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Association Of Jewish Refugees In Great Britain.
DISPERSION AND RESETTLEMENT: THE STORY OF THE JEWS FROM CENTRAL EUROPE.
London: Association of Jewish Refugees in Great Britain, 1955. Paperback, 8vo, 61 pages, 22 cm. Includes pages of ads. No copy at Library of Congress. Subject: Jews -- Europe, Central. Subject: Europe, Central -- Emigration and immigration. Authors: Rosenstock, Werner. Authors: Association of Jewish Refugees in Great Britain. Editor, Werner Rosenstock. Very good condition. (HOLO2-89-37)
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Kaufman, Isidor.
AMERICAN JEWS IN WORLD WAR II: THE STORY OF 550,000 FIGHTERS FOR FREEDOM. (Volume 1 of 2 only)
1st edition. Cloth, 8vo, 356, 590 pages. 22 cm. Compiled by the Bureau of War Records of the National Jewish Welfare Board, vol. 2 under the direction of Louis I. Dublin and Samuel C. Kohs. SUBJECT(S): World War, 1939-1945 -- Jews -- United States. World War, 1939-1945 -- Refugees -- Registers. Very Good Condition. (HOLO2-89-60)
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Browning, Christopher R.
REMEMBERING SURVIVAL: INSIDE A NAZI SLAVE-LABOR CAMP
Softcover. 8vo. Xxii, 375 pages. Ill. Draws on the testimony of survivors of the Holocaust-era Starachowice slave-labor camps to examine the Jewish prisoners' fight for survival through a succession of brutal Nazi camp regimes. SUBJECT (S) : World War, 1939-1945 -- Concentration camps -- Poland -- Starachowice. Forced labor -- Poland -- Starachowice -- History -- 20th century. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Poland -- Starachowice. Jews -- Poland -- Starachowice -- History -- 20th century. Nazis -- Poland -- Starachowice -- History -- 20th century. Holocaust survivors -- Poland -- Starachowice -- Biography. Named Corp: Starachowice -- Arbeitslager Time: Geschichte Geschichte 1939-1945 Geographic: Wierzbnik (Starachowice, Poland) -- History -- 20th century. Starachowice (Poland) -- Juden. Includes bibliographical references (pages 301-362) and index. ISBN: 9780393070194. Very good, almost new condition (HOLO2-89-67).
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Sharf, Andrew
THE BRITISH PRESS AND JEWS UNDER NAZI RULE
Publishers cloth. 8vo. VI, 228 pages. 23 cm. First edition. Issued under the auspices of the Institute of Race Relations. Dr. Andrew Sharf - head of the Department of Political History at the University of Bar-llan, Israel engages with the history of major and minor British newspapers and journals and their content as concerns the situation of German-Jews throughout the 1930s period. On the whole his findings show an abysmal reaction on the part of British newspapers to have little if any sympathy for the victims or an accurate understanding of the events in Germany at the time, with subtle yet recurring displays of anti-semitism, if not an outright open hostility to German-Jewish refugees. Subjects: Press - Great Britain. Antisemitism - Germany. Jews - Germany - History. With Good dustjacket. Clean and fresh throughout. Very good condition in Good jacket. (HOLO2-95-2)
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Sack, John
AN EYE FOR AN EYE
Publishers cloth. 8vo. XII, 252 pages. 24 cm. Full title: An Eye for an Eye: The Untold Story of Jewish Revenge Against Germans in 1945. Written by the journalist John Sack (1930-2004) , this controversial narrative argues that some Jews in Eastern Europe took revenge on German civilians in an organized fashion, Sack estimates that 60, 000 to 80, 000 people died in camps set up to house German civilians. Many have charged Sack with a false and biased interpretation of source documents, and have charged him with making holocaust-denial arguments. Subjects: Jews - Poland - Bedzin - Biography. Holocaust survivors - Poland - Biography. Prison wardens - Poland - Gliwice - Biography. Light wear to dustjacket, otherwise fresh. Very good condition in Very Good jacket. (HOLO2-95-3)
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Habe, Hans
CHRISTOPHER AND HIS FATHER
Publishers cloth. 8vo. 320 pages. 22 cm. First American edition. Hans Habe was one of the most important publicists in West Germany after World War II. During his life he wrote more than twenty books, some of them translated into English, and around ten thousand newspaper articles. Christopher and his Father; A novel of the Conflict of Generations in Germany Today concerns the relationship between Veit Harlan, the director of the anti-Semitic film Jud Suess during the Nazi period, and his son Thomas Harlan. Subjects: Fathers and sons - Germany - Fiction. Atonement - Fiction. German fiction - 20th century - Translations into English. Germany - History - 20th century - Fiction. With very good dustjacket. Near fine condition. (HOLO2-95-6)
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Gliauda, Jurgis
HOUSE UPON THE SAND
Publishers cloth. 8vo. 168 pages. 22 cm. First English edition. Translated from the Lithuanian by Raphael Sealey and Milton Stark. Jurgis Gliauda was a lawyer turned writer whose novels won several Lithuanian literary prizes and whose best known novel has been listed among the books of the month by Time magazine. This novel, House upon the Sand, is a study "of savage ironies, belongs with the best of the literature on Nazidom. " The novel tells of a decent German aristocrat who turns into a Nazi killer with chilling ease. Subjects: Germany - History - 1933-1945 Fiction. Very good condition in very good dustjacket. (HOLO2-95-8)
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Lucas, Ruth
WHO DARE TO LIVE
Publishers cloth. 8vo. 335 pages. 22 cm. First edition. "The exciting and dramatic story of an English mother and daughter trapped in Nazi Germany from 1938 to 1944". Concerns the story of an Englishwoman living in Germany with her small child after her German violinist husband is liquidated by the Nazis. She is assisted by the resistance to rescue her child and later heroically dies obtaining information concerning the V2 missiles. Subjects: Germany - History - 1933-1945 - Fiction. Very good condition in very good jacket. (HOLO2-95-9)
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Bar-Adon, Dorothy; Pesah Bar-Adon
SEVEN WHO FELL
Original Paper Wrappers. 12mo. 198 pages. 17 cm. First edition. Number 11 in the Palestine pioneer library series. This work is a collection of commemorative writings on Jewish parachutists killed in the Second World War, published in Palestine in 1947; these seven individuals are memorialized in this remembrance of their heroic attempts to save Jews in Eastern Europe. With black and white photographic plates of the parachutists. Subjects: World War, 1939-1945 - Jews. Jews - Biography. Institutional markings. Light wear to covers, backstrip has a small tear. Edges lightly bumped. Good condition. (HOLO2-95-10)
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Steinberg, Lucien
THE JEWS AGAINST HITLER (NOT AS A LAMB)
Softbound. 8vo. IX, 358 pages. 24 cm. First edition reprinted, with corrections. This translation originally published: as 'Not as a lamb'. Translation of La révolte des justes; translated by Marion Hunter. Lucien Steinberg (1926-2008) was born in Romania, emigrated to Palestine with his family in 1943, and moved to Paris in 1948, where he lived for the rest of his life. He is considered one of the first historians to specifically focus on Jewish resistance during the holocaust. He was president of the Union of Jews for Resistance and Mutual Aid (UJRE) and served on the board of the (ME MRJ) , the association for Memory of Jewish resistance to the ME (forced labor) . This volume extensively surveys armed Jewish resistance movements throughout occupied Europe, country by country, as well as insurrections and uprisings in death and labor camps. As stated on the cover: The seminal work on the Jewish Resistance. Subjects: World War, 1939-1945 - Jewish resistance. World War, 1939-1945 - Underground movements - Jews. Holocaust. Light wear and soiling to cover, one page dog-eared, and pen scribble on corner of title page. Otherwise clean and fresh. Good + condition. (HOLO2-95-11)
