‎Europe‎

‎Qalonymos Ben Qalonymos Ben Meir [Kalonymos Ben Kalonymos Ben Meir], Wolf Alois Meisel and Meyer Kayserling‎

‎DER PRUFSTEIN. EVEN BOHAN: SITTENSPIEGEL DES KALONYMOS BEN KALONYMOS‎

‎Hardcover, 8vo, xi, 292 pages, 21 cm. In German. SUBJECT (S) : Satire, Hebrew. Jewish ethics -- Early works to 1800. “Vorwort” by Dr. M. Kayserling. Includes bibliographical references. Kayserling (1829-1905) was a “German rabbi and historian. Kayserling, born in Hanover, studied with S. R. Hirsch in Nikolsburg, S. J. Rapoport in Prague, and S. B. Bamberger in Wuerzburg and at Halle University. From 1861 to 1870 he was rabbi at Endingen, Switzerland, where he fought strenuously for Jewish rights; thereafter he was rabbi and preacher in Budapest. Kayserling published a large number of works on various aspects of Jewish history, literature, and religion, mostly in German, which were very popular in their day, including Moses Mendelssohn: sein Leben und seine Werke; Bibliothek juedischer Kanzelredner; Die juedischen Frauen in der Geschichte …; and a popular Jewish history, Lehrbuch der juedischen Geschichte und Lite ratur; which ultimately went through ten editions. He also contributed the section on modern Jewish literature to Winter and Wuensche’s handbook on post-biblical Jewish literature, Juedische Literatur seit dem Abschluss des Kanons …But Kayserling’s reputation rests on his long series of pioneering publications on the history of Spanish Jewry and the Marranos, based to a great degree on original and, in some cases manuscript, sources. His Geschichte der Juden in Spanien und Portugal, which in fact covered mainly Navarre and the Balearic Islands and Portugal, was the first work in which Hebrew sources were consistently used. His works on Marrano history and literature put the study on a new footing and were the basis of all subsequent treatments. They include Sephardim: Romanische Poesien der Juden in Spanien; Menasseh ben Israel; Christoph Columbus und der Anteil der Juden an den spanischen und portugiesischen Entdeckungen, written at the request of the Spanish government on the occasion of the 400th anniversary of the discovery of America; and his great bibliography of Marrano literature Bibliotheca espanola-portugueza-judaica. In addition, the articles he contributed to the Jewish Encyclopedia on these subjects have retained their importance. Many of his works were translated into English and some into Hebrew. More than 100 of his articles on Jewish history and literature published before 1900 are listed in M. Schwab’s Repertoire des articles relatifs a l’histoire et a la litterature juives…(Roth in EJ, 2007) . OCLC lists 21 copies worldwide. Light staining and wear to some pages. Hinge repair. Light chipping to cover binding and edges. Otherwise, good condition. (Heb-15A-3)‎

‎Tenenblatt, M. A.‎

‎HA-TALMUD HA-BAVLI BE-HITHAVUTO HA-HISTORIT: YETSIRAH, ARIKHAH VE-SIDUR‎

‎(FT) Hardcover, 8vo, 10, 316 pages, 22 cm. In Hebrew. SUBJECT(S) : Talmud -- History. Title on title page verso: The formation of the Babylonian Talmud: a historical and textual study. Includes bibliographical references. Other Titles: Formation of the Babylonian Talmud. Ex-library. Light chipping to edges and corners of dust jacket. Otherwise, very good condition. (Heb-15A-12)‎

