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[Pres. Chester Arthur]
CONDITION OF ISRAELITES IN RUSSIA. A MESSAGE FROM THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES IN RESPONSE TO A RESOLUTION OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, TRANSMITTING A COMMUNICATION FROM THE FROM THE SECRETARY OF STATE RESPECTING THE CONDITION OF ISRAELITES IN RUSSIA
8vo; 1st edition thus. Original paper wrappers, 12mo, 72 pages. Singerman 3105. An extensive collection of correspondance and dicussions regarding the status and persecution of the Jews of Russia and the attempts by American Government Officials to intervene in specific cases of persecution of the Jews. President Arthur's support for the Jews of Russia, was even related to the founding of the Red Cross. As Denis Brian notes in "The Elected and the Chosen: Why American Presidents Have Supported Jews and Israel" (Jerusalem, 2012) "on May 2, 1882, President Arthur sent this special message to Congress: 'In answer to the resolution of the House of Representatives...calling for correspondence respecting the condition of Israeites in Russia' [ie. this publication]....Soon after, Arthur had a new secreteary of state, Frederick Frelinghuysen, who stepped up the diplomatic pressure on Russia. He wrote to the American representative there, 'The prejudice of race and creed have in our days given way to the claims of our common humanity. The people of the United States have heard with great respect the suffering of the Jewish Russians....It can scarecely be doubted that much has been done which a humane person must condemn....' Mean while, in America, a group of vounteers led by Cara Barton met in the Washington, DC, home of Adolphus Solomon, a Jewish American printer and philantropist with special concern for Russian Jews....In Solomon's home the group drew up the constitution for a new organization called the American Red Cross. They elected Barton president, and Solomon vice president, a position he held for seven years. When in 1884 President Arthur was asked to appoint the first American delegates to the International Congress of the Red Cross in Geneva, he chose Barton and Solomon....Adolpus Solomon also helped to create the American Jewish Historical Society" (pp. 133-134). Primary source material connecting President Chester Arthur and Jews is especially scarce. OCLC lists 7 copies worldwide. Removed from later binding, Light Wear Very Good Condition. Important. (KH-8-38)
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SEFER ZIKARON LEHA-RABANIT ESTER RUBENSHTEYN Z"L LE-YOM-MOTAH HA-RISHON, SHEMINI ATSERET 686: KOVETS MAAMARIM BI-`IVRIT VE-YEHUDIT.
1st edition. Original wrappers. 8vo. 88 pages, 23 cm. In Hebrew and Yiddish. Title translates to Memorial Book for the Rabanit Ester Rubinstein on the First Anniversary of her Death, 8 Atseret, 686. A Collection of Articles in Hebrew and Yiddish. Ester Rubinstein (1881-1924) was the wife of prominent Chief Rabbi of Vilna, Isaac Rubinstein. She was instrumental in introducing primary schooling for girls within Orthodox Judaism. She also played a great role in the Jewish culture of Vilna (Koss, 2010) . SUBJECTS: Jewish education. OCLC 122732732. OCLC lists 2 copies worldwide (Brandeis, NYPL) . Very lightly edge worn. A remarkably clean and fresh copy. Very Good Condition. Rare. (YID-41-54)
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Morris, Martin F.
"THE ORIGIN OF CIVIL LIBERTY, OR THE WORLD'S INDEBTEDNESS TO ISRAEL." LECTURE UNDER THE AUSPICES OF THE UNITED HEBREW CHARITIES OF WASHINGTON, D.C. TO AID THE RUSSIAN REFUGEE FUND : AT THE 8TH STREET TEMPLE, ON SUNDAY, JAN. 24, '92
8vo; 1st edition. Original paper wrappers, 21 pages ; 23 cm. Singerman Nr. 4396.Martin Morris (December 3, 1834 September 12, 1909) was an American lawyer and federal judge. In 1863, he began the practice of law in Baltimore, Maryland, and in 1867 moved to Washington to enter into partnership with Richard T. Merrick. He continued a member of the firm Merrick and Morris until the death of Merrick (1885), when he formed a partnership with George E. Hamilton, and continued actively to practice his profession, being connected with important litigation both in the local courts and in the Supreme Court. He was appointed by President Grover Cleveland an associate Justice of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit upon the establishment of that Court in 1893. OCLC lists 15 copies worldwide. Light vertical crease, light toning, Very Good Condition. (KH-8-41)
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Moscicki, Henryk. Dzwonkowski, Wlodzimierz. Balaban, Tadeusz.