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Comité National Pour L'Érection Et La Conservation D'Un Mémorial De La Déportation Au Struthof
NATZWILLER STRUTHOF
Softbound. 8vo. 83 pages. 24 cm. Cover title: Concentration camp Natzwiller Struthof. Written by the National Committee for the Erecting and the Preservation of a Memorial for Deportation at the Struthof. Translated from the French, this booklet described the history of the Struthof camps; includes extensive photographs. About the camps: On 21 April 1941, near the village of Struthof, the Nazis opened a concentration camp, KL-Natzweiler. The central camp, the only concentration camp in France, was located in the then annexed Alsace département. Its annexes, scattered over the 2 sides of the Rhine, made up a network of nearly 70 camps, more or less large. Of the nearly 52, 000 detainees of KL-Natzeiler, about 35, 000 did not go through the central camp. A labour camp supporting the Nazi war industry, it was also used for medical experiments by Nazi professors from the Reich University of Strasbourg. On 23 November 1944, the Allies discovered the site evacuated by the Nazis since September. Some deportees from the camp annexes had their sufferings prolonged in the spring of 1945 on the "Death Marches". From 1941 to 1945, the KL-Natzweiler was one of the most murderous camps of the Nazi system. Nearly 22, 000 deportees died there. Subjects: Struthof (Concentration camp) World War, 1939-1945 Atrocities. Light shelf wear. Very good + condition. (HOLO2-95-15)
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Yidisher Visnshaftlekher Institute [Albert Einstein, Sigmund Freud Connection]
THE YIDDISH SCIENTIFIC INSTITUTE, YIVO
Original Wrappers. 12mo. 16 pages. 1st edition. Full title: The Yiddish Scientific Institute YIVO: devoted to research and training in the domain of Jewish scholarship. An early Nazi-era publication of the American Branch of YIVO in New York, this publication describes the aims, organization, achievements, prospects, and future needs of the YIVO institute in Vilna, which would be overrun by Hitlers armies 4 years later. A very interesting early publication from the American Branch of YIVO in New York; in four years time from this published brochure the city to become the final location of the YIVO institute. On the first page lists the Honorary Board of Trustees: Simon Dubnow, Albert Einstein, Sigmund Freud, Moses Gaster, Edward Sapir, Chaim Zhitlowsky. Subjects: Yivo Institute for Jewish Research. OCLC lists only one copy (Spertus Institute) . An important document linking 2 of the greatest thinkers of the early 20th Century to each other and to Jewishness. Very lightly soiled, with lightly bumped edges. Very good condition. (HOLO2-95-16)
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National Council Of Young Israel
YOUNG ISRAEL VIEWPOINT [NOVEMBER-DECEMBER 1957] SPECIAL ISSUE DEDICATED TO ELIJAH AND KAY STEIN UPON THEIR RETURN FROM ISRAEL.
Original Wrappers. 8vo. 68 pages. 24 cm. Serial Publication, Volume 46, Chanukah 5718, November-December 1957, Number 7-8. Special issue dedicated to Elijah and Kay Stein upon their return from Israel. Young Israel Viewpoint, a Zionist publication founded in 1911, is a bi-monthly publication issued by Young Israel, an American Jewish youth movement devoted to the strengthening of Torah-true Judaism and to the observance of its ideals and rituals, based on the principle that orthodox Judaism and Americanism are compatible. This issue includes various essays on Chanukah, grappling with Orthodoxy, and many essays about Israel. Of note is the news about Jews section, which lists facts about Jewish communities worldwide in the Soviet Union, Egypt, Canada, Czechoslovakia, Britain, Brazil, Austria, etc. Subjects: Orthodox Judaism - United States - Periodicals. National Council of Young Israel (U. S. ) - Periodicals. Near fine condition. (HOLO2-95-22)
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Golan, Shammai
HA-SHO'AH: PIRKE ? EDUT VE-SIFRUT. [THE HOLOCAUST]
(FT) Later cloth. 8vo. 13, 398 [16] pages. 22 cm. In Hebrew. The Holocaust: Eye Witness and Literary Accounts. This large collection of testimonies and personal narratives of Holocaust survivors was compiled and edited by the novelist Shammai Golan; he was born in Poland in 1933, and spent World War II under Nazi occupation and in Siberia. After the death of his parents, he was placed in an orphanage and immigrated illegally to Palestine in 1947. Golan studied literature and history at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Later, he taught literature, ran the Hebrew Writers` House in Jerusalem, and served as cultural attache in Mexico and Moscow. He was also chairman of the Hebrew Writers` Association. Subjects: World War, 1939-1945 - Personal narratives, Jewish. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) - Literary collections. World War, 1939-1945 - Underground movements - Jews. Institutional stamp on verso of title page. Covers lightly worn and scuffed. Outer edges lightly soiled. Internally very fresh and clean. Good + condition. (HOLO2-95-42)
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Philadelphia Coordinating Council On The Holocaust
JEWS IN GERMANY UNDER PRUSSIAN RULE (EXHIBITION PRESENTED AT THE PHILADELPHIA PORT OF HISTORY MUSEUM, OCT. 24-NOV. 30, 1986)
Brochure. 8vo. [8] pages. 23 cm. Fold out 8 page brochure, printed in blue and yellow ink with six illustration, concerning an exhibition tracing the thousand-year history of Jews in Germany held at the Port of History in the fall of 1986 entitled "Jews in Germany Under Prussian Rule" which was originally organized and shown in West Berlin in 1984, sponsored by the Philadelphia Coordinating Council on the Holocaust. The Philadelphia Coordinating Council on the Holocaust was formed in 1975 to offer workshops, conferences, and training to teachers who provide Holocaust education. Subjects: Jews - Germany - Prussia - Exhibitions. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) - Germany - Prussia - Exhibitions. One copy in the Telford Taylor Paper at the Colombia Law Library. Very good + condition. (HOLO2-95-44)
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(Tykocin) Sacks, Chaim
S'IS GEWEN A MOL; ONCE THERE WAS -STORIES AND REMINISCENCES
(FT) Publishers cloth. 8vo. 229 pages. 23 cm. First edition. In Yiddish. Published by the South African Yiddish Cultural Federation. Authors first book. This volume contains detailed stories and anecdotes from the authors early years in the Shtetl of Tykocin, with vivid descriptions of his fathers court and the personages who came there, as well as attending synagogue and Yeshiva, in the period just before and during the first world war. The book is commemorated to those loved ones of the author who perished in the holocaust. Inscribed by author on title page. Subjects: Jews - Poland - Tykocin. Tykocin (Poland) - Ethnic relations. OCLC lists 21 copies worldwide. Dustjacket lightly aged and soiled. Endpages and outer edges soiled. Internally clean and fresh. Good condition. (HOLO2-95-47)
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Kraminov, Daniil Fedorovich.
