Portrait of a Jewish scholar; essays and addresses.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Skoss, Solomon Leon, 1884-1953.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Judaism.

Physical Description:

150 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Bloch Pub. Co., 1957.

Contents:

Solomon L. Skoss/ A biography, by Solomon Grayzel

Incidents in the Life of Doctor Skoss, by Irene K. Skoss

Professor Skoss/ a tribute, by Abraham I. Katsh

On Jewish history and personality

1. The recently discovered Hebrew scrolls near the dead sea in Palestine

2. The early linguistic history of the Jews

3. The Kraits in Jerusalem in the 10th and 11th centuries

4. A new 10th-century reference to the Jews praying at the temple site in Jerusalem

5. An Ethiopian book of Magic

6. Judah Halevi

7. Adolph Sutro, civic leader and Bibliophile

8. The treatise of Maimonides

On Islam and the Moslems

9. Mohammad's night journey from Mecca to Jerusalem

10. The prohibition of wine in the Mohammedan religion

11. Moslem pilgrimage to holy cities

On Bee-keeping

12. Bee-keeping in the Holy Land in the time of Jesus

13. Swarming /a study in Bee behavior

Glossary.

Notes:

Bibliographical footnotes.

Local Notes:

CJS copies acc.# c.2 100202 c.1 100584

CJS copy 3 has autograph by author.

Other Format:

Online version: Skoss, Solomon Leon, 1884-1953. Portrait of a Jewish scholar.

OCLC:

1022400