem Register vermehrte Auflage, im Auftrage der Zunz-Stiftu=
ng hrsg. Von Dr. N. Brüll. " Leopold Zunz (1794-1886) was the fo=
unding father of the 'Wissenschaft des Judentums. ' This book deal=
s with biblical interpretation and homiletics from the Bible up to his own=
time. It is still a standard work. SUBJECT(S): Judaism -- Liturgy. Judais=
m -- History of doctrines. Hebrew literature -- History and criticism. Jud=
aism -- Works to 1900. Jews -- Antiquities. Worship -- History. Bible. O.=
T. -- Criticism, interpretation, etc. Sholem Spiegel's copy with his=
bookplate. Lacks backstrip (spine covering), otherwise Good Condition. (R=
AB-48-16) (ID #16851) $60.00.<br>
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301. Auerbach, B. H. (Rabbi Tzvi Binyomin). BERIT AVRAHA=
M: SEDER HA-MILAH... 1860. Frankfurt am Main, No Publisher. Cloth, 8vo, vi=
, 122 pages. 21 cm. In Hebrew & German, with added title page and tabl=
e of contents in German as well. SUBJECT(S): Circumcision. OCLC lists 3 co=
pies worldwide (Columbia, Harvard, Florida), none east of Florida. Rabbi T=
zvi Binyomin Auerbach of Halberstadt was notorious for partially forging S=
efer HaEshkol. Scarce. Lacks backstrip (spine covering), some foxing, pape=
r and binding Good Condition. (RAB-21-36) (ID #21189) $150.00.<br>
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302. [Heidenheim, Wolf Ben Simson]. GEBETBUCH AM SCHABU=
OTFEST: MIT DEUTSCHER UEBERSETZUNG, NEBST NEUEN GEBETEN. Sulzbach; H. Fran=
kschen, 1845. Clothbound. 12mo. 200, 22 pages.19 cm. In Hebrew and German.=
Title translates as: “Prayer book for the Feast of Weeks: with Germ=
an Translation along with new Prayers. ” Wolf Ben Simson Heidenheim=
(Benjamin Ze'ev; 1757–1832), was a Hebrew grammarian, masoretic=
scholar, exegete, and commentator on the liturgy. This volume constitutes=
one of the many prayer books for the high holidays published posthumously=
in Sulzbach in 1845. Subjects: Fasts and feasts -- Judaism. Shavu`oth (Fe=
ast of Weeks) OCLC lists 2 copies worldwide (Gordon Libr, Gratz College).=
Covers worn and soiled, bumped edges, backstrip shaken, bottom third of b=
ackstrip absent. Pages aged, lightly foxed, but clean and crisp throughout=
=2E Good condition. (GER-38-10) (ID #28919) $100.00.<br>
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303. Landau, M. I. (Moses Israel). DIE ALTEN GEBETE DER=
ISRAELITEN / SEDER `IYUN TEFILAH: KOLEL HA-TEFILOT MI-KOL HA-SHANAH. Prag=
ue: M. I. Landau, 1839. (FT) Clothbound. 16mo. 397 pages. 17 cm. First edi=
tion. Hebrew and German in parallel columns. Title translates as: “A=
ncient Prayers of the Israelites: Ordered Prayer Study: Daily prayers for=
the entire year. ” Translated and explained, with notes, by Moses I=
srael Landau: “Austrian printer, publisher, and lexicographer; born=
Dec. 28, 1788, at Prague; died there May 4, 1852; grandson of Ezekiel Lan=
dau. After finishing his studies at a yeshibah of his native town he estab=
lished a Hebrew and Oriental printing-press in Prague, which became import=
ant in the annals of Hebrew typography. In 1819 he was elected superintend=
ent of the Jewish school in Prague, and shortly afterward was made one of=
the board of directors of the Jewish community. He was elected alderman (=
"Stadtverordneter") in 1849, and a member of the city council (&=
quot;Stadtrath") in 1850. Landau began his literary career by publish=
ing a volume of poems entitled "Amaranten" in 1820. He followed=
this up in 1824 with his almanac for the friends of Hebrew literature, en=
titled "Bikkure ha-'Ittim. " As a preparation for his Aramai=
c-Talmudic dictionary Landau published his book on the "Geist und Spr=
ache der Hebräer nach dem Zweiten Tempelbau, " Prague, 1822 (par=
t i. history of language; part ii. chrestomathy from the Talmud, Zohar, an=
d Midrashim). In 1819 he had begun a new edition of the "'Aruk&qu=
ot; of R. Nathan of Rome, to which he added Benjamin Mussafia's "=
Mussaf he-'Aruk. " His "Rabbinisch-Aramäisches Wör=
terbuch zum Verständnis des Talmuds, der Targumim und Midraschim"=
; (Prague, 1819-24; 2d ed. Ib. 1834-35) contains valuable observations and=
numerous treatises of philosophical, historical, archeological, and geogr=
aphical character. Landau's collection of all the foreign words found=
in Rashi (on the Bible and Talmud), in the Tosafot, in Maimonides, and in=
Rosh, is of lasting value. The work, entitled "Marpe Lashon, "=
was published first in his edition of the Mishnah (Prague, 1829-31), then=
in the editions of the Talmud (ib. 1829-31 and 1839-45) and in his editio=
n of the Bible (ib. 1833-37). It has also appeared separately (Odessa, 186=
5), with notes by Dormitzer. Landau's chief merit as a typographer is=
due to the fact that he always personally supervised the correction of th=
e works published in his establishment, so that they issued from the press=
with scarcely a fault. In his will Landau left his Hebrew library to the=
orphan asylum established by him, and his other Oriental works to a Jewis=
h theological seminary to be founded in the future. ” (1906 Jewish E=
