‎Littérature hébraïque‎

‎(xt) Rubenovitz, Mignon Levine.‎

‎WINECUP AND BOOK; THE STORY OF THE DARMSTADTER HAGGADAH. [AUTHOR INSCRIBED]‎

‎First edition. Original boards. 12mo. 20 pages, 11cm. Illustration plates. The story of creation and the dispute around the ownership of the Darmstadt Haggadah. Accompanied with several b/w reproduction of details from the Haggadah. SUBJECT (S) : Jews – liturgy and ritual. Light wear, Ex-library with usual markings. Very good condition. (RAB-14-10B)‎

‎(Xt) Rubin, Moshe; Lessing, Gotthold Ephraim‎

‎TIPN UN GESHTALTN : DI IDIN, DER KOYFMAN FUN VENEDIG, NATAN DER VAYZE : A PSIKHOLOGISHE UN KHARAKTERISTISHE OPHANDULUNG IBER IDISHE HELDN . ; DI FEDER : POEME‎

‎First edition. Original paper wrappers. 8vo. 125 pages : portrait ; 20 cm. In Yiddish. Title translates to "Character Types and Arrangements: The Jews, The Merchant of Venice, Nathan the Wise: A Psychological and Chararacter-based treatise on Jewish Heroes" [and] "The Pen: Poems" Includes an abridged translation in Yiddish of Lessing's Nathan der Weise. SUBJECTS: Hale vy, F. , 1799-1862. Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. OCLC lists 9 copies worldwide. Ex-library with usual markings. Wrappers are loose. Pages are browning and very brittle. Front wrappers is heavily chipped and edgeworn. Poor condition but complete. Working copy only. (YID-27-51)‎

‎(Xt) Sachs, Senior‎

‎KEREM CHEMED‎

‎1st Edition. Period boards. 8vo. 160 p. ; 21 cm. In Hebrew with German and Hebrew title pages. Title translates into English as, “Vineyard of Delight. " Sachs’ second published volume in the Kerem Chemed Series. It was the 9th and last volume in the series. “Kerem Hemed (was a) Hebrew annual of the Galician Haskalah. Published in Vienna, Prague, and Berlin from 1833 to 1856, Kerem ? Emed served as a central forum for Eastern and Western Jewish scholars and authors. The publisher and nominal editor (was) Samuel Leib *Goldenberg… The number of contributors grew from year to year and included writers from Russia, Germany, Hungary and in the last annuals, such figures as L. Zunz, A. Geiger, and the astronomers H. Z. Slonimsky and H. M. Pineles. After Goldenberg's death publication of the annuals ceased until it was revived by Senior Sachs who published the last two annuals in a style similar to their predecessors. ” (Jewish Virtual Library, 2016) “Senior Sachs (1816 – 1892) was a Russo-French Hebrew scholar. ” (Wikipedia, 2016) Ex-library with Jewish Institutional Stamp/Bookplate and usual markings. Includes some notes on the title page from the era of publication. Some faint water stains. On the whole, the inside pages are very bright and clear. Good+ condition. (Ger-58-32a)‎

‎(xt) Saige, Gustave‎

‎LES JUIFS DU LANGUEDOC ANTÉRIEUREMENT AU [QUATORZIEME] SIECLE‎

‎First edition. Marked 175 out of 250. Contemporary boards. 8vo. [x], 388 pages ; 21 cm. In French. Title translates into Englsh as, “The Jews Of Languedoc from the Fourteenth Century. ” “Gustave Saige (1838-1905) was a French archivist. He was the archivist of the Prince's Palace of Monaco from 1881 to 1905.” (Wikipedia, 2016) Gregg International Publishers Limited, 1971. Reprint. SUBEJCT(S) : Jews -- France -- Languedoc -- History -- Sources. Ex-library with usual markings. Professional repair to some pages. Overall Very good Condition of this classic. (FR-2-19A)‎

‎(Xt) Samuel. Fontanella, Israel Berechiah Ben Joseph Jekuthiel‎

‎MAFTEHOT HA-ZOHAR. 2 VOLUMES IN 1. COMPLETE.‎

‎Reprint, Jerusalem [1969 or 70]. Paper Wrappers, 12mo, 194 leaves. In Hebrew with final page in Italian. SUBJECT (S) : Zohar -- Indexes, Topical. Ex-library, light wear, Very Good Condition (RAB-62-20)‎

