‎Hebraic literature‎

‎(Jp) Abraham Soep‎

‎DE BESNIJDENIS. EEN ETHNOLOGISCHE STUDIE, ETC.‎

‎Hardcover, 12mo, 164 pages. OCLC lists 1 copy worldwide (British Lib) . In Dutch. Early post-Holocaust “Circumcision. An Ethnological Study. ” Bumped corners. Chipped edges and corners of dust jacket. Light yellowing to edges of pages. Otherwise, very good condition. (HEB-17-8)‎

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‎`AD EMATAI DIBRU `IVRIT?‎

‎12mo. 132 pages. In Hebrew. English title: Until when was Hebrew spoken? SUBJECT (S) : Hebrew language. Ex library, otherwise good condition. (SEF-12-19)‎

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‎ISRAELIETISCHE LETTERBODE: DREIMAANDELIJKSCH TIJDSCHRIFT GEWIJD AAN JOODSCHE WETENSCHAP, GESCHEIDENIS EN LETTEREN.‎

‎8vo. 194 pages. In Dutch. SUBJECT (S) : Jews - Netherlands - Periodicals. Cover is shaken. Front endpaper is loose but present. Ex-library with minimal markings. Chipping and creasing to edges and pages. Minor bumping to edges. Some rippling to texblock. Missing pages in rear of book. Otherwise in Good condition. (DUT-1-2) .‎

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‎MIDRASH HALEL O SEFER HA-MA`ASIM.‎

‎(FT) 8vo. 46 pages. In Hebrew. SUBJECT(S) : Hallel. OCLC lists 8 copies worldwide. SERIES: Midrashim va-agadot. Bookplate, hinges repaired, pages tanned, good condition. (RAB-20-23)‎

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‎REPORTS RECEIVED BY THE JOINT DISTRIBUTION COMMITTEE OF FUNDS FOR JEWISH WAR SUFFERERS.‎

‎8vo; Original publisher's cloth. Dampstains to boards and lower margins of 1st & last pages, otherwise Very Good Condition. (am-4-2)‎

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‎THE TWO HUNDRED AND FIFTIETH ANNIVERSARY OF THE SETTLEMENT OF THE JEWS IN THE UNITED STATES 1655-1905; ADDRESSES DELIVERED AT CARNEGIE HALL, NEW YORK, ON THANKSGIVING DAY, MCMV, TOGETHER WITH OTHER SELECTED ADDRESSES AND PROCEEDINGS.‎

‎8vo; xiii, 262 pages; 21 cm. Lacks backstrip, hinges repaired, dampstains, closed tear to 1 leaf, good condition. (amr-19-13)‎

‎(Jt) (Alsace) Heidenheim, Wolf‎

‎SEDER SELIHOT MI-KOL HA-SHANAH : KE-MINHAG ELZAS.‎

‎Period boards. 8vo, 23 cm. Title translates into English as "Order of Forgiveness from the Entire Year." SUBJECTS: Judaism -- France -- Alsace -- Liturgy -- Texts. Judaism -- Liturgy. Ex-library with usual markings. Wear to boards, otherwise Very Good Condition. (GER-46-1)‎

‎(JT) (Boston) Wieder, Arnold A.‎

‎THE EARLY JEWISH COMMUNITY OF BOSTON'S NORTH END: A SOCIOLOGICALLY ORIENTED STUDY OF AN EASTERN EUROPEAN IMMIGRANT COMMUNITY IN AN AMERICAN BIG-CITY NEIGHBORHOOD BETWEEN 1870 AND 1900‎

‎Cloth. 8vo. 100 pages. Subtitle: "A Sociologically Oriented Study of an Eastern European Jewish Immigrant Community in an American Big-City Neighborhood Between 1870 and 1900." Introduction by Jerome Himelhoch. Nice, clean copy in Very Good Condition. (AMR38-20)‎

