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(Xt) Streckfuss, Karl
UEBER DAS VERHALTNISS DER JUDEN ZU DEN CHRISTLICHEN STAATEN
1st Edition. Later Boards. 8vo. 64 pages ; 23 cm. In German. Title translates into English as, On the Relation of Jews to the Christian States. Karl Streckfuß (1779 1844) was a German writer, translator and lawyer. He is the father of the writer Adolf Streckfuß
(his) 1833 work about the relationship of the Jews to the Christian states published, which critically commented on legal equality for Jews, sparked controversy
after having positive experiences in contact with Prussian Jews, Streckfuß later revised his views in a paper which he published ten years later under the same title. (Wikipedia, 2016) This is Streckfuss original commentary before revision. OCLC lists 28 copies worldwide. Ex-library with Jewish Instiutional Bookplate/Stamp and usual markings. Pages show some discoloration and foxing but overall this is a bright copy. A few pages torn with no text effected and a bit of edgewear throughout. Good+ condition. (GER-58-34)
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(Xt) Stroock, Alan M.
LETTER FROM JTS CHAIRMAN ALAN M. STROOCK ON CHIEF JUSTICE EARL WARRENS VISIT TO JTS ON SEPTEMBER 13-15, 1957
1st edition. One page fold-out letter to Jewish Theological Seminary mailing list. The letter concerns Chief Justice Warrens visit to JTS for a week of Talmud and Torah studies. Warren was brought to JTS by Dr. Louis Finkelstein. The weekend was also attended by Harry Truman. SUBJECTS: United States Supreme Court No copies in OCLC. Very good condition. Very Rare. (AMR-65-12)
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(Xt) Synagogen-Gemeinde Zu Danzig
SAMMLUNG JÜDISCHER KUNSTGEGENSTÄNDE DER SYNAGOGEN-GEMEINDE ZU DANZIG
1st Edition. 8vo. 32 pages ; 25 cm. With 12 additional plates of photographs. Title translates into English as, The Collection of Jewish Art Objects of the Synagogue Community in Danzig. An exhibition catalog with ritual and historic objects from the Great Synagogue in Danzig. The Great Synagogue Danzig was the largest synagogue of the city, which was built in the years 1885-1887 at the former Reitbahnstrasse (today's street Boguslawskiego) . It was planned for 2000 church visitors and designed in a neo-Renaissance style . The inauguration took place on 15 September 1887 by the rabbi Cossmann Werner
In April 1939, the synagogue was destroyed at the instigation of the Danzig authorities.. After the anti-Jewish riots of Kristallnacht of 9/10 November 1938 in Germany, similar riots took place on 12/13 November in Danzig. The Great Synagogue was taken over and demolished by the local authorities in 1939. Most Jews had already left the city, and the Jewish Community of Danzig decided to organize its own emigration in early 1939. (Wikipedia, 2017) This 1933 exhibition took place during the period at which Danzig was an semi-autonomous city-state known as The Free City of Danzig. This historical period in Danzigs history has been brought to life by Günter Grass Danzig Trilogy, including The Tin Drum. In 1933, the city's government was taken over by the local Nazi Party, which suppressed the democratic opposition. Due to anti-Semitic persecution and oppression, many Jews fled. After the German invasion of Poland in 1939, the Nazis abolished the Free City and incorporated the area into the newly formed Reichsgau of Danzig-West Prussia. The Nazis classified the Poles and Jews living in the city as subhumans, subjecting them to discrimination, forced labor, and extermination. Many were sent to death at Nazi concentration camps, including nearby Stutthof (now Sztutowo, Poland) . (Wikipedia, 2017) SUBJECT(S) : Jews -- Poland -- Gdansk -- Exhibitions. OCLC lists 9 copies worldwide. Slight wear to wrappers and some wear throughout. Minor foxing. Overall very good- condition. (ART-26-6)
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(Xt) Syrkin, Nachman
IDISHER KONGRES IN AMERIKA
First edition. Original boards. 8vo. 536 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 27 cm. In Yiddish. Title translates to "Yiddish Congress in America. " Nachman Syrkin (18681924) was the first ideological leader of Socialist Zionism. Syrkin joined Hovevei Zion while a young man in Minsk. He was placed under arrest for several weeks, after which he went to London and then to Berlin (1888) , where he studied psychology and philosophy. In Berlin he was a founder of the Russian-Jewish Scientific Society, from whose ranks a number of Zionist leaders emerged. Syrkin participated in the First Zionist Congress in 1897, leading the few representatives of Socialist Zionism. In 1898, two years after the appearance of Herzl's "The Jewish State", he published an article in the Austrian Socialist monthly Deutsche Worte and enlarged it in the same year into a pamphlet "The Jewish Question and the Socialist Jewish State", in which he outlined for the first time the idea to which he adhered throughout his life: the realization of Zionism through cooperative mass settlement of the Jewish proletariat. In the press, as well as from the rostrum of the Zionist Congresses, Syrkin forcefully attacked the preponderance of "bourgeois and clerical" elements in the Zionist Organization, as well as Herzl's diplomatic overtures to "reactionary monarchs" (William II) and "tyrants" (Nicholas II) . His speeches often caused loud protests and even scandals in the Congress sessions" (EJ, 2007) . SUBJECTS: Jews -- United States. Jews. OCLC lists only 6 copies worldwide, with powerhouses such as Penn and Yale lacking copies. Ex-library no markings. Light soiling to wrapper with a two very small chips on bottom corners. Overall Very Good Condition. (YID-27-35)
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(xt) Szittya, Emil
SOUTINE ET SON TEMPS
1st Edition. Original Illustrated Wrappers of Soutines 1918 Self-Portrait. 8vo. 133 pages ; 20 cm. In French. Title translates into English as, Soutine and His Times. Chaïm Soutine (1893 1943) was a Russian painter of Belarusian Jewish origin. Soutine made a major contribution to the expressionist movement while living in Paris. Inspired by classic painting in the European tradition, exemplified by the works of Rembrandt, Chardin and Courbet, Soutine developed an individual style more concerned with shape, color, and texture over representation, which served as a bridge between more traditional approaches and the developing form of Abstract Expressionism. (Wikipedia, 2017) SUBJECT(S) : Peintres -- France -- Biographies. Soutine, Chaim. Spine and rear wrapper replaced, Otherwise good condition. (FR-3-4A)
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(xt) Szold, Benjamin
SEFER IYOV: MEVO'AR ME-HADASH 'AL PI KELALE HA-DIKDUK VE-HUKE HA-MELITSAH SHEL SEFAT 'EVER = THE BOOK OF JOB, WITH A NEW COMMENTARY
Period boards. 8vo. XXIV, 498 pages. 24 cm. 1st edition. In Hebrew, with two color illustrations; commentary in Rashi type. Szold's Commentary on Job' (Baltimore, 1886) , written in classical Hebrew and conceived in an original and deeply Jewish spirit, attests the accuracy of his scholarship. - 1906 JE. This commentary on Job was both the first volume of Biblical exegesis as well as the first scientific work published by a Jew in America. - Goldman, #197, Hebrew Printing in America. Benjamin Szold was born in Hungary in 1829. After becoming a rabbi, Szold led Congregation Oheb Shalom in Baltimore, shaping it into a leading U. S. Congregation. Szold was a Zionist, communal leader, and Hebraist. He was the father of Henrietta Szold, herself a leading Zionist. Benjamin Szold died in 1902. - A Finding Aid to the Benjamin Szold Papers. 1855-1902. Subjects: Commentaries. Bible. Job Commentaries. Spine chipped. Ex-Library with usual markings. Otherwise Very good condition. (BIBLE-13-30A)
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(xt) Szold, Benjamin
SEFER IYOV: MEVO'AR ME-HADASH 'AL PI KELALE HA-DIKDUK VE-HUKE HA-MELITSAH SHEL SEFAT 'EVER = THE BOOK OF JOB, WITH A NEW COMMENTARY [INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR]
