The Leo Jung Jubilee Volume: Essays in His Honor on the Occasion of His Seventieth Birthday

Kasher, Menahem M. (ed.); Norman Lamm (ed.); Leonard Rosenfeld (ed.). The Leo Jung Jubilee Volume: Essays in His Honor on the Occasion of His Seventieth Birthday. New York: The Jewish Center, 1962. First edition. Quarto. [10], 242pp. 258pp. Original grey cloth with illustration pasted on covers and gold lettering on boards and spine. Each title-page in orange and black lettering. Frontispiece portrait of Rabbi Leo Jung. A collection of papers on Jewish topics by various scholars in English (and in one case in French) and Hebrew. Contributors include Herman Wouk, Eliezer Berkovits, Abraham J. Heschel, Guido Kisch, Norman Lamm, Cecil Roth and Walter Wurzburger. Text in English, French and Hebrew. Minor soiling and rubbing on binding. Overall very good condition. vg. Hardcover.

Articles include:

“The Distinctiveness of Maimonides’ Halakhah” by Isidore Epstein
“The Motif of Freedom in the Sabbath” by Leonard Rosenfeld
“The Religious Nature of the Zealots” by Cecil Roth (25257) $60