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Germany) Agus, Irving Abraham : RABBI MEIR OF ROTHENBURG; HIS LIFE AND HIS WORKS AS SOURCES FOR THE RELIGIOUS, LEGAL, AND SOCIAL HISTORY OF THE JEWS OF GERMANY IN THE THIRTEENTH CENTURY [COMPLETE IN TWO VOLUMES]

Philadelphia: The Dropsie College for Hebrew and Cognate Learning, Philadelphia: Dropsie College., 1947.

8vo. Xxxiii, 749 pages. Complete in two volumes. First edition. SUBJECT(S): Responsa; Responsa – 1040-1600; Jews – Germany; Meir ben Baruch, of Rothenberg, ca. 1215-1293. “Agus was born in Swislocz, Poland, and studied at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem (1926–27) , and at Dropsie College (1937) . He served as educational director in Memphis, Tenn. (1939–45) , dean of the Harry Fischel Research School in Talmud (Jerusalem, 1947–49) , and principal of the Akiba Academy in Philadelphia (1949–51) . From 1951 he was professor of Jewish history at Yeshiva University. Using responsa literature as a primary historical source, Agus wrote extensively on Jewish life in the Middle Ages. Among his works are Rabbi Meir of Rothenburg (2 vols. , 1947) , describing Jewish life in 13th-century Germany, and Teshuvot Ba'alei ha-Tosafot, an edition of previously unpublished responsa by the Tosafists (1954) . His later writings concentrated on Jewish communal life in pre-Crusade Europe, showing that the Franco-German Jews, though a small group, were able to preserve talmudic traditions by their great devotion to study and observance of Judaism. ”(Berkowitz, EJ) Former owner's mark on endpage. Otherwise clean and fresh, very good condition +. (RAB-14-7)xx

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