DER ZWEITER FRONT = EL SEGUNDO FRENTE
(FT) Publishers cloth. 8vo. 220 pages. 21 cm. First Yiddish edition. The Second Front, translated from the Russian. Notes on the second world war by a Soviet war correspondent. Subjects: World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Russian. 7 copies on OCLC. Light wear to covers, pages lightly aged, marks on endpages. Clean and fresh. Good + condition. (HOLO2-95-49)
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Bauer, Yehuda.
THEY CHOSE LIFE; JEWISH RESISTANCE IN THE HOLOCAUST.
New York, American Jewish Committee, Institute of Human Relations 1973. Paperback, 8vo, 61 pages, illustrations, 23 cm. Includes bibliographical references. Subjects: Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) . World War, 1939-1945--Jewish resistance. Good condition. (HOLO2-98-1)
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Bauer, Yehuda.
THE HOLOCAUST IN HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE.
Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1978. Cloth with dustjacket, 8vo, ix, 181 pages, 21 cm. Series Samuel and Althea Stroum lectures in Jewish studies. Includes bibliographical references and index. Colored end papers. Subject: Brand, Joel, 1906-1964 -- Addresses, essays, lectures. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Addresses, essays, lectures. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Historiography -- Addresses, essays, lectures. Jews -- United States -- Politics and government -- Addresses, essays, lectures. United States -- Politics and government -- 1933-1945 -- Addresses, essays, lectures. Very good condition in good jacket. (HOLO2-98-3)
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Rost, Nico.
WE HAVE NOT FORGOTTEN, 1939-1945 = MY NE ZABYLI = NOUS N'AVONS PAS OUBLIÉ.
Warszawa: Polonia Pub. House, 1959. Cloth with dustjacket, 4to, 267 pages, chiefly illustrated 34 cm. English, Russian, and French. No copy listed at the Library of Congress. Subject: World War, 1939-1945 -- Poland. World War, 1939-1945 -- Atrocities. World War, 1939-1945 -- Pictorial works. Authors: Wrzos-Glinka, Stanislaw, ed. Authors: Zwiazek Bojowników o Wolnosc I Demokracje. Other Titles: My ne zabyli Nous n'avons pas oublié. [The materials were collected and edited by Stanislaw Wrzos-Glinka, Tadeusz Mazur, Jerzy Tomaszewski]. Very good condition in very good jacket. (HOLO2-98-6)
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Cohen, Renae; Jennifer L Golub
ATTITUDES TOWARD JEWS IN POLAND, HUNGARY, AND CZECHOSLOVAKIA: A COMPARATIVE SURVEY
Original Wrappers. 8vo. 44 pages. 22 cm. In the series Working papers on contemporary anti-semitism. Interesting examination of Antisemitism in the land of Auschwitz at the fall of Communism. Subjects: Antisemitism - Poland - Statistics. Antisemitism - Hungary - Statistics. Antisemitism - Czechoslovakia - Statistics. Jews - Public opinion - Statistics. Public opinion - Poland - Statistics. Public opinion - Hungary - Statistics. Public opinion - Czechoslovakia - Statistics. Light wear to covers. Some pen marks on a few pages, with laid in notes of previous owners. Good + condition. (HOLO2-96-1)
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Haber, Samuel L
1970 - TWENTY FIVE YEARS AFTER WORLD WAR II
Original Wrappers. 8vo.15 pages. 22 cm. A year-end report to the National Council by Samuel L. Haber with a foreword by Jack D. Weiler. Much on aid to post-war refugees. This annual report of the Joint Distribution Committee details the communities and need for assistance and relief work in Israel, Western and Eastern Europe, the Middle East, and Australia. It notes the changes in Jewish communities in various countries since the end of the second world war and points out concrete instances of anti-semitism in various locations. Subjects: American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee - History. Jews - Charities. OCLC lists three copies (YIVO, Brandeis, HUC) . Covers lightly soiled, internally fresh and clean. Good condition. (HOLO2-96-16)
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Goodman, Philip
PROGRAMS FOR JEWISH BOOK MONTH
Original Wrappers. 8vo. 21 pages. 22 cm. Front cover illustration by Mitchell Loeb. A Holocaust-era pamphlet of the Jewish Book Council outlining the program and intentions of the Jewish Book Month, with listings of participating libraries in major U. S. Cities, selected materials, publishers, and bibliographic resources. Includes Yiddish listings. In 1944 the Jewish Welfare Board became a sponsor and coordinator of the Jewish Book Council, which had originally been founded, in 1925, as Jewish Book Week and expanded through the following years. The Book Council's objectives were the stimulation of an abiding zeal for knowledge among young and old; the development of a Jewish cultural atmosphere in homes; the enrichment of educational programs of clubs, study circles and discussion groups; and the enlargement of book collections in institutional libraries, reading rooms, and private homes. Subjects: Books, Jewish. Jewish Book Month. OCLC lists one copy (HUC) . Light wear to covers, clean and fresh. Very good condition. (HOLO2-96-26)