‎(jt) (Marx, Alexander) Frankel, David, editor‎

‎SEPHER HA-YOVEL: A TRIBUTE TO PROFESSOR ALEXANDER MARX BY COLLEAGUES, DISCIPLES AND FRIENDS ON COMPLETING FORTY YEARS OF DISTINGUISHED SERVICE AS LIBRARIAN OF THE JEWISH THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY OF AMERICA.‎

‎Large 8vo; 154 + 10 pages; 1 essay (10 pages) by Moses Marx in English: The Last Hebrew Books Printed in the Fifteenth Century: The Second Edition of the Mashal Ha-Kadmoni and the Quarto Tur Orah Hayyim (on Gershom Soncino and includes 6 photo plates of the book) ; remainder of essays are in Hebrew. Bottom of spine bumped, Good Condition (FEST-6-6b) xx‎

‎(Jt) [Orlovo] Meirovitch, Aaron‎

‎SEFER Z'ELUDOK VE-ORLOVAH : GAL? ED LE-ZIKARON‎

‎(FT) Cloth, 8vo. , 329 pages. With Photographs. In Yiddish and Hebrew. SUBJECT(S) Jews -- Belarus -- Zheludok. Jews -- Belarus -- Orlovo. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Belarus -- Zheludok. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Belarus -- Orlovo. Zheludok (Belarus) Orlovo (Belarus) . Added title page: The book of Zoludek and Orlowa; a living memorial. Letter typed in Yiddish laid in. Light wear to covers, very good condition. (YIZ-1-18)‎

‎(Jt) Aaronson, Lionel E. Z.‎

‎QOHELETH: THE RECORD OF THE LECTURE GIVEN BY THE SON OF DAVID WHO WAS KING IN JERUSALEM: A NEW AND ORIGINAL TRANSLATION AND PARAPHRASE OF THE BOOK OF ECCLESIASTES [AUTHOR INSCRIBED]‎

‎Original Cloth. 4to. 100 pages. 26 cm. First edition. Text in Hebrew; literal translation, paraphrase, and notes in English. Added title page in Hebrew. Finely printed, in Berlin. Signed by the author directly on the front free page, addressed to the editor of Bnai Brith. The author and his brother Alfred E. Aaronson were on the executive board of the Tuloma Oil Company in Oklahoma, and after Lionel's passing, the Company was reformed as the General American Oil Company. Subjects: Paraphrases. Bible. Ecclesiastes - Paraphrases, English. Bible. Old Testament. Ecclesiastes, English. Bible. Ecclesiastes. Light wear to cloth, otherwise clean and fresh. Very good condition. (BIBLE-13-34)‎

‎(Jt) Abarbanel, H.‎

‎ENGLISH SCHOOL AND FAMILY READER, CONTAINING SELECTIONS IN PROSE AND VERSE, HISTORICAL ACCOUNTS, BIOGRAPHIES, NARRATIVES, NOTICES, AND CHARACTERISTICS ON JUDAISM, PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE.‎

‎Cincinnati: Bloch, 1883. 8vo. Viii, 441 pages. Errata at end. The author states in his preface his intention of creating a non-sectarian reader suitable for Jewish youth, so that they may know their own history and spiritual accomplishments, and proclaims his book suitable as well for the non-Jewish student, as it is free from sectarianism. He includes many passages from the Talmud, as well as Jost, Zunz, Graetz, Philippson, Geiger, Franekel, Sachs, and others. Singerman 3113. This is not the more common Rogers & Sherwood edition. SUBJECT (S) : Readers and speakers. Jews -- History. Jews -- Biography. OCLC lists 9 copies worldwide of this edition. Ex-library with minimal markings. Lacks outer wrappers. Flyleaf loose; soil to outer pages. Text in good condition. (AMR-2-16)‎