ncyclopedia) Subjects: Judaism -- Liturgy -- Texts. Daily prayers. German=
& Hebrew; Siddur. OCLC lists 13 copies worldwide. Binding repaired. C=
loth worn. Pages clean and fresh, with a light stain in bottom portion of=
last 50 pages. Page 386 previously repaired with tape. Good condition. (G=
ER-38-31) (ID #29034) $75.00.<br>
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304. Heinrich, Pinkas. FRAGMENT EINES GEBETBUCHES AUS YE=
MEN. Vienna,, 1902. Original Paper Wrappers. 8vo. 16 pages. 23 cm. In Germ=
an. Title translates to English as, “Fragment of a Prayer Book from=
Yemen. ” Cover subtitle: “Ein Beitrag zur Geschichte der j&uu=
ml;dischen und jüdisch-arabischen Synagogalpoesie und zur Kenntnis de=
r arabischen Vulgärdialects in Yemen. Inaugural-Dissertation zur Erla=
ngung der philosophischen Doctorwürde an der I. Section der philosoph=
ischen Facultät Zürich” [A contribution to the history of=
Jewish and Jewish-Arab Synagogalpoesie and knowledge of Arab vernacular d=
ialects in Yemen. Inaugural-Dissertation for Doctor of philosophical digni=
ty to the First Section of the philosophical faculty of Zurich]. SUBJECT (=
S): Jews. Hebrew poetry. Jews -- Yemen (Republic). Arabic language -- Dial=
ects -- Yemen (Republic). Pages lightly tanned, some chipping/closed tears=
at edges, with no loss of text. Good condition. (SEF37-13) (ID #28473) $5=
0.00.<br>
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305. Hubscher, Jakob. DAS KADDISCH-GEBET: DESSEN SINN, B=
EDEUTUNG UND TENDENZ. Berlin, Selbstverlag Des Verfassers, 1912. Paper Wra=
ppers, Small 8vo; 47 pages;Later paper wrappers, inscription, waterdamaged=
, but paper is very solid; Scarce (GR-2-21) (ID #4906) $50.00.<br>
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306. Jampel, Sigmund, Rabbi. ESTHER UND PURIM IM LICHTE=
DER GESCHICHTE. Berlin, H. Itzkowski, 1911. 1st Edition (?). Paper Wrappe=
rs, Light wear to covers, Very Good Condition.; 8vo; 27 pages; Jampel was=
Rabbi at Schwedt am Domau. (GR-2-15) (ID #6709) $40.00.<br>
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307. Perles, J. (Joseph). DIE LEICHENFEIERLICHKEITEN IM=
NACHBIBLISCHEN JUDENTHUME. EINE ARCHAEOLOGISCHE STUDIE. Breslau, Verlag D=
er Schletter'schen., Paper Wrappers, Some wear, Good Condition; 8vo; 3=
2 pages; Funeral rites and ceremonies. "Seperat-Abdruck aus dem X. Ja=
hrgange der Frankel'schen Monatsschrift. " (GR-2-22) (ID #4808) $=
40.00.<br>
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308. Posner, Arthur. FREITAGE ABENDGEBETE: ÜBERSETZ=
T, SOWIE SACHLICH UND SPRACHLICH ERLÄUTERT. Bratislava, Selbstverlag,=
1929. 1st Edition. Paper Wrappers, 8vo; 81 pages; " Sonderabdruck ei=
ner Aufsatzreihe, die 1928 im Jüdischen Familienblatt, Bratislava ers=
chienen ist. " Guido Kisch's copy. Spine repair, paper browning b=
ut good. (GR-2-14) (ID #6365) $30.00.<br>
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309. Seligmann, Caesar. DENKSCHRIFT ZU DEM AUFTRAG DER I=
SRAEL. GEMEINDE IN FRANKFURT A. M.; BEARBEITETEN NEUEN ISRAELITISCHEN GEBE=
TBUCH. Frankfurt A. M.; Voigt & Gleiber, 1912. Paper wrappers. 12mo. 7=
0 pages. 19 cm. Only edition. In German. “Memorandum on behalf of th=
e Jewish Community in Frankfurt A. M.; new Israelite prayer book edited. &=
rdquo; Caesar Seligmann was rabbi of the Jewish community from 1903 to 193=
2, and was one of the leading protagonists of the Jewish Reform Movement a=
t the beginning of the 20th century. Seligmann was born in 1860 of an old=
rabbinical family in Landau in the Pfalz region. He was ordained as a rab=
bi at the Jewish Theological Seminary in Breslaw, and graduated in Halle.=
After preaching from 1889 to 1902 at the "Tempel", a liberal sy=
nagogue in Hamburg, he was called to Frankfurt in 1903, where his task was=
to revitalise the somewhat depleted Jewish Reform Movement. While in Fran=
kfurt Seligmann became the leader of the religious liberal movement in Ger=
many. He first wrote a new liberal prayerbook for the Frankfurt community,=
then a unified prayerbook for liberal Jewish synagogue services. He found=
ed the periodical "Liberal Judaism" and took a major part in the=
unifying of liberals throughout Germany. In 1912 he published the "G=
uidelines" which set out to provide the foundations and future plans=
for a new Judaism based on spiritual liberalism. The "Guidelines&quo=
t; aroused vigorous dissent within the community and it proved impossible=
to incorporate them into daily religious life. He retired in 1932. He man=
aged to emigrate to England in 1939. In London he became cofounder of a co=
mmunity of emigre Frankfurt Jews, and died there in 1950. His many publish=
ed works include essays, sermons, and lectures, his annotated edition of t=
he Pesach Haggadah, and his principal work, the "History of the Jewis=
h Reform Movement" printed in 1922. (Infobank Judengasse Frankfurt am=
Main) Subjects: Jews -- Germany -- Frankfurt am Main -- History -- Source=
s. Israelitische Gemeinde, Frankfurt am Main. OCLC lists 10 copies worldwi=
