‎Littérature hébraïque‎

‎(Jt) Weinreich, Max‎

‎DER VEG TSU UNDZER YUGNT: YESOYDES, METODN, PROBLEMEN FUN YIDISHER YUGNT-FORSHUNG‎

‎(FT) Hardcover, 8vo, 309, viii pages, 25 cm. In Yiddish. Series: Bibliyotek fun Yivo; 7; Variation: Bibliyotek fun Yivo; 7. SUBJECT(S) : Jewish youth -- Psychological aspects. Personality and culture -- Methodology. Includes bibliographical references and index. Other Titles: Way to our youth; elements, methods, and problems of Jewish youth research; Droga do naszej mlodziezy: podstawy, metody, zagadnienia badania mlodziezy zydowskiej; Veg cu undzer jugnt. Weinreich (1864-1969) was a “Yiddish linguist, historian, editor. Born in Kuldiga, Weinreich made his debut as a Yiddish writer at the age of 13, and became a contributor to various Yiddish, Russian, German, and later English publications. After studying at the universities of St. Petersburg and Berlin, he completed a doctoral thesis on the history of Yiddish philology at the University of Marburg. Early in his career Weinreich became a prominent educator in various capacities, ranging from the teaching of Yiddish literature at the Vilna Yiddish Teachers’ Seminary to serving as leader of a Yiddish scouting movement, Di Bin. He was instrumental in giving Yiddish linguistics a solid, scholarly footing. Co-founder with Nokhem Shtif, Elias Tcherikover, and Zalmen Rejzen of the YIVO Institute, and YIVO’s guiding spirit, he was largely responsible for its achieving a worldwide reputation. As director of YIVO’s Research Training Division and organizer of its graduate school, Weinreich successfully educated young Yiddish scholars, among them, his son, Uriel Weinreich. At the World Congress of Linguistics in Copenhagen, he lectured on “Yiddish as an Object of General Linguistics, ” and in 1940, he immigrated with his son Uriel to the U. S. , where he became the country’s first university professor of Yiddish, teaching Yiddish language, literature, and folklore at the College of the City of New York and Columbia University, while serving as the scholarly director of YIVO. Weinreich’s wide array of books and studies include his magnum opus, Geshikhte fun der Yidisher Shprakh, the culmination of a half century of research on Yiddish sociolinguistics, tracing the thousand-year development of Ashkenazi culture and the Yiddish language as integral to the Jewish way of life. He studied the development of Yiddish from its origins in Germany, through Eastern Europe and into the second diaspora, creating the basic concepts and theoretical tools of the linguistic study of Jewish languages. Prominent among his other works are Hitlers Profesorn – probably the best documented indictment of German scholarship during the Nazi regime; Shturemvint, sketches on 17th-century Jewish history; Bilder fun der Yidisher Literatur-Geshikhte; Der Veg tsu Undzer Yugnt, a socio-psychological study of Jewish youth in Eastern Europe; and Di Shvartse Pintelekh, a history of alphabets. Weinreich translated Homer, Freud, and Ernst Toller into Yiddish and edited the periodicals Yidishe Filologye, Filologishe Shriftn, Yivo-Bleter, and the critical edition of S. Ettinger’s works, N. Stutchkoff’s Oytser fun der Yidisher Shprakh, Y. L. Cahan’s Shtudyes vegn Yidisher Folkshafung, and Yidishe Folkslider mit Melodyes” (Schaechter and Baumgarten in EJ, 2007) . Hinge repair. Browning to pages. Wear to cover corners. Otherwise, good condition. (Heb-40-16)‎

‎(Jt) Weiss, Isaac Hirsch‎

‎DOR DOR YE-DORSHAV. VOLUMES 4 & 5 (ONLY) .‎

‎(FT) 8vo. 367, 303 pages. In Hebrew. Volumes four and five only. SUBJECT(S) : Jewish law; Jews – legal status, laws, etc . Weiss was born in Moravia in 1815, and began studying at a yeshiva at the age of eight. He had great interest in both religious and secular studies, and repeatedly changed schools in search of one that could sate all his intellectual interests. Dor Dor ye-Dorshav, a five volume work, is a history of Jewish oral law from Biblical times to the fifteenth century, when the Jews were expelled from Spain. While most Talmud scholars immediately adopted the work as their standard history, there was some “malcontents, ” in particular Isaac Halevy and Eleazer Zarkes. Weiss died in Vienna, at the age of ninety. (Singer & Seligsohn, JE) Simon Greenberg's bookplates. Pages tanned, very good condition. (GER-27-14)‎

