Yitzhak Julius Guttmann (5 results)

Condition: Good. Good condition item with wear and markings. Ex-library.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Torn/worn dj. Good hardcover with some shelfwear; may have previous owner's name inside. Standard-sized.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. In Hebrew. 435 pages. 23 x 16 mm. Title page has the distinctively written name of its first owner: Isaiah Shachar (Yishai) Born Isaiah Stengel (August 6, 1935 - September 19, 1977 was an Israeli historian who studied European history and Jewish history in Eastern Europe at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. His master thesis in 1963 was entitled Criticism of the Jewish community and its Leadership in the Hasidic and Non-Hasidic Literature of Eighteenth century Poland - A Comparative Study (in Hebrew). 1964-1966 Shachar was junior research fellow at the Warburg Institute (University of London) where he worked on a doctoral dissertation under the supervision of professor E. H. Gombrich (completed 1967). It was published in his main work: The Judensau: A Medieval Anti-Jewish Motif and Its History, Warburg Institute Surveys, 5 (London, 1974). He edited the catalogue of the Feuchtwanger Collection of Judaica at the Israel Museum, Jerusalem (Jerusalem, 1981), published miscellaneous monographs, including one establishing the authenticity of the personal seal of Nachmanides, which was found in a field in Israel. His varied interests included the early history of Hasidism; Jewish iconography and portraiture, and Jewish/Hebrew bibliography. His important personal library was auctioned at Sotheby's London on 17 & 18 November 1980. He held teaching posts at the Hebrew University, and University College, London, and at the Oxford Centre for Postgraduate Hebrew Studies. Shachar wrote some articles on Jewish art. A memorial volume commemorating the life and works of Shachar was edited by Clare Moore in 1993: The Visual Dimension: Aspects of Jewish Art (Westview Press, 1993).

Gr-8vo. 134 S. OLn. Einband leicht berieben, sonst gut erhalten. Aus dem Nachlass des Theologen Helmut Gollwitzer. Sprache: englisch.

Jerusalem, Bialik, 1963. 435 pp. Good copy. Orig. halfcloth, slightly bumped corners. Transl. from the German into Hebrew by J.L. Barukh and ed. by Ts. Vislavski. Orig. title: Die Philosophie des Judentums.