Later Boards 8vo. XXIV, 498 pages. 24 cm. 1st edition. In Hebrew, with two color illustrations; commentary in Rashi type. Long warm inscripion in Hebrew and Germany from "The Author" [Der Verfasser] Szold's Commentary on Job' (Baltimore, 1886) , written in classical Hebrew and conceived in an original and deeply Jewish spirit, attests the accuracy of his scholarship. - 1906 JE. This commentary on Job was both the first volume of Biblical exegesis as well as the first scientific work published by a Jew in America. - Goldman, #197, Hebrew Printing in America. Benjamin Szold was born in Hungary in 1829. After becoming a rabbi, Szold led Congregation Oheb Shalom in Baltimore, shaping it into a leading U. S. Congregation. Szold was a Zionist, communal leader, and Hebraist. He was the father of Henrietta Szold, herself a leading Zionist. Benjamin Szold died in 1902. - A Finding Aid to the Benjamin Szold Papers. 1855-1902. Subjects: Commentaries. Bible. Job Commentaries. Spine chipped. Ex-Library with usual markings. Inscription page seperating at binding with old stain, trimmed close. Otherwise Very good condition. (BIBLE-13-30B)
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(XT) Szold, Henrietta; Alexander Marx
SERVICES IN MEMORY OF MRS. SOLOMON SCHECHTER, FOUNDER OF THE WOMEN'S LEAGUE OF THE UNITED SYNAGOGUE OF AMERICA
Original Cloth. 12mo. 45, [2] pages. 20 cm. First edition. Services in memory of Mrs. Solomon Schechter, founder of the Women's League of the United Synagogue of America, held under the auspices of the New York City branch at Temple Ansche Chesed, Seventh Avenue at 114th Street, New York, Thursday evening, November 13, 1924, Heshvan 17, 5685. Memorial addresses by Alexander Marx and Henrietta Szold, among others. Eulogies for Mathilde Roth Schechter, (18571924) , founding president of the National Women's League of the United Synagogue of America. Subjects: Eulogies - Schechter, Mathilde Roth, 1859-1924. OCLC lists 8 copies. Light bumping to cloth. Pen marks in margins pages 12-19, otherwise clean and fresh. Good condition. (WOMEN-1-10) xx
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(Xt) Taronjí, José
ALGO SOBRE EL ESTADO RELIGIOSO Y SOCIAL DE LA ISLA DE MALLORCA. POLÉMICA CONTRA LAS PREOCUPACIONES DE CLASE. CAPÍTULOS PARA LA HISTORIA DEL PUEBLO BALEAR.
First edition. Later black boards. 8vo. Xii, 339 pages; 23 cm. In Spanish. Title translates to Something About the Religious and Social State of the Island of Mallorca. Polemic Against The Preoccupations with Class. Chapters for the History of the Balearic People. Divided into several sections. Includes tables and later illustration pasted onto endpage. A critique of anti-Chuetism [anti-Semitism] in Mallorca. José Taronjí y Cortés was a Spanish priest and poet. Born of Chueta parents in Palma, Taronjí y Cortés was descended from an old Jewish family, several members of which had been martyred by the Inquisition during the late 17th century. Though ordained in 1872, he was denied a position in the cathedral of Palma de Mallorca because of his Jewish ancestry. From 1876 to 1877 Taronjí y Cortés launched a series of attacks on the racial prejudices of the islands ecclesiastical hierarchy (JewishVirtualLibrary.org, 2017) . SUBJECT(S) : Catholic Church in Majorca, Catholic Church, Clergy, Social conditions, Majorca. OCLC lists 16 holdings worldwide. Penn keeps their copy in their Rare Book collection. Significant dampstaining. Ex-library markings. Minimal pencil markings that do not affect text. Slight toning and rubbing. Good condition. (SEF-56-2)
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(Xt) Tayyib, Isaac Ben Benjamin
EREKH HA-SHULHAN [PART IV ONLY]
First edition. Period boards. 4to, 332 pages, 31cm. In Hebrew. Vinograd, Leghorn 622. Rabbi Isaac Tayyib was a well-known Tunisian rabbi and kabbalist. He comes from a long-line of prominent Tunisian rabbis. Erekh ha-Shulchan is a novellae on the four divisions of the Shulhan 'Arukh. (EJ) . SUBJECTS: Jewish law. Shulhan Arukh. . OCLC lists two copies worldwide of this part (Harvard and UToronto) . CD 000134467. Wear to boards. Internally Very Good. Overall Good+ Condition. (HEB-50-10)
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(Xt) Tenenbaum, Shea
KINDER FUN DER ZUN: ESEYEN [INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR]
1st Edition. Original Paper Wrappers. 8vo. 372 pages ; 19 cm. In Yiddish. Warmly inscribed by the author on the first inside page. Title translates into English as, Children of the Sun: Essays. Shea Tenenbaum (1910-1989) was a 20th century Yiddish author. Also includes a printed drawing of Tenenbaum. OCLC lists 27 copies worldwide. Some edgewear and paper is browning. Good condititon. (AMR-49-48)
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(xt) The American Academy For Jewish Research
LOUIS GINZBERG: JUBILEE VOLUME ON THE OCCASION OF HIS SEVENTIETH BIRTHDAY (COMPLETE IN TWO VOLUMES)
Later Cloth. 8vo. Ix, 446; ix, 446 pages. Front port. 24 cm. In English and Hebrew. Ginzberg (18731953) was one of the outstanding Talmud scholars of the first half of the 20th century; leader and the major halakhic authority of the Conservative movement in North America. (EJ) CONTENTS: Goldman, Solomon. The portrait of a teacher. --Cohen, Boaz. Bibliography of the writings of Prof. Louis Ginzberg. --Albright, W. F. The list of Levitic cities. --Baron, S. W. Levi Herzfeld, the first Jewish economic historian. --Bickerman, E. J. The date of Fourth Maccabees. --Cohen, Boaz. Civil bondage in Jewish and Roman law. --Efros, Israel. Saadyah's second theory of creation in its relation to Pythagoreanism and Platonism. --Gandz, Solomon. Complememtary fractons in Bible and Talmud. --Ginsberg, H. L. Psalms and inscriptions of petition and acknowledgement. --Gordis, Robert. Studies in the relationship of Biblical and rabbinic Hebrew. --Kisch, Guido. SUBJECT(S) : Jewish literature. Ginzberg, Louis, 1873-1953. Relations between Jewish and Christian courts in the Middle Ages. --Marcus, Ralph. Jewish and Greek elements in the Septuagint. --Marmorstein, A. The introduction of R. Hoshaya to the first chapter of Genesis rabba. --Neuman, A. A. The Shebet Yehudah and sixteenth century historiography. --Sonne, Isaiah. The schools of Shammai and Hillel seen from within. --Sperber, Alexander. Specimen of a Targum edition. --Spiegel, Shalom. Noah, Daniel, and Job, touching on Cannaanite relics in the legends of the Jews. --Strauss, Leo. Farabi's Plato. --Torrey, C. C. A revised view of First Esdras. --Wolfson, H. A. Maimonides on negatives attributes. Ex-library with usual marks, otherwise Very Good Condition. (FEST1-50B)
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(Xt) The MacCabaean Publishing Company
THE MACCABAEAN VOL. VI NO. 1: JAN. 1904-TEBETH, 5664
1st edition. Original illustrated blue and white paper wrappers. 4to. 52 pages; 25 cm. Includes articles, photographs, illustrations, and advertisements. Includes Jehuda Halevi, From Twilight to Dawn, and His Rich Grandfather. Summoning all the patience of her race to her aid, Rachel bore her captivity resignedly. The rudeness that attended the seizure of her person was replaced by the gentility of those who were appointed her guardians in the house where she was held prisoner. Of her jailor she heard but a low voice giving orders solicitous for her comfort. Crying, and beseeching, she threw herself on a bed in her prison-room, the door of which she heard bolted and barred. SUBJECT (S) : Periodicals, Short Stories, Jewish literature. Some edgewear and rubbing. Slight toning. Very minimal pencil markings and staining. Very good condition. (SPEC-44-12)
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(Xt) Tibon, Yehudah Ibn; Zamosc, Israel Ben Moses; Anatoli, Jacob Ben Abbar Mari Ben Samson; Maimonides, Moses
RUAH HEN
1st edition. Later boards. 8vo. 66 pages, 20 cm. In Hebrew. Title translates to Spirit of Grace. A Hebrew translation from the original Judeo-Arabic. The author of this rare and important work on human intellect and logic is surrounded by mystery. It was particularly popular in the Middle Ages and was used to help readers understand Maimonides Guide for the Perplexed. The manuscript was only published in 1826 (De Souza, 2018) . SUBJECTS: Logic. OCLC lists 18 copies worldwide (OCLC: 45947795) . Ex-library with usual markings. Boards warped and soiled. Internally very good. (RAB-64-85)
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(xt) Tobias Ben Ezekiel. Asche, Gershon.