‎(Jt) Weisser, Joshua Samuel‎

‎AVODAT HA HAZAN = CANTOR'S MANUAL; RECITATIVES FOR CANTORS AND CONGREGATIONAL SINGING, COMPOSED BY JOSHUA SAMUEL WEISSER (PILDERWASSER) [VOLUME 2 ONLY]‎

‎Original Cloth. 4to. 300, [13] pages. 26 cm. First edition. Volume two only: For the High Holidays. Title page and preface in English and Hebrew; contents in Hebrew. Unaccompanied melodies; words chiefly in romanized Hebrew. Chassidic melodies (pages 267-300) . Contains advertisements at rear (for Yiddish and Hebrew music booklets) . “Joshua Samuel Weisser was renowned in cantorial circles in America as a cantor, teacher, cantorial critic, and composer of traditional liturgical settings as well as recitatives for student cantors. … Weisser immigrated to the United States in 1914, where he proceeded to serve several New York synagogues and to establish a coveted reputation as a teacher of cantorial art—at a time when formal cantorial schools had yet to be established. … Weisser served as general secretary and, eventually, as president of the Jewish Ministers Cantors Association (Hazzanim Farband) —the principal cantorial association at that time in the greater New York area … Weisser’s published recitatives and choral settings embrace virtually the entire liturgy of the annual cycle. He also notated Hassidic melodies, wrote original songs of Hassidic character, and composed Yiddish quasi-art songs—mostly in the style of elevated folksongs. He contributed articles about hazzanut and other aspects of Jewish music to various journals and periodicals, delivered papers at cantorial meetings, and, in a number of articles in Di khazonim velt [Di shul un di khazonim velt ]—an international cantorial newspaper published monthly in Warsaw from 1933 to 1939 but widely disseminated outside Poland—he reported on the state of cantorial art in America and on related professional matters and issues. ” (Milken Archive) Subjects: Synagogue music - Sabbath services. Synagogue music - High Holiday services. Hasidism – Music. OCLC lists 19 copies. Light wear to cloth, otherwise clean and fresh. Very good condition. (MUSIC-2-13)‎

‎(Jt) Wellhausen, J[Ulius].‎

‎DIE PHARISÄER UND DIE SADDUCÄER. EINE UNTERSUCHUNG ZUR INNEREN JÜDISCHEN GESCHICHTE.‎

‎Greifswald: L. Bamberg, 1874. Cloth; 8vo. 164 pages. Gilt titles. First edition. In German. Bibliographical annotations. Wellhausen was a German Semitist. In this work "he followed mainly Josephus and the New Testament in his description of the two parties and their relationship. He then turned to the tradition concerning the beginnings of Ancient Israel....Wellhausen was not only a penetrating analyst, but also an excellent writer. " (JE) SUBJECT(S) : Pharisees. Sadducees. Ex-library with minimal markings. Newer binding; very tight. Dampstained; cover warped and discolored. Leaves wrinkled. Title page nearly detached. Text in very good condition. (GER-8-7)‎

‎(jt) Westphal, Gustav.‎

‎JAHWES WOHNSTÄTTEN NACH DEN ANSCHAUUNGEN DER ALTEN HEBRÄER. EINE ALTTESTAMENTLICHE UNTERSUCHUNG.‎

‎Giessen, Töpelmann, 1908. Cloth; 8vo. Xvi, 280 pages. First edition. In German. Bibliographical annotations; index; errata. Series: Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für die alttestamentliche Wissenschaft. Westphal was a lecturer at the University of Marburg. SUBJECT (S) : God. Bible. O. T. -- Theology. Bible. O. T. -- Criticism, interpretation, etc. Condition. Attractive bookplate on inside front cover. Some edgewear; minor soiling. Page preceding title page has a 2-inch tear at top and bottom. Overall very good condition. (GER-7-7)‎

