Tamar Alexander Ed (12 results)

Softcover. Condition: Very Good with no dust jacket. Book is in the English language. Sound binding. Clean, bright pages. Wrappers have light handling wear, slight fading at spine. Contents: Alexander and Govrin, Storytelling as a performing art. Raz, The Japanese itinerant storyteller: a multivocal function. Zur, Storyteler as actor: the Yemenite custom of 'sitting on the gat.' Kowzan, Hamlet's theme as a macrosign. Gorfain, 'Craft against vice': riddling as ritual in Measure for Measure. Kaynar, The spectator as an object for annihilation and redemption: basic principles of processing the middle-class reality-convention in the German Expressionist drama. Roken, Memory and history: The Soul of a Jew by Jehoshua Sobol. Sobol, Excerpt from The Soul of a Jew. Levy, The 1988/89 theatre season in Israel. 9.25" tall; 185 pages.…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 8vo in glossy illustrated boards. Text in Hebrew, second title page and intro in English. Near Fine.

Softcover. Condition: vg. First edition. Quarto. [8], 380 pp. Original illustrated wraps. Photographic frontispiece of Henry J. Leir. Eighth volume in the "Henry J. Leir Library of Sephardica: Text and Studies" series. Fascinating work published in 2004 on the eve of commemorating the 800th anniversary of Rabbi Moshe ben Maimon's death and presenting the English version of a volume of folktales about Maimonides which has been published in Spanish by Tamar Alexander and Elene Romero in 1985 on the occasion of the 850th anniversary of his birth in Cordoba. Accompanied by a foreword by Moshe Lazar. This work is profusely illustrated with numerous b/w photographic reproductions of documents. Book in fine condition. R. Moses Maimonides (Rambam) was a 12th century Jewish philosopher and halachic legal scholar. A highly controversial figure, both during his lifetime and after his death, but generally acknowledged as the preeminent Jewish thinker of the Middle Ages. He was born in Córdoba, Spain but fled as a child due to Almohad persecution of Jews. He eventually settled in Egypt where he served as a rabbi, physician and philosopher. His fourteen-volume Mishneh Torah, his only work not in Arabic, still carries canonical authority, particularly within the Yemenite Jewish community, as the codification of Talmudic law. His other work includes a commentary on the Mishnah entitled Kitab al-Siraj, Kitab al-Fara'I, a book on precepts, and the philosophical work Dalalat al-Ha'irin, known in Hebrew as the Moreh Nevukhim, The Guide to the Perplexed. The major premise is an attempted philosophical/theological reconciliation of the Hebrew Bible and Greek knowledge and explaining away anthropomorphic and antropopathic terms in the Bible. This work came to play a central role in all subsequent major controversies over philosophy within the Jewish community during the Middle Ages.…

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Condition: New.

Condition: New.

Jerusalem, Akademon, 1983. 148 pp. Stenographed. Or.wraps. Text in Hebrew.

IN HEBREW. 23x15 cm. 15+261 pages. Soft cover. Ex library copy with the usual marks. Else in good condition. The book is in : Hebrew.

230x170 mm. 8+364+305 pages. Hardcover. Cover slightly rubbed. Spine edges slightly bumped. Some pages stained - no damage to text. Pages slightly yellowing. Else in good condition. The book is in : Hebrew English Spanish.

Hardcover. Condition: vg. First edition. 8vo. [8], 380 pp. Original grey cloth with red lettering on front cover and spine. Photographic frontispiece of Henry J. Leir. Eighth volume in the "Henry J. Leir Library of Sephardica: Text and Studies" series. A collection of folktales about Rabbi Moshe ben Maimon, also known as the Rambam, divided into ten thematic sections, with an analytical introduction and various typology and bibliographic notes at the rear, together with a series of comprehensive indices, including geographic origins and narrative types and motifs. An English translation (published to commemorate the 800th anniversary of Maimonides' death) of the 1985 Spanish edition by Tamar Alexander and Elene Romero (published on the occasion of the 850th anniversary of his birth in Cordoba). Accompanied with a foreword by Moshe Lazar. Illustrated with b/w photographic reproductions. Fine condition. R. Moses Maimonides (Rambam) was a 12th century Jewish philosopher and halachic legal scholar. A highly controversial figure, both during his lifetime and after his death, but generally acknowledged as the preeminent Jewish thinker of the Middle Ages. He was born in Córdoba, Spain but fled as a child due to Almohad persecution of Jews. He eventually settled in Egypt where he served as a rabbi, physician and philosopher. His fourteen-volume Mishneh Torah, his only work not in Arabic, still carries canonical authority, particularly within the Yemenite Jewish community, as the codification of Talmudic law. His other work includes a commentary on the Mishnah entitled Kitab al-Siraj, Kitab al-Fara'I, a book on precepts, and the philosophical work Dalalat al-Ha'irin, known in Hebrew as the Moreh Nevukhim, The Guide to the Perplexed. The major premise is an attempted philosophical/theological reconciliation of the Hebrew Bible and Greek knowledge and explaining away anthropomorphic and antropopathic terms in the Bible. This work came to play a central role in all subsequent major controversies over philosophy within the Jewish community during the Middle Ages.…

IN HEBREW WITH ENGLISH ABSTRACTS. 22.5X15 cm. 456+XXI pages. Softcover. Cover slightly chafed. Else in good condition. The book is in : Hebrew.