HISTORAMA AUCTION #7 - 'Buy or Bid' Sale

A Book of Jewish Thoughts for Jewish Sailors and Soldiers, by Chief Rabbi Joseph Herman Hertz; 1918 4th ed., printed by Eyre & Spottiswoode; 238 +2 pp. With opening salutation by the Rav dated Tu be'Av 1917; selection of various texts of diverse sources (Jewish & non-Jewish, Biblical & contemporary). Printed in 10,000 copies. Softback of stitched fibre & thin pages. "Signed" by Leo Jung, Fitzwilliam Hall Cambridge 1918 + handwritten Hebrew thought on inside back-page: Rabbi Jung (1892-1987) was one of the major architects of American Orthodox Judaism, received secular & Talmudic education + attended Cambridge Univ.; father was R. Dr. Meir Tzvi Jung, proponent of R. Samson Raphael Hirsch's philosophy of "Torah im Derekh Eretz"; received Rabbinic ordinations ("semikhah"), from R. Mordechai Zevi Schwartz, R. Abraham Isaac Kook & R. David Zvi Hoffmann.
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This lot is being offered in a buy or bid sale format, whose initial buyout price is: $239. This price will rise by about 5-10% for every new bid received once the bid level passes the midway mark between the starting bid price and the initial buyout price. In such cases please check the latest buyout price on our homesite or contact us.
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Product Tags: United Kingdomian,British Book/Publication, Rabbis & Signatures and Judaica from United Kingdom and from World War I, 20th Century, 1910s which are Objects with Biblical or Jewish Religious references or Hebrew Dates, Hebrew on/in non-Israeli object, Object Related Specifically to a Personality or Key Event,