‎(Jt) Abraham Hyman Friedland‎

‎SHIRON LE-VATE SEFER‎

‎Original Wraps. 8vo. 58 pages. 20 cm. First edition. In Hebrew, with transliteration. Collection of Hebrew songs, some composed by the editor. Abraham H. Friedman (1891-1939) “educator, author, and first director of the Bureau of Jewish Education, was born in Gorodok, Lithuania to Leah Friedland. He received a traditional yeshiva education. His family came to New York when he was 14, and he studied at the Isaac Elchanan Yeshiva in addition to public high school. Following graduation from Columbia University, Friedland helped establish the Natl. Hebrew School for Girls in New York in 1911, remaining there until 1920, when he became superintendent of the cleveland Hebrew Schools. In 1924, when the Bureau of Jewish Education was established to coordinate institutions offering Jewish education, Friedland became its first director, establishing teacher-training, youth clubs, children's theater, advanced Hebrew studies, and the Institute for Jewish Studies-building a network of 8 Hebrew and 5 religious schools, and an adult institute. An ardent Zionist, Friedland was criticized by those who believed he taught secular Jewish nationalism. In 1926, he declined an invitation to become director of the Jewish educational system in Palestine. Friedland was president of Cleveland Zionist District, Ohio Region of the Zionist Organization of America, Histadrut Ivrith, and Natl. Council of Jewish Education. Interested in aids to teach Hebrew to children, he wrote Torah-Li, Shiron, Sippurim Yofim, and coauthored Gilenu. He also wrote Sonettot; poetry, published as Shirim; and coauthored Hashvil with Rabbi Solomon Goldman. He translated Hebrew literature into English and English poets into Hebrew. ” (Encyclopedia of Cleveland History) Subjects: School song-books, Hebrew. Jewish school songbooks. OCLC lists 17 copies. Light edge wear to wraps, otherwise clean and fresh. Good + condition. (MUSIC-2-24)‎

‎(Jt) Abraham Wolf Binder‎

‎JUDAS MACCABEUS: AN ORATORIO FOR CHILDREN‎

‎Original wraps. 4to. 31 pages. 27 cm. First edition. Music and libretto by Abraham Wolf Binder, Musical Director of the Y. M. H. A. , and Jewish Center, New York City. Judas Maccabeus, An Oratorio in Two Parts. Judas Maccabeus “was successfully produced three months after it was composed. It was enthusiastically received by all who heard it. The children comprised the chorus and soloists, and a special orchestral arrangement was played by the Y. M. H. A. Symphony Club. This work can be given as an opera (with action accompanying the music) , or as an oratorio without action. ” (Preface) Abraham Wolf Binder (1895–1966) “was an American Jewish composer and scholar active in the intellectual and artistic Jewish music circles of early 20th-century New York. Revered alike as a composer, pedagogue, and writer, Binder also founded the Jewish Music Forum. ...As a composer, Binder is remembered chiefly for his numerous liturgical choral settings, which include many individual prayers as well as entire services. Some of his once-popular earlier works, such as his children’s oratorio Judas Maccabeus (1919) , are long forgotten, but many of his later prayer settings became part of the standard repertoire in Reform congregations and are sung to this day. He also wrote several classically oriented Hebrew and Yiddish art songs, which may be considered worthy components of the aggregate American Jewish lieder repertoire. ” (Milken Archive) Subjects: Oratorios - Juvenile - Vocal scores with piano. Hanukkah - Songs and music. OCLC lists 2 copies (HUC, Jtsa) . Light soiling and edge wear to wrap, otherwise clean. Good condition. Scarce (MUSIC-3-52)‎

