‎Littérature hébraïque‎

‎(Xt) Heschel, Abraham‎

‎LE-TOLDOT R. PINHAS ME-KURITS, ME-ET [ISNCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR]‎

‎Off-Print. Original Wrappers. 8vo. [213]-244 pages (ie 32 pages total) ; 20 cm. In Hebrew. Inscribed by Heschel on the first page. Off-print from The Salman Schocken Jubilee Volume "Salman Z. Schocken (1877-1959) was a German Jewish publisher and businessman. He lived in Germany until 1934, when he first emigrated to Palestine, and then in 1940 to the United States. " (Wikipedia, 2017) Heschel contributed this paper to the Jubilee Volume in the same year that he published "The Sabbath, " and "Man is Not His Own. " Some toning and wear to wrappers. Otherwise Very Good Condition. (AMR-52-37)‎

‎(Xt) Heschel, Abraham Joshua‎

‎DAS WESEN DER DINGE NACH DER LEHRE GABIROLS [INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR]‎

‎Original Wrappers. 8vo. [359]-385 pages ; 23 cm. Inscribed by Heschel on the title page. Off-print from Hebrew Union College Annual, Vol. XIV (1939) . In German. Title translates into English as, “The Essence Of Things After The Teachings Of [Ibn] Gabirol” “Solomon ibn Gabirol (alt. Solomon ben Judah) … was an 11th-century Andalusian poet and Jewish philosopher with a Neo-Platonic bent. He published over a hundred poems, as well as works of biblical exegesis, philosophy, ethics, and satire. ” (Wikipedia, 2017) . Some wear to wrappers. Overall very good condition. (AMR-52-23)‎

‎(Xt) Heschel, Abraham; Kutober, Gershon (Associated Name)‎

‎R. GERSHON KUTOBER : [PARASHAT HAYAV VE-`ALIYATO LE-ERETS YISRAEL] [INSCRIBED BY THE HESCHEL]‎

‎Original Wrappers. 8vo. Pages [17] - 71 (i. E. 55 pages) ; 24 cm. In Hebrew. Off-Print from the Hebrew Union College Annual, 23, pt. 2, 1950-1951, seventy-fifth anniversary publication. Inscribed by Abraham Joshua Heschel on the First Page. Martin Luther King, jr. , and Heschel "initially bonded over the prophets. King was drawn to Heschel’s intimate knowledge of the topic (Heschel’s masterwork, in a body of masterworks, was his book The Prophets) , and Heschel in turn admired King’s devotion to the Exodus story of Moses and the Israelites, adapted to the narrative of the civil rights struggle in the 1950s and ’60s....Heschel...can also be considered a kind of prophet himself. The main job of the prophets of the Bible, after all, is to hold their people’s feet to the fire. Moses railed at the weak and foolish Israelites who strayed from the path the minute their leader ascended to the mountaintop to commune with God. King fulminated against the war in Southeast Asia as well as against the injustices rampant in white American culture toward those whom it had enslaved for hundreds of years. Heschel supported both these causes, incurring the disapproval of some Jewish leaders when he did not hesitate to vigorously excoriate U. S. Involvement in Vietnam, preaching widely on the subject, writing letters to presidents, and being a spokesman for other religious leaders in meetings with high-level military strategists like Secretary of State Dean Rusk...Heschel, like King, had the charisma a prophet needs. He was impossible to dismiss, even when his message stung. The consummate gadfly, he shined a bright light on the ills of American society and also on those of American Judaism in the mid-20th century, which he saw as stultifying, airless, soulless, moribund. He was an outlier on one crisis we face today: how to make Judaism not only appealing but actually indispensable for Jews of future generations. His words were bracing and his exhortations powerful, but, rendered in such breathtakingly poetic language (as well as expressed verbally in his disarming Polish accent) , they seem like a loving gift from a benevolent elder, not a rebuke: He even warned warmly. He was a Jew who had suffered and seen too much suffering, and who, unlike the rest of us, was capable of vision on a greater scale, the prophetic scale. He knew what he was talking about, and, like King, he believed people could rise up, be their best selves, and behave with righteousness and even with holiness. Heschel died in 1972, four years after his friend King was shot dead. It’s a long time ago now. The prophets we have today don’t speak in King’s mellifluous rhetoric or write in Heschel’s enchanting prose. Maybe we have murdered or hounded to death those with the capacity to make our hearts soar with their words of justice and compassion; we’ve gotten pretty cynical, maybe too cynical for those kinds of voices" (Sian Gibby in Tablet Magazine, 2016) . Abraham Joshua Heschel (January 11, 1907 – December 23, 1972) was a Polish-born American rabbi and one of the leading Jewish theologians and Jewish philosophers of the 20th century....In late October 1938, when Heschel was living in a rented room in the home of a Jewish family in Frankfurt, he was arrested by the Gestapo and deported to Poland. He spent ten months lecturing on Jewish philosophy and Torah at Warsaw's Institute for Jewish Studies. Six weeks before the German invasion of Poland, Heschel left Warsaw for London with the help of Julian Morgenstern, president of Hebrew Union College, who had been working to obtain visas for Jewish scholars in Europe....Heschel believed the teachings of the Hebrew prophets were a clarion call for social action in the United States and worked for African Americans' civil rights and against the Vietnam War. He also specifically criticized what he called ‘pan-halakhism, ’ or an exclusive focus upon religiously compatible behavior to the neglect of the non-legalistic dimension of rabbinic tradition. Heschel is a widely read Jewish theologian whose most influential works include Man Is Not Alone...At the Vatican Council II, as representative of American Jews, Heschel persuaded the Roman Catholic Church to eliminate or modify passages in its liturgy that demeaned the Jews, or referred to an expected conversion to Christianity. His theological works argued that religious experience is a fundamentally human impulse, not just a Jewish one. He believed that no religious community could claim a monopoly on religious truth. " (Wikipedia, 2016) . Wrappers are toned. Otherwise very good condition. (AMR-52-19)‎