SEFER ET BARZEL: HELEK RISHON ... ME-OTSAR KITVE KODESH ... /
1st edition to include Petah Tsur. (First edition of Berlin, 1795, with only one holding in OCLC, does not include it) . Quarter leather over period marbled boards, folio, 14 + 64 leaves. In Hebrew. Discussions on talmudical principles. Nik? Rat ha-tsur; Petah tsur. Tuvyah b. R. Yehezkel Ashe ... ? Im Nikrat ha-tsur / mi-meni beno Gershon ; uve-karov ... Yudpas helek sheni ve-yathil be-Tsur teudah be-Yoreh deah ve-gam be-Even ha-ezer uve-Orah hayim ... Vinograd, Berlin, 562. SUBJECT(S) : Acquisition of property (Jewish law) Maimonides, Moses, 1135-1204. Sefer k? Inyan -- Commentaries. OCLC lists 7 copies worldwide (Danish Ntl Lib, British Library, Harvard, Penn, JTSA, UCLA, UC-Berkeley) . Lacks title page. Usual stains, period handwriting to endpapers, Ex-library with usual marks to binding, Good Condition. (kh-5-43).
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(Xt) Torre, Lelio Della
DELLA CONDIZIONE DEGLI EBREI SOTTO L'IMPERO GERMANICO NEL MEDIO EVO
1st edition. Original paper wrappers. 8vo. 21 pages, 21 cm. In Italian. Title translates to The Conditions of the Jew under the German Empire in the Middle Ages. Lelio Della Torre (18051871) was an Italian Jewish scholar who wrote in Italian, German, French and Hebrew. He is best known for his critical translation of the Book of Psalms, but also as the rabbi of the Torino Jewish community (Wikipedia, 2018) . SUBJECTS: Jews -- Germany -- History -- 1096-1800. OCLC lists 4 copies worldwide (JTS, HUC, Hebrew U. , British Library) . Wrappers are very slightly worn. Very good condition. (YID-32-9)
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(Xt) Tuchman, Barbara W.
THE MEANING OF FREEDOM : (AN INQUIRY INTO THE PERSISTENCE OF UNWISDOM IN GOVERNMENT)
1st Edition. Original Paper Wrappers. 8vo. 13 pages ; 23 cm. The Sixth Annual Sol Feinstone Lecture. Barbara Wertheim Tuchman (1912 1989) was an American historian and author. She won the Pulitzer Prize twice, for The Guns of August (1962)
and the American Experience in China (1971)
. Tuchman focused on writing popular history. Tuchman gave this speech at West Point in 1979. SUBJECT(S) : Political science. OCLC lists only one holding worldwide (West Point) . Ex-library with Jewish institutional stamp and usual markings. Some edgewear but overall in about very good conition. Rare. (SPEC-42-22)
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(xt) Tullidge, Edward
BEN ISRAEL: OR, FROM UNDER THE CURSE; A JEWISH PLAY IN FIVE ACTS
Original Paper Wrappers, 8vo. 53 pages, 23 cm. In English. Singerman 3604. Coleman, p. 111, Harap, pp. 136, 233-34. Stageplay set in the Jewish community in London following the return of the Jews. Edward Tullidge (1829-1894) was a literary critic, newspaper editor, playwright, and historian of the Utah Territory. He was a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (Mormons) (Wikipedia, 2019). SUBJECTS: Jews - Drama. (OCLC:6173217). Spine sewn and reinforced, Lacks rear wrappers. Blind stamp on title page. Pages browning with light damp stains throughout. Contents very good. Good condition overall. (AMR-56-60)
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(xt) Tuska, Simon
THE STRANGER IN THE SYNAGOGUE, OR, THE RITES AND CEREMONIES OF THE JEWISH WORSHIP, DESCRIBED AND EXPLAINED 40911
1st edition. Original orange paper wrappers, 12mo, 52 pages. 16cm. Includes index. Singerman 1363. Simon Tuska (18351871) was a U.S. rabbi. Tuska was awarded one of the first scholarships to the University of Rochester, founded in 1850. Although he specialized in Greek and Latin, his chief interest was Judaism. While still a student, he wrote and published The Stranger in the Synagogue to explain Jewish rites and ceremonies to both his Christian colleagues and the Jewish public. He was warmly praised by Isaac Mayer Wise, but his critique of talmudic law drew the censure of Isaac Leeser. Tuska wrote letters and articles for both The Israelite and The Occident, and Wise encouraged him to pursue the rabbinate. Upon graduation in 1856 Tuska attended courses at the Rochester Theological Seminary. He did not seek a pulpit because of his youth and the fact that most Reform congregations of the day required a German-speaking rabbi. However, as a result of Wise's constant urging, he decided in 1858 to go to the Breslau seminary to prepare himself for the rabbinate. In 1860 Tuska tried unsuccessfully to become English lecturer at Temple Emanuel in New York. He subsequently was also rejected by Congregation Berith Kodesh in his hometown, Rochester, because of his radical religious views. Shortly thereafter he was elected to the Reform pulpit in Memphis, Tennessee, where he served until his death. Tuska's importance lay in the pattern he set for the training of U.S. rabbis English-speaking, with university degree plus theological training (A.J. Karp, in: AJHSQ, 50:2 (1960), 7997). SUBJECT(S): Judaism -- Customs and practices. Fasts and feasts Prayer. OCLC: 999866575. Blind stamp to to original paper cover and title page. Sewn binding and additional wrappers added, protecting orignal orange wrapper; unobtrusive stamp to copyright page. Original rear wrapper (probably blank) is lacking. Some soiling to first and final pages, Good Condition. An important pre-Civil War American Jewish imprint. (AMR-57-20-D+)
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(Xt) Tygel, Z. ; Goldberg, Abraham
POYLISHE IDN [IDEN] [THIRD YEAR BOOK]
1st edition. Original illustrated wrappers. 4to. 60 and 76 pages, 28 cm. In Hebrew and English. Title translates to Polish Jews. Poylishe Iden ran from 1933-1944 and was published by the American Federation for Polish Jews. The federation was established in 1908 to assist the newly arrived Polish Jews of New York. They also coordinated relief efforts on behalf of Polish Jewry. (YIVO, 2018) . This issue highlights the groups political activity, relief activities, and more. SUBJECTS: Jews -- Poland -- Periodicals. Fraternal organizations -- Periodicals. OCLC lists 11 copies worldwide (OCLC: 145390394) . Some edge wear to wrappers, but pages clean. Overall Very Good Condition. (YID-30-35)
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(Xt) Union Libérale Israélite (France)
MODERNITÉ D'UNE TRADITION: 1907-2007 CENT ANS D'HISTOIRE
1st edition. Original stiff paper wrappers. 4to. 150 pages. 28 cm. In French. Title translates to Modernity and Tradition: 1907-2007 100 Years of History. Illustrations and photos throughout. Tells the story of Frances liberal Jewish movement in France. This movement was founded in 1977 and is affiliated with the World Union for Progressive Judaism. The Union Libérale Israélite de France (ULIF) , commonly referred to as the rue Copernic synagogue, is a Liberal Jewish synagogue, located in Paris, France. Inaugurated on the first of December 1907, it is the oldest Reform synagogue in France. (Wikipedia, 2018) . OCLC lists 8 copies worldwide (OCLC: 430656348) . SUBJECTS: AJews -- France -- History. Reform Judaism -- France. Near Fine Condition. (YID-30-32)
