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She then speculates about the future of co-existence of Jews and Arabs. Chaim Weizmann lays out the project for Jerusalem University, and how 'Jewish' it will be.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSKU: \u003c\/strong\u003e2123971\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Sotherans","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56238671757689,"sku":"2123971","price":150.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0045\/2178\/7426\/files\/2123971.jpg?v=1764412591"},{"product_id":"sharnopolsky-samuel-guide-to-palestine-palestine-land-of-health-resorts","title":"SHARNOPOLSKY, Samuel. Guide to Palestine. Palestine - Land of Health Resorts.","description":"\u003ch3 style=\"font-variant: small-caps\"\u003eIsrael as Health Resort\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSHARNOPOLSKY, Samuel.\u003c\/strong\u003e Guide to Palestine. Palestine - Land of Health Resorts. ~i~Tel Aviv, \"Hashachar\". [c. 1931].\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e8vo. Original cloth, illustrated and lettered in gilt; pp. [iv], 16, 16, 16, 16, 16, 16, 16, 16, ff. [ii], 29, [1], pp. 16, 16, 11, [5], 16, [16], 16, 16, 16, 15, 16, 16, [iv]; highly illustrated throughout, cloth a little marked, printed on varying paper stock of different colours (light marginal toning); a very good copy.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA bilingual Hebrew and English guidebook for Eretz Yisrael as destination of immigration and as health resort. Sharnopolsky had been involved in health resorts in Odessa up to his Aliyah in 1927. In Mandate Palestine he promoted health facilities and spas mostly in and around Tel Aviv. Both parts of the book, the English and the Hebrew one open with illustrated essays on leading Zionists. 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Original black cloth lettered in gilt to spine, in the dust-jacket priced 3s. 6d. net to the front flap; pp. 68; spine tips rubbed, cloth a little faded to upper and lower edges, small white mark to upper edge of rear panel, rear panel of wrapper detached (discreetly repaired), significant loss to spine, corners, upper edges, various nicks, closed tears and creasing; a very good copy, in a fragmentary but bright wrapper; signed and dated by Eliot (22 May 1947)to title-page.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA scarce signed first printing of Eliot’s troubled and troubling 1933 Page-Barbour Lectures, a volume withdrawn by the author after a single reprint the same year.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAfter Strange Gods collects the series of three Page-Barbour Lectures delivered at the University of Virginia in 1933. The jacket text (most likely written by Eliot himself) states that the lectures develop, ‘after fifteen years’ interval, the implications of his essay ‘Tradition and the Individual Talent’. If that essay, printed in Eliot’s first volume of literary essays, The Sacred Wood (1920), offers a theory of literary tradition and innovation (familiar to generations of English Literature undergraduates to this day), the Virginia lectures ‘were not undertaken as exercises in literary criticism [and] not designed to set forth, even in the most summary form, my opinions of the work of contemporary writers’. Instead, ‘they are concerned with certain ideas in illustration of which I have drawn upon the work of some of the few modern writers whose work I know.’ Nonetheless, in seeking to illustrate his thesis that, as the jacket concisely has it, ‘the weakness of modern literature, indicative of the weakness of the modern world in general, is a religious weakness; […] that all our social problems, including those of literature and criticism, begin and end in the religious problem’, he looks closely at the writings of Hardy, Kipling, Lawrence, and others, in relation to ideas of orthodoxy, and ‘its opposite, heterodoxy, for which I shall also use the term heresy’. For Eliot, Hardy, an atheist (though the word is not used), represents ‘an interesting example of a powerful personality uncurbed by any institutional attachment or by submission to any objective beliefs […]’, while Lawrence ‘is for my purposes, an almost perfect example of the heretic.’\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe book was withdrawn by Eliot after just one reprint, in the same year as the first printing, and never reissued. This was primarily owing to a passage on pp. 19-21 advocating ‘unity of religious background’ which is hard not to read as squarely antisemitic (though many have tried). In his short book on Eliot, Stephen Spender (who doesn’t) notes that the period of the lectures ‘was a time of extreme tension for [Eliot], when he was making up his mind to separate from his [first] wife’, and that ‘the unhappiness shows in the lectures.’ He also records Eliot’s assertion ‘that when he wrote After Strange Gods he was in a state of unhappiness which distorted his judgement.’\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOwing to Eliot’s complex relationship with the book, and the relatively few copies in circulation, signed or inscribed copies have always been scarce.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eGallup A25a. See Spender, T. S. Eliot (1975); Ricks, T. S. 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[3 (blank)], [151], [6 (blank)]; titles within architectural woodcut borders and start of text within woodcut cartouches; hinges starting, boards lightly rubbed with a few minor abrasions, worming to upper joint with small loss; internally clean and bright; a very good copy.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTwo portions, comprising Joshua and Judges as well as Samuel, of the handsome eighteen-part, pocket-sized Hebrew Bible printed in Geneva by Pierre de la Rouvière, sold as individual fascicles which could be bound together (as here) or in sets of four volumes.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Christian printer Pierre de la Rouvière (1574–1622, \u003ci\u003efl\u003c\/i\u003e. 159–1622) is here listed on the title-page as ‘Kefa Elon’, a literal translation of his name ('Rock Oak’); he is elsewhere known as Cephas\/Cafa Elon or Petrus Quercetanus and was the printer of the first bilingual Josephus (1611) as well as a Hebrew–Greek Bible (1609). The two discrete parts bound together here form part of what Steinschneider calls the \u003ci\u003eBiblia Eliana\u003c\/i\u003e – known also as the Petrus Bibles – issued shortly after the 4to Hebrew edition, also published in 8vo with interlinear Latin translation. All are based largely on earlier Venetian Hebrew Bibles, especially those printed by Giustiniani in the sixteenth century, to which they are typographically related.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe present work evidently makes use of Picard’s square Sephardic Hebrew typeface (Lubell’s Hb27), first used by Robert Estienne in 1543 and ‘most probably the first complete Hebrew type specimen ever recorded’ (Lubell, p. 258). De la Rouvière had used the same type for his 1614 \u003ci\u003eThesaurus linguae sanctae\u003c\/i\u003e, distinguished by the ‘lamed with its distinctive flagged ascender, the shin with the squared termination on the middle stroke and the gimmel with the bent middle stroke and calligraphic termination to the baseline […] The attributions for this Picard typeface show a very wide distribution: Geneva, Gießen, Frankfurt and Hanau in Germany’ and were likely spread by André Wechel, who re-established his business in Frankfurt in the aftermath of the St Bartholomew’s Day Massacre and likely ‘managed to have some of his type brought to Frankfurt by Denis du Val, his associate in Paris’, or by Robert Estienne, who brought much of his type to Geneva after 1549 (\u003ci\u003eibid\u003c\/i\u003e., pp. 259–60). 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