‎(Jt) Abraham Wolf Binder‎

‎JUDAS MACCABEUS: AN ORATORIO FOR YOUNG PEOPLE‎

‎Original wraps. 4to. 31 pages. 26 cm. Third edition. Music and libretto by Abraham Wolf Binder, Judas Maccabeus, An Oratorio in Two Parts. “Preface to Third Edition: When this oratorio was first performed by a group of young people at the Y. M. H. A. In 1917, music had just begin to play a part in Jewish education in this country. Since that time, it has found a definite place in the curricula of religious schools and other Jewish educational centers. The usefulness of this oratorio has grown from year to year, for it has been performed innumerable times from coast to coast in this country in a variety of ways, first as an oratorio, second, as an opereretta with costumes and scenery. A few years ago, it was presented as a 'Maccabean Pageant' in Los Angeles, with interspersed spoken dialogue. It has also been done in Hebrew. ” (Preface) Abraham Wolf Binder (1895–1966) “was an American Jewish composer and scholar active in the intellectual and artistic Jewish music circles of early 20th-century New York. Revered alike as a composer, pedagogue, and writer, Binder also founded the Jewish Music Forum. ...As a composer, Binder is remembered chiefly for his numerous liturgical choral settings, which include many individual prayers as well as entire services. Some of his once-popular earlier works, such as his children’s oratorio Judas Maccabeus (1919) , are long forgotten, but many of his later prayer settings became part of the standard repertoire in Reform congregations and are sung to this day. He also wrote several classically oriented Hebrew and Yiddish art songs, which may be considered worthy components of the aggregate American Jewish lieder repertoire. ” (Milken Archive) Subjects: Oratorios. Hanukkah - Songs and music. OCLC lists 5 copies (HUC, Jtsa, Univ Arkansas, Carnegie Libr, Natl Libr Israel) . Heavy edge wear on wraps, with some damage. Internally clean and fresh. Good - condition. (MUSIC-3-53A) Xxxxxxxx‎

‎(Jt) Abrahams, Israel.‎

‎THE GLORY OF GOD, THREE LECTURES.‎

‎London: Oxford University Press, H. Milford, 1925. 12mo. 88 pages. First edition. Lectures on Natural God, Messianic and Pragmatic. Covers missing. Title page and those directly following it partially detached. Waterstains throughout but no damage to text. Ex-library with minimal markings. Textblock in good condition. (BR-8-14)‎

‎(Jt) Abrahams, Israel; C. G. Montefiore.‎

‎ASPECTS OF JUDAISM: BEING SIXTEEN SERMONS.‎

‎London: Macmillan, 1895. Hardcover. 8vo. 259 pages. SUBJECT (S) : Jewish Sermons. OCLC lists 23 copies worldwide. Covers missing. Ex-library with usual markings. Water stains & chipping to most pages, but no text damage. Overall in fair condition. (BR-8-7) .‎

‎(Jt) Aescoly, Aaron Zeev.‎

‎YISRAEL : PIRKE ETNOLOGYAH, YEDI`AT HA-`AM.‎

‎(FT) Large 8vo. 7, 252 pages. Illustrated with charts and fold-outs. In Hebrew. SUBJECT(S) : Jews - history. OCLC lists 15 copies worldwide. Aescoly (1910-1948) was a "Hebrew writer, historian, and ethnologist. Aescoly studied in Berlin, Liège, and Paris, where for a short time he taught at the Ecole Nationale des Langues Orientales Vivantes. In 1925 he immigrated to Palestine, although he did scholarly research in Paris from 1925 to 1930 and from 1937 to 1939. From 1939 he directed the I. Epstein Training College for kindergarten teachers which he had founded. During World War II he served in the British Army and, as chaplain, in the Jewish Brigade. Aescoly's contributions to Jewish scholarship cover a wide field. His ethnological writings include Geza ha-Adam, Yisrael, and a number of studies on the Beta Israel. " (EJ, 2007) Hinges repaired, dent in spine, rubbed spots on front cover, good condition. (HebLit-4-17)‎

