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New York; Bildung-Komitet Fun Arbeter-Ring, 1959. Hardcover. Publishers cloth. 8vo. 104 pages. 24 cm. First edition. In Yiddish. Added title page in English: Jewish children. Illustrated by Ayelah Gordon. A primer in Yiddish for children, published by the Education Committee of the Workmens Circle; this is letter Alef, the first appearance, of this post-war Yiddish primer. Subjects: Yiddish language - Readers - English speakers. Yiddish language - Study and teaching (Elementary) . Yiddish language - Textbooks. OCLC lists 20 copies. Hinges starting; pencil doodles on front cover and throughout the first few pages. Otherwise fresh. Fair condition. (YIDCHI-6-3).

New York: Library of The Jewish Theological Seminary, 2022. Softcover. 1st Edition. Original publisher's color paper wrappers, Folio, 2 volumes (volume 1, xxxv, 4-391 pages; volume 2, ix, 396-896 pages). Includes color illustrations, facsimiles, and maps. 31 cm. ISBN: 9780578297439; 0578297434 LCCN: 2022-938598. "Conversion table of JTS Ketubbah Collection numbers and the numbers in this catalog" on pages 809-812. Includes bibliographical references (volume 2, pages 789-807) and indexes. "The Art of the Ketubbah includes high-quality color photographs that document the rich variety of decorating and calligraphic styles used by Jewish communities to enhance the ancient text formulas they shared. These contracts reveal social customs, family relationships, economic situations, and a community's interactions with the world around it, spanning thirty-seven countries on four continents from the 10th through the 21st centuries. The catalogue includes 472 full entries, plus two addenda--one of 50 more… Leer más

Cincinnati, Ohio; Dept. Of Synagog And School Extension Of The Union Of American Hebrew Congregations, 1923. Original Wraps. 8vo. 24, [2] pages. 20 cm. First edition. With two pages of plates for costumes. "Elma Levinger (October 6, 1887-1958) was an author, nationally known for her plays and books on Jewish history and culture. Born in Chicago, she was educated at the University of Chicago, and at Radcliffe College. Elma Levinger won numerous prizes for her plays and novels, including an award of honor for her outstanding contributions to Jewish juvenile literature by the National Jewish Book Council. Twelve of her books have been done in Braille. " (Guide to the Elma Ehrlich Levinger Papers 1912-1958; Special Collections and University Archives, University of Oregon Libraries) Subjects: Purim - Drama. Jews-History-Juvenile literature. Women authors, American-20th century. Young adult literature, American-Authorship. OCLC lists 9 copies. Our copy previously used, with names of characters and lightly… Leer más

[Milano]: Electa Ed, 1972. Hardback. 1st Edition. Original Boards with Original Dust Jacket. 4to. 189 pages ; 29 cm. In Italian. Introduction by Art Historian Carlo Pirovano who served as Scientific Director of the publishing house Electa. "Trento Longaretti (1916 — Present) is an Italian painter from Treviglio, in the Province of Bergamo in Lombardy. He studied at the Brera Academy in the 1930s, where he was taught by renowned artists including painters Aldo Carpi and Pompeo Borra, and sculptors Francesco Messina and Marino Marini. He says that painting is an ‘elixir for long life', and continues to paint and exhibit as a centenarian... He was on the fringes of the Corrente movement started by his friends and classmates in the 1930s to oppose the Novecento Italiano movement that was influenced by Italian Fascism. He was drafted by the Italian Army in 1939, completing tours of duty that until 1945 interrupted his artwork though still enabling him to attend several exhibitions, including the… Leer más

Berlin, 1906. First Edition. Hardcover. ; 8vo; 260 + 51 pages; Pages tanned, Good condition. (GER-31-1).

New York : American Jewish Committee, 1942. Paper Wrappers. 8vo. 95 pages. In English. SUBJECT (S) : Jews -- Politics and government. Jews -- Social conditions. Jews -- Political and social conditions -- Sources. Jews -- Europe. Notes: At head of title: Research Institute on Peace and Post-War Problems. / Preface by Max Gottschalk; introductory chapter by Abraham G. Duker. / "List of legal acts enacted since 1933, mentioned, cited or published in this work": p. 89-95. Weinryb, (1900-1982) , an economic and social historian. Born in Turobin, Poland, Weinryb studied in Breslau at the Jewish Theological Seminary and at the university, was librarian at the seminary in 1931-33, and worked on the editorial staff of the Encyclopaedia Judaica in Berlin and Zurich (1933-34) (EJ, Staff). Institutional marks (Temple Emanuel, Paterson, NJ) on endpages, cover. Otherwise freash and clean, good condition. (HOLO2-8-24A).

