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Essays on Jewish Folklore and Comparative Literature

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This posthumous collection of studies by Alexander Scheiber, the last of his own gathenng, has turned into a sad event for scholars of Judaism and ethnography. Professor Scheiber was the learned director of Budapest's Rabbinical Seminary for nearly forty years; during this period he educated several generations of rabbis and scholars, wrote 1500 publications, edited and contributed to a variety of scholarly journals and anthologies. The present volume collects, for the first time, his most important articles attempting a synthesis the ethnography and literature of East and West. Throughout the five decades of his creative excellence, Professor Scheiber was one of those rare scholars capable of understanding and interpreting the mysterious symbiosis of past and present, Occident and Orient. The spiritual heir of David Kaufmann, Ignatius Goldziher, Immanuel Löw, Bernard Heller, he represented classical universality in our specialized modern world. The scope of his writings embraces all phenomena from classical Hebrew-Aramean and Greek-Latin culture to contemporary forms of civilization. Essays are in English,German, French and Hebrew.

The present volume collects, for the first time, his most important articles attempting a synthesis the ethnography and literature of East and West.

Author:Alexander Scheiber
Type:Hardcover

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