A Maimonides reader / edited, with introductions and notes, by Isadore Twersky.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Maimonides, Moses, 1135-1204.

Contributor:

Twersky, Isadore, editor.

The Library of Chaim Potok (University of Pennsylvania)

Series:

Library of Jewish studies

Standardized Title:

Selections. English. 1972

Language:

English

Hebrew

Subjects (All):

Judaism--Works to 1900.

Judaism.

Penn Provenance:

Potok, Adena (donor) (Potok Collection copy)

Potok, Chaim (autograph) (Potok Collection copy)

Physical Description:

xvii pages, 1 unnumbered page, 494 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York : Behrman House, Inc., Publishers, [1972]

Contents:

Mishneh Torah. Book One: Knowledge (Sefer ha-Madda); Book Two: Adoration (Sefer Ahavah); Book Three: Seasons (Sefer Zemanim); Book Five: Holines (Sefer Kedushah); Book Six: Asseverations (Sefer Hafla'ah); Book Seven: Seeds (Sefer Zeraim); Book Eight: Service (Sefer Avodah); Book Nine: Sacrifices(Sefer Korbanot); Book Ten: Purity (Sefer Tohorah; Book Eleven: Torts (Sefer Nezikin); Book Twelve: Acquisitions (Sefer Kinyan); Book Thirteen: Judgments (Sefer Mishpatim; Book Fourteen: Judges (Sefer Shofetim)

Guide of the Perplexed. Part One; Part Two; Part Three

Other Writings. Eight chapters; Commentary on the Mishnah, Avot; Helek: Sanhedrin, Chapter Ten; Book of Commandments; Epistle to Yemen; Letter on Astrology; Occasional letters.

Notes:

"Designed by Betty Binns."

Includes bibliographical references (pages 483-490) and index.

Local Notes:

Potok Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries by Adena Potok.

Potok Collection copy: dust jacket retained.

Potok Collection copy has autograph of "Chaim Potok 1976".

Potok Collection copy has underlines, marginal marks and ms. annotations.

ISBN:

0874412005

OCLC:

215953