[Rarebooks] fs-Jewish Law

[Joe Luttrell]

A selection of works which we have in stock on Jewish law and 
related subjects; for others, please feel free to browse our web 
site, where you may search our entire inventory by any word or 
phrase: www.meyerbos.com

1.  CARDOZO, Benjamin N.  Values.  Jewish Institute of Religion,
New York, 1944.  Original light-green printed stapled wraps,
somewhat faded and worn, lightly browned, else a good copy; 10
pages. [71496] PHOTO:
http://www.meyerbos.com/bookListing.cgi?bookNo=71496     $ 350.00

Justice Cardozo's poignant, inspiring address, delivered in 1931 at
the Jewish Institute of Religion, the reform seminary established
by Rabbi Stephen Wise, "who came as close as anyone to being
Cardozo's spiritual advisor".

2.  DAUBE, David.  Appeasement or Resistance, And Other Essays on
New Testament Judaism.  University of California Press, Berkeley,
1987.  A very good copy, in a somewhat worn dustjacket. [66607
L76EL78E]                                                 $ 85.00

Four of Professor Daube's always scintillating essays, the last of
which (the title's essay) may be viewed as complementing his
'Collaboration with Tyranny'; with a second essay on 'Temple Tax',
and another on the 'Old Testament in the New'.

3.  FERENCZ, Benjamin B.  Less Than Slaves, Jewish Forced Labor and
the Quest for Compensation.  Harvard University Press, Cambridge,
1979.  A good copy in a slightly worn dustjacket. [30406]
                                                           $ 25.00

4.  HSIA, R. Po-Chia.  The Myth of Ritual Murder, Jews and Magic in
Reformation Germany.  Yale University Press, New Haven, 1988. [18586 L55] 
$ 45.00

5.  Israel in Lebanon, Report of the International Commission. Ithaca Press, 
London, 1983.  Sewn wraps; 282 pages. [30869]
                                                           $ 45.00

6.  RICHARDSON, H.G.  English Jewry Under Angevin Kings.  Methuen
& Co. Ltd, London, 1960.  Original cloth, a good copy in quite a
worn and chipped dustjacket. [67000 L70E]                $ 125.00

Based on lectures delivered by Mr. Richardson to the Jewish
Historical Society and on other earlier essays of his, from the
original English settlement to the beginning of the reign of Henry
III in 1216; with a chapter on the assize of the Jewry.

7.  The Rule of Law in the Areas Administered by Israel.  Israel
National Section of the Int'l Commission of Jurists, Tel Aviv,
1981.  Printed wraps; 114 pages. [30558]                  $ 65.00

8.  SELDENI, Ioannis.  De Iure Naturali & Gentium, Iuxta
Disciplinam Ebraeorum, Libri Septem. S.T.C. 22168. Folio in 4's. Excudebat 
Richardus Bishopius, Londini, 1640.  Contemporary vellum,
showing wear, some staining and browning, sometimes heavy, yet a
crisp copy. [71993] PHOTO:
http://www.meyerbos.com/bookListing.cgi?bookNo=71993   $ 1,250.00

First edition of Selden's most important effort to examine Jewish
law and, more broadly in the view of David Berkowitz, "a major work
and an ingenious attempt to construct an historical system of
natural law", subsequently of much interest to Vico.


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