DZIESIECIOLECIE ODRODZENIA POLSKIEJ SILY ZBROJNEJ : 1918-1928
1st edition, original cloth, 4to, 34 cm. 563+ xxii pages. Illustrations and photographs throughout. In Polish. SUBJECT (S) : Heer. Geschichte 1918-1928. Wars of 1918-1921 (Poland) . History. Military history. 1918-1945. Polen. Przy wspólpracy: Wojskowego Biura Historycznego. OCLC: 4962575, OCLC lists 18 copies worldwide. Colorful cover with red, white, gold, and silver. Some wear to cover and spine, primarily on edges, tape residue inside cover and on front end page. Good Condition Overall. (AC-20-21)
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[John Hay, Secretary Of State] McIlvaine, Charles; Leiser, Joseph; Straus, Oscar S; Root, Elihu; White, Andrew Dickson; Krauskopf, Joseph
UNVEILING AND CONSECRATION OF THE JOHN HAY MEMORIAL WINDOW AT THE TEMPLE OF THE REFORM CONGREGATION KENESETH ISRAEL [SERIES 20, NO. 5 OF SUNDAY DISCOURSES. [POST EVENT PUBLICATION]
1st edition. Original paper wrappers. 8vo. 25 pages, 23 cm. In English. Speeches and ceremony celebrating a stained glass window in commemoration of former Secretary of State John Hay. John Milton Hay (18381905) was a U. S. Statesman who supported Romanian and Russian Jewish rights. Hay was a secretary of state under presidents William McKinley and Theodore Roosevelt from 1898 until his death in 1905. He was involved in U. S. Diplomatic representations during this period on behalf of Romanian and Russian Jews. In 1902, at the urging of American Jewish leaders including Oscar S. Straus and Jacob H. Schiff, Hay addressed a note to the signatories of the Berlin Treaty of 1878 protesting Romania's violation of that treaty by its restrictions on Jews. Following the Kishinev pogrom of 1903, again after Jewish pressure and with an eye to domestic political considerations, Hay publicized a protest petition drawn up by B'nai B'rith. Oscar Straus, one of the speakers, was appointed to the Permanent Court of Arbitration at the Hague under President Theodore Roosevelt. He would be reappointed by President Roosevelt in 1908, President Taft in 1912, and President Wilson in 1920. Straus made history in 1906 when he became the first Jewish cabinet member after being appointed by Roosevelt as Secretary of Commerce and Labor. He also participated at the Paris Peace Conference, advising President Wilson on the interests of European Jewry. Elihu Root, another of the speakers, served as the Secretary of State under President Theodore Roosevelt and as Secretary of War under Roosevelt and President William McKinley. He is sometimes considered to be the prototype of the 20th century political wise man, advising presidents on a range of foreign and domestic issues
. Root was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1912. Andrew Dickson White, another speaker, was an American historian and educator, who was the cofounder of Cornell University and served as its first president for nearly two decades
. He was later appointed as a US diplomat to Germany and Russia (Wikipedia, 2018) . Published as part of the series Sunday discourses by Rabbi Joseph Krauskopf featuring text of addresses from the event. Congregation Keneseth Israel is the sixth oldest Reform Jewish synagogue in the United States, beginning in Philadelphia in 1847 (Wikipedia, 2018) . SUBJECTS: American Jewry. OCLC lists 7 copies worldwide (OCLC: 18098188) . Very Good Condition. (AMR-54-2)
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Marshall, Louis
RUSSIA AND THE AMERICAN PASSPORT: ADDRESS OF LOUIS MARSHALL TO THE DELEGATES AT THE TWENTY-SECOND COUNCIL, UNION OF AMERICAN HEBREW CONGREGATIONS, THURSDAY, JANUARY 19, 1911 ; TOGETHER WITH RESOLUTION UNANIMOUSLY ADOPTED
1st edition. Original paper wrappers. 8vo. 16 pages, 26 cm. In English. Louis Marshall (1856-1929) was an American corporate, constitutional and civil rights lawyer as well as a mediator and Jewish community leader who worked to secure religious, political, and cultural freedom for all minority groups. Among the founders of the American Jewish Committee (AJC) , he defended Jewish and minority rights and, though not a Zionist, he supported the Balfour Declaration (Wikipedia, 2018) . President Taft considered nominating Marshall to the supreme court. SUBJECTS: Passports. Jews -- Soviet Union. Diplomatic relations. Jews. Passports. OCLC lists 27 copies worldwide (OCLC: 24040832) . Very good condition. (AMR-54-11-BFLMR)
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[Vilna Gaon] Moses Ze'ev Ben Eliezer, Of Grodno, (Died 1830) .
