Original Cloth. 12mo. X, 178 pages. 17 cm. First edition. In German. With an introduction by Gustav Karpeles, and prefatory poem by Heinrich Heine. A compilaton of the poems of twelth century Hebrew poet Judah he-Levi, translated into German metre by various Wissenschaft des Judenthums Scholars and Rabbis: “Eine Auswahl in deutschen Uebertragungen, von Abr. Geiger, S. Heller, S. J. Kämpf, S. Kristeller, Jul. Landsberger, M. Levin, Mor. Rappaport, Michael Sachs, A. Sulzbach, Mor. Steinschneider u. A. ” Schriften des Vereins für Jüdische Geschichte und Litteratur Bd. 1. Bound in cloth with ornate gilt title on spine and cover, decorative endpages. Subjects: Piyutim. Hebrew poetry. Hebrew poetry - Translations into German. Light wear to bottom edge of cloth, otherwise clean and fresh. Very good condition. (SEF-46-42)