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Rol, Ruud Van Der; Rian Verhoeven
ANNE FRANK
Hardbound. 4to. 64 pages. 29 cm. A publication of the Anne Frank House. With colored map on end-papers. Photographs, illustrations, and maps accompany historical essays, and diary excerpts, providing an insight to Anne Frank and the massive upheaval which tore apart her world. Subjects: Jews - Netherlands - Amsterdam - Biography - Pictorial works - Juvenile literature. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) - Netherlands - Amsterdam - Pictorial works - Juvenile literature. Jews - Biography. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) - Netherlands - Amsterdam. Frank, Anne, 1929-1945 - Pictorial works -Juvenile literature. Amsterdam (Netherlands) - Biography - Pictorial works - Juvenile literature. Very good + condition. (HOLO2-96-30)
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Jacobson, Sidney; Ernie Colón
ANNE FRANK: THE ANNE FRANK HOUSE AUTHORIZED GRAPHIC BIOGRAPHY
Softbound. 8vo. 152 pages. 23 cm. First edition. Drawing on historical sites, archives, expertise, and the unquestioned authority of the Anne Frank House in Amsterdam, Sid Jacobson and Ernie Colon have created the first authorized graphic biography of Anne Frank. Carefully researched for historical authenticity, the book includes numerous panels featuring images that have been adapted from photographs of Anne and her family. Subjects: Jewish children in the Holocaust - Netherlands - Amsterdam - Biography - Comic books, strips, etc. Jews - Netherlands - Amsterdam - Biography - Comic books, strips, etc. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) - Netherlands - Amsterdam - Biography - Comic books, strips, etc. Frank, Anne, 1929-1945 - Comic books, strips, etc. Amsterdam (Netherlands) - Biography - Comic books, strips, etc. Netherlands - Biography-- Comic books, strips, etc. Very good + condition. (HOLO2-96-31)
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Cinegram Media, Inc; Anne Frank Huis
ANNE FRANK HOUSE: A HOUSE WITH A STORY (CD ROM)
Plastic case. PC and Mac CD-ROM. Story of Anne Frank and the people around her as she and her family hid from the Nazis, using historical photographs, excerpts from films, Frank family photos, voice narration and music. Includes virtual journey through the Anne Frank House as it was when Anne wrote her renowned diary. With material on anti-semitism, World War II, and concentration camps. Contents: Virtual journey through the Anne Frank House as it was when Anne wrote her diary - Unique photographs from the Frank family album - More than 1500 historical photographs - Excerpts from more than 15 films including the only motion pictures of Anne Frank - More than 300 slide shows - Nearly 4 hours of voice narration, audio effects and music - Comprehensive glossary and help section. Subjects: Jews - Netherlands - Amsterdam - Interactive multimedia. Jews - Persecutions - Netherlands - Interactive multimedia. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) - Netherlands - Amsterdam - Interactive multimedia. World War, 1939-1945 - Children - Netherlands - Amsterdam - Interactive multimedia. Frank, Anne, 1929-1945 - Interactive multimedia. Very good condition. (HOLO2-96-32)
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Spellman, Francis
BIGOTRY IS UN-AMERICAN
Folded pamphlet. 4to. [3] pages. 28 cm. Holocaust-era imprint. Bigotry is Un-American is a short article from Archbishop of New York Francis Spellman, Apostolic Vicar for the U. S. Armed Forces, and confidante of Roosevelt. This article expounds upon the current war, the mutual unity of Americans of different racial and religious backgrounds fighting for unity against oppression, and the need to further tolerance. It greatly expands on the need to fully get rid of bigotry and intolerance, and the author argues for these reasons from a catholic point of view. Malice toward none, justice to all is the general American formula and practice. An interesting period piece from an archbishop who soon after became one of the more notorious Cardinals in the world, both for his extreme theological conservatism, and his pro-vietnam war, pro-nixon, anti-communist, American first views. Subjects: Toleration. Racism - United States. OCLC lists one copy (Boston College) . Lightly bumped edges. Very good condition. (HOLO2-96-46)
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Wibaut-Guilonard, Tineke, 1922-1996. Mager, Ed.
KAMP VUGHT 1943-1944 : EINDPUNT... OF TUSSENSTATION
Paper wrappers, 8vo. , 102 pages. Illustrated with drawings, photographs, maps, and facsimiles. In Dutch. Collection of 18 interviews with survivors or their relatives from Vught. OCLC lists 15 copies worldwide, but only 1 in the US (U South Florida) . Light wear to covers, very good condition. (HOLO2-78-12xx)
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Catt, Carrie Chapman, ; 1859-1947.
ASYLUM FOR REFUGEES UNDER OUR IMMIGRATION LAWS; VIEWS OF SOME DISTINGUISHED CONTEMPORARIES AND OF LEADERS OF PUBLIC OPINION OF EARLIER DAYS ON ASYLUM, AND RELIGIOUS REFUGEES.