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(Xt) Vertinskii, Aleksandr
TSVELF LIDER
1st edition. Original paper wrappers with portrait of Vertinskii on front wrapper, bound into later pamphlet protector.. 8vo. 14 pages, 23 cm. In Yiddish. Title translates to Twelve Songs. Vertinsky (1889 - 1957) was a Russian and Soviet artist, poet, singer, composer, cabaret artist and actor of Ukrainian origin who exerted seminal influence on the Russian tradition of artistic singing. He toured extensively throughout Russia and the USSR and appeared in many Russian films. His legacy includes the Stalin Prize and a Soviet astronomer even named a small planet after him. (Wikipedia, 2018) SUBJECTS: Songs, Russian -- Translations into Yiddish. OCLC: 53135253. OCLC lists 2 copies worldwide (Harvard and YIVO) . Ex-library with one faded stamp on front wrapper. Light soiling to wrappers. Contents are clear and very good. Some pages are a bit wavy. Very Good Condition. Rare. (YID-40-55-X-'l) xx
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(xt) Vidaver, H[enry]
SEFER HA-HAYIM. THE BOOK OF LIFE: A COMPLETE FORMULA OF THE SERVICE AND CEREMONIES OBSERVED AT THE DEATH-BED ...
8vo. 194 pages. In English and Hebrew. Singerman 4542. Goldman 87. "Mrs. P. Harris, Albany, GA" pencilled on rear endpaper. SUBJECT (S) : Judaism liturgy texts; Jewish mourning customs. OCLC lists 1 copy worldwide (Harvard) . Ex-library with usual markings, spine repaired, overall good condition. (AMR-41-30A)
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(xt) Voorsanger, Jacob
ZIONISM. OPEN LETTERS BY REV. DR. JACOB VOORSANGER OF SAN FRANCISCO, CAL., TO HON. SIMON WOLF, OF WASHINGTON, D.C.
1st edition. Later Wrappers, 8vo. 47 pages, 21 cm. In English. Early anti-Zioninst imprint, a collection of letters from one prominent American Jew to another, discussing why Zionism is a bad strategy for the Jews. Jacob Voorsanger (1852-1908) was a prominent Dutch-American Rabbi who led congregations in Philadelphia, Washington, D.C., Providence, Houston, and San Francisco, where he was also professor of Semitic languages are the University of California (EJ, 1906). Simon Wolf (1836-1923) was a United States businessman, lawyer, writer, diplomat and Jewish activist
..He emigrated to the United States in 1848
.In 1869, he was appointed by President Ulysses S. Grant, recorder of deeds for the District of Columbia
.In July 1881, he received the post of consul general in Egypt
.He made friendships with presidents Abraham Lincoln, Ulysses S. Grant, William McKinley and Woodrow Wilson
.He was the founder and president of the Hebrew Orphans' Home at Atlanta, Ga., and president of the Board of Children's Guardians, Washington. Wolf was a prominent freemason, member of Lafayette lodge, No. 19, of Washington, D.C. He was very active in the Independent Order B'nai B'rith, of which he was president from 1903 to 1905 (Wikipedia). SUBJECTS: Jews - Restoration. OCLC lists 7 copies worldwide (JTS, UC Berkeley, LOC, UChicago, HUC, NLI, NYPL). Ex-library with usual markings, including preferation stamp to margin of title page. Damp stains on title page and top margin of first few pages. Contents very good. (AMR-56-63-'e)
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(Xt) Webber, George J.
JURISPRUDENTIAL ACTIVITIES IN PALESTINE
1st Edition Off-Print. Original Wrappers. 8vo. 8 pages ; 22 cm. " Publications of the Society for Jewish Jurisprudence Reprinted from the 'Law journal, ' 12th November, 1927." "Jewish jurisprudence in Palestine is increasingly becoming a subject of study and lecture All this activity is but a concrete expression of an idea the desire to revive Jewish law. SUBJECT (S) : Jurisprudence. Zionism. OCLC lists 9 copies worldwide. Some edgewear. About very good condition. (BR-11-60)
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(Xt) Weichert, Michael
TEATER UN DRAME
Original boards. 8vo. 192, 186 pages, 21 cm. In Yiddish. Title translates to Theater and Drama. Michael Weichert (1890-1967) was a Galician Jewish theater director, historian, activist, and critic. He directed plays for the Vilner Trupe and published numerous articles on drama and theater history (YIVO). SUBJECTS: Theater, Yiddish. OCLC lists 16 copies worldwide (OCLC:42036360). Title page repair. Pages browning. Overall good condition. (YID-33-15-L-xe)
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(Xt) Weisgal, Meyer
THEODOR HERZL: A MEMORIAL
First edition. Original boards with portrait of Herzl on cover. 4to. 306 pages, 26.5 cm. In English. Features writings on Herzl, his writings, and his vast influence by other prominent figures such as Chaim Weizmann, Martin Buber, Abba Hillel Silver, Mordecai Kaplan, the King of Bulgaria, and many more. SUBJECTS: Jews -- Restoration. A fascinating book. Ex-library with usual markings. Boards are faded and worn. Overall Good Condition. (ZION-10-14)
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(Xt) Weiss, Isaac Hirsch; & Friedmann, Meir [Bet Talmud]; Hurwitz, Saul Israel [Second & Third Titles]
BET TALMUD: YOTSE LA-'OR MIDE HODESH BE-HODSHO [BOUND WITH] BET EKED: ME'ASEF MA'AMARIM SHIRIM U-SIPURIM [BOUND WITH] HA-IVRIYAH VEHA-YEHUDIYAH: MISHPETE HA-NASHIM BE -YISRA'EL BE-HAYE MISHPAHAH UVE-HAYE HA-HEVRAH BI-TEKUFAT K. HA-K. VEHA-TALMUD
All 1st editions. 8vo. Pages 193-288 of a Hurwitz piece featured in Bet Talmud, 108 pages, and 64 pages, respectively. 23 cm. All in Hebrew. Titles translate to Beit Talmud: Released Monthly, Beit Eked: Collection of Articles and Poems, and The Hebrew Woman: Laws of Women related to family and society in the Times of the Holy Writings and the Talmud. A variety of Saul Hurtwitz works. Hurtwitz (18611922), Hebrew writer and critic, was born in Russia. He was a successful merchant and banker who, after losing his fortune in the Communist Revolution, moved to Berlin. It was there that he rose to prominence in the circle of émigré Hebrew writers and thinkers and was active in Zionist work. Together with H.N. Bialik he directed the Kelal publishing house. From his youth, Hurwitz contributed stories and articles to Hebrew journals, and in 1892 he published the literary magazine Beit Eked. (Jewish Virtual Library, 2018). SUBJECTS: Hebrew literature -- Periodicals; Jewish Women. OCLC lists 16 holdings worldwide of Bet Talmud (OCLC: 34351478). 8 copies for Ha Ivriyah veha-yehudia (OCLC: 122813769), and 8 for Bet Eked (OCLC: 174120954). Ex-library with no markings. Lacking back board. Front board is loose. Front wrapper of Beth Talmud is loose, heavily worn and chipped. Both other publications are in very good condition and well preserved. (RAB-64-41).