‎Efros, Israel and Louis Ginzberg‎

‎PHILOSOPHICAL TERMS IN THE MOREH NEBUKIM‎

‎Hardcover, 8vo, xi, 157 pages, 24 cm. Series: Columbia University Oriental studies, volume 22. SUBJECT (S) : Philosophy -- Terminology. Maimonides, Moses, 1135-1204. Dalalat al-h? Airin. “Notes by Louis Ginzberg” on pages 129-144. "Works consulted" on pages ix-x. Efros (1891-1981) was a “Hebrew educator, poet, and scholar. Born in Ostrog, the Ukraine, he went to the United States in 1905. He served for a time as rabbi and in 1918 founded the Baltimore Hebrew College and the Teachers Training School. He was professor of Hebrew at Johns Hopkins University, rabbi of Temple Beth El in Buffalo, professor of Semitics at the University of Buffalo and Hunter College, N. Y. C. , where he founded the Hebrew Division; in 1945 he was appointed professor of Jewish philosophy and modern Hebrew literature at Dropsie College, Philadelphia. Efros served as president of the Histadrut Ivrit of America. He settled in Israel in 1955 and served as rector of Tel Aviv University. In 1960 he was elected honorary president of the university. His works on Jewish philosophy include The Problem of Space in Jewish Medieval Philosophy, Philosophical Terms in the Moreh Nebukim, Judah Halevi as Poet and Thinker, Ha-Pilosofyah ha-Yehudit ha-Attikah, Ancient Jewish Philosophy: A Study in Metaphysics and Ethics, Studies in Medieval Jewish Philosophy, and studies on Saadiah Gaon and Abraham B. Hiyya. Among his volumes of poetry are Shirim; Vigvamim Shotekim, a poem about the American Indians with echoes of American epic poetry; Zahav about the California Gold Rush of 1849; Anahnu ha-Dor. A four-volume collection of his poetry was published in 1966. His spiritual world is rooted both in tradition and in critical philosophy; thus tension is felt in his poetry between the antipodes of feeling and cerebration. Efros’ diction is both poetic and precise. A pessimistic vision dominates his post-World War II works. Efros translated Shelley's poetry and Shakespeare's Hamlet and other works into Hebrew, and some of Bialik’s poetry into English. He also collaborated with Judah Even-Shmuel (Kaufman) and Benjamin N. Silkiner in compiling an English-Hebrew dictionary” (Berenbaum and Skolnik in EJ, 2007) . Ex-library. Hinge repair. Light yellowing to edges of some pages. Wear to edges of cover binding. Otherwise, very good condition. (Heb-15A-21).‎

‎Fishman, Joshua A.‎

‎STUDIES IN MODERN JEWISH SOCIAL HISTORY‎

‎Hardcover, 8vo. , xii, 461 pages. Preface by Joshua A. Fishman. Articles selected from the YIVO Annual of Jewish Social Science, 1946 – 1969. Sections include: the Destruction of European Jewry; Eastern and East-Central Europe; The United States of America; and Includes articles by Abraham Joshua Heschel, Josef Guttmann, and Isiah Trunk, among others. SUBJECT (S) : Jews -- United States. Jews -- Politics and government. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) . Very good condition. (HOLO2-27-26)‎

‎Shaf, Yisrael‎

‎HA-GAON MI-VILNAH: TOLDOTAV VE-HAYAV‎

‎(FT) Hardcover, 12mo, 26, 12, 12, 15, 18, 18, 36 pages, 15 cm. In Hebrew. Series: Sha’ashuim, Bibliotekah menukedet la-tinokot ; ; 2. SUBJECT(S) : Rabbis -- Lithuania -- Vilnius -- Biography -- Juvenile literature. Named Person: Elijah ben Solomon, 1720-1797. Cover title. Ex-library with usual markings. Cover not attached. Yellowing of pages. Bumped corners. Light wear to binding. Good condition. (Heb-37-8)‎

‎Hyamson, Moses‎

‎MOSAICARUM ET ROMANARUM LEGUM COLLATIO‎

‎Hardcover, 8vo, lvi, 300 pages, 23 cm. Contents: Introduction: The manuscripts of the Collatio; title and plan of the work; purpose of the Collatio; date and place of composition; authorship. SUBJECT (S) : Jewish law -- Sources. Roman law -- Sources. Hyamson (1863-1949) was a “rabbi and scholar. Hyamson was born in Suwalki, Lithuania, and was taken to England at the age of five. He received his Jewish education at Jews’ College, London, where he was ordained in 1882, and his secular education at the University of London. He was rabbi of congregations in England and Wales, dayyan of the United Synagogue, 1902–11, and acting chief rabbi of England, 1911–13. The following year he went to New York to become rabbi of Congregation Orach Chayim. He taught the codes of Jewish law at the Jewish Theological Seminary, 1915–1940. Hyamson published Oral Law and Other Sermons; Mosaicarum et Romanarum Legum Collatio, critically edited with introduction, apograph, translation, and notes; and Sabbath and Festival Addresses. He translated into English Maimonides’ Mishneh Torah book 1 and book 2 and Hovot ha-Levavot of Bahya ibn Paquda. Combating calendar reform and attacks on kosher slaughtering are his works The Proposed Reform of Calendar, the Blank Day Device in Proposed Plan for Calendar Reform; and The Jewish Method of Slaughtering Animals from the Point of View of Humanity. Hyamson was president of the League for Safeguarding the Fixity of the Sabbath; chairman of the Milah Board of the New York Jewish Community; vice president of the Jewish Conciliation Court of America; president of the New York Board of Jewish Ministers and chairman of the Jewish Academy of Arts and Sciences. As a teacher at the Seminary, Hyamson was especially appreciated for his exact translations of difficult technical terms in the codes and for his broad experience as a dayyan, which enabled him to illustrate the application of halakhot” (Klein in EJ, 2007) . Spine repair. Pieces missing to endpaper and flyleaf. Text in very good condition. (Heb-15A-17A)‎

