Sefer ha-yovel le-khvod Mordekhai Menahem Kaplan Le-M'lat lo Shivim Shanah/ Mordecai M. Kaplan Jubilee Volume on the Occasion of his Seventieth Birthday. Two Volumes.
New York: Jewish Theological Seminary, 1953. First Edition. Hardbound. Octavos, blue cloth with gold lettering, frontispiece photo of Kaplan, x, 287 + different frontispiece photo of Kaplan, x, 549 pp. Very Good. Item #52334
Articles in the English volume are "World Religion and National Religion," Leo Baeck, "Bibliography of the Writings of Professor Mordecai M. Kaplan," Gerson D. Cohen, "The Teacher in Talmud and Midrash," Max Arzt, "Church and State Debates in the Jewish Community of 1848," Salo W. Baron, "The Kehillah of New York, 1908-1922," Norman Bentwich, "'Outside Books,'" Joshua Bloch, "Letter and Spirit in Jewish and Roman Law," Boaz Cohen, "Kaufman Kohler and Roman Law," Smuel S. Cohon, "Israel Friedlaender's Minute Book of Achavah Club (1909-1912)," Moshe Davis, "Prophecy, Wisdom, and Apocalypse," Israel Efros, "Judaism as a System of Symbols," Louis Finkelstein, "Gleaning in First Isaiah," H.L. Ginsberg, "Deuteronomy 23:8, 9," Nelson Glueck, "The First Chapter of Abot de Rabbi Nathan," Judah Goldin, "The Song of Songs," Robert Gordis, "The Multiplication of the Mitzvot," Simon Greenberg, "A Contra Christianos by a Marrano," A.S. Halkin, "The Role of Memory in Biblical History," Leo L. Honor, "Freedom and Authority," H.M. Kallen, "Defining Jewish Art," Stephen S. Kayser, "Educational Abuses and Reforms in Hanoverian England," Cecil Roth, "Yidishkayt and Yiddish," Max Weinreich, "Maimonides and Gersonides on Divine Attributes as Ambiguous Terms," H.A. Wolfson, "Sociological Analysis of Israel," Benjamin Wolman. Articles in the Hebrew section are "Philosophy and Religion," Samuel Hugo Bergman, "The Human Path," Martin Buber, "The Story of Hannah and Her Seven Sons in Hebrew Literature," Gerson D. Cohen, "Novellae of Solomon ibn-Adret to the Tractate of Megillah," Zalman Dimitrovsky, "Teaching of Patriotism," Ben Zion Dinur (Dinaburg), "Jewish Communal Life in Yemen," Shelomo Dov Goitein, "Why Was Jeremiah Ignored in the Book of Kings?" Joseph Klausner, "Pesikta de Rav Kahana, Shekalim," Bernard Mandelbaum, "Some Observations on the Lives of the Sages in the Talmud," Joshua Ovsay, "On Maimonides' Ethics," Simon Rawidowicz, "Mendelssohn's Political Ideas," Nathan Rotenstreich, :How to Approach the Study of the Bible," Joseph Schaechter, "At the Crossroads (Jewish Education in 20th Century America)," Zevi Scharfstein, "PHilanthropinism and Jewish Education," Ernst Simon, "The Problem of Bi-Culturalism and Its Relation to Contemporary Jewry," Arieh Tartakower, "Language and Phraseology in the Tractate of Aboth d'Rabbi Nathan," N.H. Tur-Sinai, "In Monte Dominus Videbitur: The Martyrs of Blois and the Early Accusations of Ritual Murder," Shalom Spiegel.
Price: $75.00