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(Xt) Weiss, Shira
JOSEPH ALBO ON FREE CHOICE: EXEGETICAL INNOVATION IN MEDIEVAL JEWISH PHILOSOPHY
1st edition, original cloth with dust jacket, 8vo. 218 pages. 25 cm. "Joseph Albo on Free Choice discovers unsuspected philosophical originality in the interpretations of biblical narrative found in Joseph Albo's Book of Principles, one of the most popular Hebrew works in the corpus of medieval Jewish philosophy. Several of Albo's exegetical analyses focus on free choice, which emerges as a conceptual scheme throughout his work. An exploration of Albo's innovative homiletical interpretations of the binding of Isaac, the hardening of Pharaoh's heart, the Book of Job, and God's choice of Israel, reveals his view of free choice which was significant during a historical period of religious coercion. Albo's sole surviving responsum dealing with the case of the qatlanit further demonstrates his philosophical position. In this new book, Shira Weiss shows that in the medieval era in which Albo lived, free choice was an important topic, subject to vehement debate that has continued to be contested in modern philosophy" (abstract) SUBJECT(S) : Philosophy, Medieval. Free will and determinism -- Biblical teaching. Ju¨dische Philosophie. Rabbinismus. Willensfreiheit. Albo, Joseph. Sefer ? Ik? Arim. OCLC: 965617247. Like new, Very Good Condition. (AC-7-7)
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(Xt) Weiss, Yekutiel (Vais)
YAFAH U-VARAH AL HAMESH MEGILOT
1st edition. Original boards. 8vo 266, 308 pages, 23 cm. Includes portrait of Weiss. In Hebrew. Title translates to Sefer Yafah u-Varah: On the Five Scrolls. SUBJECTS: Bible. Five Scrolls -- Commentaries. Rabbi Yekutiel Weiss (1861-1941) was Hungarian-born rabbi who was known for his scholarly works on the Talmud. Many of his works were later published by his children in Argentina. SUBJECTS: Bible. Five Scrolls -- Commentaries. OCLC lists 11 copies worldwide. Ex-library with usual markings. Very minor edge wear. Very Good Condition. (RAB-64-14)
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(Xt) Weiss-Rosmarin, Trude; Zwettler, Michael
ARIBI UND ARABIEN IN DEN BABYLONISCH-ASSYRISCHEN QUELLEN [AUTHOR INSCRIBED]
1st edition. Original paper wrappers. In German. Inscription in friendship from the author. Title translates to Aribi and Arabia in the Babylonia-Quellen Sources. The inaugural dissertation for Trude Weiss-Rosmarin. While an important work in the study of ancient Arab history, Weiss-Rosmarin (1908-1989) was better known as a Jewish-German-American writer, editor, scholar, and feminist activist. She published extensively (Wikipedia, 2018) . SUBJECTS: Arabs -- History -- To 622 -- Sources. OCLC lists 21 copies worldwide. Some wear to front wrapper. Internally Very Good. Overall Very Good Condition. (RAB-64-62)
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(Xt) Weisz, Miksa
A MACHZOR VITRY: SZERKESZTÉSE ÉS SZERZ? JE : BÖLCSÉSZETDOKTORI ÉRTEKEZÉS
1st edition. Period Boards with original wrappers bound in, 8vo, 40 pages ; 24 cm. In Hungarian. Includes bibliographical references. We assume this to be the same Miksa Weisz who was a teacher at the Hungarian Jewish Teacher Training Institute. Referencing Pal Weisz article on the recently deceased Miksa Weisz, a pedagogue at the Hungarian Jewish Teacher Training Institute, Laczó Ferenc suggests that Pal Weisz celaerly asserted the primacy of Miksa Weiszs Jewishness, presenting him not only as a Jew faithful to traditions, but also as a dedicated conservative who was very angry at the imitation of foreign habits and hurt bu the lack of Nachwuchs of traditional Jewry. Moreover, Pal Weisz emphasized that Miksa Weisz demanded Jewish sef-respect and was furious when others questned that Jewish constituted a people. At the very same time, in Pal Weiszs interpretation, Miksa Weisz was also an enthusiastic Hungarian in favor of religious freedom. In the end such references to Miksa Weiszs supposed liberalism and Hungarian sentiments werw rather incongruent parts of his portrait (in Hungarian Jews in the Age of Genocide: An Intellectual History, 19291948, p 30) . SUBJECT(S) : ? Im? Ah, mi-Vi? Ri, -1105. Mahazor Vitri -- History and criticism. OCLC lists 5 libraries with holdings (JTS, Harvard, NLI, UCLA, HUC) . OCLC: 79407869. Ex-library, old dampstains, board slightly warped, original wrappers now somewhat brittle, but text paper remains supple though toned and wavy in places. About Good- Condition. (RAB-62-23)
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(Xt) Wenrich, Joannis Georgii [Johann Georg Wenrich]
POESEOS HEBRAICAE ATQUE ARABICAE: ORIGINE, INDOLE, MUTUOQUE CONSENSU ATQUE DISCRIMINE COMMENTATIO
1st edition, 8vo, 276 pages. In Latin. Title translates roughly as, The Hebrew and Arabic Poets: The Origin, Characteristics, and Similarities and Select Analysis. The author, Johann Georg Wenrich was an Austrian orientalist and theologian. He worked as a schoolteacher at the Evangelical gymnasium in Hermannstadt, where he later served as school director. In 1821 he was named professor of Biblical literature at the faculty of Protestant theology at the University of Vienna. He is credited with giving the first lectures on Sanskrit at the university. In 1847 he was appointed to the Academy of Sciences in Vienna (Kaiserliche Akademie der Wissenschaften in Wien) , however, he died on May 15, before he had received news of the honor. (wikipedia 2018) SUBJECT(S) : Arabic poetry -- History and criticism. Interpretation. Bible. Old Testament -- Poetical books. Hebrew poetry -- History and criticism. OCLC: 20348798, OCLC lists 25 copies worldwide. Book is rebound in simple black binding with gold lettering on spine. Missing title page but half original title page is present, some pencil notes in half title page and opposite side, pages have some staining, though all writing is still legible, Good Condition Overall. (AC-7-19-PECY)
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(xt) Werne, Isaac
SIAH YITSHAK: KOVETS SHEELOT U-TESHUVOT, HEAROT VE-HEAROT, BEURIM U-VERURIM BE-KHITVE HA-KODESH UVA-SHAS, BA-HALAKHAH VA-AGADAHFT
1st edition. Original stiff paper wrappers. 8vo. 72 pages, 26 cm. In Hebrew. Title translates to The Bush of Yitshak: Responsa and Commentary on Halakah and Agadot. Rabbi Isaac Werne (1876-1940) was an American Orthodox Rabbi and Chief Orthodox Rabbi of Los Angeles (NYT, 1940). SUBJECTS: Responsa - 1800. OCLC lists 7 copies worldwide (LA Public Lib, UCBerkeley, UCLA, Brandeis, UPenn, Yale, Brandeis). Light foxing on wrappers. Internally very good. Overall good condition. (AMR-56-66)
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(xt) Widisky, Jerome.
