MATERIAL FOR THE PREPARATION OF A CONSTITUTION FOR THE JEWISH STATE ON A RELIGIOUS BASIS. HOMER LI-SHE'ELATH HITH-KONENUTH WE-SIDUR HA-MEDINAH HA-YEHUDITH
New York : Research Institute For Post-War Problems Of Religious Jewry, 1947-48. Item #38854
1st Edition. Original Blue Wrappers. 8vo. 32 pages ; 23 cm. In Hebrew, With Title Pages printed in both Hebrew and English on Front and Back Wrappers. Rabbi Dr. Isaac Lewin, (1906 - 1995) was a Professor Emeritus Of Jewish History at the Bernard Revel Graduate School of Yeshiva University In New York… Lewin an architect of the Declaration on the Elimination of All Forms of Intolerance and of Discrimination Based on Religion or Belief, which was Proclaimed by General Assembly resolution 36/55 of 25 November 1981. For this, he was awarded the United Nation's Medal of Peace. He was also awarded by the city of Warsaw with the Golden Badge of Merit in 1988, for promoting international relations and cooperation among peoples… He taught at YU from 1944 until 1985. He was an author and editor of works in English, Hebrew, Yiddish, and he could converse comfortably in German and French. ” (Wikipedia, 2017) Published in the year of Israeli independence, two years before the Harari Decision, when there was ongoing dispute over what would constitute an Israeli constitution. OCLC lists 10 copies worldwide. Slight toning and minor wear to wrappers. Overall very good condition. Important. (HOLO2-135-23).
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