Book details: A SPECIMEN OF JEWISH LEARNING AT AMERICAN UNIVERSITIES
$US 100.00
Ginzberg, Louis
A SPECIMEN OF JEWISH LEARNING AT AMERICAN UNIVERSITIES
Imprint: New York: American Hebrew, 1906
Edition: First Edition
Binding: paperback
1st separate edition. Original printed paper wrappers. 8vo. 16 pages, 21 cm. "Reprinted from The American Hebrew. " Here Ginzberg criticizes William Rosenau’s "Jewish Biblical Commentators." "Rosenau served as rabbi in Omaha, Nebraska and in Congregation Oheb Shalom of Baltimore, Maryland. He was also on the faculty of Johns Hopkins University. Rosenau was considered a radical reformer regarding ritual and he was a member of the anti-Zionist American Council for Judaism. He was an editor of the revised editions of the Union Prayer Book and the Union Haggadah" (Wikipedia, 2018) Rabbi Louis Ginzberg (1874-1953) was a Talmudist and leading figure in the Conservative Movement of Judaism of the twentieth century. " (Wikipedia, 2017). SUBJECTS: American Judaism. OCLC lists just 6 copies worldwide (Penn, JTS, HUC, Universiteit Van Amsterdam, YIVO, NLI). Light wear at spine, toning at margins. About very good condition. (AMR-54-48)
Stock number:41748.