TORAT YISRAEL : HELEK RISHON MI-SHULHAN `ARUKH...BE-TARGUM ANGLI...
(FT) 8vo. 176 pages. Frontispiece portrait. In Hebrew with some English. English title: Book of Hebrew law of knowledge. SUBJECT(S) : Jewish law. OCLC lists 14 copies worldwide. Ex-library with usual markings. Very Good Condition. (RAB-27-15A)
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(xt) Wiesel, Elie
INSIDE A LIBRARY AND THE STRANGER IN THE BIBLE
Large 8vo; 48 pages; First edition. Original paper wrappers. 8vo. 48 pages, 25cm. In English. Two speeches delivered in 1980 & 1981. Ex-library with usual, minimal markings. In protective case. Cover lightly shelf worn. Very Good Condition. (BIB-23-7A)
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(Xt) Wiesel, Elie
THE MEANING OF FREEDOM
1st Edition. Original Paper Wrappers. 8vo. 14 pages ; 23 cm. In English. From the 15th Annual Sol Feinstone Memorial Lecture series at West Point. This lecture given by Elie Wiesel a year after he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. Speaking to the US Military Academy, Weisel says, I shall always remember
the day I was liberated by the American Army: April 11, 1945
I remember a black sergeant, huge, marvelous. I saw him cry, and I heard him curse; he saw the corpses, he saw the victims, he understood what no one would ever understand, that something had happened in history that had changed history, and in his helplessness, he simply cursed, and to me his curses became pure prayers
OCLC lists just 3 copies worldwide (West Point, US Army War College, Texas A&M) . Ex-library with Jewish Institutional Stamp and Usual Markings. Very good+ Condition. Scarce and important. (HOLO2-130-55A)
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(Xt) Wigram, George.
THE HEBRAISTS' VADE MECUM : A FIRST ATTEMPT AT A COMPLETE VERBAL INDEX TO THE CONTENTS OF THE HEBREW AND CHALDEE SCRIPTURES, ARRANGED ACCORDING TO GRAMMAR: --THE OCCURRENCES IN FULL [COPY OWNED BY CHRISTIAN DAVID GINZBURG]
1st edition. Later boards. 8vo. 582, 43 pages, 23 cm. In English and Hebrew. This monumental work by the English biblical scholar and theologian, Georg Wigram. With the ownership signature of the well-known translator Christian Ginsburg. Ginsburg was a Polish-born British Bible scholar and a student of the Masoretic tradition in Judaism. He was born to a Jewish family in Warsaw but converted to Christianity at the age of 15 (Wikipedia, 2018) . SUBJECTS: Hebrew language -- Dictionaries -- English. Aramaic language -- Dictionaries -- English. Ex-library with usual markings. Very good condition. (BIBLE-18-2)
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(Xt) Winter, Moritz
DIE KOCH- UND TAFELGERATE IN PALASTINA ZUR ZEIT DER MISCHNAH
1st Edition. Later Boards. 8vo. 89 pages ; 22 cm. In German. Title translates into English as, The Cooking and Eating Utensils In Palestine at the Time of Mishnah. Moritz Winters inaugural dissertation from the University of Hiedelberg. SUBJECT (S) : Jews -- Social life and customs. Ex-library with Jewish Institutional Stamp and Usual Markings. Slight toning. A few markings on title page. Small tear on last page with no text effected. Overall about very good condition. (ger-59-28)
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(xt) Wise, Isaac M [Meyer]
TEFILOT BENE YESHURUN LE-YOM HAKIPURIM. THE DIVINE SERVICE OF AMERICAN ISRAELITES FOR THE DAY OF ATONEMENT, KEFI MINHAG AMERICA
1st edition. Later cloth, 12mo, 307, 55. In English, Hebrew and German. Singerman 1949, Goldman 53. The original two volumes of the Minhag America prayer book had both been published in 1857, one with Hebrew-English text (Prayer Book for Public and Private Worship) and the other with Hebrew-German text (Gebet-Buch fur den offentlichen Gottesdienst und die Privat-Andacht). In the 1860s, he took the project up again, issuing a three volume series of his Minhag Amerikathe American Traditionwith the present volume for Yom Kipur (The Day of Atonement), as well as a volume for Rosh HaShanah (the Jewish New year) and a combined Jewish Hymnal and Psalter, all shaped by his view of Reform Judaism in America. This volume thus represents one of the first Reform prayer books for the High Holidays in the United States. Some of the prayers are translated both into English and German. Wise, was a pioneer of Reform Judaism in America and became its acknowledged leader and its institutional architect, organizing the Union of American Hebrew Congregations (1873) , the Hebrew Union College (1875) , and the Central Conference of American Rabbis (1889) . The reforms that he instituted sought to change or adapt Judaism to 19th century America. He was also an organizer and mover in the establishment of the Central Conference of American Rabbis, in 1889. Elected its president, he served until he died. Wise believed in uniting American Jewry and hoped to publish a new American reform prayer book titled "Minhag America. The Machzor presented here is part of this project. (See: Goldman 44). Ex-library with usual marks, shows some old damp damage with a bit of waviness to paper and the boards a little bowed, but fully usable and clean in the text. About Good- Condition (KH-5-48DB)
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(Xt) Wise, Isaac M.
THE DIVINE SERVICE OF AMERICAN ISRAELITES FOR THE NEW YEAR. MINHAG AMERIKA. TIFLOT BNAI YESHURUN. LROSH HA SHANNAH
1st edition. Full original leather, 16mo, 212 pages. Hebrew, English and German. Considered to be the first Reform prayer book for Rosh HaShannah printed in the United States. Traditional Hebrew prayers, with an English translation, and prayers in English and German. The editor, Wise, was a pioneer of Reform Judaism in America and became its acknowledged leader and its institutional architect, organizing the Union of American Hebrew Congregations (1873) , the Hebrew Union College (1875) , and the Central Conference of American Rabbis (1889) . The reforms that he instituted sought to change or adapt Judaism to 19th century America. He was also an organizer and mover in the establishment of the Central Conference of American Rabbis, in 1889. Elected its president, he served until he died. Wise believed in uniting American Jewry and hoped to publish a new American reform prayer book titled "Minhag America. The Machzor presented here is part of this project. (See: Goldman 44) . Singerman 1949; Goldman 53. Tooled Morocco binding, all edges gilt. Lacks rear board, front crude internal hinge repair to front hinge, not affecting text, internally very clean and nice. (KH-5-48B)
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(Xt) Wise, Isaac M.