‎(xt) Samuelzohn, Zeev Volf [Samuelsohn, Zev Wolf]‎

‎SHIR HA-SHIRIM: IM PERUSH BE-SHEM HAVATSELET HA-SHARON‎

‎Cloth, ix, 68 pages, 8vo. In Hebrew. Samuelsohn was from Kovno Province and he served as a rabbi in various Russian cities and in Baltimore. He was in Baltimore by 1898, when his daughter died. He was the father-in-law of R. Jacob Even Frommer Halevi of New Haven. This work contains the text of Songs of Songs with Samuelsohn’s commentary (Goldman 204) . Includes title page, preface, table of contents. SUBJECT(S) Bible. O. T. Song of Solomon -- Commentaries. Added title page: “Songs of Solomon, with commentary Chabazeleth hashoron by Wolf Samuelson. ” OCLC lists 18 copies worldwide. Previous owner's stamps on title page. Wear and slight tears to cover binding. Otherwise, good condition. (AMR-36-21A)‎

‎(Xt) Scheyer, Simon B.‎

‎DAS PSYCHOLOGISCHE SYSTEM DES MAIMONIDES: EINE EINLEITUNGSCHRIFT ZU DESSEN MORE NEBUCHIM‎

‎1st Edition. Later Boards Bound with Original Paper Wrappers. 8vo. [vi], 111 pages ; 23 cm. In German. Title translates into English as, “The Psychological System Of The Maimonides An Introduction For Further Study. ” A first edition copy Sheyer’s influential work. “Scheyer… explains Maimonides’ psychological ‘system’ with an emphasis on its internal structure and consistency, rather than from a historical perspective. He mainly follows Maimonides’ Eight Chapters (the Introduction to his Commentary on Mishnah, Avot) . In passing, he discusses two ‘predecessors’, two early works offering a systematic account of Maimonides’ psychology:‎

‎(Xt) Scholem, Gershom Gerhard [Moharan; Mi-Breslav; Buber, Mart?in (Honoree) ]‎

‎KUNTRES ELEH SHEMOT SIFRE MOHARAN Z.L. MI-BRESLAV VE-SIFRE TALMIDAV VE-TALMIDE TALMIDAV‎

‎1st edition. Original printed paper wrappers, 8vo, 38 pages. In Hebrew. "Sefer zeh nidpas be-hamesh me'ot t? Efasim be-hodesh Shevat 688 bi-defus ? Ezri'el Yerushalayim. " Bibliography of the works of Chassidic master Nahman of Bratslava (1771-1810) and his pupils and the pupil of his pupils. SUBJECT(S) : Mysticism Ju¨dische Philosophie Hasidism -- Bibliography. Light wear, appears to have been removed from later binding? Otherwise Very Good Condition (KH-8-13)‎

‎(Xt) Schreider, Solomon.‎

‎SEFER TOLDOT ANSHE HA-SHEM ME-HAKHME HA-? AMIM : HA-LO HEM ABELAR, DAN? , GUS, RA'AMUS, VE-LINKOLIN‎

‎1st Edition. Bound in Period 1/4 leather, 8vo, 68 pages ; 21 cm. First Hebrew Biography of Abraham Lincoln, published less than 10 years after his death. Title translates as, "A History of the Names of the Righteous Among the Nations: They Are Abelard, Dante, Hus, Ramos, and Lincoln. " Includes biographies of Dante Alighieri (1265-1321) ; Peter Abelard (1079-1142) ; Jan Hus (1369? -1415) ; Petrus Ramus (1515-1572) ; and Abraham Lincoln. 1 of 1000 copies printed (? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? . "Be-1000 e? Zempli'arin"--Page [3]) . OCLC: 122702346. Boards detached, period inscriptions on endpapers otherwise Good Condition. (KH-8-59-DGL)‎

‎(Xt) Schulman, Kalman‎

‎SEFER MEHKERE ERETS RUSYA‎

‎First edition. Period boards. 8vo, 194 pages, 21 cm. In Hebrew. Title translates to "Studies in The Land of Russia. " Kalman Schulman (18191899) was a prolific Hebrew writer, translator and historian. A graduate of the Yeshiva of Volozhin, his maskilic approach was combined with a firmly religious outlook in the spirit of Vilnas moderate Haskalah, the city in which he spent his life. A harbinger of Zionism, Schulmans love for the Land of Israel and his related literary activities, greatly assisted in the development of a modern Hebrew literature. He devoted himself primarily to translating (mainly from German) and popularizing history, geography, and ethnography, both general and Jewish. SUBJECTS: Russia -- Description and travel. Russia. Ex-library with usual markings. Some wear to boards. Pages are browning with some foxing. Overall Good+ Condition. (YID-27-36-y)‎

