THE RISE OF THE KARAITE SECT: NEW LIGHT ON THE HALAKAH AND ORIGIN OF THE KARAITES (AUTHOR INSCRIBED)

New York: M. Tausner Publishing Co, 1937. Cloth. First edition. 8vo, Original red printed publisher's cloth, 128 pages. "It is deplorable that the study of Karaitism had not received by a great number of our scholars its due attention. It seems that other epochs and events in Jewish history were more attractive to the Jewish research mind than the struggle between the Karaites and Rabbanites, which had its inception in Babylonia in the middle of the Eighth Century, and continued for many centuries after. The polemic literature inherited by us from our Rabbis of old, as well as from the Karaite writers, is of no value at all in his investigation.The research work that has been made in this somehow neglected field by the author, has had as its main object the juxtaposition of the Karaite Halakah with that of the Rabbis, in order to determine to what extent they differ. A complementary concern has been the origin of the Karaites. This vexing problem, with its uncertainty, found itself in the main body of our research, and an endeavor has been made to clarify it. With this in mind, I present this volume to the interested reader" (from the preface). Ex-library with usual markings, wear to lower spine. Good+ Condition. (BIB-17-5a).