‎(Jt) Wiener, Harold Marcus [Samuel Rolles Driver, Charles Augustus Briggs]‎

‎THE HIGHER CRITICAL QUANDARY: A CORRESPONDENCE WITH DRS. BRIGGS AND DRIVER‎

‎1st separate edition. Period boards with original paper wrappers bound in, pages [510]-531 (ie.22 pages) ; 24 cm. “Reprint from the Biblioteca Sacra, ” July, 1911. Includes bibliographical references. Solomon Schechter’s copy with his presentation bookplate. Harold Marcus Wiener (1875-1929) was a British-born Jerusalem lawyer and bible scholar who was killed in the 1929 riots in Palestine. His entire estate was bequeathed to the Spanish and Portugese Jews' Congregation of London. Mordechai Ben Katharina Mayer Wiener was born into a privileged Anglo-Jewish family, received his legal education at Cambridge University and became a renowned British lawyer. But he became more famous as a Bible scholar focused on the legal aspects of Bible study. In 1923 he immigrated to Israel, "to better understand the Bible, ” to retreat from public life, and to focus on his studies. He lived in Jerusalem near Herod’s Gate, and became close to the Arab population, and he funded scholarships for Arab students at the American University in Beirut. On the outbreak of the 1929 riots, he was at home with 2 Jewish workers who were renovating his home. Wiener drove them in his car back toward the Jewish neighborhoods, but the three passengers were killed in the Damascus Gate. Wiener was buried in a mass grave along with 15 others killed in the first part of the riots (Wikipedia 2015) . SUBJECT(S) : Bible. Old Testament -- Criticism, interpretation, etc. OCLC lists 15 copies worldwide. Blindstamp on titlepage, damp stains throughout. Otherwise Good Condition. (KH-5-33)‎

‎(Jt) Wolfenstein, Martha.‎

‎IDYLS OF THE GASS.‎

‎Large 12mo. 295 pages. Advertisements at back. First edition. SUBJECT (S) : Jews – Austria – fiction; Jewish fiction; Austria – social life and customs – fiction. Bookplate, covers a little faded, a nice solid book in good condition. (SPEC-2-12)‎

‎(Jt) World Federation Of Polish Jews. American Executive‎

‎SEFER HA-SHANAH = YORBUKH = YEARBOOK; 1967‎

‎Publishers cloth. 8vo. 388 pages. 24 cm. Edition. In Hebrew and Yiddish. Yearbook of the World Federation of Polish Jews, 1967, published in Tel Aviv. Essays on ‘Polish and Lithuanian Jewry and their method of Torah Study, by Moses Shulvass; ‘Traditional Heritage of the Polish Jews’, by S. Z. Kahane; ‘Development of the Hebrew culture in Poland’, by Samuel Rosenheck; ‘Jewish Culture in Poland before the two World Wars’, by Shlomo Schweizer; ‘Jewish Schools in Poland between the two wars’, by Arieh Tartakower; ‘The Jewish Press in Poland between the two world wars’, by David Flinker; ‘Jewish Theatre in Poland between the two World Wars’, by Itzhak Turkow-Grudberg; ‘Institute for the Sciences of Judaism in the Warsaw’, by Abraham Weiss; ‘Yeshiva Hahmei Lubliu’, by Itzhak Lewin. Edited by Arieh Tartakower (1897–1982) , sociologist, demographer, and communal leader, “founder and chairman of Hitahadut, the Labor Zionist organization in Poland, and also served as an alderman of the city of Lodz during 1938–39.” (EJ 2008) Subjects: Jews - Poland - Periodicals. OCLC lists 26 copies. Light wear to cloth, otherwise clean and fresh. Very good condition. (EE-4-22)‎