‎(Xt) Schwartzbard, Sholom‎

‎IN’M LOYF FUN YORN‎

‎1st edition. Original boards. 8vo. 364 pages, 22 cm. Features illustrations and portrait of Shvartsbard. In Yiddish. Title translates to “In the Course of Years. ” Shalom-Shmuel Schwarzbard (1886-1938) was a Russian-born French Yiddish poet of Jewish descent. He served in the French and Soviet military, was a bolshevik, and is known for his assassination of the Ukrainian national leader Symon Petliura while in Paris. His trial was highly publicized and he claimed to have killed Petliura in retribution for the pogroms in Ukraine. He was eventually acquitted (Wikipedia, 2018) . He was viewed as a hero by many; this work is published by the Shalom Shvartsbard Committee in Chicago. SUBJECTS: Jews -- Ukraine -- Biography. Ex-library with usual markings. Very good Condition. (YID-40-91-X-'fl)‎

‎(xt) Schönberger, Davin [Inscrbed by author, the rabbi who married Anne Frank's parents]‎

‎BETENDES JUDENTUM‎

‎Original cloth boards. 12mo. 102 pages, 24 cm. In German. Holocaust-era imprint. Inscrbed "In deepest reverance" by the author in English on title page. Title translates roughly to “Praying Judaism. ” Rabbi Davin Schoenberger “performed the marriage of Anne Frank’s parents and later fled Nazi Germany...It was while serving as chief rabbi of Aachen, Germany, from 1926 to 1938 that Rabbi Schoenberger married the parents of the Jewish teen-ager whose wartime diary was later read around the world. The Schoenbergers and their daughter fled Europe after their synagogue was burned to the ground on Kristallnacht, Nov, 9, 1938, when Government-incited mobs attacked Jews and Jewish institutions and properties. (NYT Dec. 10, 1989) . This book was published that same year. Part of the Series: Sammlung Jüdischer Wissen, Band II. SUBJECT(S) : Judaism, Liturgy. OCLC lists 17 holdings worldwide. Staining to boards, including some on inside of front board. Internally clean, Good Condition overall. (GER-52-4A)‎

‎(Xt) Seixas, James. [Hebrew Teacher Of Mormon Leader Joseph Smith]‎

‎A MANUAL [OF] HEBREW GRAMMAR: WITH A VOCABULARY OF ROOTS, NOUNS, AND PARTICLES OF COMMON OCCURRENCE, FOR THE USE OF BEGINNERS‎

‎Third edition. Carefully revised, corrected, and improved.” Original board with paper label on front, as issued, 8vo, 83 pages ; 22 cm. In English with Hebrew. Singerman 1263. Goldman (183), notes, “Joshua Seixas, the son of Gershom Mendes Seixas (the minister of New York's Shearith Israel congregation), was born in New York in 1802. Little is known about his life. He taught in Shearith Israel's Hebrew school in the mid-1820s and he established the congregation's first choir. Seixas moved to Charlestown, MA, in the early 1830s and gave lessons in Hebrew. Among his pupils were Harvard students. Seixas began referring to himself as James while in Charlestown and it is assumed that he converted to Unitarian Christianity while there. Seixas then settled in Hudson, OH. He offered private Hebrew classes to students at Oberlin College, and later at Western Reserve University...He also taught groups of Mormons- the center of the movement at the time was in Kirtland, OH- and among his students were Joseph Smith, the founder of Mormonism, and Orson Hyde, another early leader of the movement. Seixas left Ohio in 1836 and he was living in Staten Island, NY, by 1838. It is not clear what his relationship to the Jewish community was in his later years. His death in 1874 is not mentioned in Shearith Israel's records, but the death of his wife is. (The two lived apart after retuning to New York.) Also, a few of his many children remained within the community; others did not. Seixas was in regular contact with Christian Hebraists throughout his life. He corresponded with Moses Stuart on personal and scholarly matters and he proofread the grammars published by Stuart and George Bush. Seixas himself authored grammars for Hebrew, Aramaic, Syriac and Arabic….An expanded second edition (119 pp.) was published in 1834 UA #590]; a third revised and corrected edition (83 pp.) was published in 1852 UA #1263]. Seixas's grammar was reviewed favorably in its time (Goldman, 'Joshua/James Seixas," 72), though Chomsky later criticized it (Chomsky [1958], 133-4).” For detailed analysis of Seixas' relationship with the founders of the Mormon church, see Rick Grunder's 2015 essay "A Teacher for the Temple: The Infectious Exuberance of Joshua Seixas" (www.rickgrunder.com/seixas.pdf). Interesting assortment of period ownership inscriptions including Jackson Coffing; A.J. Sem, NY City Nov 21st 1853; and Geo Wilson Lemert (?), From his sister Josephine, Antioch Apr. 24th 1869. SUBJECT(S): Hebrew language -- Grammar. OCLC: 4821518. OCLC lists 17 copies worldwide. Lacks backstrip. Dampstains throughout, original boards show moisture damage as well, but book is solid. In fitted buckram archival clamshell box (AMR-65-31)‎