‎(Jtp) Kupovetsky, Mark. editor‎

‎DOKUMENTI PO ISTORII I KULTURE EVREEV V ARKHIVAKH BELARUSI: PUTEVODITEL’. [JEWISH DOCUMENTARY SOURCES IN BELARUS ARCHIVES: A GUIDE]‎

‎(FT) Hardcover. 8vo. 606 pages. 23 cm. In Russian with introduction and table of contents also in English. SUBJECT(S) : Jews -- Belarus -- History -- Sources. Archival resources -- Belarus -- Catalogs. Geographic: Belarus -- Ethnic relations -- History -- Sources. "Izdanie Project Judaica"--Part [2]. Includes bibliographical references and indexes. ISBN: 572810567X. New Condition. (JTS1-10)‎

‎(Jtp) Katsis, Leonid. editor‎

‎JUDAICA ROSSICA: ISSUE 1‎

‎Softcover. 8vo. 243 pages. 20 cm. In Russian with some Hebrew. SUBJECT (S) : Jews -- Former Soviet republics -- History -- Periodicals. Jewish literature -- Former Soviet republics -- History and criticism -- Periodicals. New Condition. (JTS1-13)‎

‎Bimko, F. (Fishl)‎

‎TUNKELE GESHTALTN; HELE BLIKN [SHRIFTN BUKH 1; SHRIFTN BUKH 2] 2 VOLUMES‎

‎Publishers cloth. 8vo. 270; 219 pages. 23 cm. First edition. In Yiddish. Fishl Bimko’s Selected Writings, Book 1 and Book 2; privately printed for the author during the time he was working in sweatshops and publishing plays in the "Freie arbeiter shtime". Bukh Tsvey, “Hele Blikh” (“Light Glances”) , includes the playlet “A Zumer Nakht” (pages 207-219) . “Fishel Bimko (1890–1965) , Yiddish dramatist and novelist. Born in Kielce, Poland, Bimko's first realistic narrative, Di Aveyre (‘The Transgression’) , was published in 1912 and his first play, Oyfn Breg Vaysel (‘On the Shores of the Vistula’) , was staged in Lodz in 1914. Thereafter his plays were produced in the Yiddish theaters of Europe and America. Especially popular were Ganovim (‘Thieves, ’ 1921) , a realistic play depicting the Polish-Jewish underworld, and East Side (1938) , a naturalistic drama of Jewish life in New York, where Bimko settled in 1921. His selected dramas were published in seven volumes in 1936, and his selected narratives in three volumes in 1941 and 1947.” (EJ 2007) Subjects: Yiddish Fiction. Yiddish Drama. Cloth lightly soiled, backstrip lightly aged; otherwise fresh and clean. Good condition. (YID-16-4)‎

