1958 - 93 Social & Religious History of Jews 2nd Edition Complete Set + Indexes

Description: A Social and Religious History of the Jews. By Salo Wittmayer Baron. Philadelphia, PA: The Jewish Publication Society of America. Columbia University Press. Second Edition, Mixed States. Ex-library: The University of Michigan, Dearborn Center Library. Uniform blue cloth binding measuring 9 x 6”, 8vos. Complete Set: I-VIII (+ Index for these Volumes), IX-XVIII (+ Index for these Volumes). In fair condition. Navy cloth boards normally scuffed at edges and worn/bumped at corners. Ex-library sticker residue found on all front boards; ink ex-library ink stamps on all top, fore & bottom edges of text-blocks. Ex-library locator code stickers found on all tails of spines but Volumes IX-XII (Handwritten locator codes). Gilt lettering and deco normally dulled/soiled (especially Vol. I), but all text is legible. Ex-library hand-writing, card catalogues & envelopes found on front and rear paste-downs throughout all volumes. Light toning throughout text-blocks; mostly at edges of leaves. Bindings intact. Please see photos and ask questions, if any, before purchasing. Salo Wittmayer Baron (1895 – 1989) was an Austrian-born American historian, described as "the greatest Jewish historian of the 20th century". Baron taught at Columbia University from 1930 until his retirement in 1963. According to Yosef Hayim Yerushalmi, Baron "was undoubtedly the greatest Jewish historian of the 20th century." His and his wife's magnum opus was A Social and Religious History of the Jews (Columbia University Press), which began as a series of lectures, turned into a three-volume overview of Jewish history published in 1937 and finally grew into a revised version. Professor Baron continued to work on the series throughout his life. Baron opposed the "lachrymose conception of Jewish history," sometimes identified with Heinrich Graetz, a great 19th-century Jewish historian who found the main elements of Jewish experience through the ages to be suffering and spiritual scholarship. In a 1975 interview, Baron said "Suffering is part of the destiny [of the Jews], but so is repeated joy as well as ultimate redemption." Professor Baron also strove to integrate the religious dimension of Jewish history into a full picture of Jewish life and to integrate the history of Jews into the wider history of the eras and societies in which they lived. A Social and Religious History of the Jews (18 vols., 2d ed. 1952–1983). Complete set! Ex-library, but clean otherwise. FORN-SHELF-0510-BB-2407-HK1937

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