8vo. 142 pages. First edition. "The following paper was written at the invitation of the Executive Committee of the Central Conference of American Rabbis (under the date of October 20, 1903) and read in substance before that body in the city of Detroit, July 1, 1903." Published by the Central conference of American Rabbis. "A U. S. Biblical and Semitic scholar born in Russia, Margolis received a thorough training in Bible and Talmud as well as in modern sciences and languages in his native country and in Berlin. In 1889 he went to the United States. His first field of specialization was the text-criticism of the Talmud to which his dissertation was devoted. In 1897 he went to the University of California at Berkeley to teach Semitic languages and in 1905 returned to the Hebrew Union College as professor of biblical exegesis. He resigned from the Hebrew Union College in 1910, after he and other faculty members differed with the College president regarding educational philosophy and Zionism-Margolis was a strong Zionist. He went to Europe to complete his work on his pioneering and still classic Manual of the Aramaic Language of the Babylonian Talmud, which appeared both in English and in German (1910) . The Jewish Publication Society chose Margolis to be secretary of the Board of Editors and editor-in-chief of their new translation of the Bible into English. To this major task he devoted himself until 1917. The book by which he is perhaps most widely known is a one-volume History of the Jewish People (1927, 19622) written in collaboration with Alexander Marx. Within the confines of a single volume the multitude of details of nearly 40 centuries of Jewish history were compressed with conciseness, clarity, and completeness. Moreover, the entire work is informed by a broad philosophic grasp of the subject, a rare balance and objectivity of treatment, and a warm love for the Jewish people and its heritage" (Gordis, EJ) . SUBJECT(S) : Judaism. Covers missing. Title page detached but present. Some pencil marginalia. Chipping to a few pages at the front of the book. Spine covering partially present. Otherwise in Good condition. (AMRN-13-17).