‎(xt) Hirschmann, Ira A.‎

‎CAUTION TO THE WINDS (AUTHOR INSCRIBED)‎

‎8vo; 312 pages; Inscribed by Hirschmann. Includes 6-page index Hirschmann was a trustee of the New School for Social Research, a member of La Guardia's "kitchen cabinet, " worked for the UNRRA, and, remarkabley, the first person ever to offer FM music ot the public (over WABF-FM) . More importantly, Hirschmann was sent by Roosevelt on a secret mission to Turkeyto negotiate with Eichmann's agents for the rescue of Jewish children. "In one instance, he traded four Americna visas for the lives of 100, 000 Roumanian Jews and on another occation he arrangged with Apostolic DelegateAngelo Roncalli, now Pope John XXIII, for the exodus of thousands of Jews from Hungary. " Hirschmann's memoirs includes these reminiscences, as well as material on Tito, Nasser, Toscanini, and Justices Brandeis & Frakfurter. Ex-library with usual markings. Very Good Condition. (HOLO2-129-2)‎

‎(Xt) Iakhinson, I.  ‎

‎GEYOG NOCH SHPEIZ; SHMUESN FUN KULTUR-GESHICHTE FAR DER ARBEIT-SHUL.‎

‎Original illustrated paper covers with constructivist font, 8vo, 66 pages.   Includes text illustrations as well. In Yiddish. Young adult book. Title translates as “In search of Food. ”  OCLC lists only 2 copies worldwide (Columbia & Wayne State) . Cover stain and tears along spine; inside 1/2 inch of  first and last leaves are stuck to covers at the gutter margin (from glue from later outer binding which is no longer present) . Attractive, rare Kultur-Lige imprint. (Yid-26-11)‎

‎(Xt) Ibn Ezra, Abraham Ben Meïr, 1089-1164. Zedner, Joseph‎

‎VA-YOSEF AVRAHAM : HU PERUSH HA-RABA? AL ESTER‎

‎1st edition thus. Period Wrappers, 12mo, 35 pages ; 19 cm. In Hebrew with added English title page (“Abraham Aben Ezra's Commentary on the Book of Esther, after another version... Edited for the first time by Joseph Zedner”) . Vinograd, Y. , ; London 487. "Copied from an old ms. In the Harleian Collection, and edited for the first time …. Haytah ? Emdah genuzah ? Ad henah, ? E-? Atah hi mutset me-afelah le-orah ? Al yede Yosef Tsedner. ” OCLC lists 18 copies worldwide. Bibliographer Alexander Marx’ copy with his namestamp. SUBJECT(S) : Commentaries. Bible. Esther -- Commentaries. Light wear, Very Good Condition. (sef-55-6)‎

‎(Xt) Idelsohn, A. Z.‎

‎HEBRÄISCH-ORIENTALISCHER MELODIENSCHATZ, ZUM ERSTEN MALE GESAMMELT: -- V. 2. GESÄNGE DER BABYLONISCHEN JUDEN‎

‎1st Edition. Original Boards. 4to. [ix], 140 pages ; 33 cm. In German. Title translates into English as, “Thesaurus of Hebrew Oriental Melodies: Songs of the Babylonian Jews. ” “Abraham Zevi Idelsohn (1882 –1938) was a prominent Jewish ethnologist, musicologist and composer, who conducted several comprehensive studies of Jewish music around the world. Idelsohn was born in Feliksberg, Latvia and trained as a cantor. He worked briefly in both Europe and South Africa before emigrating to Palestine in 1905 and establishing a school of Jewish music there in 1919. In 1922 he moved to Cincinnati, Ohio to take a position as professor of Jewish music at Hebrew Union College… Idelsohn is generally acknowledged as the ‘father’ of modern musicology. During his time in Jerusalem, he noted a great diversity of musical traditions among the Jews living in the region. Idelsohn examined these traditional melodies and found recurring motifs and progressions that were not found in any other national music. This suggested a common origin for musical phrases that went back to Israel/Palestine in the first century C. E. He found that these motifs fell into three distinct tonal centers, which corresponded to the Dorian, Phrygian, and Lydian modes of the ancient Greeks. Each of these modes elicited a distinct psycho-emotional response. The Dorian Mode was used for texts of an elevated and inspired nature; the Phrygian for sentimental texts, with their very human outbreaks of feeling, both of joy and grief; and the Lydian was used in composing music for the texts of lamenting and confessions of sins. Idelsohn further categorized and defined these motives as ones that either prepared a musical phrase, began it, or concluded it. His works include the monumental Thesaurus of Hebrew Oriental Melodies (10 volumes, 1914–1932) and Jewish Music (1929) . He is considered to be the author of the lyrics of the famous Jewish folk song ‘Hava Nagila. ’” (Wikipedia, 2016) Very Good+ Condition. An outstanding copy. (Music-7-19)‎

