BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE WRITINGS OF PROFESSOR LOUIS GINZBERG COMPILED ON THE OCCASION OF HIS SIXTIETH BIRTHDAY
New York, 1933. Item #30100
Original Stapled Wrappers. 8vo. 31 pages. Port. 23cm. “Ginzberg (1873–1953) , one of the outstanding Talmud scholars of the first half of the 20th century; leader and the major halakhic authority of the Conservative movement in North America. Ginzberg was a brilliant polymath, ‘a walking encyclopedia. ’ He knew most of the Bible by heart at age seven and had mastered much of rabbinic literature by age 14. His magnum opus, The Legends of the Jews, contains 36, 000 references which Ginzberg kept in his head. In addition to rabbinics, Ginzberg was an expert in philosophy, Kabbalah, and mathematics and he knew at least 12 languages. ” –EJ, 2007 SUBJECTS: Ginzberg, Louis, -- 1873-1953 -- Bibliography. With an appreciation by George Alexander Kohut. OCLC lists 21 copies. Nice, clean copy in Very Good Condition. (BIBLIOG-28-7).
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