‎(xt) Selig, Gottfried, editor.‎

‎DER JUDE, EINE WOCHENSCHRIFT. VOLS I-III, COMPLETE (VOL I, NRS 1-26; VOL II NRS. 1-23; VOL III, NRS 1-25) [FIRST 74 ISSUES, COMPLETE THUS FAR]‎

‎1st edition. Beautiful original period half-leather over marbled boards with raised bands and gilt spine design. Title translates as, “The Jew, A Weekly.” German interspersed with Hebrew. Device on title. Headpieces, initials, tailpieces. Includes graphics of Jewish ceremonial art [for example, in Vol. II, between pp. 52-53; Vol. II: pp. (12), 368. Vol. III: pp.(16) ]. The editor of Der Jude, Gottfried Selig (1722-95), was a convert to Christianity who sought reconciliation between Christians and Jews, to which end, this periodical appeared containing much information about Jewish history, rites and customs. His assumption was that, equipped with deeper insight into Jewish life, a greater sense of understanding would arise within society as a whole. Selig’s goal in publishing Der Jude was to make peace between Christians and Jews, but the work earned him opposition from both sides, with Jews claiming that its true goal was to convert Jews to Christianity, and Christians claiming that it lacked historical veracity and presented a false neutrality. Der Jude was issued between 1768-1772 in nine volumes. Kirchner 2084. Furst III, 309. Diesch 773. Yiddish scholar Judah Joffe’s set with his photographic bookplate. Marbled endpapers. Slight internal binding error at rear of vol III, otherwise a beautiful dramatic period set in Very Good Condition. Price for all 74 issues, bound in 3 volumes (GER-60-5)‎

‎(Xt) Shachar, Isaiah‎

‎JEWISH TRADITION IN ART; THE FEUCHTWANGER COLLECTION IN JUDAICA‎

‎4to. 335 pages. 28 cm. First English edition. Translated by R. Grafman. Heavily illustrated catalogue of the Feuchtwanger Collection of Judaica at the Israel Museum, Jerusalem; consisting of 1, 132 items, consisting of liturgical objects, coins, furniture, etc. ; most are reproduced herein in facsimiles, many in color; compiled and written by Yeshayahu Shachar (born Isaiah Stengel) (1935 –1977) an Israeli historian and bibliographer; he published miscellaneous monographs, including one establishing the authenticity of the personal seal of Nachmanides (found in a field in Israel) . His varied interests included the early history of Hasidism; Jewish iconography and portraiture, and Jewish/Hebrew bibliography. He held teaching posts at Hebrew University and University College, London, and at the Oxford Centre for Postgraduate Hebrew Studies. Subjects: Liturgical objects - Judaism - Exhibitions. Jewish art and symbolism - Exhibitions. Judaism - Liturgical objects - Exhibitions. Jewish art and symbolism - Exhibitions. Feuchtwanger, Heinrich, 1898-1963 - Art collections. Jerusalem. Israel Museum. Muzeon Yisrael (Jerusalem) . OCLC lists 26 copies. Ex-library with Jewish Institutional Bookplate and usual markings. Light wear to wraps, including slight crease on back wrapper. Overall in very good condition. (BIBLIOG-33-41C)‎

