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Midrash

Here are entered general works on the Midrash. Works on the treatment of specific topics in the Midrash are entered under headings of the type topic in rabbinical literature, e.g. Brazen serpent in rabbinical literature.

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• Die Königsgleichnisse des Midrasch, Beleuchtet Durch die Römische Kaiserzeit (in German; Breslau: S. Schottlaender, 1903), by Ignaz Ziegler (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Tales and Maxims From the Midrash, by Samuel Rapaport (HTML at sacred-texts.com)
• The Legends of the Jews (legends volumes only (others are not public domain)), by Louis Ginzberg, trans. by Henrietta Szold and Paul Radin, contrib. by Isaac Husik (Gutenberg and Internet Archive texts and page images)

• Rabbinic Judaism in the Making: The Halakhah from Ezra to Judah I (Detroit: Wayne State University Press, c1970), by Alexander Guttmann (multiple formats at wayne.edu)
• Der Leidende und der Sterbende Messias der Synagoge im Ersten Nachchristlichen Jahrtausend (in German; Berlin: H. Reuther, 1888), by Gustaf Dalman (page images at HathiTrust)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• Their Hollow Inheritance: A Comprehensive Refutation of Christian Missionaries (third edition), by Michoel Drazin (frame-dependent HTML in Israel)

• Nachman Krochmal: Guiding the Perplexed of the Modern Age (New York and London: New York University Press, 1991), by Jay Michael Harris (HTML with commentary at NYU Press)

• Jewish Book Annual (volume 53 may be missing; 1942-1999) (partial serial archives)

• Bibliotheca Rosenthaliana: Treasures of Jewish Booklore (in Dutch and English; 1994) (frame-dependent illustrated HTML in the Netherlands)

• The Sundry Faces of Nineteenth-Century Anglo-Jewish Literature (2020), ed. by Karen A. Weisman (illustrated HTML at Romantic Circles)

• Chapters on Jewish Literature, by Israel Abrahams (Gutenberg text)

• Levirate Marriage and the Family in Ancient Judaism (Waltham, MA: Brandeis University Press, c2009), by Dvora E. Weisberg (PDF with commentary at Brandeis)
• Beacons on the Talmud's Sea: Analyses of Passages From The Talmud And Issues In Halachah, Adapted From The Works of The Lubavitcher Rebbe, by Menachem Mendel Schneerson (HTML at chabad.org)
• Festschrift zu Israel Lewy's Siebzigstem Geburtstag (in German; Breslau: M. und H. Marcus, 1911), ed. by M. Brann and Ismar Elbogen
  • page images in Germany
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only

• The Resonance of Dust: Essays on Holocaust Literature and Jewish Fate (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1979), by Edward Alexander (PDF at Ohio State)

• Diaspora and Zionism in Jewish American Literature: Lazarus, Syrkin, Reznikoff, and Roth (Waltham, MA: Brandeis University Press, c2002), by Ranen Omer-Sherman (PDF with commentary at Brandeis)

• Jewish Book Annual (volume 53 may be missing; 1942-1999) (partial serial archives)

• Judaica Librarianship (articles are open access from 1994 to 1 year ago) (partial serial archives)

