EXTREMELY RARE TWO VOLUMES - the first two parts (of three) of the very first volume of the periodical that began the first serious scientific inquiry of Judaism and Jewish texts. Contains the following articles: Immanuel Wolf - Ueber den Begriff einer Wissenschaft des Judenthums. Eduard Gans - Gesetzgebung über Juden in Rom; David Friedländer - Briefe über das Lesen der heiligen Schriften; Eduard Gans - Vorlesungen über die Geschichte der Juden im Norden von Europa und in den slavischen Ländern; Leopold Zunz - Ueber die in den hebräischen-jüdischen Schriften vorkommenden hispanischen Ortnamen; Lazarus Bendavid - Ueber den Glauben der Juden an einem künftigen Messias; Leopold Zunz - Salomon Ben Isaak genannt Raschi; Lips - Recension der Schrift: das Staatsbürgerrecht der Juden. [BOTH VOLUMES]: 205x130mm. 400 pages [paginated 196/197-400]. Black quarter-cloth rebound Hardcover. Sticker on spine and spine hinges. Ex-library copy with stamp on whitepage, title page and rear whitepage. Pages yellowing, age-stained stained and wavy. [ERSTES HEFT]: Cover edges worn. Spine edges bumped. [ZWEITES HEFT]: Marbled page edges. Cover worn. Front cover detached from binding. Cover corners and edges bumped and worn. Spine front hinge cracked. Title page and appendix page attached to front cover only. Binding visible between pages 398-399. [SUMMARY]: Both volumes of this historically significant first periodical dedicated exclusively to Jewish Studies are in good reading condition.