Paper wrappers, 4to. , 32 pages. On cover: Views of some distinguished contemporaries and of leaders of public opinion of earlier days on asylum, and their application to German Political and religious refugees. Prepared for [the] Committee of Ten. Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt, chairman. The committee of ten included Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt, Miss Mary Dreier, Miss Elizabeth Eastman, Mrs. Kendall Emerson, Mrs. John Finley, Mrs. Alexander Kohut, Mrs. James Lees Laidlaw, Mrs. Jacob A. Riis, Mrs. Charles Cary Rumsey, and Mrs. F. Louis Slade. SUBJECT (S) : Asylum, Right of. Political refugees. Emigration and immigration law -- United States. Light staining to cover, small piece missing to edge of cover, pages lightly tanned. Good + condition. (HOLO2-78-9)
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Booy, Thijs (editor)
GEDENCKCLANCK 1940-1945. SUPPLEMENT NR. 4 (SPRING 1945)
Paper wrappers. 12mo. 16 pages. 20 cm. Fourth Supplement. In Dutch. Gedenckclanck was originally the name of a volume published in the Netherlands in 1626 which contains the well known hymnal, we go out together now, a celebration of Dutch independence and liberation. In the occupied Netherlands consecutive four part anthologies of illegal poetry, letters, and writings, all in the service of the resistance, were printed at the same underground press in Alphen aan den Rijn, and each collection was given the same title Gedenckclanck. Gedenckclanck 1940-1944 was printed in three parts, in the years 1944, 1944, and 1945, of lengths of 112, 176, and 68 pages respectively, in editions of 2200, 400, 200 respectively. The first volume was printed hastily, without corrections being made to the print run. The latter two volumes were reserved for the Royal House (presumably the Dutch Royal Family was allowed to obtain any type of literature even during the occupation) , prisoners in the camps, prisoners overseas, and those fighting in Free Dutch units elsewhere. Part four, entitled Gedenckclanck 1940-1945 was printed in the early spring of 1945. Four supplements, prepared during the occupation and which appeared one month after the liberation, were produced in very limited print runs. The pamphlet we have to offer is the last of the four in the series. Approximate translation from the title page recto: This little book was commenced after a presentation entitled "The Message of the Dead". / We go out together now! Radiant, young, happy. But above all grateful. / Closing with the farewell letter from a condemned man. / To the memory of Jaap Sickenga, shot by the Germans on May 11, 1942. This supplement to pt. 4 of the clandestinely published series of the same title contains letters and poems by or about Dutch victims of Nazi terror. Gedenckclanck first appeared in the autumn of 1944. They included only illegal poems, referring to the sacrifice of the dead and suffering in prisons and camps. The second Gedenckclanck offered an anthology of illegal poetry, from bundles and loose sheets of papers that had made the rounds. In the third Gedenckclanck illegal prose poetry was also included. Volume four appeared in the early spring of 1945. In the first months after liberation there appeared four 'supplements' also titled: Gedenckclanck. The compiler lectured in various places on 'The Message of the Dead ", after which a few small anthologies of illegal literature were offered. The mimeographed supplements, respectively: 26, 18, 31 and 16 page count. The first was dedicated to the sacrifice of the dead and suffering in prisons and camps. Nos. 2 and 4 contain only testimonies of martyrs. The third supplement is subtitled: Prayers. (This information, and the preceding specifications, with gratitude taken from Dirk de Jong (red. ) , HET VRIJE BOEK IN ONVRIJE TIJD. BIBLIOGRAFIE VAN ILLEGALE EN CLANDESTIENE BELLETTRIE. Interbook International, Schiedam 1978 (THE FREE BOOK OF UNFREE TIME. BIBLIOGRAPHY OF ILLEGAL AND CLANDESTINE BELLES LETTRES. Interbook International, Schiedam 1978) . Subjects: Dutch poetry -- 20th century. Netherlands -- History -- German occupation, 1940-1945 -- Poetry. OCLC lists only 2 copies worldwide (Univ Amsterdam, British Library) , none in the US. Paper wrappers worn, with a slight tear to cover at edge, and marked water stains on the back cover. Light pencil marks on title page. Pages browned, but very clean. Very good + Condition. (HOLO2-80-6)
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Leenderts, Hans
BALLING: ZES MAANDEN GIJZELAAR IN HAAREN
Cloth. 8vo. 138 pages. 21 cm. First edition. In Dutch. Beige cloth over boards, with ten black and white illustrations by Henk Hulshof. Title translates as: Exile, six months hostage in Haaren. Hans Leenderts was the alias of the hostage J. Th. B. Hoff, a teacher from Ruurlo. The municipality of Haaren was used from 1941 through 1941 as a prison camp for eliminating political prisoners and members of the resistance, as well as a camp for hostages of the general Dutch population being held by the SS to supposedly curb resistance and opposition. Among the hostages were 150 leaders from business, 133 people from the professions, 60 professors and teachers, 103 officers, 60 chaplains, three trade union leaders and five students. Twice, on 15 August 1942 and October 16, 1942, (a total of 85) Haaren hostages were shot. In 1944, 3, 500 of those held in the camps were deported to Saxenhausen or Ravensbruck. Subjects: World War, 1939-1945 - Prisoners and prisons, German. World War, 1939-1945 - Personal narratives, Dutch. OCLC lists 6 copies worldwide. Cover and backstrip soiled, with heavy soiling near edges. Pages browned at edges, with fresh text. Very good condition. (HOLO2-80-10)
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Delleman, Thomas (editor)
OPDAT WIJ NIET VERGETEN
Cloth. 4to. 752 pages. 28 cm. First edition. In Dutch. Dark green cloth over boards, gilt lettering. Full title: OPDAT WIJ NIET VERGETEN, de bijdrage van de Gereformeerde kerken, van haar voorgangers en leden, in het verzet tegen het nationaal-socialisme en de Duitse tyrannie. Title translates as: Lest We Forget; the contribution of the Reformed church, and members of its pastors, in the resistance against National Socialism and German tyranny. Edited and written by several pastors and members of various reformed churches involved in the resistance, this comprehensive volume documents the history of the resistance movement in Holland, with special attention being paid to the role of the various reformed churches in the resistance. With 250 pages of period documents (illegal publications, church discussions, resistance fliers, documentation of state repression) , a register of reformed church persons involved in the resistance, and a map detailing the state hierarchy of nazi and collaborationist stratum. Subjects: World War, 1939-1945 - Underground movements - Netherlands. Reformed Churches in the Netherlands. Resistance Movements. World War II. OCLC lists 26 copies worldwide. Bottom edge lightly dusty, with very minor wear to edges of cloth, and very light foxing only at end pages. Near fine condition. (HOLO2-80-11)
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Anger, Per
WITH RAOUL WALLENBERG IN BUDAPEST: MEMORIES OF THE WAR YEARS IN HUNGARY
(FT) Softbound. 8vo. 191 pages. 23 cm. First English edition. With 8 pages of black and white plates. Translation of: Med Raoul Wallenberg I Budapest; preface by Elie Wiesel; translated from the Swedish by David Mel Paul and Margareta Paul. A memoir and history written by Per Anger of his time in Sweden and Budapest during the war; Anger was a well known Swedish diplomat famous for his successful efforts with Raoul Wallenberg of rescuing a few thousand Hungarian Jews during the last two years of the war. Subjects: Ambassadors - Sweden - Biography. World War, 1939-1945 - Hungary -- Budapest. Jews - Hungary - History - 20th century. Righteous Gentiles in the Holocaust - Biography. Anger, Per, 1913-2002 Wallenberg, Raoul, 1912-1947. Sweden. Beskickningen (Hungary) - History - 20th century. Budapest (Hungary) - Biography. Lightly worn covers, light pencil and pen marks on a half dozen pages, laid in documents and book reviews concerning Raoul Wallenberg from previous owner. Good + condition. (HOLO2-80-15)
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Elimelech, Of Lyzhansk, 1717-1787.
SEFER NO? AM ELIMELEKH : ZEH HA-HIBUR ASHER...VE-TORATO EMUNATO TORAT EMET AL HAMISHAH HUMSHE TORAH...