‎Yehoash (Bloomgarden, Solomon)‎

‎FUN NYU-YORK BIZ REHOVOT UN TSURIK [THREE VOLUME SET]‎

‎Publishers cloth. 8vo. 217; 205; 230 pages. 20 cm. First edition. In Yiddish. Cover illustrated by S. Raskin. “From New York to Rehovot and Back”, the travel narrative and memoir of Yehoash in three volumes. “YEHOASH (pseudonym of Yehoash Solomon Bloomgarden; 1872–1927) , Yiddish poet and translator. Yehoash was born in Virbalen, Lithuania, and as a boy he read maskilic literature as well as studying Torah with his father, briefly attending the yeshivah of Volozhin, only to begin a career as a Hebrew poet. At the age of 17 he took his first Hebrew poems to Warsaw, where I. L. Peretz encouraged him to continue writing Hebrew and Yiddish lyrics. The following year Yehoash immigrated to the U. S. He made no headway either as a Hebrew poet or in various callings – bookkeeping, tailoring, peddling, and Hebrew teaching. For a decade he faced severe privations until he contracted tuberculosis and went to the Denver Sanatorium for Consumptives in 1900 to recuperate. There he remained for almost ten years, maturing as a Yiddish poet, publishing his poems, ballads, fables, and translations in leading dailies, periodicals, and literary almanacs. In his early 30s, he undertook to translate the Bible into a modern Yiddish which would combine scholarly precision with simple idiomatic language, a task to which he devoted the rest of his life. While at work on this translation, he prepared, together with Charles D. Spivak, his physician and the co-founder of the sanatorium, a Yiddish dictionary, first published in 1911, which defined about 4, 000 Hebrew and Aramaic words used in Yiddish and which went through many editions as a basic reference work. Returning to New York in 1909, Yehoash had to struggle to make a living, even though his fame was worldwide and Yiddish periodicals in many lands gladly published his contributions. In January 1914, he left for Erez Israel and settled in Rehovot. He mastered classical Arabic and translated portions of the Koran and Arabian tales into Yiddish. When the Ottoman Empire entered World War I, he returned to New York and published the story of his experiences in three volumes of travel sketches, Fun New York biz Rekhovot un Tsurik (‘From New York to Rehovot and Back, ’ 1917–18; Eng. The Feet of the Messenger, 1923) . His sojourn in Erez Israel as well as his knowledge of Arabic proved useful to him in his work on the translation of the Bible. Although he had published a Yiddish rendering of several biblical books including Isaiah and Job in 1910, he realized the inadequacy of this initial attempt and began anew. His more adequate rendering, starting with Genesis, appeared in installments in the New York daily Der Tog from 1922. At the time of his death only the Pentateuch translation had been published, but the rest of the biblical books were printed from his manuscripts. His version was hailed as a contribution of national significance. The translator drew upon idiomatic treasures of various Yiddish dialects, upon the Khumesh-Taytsh (the Old Yiddish, word-for-word translation of Pentateuch) , vocabulary used by melammedim in Ashkenazi schools for many generations, and expressions of the Ze'enah u-Re'enah (Tsene-Rene) , with its archaic patina. Yehoash was thus able to retain the rhythm and flavor of the Hebrew to a larger extent than preceding Bible translators. The two-volume edition, with parallel Hebrew and Yiddish texts, distributed in tens of thousands of copies, became a standard work for Yiddish-speaking homes throughout the world. In 1949, Mordecai Kosover edited Yehoash's notes to the Bible, which afforded an insight into the translator's many years of wrestling with the sacred text. Yehoash, who also translated Longfellow's Hiawatha and the Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyam into Yiddish, was far ahead of his time in terms of his own poetry. When the first edition of his Gezamelte Lider (‘Collected Poems’) appeared in 1907, he was widely hailed as a first-rank artist. His lyrics were reprinted in anthologies and school texts, and were translated into many languages. An English translation, Poems of Yehoash, by Isidore Goldstick, appeared in 1952, and a Hebrew version (1957) was a cooperative venture by a number of significant Hebrew writers, including Jacob Fichmann and Dov Sadan. Yehoash's two later lyric volumes (1919 and 1921) linked him with Inzikhism, the modernist trend of introspection in post-World War I Yiddish poetry, the leaders of which acclaimed him as their forerunner. Yehoash gave expression in his lyrics to his awareness of a divine force permeating the universe. He re-imagined in verse biblical and post-biblical legends, tales from medieval Jewish chronicles, and hasidic lore, versified fables from the Talmud, Aesop, La Fontaine, and Lessing, and created new fables of his own. He wrote romantic, ghostly ballads, but he also felt the spell of Peretz, his lifelong friend, and strove for classical purity and perfection in rhythm and rhyme. Yehoash also influenced American Jewish poetry in English, notably the modernist work of Louis Zukofsky. ” (EJ 2007) Subjects: Yiddish literature - Palestine. Palestine -Description and travel. Authors, Yiddish - New York (State) - Biography. Authors, Yiddish - Israel - Biography. Light wear to cloth, light soiling to outer edges, endpapers starting on volume 3, otherwise fresh. Good + condition. (YID-16-10)‎

‎London, Jack‎

‎DER AYZENER KNAFL; DER VEG; FAR ADAM'N; DI SHTIME FUN BLUT. 4 VOLUMES IN ONE [THE IRON HEEL; THE GAME; BEFORE ADAM; THE CALL OF THE WILD]‎