‎(Xt) Shapiro, Isaac, Of Montreal.‎

‎DI NATSYONAL-EKONOMISHE BADAYTUNG FUNEM IDISHN DERTSIUNGS-PROBLEM‎

‎1st edition, original blue printed paper wrappers, 8vo, 14 pages, 22 cm. In Yiddish. "A rede gehaltn oyf'n Kanader Idishn kongres in Toront? O, akht un tsvantsiktn Yanuar, 1934." Title translates as, “The National-Economic Statement of the Jewish Commonwealth Problem. ” Scarce Nazi-era Canadian Yiddish imprint on Zionism. SUBJECT (S) : Jews -- Canada -- Intellectual life. -- Intellectual life. Zionism. OCLC lists 3 institutions worldwide with copies (Harvard, HUC, YIVO) . Light wear, soiling, stamps on 2 pages, about Very Good- Condition. Scarce. (YID-26-26)‎

‎(xt) Sherira Ben Hanina, Gaon; Aaron Hyman‎

‎SEFER IGERET DE-RABENU SHERIRA GAON : KEFI HA-NUSAH HA-NIDPAS BE-YUHASIN DEFUS, KUSHTANDINA, BI-SHENAT 326 BE-HASHVAAH IM YETER HA-NUSHAOT ASHER NIDPASU AD HA-YOM A. P. KITVE YAD SHONIM‎

‎Original Cloth. 8vo. 109 pages. 24 cm. First edition. In Hebrew. The letter of R. Sherira, gaon. Sherira ben Hanina Gaon (c. 906–1006) , “gaon of Pumbedita from 968–1006. … Sherira was among the most prolific writers of responsa. One inquiry addressed to him by Jacob b. Nissim b. Shahin in the name of the community of Kairouan led to the writing in 987 of his famous epistle, Iggeret Rav Sherira Ga'on, a classic of Jewish historiography. Jacob sought information as to when and how the Mishnah, the Tosefta, the beraitot, and the Talmud had been compiled. He inquired 'whether the men of the Great Synagogue had really begun the writing of the Mishnah, and the Sages of each generation had written [more] parts of it until Rabbi [Judah] ha-Nasi came and compiled it. ' Sherira deals with the question in a scholarly manner, revealing himself a practical and accurate historian (with the possible reservation that his opinions on the exilarchs, descended from Bustanai , from whom he claimed descent, may be colored) . He discusses the activity of the savoraim in revising and compiling the Talmud, and continues the sequence of tradition to the geonic authorities. ”- 2008 EJ. R. Sherira Gaon's "Epistle" with a commentary, an addenda to Toledot Tanna'im ve-Amora'im (3 vols. , 1901–11) by Aaron Hyman (1862–1937) , “Russian-born London rabbi and scholar. Hyman, born in Slutsk, Belorussia, studied at various yeshivot and in 1885 he settled in London. There he officiated as rabbinical supervisor and head shohet of the London community. He also served as an unsalaried rabbi of a congregation. Active in communal life, he helped found the Mizrachi organization of Great Britain and in 1909, the Etz Chaim Yeshivah of London. In 1933 he moved to Tel Aviv. ” - 2008 EJ. Subjects: Tannaim. Amoraim. Geonim. Mishnah - History. Talmud - History. OCLC lists 17 copies. Ex-library with usual markings. Pages 45-53 have been repaired. Otherwise Very good condition. (SEF-52-50A)‎

‎(Xt) Shneor Phoebus Ben Jacob‎

‎MISHNAYOT: SHISHA SIDRE MISHNAH ‘IM NEKUDOT … VE IM TIRGUM ASHKENAZI ? … VE-HE’AROT … VE-HAKDAMAH BE-ROSH KOL MASEKHET … U-MAVO HA-MISHNAH [SEDER ZERAIM AND SEDER MOED ONLY]‎

‎1st Yiddish/Judeo-German translation. Period boards. 8vo. [196] and [232] pages, 25 cm. In Hebrew and Judeo-German. Title translates to “Six Mishnas with Vowels, Judeo-German translation, Notes, a Foreword for Each Tractate, and an Introduction. ” Originally printed as a three volume set, with each volume containing two mishnayot. This commentary was particularly useful as it contained a variety of commentaries ranging from Rashi to Maimonides to Ibn Gabbi. Translated from the 1732 Amsterdam version. SUBJECTS: Mishnah -- Commentaries. Vinograd, Berlin 615. Ex-library with no markings. Light foxing to pages and moderately heavy wear to boards. Internally Very Good. Overall Good Condition. (YID-30-40-LJ)‎