ZEH SEFER AGUDAT EZOV : ... DERUSHIM ... 'AL SEDER HA-ZEMANIM ... LE-SHABATOT ULE-MO? ADIM ... UVE-SOFO KUNTRES HA-NIKRA ALON BAKHUT ... U-VO DERUSHIM SHE-NE'EMRU BE-HESPED HAKHME HA-DOR ...
1st edition. Period quarter leather, 4to, 100 + [2] leaves. In Hebrew. Sermons for Shabbat and holidays, including the pamphlet Alon Bechut: Eulogies on scholars of the generation. The author, the Ga'on Rabbi Moshe Ze'ev [Margaliot], was the Av Beit Din of Tykocin and Bialystok and the author of Marot HaTzovot (Bialystok, 1824) . Includes approbations by Rabbi Akiva Eiger and the giants of Lithuanian Jewry. Eulogy 1 is on the Vilna Ga'on -"The divine and holy Kabbalist Rabbi Eliyahu HaChassid¦ Vilna". Additional eulogies are on other giants of his generation, including Rabbi Chaim of Volozhin. This copy contains additional leaves (including 5 pages of omitted sermons for Shabbat HaGadol 1826-1827) , which were printed in 1828; these do not appear in most copies. Alon bakhut on leaves 80-97.SUBJECT(S) : Jewish festival-day sermons. Jewish sermons, Hebrew. Jewish funeral sermons. OCLC: 46710072. OCLC lists 8 copies worldwide, only three in North America. Usual wear to board, staining and occasional worming to paper, with no loss. Good+ Condition. (KH-8-51A)
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Nadir, Moishe [Moyshe] [Yitzchak Rayz]. Dust jacket illustration by Zuni Maud
DI NAYSTE VERK [COVER TITLE: GEKLIBENE VERK FUN MOSHE NADIR]. VOL 6: POLEMIK [OF 6 VOLUMES, STANDS ON ITS OWN]
Original publishers cloth in dramatic modernist color illustrated dust jacket designed by Zuni Maud with illustrations on front and rear; 8vo, 243 pages. 23 cm. In Yiddish. SUBJECT (S) : Yiddish literature -- 20th century. Illustrator Zuni Maud (born 1905) was an Artist, cartoonist, puppeteer, playwright, writer and poet. [He] Studied at the Cooper Union Art School, Baron de Hirsch Art School and National Academy of Art, New York. [and] Did illustrations for *Der kibitser* and stage and costume design for productions by Maurice Schwartz in the Yiddish Art Theater. Contributed articles to Der kundes (N. Y. ) , Jewish Daily Forward (N. Y. ) , Di tsayt (N. Y. ) , Kinderland (N. Y. ) , Kinder zshurnal (N. Y. ) , Frayhayt (N. Y. ) . [He was the] Illustrator of a number of books. In 1925, together with Yosel Cutler, [he] founded the Modicot marionette theater. [He] Wrote plays, children's stories and poems (YIVO, 2018) . Author Yitzchak Rayz (1885-1943) , better known by his pen name Moyshe Nadir was an American Yiddish language writer and satirist
. In 1898, at the age of 13, Rayz immigrated to New York and adopted the Americanized name Isaac Reiss. Within a few years his work was published widely in the New York Yiddish press, under a variety of pseudonyms, including Rinnalde Rinaldine, Dilensee Mirkarosh, Der Royzenkavalir, Doctor Hotzikl, and, finally, Moishe Nadir. The name Nadir is a Yiddish expression meaning here you are or that's for you, but can also mean take this and choke on it. As a teenager, he wrote for Der Groyser Kundes (The Big Prankster) and later co-edited Der Yiddisher Gazlon (The