‎Publishers cloth. 8vo. 380, 223, 194, 180 pages. 21 cm. “Spetsyele Frayhayt” edition. In Yiddish. Four volumes in one. Translations of The Iron Heel; The Game; Before Adam; The Call of the Wild. Each volume was oft published individually as well, this special collection of novels issued by Farlag Frayhayt, the anarchist publisher. Translations by Max Hugo Weinberg, Hersh Rozenfeld, N. Perlman, and Moissaye J. Olgin, editor of the Frayhayt, the Communist Yiddish Daily. Title page printed in red and black ink. Subjects: London, Jack, 1876-1916 - Translations into Yiddish. OCLC lists 9 copies worldwide. Cloth rubbed, binding starting, light pencil marks on first endpage, otherwise clean. Good condition. (YID-16-18)‎

‎Kissman, Joseph‎

‎SHTUDYES TSU DER GESHIKHTE FUN RUMENISHE YIDN IN 19TN UN ONHEYB 20STN YORHUNDERT‎

‎Publishers cloth. 8vo. 118 pages. 24 cm. First edition. In Yiddish. English title page: “Studies in the History of Rumanian Jews in the 19th and the beginning of the 20th centuries. ” The only published volume amidst the prolific writings of “Joseph Kissman (1889-1968) , one of the youngest participants in the Czernowitz Conference. Later in his career, living in the US Joseph Kissman was an active journalist and writer, frequent contributor to ‘Tsukunft’, ‘Forverts’, and other Yiddish periodicals. He wrote the book ‘Shtudyes tsu der geshikhte fun rumenishe yidn in 19tn un onheyb 20stn yorhundert’ (Nyu York: Yidisher visnshaftlekher institut, 1944) and edited the Jewish Labor Committee's publication ‘Facts and Opinions’. ” (Mendele, Vol. 08.048, September 1998) Subjects: Jews - Romania - History. Romania - Ethnic relations. Light wear to cloth, penciled inscription on endpage, otherwise very fresh and clean. Very good + condition. (YID-16-24) Xx‎

‎Shtern, Yekhiel‎

‎HEYDER UN BESMEDRESH‎

‎Original stiff wraps. 8vo. 128 pages. 24 cm. First edition. In Yiddish. Bibliotek fun Yivo. Title page verso: Kheyder un Beys-Medresh: A Study in Traditional Jewish Education. “Yehiel Shtern (1903– ) , educator and author, graduated from the Jewish Teachers' Seminary of Vilna, and taught in Poland before immigrating to Canada in 1936. There he became associated with the Peretz schools in Winnipeg, Calgary, Edmonton, and Montreal successively. His Kheder un Bes Medresh (New York, YIVO, 1950) won the Lamed Prize. ” (EJ 2007) Includes five pages of musical notations. Subjects: Heder. Jewish religious education of children. Jews - Education. Light wear to edges of wraps, otherwise fresh. Very good condition. (YID-16-27)‎

‎Gorin, B‎

‎DI GESHIKHTE FUN IDISHEN [IDISHN] THEATER: TSVEY TOYZEND YOHR THEATER BAY IDEN [TWO VOLUME SET]‎

‎Publishers cloth. 8vo. 256; 254 pages. 23 cm. First edition. In Yiddish. Two volume set, bound in red cloth, illustrated throughout with dozens of photographs of Yiddish dramatists and actors. “Bernard Gorin was born Yitskhok Goydo on April 13, 1868 in Lida, White Russia (today ? ? ? ? , Belarus) . He was a novelist, journalist, critic, and historian of the Yiddish theater. … In 1918, decades after the beginnings of the professional Yiddish stage, Gorin undertook the task of writing the first comprehensive history of Jewish theater. The resulting two volume book was entitled The History of Jewish Theater: Two Thousand Years of Theater among Jews. His work contains valuable material on the Goldfadn era and is based on Gorin’s discussions with Yiddish actors whom he knew in New York. As a writer for the (Morning Journal) , he reviewed plays and was considered a gifted translator of French, Russian, and English classics into Yiddish. Gorin died in New York on his 57th birthday on April 13, 1925.” (Yiddishkayt; Bernard Gorin) Subjects: Jewish theater - History. Theater, Yiddish - History. Light chipping to edge of backstrip, light wear to outer edges, cloth covers lightly bumped, otherwise fresh and clean. Good + condition. (YID-16-34)‎