Original Publishers Cloth, 8vo, 98 leaves ; 21cm. In Hebrew. DP publication. Reprint of 1788 ed. SUBJECT (S) : Hasidism. Bible. O. T. Pentateuch -- Commentaries. OCLC lists 4 copies worldwide (JTS, Nat Lib Israel, Michigan, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek) . Front board bowing, paper browning as generally found, hinges starting to crack, but a solid copy. Good condition thus. (holo2-85-8)
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MASEKHET TA? ANIT MIN TALMUD BAVLI: ? IM KOL HA-MEFARSHIM...
Original Boards, 8vo, 31, 25 leaves ; 22 cm. In Hebrew. DP Publication. SUBJECT (S) : Talmud. Ta? Anit -- Commentaries. On cover: Masekhet Ta? Anit ? Im mishnayot Kil'ayim le-lomde daf ha-yomi. "Matanah me-et V? A? Ad ha-hasalah le-She'erit ha-pelit? Ah. " OCLC lists 9 copies worldwide. Front board bowed, paper browning as usually found, spine rebacked, light wear to first leaf. Good Condition thus. (HOLO2-85-10)
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Salanter, Israel; Blaser, Isaac.
OR YIS´RA'EL
Original Boards, 16mo (pocket sized) , 184 pages. 14 cm. In Hebrew. DP Publication. SUBJECT(S) : Jewish ethics. Musar movement. Repentance Judaism. Yis´ra'el Livk? In, mi-Salant? ; v? E-nilv? U lahem ... Netivot or ... Ma'amarim shonim ... Kokhave or ... Hubru yaHdav? Me-iti, YitsHak? Beha-Rav mo. Ha-R. Sh. Blazer. OCLC lists 9 copies worldwide) Spine rebacked, paper brown as usually found, otherwise Good Condition. (holo2-85-9)
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Shonfeld, Moshe & Herman Appelman. Fwd. by Josiah Wedgewood, M. P.
THE MARK OF THE SWASTIKA: EXTRACTS FROM THE BRITISH WAR BLUE BOOK, TOGETHER WITH THE WHITE PAPER ON THE TREATMENT OF GERMAN NATIONALS IN GERMANY.
8vo; 107, 110 pages; Original Paper Wrappers. Large 8vo. 107, 110 pages. 23 cm. In English & Yiddish. This publication offers "The most comprehensive survey of Germany's treatment of Jews and other minorities within Germany, including conditions in concentration camps. " Produced by the Great Britain Foreign Office. Contains documents concerning German-Polish relations and the outbreak of hostilities between Great Britain and Germany on September 3, 1939., & the final report by the Right Honourable Sir Nevile Henderson. G. C. M. G., on the circumstances leading to the termination of his mission to Berlin, September 20, 1939. SUBJECT(S) Geographic: Germany -- Foreign relations -- Poland. Poland -- Foreign relations -- Germany. Great Britain -- Foreign relations -- Germany. Germany -- Foreign relations -- Great Britain. Ex-library copy. Ink-stain on the edges, pages are clean. Shelf-wear to outer boards. (HOLO2-98-13)
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Esh, Shaul. Editor
YAD WASHEM STUDIES ON THE EUROPEAN JEWISH CATASTROPHE AND RESISTANCE. VOL 2 ONLY.
Cloth, 8vo, 334 pages, v, illustrations, 22 cm. Serial. Subjects: Jews in Europe -- History. Added Author Jerusalem. Yad va-shem. Volume 2 only. Some wear to cover, especially along spine. Very good condition. (HOLO2-57-4).
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Berger, Solomon
THE JEWISH COMMONWEALTH OF ZBOROW [AUTHOR INSCRIBED]
8vo; 154 pages; Inscribed by the author. Researched personal memoir/history of this Polish-Ukranian- Jewish community wiped out in the Holocaust. Jacket has some stains, Very good condition in Very good- jacket. (HOLO2-98-24) xx
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Smolen, Kazimierz.
AUSCHWITZ (OSWIECIM) 1940-1945.
2nd Revised Edition. Paperback, 12mo, 104 pages, illustrations, 19 cm. In English. Subject (s) : Auschwitz (Concentration camp) . Includes bibliographical references. Very good condition. (HOLO2-98-12)
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Charleston, Sc) Reznikoff, Charles. with The Collaboration Of Uriah Engelman. Forewd by Salo Baron
THE JEWS OF CHARLESTON [SOUTH CAROLINA]--A HISTORY OF AN AMERICAN JEWISH COMMUNITY
8vo; 343 pages; 1st edition. original Publisher's cloth. 22 cm. 8 pages of plates. Includes index. Bibliography on pages 267-325 . The first Jews settled in the area in the 1600s. Originally the community was Sephardic, later Ashkenazic. The Jewish community provided many soldiers for the Civil War. Photo endpapers compliment this thorough Southern Jewish community history. Subject : Jews -- South Carolina -- Charleston. Institutional stamp on endpage. Otherwise fresh and clean. Great condition. (AMR-41-21)xxxx
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Jewish Labor Committee/ Yidisher Arbeter Komitet
YIDISHE KINDER TSURIK TSUM LEBN
(FT) Softcover, 8vo. , 55 pages. In Yiddish. Jewish Children: Back to Life. A publication by the Jewish Labor Committee describing the activities of the organization to help Jewish children after the war, with programs, Summer camps, schools, and childrens houses. Includes portraits of children and statistics about Jewish children in Europe before and after the war. Illustrated with many black and white photographs throughout. SUBJECT(S) r: Jewish children. World War, 1939-1945 -- Civilian relief. World War, 1939-1945 -- Children. Child welfare -- Europe. International relief. Jews -- Charities. OCLC lists 20 copies worldwide. Very good condition. (YID-15-1xx)
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Hochfelder, Julius
THE SUPREME LAW OF THE FUTURE MAN
Paper wrappers, 8vo. , 74 pages. A collection of essays and writing on Judaism and religion by Julius Hochfelder, who was born in Hungary and came to the United States in 1888. A large, sturdy man, considered a genius, he was a highly educated (LL. B. , Ph. D. ) patent lawyer, author, organizer of the Seamans Evening College, director of the Homework Protective League and, in World War I, member of the Jewish Welfare Board. Inscribed by Hochfelders wife, Anna, to Rev. Dr. Rudolph Grossman, longtime Rabbi at Rodeph Sholom in NYC. Anna Hochfelder was also a lawyer and founded the American Alliance of Civil Service Women in 1912 (Thomas, Jewish Womens Archive, 2009) . Includes excerpts by Rabbis Alexander Kohut and Isaac M. Wise, a poem by Ella Wheeler Wilcox, and an address on the golden rule by Hon. David J. Brewer, associate justice of the Supreme Court at the time. Includes (printed) letters from Henry Guttman, Master of William McKinley Lodge, Rabbi Joseph Silverman, and Rev. Dr. S MacAurthur, thanking the author for the book. Only 3 copies listed on OCLC (NYPL, Harvard, and Center for Research IL) . Cover sunned, with small piece missing, pages in very good condition. (HAG-11-5)
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Ogólny Zydowski Zwiazek Robotniczy "Bund" w Polsce.
