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Spring Valley, NY; Orot, 2001. Hardcover. Publishers cloth. 4to. 135 pages. 27 cm. First edition. "Rabbi Bezalel Naor, well known lecturer and author, has published a unique contribution to Holocaust studies. The book, entitled "Kabbalah and the Holocaust, " deals specifically with Kabbalistic responses to the Shoah. Based both on interviews with survivors and historic research, the author records how Kabbalists of various communities fell back on their respective mystic traditions to avert the evil decree. In this book, Rabbi Naor performs a twofold service, tracing the historic development of different schools within Kabbalah, and telling how representatives of those schools used the weapons within their spiritual armamentum to combat the enemy. Thus, the reader gains perspective on the Lithuanian Mitnagdic school of the Vilna Gaon, the Galician-Hungarian-Rumanian Hasidic dynasty of Nadborna, the Balkan (Bulgaria, Greece and Yugoslavia) Sephardic school, the Polish Hasidic tradition of Pshyscha… Leer más

Chicago Review Press, 1988. hardcover. 1st edition. Original Publisher's Cloth in Dust Jacket. 8vo, 398 pages. In Kaddish for Kovno (the Kaddish is a prayer for the dead) William W Mishell documents in passionate detail the creation and then the obliteration of ghetto Kovno in Lithuania during the Nazi occupation of World War II. It is a troy of ingenuity and heroism as well as of horror and destruction. It illuminates the indomitable human spirit as the Jews of Kovno secured food, smuggled children to safety, set up hospitals, and even organised a ghetto orchestra in the face of numbing deprivations and brutality. A gripping account of four years no human could forget.On August 18, 1941, 534 Lithuanian-Jewish intellectuals were rounded up and shot by the Nazis. William Mishell nearly became victim number 535. Very Good Condition in Very Good Jacket (EE-7-4).

New York, N. Y. ; Education And Youth Dept. , Jewish National Fund, 1953. Pamphlet. Original Wraps. 4to. 21, 8 pages. 28 cm. First edition. With 8 page section in Hebrew. Issued November 1953 - Kislev 5714. Program syllabus by the Jewish National Fund for Zionist education teachers. Contains materials for use, suggested programs and activities, commemoration of the life of Zvi Hermann Schapira, and a large section on the Jewish National Fund, its program and achievements. Contains frontispiece printed letter from Usher Kirshblum on the late Professor Zvi Hermann Schapira. Subjects: Schapira, Hermann Hirsch, 1840-1898. Jewish National Fund. Zionism - United States. OCLC lists 5 copies (Harvard, Huc, Johns Hopkins, Natl Libr Israel, NYPL) . Wraps in poor condition with edgewear and fragile; internally very clean. Good condition. (ZION-7-27) xx.

Berlin: [No Publisher], 1848. Hardcover. 1st edition. Later boards. 8vo. 48 pages, 20 cm. In Hebrew. Title translates to "Wings of a Dove: Swept in Silver and The Melodious Song..." Senior Sachs (1816-1892) was a Russo-French Hebrew scholar. He wrote on a variety of topics related to Hebrew literature, one of which was published in 1851 as Ha-Yona. He later wrote Kanfe Yonah as a supplement (Wikipedia, 2018) . SUBJECTS: Judaism OCLC lists 11 copies worldwide (OCLC: 33293352) . Ex-library with usual markings. Boards are lightly worn. Internally very good. (YID-32-21-DBB).

Portland, Maine : Coyote Love Press, Distributed By Maine Writers And Publishers Alliance, 1985. Paperback. 8vo. 48 pages. Illustrated. First edition. SUBJECT (S) : Fiction. Cummings was the winner of the 1984 Fiction Chapbook Competition of the Maine State Commission on the Arts and Humanities. Has dust jacket. Fine condition. (FIN-10-11).

Lapua: Herattaja-Yhdistys, 1952. Hardcover, 125 pages, 16mo. In Finnish. Series: Heranneen kansan kirjasarja ; 1. OCLC lists 1 copy worldwide (Nat Lib of Finland) . Wear to dust jacket. Otherwise, very good condition. (Fin24-22).

Warszawa; [N. L. ], 1987. Original Wraps. 8vo. XXXII, 176 pages. 21 cm. First edition. In Polish, with some Yiddish and Hebrew. "Jewish Calendar, 1987-1988". Illustrated with color plates throughout. With essays on Polish Jewish history and religious customs, includes essay on the ‘old Jewish cemetery in Lublin'; as well as a calendar of holidays and remembrance days for the years 1987 through 1988. Subjects: Calendrier. Judaïsme - Histoire. Pologne - Judaïsme. OCLC lists two copies (Danish Union Cat, Paris Sorbonne) Light wear to wraps, otherwise clean and fresh. Good + condition. (EE-4-41).

