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Rabbi Dr. Moise Ventura, Orig. Autograph on his Book: La Philosophie de Saadia Gaon, 1st ed., 1934, Paris, in French - Rabbi Dr. Moise Ventura, Orig. Autograph on his Book: La Philosophie de Saadia Gaon, 1st ed., 1934, Paris, in French Dedication of the author on frontispiece from 1960 Paris: Librairie Philosophique J. Vrin, 1934. First edition. 358 pp.. Includes a preface by Julien Weill, who was the Grand Rabbi of Paris at the time. Work is fully annotated and includes lengthy bibliographical references. This book, unlike the scholarship that preceded it on Saadia, breaks with much of the older scholarship by rejecting certain views concerning Saadia's cosmology and metaphysics. Text in French. Hard cover. 25 x 17.5 cm. Condition: ex-library stamps; staining to cover, edges rubbed; staining to endpapers and edges; internally good condition. Weight: 730 gr. Rabbi Dr. Moise Ventura, Chief Rabbi of Alexandria (1937-1948), founder and President of the Communal Jewish High-School ‘Rambam’ (Maimonides) in Alexandria. Moise Ventura (1893–1978), rabbi and scholar. Born in Smyrna, Ventura, studied at the rabbinical seminary at Istanbul and at Paris University. In 1938–48 he served as chief rabbi at *Alexandria, *Egypt; lectured at Yeshiva College, New York, 1951–53; and was head of Montefiore College, Ramsgate, England, 1953–55. In 1955 he settled in Israel. Apart from a number of textbooks of Hebrew and religious instruction in French, Ventura wrote Le livre du Kuzari (1932); Le Kalam et le peripatétisme après le Kuzari (1934); and La philosophie de Saadia Gaon (1934). He also prepared a critical edition of the Hebrew text (and part of the Arabic original) of Maimonides' Millot ha-Higgayon (La terminologie logique de Maimonide, with French translation and commentary, glossary, etc., 1935); and published a series of homiletical talks on biblical books and Avot.