GETO IN FLAMEN: ZAMLBUKH.
1st eition. Paper wrappers, 8vo, 206 pages. Includes illustrations & facsimiles. 21 cm. In Yiddish. Early report, from before the war's end, on the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. SUBJECT(S): Jews -- Poland -- Warsaw. World War, 1939-1945 -- Jews. Geographic: Poland -- History -- Occupation, 1939-1945. Warsaw (Poland) -- History -- Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, 1943. Clean and fresh. Very good. (HOLO2-98-26)
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Prins, A.
CHANOEKA: LICHTENFEEST
Paper wrappers, 24mo., 15 pages. In Dutch. Early post-war Dutch publication for survivor children. Cover illustrated with Chanukah menorah. On cover: "Aan Onze Jonge Joodse Vrienden" - "To Our Young Jewish Friends" Brochure on the history and celebration of Chanukah. OCLC lists 3 copies worldwide. Covers tanned. Very good condition. (ART-13-9)
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Tal, Justus.
CHANOEKA: ONBEGRIJPELIJKE DINGEN
Paper wrappers, small 8vo. , 8 pages. In Dutch. One of the first Dutch Jewish publications following liberation, published for child Holocaust survivors in Holland. Chanukah: Incomprehensible Things. SUBJECT (S) : Hanukkah. Pages tanned. OCLC lists just 2 copies worldwide (Yale, Univ. Of Amsterdam Lib. ) Good condition. (ART-13-10)
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Seixas, Gershom Mendes
A RELIGIOUS DISCOURSE: THANKSGIVING DAY SERMON, NOVEMBER 26, 1789
[1789] Original illustrated paper wrappers. 8vo. XVI, 16 pages. 23 cm. Introduction by Isidore S. Meyer, followed by a photostatic reproduction of the 1789 edition of the sermon given by Gershom Mendes Seixas, original title: A religious discourse delivered in the synagogue in this city, on Thursday the 26th November, 1789. Agreeable to the proclamation of the president of the United States of America, to be observed as a day of public thanksgiving and prayer. Printed by Archibald M'Lean, at Franklin's Head no. 41, Hanover-Square. Introduction outlines contemporaneous historical background, with reference and bibliographic notes. Sermon delivered by Gershom Mendez Seixas. American rabbi and patriot; born in New York city Jan. 14, 1745; died there July 2, 1816; son of Isaac Mendez Seixas (1708-80) and Rachel Levy, daughter of Moses Levy, an early New York merchant. Seixas became the minister of Shearith Israel, the Spanish and Portuguese congregation of his native city, in 1766, and occupied the rabbinate for about half a century. At the outbreak of the American Revolution he at once espoused the Patriot cause, though many of the Christian ministers of the city sympathized with the Tories.
After the war Seixas returned to New York (March 23, 1784) and resumed his former position as rabbi of Congregation Shearith Israel. He was one of the first ministers to preach a regular Thanks-giving Day sermon (see Daily Gazette, Dec. 23, 1789) , and was also one of the fourteen clergymen participating in the ceremony of the inauguration of George Washington as first president of the United States. In 1787 he became a trustee of Columbia College in the city of New York, and held that office continuously to 1815, being the only Jew ever so honored. When the college was incorporated, Seixas' name appeared in the charter as one of the incorporators. (1906 Jewish Encyclopedia) . Publications of the Jewish Historical Society of New York; number 2. Subjects: American Jewish Historical Society, New York. Congregation Shearith Israel, New York. Jewish sermons, American. Thanksgiving Day addresses. Fine condition. A very important document, and increasingly difficult to find. (AMR-43-1) x+
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Stern, Malcolm H. ; Marc Angel
NEW YORK'S EARLY JEWS: SOME MYTHS AND MISCONCEPTIONS. A LECTURE BY MALCOLM H. STERN, WITH RESPONSE BY MARC D. ANGEL.
Original paper wrappers. 8vo. 28 pages. 22 cm. "Delivered at the Annual Meeting of the Jewish Historical Society of New York held at Congregation Shearith Israel, the Spanish & Portugese Synagogue on April 10, 1975." An insightful lecture correcting common misconceptions about early American Jewish History as demonstrated in historical errata discovered throughout years of research, i. E. : the mention of Solomon Stern, an Amsterdam Jew stranded in Boston in 1649, the Jews from Brazil who landed in 1654 being met by a Jacob Barsimson, the boat being in actuality named the Ste Catherine and not the St. Charles, the sprinkling of Ashkenazim among the first Sephardim in America, Marranos in Savannah, Georgia, etc. ; the response of Marc Angel attempts to highlight what Sterns research indicates, the questions it opens, as well as highlighting recent research on the interrelations of Ashkenazim and Sephardim in America and Europe, such as Spanish inscriptions on Ashkenazic tombs. Malcolm H. Stern (19151984) was a "U. S. Reform rabbi, historian, [&] genealogist. Stern, who has been called the father of Jewish genealogy in America, was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. In 1981, Stern joined the faculty of the New York campus of Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion, initially as counselor for student field work and subsequently as adjunct professor of American Jewish History. There he continued his research, begun in 1950, as genealogist for the American Jewish Archives and the American Historical Society. Stern compiled the pioneering volume American Families of Jewish Descent (1960) , an eight-pound tome containing 26, 000 names researched over the course of 10 years of labor. It was the first genealogical survey of Jewish families who settled in the United States between 1654 and 1840, and was lauded as an invaluable research tool in the fields of American and Jewish history. Many American Protestants and Catholics first learned of Jewish roots and branches in their family trees from Stern's data, which served as an important source for Stephen Birmingham's best-selling novel, The Grandees. " (Gordon in EJ 2007) . Publications of the Jewish Historical Society of New York; number 1. Subjects: Jews - New York (State) - New York. OCLC lists 14 copies worldwide. Light shelf wear. Great condition. (AMR-43-2) X+
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Angoff, Charles
EMMA LAZARUS, POET, JEWISH ACTIVIST, PIONEER ZIONIST