‎(Jt) Yaari-Poleskin, Jacob‎

‎HOLMIM VE-LOHAMIM‎

‎Later cloth. 4to. XIV, 348, [127] pages. 28 cm. First edition. ‘Dreamer and Fighters: Paintings and Notes from the Life and Activity of the Creators of the New Jewish Yishuv in the Land of Israel, 1871-1921’; a collection of 59 vignettes of early Zionist pioneers (of the first and second Aliyah) ; an apparently important volume, it was distributed as a Zionist youth educational volume throughout the world, and was published subsequently in many editions from 1922 until the authors death in 1941. Poleskin was born in the Ukraine in 1886 and relocated to Palestine in 1905, he worked on some of the earliest kibbutzim, though found himself exiled to America during the first world war, and happened to write much of the book in the Dakotas of the United States; he returned to Palestine in 1920, and wrote as a overseas journalist for the Forverts; this volume includes an early monograph on the poet Bialik. Subjects: Jews - Palestine - Biography. Palestine - Biography. Jews - Biography. Zionists - Biography. OCLC lists 26 copies. Endpages and cloth soiled; title page torn down center, without text loss; otherwise fresh and clean. Good + condition. (SPEC-36-59)‎

‎(Jt) Yonge, C. D.‎

‎THE WORKS OF PHILO JUDAEUS, THE CONTEMPORARY OF JOSEPHUS. VOL II.‎

‎12mo. 508 pages. This volume only (of four) . First edition. SUBJECT(S) : Philosophy, ancient. CONTENTS: On the confusion of languages; On the migration of Abraham; On the question, Who is the heir of divine things; On the meeting for the sake of receiving instruction; On fugitives; On the question why certain names in the Holy Scriptures are changed; On the doctrine that dreams are sent from God; On the life of the wise man made perfect by instruction, or, on the unwritten law, that is to say, on Abraham; On the life of a man occupied with affairs of state, or, on Joseph. Ex library. Back cover and backstrip missing. Occasional pencil marginalia, binding a little loose, good- condition. (SPEC-2-11)‎

‎(Jt) Z Schneyer; Judah, Ha-Levi; Hayyim Nahman Bialik‎

‎YAM LIEDER = SEA SONG‎

‎Original wraps. 4to. 4 pages. 30 cm. Second edition. Words in romanized Yiddish; full text in Yiddish on p. [4]. Front portrait of Bialik. Yiddish song by the famous poet Bialik. First published 1916. “Bialik composed his sea poems ('Yam lider') in Yiddish in 1908 and published them in a Zionist-oriented anthology just before his first visit to Eretz Yisrael in 1909. The small cycle of three pseudo-naive poems was defined by the poet as a translation from the prominent medieval poet Rabbi Yehuda Halevi. However, this cycle of poems is, in fact, a free adaptation of diverse motifs from Halevi, imbued with contemporary colours and revealing Bialik's intimate secrets. … Bialik wrote these Zionist poems ('Yam lider') in the language of the Jewish masses, telling his ideological adversaries in an indirect and subtle way that if he turns to the writing of poems in Yiddish, it is merely for ideological purposes, and not because he agrees with their credo. Indeed, the role of these poems in many Zionist circles has been long acknowledged. ” (Khulyot; Journal of Yiddish Research; No. 8 Winter 2003) . Subjects: Songs, Yiddish -- United States. OCLC lists 5 copies of this edition. Institutional marks on wraps, light pencilling throughout, lightly soiled wraps, otherwise fresh. Good - condition. (MUSIC-3-40) Xx‎

‎(Jt) Zausmer, Jacob.‎

‎BE-`IKVE HA-DOR : RESHIMOT, MASOT VE-ZIKHRONOT.‎

‎(FT) 8vo. Viii, 375 pages. Illustration plates. Inscribed by author. In Hebrew. English title: Footprints of a generation : essays, and memoirs. SUBJECT(S) : Hebraists - United States; Zausmer, Jacob. Very good condition. (HebLit-2-34) xx‎

