Between History and Literature: Studies in Honor of Isaac Barzilay / Bein Historiyah le-Sifrut: Sefer Yovel le-Yizhak Barzilay

Barzilay, Isaac and Stanley Nash. Between History and Literature: Studies in Honor of Isaac Barzilay / Bein Historiyah le-Sifrut: Sefer Yovel le-Yizhak Barzilay. [Tel Aviv]: Hakibbutz Hameuchad Publishing House, 1997. First edition. Small quarto. 218pp. in English + 358 pp. in Hebrew at opposing ends of book. Decorative green, whit and blue boards. Frontis piece displaying b/w facsimile photograph of Isaac Barzilay by Hebrew title page. Text in English and Hebrew. Book is in near fine condition. vg. Hardcover.

Isaac Barzilay was a leading 20th century scholar of early modern Jewish history, spending much of his career teaching at Columbia University. He was the author of such works as Between Reason and Faith: Anti-Rationalism in Italian Jewish Thought 1250-1650 and Manasseh of Ilya: Precursor of Modernity Among Jews of Eastern Europe. (20536) $95