Essays in honour of the Very Rev. Dr. J. H. Hertz
Subtitle: chief rabbi of the United Hebrew Congregations of the British Empire, on the occasion of his seventieth birthday, September 25, 1942 (5703)
By: edited by I. Epstein, E. Levine, and C. Roth
Contributors: Hertz, Joseph H. (Joseph Herman), 1872-1946
Publisher: E. Goldston
Published: 1942
Place of publication: London
Language: eng; heb
Number of pages: 442
Subjects: Jewish literature; Judaism
Notes: Added t.-p. in Hebrew.

A note on the sacred drum, by S. H. Hooke.--The childhood and youth of Moses, the messenger of God, by Benno Jacob.--Origins of the Balfour declaration: Dr. Hertz's contribution, by Samuel Landman.--The rationale of the Tiberian graphic accentuation (XXI books) by H. M. Lazarus.--The confession of sins for the Day of Atonement, by Arthur Marmorstein.--Some notes on the life of R. Yair Hayyim Bacharach, by Alexander Marx.--Franz Rosenzweig's life and work, by Ignaz Maybaum.--Some observations on the language of the prayers, the benedictions and the Mishnah, by Eugen Mittwoch.--On Maimonides' "Sefer ha-madda," by Simon Rawidowicz.--Ibrahim al-ʻAyyah, by Edward Robertson.--Sebastian Muenster's knowledge and use of Jewish exegesis, by I. I. J. Rosenthal.--The Chief Rabbinate of England, by Cecil Roth.--Foundations: Ezra IV,12; V, 16; VI,3, by Sidney Smith.--Phillipus Ferdinandus Polonus, by Siegfried Stein.--The religious basis for morality, by E. S. Waterhouse.--

The Platonic, Aristotelian, and Stoic theories of creation in Hallevi and Maimonides, by H. A. Wolfson.--[9 articles in Hebrew by S. H. Bergmann, Simon Bernstein, Umberto Cassuto, Shemtob Gaguin, Julius Guttmann, Isaac Herzog, Samuel Krauss, I. D. Markon, and M. H. Segal]
Table of contents: title: The Chief Rabbi, by Ephraim Levine.; title: Talmud manuscripts and editions, by E. N. Adler.; title: Gnostic themes in rabbinic cosmology, by Alexander Altmann.; title: Joseph da Veiga and stock exchange operations in the seventeenth century, by M. B. Amzalak.; title: Jewish languages, by Salomo Birnbaum.; title: The ethics of the rabbis, by Abraham Cohen.; title: The chief rabbis of Vilna, by Israel Cohen.; title: The meaning of "sacrifices" in the Psalms, by Samuel Daiches.; title: Collatio 2.6.5., by David Daube.; title: The so-called "science" movements and their relation to Judaism, by Bernard Drachman.; title: The conception of the Commandments of the Torah in Aaron Halevi's Sefer ha-hinnuk, by Isidore Epstein.; title: Incunables about Jews and Judaism, by Aron Freimann.; title: Popular proverbs in the Jerusalem Talmud, by J. H. Greenstone.; title: Fasts and fasting, by A. W. Greenup.; title: Elisha ben Abujah, by R. T. Herford.; title: The fantastic career of Joshua Abraham Norton, by Louis Hermann.