Buenos Ayres: Bukhgemeynshaft Bay Der Yidisher Ratsyonalisher Gezelshaft, 1971. Hardcover. Publishers cloth. 8vo. 287, [7]; 300, [4] pages. 23 cm. First Yiddish edition. Red cloth with gilt lettering. Added Spanish title page: Juventud de un Rebelde; added English title page: Youth of a Rebel. Translated by Baruch Tshubinski from the original German manuscript; first published in Spanish translation in Buenos Aires in 1947. Two volume autobiography of the early years of Rudolf Rocker (1873-1958) : "The story of Rudolf Rocker is the combined tale of a life and a social movement - a life that reflects with amazing accuracy the development of the anarchist movement and its various nuances. Rocker witnessed anarchism at its height, but he also saw its decline, and ultimate disintegration. During his long years of activity within the ranks of the anarchist movement, Rocker took part in the major stages of its history, from the birth of anarchism in post-Bismarck Germany, through the notorious phase of… Leer más

Washington; U. S. Dept. Of Health, Education, And Welfare, Office Of Education, 1963. Original Wraps. 8vo. IX, 229 pages. 24 cm. First edition. Detailed report by Randolph L. Braham on the education system in postwar Romania, with 38 tables, 3 charts, and one map. With brief survey of the history of Romania, the pre and post-war educational system, and extensively detailed survey of postwar preprimary, general, vocational, technical, and higher education systems. With chapters on teacher training and the teaching profession, and organizations for children, youths, and adults. Subjects: Education - Romania. Education. Government publication. Light wear to wraps, otherwise clean and fresh. Very good condition. (BRAHAM-1-58) xx.

Cambridge, University Press, 1889. Hardcover, large 8vo. , 500 pages.14 plates. Contents include: On the recovery of the Long Lost Waldensian Manuscripts -- Two Lists of Books in the University Library. -- An Early University Statute concerning Hostels -- On two hitherto unknown Poems by John Barbour, Author of the Brus. -- A View of the State of the University in Queen Anne's Reign (with 1 plate) -- On the Earliest English Engravings of the Indulgence known as the 'Image of Pity' -- The Skeleton of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales -- A Classified Index of the Fifteenth Century Books in the DeMeyer Collection sold at Ghent, November 1869 -- On the oldest written remains of the Welsh Language -- On the ABC as an authorized School-book in the Sixteenth Century. SUBJECT(S) : Bibliography. Early printed books. Manuscripts -- England. Libraries -- England -- Cambridge. Cambridge University Library. University of Cambridge. Library. On title page: "comprising 1. 'Memoranda'; 2. 'Communications' read before the… Leer más

New York: UAHC, 1911. Hardcover. 8vo. 96 pages. Includes the program of the conference, as well as background and contextual information and 23 Black and white tissued photo plates throughout. These are portraits and photos of synagogues. Rabbi Abraham Feldman's copy, with his ownership signiture. SUBJECT (S) : Judaism-Congresses. OCLC lists 7 copies worldwide. Heavy wear to covers, spine reinforced with tape, some institutional stamps, otherwise very clean and solid inside. Good Solid Condition. (amr-20-59).

Hardcover. Philadelphia: Jewish Publication Society of America 1978 1st edition, Cloth, 8vo, xiii, 325 pages, 5 leaves of plates, illustrations, 24 cm. , ISBN: 0827601026. Colored end pages with maps, photographs. Chippings to edges of cover jacket. In jacket. Half inch tear on bottom of jacket binding. Scratches to back cover binding. Otherwise, very good condition. (mx-32-6).

Warsaw-lodz-krakow: Centraln Zydowska Komisja, 1947. First Edition. Paperback. Original Paper Wrappers. 8vo; 288 pages. illus. facs. 25 cm. In Polish. "The Song Will Survive: An Anthology of Poems About the Jews under German Occupation." Robinson & Friedman #2664. Includes sheet music. Pages browned, spine used, othewise very nice, clean copy. (Holo2-83-53).

New York: Vilner Farlag, 1962. Paperback. First edition. Original paper wrappers. 8vo, 112 pages. 23 cm. In Yiddish. Title translates to "Twenty One and One: About Twenty-One Yiddish Actors Murdered by the Nazis in Vilna, 1941-1942." Preface by A. Morewski and Leiser Ran. Subjects: Jewish actors -- Biography. Jews -- Persecutions -- Lithuania -- Vilnius. Yiddish drama. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Lithuania -- Vilnius. Jewish actors. Jews -- Persecutions. Yiddish drama. OCLC lists 23 copies worldwide. Spine is starting. Light soiling to cover. Internally very clean. Overall good condition. (YID-23-6).