‎(Jt) Alexander Olshanetsky; Maurice Schwartz‎

‎SHIROH ... (SHIRU LADONOY) : FROM MAURICE SCHWARTZ'S PRODUCTION "SHABSE TZVI"‎

‎Original wraps. 4to. 6 pages. 31 cm. First edition. Words in romanized Hebrew; last page contains lyrics in Yiddish. From Maurice Schwartz's production "Shabse Tzvi". Song for voice and piano. Music by Alexander Olshanetsky. As Sung by Meyer Steinwortzel and other artists. Wraps printed in brown ink, with portrait of Olshanetsky on cover. Maurice Schwartz (1890–1960) , “U. S. Yiddish actor. Schwartz was the last major figure in the Yiddish theater of New York. He flourished at a time when there were about 20 Yiddish shows on Second Avenue in New York City, and his Jewish Art Theater was among the last to close. … Schwartz became known in almost every corner of the Yiddish-speaking Diaspora. He toured North America, South America, Europe, Israel, and South Africa. His company had a repertoire of 150 plays from Shakespeare, Lope de Vega, Toller, and George Bernard Shaw to Shalom Aleichem. He was known especially for his playing of Reb Malech in Singer's Yoshe Kalb, Luka in Gorki's The Lower Depths, Oswald in Ibsen's Ghosts, Shylock in The Merchant of Venice, and the title role in King Lear. The Jewish Art Theater became an institution in New York, breeding talent for both the Yiddish and English-speaking stage. ” (EJ, 2008) Subjects: Songs, Hebrew - United States. OCLC lists 2 copies (Natl Libr Israel, Harvard) , none in New York. Light wear to wraps, otherwise fresh. Very good condition. Scarce. (MUSIC-3-57)‎

‎(Jt) Alfasi, Isaac Ben Jacob.‎

‎SHE`ELOT U-TESHUVOT.‎

‎(FT) 8vo. 100 pages. In Hebrew. SUBJECT(S) : Responsa -- 1040-1600. OCLC lists 4 copies worldwide (Univ of Leeds, Brandeis, JTSA, Ohio State Univ) . Alfasi was the eleventh century “author of the most important code prior to the Mishneh Torah of Maimonides. In a sense, Alfasi brought the geonic period to a close. The last of the Babylonian geonim, Hai Gaon, died when Alfasi was 25 years old. Alfasi himself was called "gaon" by several early halakhic authorities. Judah b. Barzillai al-Bargeloni sometimes refers to him simply as "the Gaon. " Alfasi was a native of Qal'at Hammad near Constantine, in Algeria, and is therefore sometimes called "ha-Kala'i. " According to Abraham ibn David, Alfasi studied in Kairouan under both Nissim ben Jacob and Hananel b. Hushi'el, but nowhere does Alfasi mention them as his teachers. ” (EJ, 2007) Solomon Grayzel's copy with his bookplate. Pages tanned, dent in fore edge. Otherwise very good condition. (RAB-20-14)‎

‎(Jt) Amir-Pinkerfeld, Anda.‎

‎GADISH : SHIRIM.‎

‎(FT) 12mo. 450 pages. In Hebrew. SUBJECT(S) : Poetry. OCLC lists no copies for this edition worldwide. Amir-Pinkerfeld (1902-1981) "was born in Galicia, into an assimilated family. Her father worked as an architect for the Austro-Hungarian government. She completed secondary school in Lvov, and published a book of verse in Polish at the age of 18, her first poem being the prayer of a Polish child for the liberation of his country. After studying at the universities of Leipzig and Lvov, she immigrated to Palestine in 1923. In 1921 she published another volume of verse in Polish, Piesni zycia. Thereafter, under the influence of Uri Zevi Greenberg, she began writing in Hebrew. The themes of her verse are love of nature, romantic love, and the joys of motherhood. Her long poem "Ahat" describes a young Jewish girl who immigrates to Israel after surviving the Holocaust and dies fighting for Israeli independence. [She] was the first poet to write poetry in Hebrew specifically for children and distinguished herself in this field. In 1978 she received the Israel Prize for children's literature. " (EJ, 2007) Shalom Spiegel's copy with his bookplate. Has dust jacket. Tanned, gift inscription on free endpaper, good+ condition. (HebLit-5-29)‎

