Silber, Mendel. The Origin of the Synagogue: Inscribed to the University of Denver, to whose Faculty this has been Presented as Thesis for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy

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Silber, Mendel. The Origin of the Synagogue: Inscribed to the University of Denver, to whose Faculty this has been Presented as Thesis for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy

FIRST EDITION. English interspersed with Hebrew pp. 22. Some pages detached. Stiff wrappers. Staples. Tall 4to

New Orleans, LA: Steeg 1915

Est: $100 - $150

In this erudite, if brief, doctoral dissertation, Rabbi Mendel Silber traces the evolution of the institute of the Synagogue from ancient times. One may notice that the curious oblong shape of the book is remarkably similar to that of Zemir Aritzim (Newark, 1899), a peculiar bibliophile edition, published by Ephraim Deinard - Silber’s father-in-law