Montefiore, C. G. ; Loewe, H.

A RABBINIC ANTHOLOGY [INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR]

London, MacMillan, 1938. Item #37730

1st Edition. Original Green Boards. 8vo. [cviii], 853 pages ; 23 cm. Inscribed by Loewe on the front end page. The last published work by Claude Joseph Goldsmid Montefiore, who edited this volume with Herbert Martin James Loewe. “Loewe (1882–1940) was a noted scholar of Semitic languages and Jewish culture. His grandfather, Louis Loewe had (also) been Sir Moses Montefiore’s secretary... (Claude Montefiore’s great uncle) . ” (Wikipedia, 2016) “Claude Joseph Goldsmid Montefiore… was the intellectual founder of Anglo-Liberal Judaism and the founding president of the World Union for Progressive Judaism, a scholar of the Hebrew Bible, rabbinic literature and New Testament, an influential anti-Zionist leader in the communal body, the Anglo-Jewish Association, and an educator. He was a significant figure in the contexts of modern Jewish religious thought, Jewish-Christian relations, and Anglo-Jewish socio-politics. ” (Wikpedia, 2016) SUBJECT(S) : Judaism. Jewish ethics. Jewish literature. Ex-library with Jewish institutional stamp and usual markings. Overall good condition. (BR-11-32).

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