Israel Abrahams: 18 books

Judaism Israel Abrahams, one of the most distinguished Jewish scholars of his generation (1858-1925) This ebook presents «Judaism», from Israel Abrahams. A dynamic table of contents enables to jump directly to the chapter selected. Table of Contents -01- About this book -02- FOREWORD...

Chapters on Jewish Literature Israel Abrahams, one of the most distinguished Jewish scholars of his generation (1858-1925) This ebook presents «Chapters on Jewish Literature», from Israel Abrahams. A dynamic table of contents enables to jump directly to the chapter selected. Table of...

The Book of Delight and Other Papers Israel Abrahams, one of the most distinguished Jewish scholars of his generation (1858-1925) This ebook presents «The Book of Delight and Other Papers», from Israel Abrahams. A dynamic table of contents enables to jump directly to the chapter...

The Book of Delight and Other Papers by one of the most distinguished Jewish scholars of his generation, Israel Abrahams.Abrahams collaborated with Claude Montefiore to write the book Aspects of Judaism, which was published in 1895. His chief works were Jewish Life in the Middle Ages (1896) and Chapters on Jewish Literature (1898).

Joseph Zabara has only in recent times received the consideration justly due to him. Yet his "Book of Delight," finished about the year 1200, is more than a poetical romance. It is a golden link between folk literature and imaginative poetry. The style is original, and the framework of the...

Israel Abrahams' extensive analyses of the famous jewish poem. Joseph Zabara has only in recent times received the consideration justly due to him. Yet his "Book of Delight," finished about the year 1200, is more than a poetical romance. It is a golden link between folk-literature and imaginative poetry.

Chapters On Jewish Literature by Israel Abrahams..

Chapters on Jewish Literature is a survey of the period from the fall of Jerusalem in ad 70 to the death of the Jewish philosopher Moses Mendelssohn. After teaching for several years at Jews' College, London, Abrahams was appointed reader in Talmudics (rabbinic literature) at the University of Cambridge,...

Moses ben-Maimon, commonly referred to as Maimonides, was a Jewish philosopher, physician, and scholar of the Torah during the 12th century. He is considered one of the most influential Jewish philosophers of the Medieval Era. Born in Cordoba Spain in 1135, Maimonides and his family were forced out Cordoba...

Highly readable social history comprehensively examines life of European Jews, from approximately the late 10th-century to the early 1500s. Topics include social functions of the synagogue, communal organizations, love, courtship and marriage, monogamy and home life, trades and occupations, medieval pastimes and personal relations between Christians and Jews.

The chapters of this volume were almost all spoken addresses. The author has not now changed their character as such, for it seemed to him that to convert them into formal essays would be to rob them of any little attraction they may possess. One of the addresses—that on "Medieval Wayfaring"—was...

Between those last precise accounts of military engagements which antiquity has left us in small number, and what may be called the modern history of war, there lies a period of many centuries—quite 1400 years—during which the details of an action and even the main features of a campaign are never...

Presented in this streamlined volume is the captivating biography of Maimonides—the Jewish philosopher, jurist, physician, and one of the greatest Jewish scholars of the medieval period, who eventually became the court physician to Sultan Saladin. Author David Yellin’s meticulous scholarship examines...