de. Covers lightly soiled, with small tears at backstrip. Pages soiled at=
edges, endpapers lightly soiled. Pages lightly yellowed with age, some li=
ght soiling at edges of margins, very few light pencil marks in margins. V=
ery good condition. (GER-33-27) (ID #28823) $110.00.<br>
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310. Wolff, Lion. HOCHZEITS-AGENDE: NEBST ANHANG: TRAUUN=
GS-AGENDE. Breslau; Wilh. Jacobsohn & Co. 1885. Clothbound. 8vo. 109,=
[3] pages. 22 cm. First edition. In German, with some Hebrew. Title tran=
slates as: “Wedding-Liturgy; with appendix on Agendas for Weddings.=
” Rabbi Lion Wolff (1845-1934) was for twenty five years the Rabbi=
at the Congregation Tempelburg in Pomerania. His retirement from the cong=
regation was widely celebrated as at the time he was the oldest Rabbi in a=
ll of Germany. He was also known for his writing on pedagogy. Subjects: Je=
wish marriage customs and rites. OCLC lists 6 copies worldwide. Covers soi=
led, endpages lightly soiled, pages lightly aged, edges lightly bumped, ho=
wever, pages clean and fresh. Good + condition. (GER-38-9) (ID #28918) $50=
=2E00.<br>
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311. Zunz, Leopold. ISRAEL'S GOTTESDIENSTLICHE POESI=
E: VORTRAG GEHALTEN AM 11. JANUAR 1870. Berlin, A. Asher & Co. 1870. S=
taplebound paper wraps. 8vo. 14 pages. 23 cm. In German. Title translates=
to English as, “Israel's Liturgical Poetry: Paper Presented on=
11 January 1870.” Zunz was a German Reform rabbi and writer, the fo=
under of what has been termed the "Science of Judaism, ” the cr=
itical investigation of Jewish literature, hymnology and ritual. Zunz'=
s historical investigations and contemporary writings had an important inf=
luence on contemporary Judaism. SUBJECT (S): Judaism -- Liturgy. OCLC list=
s 16 copies worldwide. Front cover darkened and chipping at edges, detache=
d but present. Internal pages are darkended at edges and chipping, but all=
text is clear. Good condition. (SPEC16-29). (ID #26843) $75.00.<br>
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312. Zunz, Leopold. DIE GOTTESDIENSTLICHEN VORTRÄGE=
DER JUDEN, HISTORISCH EN WICKELT. EIN BEITRAG ZUR ALTERTHUMSKUNDE UND BIB=
LISCHEN KRITIK, ZUR LITERATUR-UND RELIGIONSGESCHICHTE. Berlin, 1832. Berli=
n: A. Asher, 1832. Cloth; 8vo. Xv, 481 pages. Deckled edges. First edition=
=2E In German. Bibliographical citations. "Verzeichnis der benutzten...=
Werke": [2] pages following page 481. SUBJECT (S): Judaism -- Litur=
gy. Hebrew literature -- History and criticism. Bible. O. T. -- Criticism,=
interpretation, etc. Leopold Zunz was the founder of the modern "sci=
ence of Judaism; " this work was "destined to be the most import=
ant Jewish work published in the nineteenth century. In the preface, which=
was no less remarkable than the contents, the German authorities were arr=
aigned for their refusal to grant the Jews the justice due them by right a=
nd for their reluctance to accord them liberty instead of special rights a=
nd privileges. The Jews were entitled to be citizens of Germany. Jewish sc=
ience too ought no longer to be excluded from governmental patronage, but=
should have institutions provided for its development. In the synagogues=
the living word was once more to resound, for the sermon had always been=
an institution of Judaism. The book afforded the proof, and its purpose w=
as to trace the historic growth of this synagogal institution. This prefac=
e was suppressed by the government and cut out from most copies of the fir=
st edition. The work itself was a masterly exposition of the gradual growt=
h and evolution of homiletic literature, traced through the Midrash, the H=
aggadah, and the prayer-book. It was the first book to assign dates and to=
disclose the relative interdependence of the various documents. Besides s=
howing that the sermon was thoroughly Jewish, the book demonstrated that J=
udaism had a science which could justly claim equality with the studies ad=
mitted to university standing. It proved, furthermore, that Judaism was a=
growing force, not a crystallized law. Scientific throughout, the book ha=
d a powerful influence in shaping the principles of Reform Judaism, especi=
ally as applied to the prayer-books. For all time to come the "Gottes=
dienstliche Vorträge" fixed the method which the literary explor=
ation of Jewish literaturemust follow to a certain degree, even though the=
merely formal criterion of the mention of a literary document is urged to=
o strongly as decisive in assigning to it its date and place. With this bo=
ok Zunz rose at once to the pinnacle of recognized leadership. His discrim=
inating insight, his power of combination, his sound scholarship, his clas=
sic reserve, and his dignity of presentation proclaimed him master. No sec=
ond edition of the "Gottesdienstliche Vorträge" was prepare=
d by the author, but it was reprinted after his death (Frankfort-on-the-Ma=
in, 1892; comp. E. G. Hirsch, "Die Jubiläen Zweier Werke, "=
in "Der Zeitgeist, " 1882). " (JE) Previous owners' si=
