Sepher Yetzirah. A Book on Creation; or, The Jewish Metaphysics of Remote Antiquity. * A Sketch of the Talmud. Together two works in one volume (as issued). Both Edited and translated into English by Isidor Kalisch

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Sepher Yetzirah. A Book on Creation; or, The Jewish Metaphysics of Remote Antiquity. * A Sketch of the Talmud. Together two works in one volume (as issued). Both Edited and translated into English by Isidor Kalisch

Hebrew with English translation face `a face pp. 57, (1); 38. Original boards, aeg. 8vo Singerman 2635

New York: L.H. Frank 1877

Est: $400 - $600

Scholar-rabbi Isidor Kalisch was born in Krotoschin, Germany in 1816 and died in Newark in 1886. His politically liberal views forced him to leave Germany for the United States in 1849. Besides Sepher Yezirah, he translated into English Sepher ha-Tapuach (attributed to Aristotle) and the Book of Antiochus. See JE, Vol. VII, pp. 419-420