‎(Xt) Idelsohn, A. Z.‎

‎HEBRÄISCH-ORIENTALISCHER MELODIENSCHATZ, ZUM ERSTEN MALE GESAMMELT: -- V. 5 GESÄNGE DER MAROKKANISCHEN JUDEN‎

‎1st Edition. Original Boards. 4to. 117 pages ; 33 cm. In German. Title translates into English as, “Thesaurus of Hebrew Oriental Melodies: Songs of the Moroccan Jews. ” “Abraham Zevi Idelsohn (1882 –1938) was a prominent Jewish ethnologist, musicologist and composer, who conducted several comprehensive studies of Jewish music around the world. Idelsohn was born in Feliksberg, Latvia and trained as a cantor. He worked briefly in both Europe and South Africa before emigrating to Palestine in 1905 and establishing a school of Jewish music there in 1919. In 1922 he moved to Cincinnati, Ohio to take a position as professor of Jewish music at Hebrew Union College… Idelsohn is generally acknowledged as the ‘father’ of modern musicology. During his time in Jerusalem, he noted a great diversity of musical traditions among the Jews living in the region. Idelsohn examined these traditional melodies and found recurring motifs and progressions that were not found in any other national music. This suggested a common origin for musical phrases that went back to Israel/Palestine in the first century C. E. He found that these motifs fell into three distinct tonal centers, which corresponded to the Dorian, Phrygian, and Lydian modes of the ancient Greeks. Each of these modes elicited a distinct psycho-emotional response. The Dorian Mode was used for texts of an elevated and inspired nature; the Phrygian for sentimental texts, with their very human outbreaks of feeling, both of joy and grief; and the Lydian was used in composing music for the texts of lamenting and confessions of sins. Idelsohn further categorized and defined these motives as ones that either prepared a musical phrase, began it, or concluded it. His works include the monumental Thesaurus of Hebrew Oriental Melodies (10 volumes, 1914–1932) and Jewish Music (1929) . He is considered to be the author of the lyrics of the famous Jewish folk song ‘Hava Nagila. ’” (Wikipedia, 2016) Very Good+ Condition. An outstanding copy. (Music-7-21)‎

‎(Xt) Idelsohn, A. Z.‎

‎HEBRÄISCH-ORIENTALISCHER MELODIENSCHATZ, ZUM ERSTEN MALE GESAMMELT: -- V. 7. DIE TRADITIONELLEN GESÄNGE DER SÜDDEUTSCHEN JUDEN.‎

‎1st Edition. Original Boards. 4to. [lviii], 181 pages ; 33 cm. In German. Title translates into English as, “Thesaurus of Hebrew Oriental Melodies : The Traditional Songs of the South German Jews. ” “Abraham Zevi Idelsohn (1882 –1938) was a prominent Jewish ethnologist, musicologist and composer, who conducted several comprehensive studies of Jewish music around the world. Idelsohn was born in Feliksberg, Latvia and trained as a cantor. He worked briefly in both Europe and South Africa before emigrating to Palestine in 1905 and establishing a school of Jewish music there in 1919. In 1922 he moved to Cincinnati, Ohio to take a position as professor of Jewish music at Hebrew Union College… Idelsohn is generally acknowledged as the ‘father’ of modern musicology. During his time in Jerusalem, he noted a great diversity of musical traditions among the Jews living in the region. Idelsohn examined these traditional melodies and found recurring motifs and progressions that were not found in any other national music. This suggested a common origin for musical phrases that went back to Israel/Palestine in the first century C. E. He found that these motifs fell into three distinct tonal centers, which corresponded to the Dorian, Phrygian, and Lydian modes of the ancient Greeks. Each of these modes elicited a distinct psycho-emotional response. The Dorian Mode was used for texts of an elevated and inspired nature; the Phrygian for sentimental texts, with their very human outbreaks of feeling, both of joy and grief; and the Lydian was used in composing music for the texts of lamenting and confessions of sins. Idelsohn further categorized and defined these motives as ones that either prepared a musical phrase, began it, or concluded it. His works include the monumental Thesaurus of Hebrew Oriental Melodies (10 volumes, 1914–1932) and Jewish Music (1929) . He is considered to be the author of the lyrics of the famous Jewish folk song ‘Hava Nagila. ’” (Wikipedia, 2016) Very Good+ Condition. An outstanding copy. (Music-7-23)‎

