2012, ISBN: 9783447025928

Some light cover soil. Some pencilled marginal notes. Good. Afro-Asiatic Linguistics Almqvist & Wiksell Uppsala 1974 orig. wrappers 22x15cm, 153,(3) pp., Series: Acta Universitatis Up… Mehr…

Some light cover soil. Some pencilled marginal notes. Good. Afro-Asiatic Linguistics Almqvist & Wiksell Uppsala 1974 orig. wrappers 22x15cm, 153,(3) pp., Series: Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis / Studia Semitica Upsaliensis, 2. Full title reads: "The Aramaic Portions of the Pesiqta de Rab Kahana According to MS Marshall Or.24 : The Oldest Known Manuscript of the Pesiqta de Rab Kahana : With English Translation, Commentary and Introduction"., Almqvist & Wiksell, 1974, 2.5, Leiden: Brill, 2012. First edition. Hardcover. near fine. Octavo. (10), 264pp. Index and bibliography. Pictorial buckram with black spine lettered in white. Illustrated with 3 photographs. A fine but ex-library copy (with minimal markings; i.e. rubber stamps on title page & bottom of text block). An edition of the scholarly letters of the English Lady E. S. Drower, famous for her novels, travel accounts, and studies in the Middle East, especially on the Mandaeans. Drower (18791972) kept up a lively correspondence with scholars, and the letters here span the years 1938 to the mid 1960s. It presents a window on Near Eastern studies in the mid 20th century, from the viewpoint of an autodidact insisting on, and succeeding in, a place among the academics. Correspondence with many famous scholars and intellectuals are included, such as Cyrus H. Gordon, Rudolf Macuch, Sidney H. Smith, Godfrey R. Driver, Samuel H. Hooke, and Franz Rosenthal. The letters focus on four of Lady Drower's main books: The Book of the Zodiac (1949), Water into Wine (1956), A Mandaic Dictionary (with Rudolf Macuch, 1963), and Drowers hoped for, crowning achievement: the presumably lost, large manuscript, Mass and Masiqta. (Publisher) Contents: Acknowledgments; Introduction From Lady E.S. Drower's Scholarly Correspondence; Chapter One Sfar Malwa¨ia (= SM); Chapter Two Water into Wine (= WW); Chapter Three A Mandaic Dictionary; Chapter Four The Early 1960s: A Controversial Book, A Spat, and A Prize; Chapter Five Mass and Masiqta (= MM): "From the Tigris to the Tiber"; Epilogue; E.S. Drower Bibliography: Works Relevant to Mandaeism; Index of Names. Volume 137 in the Brill's series, "Numen Book Series. Studies in the History of Religions.", Brill, 2012, 4, New York: Random House, 1968. First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. Very good/Good. The format is approximately 8.75 inches by 11.25 inches. 255, [1] pages. Illustrations. DJ has some weartears, chips and soiling. Illustrated endpapers. Preface by Thomas P. F. Hoving. Introduction by Candice van Ellison. Presents images on a decadal basis starting with From White to Black Harlem; An Urban Black Culture; Depression and Hard Times; War, Hope and Opportunity; Frustration and Ambivalence; and Militancy and Identity. This is associated with a Metropolitan Museum of Art Exhibition. That exhibition was produced in association with the New York State Council on the Arts. On January 18, 1969, one of the first exhibits to showcase the Black American experience. Now, a generation later, Harlem on My Mind still influences the way museums around the world present African American culture to the public. The exhibition was also an attempt to respond to the Civil Rights movement, which had reached a fever pitch with the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Civil Rights Act of 1968. It was a contentious moment, and there were signs of controversy long before the show opened to the public. As early as a year in advance of the opening, various committee members and prominent Black artists withdrew their support for the exhibition. One of the central complaints was the exclusion of work by Black artists, such as Romare Bearden, Faith Ringgold, and Jacob Lawrenceall of whom were living in Harlem, creating works that would have easily fit the exhibition's narrative. The Museum's collection already included works by Bearden and Lawrence. Allon Schoener was the curator who organized the Metropolitan Museum of Art's infamous 1969 show "Harlem on My Mind," which caused protests that stopped traffic on Fifth Avenue because it didn't include any paintings or sculptures by Black artists. The tumultuous legacy of "Harlem on My Mind," the Met's first landmark show documenting Black culture in America, has been revisited by critics and historians. The storm over the exhibition fractured his life. Protesters picketed outside his apartment, he endured threats and intimidation, and he left New York with his family to start anew in rural Vermont. He never worked on a show for the Met again. In the 1960s, Mr. Schoener was a rising star in the city's museum scene, known for curating immersive ethnographic multimedia shows that explored New York history. Utilizing archival photography, music recordings and wall texts, the exhibitions he developed were engulfing spectacles. His approach was pioneering at the time. "Harlem on My Mind" opened at the Met in 1969 with blockbuster billing, and some 70,000 people attended the show within its first nine weeks. Alongside the enthusiastic crowds, however, were protesters who marched holding signs that read "Harlem on Whose Mind?" They were led by a group of artists, called the Black Emergency Cultural Coalition, who were incensed that the show included no paintings by African-American artists. Joining them were New Yorkers protesting the exhibition's catalog, which included an essay written by a 16-year-old Bronx high school student using anti-Semitic language. Mayor John V. Lindsay threatened to withhold financial support from the museum if it didn't pull the catalog from sale. He went on to write three photography-based cultural history books, "The American Jewish Album," "The Italian Americans" and "New York: An Illustrated History of the People," and to work as a consultant for clients like the Smithsonian., Random House, 1968, 2.75, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, 2006. Third edition. Hardcover. New in publisher's shrink wrap. Octavo. xlix. (1) 813pp. Maroon cloth with gilt lettering to cover, gilt lettering on black label of spine. "Geez is the classical language of Ethiopia and belongs to the Semitic language family. The other Semitic-Ethiopian languages are Tigre and Tigrinya (known as North Ethiopic), Amharic (the national language of Ethiopia), Argobba, Harari, Gafat, and Gurage (called South Ethiopic). Although Geez ceased to be spoken in the twelfth or thirteenth century, it has remained the language of literature and of liturgy." (Introduction). Leslau, the acclaimed former UCLA Professor and scholar was an expert on "Ethiopian Language. Top corners of binding with light bumps at foredge., Otto Harrassowitz, 2006, 6<

1987, ISBN: 9783447025928

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1987, ISBN: 9783447025928

[ED: Leinen (Buchleinen)], [PU: Harrassowitz Verlag], Comparative Dictionary of Ge¿ez (Classical Ethiopic )., DE, [SC: 0.00], Neuware, gewerbliches Angebot, 813, [GW: 1733g], Banküberweis… Mehr…

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1987, ISBN: 3447025921

Leinen Abessinien, Äthiopien, mit Schutzumschlag 11, [PU:Harrassowitz Verlag]