The Book of Legends/Sefer Ha-Aggadah: Legends from the Talmud and Midrash

Bys: Bialik, Hayyim Nahman and Rawnitzky, Y. H.

Book Overview

The first complete English translation of the Hebrew classic Sefer Ha-Aggadah brings to the English-speaking world the greatest and best-loved anthology of classical Rabbinic literature ever compiled. First published in Odessa in 1908-11, it was recognized immediately as a masterwork in its own right, and reprinted numerous times in Israel.

The Hebrew poet Hayim Nahman Bialik and the renowned editor Yehoshua Hana Ravnitzky, the architects of...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0805241132
• ISBN13: 9780805241136
• Release Date: November 1992
• Publisher: Schocken Books Inc
• Length: 920 Pages
• Weight: 4.88 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.8" x 9.0" x 10.9"