‎(Xt) Idelsohn, A. Z.‎

‎HEBRÄISCH-ORIENTALISCHER MELODIENSCHATZ, ZUM ERSTEN MALE GESAMMELT: -- V. 9. DER VOLKSGESANG DER OSTEUROPÄISCHEN JUDEN‎

‎1st Edition. Original Boards. 4to. [xl], 211 pages ; 33 cm. In German. Title translates into English as, “Thesaurus of Hebrew Oriental Melodies : The Folk Song of the East European Jews. ” “Abraham Zevi Idelsohn (1882 –1938) was a prominent Jewish ethnologist, musicologist and composer, who conducted several comprehensive studies of Jewish music around the world. Idelsohn was born in Feliksberg, Latvia and trained as a cantor. He worked briefly in both Europe and South Africa before emigrating to Palestine in 1905 and establishing a school of Jewish music there in 1919. In 1922 he moved to Cincinnati, Ohio to take a position as professor of Jewish music at Hebrew Union College… Idelsohn is generally acknowledged as the ‘father’ of modern musicology. During his time in Jerusalem, he noted a great diversity of musical traditions among the Jews living in the region. Idelsohn examined these traditional melodies and found recurring motifs and progressions that were not found in any other national music. This suggested a common origin for musical phrases that went back to Israel/Palestine in the first century C. E. He found that these motifs fell into three distinct tonal centers, which corresponded to the Dorian, Phrygian, and Lydian modes of the ancient Greeks. Each of these modes elicited a distinct psycho-emotional response. The Dorian Mode was used for texts of an elevated and inspired nature; the Phrygian for sentimental texts, with their very human outbreaks of feeling, both of joy and grief; and the Lydian was used in composing music for the texts of lamenting and confessions of sins. Idelsohn further categorized and defined these motives as ones that either prepared a musical phrase, began it, or concluded it. His works include the monumental Thesaurus of Hebrew Oriental Melodies (10 volumes, 1914–1932) and Jewish Music (1929) . He is considered to be the author of the lyrics of the famous Jewish folk song ‘Hava Nagila. ’” (Wikipedia, 2016) Very Good+ Condition. An outstanding copy. (Music-7-25)‎

‎(xt) Idelsohn, A.Z.‎

‎HEBRÄISCH-ORIENTALISCHER MELODIENSCHATZ, ZUM ERSTEN MALE GESAMMELT: -- V. 3. GESÄNGE DER PERSISCHEN BUCHARISCHEN UND DAGHESTANISCHEN JUDEN.‎

‎8vo; 1st Edition. Original Boards. 4to. viii, 51, 68 pages ; 33 cm. In German. Title translates into English as, “Thesaurus of Hebrew Oriental Melodies: Songs of the Persian, Bukharian, and Dagestan Jews.” “Abraham Zevi Idelsohn (1882 –1938) was a prominent Jewish ethnologist, musicologist and composer, who conducted several comprehensive studies of Jewish music around the world. Idelsohn was born in Feliksberg, Latvia and trained as a cantor. He worked briefly in both Europe and South Africa before emigrating to Palestine in 1905 and establishing a school of Jewish music there in 1919. In 1922 he moved to Cincinnati, Ohio to take a position as professor of Jewish music at Hebrew Union College… Idelsohn is generally acknowledged as the ‘father’ of modern musicology. During his time in Jerusalem, he noted a great diversity of musical traditions among the Jews living in the region. Idelsohn examined these traditional melodies and found recurring motifs and progressions that were not found in any other national music. This suggested a common origin for musical phrases that went back to Israel/Palestine in the first century C.E. He found that these motifs fell into three distinct tonal centers, which corresponded to the Dorian, Phrygian, and Lydian modes of the ancient Greeks. Each of these modes elicited a distinct psycho-emotional response. The Dorian Mode was used for texts of an elevated and inspired nature; the Phrygian for sentimental texts, with their very human outbreaks of feeling, both of joy and grief; and the Lydian was used in composing music for the texts of lamenting and confessions of sins. Idelsohn further categorized and defined these motives as ones that either prepared a musical phrase, began it, or concluded it. His works include the monumental Thesaurus of Hebrew Oriental Melodies (10 volumes, 1914–1932) and Jewish Music (1929). He is considered to be the author of the lyrics of the famous Jewish folk song ‘Hava Nagila.’” (Wikipedia, 2016) SUBJECT(S): Jews -- Music. Synagogue music. Jewish chants. Cantillation. Light wear, Very Good Condition. (Music-7-19A)‎

‎(Xt) Ikuf‎

‎ERSHTER ALVELTLEKHER YIDISHER KULTUR-KONGRES: PARIZ 17-21 SEPT. 1937: STENOGRAFISHER BARIKHT. IKUF (ASSOCIATION) 1937‎

‎1st edition. Original boards. 8vo. 370 pages, 24 cm. In Yiddish. Holocaust-era report from this gathering of Yiddish Intellectuals in Paris 3 years before its takeover by Nazi Germany. Title translates to “First Congress of the Yiddish Culture Congress, Paris 17-21, Sept. 1937: Stenographer’s Report. ” SUBJECTS: Jews -- Intellectual life -- Congresses. Ex-library with usual markings. Light damp stains. Good Condition. (YID-40-45-L-'x)‎

‎(Xt) Israel, Benjamin J. , 1906-‎

‎THE JEWS OF INDIA‎

‎1st edition. Original paper wrappers. 4to. 64 pages; 23 cm. Divided into various chapters including “The Bene Israel, ” “The Cochin Jews, ” and “The Baghdadis. ” “It will be seen that at the present moment it is the Bene Israel who predominantly constitute the Jewish presence in India, Each of the three groups maintained its separate identity, with little admixture, except of the Baghdadis and the ‘White Jews’ from Cochin, though, as it will be seen later, Jews from Cochin, as far as is known, first ‘discovered’ the Bene Israel, recognised them as Jews and improved their knowledge and observance of Judaism. The groups became Indianised in varying degrees, the Bene Israel being the most Indian in dress, language and mode of life, the Cochinis less so, and the Baghdadis least of all. It will, therefore, be convenient to treat of the three groups separately. ” SUBJECT (S) : Jews, India, History. OCLC lists 6 holdings worldwide. Slight toning. Very minimal markings. Very good + condition. (SEF-56-6)‎