gnatures on inside front cover and title page. Wear and damp stain to cove=
rs, spine chipped. Previous repair with black cloth tape on top section of=
spine. Binding tight. Text in very good condition. (RAB-48-14) (ID #24766=
) $350.00.<br>
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313. Jacobson, Bernhard S. PESAH: ARBEITSPLAN UND STOFFS=
AMMLUNG. Hamburg, Tenuat Tora Wa'awoda in Deutschland, 1936. Paper wra=
ppers, Original Paper Wrappers. 12mo. 47 pages. In German with some Hebrew=
on cover. Passover preparation guide published in Germany during Hitler&#=
39;s reign. SUBJECT(S): Passover - customs and practices. OCLC lists 8 cop=
ies worldwide. Covers worn with small chip to front, no loss of text. Very=
Good condition. (MX-21-12) (ID #27757) $60.00.<br>
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314. Joseph Ben David; Of Leipnik. Green, Aaron Asher. H=
AGADAH SHEL PESAH: ALTONA, GERMANY, 1738. Tel Aviv: W. Turnowsky, 1987. (f=
t) Hardcover, 4to, 62 pages, all color facsims. Text in Hebrew; rubrics in=
Yiddish. SUBJECT(S): Descriptor: Haggadot -- Texts. Seder -- Liturgy -- T=
exts. Judaism -- Liturgy -- Texts. Jewish illumination of books and manusc=
ripts. Manuscripts, Hebrew -- Facsimiles. Colophon title. Spine title: Hag=
adah. Caption title: Zeh ha-seder Hagadah shel Pesah. Accompanied by repri=
nted text of English translation of the Haggadah by Aaron Asher Green, Lon=
don, 1898; and by one folded manuscript description sheet with text in Eng=
lish and Hebrew. Issued in slipcase. Excellent condition. (ART-3-16A) (ID=
#25857) $100.00.<br>
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315. Khvol’son, D. A. (Daniil Avraamovich). DAS LE=
TZTE PASSAMAHL CHRIST UND DER TAG SEINES TODES, NACH DEN IN ÜBEREINST=
IMMUNG GEBRACHTEN BERICHTEN DER SYNOPTIKER UND DES EVANGELIUM JOHANNIS. Le=
ipzig; H. Haessel, 1908. Paper wrappers. Folio. XI, 190 pages. 34 cm. Seco=
nd edition. In German, with Hebrew, Greek, Arabic. Title translates as: &l=
dquo;The last Passover meal of Christ and the day of his death, according=
to the report of the Synoptics put into accordance with the Gospel of Joh=
n. ” Anastatic reprint of the edition of 1892, with three supplement=
s, containing additions and improvements of the author. D. A. Chwolson (Da=
niel Avraamovich Khvolson, 1819–1911) was a Russian Orientalist. &ld=
quo;Chwolson was born of poor, devout Jewish parents in Vilna. In 1841 he=
went to Breslau, where Abraham *Geiger befriended him and helped him prep=
are for matriculation at the university. Later he returned to Russia, sett=
ling in St. Petersburg. In 1855 Chwolson became a convert of the Russian O=
rthodox Church. He was then appointed professor of Hebrew, Syriac, and Cha=
ldaic philology at the University of St. Petersburg, and three years later=
he was given the corresponding chair at both the Russian Orthodox and Rom=
an Catholic theological academies in the same city. In this triple capacit=
y he taught practically every eminent Semitic scholar in Russia during the=
second half of the 19th century and after. Among his disciples were the g=
reatest Russian Orientalists. Despite his conversion, Chwolson remained we=
ll disposed toward Jews and Judaism and retained his friendship with many=
eminent Jewish scholars and leaders. He was particularly welcome in Jewis=
h Orthodox circles because of his frequent intervention on their behalf wh=
en government officials threatened the yeshivot or the publication of the=
Talmud. “Das letzte Passahmahl Christi und der Tag seines Todes&rdq=
uo; (1892), while meant as an answer to antisemitic accusations, is a lear=
ned and detailed investigation of the circumstances of Jesus' trial an=
d condemnation. In it Chwolson attempted to prove that Jesus was sentenced=
to death by the Sadducean high court and that therefore the Pharisees and=
masses of Jews bear no guilt. ” (2007 Encyclopedia Judaica). &ldquo=
;The deep-rooted belief that Jesus was crucified by the Jews being the pri=
ncipal cause of the prejudice against them on the part of the Christians,=
Chwolson, in a dissertation entitled "Poslyedniyaya Paskhalnaya Vech=
erya Isusa Christa I Den yevo Smerti, " in "Christianskoe Chteni=
e, " St. Petersburg, 1875 (German translation, "Das Letzte Passa=
mal Christi, " ib. 1892), shows the groundlessness of this belief. He=
points out that the proceedings of the trial and condemnation of Jesus, a=
s related in the Gospels, were in violation of the rabbinical laws, and co=
nsequently could not have been conducted by a Jewish tribunal. ” (19=
06 Jewish Encyclopedia). Subjects: Last Supper. Jesus Christ - Crucifixion=
=2E Jesus Christ - Chronology. Bible. N. T. Gospels - Criticism, interpretat=
ion, etc. Bible. N. T. Gospels - Chronology. Covers worn and soiled, with=
edges chipped. Back cover detached and missing upper third. Pages soiled=
in margins, but clean and fresh. Outer edges bumped with some tears. Last=
page torn, affecting text on page 189-190. Fair condition. (GER-38-15) (I=
D #28924) $200.00.<br>
