Biblioteca Española-Portugueza-Judaica

Kayserling, Meyer; Yosef Hayim Yerushalmi; J. S. da Silva Rosa; M. Weisz. Biblioteca Española-Portugueza-Judaica. New York: KTAV Publishing House, 1971. First edition. Octavo. xxi,272pp. Red cloth with gold lettering on cover and spine. Biblioteca Española-Portugueza-Judaica and other studies in Ibero-Jewish bibliography by M. Kayserling and J. S. da Silva Rosa; with a bibliography of Kayserling’s publications by M. Weisz. Selected with a Prolegomenon by Professor Yosef Hayim Yerushalmi. Text in English, French, German, some Spanish and Portuguese. Very minor staining and scuffing on cloth. Tight copy with binding in good+, interior in very good to near fine condition. Part of the series “Studia Sephardica: Texts and Studies in the History and Literature of Spanish and Portuguese Jewry.” vg. Hardcover.

Dr. Yosef Hayim Yerushalmi held the Salo Wittmayer Baron chair of Jewish history at Columbia University. He specialized in Sephardic Diaspora history, authoring From Spanish Court to Italian Ghetto; Isaac Cardoso: A Study in Seventeenth-Century Marranism and Jewish Apologetics. In addition he wrote such works as Zakhor: Jewish History and Jewish Memory and Freud’s Moses: Judaism Terminable and Interminable. (27403) $75