• Fundamentos da Cabala: Sêfer Yetsirá (revised and expanded edition, in Portuguese; 2011), by Carlos A. P. Campani (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Flowering Light: Kabbalistic Mysticism and the Art of Elliot R. Wolfson (Houston: Rice University Press, 2008), by Marcia Brennan (illustrated HTML with commentary at Rice University Press)
• Man, Minerals and Masters (Los Angeles: DeVorss and Co., c1937), by Charles W. Littlefield (page images at HathiTrust)
• This is Truth About the Self: An Interpretation of The Pattern on the Trestleboard (Los Angeles: Builders of the Adytum, c1960), by Ann Davies (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The Mysteries of the Qabalah: Written Down by Seven Pupils of E.G. and Prepared for publication By One of Them (second volume of "The Hidden Treasures of the Ancient Qabalah"; Chicago: Yogi Publication Society, 1922), contrib. by Elias Gewurz (HTML with commentary at sacred-texts.com)
• The Canon: An Exposition of the Pagan Mystery Perpetuated in the Cabala as the Rule of All the Arts (London: Elkin Mathews, 1897), by William Stirling, contrib. by R. B. Cunninghame Graham
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• The Doctrine and Literature of the Kabalah (London: Theosophical Publishing Society, 1902), by Arthur Edward Waite (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Hidden Treasures of the Ancient Qabalah: The Transmutation of Passion into Power (first volume of a 2-volume series; Chicago: Yogi Publication Society, c1918), by Elias Gewurz (HTML with commentary at sacred-texts.com)
• The Kabalah and the Kabalists (Adyar Pamphlets #105; Chennai: Theosophical Pub. House, 1919), by H. P. Blavatsky
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• Kabbala Denudata: The Kabbalah Unveiled, Containing the Following Books of the Zohar: The Book of Concealed Mystery, The Greater Holy Assembly, The Lesser Holy Assembly, trans. by S. L. MacGregor Mathers (HTML at sacred-texts.com)
• Philosophie und Kabbala, Erstes Heft, Enthalt: Abraham Abulafia's Sendschreiben über Philosophie und Kabbala; Thomas von Aquino's Abhendlung "De Animae Facultatibus" (edited texts in Hebrew, commentary in German; no further volumes published; Leipzig: H. Hunger, 1854), ed. by Adolph Jellinek, contrib. by Abraham ben Samuel Abulafia and Saint Thomas Aquinas
  • multiple formats at Google
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Q.B.L., or, The Bride's Reception, by Frater Achad (HTML at hermetic.com)
• Song of the Soul: Introduction to Kaballa, by Yehi'el Avraham Barlev (HTML at yedidnefesh.com)
• Jewish Mysticism, by J. Abelson (HTML with commentary at sacred-texts.com)
• L'Homme Rouge des Tuileries (published under "P. Christian" pseudonym, in French; Paris: The author, 1863), by Christian Pitois (page images at Gallica)
• The Most Holy Trinosophia (in English and French, with commentary), by comte de Saint-Germain, ed. by Manly P. Hall (HTML at sacred-texts.com)
• Numbers and Letters: or, The Thirty-Two Paths of Wisdom (deluxe edition; New York: Broadway Pub. Co., c1908), by Margaret B. Peeke (page images at HathiTrust)
• Qabbalah: The Philosophical Writings of Solomon ben Yehudah Ibn Gebirol, or Avicebron, and Their Connection with the Hebrew Qabbalah and Sepher ha-Zohar, With Remarks upon the Antiquity and Content of the Latter and Translations of Selected Passages From the Same (Philadelphia: The author, 1888), by Isaac Myer (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Secret Doctrine in Israel: A Study of the Zohar and its Connections (New York: Occult Research Press, n.d.; originally published 1913), by Arthur Edward Waite (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Hieroglyphic Monad, by John Dee (illustrated HTML at esotericarchives.com)
• The Secret Teachings of All Ages: An Encyclopedic Outline of Masonic, Hermetic, Qabbalistic and Rosicrucian Symbolical Philosophy (1928), by Manly P. Hall (illustrated HTML at sacred-texts.com)

• Dreamers of the Ghetto (New York and London: Harper and Bros., 1898), by Israel Zangwill (Gutenberg text)
• Ghetto Comedies (London: W. Heinemann, 1907), by Israel Zangwill, illust. by J. H. Amshewitz (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Ghetto Tragedies (Philadelphia: Jewish Publication Society of America, c1899), by Israel Zangwill (Gutenberg text)
• Hungry Hearts (Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1920), by Anzia Yezierska (HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)

• Secular and Religious Works of Penina Moïse, With Brief Sketch of Her Life (Charleston, SC: N. G. Duffy, 1911), by Penina Moïse, ed. by Council of Jewish Women (U.S.), Charleston Section (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Babylonian Talmud in Selection (second edition; New York: Philosophical Library, 1944), ed. by Leo Auerbach (HTML at sacred-texts.com)
• The Babylonian Talmud, ed. by Michael Levi Rodkinson (HTML with commentary at sacred-texts.com)
• Pirke Avot (Hebrew omitted; second edition of this translation, 1913), ed. by Joseph I. Gorfinkle (Gutenberg text)
• Sayings of the Jewish Fathers (Pirqe Aboth) (in English only), trans. by Charles Taylor (HTML at sacred-texts.com)
• The Talmud; With Illustrations and Plan of the Temple (translations of selections; London: John Murray, 1878), ed. by Joseph Barclay (HTML with commentary at sacred-texts.com)

• Studies in Rabbinic Hebrew (Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, c2020), ed. by Shai Heijmans (multiple formats with commentary at Open Book Publishers)

• Jalkut Machiri: Sammlung Halachischer und Hagadischer Stellen aus Talmud und Midraschim zu den 150 Psalmen (2 volumes in Hebrew and/or Yiddish; Berdyczew: J. Scheftel, 1899), by Makir ben Aba Mari, ed. by Salomon Buber (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Legends of Our Fathers: A Collections of Legends from Ancient Rabbinical Writings, From the Creation to Joseph (New York: Sinai Pub. Co., 1921), ed. by Hyman E. Goldin (multiple formats at archive.org)

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