‎(Xt) Jaakov Joseph Ha-Kohen, Of Polonoye‎

‎SEFER TOLDOT YA’AKOV YOSEF‎

‎Second edition (1st is 1780) . Later boards. 4to. 178; + 108 (of 118) pages (lacks final 10 pages). 34 cm. In Hebrew. Title translates to “Lineage of Yaakov Yosef. ” One of the earliest work of Hasidism. Ya'akov Yosef HaCohen of Polonoye was a senior disciple of the Ba'al Shem Tov, who is often referred to here by the line "I have heard from my teacher". The initial publication date of this work is disputed with some claiming that the first edition was entirely burned by the Mitnagdim. Historians have concluded that the first edition was not printed in Medzhybizh, but Kortez. SUBJECTS: Bible. Pentateuch -- Commentaries. OCLC lists 6 copies worldwide (OCLC: 45947836) . Ex-library with usual minimal markings. Lacks first leaf that contains title and notes page; also missing final 5 leaves (10 pages) and 1/3 of 2nd to last leaf present. Some worming and staining. Printed on blue paper. Otherwise Good Condition. (RAB-64-37-PE)‎

‎(Xt) Jeffrey S. Kress‎

‎DEVELOPMENT, LEARNING, AND COMMUNITY: EDUCATING FOR IDENTITY IN PLURALISTIC JEWISH HIGH SCHOOLS (JUDAISM AND JEWISH LIFE)‎

‎cloth, 8vo, 250 pages. Development, Learning, and Community uses data drawn from a study of pluralistic Jewish high schools to illustrate the complex and often challenging interplay between the cognitive and socio-affective elements of education. Throughout, Kress grapples with questions such as: How can the balance between community cohesion and group differences be achieved in diverse settings? What are the educational implications of an approach to identity development rooted in contemporary developmental theories that posit the interaction among cognition, aff ect, and behavior? How can the "formal" and "informal" off erings of a school coalesce to address these broadly conceived identity outcomes, and what are the challenges in doing so? Very Good Condition. (AC-3-11)‎

‎(Xt) Jewish Agency For Palestine.‎

‎POLITICAL REPORT OF THE LONDON OFFICE OF THE JEWISH AGENCY: SUBMITTED TO THE TWENTY-SECOND ZIONIST CONGRESS AT BASLE, DECEMBER 1946‎

‎First edition. Original blue paper wrappers. 8vo. 87 pages; 22 cm. Divided into 19 sections with topics such as “The White Paper of 1939, ” “The Struggle for a Jewish Fighting Force, ” and “Restitution and Reparations. ” Includes three appendices, one of which is a letter between Dr. Chaim Weizmann, the first President of Israel, and Mr. George Hall, Secretary of State of the (British) Colonies. “In particular, they directed their energies towards ensuring that the Jews as a people should be permitted to make a worthy contribution under their own flag in the war against the enemy of civilisation, and towards rescuing as many of the Jews in Europe as possible from the deadly perils to which they were exposed. Despite the pressing current problems, the Executive, looking forward confidently to a successful issue of the war, also did all they could to formulate and press for the adoption of a policy in regard to Palestine which would lead to the fulfilment of the age-long aspirations of the Jewish People. ” SUBJECT(S) : Zionism, Palestine, WWII. Slight toning and minimal markings. A Hebrew name written in blue pen that does not affect text. Very good condition. (zion-12-17) .‎

‎(Xt) Jewish Theological Seminary Association. [Marcus Jastrow, Mordecai Kaplan]‎

‎PROCEEDINGS OF THE SEVENTH BIENNIAL CONVENTION OF THE JEWISH THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY ASSOCIATION.‎

‎1st edition, 12mo, 139 pages, 22 cm. Mainly in English; some text in Hebrew or Arabic. Proceedings of the Association. SIngerman S211. Lists famous lexicographer of the Talmud and Rabbinics, Rabbi Marcus Jastrow, as a member of an advisory board, and founder of the Reconstructionist Movement, Mordecai Kaplan, as a student. Includes an appended essay entitled “Neo-Hebraic Literature in America” by Dr. Bernard Drachman. SUBJECT (S) Rabbinical seminaries -- Congresses. Back cover missing, slight edgewear. Library copy, few markings. Otherwise Very Good condition. (AMR-50-5A)‎