‎(Xt) Sholem Aleykhem Folk Institut‎

‎ZEKHTSN: A ZAMLUNG SIEM-KOMPOZITSYES: FUN ZEKHTSN TALMIDIM-GRADUIRER FUN DI ELEMENTARE SHOLEM-ALEYKHEM FOLK-SHULN, SHIKAGO‎

‎First edition. Original paper wrappers in protective cardboard binding. 8vo. 49 pages. 24cm. In Yiddish. Title translates to “Sixteen: A Collection of End Compositions of Sixteen Graduate of the Shalom Aleichem Elementary School in Chicago. ” Rare collection of elementary-age writings from secular-Yiddish Chicago but published in Warsaw. “Yiddish schools in America were always supplemental schools, meeting several times a week after public schools. This was a major difference between the Yiddish schools in Poland which were, if chosen by the parents, the primary day school of the child, and the Yiddish schools in America which never developed a single Yiddish day school. On the political spectrum of the Yiddish cultural world in the 1920s and 1930s, the Sholem Aleichem Folk Institute and its schools, and the Yiddish camp, Camp Boiberik, were more to the right, with less emphasis on socialism and more stress on the humanistic values that can be learned from traditional Judaism and applied to the modern Jewish experience. Founded in 1918, the Institute lasted until the 1970s, and was a national movement which attained its greatest support in the 1930s” (UTexas, 2017) . SUBJECTS: School prose, Yiddish -- Illinois -- Chicago. Jews -- Education -- Illinois -- Chicago. Jews -- Education. School prose, Yiddish. OCLC lists 2 copies worldwide (Harvard, NLI, ) . Pages browning. Some light soiling to front wrapper. Overall Very Good Condition. Rare and important(YID-27-39)‎

‎(xt) Shub, Boris‎

‎STARVATION OVER EUROPE (MADE IN GERMANY) : A DOCUMENTED RECORD‎

‎used very good condition ; 1st edition. Original Illustrated paper wrappers, 8vo; 110 pages. Good example of work by American Jewry to get the word about how the Nazis were starving Jewish populations throughout Germany and Europe. Powerful graphs show "racial feeding" levels. Written by Shub "on the basis of research by Z. Warhaftig". Wolff I# 677. Robinson & Friedman # 541a. Important. Ex-library with usual marks, otherwise Very Good COndition. (HOLO2-34-72A)‎

‎(Xt) Silverstone, G.‎

‎SEFER KESEF NIVHAR [VOL. 1 AND 2 OF 3]‎

‎1st edition. Later boards. 8vo. [37], 47 pages. 23 cm. In Hebrew. Goldman 822. Important Anti-Reform, Pro-Zionist Orthodox tract, Title translates to “The Book of Choice Silver. ” Volumes 1 and 2 of 3, bound together. Rabbi Gedaliah (George) Silverstone was a popular American Orthodox homilist of the early 20th century, largely supporting himself on books of sermons such as this one. Silverstone, a fierce Orthodox polemicist and Zionist, begins this volume with a sermon “Against the Reform”, in response to the anti-Balfour Declaration that Reform rabbis had dispatched to Woodrow Wilson. SUBJECT(S) Jewish sermons, Hebrew. OCLC lists 10 copies worldwide. Slight yellowing. Ex-library with usual markings. Otherwise very good condition. (AMR-50-5)‎

‎(Xt) Skutch, Robert Frank.‎

‎THE ANTIQUE FURNISHINGS OF THE COHEN HOUSE, 415 NORTH CHARLES STREET, BALTIMORE, MARYLAND ...‎

‎1st Edition. Period Boards with Original Paper Wrappers Bound Inside. 8vo. 72 pages ; 23 cm. In English. Gives some genealogical and historical information on the first ancestor to come to America, Israel I. Cohen, from Leeds, England in 1773. He married Judith Solomon and they had six sons. The house, completed in 1830, was passed down through this prominent Baltimore family until the death in 1929 of Bertha Cohen, who left no descendants. Some of the items mentioned in the catalogue were gifts for the wedding of Judith Cohen, 1787. The First of the Family Came to America in 1773. This House Was Built and Completely Furnished in 1830. Items included furniture (e. G. A pair of exquisite drawing room chairs circa 1830 with a painted and lacquered center panel) , glass and porcelain (e. G. Vienna porcelain scent bottle circa 1840) , historic and decorative paintings, fabrics and Egyptian antiques and silver. SUBJECT(S) : Jews -- Maryland -- Baltimore. OCLC lists 5 copies worldwide. (Maryland Inst Col of Art, Harvard, Cleveland Museum of Art, JTS, Baltimore Museum of Art) . Ex-library with Jewish Institutional Stamp and Usual Markings. Some damp stains throughout but overall good+ condition. (AMR-49-26) xx‎

