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Overview
Overview
A selection of essays illustrating the author's work as an Orientalist as well as essays on broader subjects. His broader essays favor scientific idealism with a reverence for religion as "the hightest expression of science and of the human concience." His Orientalist works focus on Afghan culture and Jewish history.
Green antiquarian hardcover with worn and wrinkled spine ends, moderate wear to edges, and bumped corners. Gilt title is still bright on spine. Pages clean and bright, text block unmarked. Ffep and rfep have scuff marks in black pages. Spine is split at pages 154-155 with no pages loose.
A descendent of German Jews, Darmesteter was born in France at the end of Revolutions of 1848. While the revolutions brought more legal equality to Jews, by the publication if this book financial crisis had once again turned public opinion toward radical antisemitism in neighboring Germany, a fact lending important context to his essays involving race, Judaism, and the Jewish people
- Format: Hardback
- Author: Jastrow, Morris, Ed.
- Condition: Fair
- Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Co.
- Publication Year: 1895
- First Edition: Yes