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Leonard Baskin illustrates The Five Scrolls
Leonard Baskin illustrates The Five Scrolls
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Heading: (Baskin, Leonard, illustrator)
Author: Friedlander, Albert H., editor
Title: The Five Scrolls: Hebrew Texts, English Translations, Introductions, and New Liturgies
Place Published: New York
Publisher:CCAR Press
Date Published: 1984
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Translations edited by Rabbi Albert H. Friedlander; introductions co-edited by Rabbi Herbert Bronstein and Rabbi Albert H. Friedlander. Illustrated and designed by Leonard Baskin, with original signed and numbered etching. 35.6x23 cm (14x9"), quarter green leather stamped in gilt. No. 3 of 175.



Signed by Leonard Baskin at etching and colophon. A volume issued by the Central Conference of American Rabbis (CCAR) in an attempt to make festivals more spiritually and intellectually meaningful, providing liturgies and commentaries about how to celebrate often-neglected festivals. According to CCAR, "few congregations seemed interested" in this attempt, though this handsomely illustrated volume testifies to strong countercurrents against perceived secularization it was meant to counter.

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Cloth slipcase and volume spine sunned; else fine.
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