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RARE memorial volume dedicated to the memory of Prof.Dr.Michael Guttmann (1872-1942), an eminent Hungarian talmudic scholar, rabbi and professor of Talmud and halakhah at the Breslau Jewish theological seminary and (from 1933) head of the Budapest seminary. Guttmann`s paper in Hebrew and some of the contributors last papers were originally intended for a jubilee volume to celebrate Guttmann`s 70th birthday, but since they perished in the Holocaust, this volume contains their last papers. Contains a bibliography of writings by Prof. Michael Guttmann compiled by Alexander Scheiber. Three papers are in Hebrew (including one by Michael Guttmann himself), seven in German, seventeen in Hungarian, one in English. [LIST OF AUTHORS]: Samuel Löwinger, Alexander Scheiber, Ballagi Erno, Friedman Denes, Hevesi Illes, Sos Endre, Fokos-Fuks D.Rafael, Csetenyi Imre, Alexander Guttmann, Heinrich Guttmann, Immanuel Löw, Samuel Szemere, Bela Bernstein, Kalman Odon, Fenyes Mor, Zsoldos Jeno, Groszmann Zsigmond, Weinberger Mozes, Waldapfel Imre, Armin Kecskemeti, Fenyo Jozsef, Pfeiffer Izsak, Hevesi Ferenc, Hahn Istvan, Komlos Otto, Sandor Scheiber, Arjeh ben Moshe. The Hebrew section contains papers by Michael Guttmann (`Judaism and its Environment`), Isidore Goldberger, Ernest Roth. BOOK PARTLY UNBOUND! 240x170mm. L+418+136 pages (altogether 604 pages). Softcover. Front cover missing. Rear cover yellowing and age-stained. Rear cover edges and corners wrinkled and tattered. Spine missing. Binding broken between pages 160-161. Few pages slightly dog-eared. Pages browning. [SUMMARY]: This extremely rare book has sustained the loss of front cover and damage to binding, but is in good condition on the inside.