‎(Xt) Jewish World Relief Conference.‎

‎DE TETIKEYT FUN DER IDISHER VELT-HILF-KONFERENTS: BERIKHT FAR DI YORN 1920-1923‎

‎First edition. Period boards. 8vo. 114 pages. 25 cm with multiple fold out maps and graphs. In Yiddish. Title translates to "The Activity of the Jewish World Conference: From the Years 1920-1923." "The first Jewish World Relief Conference was held in Karlsbad, Germany, in August 1920. 105 delegates from 60 relief organizations from different countries participated. The second conference was held in 1924. The purpose of the conferences was to organize all of the Jewish people and organizations for relief for European Jewry after World War I. " (YU, 2017) . SUBJECTS: Jews -- Europe. Charities -- Europe. OCLC lists 7 copies worldwide. Ex-library with usual markings. Pages are browning and somewhat delicate, but in good shape. Overall Good Condition. (YID-27-54) (x-y-px)‎

‎(Xt) Jianu, Ionel.‎

‎ZADKINE [INSCRIBED BY THE ARTIST]‎

‎1st Edition. Original Boards with Original Dust Jacket. 4to. 207 pages ; 28 cm. Includes 97 plates of Zadkine’s work. In English. “Ossip Zadkine (1890 – 1967) was a Russian-born artist who lived in France. He is primarily known as a sculptor, but also produced paintings and lithographs. He was born to a Jewish father and a mother of Scottish origin… His best-known work is probably the sculpture The Destroyed City (1951-1953) , representing a man without a heart, a memorial to the destruction of the center of the Dutch city of Rotterdam in 1940 by the German Luftwaffe. ” (Wikipedia, 2016) This copy is warmly inscribed by Zadkine in 1965 to the notable Judaica Collector Michael M. Zagayski and his wife. “Zagayski began collecting as a youth in Poland and had accumulated an impressive number of valuable items which were looted by the invading Nazis, in 1939, when he was attending a Jewish Agency meeting in Geneva. Only a year later he began a new collection… Mr. Zagayski came to the United States during World War II to serve as a vice-consul of the Polish Government in Exile. ” (Jewish Telegraphic Agency) Two items laid in. First, a 1955 catalog from Mr. Zagayski’s sale of a 1150 AD eition of Josephus’ “The Jewish War” and Volume II of the fist Hebrew Bible printed in Spain. Second, an additional set of photographs of Zadkine’s sculptures printed in 1958. SUBJECT(S) : Sculpteurs -- France -- Biographies. Zadkine, Ossip. Dust Jacket has a very small tear, but on the whole this is a very beautiful copy. Jacket, book, plates, inscription, and additional laid in materials are all in Very Good Condition. (FR-2-16)‎

‎(Xt) Josef Salomon Menczel‎

‎BEITRÄGE ZUR GESCHICHTE DER JUDEN VON MAINZ IM 15. JAHRHUNDERT‎

‎Extent: 151 pages. 8vo. Note: Berlin, Phil. Diss. V. 14. Okt. 1933. Inscribed to Solomon Grayzel by German-Jewish historian Guido Kisch. Ex-library markings. Slight toning. Very good condition. (GER-52-8)‎

