Bronstein Herbert Ed (3 results)

Soft Cover. Condition: Very Good. 24th printing. Note hi-liting on one page. Size: Narrow Small Quarto. Leonard Baskin (illustrator).

Hardcover. Condition: Near fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 123 p. 36 cm. Colour illustrations and music. Green cloth in dustjacket. Jacket is darkening and has some light edge wear. Book itself has tiny dent in lower edge of one board.

Condition: Gut. XIII; 383 S.; Illustr.; 23 cm; fadengeh., farb. illustr. Orig.-Pappband. Gutes Ex. ; Vorsatz mit priv. Widmung. - Englisch; hebräisch. - INHALT : INTRODUCTION ---- A NOTE ON USAGE xiii ---- ECCLESIASTES ---- Introduction ---- The Liturgy ---- The Text ---- ESTHER ---- Introduction ---- The Liturgy ---- The Text ---- SONG OF SONGS ---- Introduction ---- The Liturgy ---- The Text ---- RUTH ---- Introduction ---- The Liturgy ---- The Text ---- LAMENTATIONS ---- Introduction ---- The Liturgy ---- The Text ---- LITURGY FOR THE FESTIVALS ---- A GUIDE FOR FURTHER READING. // This presentation of the Five Scrolls, with liturgies for the festivals, is intended as a contribution to the process of the religious renewal of American Jewry. For a long time Western Jewry had suffered a process of spiritual disruption and debilitation. In the course of scarcely a century and a half, Jewry experienced the upheaval of the great migrations from Europe to America. As great as were the physical disruptions, the cultural devastation was greater still. American society was a frontier world. American society was preoccupied with establishing the material basis of life. Isaac Mayer Wise, a founder of Reform Judaism, could not find on the entire continent, when he first arrived here in the mid-nineteenth century, even a single copy of a basic book of Jewish law, the Mishnah. There were large numbers of unlearned Jews without the basic knowledge or skills to understand or to express Jewish spirituality. . (Vorwort) ISBN 0916694801 Sprache: Deutsch Gewicht in Gramm: 850. Leonard Baskin (illustrator).…