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KARAISM<br>
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316. Gitelsohn, Dr. S. DIE CIVIL-GESETZE DER KARÄER=
VON SAMUEL AL-MAGREBI. Loius Lamm, Berlin, 1904. Original Paper Wrappers,=
8vo. 27 + 42+1 page. Interesting work on the civil laws of the Karaites.=
Karaite Judaism or Karaism is a Jewish movement characterized by the sole=
reliance on the Tanakh as scripture and the rejection of the Mishnah and=
the Talmud. Text in German, English, Hebrew and Arabic. Light Wear. About=
Very Good Condition. (RAB-33-20) (ID #24470) $135.00.<br>
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317. Neubauer, Adolf. AUS DER PETERSBURGER BIBLIOTHEK. B=
EITRÄGE UND DOCUMENTE ZUR GESCHICHTE DES KARÄERTHUMS UND DER KAR=
ÄISCHEN LITERATUR. Leipzig, 1866. Leipzig: Oskar Leiner, 1866. Half c=
loth; 12mo. X, 150, [66] pages. In German and Hebrew. Series: Schriften (=
Institut zur Förderung der israelitischen Literatur). Includes: Sefer=
Apiryon `asah lo and Sefer Levush Malkhut, 66 pages at end. Includes bibl=
iographical references. Neubauer was a Hungarian scholar, author, libraria=
n, and bibliographer. He settled in England and became librarian at the Bo=
dleian Library, Oxford, which he enriched by judicious purchases, particul=
arly from the Cairo Genizah. He authored many books and contributed a stre=
am of articles, notes, and book reviews to most of the learned Jewish (and=
many non-Jewish) periodicals of his time. (EJ) SUBJECT(S): Karaitic liter=
ature. Karaites. OCLC lists one copy worldwide of this edition (NY Public=
Library). Boards edgeworn. Rear flyleaf has 1-1/2" chip. Text in ver=
y good condition. (GER-4-15) (ID #16569) $100.00.<br>
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SERMONS & ESSAYS<br>
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318. Solomon Ben Abraham, 1610?-Ca. 1683.?. SEFER RATSUF=
AHAVAH VE-HU MAHBERET BE’UR DIBURE HA-TOSAFOT HA-SHAYAKHIM LE-INYAN=
DERASHA... ASHER HIBARTI SHELOMOH ALGAZI. Frankfurt De-Odrah: Yohanan Kri=
stif Bekman,, 1692. 452 [1691 or 1692]. Cloth, 8vo, 104 leaves. 22 cm. Su=
bject (s): Tosafot -- Early works to 1800. Aggada -- Early works to 1800.=
Homiletical illustrations, Jewish -- Early works to 1800. Other titles: A=
havat Olam; Apiryon Shelomoh. OCLC lists 7 copies worldwide. JTS keeps the=
ir copy, which lacks the final 4 leaves, in their rare book room. Bit of m=
argin wear to first and final leaves, minor worming here and there, otherw=
ise a nice copy. (HEB-37-12) (ID #27637) $425.00.<br>
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319. Flesch, H. VIER REDEN. Bratislava, Adolf Alkalay &a=
mp; Sohn, 1901. Original Stapled Wrappers. 8vo. 32 pages. 24 cm. In German=
=2E Title translates to “Four Speeches. ” CONTENTS: Israels Tros=
t [Israel's Consolation] --- Es werde Licht [Let There Be Light] ---=
Wahre Elternliebe [True Parental Love] --- Lebensregel [A Rule of Life]=
=2E Dedicated to Rabbi Leo Munk on his 25th anniversary in office. OCLC list=
s 6 copies worldwide. Covers worn with some chipping at edges. Internal pa=
ges are somewhat darkened, but all text is clear. Good+ condition. (GER-32=
-25) (ID #28794) $100.00.<br>
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320. Nobel, Josef. THABOR: BETRACHTUNGEN ÜBER DIE H=
AFTARAS VOM GANZEN JAHRE. Frankfurt A. M.: J. Kauffman, 1899. Cloth. 8vo.=
Vi, 352 pages. In German. SUBJECT (S): Jewish sermons; Sermons, German. O=
CLC lists 18 copies worldwide. Wear to cover and binding. Slight chippings=
on bottom and top edges of cover binding. Inscription on inside cover fro=
m Mr. Krug. Otherwise, good condition. (K-MX2-2) (ID #21412) $30.00.<br>
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321. Jellinek, Adolph. AUS DER WIENER ISRAELITISCHEN CUL=
TUSGEMEINDE 5624: SIEBEN ZEIT-PREDIGTEN. Wien, 1864. Wien: Hertzfeld &=
Bauer,1864. Bound in later cloth, 90 pages.19 cm. In German. SUBJECT(S):=
Jewish sermons, German. Jewish sermons -- Austria -- Vienna. OCLC lists 5=
holdings worldwide (OSU, U of Amsterdam, Bayerische Staatsbib., Penn, HUC=
). Library bookplate and stamp on endpapers, no stamps on text or title pa=
ge, no markings on cloth, Very Good Condition. (k-ger-1-4) (ID #20891) $10=
0.00.<br>
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322. Bacher, Wilhelm. DIE PROÖMIEN DER ALTEN JÜ=
;DISCHEN HOMILIE: BEITRAG ZUR GESCHICHTE DER JÜDISCHEN SCHRIFTAUSLEGU=
NG UND HOMILETIK. Leipzig; J. C. Hinrichs, 1913. Later Cloth. 8vo. 126 pag=
es. 23 cm. In German and Hebrew. Title translates as: “The Proö=
mien the ancient Jewish homily: contribution to the history of Jewish exeg=
esis and homiletics. ” Wilhelm Bacher was a “Hungarian scholar=
and Orientalist; son of the Hebrew writer Simon; born in Liptó-Sze=
nt-Miklós, Hungary, Jan. 12, 1850; he attended the Hebrew schools i=
n Szucsán and in his native town, and passed through the higher cla=
sses of the Evangelical Lyceum at Presburg from 1863 to 1867, at the same=
time diligently prosecuting Talmudic studies. In 1867 he began the study=
