Later Boards. 8vo. 134 pages. 24 cm. First edition. In Hebrew. Volume 1: Shire kodesh, Sefer Rishon. Added English title page: Liturgical and secular poetry of the foremost mediaeval poets, from the Genizah collection in the library of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America. Joseph Marcus (1897–1977) , Hebrew scholar. … He was ordained by the Jewish Theological Seminary in 1924. After briefly holding several rabbinical positions, he assisted Israel Davidson in the preparation of the latter's Ozar ('Thesaurus of Medieval Hebrew Poetry') ; later he assisted Bialik and Rawnitzki in preparing their editions of the poems of Ibn Gabirol and Moses Ibn Ezra, copying for them poems from the Seminary's genizah collection. In the course of this work (1929) , Marcus discovered a leaf from a hitherto unknown Hebrew manuscript of Ben Sira (Ecclesiasticus) . ” - 2008 EJ. Subjects: Hebrew poetry, Medieval. Jewish religious poetry, Hebrew. Piyutim. Hebrew poetry, Medieval. Jewish religious poetry, Hebrew. Soiling to outer edges; previous owners bookstamp on endpage; otherwise clean and fresh. Good condition. (SEF-53-16)