‎(Jt) Zevin, Shelomoh Yosef.‎

‎SOFRIM U-SEFARIM : SHURAT MAAMARIM `AL HA-SIFRUT HA-TALMUDIT HA-HILKHATIT SHE-HOFI`AH BE-DORENU. VOLUME 1 ONLY‎

‎(FT) 8vo. 414 pages. In Hebrew. Volume one (of three) only. SUBJECT(S) : Rabbinical literature – history and criticism; Hebrew literature – history and criticism. “Born in Kazimirov near Bobruisk, Belorussia, Zevin studied at the Mir yeshivah under R. Elijah Baruch Kamai, and later at Bobruisk under R. Shemariah Noah Schneerson. At the age of 18, he began to correspond on halakhic subjects with some of the greatest contemporary scholars, such as Joseph Rozin and Jehiel Michael Epstein. Zevin was rabbi of several Russian communities, including Kazimirov, where he succeeded his father. On the eve of the establishment of the Soviet regime in Russia, he participated in conferences and conventions in Vilna, Moscow, and Kiev, and was elected as a Jewish representative to the Ukraine National Assembly. The Soviet regime granted him, together with R. Yehezkel Abramsky, special permission to edit and publish a monthly journal Yagdil Torah, devoted to religious and halakhic subjects. This appeared in Slutsk in 1928, but was discontinued by government order. In 1934 he succeeded in obtaining permission to immigrate to Palestine. Creator of a new halakhic Hebrew style, he was an original critic of contemporary halakhic literature. From 1936 to 1945 he published a weekly review of this literature and an appraisal of religious personalities, and also wrote on current halakhic problems and on halakhic aspects of the festivals. ” (EJ, 2007) Ex library. Covers a little wrinkled from water, good condition. (BIBLE-8-6)‎

‎(Jt) Ziegler, Ignaz.‎

‎DIE SITTLICHE WELT DES JUDENTUMS. VOLUME 2 (ONLY)‎

‎8vo. 397 pages. In German. Volume two only. First edition. SUBJECT (S) : Jewish ethics; Bible. O. T. -- ethics. “Ziegler [1861-1948], who was born in Dolny Kubin, Slovakia, studied at the rabbinical seminary and the University of Budapest. During the period of his studies, he was influenced by the Reform movement and from 1888 served as liberal rabbi of Carlsbad, where he accomplished a great deal for the Jewish community. Ziegler sympathized with Zionism. His research dealt with the Bible, Talmud and Midrash, Jewish religious philosophy, and Jewish history. ” (EJ, 2007) Tape with author's name on spine, water marks on boards and in margins throughout, good condition. (GER-28-27)‎

‎(Jt) Zitron, Samuel Leib.‎

‎HERTSL: HAYAV U-FE`ULOTAV.‎

‎(FT) 12mo. 174 pages. Photograph illustration plates. In Hebrew. SUBJECT(S) : Herzl, Theodor, 1860-1904. OCLC lists 12 copies worldwide. "The son of a distinguished merchant family in Minsk, Zitron was educated at Lithuanian yeshivot. While studying at the Volozhin yeshivah, he became attracted to the Haskalah and in 1876 moved to Vienna, where he became friendly with P. Smolenskin. After studying for several years in Germany, he began his journalistic career, and for more than 50 years contributed to the Yiddish press and to nearly all the Hebrew periodicals in the Diaspora. In the 1880s to 1890s, he wrote short stories, one of which, "Yonah Potah" (1887) , aroused popular attention. He joined the Hibbat Zion movement in its early days and translated L. Pinsker 's Autoemanzipation into Hebrew. From 1904 Zitron lived in Vilna and edited various newspapers and anthologies. Of special interest are a series of articles on the Hebrew press published in Haolam. Based mainly on Zitron's personal experiences and recollections, the articles contain material of historic value, particularly on Ha-Maggid, Ha-Meliz, Ha-Zefirah, Ha-Karmel, Ha-Levanon, Ha-Emet, and Ha-Kol. He also wrote about the history of the Yiddish press in the 19th century. With the decline of the Hebrew press in Eastern Europe, Zitron wrote extensively for the Yiddish press, and published many monographs written in a popular style, some of which were later published in book form. Zitron also translated many books into Hebrew (including the works of An-Ski and the stories of L. Levanda) . " (EJ, 2007) Ex library. Boards worn, particularly at corners, pages tanned, water stain in bottom corner throughout, good- condition. (HebLit-3-23)‎