Duluth, Minn. : Päivälehti Kustannusyhtön Kirjapaino, 1926. Paperback. 4to. 46 pages. In Finnish. SUBJECT (S) : Finnish-Americans - periodicals; Kalevala - periodicals; Knights and Ladies of Kalevala. OCLC lists 6 copies worldwide. Fair condition; back cover missing, front cover and first and last pages detached. (FIN-4-12).

New York Mills, Minnesota : Northwestern Publishing Co, 1969. Paperback. 4to. 77 pages. In Finnish and English. SUBJECT (S) : Finnish-Americans - periodicals; Kalevala - periodicals; Knights and Ladies of Kalevala. OCLC lists 6 copies worldwide. Good condition. (FIN-4-19).

Superior, Wis. : Amerikan Suom. Sos. Kustannusliikkeiden Liiton Kristantama, 1927. Hardcover. 12mo. 366 pages. In Finnish. SUBJECT (S) : Fiction. OCLC lists 5 copies worldwide (Queens Borough Public Library, UC Berkeley, Cleveland Public Library, Kent State Univ, Lakehead Univ) . Binding is tight. Water damage to covers, light water stains in margins throughout, good condition. (FIN-12-15).

Superior, Wis. : Amerikan Suom. Sos. Kustannusliikkeiden Liiton Kristantama, 1927. Paperback. 8vo. 366 pages. In Finnish. OCLC lists 6 copies worldwide. Signatures loose, spine has a sticker on it and is torn and wrinkled from use, text is good, clean and bright, fair condition. (FIN-12-7).

Helsinki: Invali, 1949. Hardcover. 4to. In Finnish. Photographic illustrations. SUBJECT (S) : Finnish Americans; United States - pictorial works. OCLC lists 11 copies worldwide. Very good condition. (FIN-8-32).

Amsterdam : Stichting Vriendenkring Nationaal Monument Vught, 1994. Paperback. Paper wrappers, 8vo. , 102 pages. Illustrated with drawings, photographs, maps, and facsimiles. In Dutch. Collection of 18 interviews with survivors or their relatives from Vught. OCLC lists 15 copies worldwide, but only 1 in the US (U South Florida) . Light wear to covers, very good condition. (HOLO2-78-12xx).

Duluth, Minn. : Finnish Daily Pub. Co, 1916. Paperback. 4to. 80 pages. In Finnish. SUBJECT (S) : Finnish-Americans - periodicals. OCLC lists 2 copies worldwide (Minnesota Historical Society, Univ of Minnesota - Minneapolis) . Fair condition; covers worn and detached, pen on page 3. (FIN-5-42).

Duluth, Minn. : Finnish Daily Pub. Co, 1919. Paperback. 4to. 48 pages. In Finnish. SUBJECT (S) : Finnish-Americans - periodicals. OCLC lists 2 copies worldwide (Minnesota Historical Society, Univ of Minnesota - Minneapolis) . Poor condition; covers worn and detached, tape on spine, page 1-6 and 43-48 missing. (FIN-5-43).

Helsingissä : Seura, 1905. Hardcover. 12mo. In Finnish. SUBJECT (S) : Almanacs, Finnish. OCLC lists 8 copies worldwide. Good condition; sticker on spine, paper pasted inside front cover, owner's name on flyleaf, occasional writing throughout. (FIN-5-60).

New York: Elias Schulman, 1947. Hardcover. Cloth, 8vo, 476 pages. In Yiddish. English title page reads: "Karaites: A Mediaeval Jewish Movement for Deliverance. " Light wear, Very Good Condition (rab-33-21).

Hardcover. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1952. Cloth, 8vo, xxvi, 412 pages, 22 cm. Series: Yale Judaica series, 7. Includes index. Bibliography on pages 394-397. Subjects: Karaites. Jewish literature -- Translations into English. Ex library copy with usual marks. Very good condition. (B-4).

Cincinnati, Hebrew Union College Press, 1993. Hardcover. Original Publisher's Cloth. 8vo. Xix, 252 pages. Map. 24 cm. In English and Hebrew. Series: "Monographs of the Hebrew Union College. Number 16." CONTENTS: The Beginnings of Separatism - Solomon Babovich and the 1795 Mission to St. Petersburg/The Karaite Calendar Controversy - Simhah Babovich and the Crisis of 1827 - Epilogue: From Separate Identity to Assimilation - The Epistly of Israel's Deliverance. SUBJECT(S) : Karaites, Jews -- Ukraine -- Crimea. Includes bibliographical references (pages 245-252). Pen markings on end pages, otherwise Very Good Condition in Very Good consition jacket. (SEF-42-31).

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