Original paper wrappers. 8vo. 12 pages. 23 cm. Printed in brown ink on cream paper, with illustrated wraps. Contains the lecture delivered by Charles Angoff to commemorate the poem The New Colossus at the base of the Statue of Liberty in 1978, which affords extensive documentation of the literary biography and political activism of Emma Lazarus, one of the first renowned Jewish writers in American literary history. Includes facsimile copy of the manuscript of New Colossus as well portrait of Emma Lazarus; with frontispiece dedication to Charles Angoff and his portrait as well, who did not live to see this publication in print. Emma Lazarus (18491887) , U. S. Poet, essayist, and activist. Lazarus was born in New York on July 22, 1849, to Moses Lazarus, a wealthy industrialist of Sephardi heritage, and his wife Esther Nathan Lazarus of Ashkenazi background. Both sides of her family had been in America since the Revolution. Lazarus, who was educated at home by private tutors, was originally attracted to classical and romantic art and literature. During the course of her career, she struck up tutelary relationships with important male writers, especially Ralph Waldo Emerson, and including Thomas Wentworth Higginson and Henry James. Her early works included Poems and Translations: Written Between the Ages of Fourteen and Sixteen, published privately by her father in 1867, a novel Alide: An Episode of Goethe's Life (1874) , and a historical tragedy, The Spagnoletto (1876) , as well as a translation of poems by Heinrich Heine, accompanied by a biographical study. By the time she wrote her best-known poem, The New Colossus (1883) , a hymn to America, the Mother of Exiles, she had repudiated the glorification of male conquering power, aestheticism, and empty ceremony and asserted instead the power of womanhood, the comfort of motherhood, and the Hebraic prophetic values of compassion and consolation. Lazarus began her return to Jewish tradition in the late 1870s, studying Hebrew and reading Graetz's History of the Jews and George Eliot's novel Daniel Deronda, with its plea for a Jewish national revival. Lazarus began to publish translations of the medieval Spanish-Jewish poets, Judah Halevi , Solomon ibn Gabirol , and others. The Russian pogroms of 1881 and the May Laws of 1882 fired both her social consciousness and her poetic imagination, prompting a series of essays in American journals, especially in Century Magazine (May 1882) , where she replied to an antisemitic article by a Russian journalist, Madame Z. Ragozin. The Dance Unto Death, a verse tragedy about the burning of the Jews of Nordhausen during the Black Death appeared in Songs of a Semite (1882) , dedicated to George Eliot, the illustrious writer who did most among the artists of our day towards elevating and ennobling the spirit of Jewish Nationality. Lazarus's series of 14 essays, ironically entitled Epistle to the Hebrews, written from November 1882 to February 1883, were intended to bring before the Jewish public
facts and critical observations
to arouse a more logical and intelligent estimate of the duties of the hour. Lazarus also involved herself in the practical work of helping new immigrants adjust to America, founding the Hebrew Technical Institute for Vocational Training. In 1883 she sailed to London, armed with letters of introduction from Henry James to well-placed people in England, Jews and non-Jews, who might help her in her effort towards the establishment of a Jewish national home-land. A decade before Theodore Herzl launched the Zionist movement, Lazarus argued in poetry and prose for Palestine as a safe haven for oppressed Jews everywhere. Lazarus, who never married, died of cancer at the age of 38. After her death, her sister, Josephine Lazarus, prohibited the inclusion of anything Jewish in the collected edition of her works that appeared in 1889. The New Colossus, with its famous image of huddled masses yearning to breathe free, was engraved on a memorial plaque and affixed to the pedestal of the Statue of Liberty in 1903. (EJ 2007) Publications of the Jewish Historical Society of New York; number 3. Subjects: Poets, American - 19th century - Biography. Women social reformers - New York (State) - New York - Biography. Social reformers - United States - Biography. Zionists - New York (State) - New York - Biography. Jews - New York (State) - New York - Biography. Lazarus, Emma, 1849-1887. New York (N. Y. ) - Biography. Fine condition. (AMR-43-3) x+
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American Jewish Historical Society
HAYM SALOMON, A GENTLEMAN OF PRECISION AND INTEGRITY
Original paper wrappers. 4to. 16 pages. 28 cm. A Bicentennial publication on the life, times and personal papers of the celebrated American Jewish patriot whose efforts helped finance Washingtons army and secure American Independence. Staple bound in fine paper wraps with raised signature title, fine tissue endpapers, background illustrations throughout, all text in red and brown ink, thirty four illustrations, and biographical chronology at end. Text details the life of Haym Salomon (Solomon) (17401785) , early American merchant and Revolutionary War patriot. Salomon, who was born in Lissa, Poland, arrived in New York about 1775 after wandering in Europe and became one of the most prominent 18th-century American Jews. During the Revolutionary War he was a distiller and sutler to the American army, and was captured as a spy by the British. His life was spared, and he served as an interpreter in their commissary department. Continuing to give information to the Americans, he assisted their prisoners to escape British captivity while operating a profitable victualing business in New York City under British occupation. Married to Rachel Franks in 1777, he had to flee a year later to Philadelphia, where he began a brokerage and commission business. In 1781 he became an assistant to Robert Morris, superintendent of the Office of Finance, after serving in a similar capacity as broker and treasurer for the huge expenses of the French army stationed in America. Morris characterized him as useful to the public interest. Salomon also lent money without charge to impecunious members of the Continental Congress, among them James Madison, who recommended him as our little friend in Front Street. In 1784 Salomon expanded his business activities to New York, opening a brokerage and auctioneering house there with Jacob Mordecai. A mason, Salomon was a major contributor in 1782 to the Congregation Mikveh Israel building, Philadelphia. He argued against a New Testament oath taken by officeholders in Pennsylvania and worked for political rights of Jews. Though a successful merchant, Salomon invested most of his money in Continental stocks and bonds, and his accounts showed a deficit at the time of his death. The newspaper obituary referred to him as an eminent broker of this city
remarkable for his skill and integrity in his profession, and for his generous and human deportment. He left four children and a widow, who later married David Hilborn. By 1799 she was living in the Batavian Republic.
Exaggerated claims were made for Salomon's services to the American Revolution, largely as a point of Jewish apologetics. Without question, however, he was a vigorous patriot at great personal risk, and a competent financial servant of American independence and of some of its leaders. (EJ 2007) Subjects: Jews - United States - Biography. Salomon, Haym, 1740-1785. United States - History - Revolution, 1775-1783 - Biography. Fine condition. (AMR-43-4) x+
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