THE DIVINE SERVICE OF AMERICAN ISRAELITES FOR THE NEW YEAR. MINHAG AMERIKA. TIFLOT BNAI YESHURUN. LROSH HA SHANNAH
1st edition. Full original tooled leather, 16mo, 212 pages. Hebrew, English and German. Considered to be the first Reform prayer book for Rosh HaShannah printed in the United States. Traditional Hebrew prayers, with an English translation, and prayers in English and German. The editor, Wise, was a pioneer of Reform Judaism in America and became its acknowledged leader and its institutional architect, organizing the Union of American Hebrew Congregations (1873) , the Hebrew Union College (1875) , and the Central Conference of American Rabbis (1889) . The reforms that he instituted sought to change or adapt Judaism to 19th century America. He was also an organizer and mover in the establishment of the Central Conference of American Rabbis, in 1889. Elected its president, he served until he died. Wise believed in uniting American Jewry and hoped to publish a new American reform prayer book titled "Minhag America. The Machzor presented here is part of this project. (See: Goldman 44) . Singerman 1949; Goldman 53. Tooled Morocco binding, all edges gilt. Previous owners name and date stamp (1926) on rear endpaper, some wear to binding, but a nice attractive clean copy, much better than generally seen. (KH-5-48A)
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(xt) Wise, Isaac Mayer
HISTORY OF THE ISRAELITISH NATION: FROM ABRAHAM TO THE PRESENT TIME ... VOL. I (COMPLETE NO MORE PUBLISHED)
1st Edition. Singerman 1864. Original Boards. 8vo. [xxiv], 560 pages; 23 cm. In English. This is the first published work by Isaac Mayer Wise. Wise was an American Reform rabbi, editor, and author, and a founder of Hebrew Union College. "During his lifetime Isaac M. Wise was regarded as the most prominent Jew of his time in the United States. His genius for organization was of a very high order; and he was masterful, rich in resources, and possessed of an inflexible will. More than of any of his contemporaries, it may be said of him that he left the impress of his personality upon the development of Judaism in the United States. " (JE) The eight years of Isaac M. Wise's ministration in Albany may be considered the crucial period of his existence. It was during this time that he conceived the projects which he carried to such successful issue later. But it was also his storm and stress period. In October, 1846, 8 years prior to publication of this work, Wise was appointed rabbi of Congregation Beth-El of Albany, New York. He soon began making reforms. Congregation Beth-El was the first American synagogue to: - Count women in forming a minyan or religious quorum. - Allow men and women to sit together, in family pews. (Another source says this first happened in 1851, at Anshe Emeth.)- Eliminate Bar Mitzvah, which in Wise's view was meaningless because at that age a boy cannot understand Judaism, and replace it with a later and more informed confirmation, open to girls as well. and - Have a mixed-sex choir. Also , Wise had famously remarked in reply to a question, when he was in Charleston, South Carolina applying for another Rabbinate position (at Kahal Kadosh Beth Elohim) and lecturing on "The Poetry of the Hebrew Bible," that he did not believe in the coming of the Messiah or the resurrection of the dead; a letter from the Charleston congregation documenting these statements was published in a newspaper. The result of this was that in 1850 the trustees of the synagogue dismissed him, which Wise did not accept. At the following day's service, the first day of Rosh Hashanah, at the moment when the Torah scroll was being removed from the ark, an altercation broke out between opponents and defenders of Wise. The fracas was so pronounced that the Sheriff was called; the Sheriff cleared the synagogue, locked the doors, and took the keys. This was the end of Wise's position at Temple Beth-El.Supporters of Wise formed a new congregation, Anshe Emeth. Wise remained with this congregation until 1854, the year of publication of this work. In January 1852, Wise was Chaplain of the Legislature of the State of New York, a position supporters, including then-New York Senator William H. Seward, helped him get since Anshe Emeth was unable to pay a full salary. During this time Wise worked on his History of the Israelitish Nation, which he stated was based on "such facts as are able to stand the test of criticism", eliminating miracles, dogmas, and doctrines, and as a general principle distinguishing religion from history. Unable to find a publisher, he printed it at his own expense, with help from friends. As he put it, "it fell into the orthodox camps like a veritable bomb".Wise published a second volume of his History in 1867 under the title, "History of the Hebrews' second commonwealth : with special reference to its literature, culture, and the origin of rabbinism and Christianity" (Cincinnati, Ohio : Bloch, 1867). SUBJECT(S) : Jews -- History -- To 586 B. C. Ex-library with marks, wear to spine, good condition. (AMR-48-45B)
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(XT) Wise, Isaac Mayer.
A DEFENSE OF JUDAISM VERSUS PROSELYTIZING CHRISTIANITY.
Cincinnati and Chicago: American Israelite, 1889. Cloth; 8vo. 129 pages. Embossed boards; gilt titles; red edges; floral endpapers. Not the more common Bloch edition. One page of the author's other works at end, with prices and descriptions. First edition. Isaac Mayer Wise was an American Reform rabbi, author, and organizer; editor of the American Israelite and Deborah, and of the Minhag America, the first common American prayer book, which preceded the Union Prayer Book. A Defense of Judaism is a dignified and reasoned response to the insulting proselytizing of Christian missionaries and their vulgar, illiterate converts, written, as he states in his preface, from the "standpoint of universal brotherhood, universal salvation and universal religion, moral freedom, political equality and the supremacy of reason, with the highest respect for Judaism, Christianity, the Isam and every other religion in harmony with the postulate of reason and the standard of conscience. " Singerman 3875. SUBJECT (S) : Christianity -- Controversial literature. Judaism -- Apologetic works. During his lifetime Wise was regarded as the most prominent Jew of his time in the United States. Ex-library; otherwise, very good condition. (AMR-7-4A)
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(Xt) Wogler, Elhanan [Vigler; Vogler, Elchanon]; Mikhtom, Bentye, Illustrator; Sutzkev?er, Roza [Rokhl], Illustrator.
A BLETL IN VINT: POEME
1st edition. Original illustrated paper wrappers, 16mo (small) , 63 pages, 17 cm. Includes portrait of the author (tipped in as published) . A rare Yung Vilne publication. The cover makes use of an interesting period modernist font and design; the title page uses a different but striking constructivist layout and font as well. hil'e getseykhnt? , Roz'e Sutskever ; portret? , Bentye Mikt? Om. Rosa Sutzkever was one of the best-known artists of Vilna, and had trained at the Art Academy there (Bogen, 1991) and was part of Yung Vilna. Yung-Vilne (Young Vilna) , was a Yiddish literary group, introduced in the daily Vilner Tog in 1929 with the headline: Young Vilna Marches into Yiddish Literature. It aroused excitement through its miscellanies (Yung-Vilne, 193436) , its contributions to local and international Yiddish journals, and individual books of verse and fiction. Principal members included poets Chaim Grade , Shimshon Kahan, Peretz Miransky, Abraham Sutzkever , Elkhanan Wogler, and Leyzer Wolf , prose writers Shmerke Kaczerginski and Moyshe Levin, and artists Bentsie Mikhtom and Rokhl Sutzkever. Dozens more were associated with the group, whose members were united by generation, place, a shared humanistic orientation, and the encouragement of local intellectuals like Zalman Rejzen and Max Weinreich . A Yung-Vilne evening in the Vilna ghetto, the participation of several members in the partisan underground, and the accomplishments of Grade and Sutzkever as leading postwar Yiddish writers assure that Yung-Vilne will be remembered as one of the great incubators of Jewish creativity in interwar Poland (Lipzin & Cammy, 2007) . OCLC lists 11 copies worldwide (NYBC, HUC, McGill, TAU) . Title penned on spine, paper toning, touch of wear to corner, about Very Good Condition. Rare, important, and attractive (Yid-29-35)
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(Xt) Wolfssohn, Aaron
SEFER MINHAH HADASHAH: KOLEL KOL SIFRE TANAKH `IM TARGUM ASHKENAZI U-VEUR [SEFER IYYOV ONLY]
Original boards. 8vo. 222 pages, 20 cm. In Hebrew and Judeo-German. Title translates to The Book of New Minhah: Including every book of the Tanakh with Judeo-German Translation and Commentary. A 13-part Judeo-German translation and commentary of the Tanakh. Aaron Halle-Wolfssohn (1754-1835) was a German Jew and prominent figure of the Haskalah. Besides translating much of the Tanakh into German, he published a Hebrew-German primer (Abtalion) , commentaries, and essays (Wikipedia, 2018) . SUBJECTS: Bible. Old Testament. PentateuchCommentaries. Vinograd, Vienna 226. OCLC lists 6 copies worldwide (Bamberg, NLI, Amsterdam, Ets Haim, AJU, Gratz) (OCLC 51990296) . Wear to boards, most of vellum removed, but still good. Very light foxing. Some worm holes. Overall Very Good Condition. (RAB-64-46)
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(Xt) Womens League For Conservative Judaism; United Synagogue Of America. ; National Women's League.
