Lot 264
"Hasidic Parables" – S.Y. Agnon – Inscribed to Prof. Isaiah Tishby
Sifrehem shel Tsadiḳim: Meʼah Sipurim Ve-eḥad ʻal Sifrehem shel Talmidey Ha-Beshṭ zal Ve-shel Talmidey Talmidaṿ [Hasidic Parables] by Shmuel Yosef Agnon. Jerusalem and Tel Aviv: Schocken Publishing House Ltd., 1961. Hebrew.
Inscribed on the first page by Agnon to Prof. Isaiah Tishby.
Isaiah Tishby (1908-1992), one of the foremost scholars in the fields of Kabbalah and the literature of Jewish thought, ethics, and mysticism, an Israel Prize laureate (1979), and the very first recipient of the Gershom Scholem Prize for Kabbalah Research (1991). The present copy has Prof. Tishby's bookplate, and a number of his inked stamps.
51, [4] pp., 21 cm. Good condition. Numerous stains to cover.
