The first English translation of the Zohar, of the entire work from the original, is in preparation here by the famous Soncino Press.
The work will be issued in five volumes, of which the first two volumes will be ready in November. The translator, Mr. Harry Sperling, it is stated, has for many years made a special study of the Cabbala and the Zohar, and has written various monographs on the subject. He has worked throughout in collaboration with Mr. Maurice Simon, who is the author of several studies in Jewish literature and has had the assistance of a number of scholars intimately acquainted with English and Jewish literature.
The Rev. Dr. J. Abelson contributes an introduction tracing the development of the Zohar from the earliest times and showing the conspicuous place which it occupies in the Jewish as well as in the general literature of mysticism. The volumes will run to about 400 pages each, and the edition will be limited to 1,250 numbered sets for the whole world, the price per volume being 21 shillings.
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