‎(xt) Judaeans (Organization)‎

‎THE JUDAEANS/ JUDAEAN ADDRESSES, VOLS I-IV [lacking the final volume V]‎

‎8vo; 1st edition. Original Publisher’s green cloth with gilt design. 8vo; 24 cm; 196 pages, 192 pages, 216 pages, 243 pages. Vol. 1 carries the title, “The Judaeans.” Each volume includes essays from the following periods: [I.] 1897-1899. -- II. 1900-1917. -- III. 1918-1926. -- IV. 1926-1932. Contents: Vol I. - This introduction to the four volume publication outlines the organization. Essays include "Anti-Zionist Meeting", By-Laws of the Society, and more. - Vol II – Includes a list of meetings and papers read, constitution, list of officers, list of members Articles are "President's Address as Tenth Anniversary Meeting - 'The Aims and Ideals of The Judaeans,'" Henry M. Leipziger, "Function of Jewish Scholarship," Josph Jacobs, "The Mission of the Jewish Encyclopedia," K. Kohler, "Dr, Schechter and Jewish Scholarship in America," Emil G. Hirsch, "Rebellion Against Being a Problem," Solomon Schechter, "Jewish Immigrants and Judaism in the United States," Anatole Leroy-Beaulieu, "The Jews as Elements in the Population, Past and Present," Louis Marshall, "The Jew as a Citizen," Morris Loeb, "The Congress of Berlin and the Jew," George S. Hellman, "Louis Loeb - A Tribute," Leo Mielziner, "The Jews and Economic Life: A Review of Sombart's 'Jews and Capitalism,'" Samuel Schulman, "The Jew in his Relation to the Law of the Land," Max J. Kohler, "Address at Meeting in His Honor," Israel Abrahams, "Ruppin's 'Jews of Today,'" Maurice H. Harris, "Schnitzler's 'Prof. Bernardi,'" Bernard Naumberg, "The Jew as a Citizen of England," David de Sola Pool, "The Jew as a Citizen of France," Sol M. Strook, "The Jew as a Citizen in Germany," Leon Hühner, "The Jew as a Citizen in Holland, Italy and Switzerland," Arthur K. Kuhn, "Yiddish Literature in the United States - Its Relation to the Masses," Leon S. Moisseiff, "A Quarter Centiry of the Jewish Immigrant in America," Henry Moskowitz, "The Novel, Jew," Jacob H. Hollander. - Vol III Includes "Leipziger Memorial Exercises, " Addresses by Samson Lachman, Herbert L. Bridgman, Stephen S. Wise, Joseph L. Buttenweiser, George F. Kunz, and Louis Marshall, "The Essence of Judaism, " Theodore Reinach, "Meeting in Honor of the Earl of Reading, Lord Chief Justice of England and Special British Envoy to the United States, " addresses by Samson Lachman, Julius J. Frank, Jacob H. Schiff, Abram I. Elkus, Stephen J. Wise, The Earl of Reading, "Ameircan Jewish War Relief Abroad, " Daivd M. Bressler, "Biblical Criticism and Jewish Science, " Felix Perles, "Attitude of the Last Twenty Years and Present Conditions of Jewish Learning, " Ismar Elbogen, "Leisure, " Israel Abrahams, "The Lesson from Tutankh-Amon's Tomb for the Jew, " Kaufmann Kohler, "Israel Zangwill Meeting, " Addresses by Samson Lachman, Israel Zangwill, Louis Marshall, Horace Stern, Simeon Strunsky, "The Crisis of European Civilization (Noelting and Spengler), " Ludwig Stein, "Race Theory and Anti-Semitism, " Julius Goldstein, "Immigration and Racial Discrimination, " Max J. Kohler, "The Jewish Colonization Work in Russia, " James N. Rosenberg, "The World Court and the Protection of Racial and Religious Minorities, " Addresses by Samson Lachman, Louis Marshall, Manley O. Hudson, and Arthur K. Kuhn. - Vol IV includes: Summary of the Judaean meetings, 1926-1932, constitution, board of directors, list of members Articles are "Memorial od Samson lachman," Max J. Kohler, "Louis Marshall - In Momoriam," Samson lachman, "The Jew in German Literature," Leon Huhner, 150th Anniversary of Constitutional Establishment of Religious Liberty - "New York State's First Constitution," Louis Marshall, "The 150th Anniversary of Constitutional Establishment of Religious Liberty," Irving Lehman, "American Influences on the Development of Religious Liberty in Europe," Max J. Kohler, "George F. Moore's 'Judaism,'" Samuel Schulman, "Lewis Browne's 'That Man Heine,'" Elsa H. Naumberg, "Golden and Other Ghettos in Recent Fiction," Frank I. Schechter, "The Jew in Science," Morris R. Cohen, "Jewish Winners of the Nobel Prize," Benjamin Harrow, The Lessing-Mendelssohn Bi-Centenary - "Lessing," Ernst Renan, "Mendelssohn," Stephen P. Duggan, American Jewry Fifty Years Ago and Today - "Judiasm and Elements in the Population, Then and Now," Maurice H. Harris, "The Jew in Social Life, Then and Now," Felix M. Warburg, "The Jew in Business, the Professions and Public Life, Then and Now," Marcus M. Marks, "Our Charities, Then and Now," Lee K. Frankel, "Relations of Christians and Jews, Then and Now," Frank Gavin, " The American Jewess Fifty Years Ago and Now, Rebekah Kohut - "The American Jewess in Relation to the State," Henry Moskowitz, "The Ameircan Jewess and Her Religion," David E. Goldfarb, "The American Jewess in Letters," Rebekah Kohut, "The Council of Jewish Women," Nathan Straus, Jr., Hadassah," Robert Szold, "Jewish Sacred Music, old and New," Lazare Saminsky, "The History of Liberal Judaism in England," Lily H. Montagu, "The Life and Works of Cesare Lombrosos," Signora Gina lombroso Ferrero, "The Struggle Against Disease: The Health Work of Nathan Straus and American Jewish Foundations," Louis I. Harris, "The Henry Street Settlement," Lilian D. Wald, "Lee K. Frankel: In Memoriam," Louis I. Dublin, "George Washington and the Jews," Albert Ulmann, "Recent Excavations of Jewish Interest in Palestine," Nelson Glueck. " Volume I, present here, is very seldom offered for sale. Ex-library with usual markings. Otherwise very good condition. (AMR-45-5A)‎

