God Revealed: An Anthology of Jewish Thought.
[Judaica]. Montagu, Lily H., compiler. God Revealed: An Anthology of Jewish Thought. (Keighly: Wadsworth & Co., the Rydal Press), 1953.
8vo.; blue cloth, spine faded to tan.
First edition of an anthology, divided by month into topics, each of which “offers a few appropriate passages taken from the Old Testament, some culled from ancient and modern books and some contributed by living authors.” A presentation copy, inscribed: With much love from Lily H Montagu/Dec 1953.
Each section is organized around an area of life in which Montagu believes God is revealed, such as in children, in physical health, and in social service. In the foreword, Montagu writes,
we needed a book of devotion of this kind, written by Jews for themselves and their non-Jewish neighbours. Indeed it has been pointed out to me not infrequently, that although there were plenty of excellent Christian anthologies for all the world to use, we lacked religious thoughts drawn from purely Jewish sources to enrich our spiritual treasury.
A very scarce item, most likely printed by Montagu at her own expense.
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