‎(xt) Smolenskin, Peretz‎

‎HA-SHAHAR: YA’IR NATIV AL DARKHE BENE YISRAEL BE-ITOT HA-AVAR VEHA-HOVEH. VOL V [ONLY]‎

‎1st edition. Period Quarter leather with boards. 8vo. 327 pages, 23 cm. In Hebrew. Title translates to “The Dawn: Lighting the Way for the Children of Israel in the Past and Present.” Published from 1868-1885. Founded and edited by Peretz Smolenskin, a well-known member of the Haskalah movement and a Hebrew writer. “Smolenskin was a leader in the revolt of young Jews against medievalism and a strong voice for Jewish nationalism. His Hebrew periodical, The Dawn (Ha-shahar), was highly influential in these spheres” (Wikipedia, 2018). SUBJECTS: Jews - Periodicals - Hebrew literature. (OCLC: 1798921). Ex-library with usual markings. Pages browning. Very good condition. (ZION2-1-26-E-)‎

‎(Xt) Somekh, Abdallah Ben Abraham (1813-1889) .‎

‎SEFER ZIVHE TSEDEK: PISKE DINIM, HALAKHAH LE-MA? A? EH ? IM MINHAGIM ? AL SHULHAN ? ARUKH, YOREH DE? AH, LA-DA? AT MAH YA? A? EH YI? RA? EL VE-NILVEH BE-SIFRO SH. U-T. [VOL I ONLY, OF 2‎

‎Period Boards, 4to, 448 leaves. 27 cm. In Hebrew. Ya? Ari, A. Ha-Defus ha-? Ivri be-artsot ha-mizrah, II, 121. Title and colophon within double black border of type ornaments. “le-marana ? Abdallah Avraham Yosef Somekh. ” SUBJECT (S) : Jewish law. Shehitah. Responsa -- 1800- Agunahs. Karo, Joseph ben Ephraim, 1488-1575. Yoreh de? Ah -- Commentaries. OCLC lists 8 copies worldwide. Ex-library with marks. Inscribed by Bombay Jewish leader Ezekiel Moses Ezekiel to Jewish legal historian Boaz CohenBinding repaired, spine rebacked with cloth tape, some edgewear, Good Condition (RAB-62-19)‎

‎(Xt) Stern, Ludwig.‎

‎DIE LEHRSÄTZE DES NEUGERMANISCHEN JUDENHASSES : MIT BESONDERER RÜCKSICHT AUF W. MARR'S SCHRIFTEN‎

‎1st Edition. Original Paper Wrappers inside new boards and protective plastic. 8vo. 63 pages ; 22 cm. In German. Title translates into English as, “The Tenets of Neugermanischen Judeophobia with Special Reference to W. [Wilhelm] Marr’s Writings Historically and Factually Lit by Ludwig Stern. ” Stern was a German Talmudic scholar, teacher, author, and contemporary of Wilhelm Marr, who published this work in the same year as Marr’s infamous pamphlet, Der Weg zum Siege des Germanenthums über das Judenthum (The Way to Victory of Germanicism over Judaism, 1879) . Wilhelm Marr (1819-1904) , a radical agitator, had been on the left wing in the 48 revolutions; he later popularized the term anti-semitism. In ‘Der Weg zum Siege des Germanenthums über das Judenthum, ’ he introduced the idea that Germans and Jews were locked in a longstanding conflict, the origins of which he attributed to race, argued that Jewish emancipation resulting from German liberalism had allowed the Jews to control German finance and industry, and called for the expulsion of Jews from Germany. Marr later renounced anti-semitism at the end of his life, and declared himself as originally a 'philo-semite', undoubtedly under the impact of the debates in the SPD. This work was published in the same year as The Way to Victory of Germanicism over Judaism. OCLC lists 18 copies worldwide, and none outside of Europe. Water-damage throughout but text is very readable. Ex-Library with Jewish Institutional Stamp and Usual markings. A few tears to paper wrappers. Good condition. Important. (holo2-131-26)‎