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Secondhand book for sale-->Cecil Roth; eds. Israel Finestein & Joseph Roth; foreword Raphael Loewe.
Opportunities that Pass: A Historical Miscellany.
Published London: Vallentine Mitchell, 2005.
ISBN 0853035768;
ISBN-13 9780853035763.
Binding: paperback, stitch bound.
Printer: MPG Books, Bodmin.
Size: 146x233x20mm.
Page count: text xx,32pp; plates 4pp.
Main language: English.
Overall condition good: this copy has some mild scuffs on its covers, a bit of wear on the edges and the corners starting to fray a little; pages somewhat yellowed with age; in other respects doesn’t look heavily used, the spine is not creased from reading and the text appears to be free of marking.
This item £7.00
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Publisher’s price £17.95]
Weight without packaging: 436g.
A collection of Roth's essays from various sources. Chronologically wide-ranging with no particular medieval emphasis, though including regular medieval and early modern material.
Contents: Opportunities that pass; Sabbath in Jerusalem; Was Hebrew ever a dead language?; The new year in history; Apples & honey; Kippur reading; Kippur in history; Dwelling in booths; The Etroge compote; The great Hoshanna; Rejoicing in the law; Jews who prayed for the Pope; Old time Hanukkah; New year for trees; How Jews once commemorated Purim; Down with Haman!; A Purim Habdala; An Avignonese plum; Madonna of the scroll; Purim of Buda; Passover deliverance; Miracle of the bomb; My grandmothers seder tray; Omer Days in history; Pentecostal rite; A forgotten Shavuot ceremony; England & the 9th of Ab; The 9th of Ab in history; Historical elegies of the 9th of Ab; May Jews return to Spain?; Last days of the Jewish Salonica; A solution to the mystery of the scrolls; Fall of Jerusalem in 70 CE; Slave community of Malta; Musical academy of the Venetian ghetto; Paradoxes of Jewish history; Caveat emptor Judaeus; Art & craft of Jewish collecting; Postscript by Joseph Roth.
Notes: no
Tables: no
Illustrations: 4 pages of monochrome plates
Maps & plans: no
Genealogies: no
Chronology: no
Glossary: yes
Bibliography: no
Index: no
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