‎(Jt) Zunz, Leopold.‎

‎ZUR GESCHICHTE UND LITERATUR.‎

‎8vo. Viii, 607 pages. In German. First edition. SUBJECT (S) : Jewish literature - history and criticism; Hebrew literature - history and criticism; Manuscripts, Hebrew - bibliography; Printing - Czech Republic - Prague - history; Printing, Hebrew. CONTENTS: Die jüdische Literatur. --Zur Literatur des jüdischen Mittelalters in Frankreich und Deutschland. --Bibliographisches: Daten-Bestimmungen. Sammlungen und Verseichnisse. Drucker und Drucke von Mantua (a. 1476 bis 1662) Druckereien in Prag. Annalen der hebräischen Typographie von Prag (1513-1657) --Das Gedächtniss der Gerechten. --Die jüdischen Dichter der Provence. --Geschichte der Juden in Sieilien. --Münzkunde. --Berichtigungen und Nachträge. --Verzeichniss der benutzten handschriftlichen hebräischen Werke. --Register der Personennamen. Zunz (1794-1886) , born and educated in Germany, was a well-known historian. An heir to European Enlightenment, he was a founded of the idea of the "Science of Judaism. " In that vein, he fruitlessly hoped that Jewish studies would be taught in universities as a regular academic discipline, and that he'd be able to do the teaching. He believed that Jewish literature and learning was part of the broader scope of human affairs, including the sciences, and should not be shut up merely in discussions of religious matters. For his seventieth birthday, a foundation was set up to fund Zunz's and other similar scholarship. He continued to work until 1874, when his wife's death left him seriously depressed. (Glatzer, EJ) Ex library. Rebound. Edges tanning, good condition. (SPEC-7-5)‎

‎(Jt) Zuri, Jacob Samuel.‎

‎HA-HIPOTEKE: 1.AHARAYUT KOL HA-NEKHASIM 2.SHIBUD KOL HA-NEKHASIM.‎

‎(FT) 8vo. 79 pages. In Hebrew. English title: Treatise of Hebrew civil law: Hypotheka. SUBJECT(S) : Mortgages (Jewish law) ; Liens (Jewish law) . SEREIS: Torat ha-mishpat ha-ezrahi ha-`Ivri. OCLC lists 1 copy worldwide (JTSA) . Zuri (1884-1943) was a lawyer and legal scholar. Born in Poland, he also lived in Palestine, France, and England. [His] "single scholarly purpose was to introduce into the European study of Greek, Roman, and Islamic law the data of the Jewish legal tradition. He published most of his 31 works in Hebrew, because, as a Zionist, he hoped to lay the foundation for a system of legislation for the coming Jewish state. " (EJ, 2007) Pages lightly tanned, covers a little soiled, with small tears, good condition. (RAB-21-16)‎

‎(jt)Balaban, Majer.‎

‎DIE JUDENSTADT VON LUBLIN.‎

‎Original Red cloth. 8vo. 112pp. Illustrated paper-covered boards. Usual age toning to outer edges of pages. Fascinating history of the Jews of Lublin covering the 16th -18th centuries. Illustrated with b/w reproductions of in-text drawings by Karlrich Henker. Text in German. Faint dampstain to lower half of most pages. Otherwise Very Good Condition.(k-ee-1-1)‎

‎(jt)Bloch, Philipp‎

‎DIE KABBALAH AUF IHREM HOHEPUNKT UND IHRE MEISTER.‎

‎8vo; 46 pages; Schriften der "Gesellschaft zur Foerderung der Wissenschaft des Judentums. " Missing cover and flyleaf. Wear to binding and back cover. Brown, stained pages. (mx-31-10)‎

‎(jt)Einhorn, David.‎

‎`OLAT TAMID: GEBETBUCH FÜR ISRAELITISCHE REFORM-GEMEINDEN.‎

‎New York: Thalmessinger & Cahn, 1858. Modern Cloth, 12mo. Viii, 492 pages. Gilded, tooled boards, raised bands, all edges gilt. In German and Hebrew. This edition is a reissue of the Baltimore C. W. Schneidereith edition of 1858 [i. E. Earlier that year]. "Vorwort" signed "Dr. David Einhorn, Baltimore 25, Juni 1858." Einhorn is compiler and copywriter. "For sale at Thalmessinger & Cahn ... And at the Sexton's of the Congregation Adath Jeshurun, at their Temple in 39th St. , betw. 7th & 8th Aves, New York. " David Einhorn was a rabbi, preacher, and author; leader of the Reform Movement in the U. S. "Olat Tamid didn't just shorten the traditional service; it was a creative work expressing the Einhorn's Reform ideal of the universality of humanity with an anti-particularistic strain. In its modern approach to worship, it cut out Kol Nidrei; it utilized various Sephardic piyyutim (religious poems) ; it dropped the Musaf service entirely; it did not include blessings for the blowing of shofar or the lighting of Chanukah lights; it de-emphasized Israel as the Chosen People; and it removed all references to a personal Messiah, a return to Israel, or the resumption of the sacrificial cult. " (Jewish Virtual Library) Singerman 1534; Deinard 949. SUBJECT(S) : Judaism -- Liturgy and ritual. Jews -- Prayer-books and devotions -- Hebrew. Jews -- Prayer-books and devotions -- German. OCLC lists 4 copies worldwide of this edition (Denver, Yale, Cornell, UPenn). Edgewear to a few pages. Paper browning but solid. Attractively bound in modern black cloth with paper spine label. (SPEC-7-23)‎