of philosophy and of Oriental languages—the latter under Vám=
béry—at the University of Budapest, and also attended the lec=
tures on the Talmud given by Samuel Löb Brill. In 1868, he went to Br=
eslau, where he continued the study of philosophy and philology at the Uni=
versity, and that of theology at the Jewish-Theological Seminary. He gradu=
ated at the University of Leipsic in 1870. His graduation thesis, "Ni=
zâmî's Leben und Werke, und der Zweite Theil des Nizâ=
;mî'schen Alexanderbuches, " appeared in 1871, and was tran=
slated into English in 1873 by S. Robinson. This was afterward incorporate=
d in the collection entitled "Persian Poetry for English Readers. &qu=
ot; In 1876, Bacher graduated as rabbi, and shortly afterward was appointe=
d to the rabbinate in Szegedin, which had become vacant in consequence of=
the death of Leopold Löw. On July 1, 1877, together with Moses Bloch=
and David Kaufmann, he was appointed by the Hungarian government to the p=
rofessorship of the newly created Landesrabbinerschule of Budapest. This i=
nstitution was inaugurated Oct. 4, 1877, Bacher delivering the address in=
the name of the faculty, and since that time he has been teacher of the B=
iblical sciences, of Jewish history, and of various other branches at that=
institution” (1906 Jewish Encyclopedia) This volume was one of his=
last works published before his death in 1913. Subjects: Jewish preaching=
- History. Exegese. Homiletik. Judentum. Bible. O. T. - Hermeneutics. Clo=
th lightly soiled, endpapers chipped or torn, light pen of previous owner=
on title page, fresh and clean throughout. Very good + condition. (GER-33=
-38) (ID #28833) $40.00.<br>
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323. Breuer, Raphael. PROGRAMMREDE GEHALTEN VON SR. EHRW=
ÜRDEN HERRN DISTRIKTSRABBINER DR. RAPHAEL BREUER IM VOLKSBILDUNGSHEIM=
ZU FRANKFURT AM MAIN AM 17. MAI 1927 / 15. IJAR 5687. Frankfurt A. M. 192=
7. 1st Edition. Paper Wrappers, Few spots on cover, otherwise Very Good Co=
ndition; 8vo; 16 pages; Sermon. Pamphlet. (K-MX2-47) (ID #6233) $60.00.<br=
>
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324. Dessauer, M. DANIEL, IN SIEBEN-KANZELREDEN FÜR=
DAS NEUJAHRS- UND VERSÖHNUNGSFEST. Frankfurt A. Main, Kauffmann Verl=
ag, 1875. 1st Edition. Paper Wrappers, Original Paper Wrappers. 8vo. 55 pa=
ges. 22 cm. In German. Title translates to English as, "Daniel: In Se=
ven Pulpit Speeches for the New year and Day of Atonement." Some ligh=
t discoloration and edgewear but still nice. Very Good condition. (SPEC32-=
19) (ID #8374) $40.00.<br>
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325. Dessauer, Moritz. DANIEL, IN SIEBEN-KANZELREDEN FUE=
R DAS NEUJAHRS- UND VERSOHNUNGSFEST. Breslau, H. Skutsch, 1875. Paper Wrap=
pers, 8vo; 55 pages; 22 cm. Max Freudenthal's copy, with his ownership=
stamp and (presumeably his) occational margin notes in pencil. Rear page=
clipped, but appears to be no text loss. Small library stamp on copyright=
page. Spine replaced. (GR-2-20) (ID #4916) $50.00.<br>
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326. Dukes, Leopold. ZUR RABBINISCHEN SPRUCHKUNDE: EINE=
SAMMLUNG RABBINISCHER SENTENZEN, SPRICHWÖRTER UND SPRICHWÖRTLIC=
HER REDENSARTEN. Wien; Torre, 1851. Clothbound. 8vo. IV, 97pages. 23 cm. F=
irst edition. In German, with some Hebrew. Title translates as: “For=
Rabbinical Homiletics: A collection of Rabbinic Sayings, Proverbs and pro=
verbial phrases edited and explained. ” This collection of proverbs=
in the original Hebrew with German translations and explanations was writ=
ten by Leopold Dukes (Judah Loeb; 1810–1891), “historian of Je=
wish literature. Dukes was born in Pressburg, Hungary. He was a student of=
R. Moses Sofer and of R. Ayyim Joseph Pollak; the latter introduced him t=
o secular study. An inveterate, though poor, traveler, Dukes visited most=
of the important libraries in Europe, researching Jewish manuscripts and=
uncovering many hitherto unknown medieval works. His research covered var=
ious aspects of language and literature: aggadic literature, Bible exegesi=
s, medieval Jewish literature, Hebrew grammar and the masoretic text, and=
talmudic maxims and truisms. ” (2007 Encyclopedia Judaica) Subjects=
: Proverbs, Jewish. Original boards repaired, with noticeable wear and rub=
bing. First endpage very brittle and chipped. Pages in good condition, and=
fresh, except that the last 30 pages are lightly stained, though not affe=
cting text. Fair condition. (GER-38-44) (ID #29046) $60.00.<br>
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327. Ehrentheil, Adolf. HADASIM. MYRTENZWEIGE. TRAUUNGS-=
REDEN. Frankfurt A. /M, 1883. Frankfurt a.M.: Verlag von I. Kauffmann, 188=
3. Cloth, 12mo, 167 pages. 20 cm. Satin endpapers. In German, with occasio=
nal Hebrew phrasing. Author was "t.t. Feldrabbiner [Jewish Military=
Chaplain] im M.F. in Horic (Böhmen)" Bohemia. OCLC lists 2 copi=
es worldwide (NYPL & Bar-Ilan Univ). SUBJECT(S): Wedding sermons, Jewi=
sh. Wear to boards, hinges starting, otherwise Good Condition. (GER-37-78)=
(ID #15565) $150.00.<br>