‎(Xt) József Zsengellér; Géza Vermès‎

‎REWRITTEN BIBLE AFTER FIFTY YEARS : TEXTS, TERMS, OR TECHNIQUES? : A LAST DIALOGUE WITH GEZA VERMES‎

‎Cloth, 8vo, xii, 383 pages ; 25 cm. ISBN: 9789004268159 9004268154. Abstract: "Rewritten Bible After Fifty Years presents the papers of a conference on the meanings and usages of the term Rewritten Bible introduced by Geza Vermes in 1961. Leading scholars of the topic discuss their new insights and ideas comparing with Vermes' initiative, whose participation on this conference was unfortunately the last chance for a life dialogue with him on this topic. Apart from the terminological discussions and comparisions several case studies widen the scope of the notion of Rewritten Bible/Scripture and rewriting as a genre and technique"-- Contents: The genesis of the concept of "Rewritten Bible" / Geza Vermes -- Textual fidelity, elaboration, supersession or encroachment? Typological reflections on the phenomenon of rewritten scripture / Anders Klostergaard Petersen -- Rewritten Bible: a terminological reassessment / Jonathan G. Campbell -- Crossing the borders from "pre-scripture" to scripture (rewritten) to "rewritten scripture" / Eugene Ulrich -- Rewritten scriptures as a clue to scribal traditions in the Second Temple period / Sidnie White Crawford -- Memory, cultural memory and rewriting scripture / George J. Brooke -- Rewritten Bible and the vocalization of the Biblical text / Stefan Schorch -- Reuse of prophecy in the Book of the Twelve Minor Prophets: rewriting and canonization / István Karasszon -- On the battlefield and beyond: the reinterpretation of the Moabite-Israelite encounters in 2 Chronicles 20 / Elo"d Hodossy-Takács -- Textual criticism of Hebrew scripture and scripture-like texts / Emanuel Tov -- Apocryphon of Jeremiah C from Qumran: rewritten prophetic text or something else? / Balázs Tamási -- Between Rewritten Bible and allegorical commentary: Philo's interpretation of the burning bush / Steven D. Fraade -- Philo's Life of Moses as "Rewritten Bible" / Finn Damgaard -- Josephus' "Rewritten Bible" as a non-apologetic work / Marton Ribary -- Josephus' rewriting of Genesis 24 in Ant. 1.242-255 / Christopher T. Begg -- Can we apply the term "Rewritten Bible" to Midrash? The case of Pirqe de-Rabbi Eliezer / Rachel Adelman -- Adam or Adams? Genesis and the mythical anthropology in the Writing without Title on the Origin of the World from Nag Hammadi (NHC II, 5) / Csaba Ötvös -- Samaritan rewritings: the Toledot in Samaritan literature / József Zsengellér. "This conference was organized in the native country of the Etzesgeber (the man of the idea) in Budapest on 10-13 July 2011"--Title page verso. / Includes bibliographical references and indexes. SUBJECT(S) : Vermès, Géza, 1924-2013. Bible. Old Testament -- Criticism, interpretation, etc. , Jewish -- Congresses. Bibeln. G. T. Very Good Condition in Very Good Dust Jacket. (AC-3-8)‎

‎(Xt) Kalisch, M. M.‎

‎LEVITICUS: A HISTORICAL AND CRITICAL COMMENTARY ON THE OLD TESTAMENT. VOL I ONLY OF TWO (STANDS ON ITS OWN)‎

‎First edition. Modern cloth, 8vo, 438 pages. 1st of 2 volumes on Leviticus. Marcus Kalsich "was one of the pioneers of the critical study of the Old Testament in England His commentaries are of permanent value, not only because of the author's originality, but also because of his exceptional erudition. However, he did lack an equal power of using his resources for literary purposes. Still, his views on Biblical and Jewish subjects generally were of an advanced type. No other works in English contain such full citations of earlier literature. He was prevented from completing his projected comprehensive commentary on the entire Pentateuch by the ill health which attended his last years" (Wikipedia, 2017) . Series: A Historical and critical commentary on the Old Testament, with a new translation; OCLC lists 19 copies (including both volumes) worldwide. Pages have some water damage and browning, but otherwise Good condition. (AC-3-33)‎

‎(Xt) Kaplan, Chaim Aron‎

‎[JAPANESE EDITION OF SCROLL OF AGONY, THE WARSAW DIARY OF CHAIM A. KAPLAN: VOL. 1]‎

‎1st Japanese Edition. Original Paper Wrappers. Volume 1: 209 pages ; 19 cm. IN Japanese. “Smuggled out of the ghetto and carefully preserved in a kerosene can on a farm outside Warsaw, Chaim Kaplan’s diary, originally recorded in beautiful, disciplined Hebrew script, is a detailed eyewitness report of the Nazi occupation of Warsaw and a unique account of the destruction of the Jewish communities of Poland. Scroll of Agony begins on September 1, 1939, as the author, a respected educator, describes the Nazi blitzkrieg that stunned the world. It ends in August 1942, when Kaplan realized that the Nazi noose was around his neck. Kaplan’s remarkably objective account of the politics of occupation depicts a world of starvation and forced labor, of capricious death and planned mass murder. Yet his orderly script also conveys a world in which the struggle for survival included spiritual resistance: conducting services behind drawn shades, struggling to keep the schools open, and holding on to the rich fabric of communal life in defiance of the strongest force of dehumanization that the world has ever seen. ” (US Holocaust Museum Library) OCLC lists 3 copies worldwide (U Illinois, Waseda Univ. Library, National Diet Library) . Very good+ condition. (holo2-131-7)‎

‎(Xt) Kaplan, Mordecai Menahem; Stroock, Solomon Marcus; Ginzberg, Louis‎

‎COMMENCEMENT ADDRESSES, JUNE 8, 1919‎

‎1st Edition. Original Paper Wrappers. 8vo. 39 pages; 23 cm. This is the first separate publication by Mordecai Kaplan. Kaplan gave this commencement address 15 years before his landmark publication of “Judaism as Civilization. ” In this address, Kaplan congratulates the graduating rabbinic class of 1919 and makes reference to ‘reconstruction’ saying: “The great slogan of these days is ‘Reconstruction. ’ Reconstruct what? The social and intellectual chaos of pre-war times that was camouflaged by a few conventional decencies? What we need is to construct, not reconstruct. We have hardly begun to build a world in which mankind aspires to dwell, a world founded on justice, reason and peace. ” Also includes addresses from Louis Ginzberg and Sol M. Stroock. OCLC lists 19 copies world wide. Very good+ condition. (AMR-48-52)‎