The Rise of the Karaite Sect. A New Light on the Halakah and Origin of the Karaites

Cahn, Zvi. The Rise of the Karaite Sect. A New Light on the Halakah and Origin of the Karaites. New York: M. Tausner, 1937. First edition. Small octavo. 128pp. Text in English with some Hebrew. Original brown cloth lettered in black. Front free endpaper with the private library bookplate of Rabbi Isaac M. Varon from the Sephardic Temple Tiferet Israel of Los Angles. There is also a library pocket on rear pastedown. With old, rubber stamps on edges of text block, and a small chip just above foot of spine.

Scarce work in which the author’s main object is the juxtaposition of the Karaite Halakah with that of the Rabbis, in order to determine to what extent they differ. A complementary concern has been the origin of the Karaites. very good -. Hardcover. (53423) $95