WOMEN'S LEAGUE OUTLOOK. VOL I, NR 1-VO 4, N4 4 (SEPT 1930-MAY, 1934) , UNINTERRUPTED RUN, COMPLETE FOR FIRST FOUR VOLUMES.
1st edition. Period Cloth, 4to, ca. 160 pages. Published bimonthly (1930-32) or quarterly (1932-34) . SUBJECT(S) : Conservative Judaism -- Periodicals. Conservative Judaism. Women's League for Conservative Judaism -- Periodicals. United Synagogue of America. National Women's League -- Periodicals. M United Synagogue of America. Later merged with: United Synagogue review and Torchlight to form: Voices of Conservative/Masorti Judaism. OCLC hardcopy listings are unclear; at any rate, very few libraries seem to hold these early volumes in hard copy. Later binding, broken through at hinges, forms a kind of portfolio for the original issues, all with original wrappers. Very Good Condition thus. (women-5-3)
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(xt) World Jewish Congress; Agudat Israel; American Jewish Conference
STATEMENTS SUBMITTED TO THE PARIS CONFERENCE BY THE WORLD JEWISH CONGRESS, AGUDAS ISRAEL WORLD ORGANISATION, AMERICAN JEWISH CONFERENCE [AND OTHERS] AUGUST 20, 1946.
Original Wraps. 4to. 39 pages. 27 cm. First edition. Early post-war statements submitted to the Paris Conference by the World Jewish Congress, Agudas Israel World Organisation, American Jewish Conference, American Jewish Committee, Board of Deputies of British Jews, Anglo-Jewish Association, Conseil Representatif des Juifs de France, Alliance Israelite Universelle, South African Jewish Board of Deputies. Amendments to the proposed peace treaties, urging inclusion of annexes to secure the rights of the Jewish population. - cf. P. 2. Contents: Memorandum on the treaty with Roumania - Memorandum on the treaty with Hungary - Memorandum on the treaty with Italy - Memorandum on the treaty with Bulgaria. Subjects: World War, 1939-1945 - Peace proposals and settlements. World War, 1939-1945 - Jews. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) - Reparations. Jews - Legal status, laws, etc. Paris Peace Conference (1946) . OCLC lists 7 copies. In protective library folder, slight library stamp on pastedown, otherwise Very good condition. (ZION-6-34A)
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(Xt) World Zionist Organization. ; Executive. ; Jewish Agency-American Section.
BEN HECHT'S "PERFIDY": AN ANALYSIS OF HIS REWRITING OF HISTORY
First edition. Original paper wrappers, 16 pages ; 23 cm. Named Persons: Kasztner, Rezso Rudolf, 1906-1957. Grunwald, Malkiel. Hecht, Ben, 1893-1964. Perfidy. Grünwald, Malkiel. Grinvald, Malkiel. Kasztner, Rezso Rudolf, 1906-1957. A refutation of Ben Hecht's account, in his book Perfidy, of the trial of M. Grunwald before an Israeli court on the charge of criminal libel of R. Kastner. Once in a very great while you read a book that forever changes your perspective. For me that book was Ben Hecht's Perfidy, which I devoured sometime in 1974 or '75 after it appeared on a recommended reading list issued by the Jewish Defense League, of which I was a member. Perfidy means treachery; the deliberate breaking of faith. In 1961, when Hecht published his aptly titled expose about events in the Holocaust, Hitler's war against the Jews was a repressed memory in the American Jewish consciousness. Perfidy sold well enough to go into a second edition, though by the time I procured a copy it had gone out of print and was rumored to have been blacklisted. PERFIDY IS a devastating account of how, toward the end of the Shoah, the Jews of Hungary were betrayed by Rudolf Kastner, deputy head of the Relief and Rescue Committee, an ideological affiliate of Mapai (precursor of today's Labor Party) . Hecht tells how after the Nazi invasion of Hungary in March 1944, Kastner brazenly collaborated with Dieter Wisliceny, a top aide to Gestapo Jewish Section chief Adolf Eichmann, to save the lives of cronies and family. Eichmann allowed Kastner to organize a rescue train which brought 1, 685 of these people to safety in Switzerland, in return - so goes Hecht's damning accusation - for keeping the rest of Hungarian Jewry in the dark about the fate that awaited them. He thus facilitated the Nazi genocide. Hecht charges that Kastner, despite his connections with the SS, didn't lift a finger to help Hanna Szenes, the Palestinian Jewish heroine who had parachuted into Nazi-occupied Hungary on a rescue mission. Perhaps most damning of all: After the war, Kastner testified on behalf of SS officer Kurt Becher (a Nazi he'd been dealing with) , though Becher had taken part in the genocide of Hungarian Jewry. With all this under his belt, Hecht wrote, Kastner eventually wound up in Israel vying for a spot on the Mapai Party's Knesset list. (Jager, 2007) . Ben Hecht (1894 1964) was an American screenwriter, director, producer, playwright, journalist, and novelist
He became an active Zionist shortly before the Holocaust began in Germany, and wrote articles and plays about the plight of European Jews (Wikipedia 2018) . OCLC lists 13 copies worldwide. OCLC: 16637712. Good Condition, yellowing along edges and minor staining on front cover. (Zion-16-7)
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(Xt) Wouk, Herman
THE MEANING OF FREEDOM
1st Edition. Original Paper Wrappers. 8vo. 8 pages ; 23 cm. In English. From the 3rd Annual Sol Feinstone Memorial Lecture series at West Point. This lecture given by Pulitzer Prize winning novelist and writer Herman Wouk. Wouk served in the Navy in the Pacific Theater of WWII. He addresses the west point graduates about The Meaning of Freedom, concluding, In the last five years, working on The Winds of War
Ive spoken three times: to the Naval Academy, to the Naval War caollege, and now to the United States Military Academy. It isnt because Im a militarist. Im not intrigued
by the romance of war. Let me make this plain to you. In my view war is a massive criminal absurdity
I believe, heart and soul, that in days to come it will fade from the minds of men and nations as a possible way to behave. That is what Im trying to say in my books. OCLC lists only one copy worldwide (Westpoint) . This cannot have been well-received at West Point, and certainly would not have been a speech it would have wanted to promote or make readily available outside the academy. Ex-library with Jewish institutional stamp and usual markings. Some markings on cover and waterdamage to the top of the paper wrappers and first page. Text is not effected and is bright and clean. Overall in about very good condition. (SPEC-42-20A)
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