Vilna; M. Man Ve-S. Zimel, 1839. Hardcover. Later Cloth. 12mo. XL, 187, [10] pages. 19 cm. In Hebrew and German. Eretz Kedumim (Geography of the Land of Israel) . Part one only, descriptive list of towns and villages A-J (ending with Jeter) . Vinograd Vilna 431. Added title page: Erez kedumim, das Land des Alterthums; oder, Alphabetisch geordnete Geographie Pala¨tinas und der Umgegend. First edition published in 1819 under title: Mehkere Erets. This work deals with the various locales of the Holy Land in alphabetical order, drawing on Biblical and Talmudic, as well as non-Jewish sources. The book bears a letter of endorsement from Mordechai Aaron Ginzburg, a religious maskil (enlightened Jew) . According to Ginzburg, Kaplan revised the work of Lewisohn (Vienna, 1819) , adding entries Lewisohn neglected. On prefatory pages 31-38, Kaplan reproduces the commentary of the Vilna Gaon ('Shenoth Eliyahu') to the Mishnah, Shevi'ith 9: 2, adding German translation of the Mishnah and notes to the Gaon's… Leer más

London : Office Of The Chief Rabbi, 1942. Original Wraps. 16mo. 113 pages. 17 cm. Sailor's, soldier's and airmen's edition. In Hebrew and English. Hebrew text, revised translation with commentary by The Chief Rabbi Dr. J. H. Hertz. The scarcer 1942 edition (the 1943 edition is far more common) . "This reprint is subventioned by Mr. Henry Green and Family in Memory of Hannah Keila Green. " Pirke Avot for British sailors, soldiers, and airmen, with commentary by Chief Rabbi Joseph Herman Hertz (1872-1946) : "born in Slovakia, but moved to the United States of America in 1884. He graduated from the Jewish Theological Seminary in New York in 1894. He was rabbi of Adath Yeshuran Congregation, Syracuse, 1894-6, rabbi at Johannesburg, 1899-1911, rabbi at the Orach Chaim Congregation, New York, 1911-13, and Chief Rabbi of the British Empire, 1913-46."- Papers of Chief Rabbi J. H. Hertz Subjects: Jewish soldiers - Religious life - Great Britain. Jewish soldiers - Religious life. Commentaries. Great Britain.… Leer más

4to, 854, 872 pages. First edition. SUBJECT (S) : Conservative Judaism-United States-History- -Jewish Theological Seminary of America. Both volumes are wrapped in original shrinkwrap. Has dust jackets. In new condition (AMR-24-6).

Yerushalayim: Hebreisher universitet in Yerusholaim, 1975. Paperback. Paper Wrappers, 8vo, 35, 160 pages. 22 cm. In Yiddish with 35-page English introduction by Wisse. Series: Yidishe literatur; Variation: Sifrut Yidish. Added title page: "Green aquarium." Includes bibliographical references (p. 157-160). Sutzkever's "lifeline has been severed by the holocaust [sic] that falls like a chasm between his past and present. These works are an attempt to span the breach, creating in art an organic universe over which mutability and mortality hold no sway."-from the introduction. Light wear, Good Condition. (H-43-9).

Meksike-Shtot [Mexico City]: Shelomoh Mendelson Fond, 1973. Paperback. 1st edition. Original paper wrappers. 8vo. 181 pages, 21 cm. Includes portraits. In Yiddish with some Spanish. Title translates to "The Last Era in the Life of Isaac Manger. " Written by Solomon Kazdan (1883-1979) , the prominent Jewish educator from Ukraine who later moved to the US. "Mayn arbet ... Iz in tokh a tsveyter tayl fun mayn frierdikn bukh 'Itsik Manger'"--Page 9. SUBJECTS: Authors, Yiddish -- Biography. Very Good Condition. (YID-41-23-F).

New Haven : Yale University Press, 1952. Hardcover. 8vo. Xxvi, 412 pages. First edition. SUBJECT (S) : Karaites; Jewish literature - translations into English. CONTNETS: Anan ben David; Benjamin al-Nahawandi; Daniel al-Kumisi; Jacob al-Kirkisani; Salomon ben Jeroham; Japheth ben Eli; Sahl ben masliah; Jeshuah ben Judah; Moses ben Abraham Dar'i; Moses ben Samuel of Damascus; Aaron ben Elijah; Samuel ben Moses al-Magribi; Ibn al-Hiti; Elijah ben Moses Basyatchi; Karaite liturgy. Nemoy (1901-1997) was born in Balta, Russia, studied languages in Odessa, and emigrated to the US in 1923, receiving a Ph. D from Yale in 1929. He was a librarian both in Russia and In the Unites States. Before emigrating, he worked at the Society for the Propagation of Knowledge in Odessa, the Academic Library of Odessa, and the University Library of Lvov, Poland. He began his career at Yale in 1923, eventually becoming the first curator of Hebrew and Arabic literature at the Sterling Memorial Library, and overseeing the… Leer más

Braunschweig, A. Limbach, 1963. Paperback. Original Paper Wrappers. 8vo. 53 pages. 24 cm. In German. Series: Schriftenreihe des Internationalen Schulbuchinstituts, 7. Bd. Title translates to English as, "Jewish History in German History Textbooks. " SUBJECT (S) : Jews -- History -- Study and teaching -- Germany. Textbooks -- Germany. Education -- Germany -- 20th century. Schulbuch. Geschichtsunterricht. Geographic: Germany -- Historiography. Germany -- History -- 1945-1990. Juden. Deutschland. Includes bibliographical references (pages 49-53) . Light wear to cover. Internal pages are slightly darkened, but all text is clear. Very good condition. (HOLO2-60-20).