Verlag: SCHOCKEN BOOKS
ISBN 10: 1199391301 ISBN 13: 9781199391308
Anbieter: Montclair Book Center, Montclair, NJ, USA
Hardcover. Zustand: USED Good. Betrothed & Edo and Enam.
Verlag: CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
ISBN 10: 1199458945 ISBN 13: 9781199458940
Anbieter: Montclair Book Center, Montclair, NJ, USA
Hardcover. Zustand: USED Good.
Zustand: Good. Good condition. Good dust jacket. The Literary Guild of America edition. (Hebrew fiction, Hasidism) A copy that has been read but remains intact. May contain markings such as bookplates, stamps, limited notes and highlighting, or a few light stains.
20.5x12.5cm. 154 pages. Gilt hardcover with dust jacket. In good condition. The book is in : Danish.
Verlag: Scottish Academic Press, Edinburgh, 1983
ISBN 10: 0707303478 ISBN 13: 9780707303475
Anbieter: Edinburgh Books, Edinburgh, Vereinigtes Königreich
Erstausgabe
Original Blue Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good Plus. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. First Edition. 1983. viii, 156pp. Translated from Hebrew by Rabbi J. Weinberg Ph.D. and H. Russell, M.D. These sixteen collected short stories concerning the Chassidim in Poland are taken from 'These and Those', the second volume of J.S. Agnon's collected works, published in Iserael in 1932. "The Chassidim arose in the early 18th century when the Kabbala of the mystics of Safad spread from learned circles to the uneducated Jewish people in the Ukraine and then westward in Europe. "The Saffad mystics conceived the universe as a close knit system of which all parts were sensitively interdependent . love of all human beings and living creatures was one of the distinctive traits of their teaching." The great personalities of this movement were the Zaddikim (the Righteous Ones). The movement was opposed at first by the orthodox Jewish authorities but because of its "warmth and enthusiasm it became a support to Rabbinism," enriching the language and leaving a treasury of stories which rejuvenated contemporary Jewish life. It has been said that at one time the majority of Polish Jews were Chassidim, and Agnon's ancestors were among them." Slight fading to spine of unclipped dust jacket. Gilt titles to book spine and upper board. Very light discolouration to top edge. Book is otherwise in excellent condition. Original leather/leatherette binding. No inscriptions. All contents are tight and clean.