‎(Jt) Ario S Hyams‎

‎PSALM CXI: DEDICATED TO THE FIFTIETH JUBILEE OF THE RABBINICAL ASSEMBLY OF AMERICA‎

‎Original wraps. 4to. 12 pages. 28 cm. First edition. Words in transliterated Hebrew. Psalm CXI: dedicated to the fiftieth jubilee of the Rabbinical Assembly of America: for Jubilee Sabbath January 5 and 6, 1951 Tebet 28, 5711: for choir and cantor solo (baritone or tenor) . “Rabbi Ario S. Hyams graduated from the City College of New York in 1927, and received rabbinic ordination from The Jewish Theological Seminary in 1931. A chaplain during World War Two, Hyams went on to lead congregations in Somerville, Massachusetts; Lynbrook, New York; Asbury Park and Teaneck, New Jersey, and finally Roslyn Heights, New York, where he led Temple Beth Shalom. Rabbi Hyams held positions as president of the Rabbinical Association of Bergen County, New Jersey, chairman of the Nassau-Suffolk division of the Rabbinical Assembly, and president of the Nassau-Suffolk Association of Rabbis. He was the national chairman of the United Synagogue Commission on Jewish Education, and was its chairman of music in education. A composer, Rabbi Hyams was in 1961 named chairman of the Jewish Welfare Board's National Jewish Music Council. He also held the position of editor of Jewish Music Notes, a supplement to the Jewish Welfare Board Circle, 1955-1962. Hyams was also a lecturer in music at Hofstra University. ” (JTS) Subjects: Sabbath - Liturgy. Psalms (Music) - 111th Psalm. Synagogue music - United States. OCLC lists 3 copies. Institutional stamp on front wrap, otherwise fresh. Very good condition. (MUSIC-3-31)‎

‎(Jt) Aschkenazi, Eli`ezer.‎

‎TA`AM ZEKENIM: KOVETS HIBURIM U-KETUVIM VE-SHIRIM BE `INYENE HA-HOKHMAH VEHA-EMUNAH VEHA-MADA‎

‎(FT) Cloth, 12mo, 78 pages, xii p; 22 cm. In Hebrew. SUBJECT(S) : Hebrew literature. Geonic literature. Very Good Condition. Some wear on the binding, staining on some pages. Title Page has slight tear in top corner. (k-rab-1-3)‎

‎(Jt) Asociacion Mutual Israelita Argentina.‎

‎KEHILAH FUN BUENOS AIRES ARKHIV FUN PRESE OYSSHNITN, 1959. AMIA ASOCIACION MUTUAL ISRAELITA ARGENTINA: ARCHIVO DE RECORTES DE PRENSA ‎

‎1st edition. Original illustrated paper wrappers, large 8vo, 242 pages. In Yiddish. First volume of this annual bibliographic report which ran a total of 6 issues, through the annual for 1964. SUBJECT (S) : Jews -- Argentina -- Bibliography -- Periodicals. Jewish literature. Light wear, Very Good Condition (KH-5-21)‎

‎(Jt) Assaf, Simha.‎

‎TESHUVOT HA-GEONIM : MI-TOKH HA-GENIZAH.‎

‎(FT) 8vo. 269 pages. In Hebrew. SUBJECT(S) : Responsa – to 1040; Cairo Genizah. Assaf (1889-1953) , an historian, was ordained a rabbi in 1910, and served in that capacity in Luban and Minsk, and taught at Chaim Tchernowitz's yeshiva in Odessa. In 1921 he moved to Jerusalem, and taught at the Hebrew University from its inception in 1925, becoming a full professor in 1936. Though not a lawyer, he was made a member of the Supreme Court after Israel was established. H a-`Onshin Ahare Hatimat ha-Talmud ("Penalties after the Redaction of the Talmud") is an example of his excellent grasp of law despite a lack of formal legal training. (Zobel, EJ) Signatures unopened, covers worn and chipped around edges, good condition. (RAB-30-16)‎