‎Teitz, Pinchas M. (Pinchas Mordecai)‎

‎‘ORAH! : A RUF TSU DER AMERIKANER ORTODOKSI‎

‎Original Wraps. 8vo. 15 pages. 21 cm. First edition. In Yiddish. “Orah! : A Call to the American Orthodox”, by Rabbi Pinchas Teitz (1908-1995) , an influential orthodox American rabbi, who came to America in 1933, and was instrumental in founding the modern Torah community in Elizabeth, NJ, where two mikvaos, three schools, and five shuls form a united JEC, Jewish Educational Center. “Seeing a need for a national awakening of Orthodox Jewry in America, he published in Elul 5696 (1936) the first of a series of booklets entitled ‘Urah – Awaken’ as a call to teshuva. ” (Jewish Observer, June 1996, An Appreciation of Rabbi Mordechai Pinchas Teitz zt"l by Rabbi Yaakov M. Dombroff) Rabbi Teitz was famous for his Yiddish radio broadcasts, and for his 22 visits to the Soviet Union to help preserve and renew the religious jewish communities there. Subjects: Orthodox Judaism - United States. OCLC lists two copies (Yeshiva, NYPL) . Pencilled writing in English and Yiddish on back cover, endpages, and first and last page, not affecting text. Wraps lightly soiled, otherwise fresh. Good condition. (YID-16-46)‎

‎Wlodek, Roman.‎

‎III FESTIWAL KULTURY ZYDOWSKIEJ W KRAKOWIE, 6-14 CZERWCA 1992 = 3RD JEWISH CULTURE FESTIVAL IN CRACOW, JUNE 6-14 1992‎

‎Original Wraps. 8vo. 167 pages. 21 cm. Edition. In Polish and English. With 62 photographs. Program for the Third Jewish Culture Festival in Cracow, with history and photographs of the previous two festivals (with photographs of Czeslaw Milosz, Manfred Lamm, Shura Lipovsky, etc) ; lengthy articles introducing the musical acts (Adrienne Cooper, Klezmatics, Zalmen Mlotek, etc. ) , films, plays and events of the third festival. “A very small community of Jews stayed in Kraków, and in the 1990s a revival of Jewish culture took place. The Center for Jewish Culture, located in Kazimierz, organizes a variety of public events; a popular Jewish cultural festival is held each year. A center for Jewish studies has been established at the Jagiellonian University, while many of the remaining synagogues in Kazimierz are gradually being restored. ” (Yivo Encyclopedia) . Subjects: Festiwal Kultury Zydowskiej (3 ; 1992 ; Kraków) . Jews - Poland - Intellectual life. OCLC lists two copies (Nukat, Natl Libr Poland) . Light wear to wraps, otherwise fresh and clean. Good + condition. (EE-5-4)‎

‎Benoschofsky, Ilona.‎

‎THE HISTORY OF JEWRY IN HUNGARY‎

‎Original illustrated Wraps. 12mo. 50 pages. 20 cm. First English edition. With 28 illustrations. A brief history of the Jews in Hungary before and after 1945. The second part of the booklet contains pictures of synagogues and of community life. The author was head of the Jewish Museum of Budapest for many years, and was the sister of Imre Benoschofsky, chief Rabbi of Budapest. Subjects: Jews - Hungary - History. OCLC lists 12 copies. Fresh and clean. Very good + condition. (EE-5-8) Xx‎

‎Abraham, Zevi Jacob‎

‎LE-KOROT HA-YAHADUT BE-TRANSILVANIYA = HISTORY OF THE JEWS OF TRANSYLVANIA, VOL. 1, FROM YEAR 88 TO 1950‎

‎Publishers cloth. 8vo. 256, [8] pages. 24 cm. First edition. In Hebrew. A study of the religious life of the communities bordering on Hungary and Rumania, with many documents concerning the rabbinate. Subjects: Jews - Romania - Transylvania. Jews - Romania - History. OCLC lists 25 copies. Pages aged, light wear to edges of cloth, overall fresh and clean. Good condition. (EE-5-11)‎

‎Lazare, Bernard‎

‎DIE JUDEN IN RUMÄNIEN‎

‎Original Wraps. 8vo. 88 pages. 24 cm. First German edition. ‘Authorized German Translation’. The Jews in Romania; Lazare’s first hand account and denunciation of the terrible fate of Romanian Jews, after his visit to Romania in 1900 and 1902; originally published in L’Aurore, 1900. Lazare, (1865-1903) was famous for his defense of Alfred Dreyfus, his activity in French Anarchist circles, his correspondence with Ahad Ha’am, and his brief friendship and break with Theodor Herzl. Subjects: Jews - Romania. OCLC lists 19 copies. Light soiling and chipping to wraps, otherwise fresh and clean. Good + condition. (EE-5-13)‎