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328. Jellinek, Adolph. AUS DER WIENER ISRAELITISCHEN CUL=
TUSGEMEINDE 5624: SIEBEN ZEIT-PREDIGTEN. Wien, 1864. Wien: Hertzfeld &=
Bauer,1864Original Paper Wrappers, 90 pages.19 cm. In German. SUBJECT(S):=
Jewish sermons, German. Jewish sermons -- Austria -- Vienna. OCLC lists 5=
holdings worldwide (OSU, U of Amsterdam, Bayerische Staatsbib., Penn, HUC=
). Light wear to covers, Good+ Condition. (ger-15-63) (ID #20048) $100.00.=
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329. Jellinek, Adolph, DIE HEBRÄISCHE SPRACHE: REDE=
, AN SCHEMINI AZERET 5639 GEHALTEN. Wien: M. Waizner,, 1878. Original pape=
r wrappers, 8vo. 16 pages. First Edition. In German. SUBJECT (S): Jewish s=
ermons. Jellinek was a "Vienna preacher and scholar...In 1862 Jelline=
k founded the Beit ha-Midrash Academy where public lectures were delivered=
by himself, Isaac Hirsch Weiss, and Meir Friedmann. A scholarly periodica=
l, also called Beit ha-Midrash, was published under its auspices. …=
Jellinek was considered the greatest preacher of his day and some 200 of h=
is sermons were published, some were translated into Hebrew and into other=
languages. Their most striking characteristic was that, while related to=
actual problems of the day, they made brilliant and original use of aggad=
ah and Midrash. Personally lenient in matters of ritual, he advocated a mo=
derately liberal line, striving for unity in the community. Thus although=
he wanted to install an organ in the synagogue "to attract the indif=
ferent, " he took I. N. Mannheimer 's advice and abandoned the id=
ea. He also opposed the omission from the prayer book of references to Zio=
n and prayers for the restoration of sacrifices. Due to the conciliatory a=
ttitude of both Jellinek and the leader of the Orthodox group, Solomon Ben=
jamin Spitzer, a split in the community was avoided. " (Scholem and L=
amed, EJ, 2007) OCLC lists 8 copies worldwide. Covers darkened and brittle=
, edges chipped. Pages and text clean. Good + condition. (RAB-45-15) (ID #=
24703) $75.00.<br>
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330. Jellinek, Adolph, 1821-1893. ZEITSTIMMEN (VOLUMES 1=
AND 2). Wien: Herzfeld & Bauer,, 1871. Three quarter leather, 8vo. 2=
volumes - 80, 109 pages. First Edition. In German. SUBJECT (S): Jewish se=
rmons -- Germany. Sermons, German -- Jewish authors. OCLC lists 21 copies=
worldwide. BOUND WITH: Jellinek, Adolph. DER KAMPF ISRAEL'S IN DER GE=
SCHICHTE: REDE AM 7. TAGE DES PASSAH-FESTES. Wien: Druck und Verlag von Ja=
cob Schlossberg,, 1880. 16 pages. OCLC lists 7 copies worldwide. Jellinek=
was a "Vienna preacher and scholar...In 1862 Jellinek founded the Be=
it ha-Midrash Academy where public lectures were delivered by himself, Isa=
ac Hirsch Weiss, and Meir Friedmann. A scholarly periodical, also called B=
eit ha-Midrash, was published under its auspices. His eldest son, GEORGE J=
=2E JELLINEK (1851-1911), a professor of public law at Basle and Heidelberg,=
was baptized after Jellinek's death. Jellinek was considered the grea=
test preacher of his day and some 200 of his sermons were published, some=
were translated into Hebrew and into other languages. Their most striking=
characteristic was that, while related to actual problems of the day, the=
y made brilliant and original use of aggadah and Midrash. Personally lenie=
nt in matters of ritual, he advocated a moderately liberal line, striving=
for unity in the community. Thus although he wanted to install an organ i=
n the synagogue "to attract the indifferent, " he took I. N. Man=
nheimer 's advice and abandoned the idea. He also opposed the omission=
from the prayer book of references to Zion and prayers for the restoratio=
n of sacrifices. Due to the conciliatory attitude of both Jellinek and the=
leader of the Orthodox group, Solomon Benjamin Spitzer, a split in the co=
mmunity was avoided. " (Scholem and Lamed, EJ, 2007) Handwritten cont=
ents on flyleaf. Spine repaired in black cloth tape. Wear and flaking to l=
eather on covers. Pages slightly tanned. Tight, clean copy. Very good cond=
ition. (RAB-45-16) (ID #24704) $150.00.<br>
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331. Kaufmann, David. SIEBEN FESTPREDIGTEN IN DER BERLIN=
ER GEMEINDESYNAGOGEN. Berlin; L. Gerschel, 1877. Clothbound. 8vo. 92 pages=
=2E 23 cm. First edition. In German with some Hebrew. Title translates as: &=
ldquo;Seven festival sermons in the Berlin community synagogues. “ C=
ontents: the sermon on the first day of Shavuot, on the second day of Shav=
uot, the first New Year's day, on the second New Year's day, on th=
e eve of Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement, and final sermon on the Day of=
Atonement. David Kaufmann (1852-1899) was a Jewish-Austrian scholar. &ldq=
uo;He was educated at Kojetein; and from 1861 to 1867 he attended the gymn=
asium at Kremsir, where he studied the Bible and Talmud with Jacob Brü=
;ll, rabbi of Kojetein, and with the latter's son Nehemiah. In 1867 he=