‎(jt)Gesenius, Wilhelm. Revised by Emil Rödiger. Translated by Thomas Jefferson Conant.‎

‎GESENIUS' HEBREW GRAMMAR, FOURTEENTH EDITION AS REVISED BY DR. E. RÖDIGER. TO WHICH ARE ADDED, A COURSE OF EXERCISES IN HEBREW GRAMMAR, AND A HEBREW CHRESTOMATHY, PREPARED BY THE TRANSLATOR.‎

‎New York: D. Appleton & Company, 1853. Cloth, 8vo. Ix, 320, 60, 25 pages. Illustrated with tables. Includes bibliographical references and indexes. Chrestomathy and notes by Benjamin Davies. Contents: Exercises in Hebrew grammar -- A Hebrew reading book: prepared with reference to the translation of Rödiger's edition of Gesenius's grammar. Gesenius was a German orientalist, lexicographer, and Bible scholar. "Gesenius' main field of interest was the scientific investigation of biblical Hebrew based on comparison with other Semitic languages and his studies remained basic for subsequent research. His work was the first in a field of research that freed the study of Hebrew from theological considerations. " (EJ) SUBJECT(S) : Hebrew language -- Grammar. Hebrew language -- Readers. OCLC lists 13 copies worldwide of this edition. Cover very worn; front board detached, but present; lacks backstrip. Notes in pencil. Foxed. Spine tight; text in good condition. (AMR-5-9)‎

‎(jt)Heighway, Osborn W. Trenery.‎

‎LEILA ADA, THE JEWISH CONVERT: AN AUTHENTIC MEMOIR.‎

‎Philadelphia: Presbyterian Board of Publication, 1853. 12mo. Vii, 230 pages. First edition. Tissued frontispiece engraving of Leila Ada, inscribed "Yours in Jesus, Leila Ada. " A quote from the first chapter: "The Mishna is said to be an oral law, received from the lips of God, and intended as an exponent of his written law. But we should transgress the purity which religion demands, were we to quote some of its puerile and absurd follies. If those who penned it set about their work with an intention to shock common sense, and load the Jewish religion with contempt, they could scarcely have acquitted themselves better. And let no one suppose that our strictures are unkind: any one at all acquainted with the Mishna, will at once perceive them to be within the bounds of that charity and pity, which we owe to those who err. Indeed, it were but too easy to quote passages which would justify our severest censures. But withal, the Mishna is surrounded with a degree of obscurity and hardness, owing to its orientalisms, and a considerable pervasion of a sort of Hebræo-Grecism in its structure. This obscurity has given rise to another commentary, called the Gemara, or completion. One Gemara, written in Palestine, forms with the Mishna, the Jerusalem Talmud, and another, written at Babylon, composes the Babylonish Talmud, Thus the Mishna, which the Jews declare to be God's own interpretation of his law, requires interpretation from man, and the whole together forms a mighty work of twelve folio volumes. These are the volumes which contain the whole of the Jewish divinity; for, dishonouring to God, they have almost completely withdrawn the Jews from the study of Moses and the Prophets. In common with the rest of her nation, the Talmud formed the basis of Leila's religious education. Of the Old Testament she knew comparatively little. It is far from certain, indeed, that she knew a great deal of the Talmud. For this there were causes: -first, she did not like its study: she tells us in her Reflections, that while believing in its divinity, as she was instructed, she experienced a smothered dislike to many of its forms, observances, and precepts. 'I felt it, ' she says, 'smouldering at the bottom of my heart long before I had moral courage to permit a single thought upon it. I shuddered at my suspicions as blasphemous, yet I could not conquer them. But as the Spirit of God opened my eyes, I felt no difficulty in fully avowing my severest thoughts upon the inane, absurd, debasing studies of the Talmud. I felt no compunction while I openly declared to my own heart that it was an impure, stupid fabrication, composed by fallen and sinful man. ' What a volume is contained in these few thrilling sentences! Would the sons of Jacob speak out, how many would tell us the same story? Impossible it is but that among them there are thousands who, while they dare not repudiate the Talmud, are conscious of a feeling of offence at its impurities, and absurdities. Secondly, her father, although strictly a Jew in belief and profession, gave himself little trouble about their requirements and observances, and, therefore, was very far from pressing them upon his daughter. " Singerman 1278. SUBJECT (S) : Christian converts from Judaism -- Biography. Lacks outer binding. Ex-library with minimal markings. Usual age staining. First signature detached, but present. Text in good condition. (AMR-5-28)‎

