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Scholem, Gershom Gerhard; Yissakhar Yoel : KITVE-YAD BE-KABALAH HA-NIMTSAIM BE-VET HA-SEFARIM HA-LEUMI VEHA-UNIVERSITAI BI-YERUSHALAYIM = CATALOGUS CODICUM CABBALISTICORUM HEBRAICORUM

Jerusalem; Hebrew University, 1930

Original Wraps. 4to. XII, 258 pages. 26 cm. First edition. In Hebrew. Published as Special Supplement to Kirjath Sepher, V.7. Shunami 3038. Extensive early bibliography on Cabbalistic texts and philological sources of concepts and themes; published by Gershom Scholem (1898–1982) , “the most important scholar of Jewish mysticism and a towering figure in Jewish intellectual life. … 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. … Building upon his perusal of manuscripts, he published from the mid-1920s a series of articles in Hebrew in which he identified many anonymous manuscripts, and from 1948, a series of analyses about the beginning of Kabbalah. ” (EJ 2008) . Subjects: Cabala - Manuscripts - Catalogs. Cabala - Manuscripts, Hebrew. Bet ha-sefarim ha-leumi veha-universitai bi-Yerushalayim. - Catalogs. Manuscripts, Hebrew - Catalogs. Manuscripts - Israel - Catalogs. Outer edges lightly bumped, overall very fresh and clean. Very good + condition. (BIBLIOG-33-62)

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