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Aḥad Ha-Aam: essays, letters, memoirs / translated from the Hebrew and edited by Leon Simon.
Library at the Katz Center - Special DS151.A33 A513 1946
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LIBRA 274 G433.2.ES
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Aḥad Haʻam, 1856-1927.
- Series:
- Philosophica judaica.
- Philosophia judaica
- Standardized Title:
- Selections. English. 1946
- Language:
- English
- Hebrew
- Subjects (All):
- Aḥad Haʻam, 1856-1927.
- Aḥad Haʻam.
- Jews.
- Penn Provenance:
- Potok, Adena (donor) (Potok Collection copy)
- Potok, Chaim (autograph) (Potok Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 354 pages, 2 unnumbered pages ; 23 cm.
- Manufacture:
- London and Woking : Printed by Unwin Brothers Limited.
- Other Title:
- Essays, letters, memoirs Ahad Ha-am
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford : East and West Library, 1946.
- Contents:
- I. Essays: The people of the book; Ancestor worship; Imitation and assimilation; Judaism and Nietzsche; Zionism and Jewish culture; Moses; Judaism and asceticism; Jewish and Christian ethics; The supremacy of reason (Maimonides); Pinsker and political Zionism; A spiritual centre; Progress and anti-semitism; Diaspora nationalism
- II. Letters: Introductory Note. Hashiloah; Judaism and Jewish nationalism; Zionism; Personal characteristicsand experiences
- III. Reminiscences.
- Notes:
- Title page printed in black and red.
- "Ahad Ha-m, Hebrew for 'One of the People', is the pen-name invariably used, and made famous, by the Hebrew writer and Zionist thinker whose real name was Asher Ginzberg."--Translator's Introduction.
- "Each essay is provided with a short introduction, which relates the subject-matter both to the political and religious movements that led Ahad Ha-Am to write, and to modern developments of the problem concerned."--Dust jacket.
- Includes biobliographical references and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acc.# 101049
- Potok Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries by Adena Potok.
- Potok Collection copy: dust jacket retained.
- Potok Collection copy has autograph of "Herman Potok April 1952".
- Potok Collection copy has underlines, marginal marks, ms. annotations and autograph of "Herman Potok".
- OCLC:
- 588444
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