‎(jt)Iliowizi, Henry.‎

‎JEWISH DREAMS AND REALITIES CONTRASTED WITH ISLAMITIC AND CHRISTIAN CLAIMS.‎

‎Philadelphia, 1890. 8vo. 279 pages. First edition. Four pages of advertisements for other works by the author at end. Iliowizi was a Russian-born American rabbi and author, minister of a congregation at Harrisonburg, Virginia; from 1880 to 1888, rabbi of the Congregation Sha'aré Tob in Minneapolis; and from 1888 to 1900, of the Congregation Adath Jeshurun in Philadelphia. (JE) This is an extremely readable, even-handed, comprehensive, and even dryly humorous treatment of the three great religions, covering Bible and Torah, the prophets, Jewish mysticism, Hillel, Philo, and Josephus, and many, many other great thinkers-Jewish and non-Jewish-compared and contrasted. Singerman 4074. OCLC lists 2 copies worldwide (UAlberta, LOC) . Lacks outer binding. Lacks covers. Corner of last page of ads chipped off at corner just into the text, Library stamps on edges & copyright page (none on text pages). Good Condition thus. (AMR-8-2)‎

‎(jt)Leeser, Isaac.‎

‎THE FORM OF PRAYERS ACCORDING TO THE CUSTOM OF THE SPANISH AND PORTUGESE JEWS. VOLUME SECOND. NEW-YEAR SERVICE.‎

‎Philadelphia: Haswell, Barrington, and Haswell, 1837 (5597) . 8vo. 121 pages. First edition. English and Hebrew on facing pages. Title in Hebrew on facing page [Sidur sifte tsadikim]. Second volume of a 6-volume set. Isaac Leeser was an American rabbi, educator, and author, founder of the Jewish press of America. "Leeser participated in all Jewish movements. He was the earnest promoter of all the national enterprises-the first congregational union, the first Hebrew day-schools, the first Hebrew college, the first Jewish publication society-and of numberless local undertakings. [His monthly magazine] "The "Occident" acquired a national and even an international reputation; the Maimonides' College, of which he was president, paved the way for future Jewish colleges in the United States; and his translation of the Bible became an authorized version for the Jews of America. " (JE) Singerman 0630; Rosenbach 411; Deinard 950. Judaism -- Liturgy. Prayers. OCLC lists 7 copies of this edition. Ex-library. Inscribed "Rachel Hays Myers March 1839." Mrs. Myers was the wife of Commander Joseph Myers. Lacks outer wrappers. Outer pages soiled; some warping to pages. Text in good condition. (leeser) MISSING PAGES 77-121--THE 2ND HALF OF THE BOOK. FRAGMENT‎

‎(jt)Moulton, Richard G. , Ed.‎

‎THE BOOK OF JOB.‎

‎New York: The Macmillan Company, 1896. Cloth; 16mo. Xlv, 182 pages. Gilt titles; top edge gilt. Printed on cream laid bond. The Modern Reader's Bible edition: A Series of Works from the Sacred Scriptures Presented in Modern Literary Form (Wisdom Series) . Index and notes. Dr. Moulton was a professor of English literature at the University of Chicago. . Very good condition. (AMR-5-11)‎