The Kiss

By (author) Immánuel Löw Edited and translated by Dóra Pataricza Edited and translated by Mercédesz Czimbalmos With Gábor Schweitzer With Máté Hidvégi With Vera Ábrahám

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Extent: 265 pages

Publisher: Hebrew Union College Press

Subjects: Anthropology, Social Sciences 

Language: English

Hardback (Published)

(August 2026)

ISBN: 9780878202478

Price: $39.95

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PDF (Forthcoming)

(August 2026)

ISBN: 9780878202485

Price: $39.95

In The Kiss, Immanuel Löw,  author of the monumental work titled Die Flora der Juden (Flora of the Jews; 1926–1934), gives a comprehensive and multi-faceted overview of the cultural history of the kiss, describing the act of kissing as a motif and the phenomenon of kissing from linguistic, anthropologic, religious, historical, legal, folkloristic, eschatological, and poetic points of view, using sources from a variety of cultural contexts.

This edition of The
Kiss
, translated, annotated, and introduced by Dóra Pataricza and Mercédesz Czimbalmos, preserves one of the extraordinary accomplishments of this invaluable figure of Hungarian Jewish thought.

  • By (author) Immánuel Löw
  • Edited and translated by Dóra Pataricza
  • Edited and translated by Mercédesz Czimbalmos
  • With Gábor Schweitzer
  • With Máté Hidvégi
  • With Vera Ábrahám