went to the Jewish Theological Seminary at Breslau, where he studied for=
ten years, attending at the same time the university of that city. In the=
summer of 1874 he received his Ph. D. From the University of Leipsic; and=
on Jan. 29, 1877, he was ordained rabbi. In the latter year he declined t=
he offer of a professorship at the Jewish Theological Seminary, Cincinnati=
[sic, New York], preferring to accept instead the chairs of history, phi=
losophy of religion, and homiletics at the newly founded rabbinical school=
at Budapest, which he continued to hold till his death. He also at the sa=
me time taught Greek and German in the preparatory school of the same inst=
itution, carrying on this work in the Hungarian language, which he had rap=
idly mastered. As librarian of the seminary he acquired the large library=
of Lelio della Torre of Padua, the library of the seminary becoming by th=
is addition one of the most valuable Hebrew libraries of Europe. As a teac=
her Kaufmann was highly successful; and his relation to his students was t=
hat of friendly adviser. He maintained a lively correspondence not only wi=
th the most eminent Jewish scholars, but also with the leaders in other br=
anches of science. Kaufmann was a corresponding member of the Royal Academ=
y of Sciences of Madrid and a member of the executive committee of the Bud=
apest branch of the Alliance Israélite Universelle. ” (From t=
he 1906 Jewish Encyclopedia). Subjects: Jewish sermons -- Germany. OCLC li=
sts 14 copies worldwide. Backstrip shaken. Covers lightly worn. First endp=
age loose, pages lightly aged, but clean and fresh. Good + condition. (GER=
-36-36) (ID #28887) $45.00.<br>
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332. Meisel, Wolf Alois. ZEKHUT AVOT: HOMILIEN UBER DIE=
SPRUCHE DER VATER [PIRKE AVOT] ZUR ERBAUENDEN BELEHRUNG UBER BERUF UND P=
FLICHT DES ISRAELITEN. Stettin: F. Nagel, 1855. (FT) Hardcover, 8vo, xi, 7=
12 pages, 21 cm. In German. SUBJECT(S): Mishnah. Avot -- Commentaries. Inc=
ludes bibliographical references. Romanized record. OCLC lists 18 copies w=
orldwide. Handwritten notes on inside cover. Worn binding. Wear to cover.=
Bumped corners. Otherwise good condition. (HEB-14-6) (ID #25814) $100.00.=
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333. Philippson, Ludwig. GESAMMELTE ABHANDLUNGEN (2 VOLU=
MES). Leipzig, G. Fock, 1911. Clothbound. 8vo. 391, 486 pages. 24 cm. Firs=
t edition. In German. The “Collected Essays” of Ludwig Philipp=
son. Two volumes bound in red cloth with gilt lettering. These two volumes=
constitute the collected published writings in various periodicals of Lud=
wig Philippson (1811–1889), who “achieved renown as the founde=
r of the Allgemeine Zeitung des Judenthums (AZJ, 1837–1922), which h=
e edited until his death. Ludwig was an avid student of both Hebrew and cl=
assical literature in Dessau and Halle. After graduation from Berlin Unive=
rsity (1829–33), aged 22, he took up the position of a preacher and=
teacher in the Magdeburg Jewish community. Though following the practice=
of Reform Judaism – he preached in German and introduced the organ=
and the rite of confirmation – he tried to steer a middle course be=
tween Reform and Orthodoxy. He was among the initiators of the Rabbinical=
Conferences of Brunswick (1844), Frankfurt/Main (1845), and Breslau (1846=
), but was critical of their decisions. One of his projects was the establ=
ishment of a modern institution for training scholars, rabbis, and teacher=
s. From 1834 Philippson started editing several periodicals, first the mon=
thly Israelitisches Predigt- und Schulmagazin (1834–36), followed by=
his famous AZJ, the most important Jewish weekly of the 19th century, whi=
ch was also dedicated to the struggle for emancipation in all parts of Ger=
many and Europe and fought discrimination and antisemitism. From 1839&ndas=
h;53, he published a popular translation and commentary of the Bible, whic=
h went through three editions, together with a revised edition illustrated=
by Gustav Doré (1875). Along with I. M. Jost, A. Jellinek, and oth=
ers he founded the Institut zur Foerderung der Israelitischen Literatur (1=
854–73), whose main achievement was the publication of H. Graetz =
9;s Geschichte der Juden (1853–76). In 1862, he had to resign as rab=
bi of Magdeburg because he had become almost blind. He moved to Bonn, wher=
e he continued his journalistic and literary work until his death. He was=
among the founders of the Israelitische Bibelanstalt (1862), the Deutsch-=
Israelitischer Gemeindebund (1869), and the Hochschule fuer die Wissenscha=
ft des Judentums (1872). ” (2007 Encyclopedia Judaica) The second vo=
lume includes an appendix, that of an essay by Rabbi Hermann Cohen on the=
importance of the writings of the young Ludwig Philippson. Subjects: Juda=
ism. Jews -- Civilization. Judentum. Germany -- Intellectual life. Covers=
lightly worn, backstrip lightly rubbed. Pages lightly aged, but clean and=
fresh. Very good condition. (GER-38-14) (ID #28923) $50.00.<br>
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