‎Judge, Edward H.‎

‎EASTER IN KISHINEV: ANATOMY OF A POGROM?‎

‎Publishers cloth. 8vo. X, 186 pages. 24 cm. First edition. “In February of 1903, in a small town in the southwestern part of the Russian empire, a peasant stumbled upon the corpse of 14-year-old Mikhail Rybachenko, bruised and covered with stab wounds, in a garden. The murder immediately fueled wild rumors that he had been killed by local Jews in need of his Christian blood to prepare their matzah bread. Panic rumors, grounded in sinister superstitions of Jewish sorcery and ritual murder, quickly spread to nearby towns. By April, they had hit Kishinev - a growing metropolis of 100, 000 inhabitants rife with the unrest of rapid expansion, ethnic rivalry, revolutionary agitation, and anti-Semitism - with full force. The resulting massacre left dozens dead, and hundreds wounded, maimed, widowed, orphaned, or homeless. This is the story of Kishinev. In this extensively researched book, Edward Judge examines these anti-Jewish riots, detailing their background, cause, and aftermath. He traces the evolution of the riots, analyzing the broader impact of imperial policies, urbanization, nationalism, population growth, and revolutionary activism upon the Jewish situation in Russia. Recounting the activities and attitudes of anti-Semitic agitators and Kishinev officials, the book examines the spiral of violence, the inaction of the authorities in the wake of the pogrom, the storm of indignation that followed the pogrom, and the efforts of tsarist officials to counter subsequent negative publicity. Easter in Kishinev also portrays the investigation of the disorders and the trials of the rioters and carefully considers the question of government responsibility for the outbreak of the pogrom. ” (Publishers Description) Subjects: Jews - Persecutions - Moldova - Chisinau. Massacres - Moldova - Chisinau - History - 20th century. Antisemitism - Moldova - Chisinau - History - 20th century. Kishinev Massacre, Chisinau, Moldova, 1903. Antisemitisme. Pogrom Geschichte 1903 Chisinau (Moldova) - Ethnic relations. Very good condition. (EE-5-16)‎

‎Shtif, Nahum‎

‎POGROMEN IN UKRAINE: DI TSAYT FUN DER FRAYVILIGER ARMEY‎

‎Later cloth. 12mo. 111 pages. 19 cm. First edition. In Yiddish. ‘Pogroms in Ukraine; The time of the Volunteer Army’; a history of the Ukraine Pogroms carried out by the White Ukrainian forces (the Dobrovolcheskaya armiya) ; includes entries on Jewish Self-Defense Groups in the Ukraine. The author, Nokhem Shtif (1879–1933) , was a “linguist, literary historian, and political activist. … After the February 1917 Revolution, Shtif was among the founders of the revived Folkspartey (Folks Party) . Inspired by Simon Dubnow, the party had been first formed in 1907, but remained dormant throughout the following decade. … He left Kiev in 1920, spending a short time in Minsk, where he and Zelig Kalmanovitch lectured for Yiddish teachers. Subsequently, Shtif moved to Kovno (Kaunas) , then a stronghold of the Folkspartey, but eventually settled in Berlin in March 1922. His book on pogroms in Ukraine was published in Berlin in Russian (Pogromy na Ukraine; 1922) and in Yiddish (Pogromen in Ukraine; 1923) . ” (Yivo Encyclopedia) . Bound in attractive later marbled boards and cloth, with gilt title on spine. Subjects: Jews - Persecutions - Ukraine. Pogroms - Ukraine. Ukraine - History - Revolution, 1917-1921. Ukraine - Ethnic relations. OCLC lists 7 copies. With institutional bookstamps on title page, otherwise clean and fresh. Good + condition. (EE-5-18)‎

‎Mendelsohn, Ezra.‎

‎THE JEWS OF EAST CENTRAL EUROPE BETWEEN THE WORLD WARS‎

‎Publishers cloth. 8vo. XI, 300 pages. 24 cm. First edition. “An illuminating study of the demographic, cultural, and socioeconomic condition of East Central European Jewry, the book focuses on the internal life of Jewish communities in the region and on the relationships between Jews and gentiles in a nationalist environment. ” (Publishers Description) Subjects: Jews - Europe, Eastern - History - 20th century. Juifs - Europe de l'Est - Histoire - 20e siècle. Joden. Judíos - Europa oriental. Relaciones étnicas - Europa oriental. Europe, Eastern - Ethnic relations. Europe de l'Est - Relations interethniques. Light wear to jacket, otherwise very fresh and clean. Very good condition. (EE-5-23)‎

