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hardcover. Zustand: Collectible Near Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: includes dust-jacket. DETAILS: badly worn, torn, and chipped dust-jacket, cover price $29.50, near fine black cloth with slight wear. INSCRIBED in black ink in top left corner of front endpaper To Johanna b'Shalom, and SIGNED Samuel Kurinsky. KURINSKY, SAMUEL. The glassmakers: an odyssey of the Jews : the first three thousand years. New York: Hippocrene Books, 1991, 1st edition (no further printings noted on copyright page), xxiii, 434pp., . "The religious and ethical contribution of the Judaism to civilization has been rightly acknowledged. The seminal role the Jews have played in the technological evolution of civilization has been largely overlooked." "This remarkable book uses the history of glassmaking as a foil with which new light is shed on the hidden history of that phenomenally creative people. During his association with the glassmakers of Venice, the author uncovered an intriguing historical symbiosis between the Jews and the art of glassmaking. The revelation impelled him to launch an intensive, eight-year campaign of research which led him across three continents and through 4000 years of human history. He discovered that the vitric arts, conceived in Akkadia among the progenitors of the Jews, was subsequently borne by the Jews into the Diaspora, an enthralling historical odyssey which has never been told in its entirety." "Many myths are shattered in the course of following the adventurous path of the art from its Akkadian roots through Canaan, Egypt, Rome, Persia, China and the West. Drawing upon a wealth of archeological, Biblical, archival and historical material, an intense beam of light is cast into the darker recesses of history in which conquered peoples suffer the indignity of having the record of their accomplishments obliterated by their conquerors, a process the author terms "Institutionalized Obfuscation."., "The peculiar parallelism between the movement of the Jews and the vitric arts bears historical connotations which stretch far beyond glassmaking; the very foundation upon which classic versions of history is based is demolished by the revelations which erupt from the pages of the book." - CONTENTS: 1. Zakhukhit: The Akkadian Connection -- 2. The Secret Art: The Hurrian Connection -- 3. Egyptian [sic] Glass: The Hyksos Connection -- 4. Ingots of Glass: The Canaanite Connection -- 5. The Iron Age: The Israelite Connection -- 6. The Second Diaspora: The Roman Connection -- 7. The Glassblowers: The Eretz Israel Connection -- 8. The Linen, Glass, Spice and Silk Route: The Chinese Connection -- 9. The Sassanian Diaspora: The Babylonian Connection -- 10. The Jewish Khazars: The Russian Connection -- 11. The Byzantines: The Balkan Connection. 9780870529016 ISBN 0870529013.

Hardbound. Zustand: Very Good. First edition. Royal octavo in dust jacket with a few tears, xxiv, 434 pp., b/w illustrations, maps, bibliography, index Inscribed by the author on the free front endpaper.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Jacket in Good condition with some wear and small tears, book in Very Good condition with light wear, pages lightly yellowed with an occasional minor crease or blemish, slight slant to spine, binding firm.