‎Klepfisz, Heszel.‎

‎MITN BLIK OYF TSURIK: YIDISH MIZREH-EYROPE: KIEM UN GERANGL: ESEYEN‎

‎Publishers cloth. 8vo. 599 pages. 23 cm. First edition. In Yiddish. Title page verso: Looking back, East European Jewry, Existence and Struggle; Ayin la-‘avar. A series of essays on Jewish life in Eastern Europe before the holocaust, by Heshl Klepfisz (1910-2004) , orthodox Yiddish journalist; he contributed to the Agudas Yisroel press in Poland, served as Rabbi in Costa Rica and Panama, and was a regular essayist to the Forverts. Includes index of names and table of contents of author's previous works. Subjects: Jews - Europe, Eastern - History. Jews - Europe, Eastern - Social life and customs. Yiddish literature - History and criticism. Ashkenazim. OCLC lists 29 copies. Light bumped corners of cloth, otherwise fresh and clean. Very good + condition. (EE-5-26)‎

‎Halpern, Israel‎

‎YEHUDIM VE-YAHADUT BE-MIZRAH EROPAH: MEHKARIM BE-TOLDOTEHEM‎

‎Publishers cloth. 8vo. 435 pages. 25 cm. First edition. In Hebrew. Added title page: Eastern European Jewry; historical studies. Collection of essays, on the subjects of the Council of the Four Lands, Approbations, the Khmel’nyts’kyi uprising (gzeyres takh vetat) , the Ickowicz Brothers, etc. By Israel Halpern (1910–1971) , “Israeli historian. Halpern was born in Bialystok, Poland, emigrated to Erez Israel in 1934, began his teaching career at the Hebrew University in 1949, and became professor in 1963. His main interest was the history of East European Jewry, particularly pinkasim (‘registers’) . His publications include Pinkas Va'ad Arba Ara? Ot (‘Minutes of the Council of the Four Lands, ’ 1945) ; Ha-Aliyyot ha-Rishonot shel ha-? Asidim le-Ere? Israel (‘Early ? Asidic Immigration to Palestine, ’ 1956) ; and Takkanot Medinat Mehrin (‘Moravian Community Enactments, ’ 1952) . He also edited Sefer ha-Gevurah (3 vols. , 1941, 19512) , a historical-literary anthology of Jewish self-defense and martyrdom, and Beit Yisrael be-Polin (2 vols. , 1948–54) , a collection of essays on Polish-Jewish history. Halpern took a leading part in the work of the Israel Historical Society, and was coeditor of the journals Zion and Shivat ? Iyyon, publications devoted to the history of Zionism. “ (EJ 2008) . Subjects: Jews - Europe, Eastern. Light wear to edges of jacket, otherwise very fresh and clean. Very good condition. (EE-5-29)‎

‎(Jt) Shulvass, Moses A.‎

‎FROM EAST TO WEST; THE WESTWARD MIGRATION OF JEWS FROM EASTERN EUROPE DURING THE SEVENTEENTH AND EIGHTEENTH CENTURIES?‎

‎Publishers cloth. 8vo. 161 pages. 23 cm. First edition. Covers the period of the Chmielnicki Massacre and the Thirty Years War, and the movement of impoverished refugees into Western Europe. Moses Avigdor Shulvass (1909–1988) , “scholar and educator. Born in Plonsk, Poland, Shulvass studied in Berlin. He lived in Erez Israel from 1938 to 1948 and then immigrated to the United States, where he eventually became professor of Jewish history at Spertus College of Jewish Studies in Chicago. His publications in many languages include historical studies on Italian Jewry. Of special interest are his books Roma ve-Yerushalayim (‘Rome and Jerusalem, ’ 1945) ; Hayyei ha-Yehudim be-Italyah bi-Tekufat ha-Renaissance (‘Jewish Life in Renaissance Italy, ’ 1955) ; and his biographical sketch of Samuel David Luzzatto with documentary supporting material, Pirkei Hayyim (1951) . He also published two volumes of essays on various aspects of Jewish history, Bi-Zevat ha-Dorot (‘In the Grip of Generations, ’ 1960) and Between the Rhine and Bosphorus (1964) as well as Die Juden in Wuerzburg waehrend des Mittelalters (1934) . He also wrote From East to West (1971) , Jewish Culture in Eastern Europe (1975) , and The History of the Jewish People (1982) . ” (EJ 2008) Subjects: Jews - Germany - History - 1096-1800. Jews - Poland - History. Jews - Migrations. Joden. Migratie (demografie) Migration. Geschichte 1600-1800. Very clean and fresh in VG jacket. Very good + condition. (EE-5-37)‎