Yiddish Bandit) with Jacob Adler. He wrote for an assortment of Communist Yiddish publications including the Frayhayt (Freedom) newspaper and its successor Morgn Frayhayt (Morning Freedom) and the magazines Der Signal (The Signal) and Der Hammer (The Hammer) . When his sharp-tongued theater reviews caused him to be banned from theatrical productions, he resorted to attending plays in disguise. His own plays were performed by Maurice Schwartzs Yiddish Art Theater, Zuni Maude and Yosl Cutlers Modicut puppet theater, Artef (Arbeter Teater Faraband, Workers Theater Alliance) and the Federal Theater Project. Among his better known poems are the erotic Vilde Royzen (Wild Roses, 1915) and his 1932 Rivington Strit (Rivington Street) . After a long association with the Frayhayt and the Morgn Frayhayt, Rayz began to distance himself from the Communist cause with the onset of the show trials in the Soviet Union and publicly broke with the Morgn Frayhayt in the wake of the Molotiv-Ribbentrop Pact. He set out his reasons in Di, vos blayben mit der Morgn Frayhayt (Those who stay with the Morgn Frayhayt) in response to Morgn Frayhayt editor Moissaye Olgins Di vos gayen avek (Those who leave) . Rayz discusses his relationship to the Communist Party in his posthumous Moyde Ani (Wikipedia, 2019) . Very Good Condition in dust jacket which shows some edgewear affecting some letters on the spine. Very Good in Good Jacket. (yid-41-92)
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Nadir, Moishe [Moyshe] [Yitzchak Rayz]. Dust jacket illustration by Zuni Maud
DI NAYSTE VERK [COVER TITLE: GEKLIBENE VERK FUN MOSHE NADIR]. VOL 2: DER GENIALER IDIOT [AND] AF VAKATSYE [OF 6 VOLUMES, STANDS ON ITS OWN]
Original publishers cloth in dramatic modernist color illustrated dust jacket designed by Zuni Maud with illustrations on front and rear; 8vo, 243 pages. 23 cm. In Yiddish. SUBJECT (S) : Yiddish literature -- 20th century. Illustrator Zuni Maud (born 1905) was an Artist, cartoonist, puppeteer, playwright, writer and poet. [He] Studied at the Cooper Union Art School, Baron de Hirsch Art School and National Academy of Art, New York. [and] Did illustrations for *Der kibitser* and stage and costume design for productions by Maurice Schwartz in the Yiddish Art Theater. Contributed articles to Der kundes (N. Y. ) , Jewish Daily Forward (N. Y. ) , Di tsayt (N. Y. ) , Kinderland (N. Y. ) , Kinder zshurnal (N. Y. ) , Frayhayt (N. Y. ) . [He was the] Illustrator of a number of books. In 1925, together with Yosel Cutler, [he] founded the Modicot marionette theater. [He] Wrote plays, children's stories and poems (YIVO, 2018) . Author Yitzchak Rayz (1885-1943) , better known by his pen name Moyshe Nadir was an American Yiddish language writer and satirist
. In 1898, at the age of 13, Rayz immigrated to New York and adopted the Americanized name Isaac Reiss. Within a few years his work was published widely in the New York Yiddish press, under a variety of pseudonyms, including Rinnalde Rinaldine, Dilensee Mirkarosh, Der Royzenkavalir, Doctor Hotzikl, and, finally, Moishe Nadir. The name Nadir is a Yiddish expression meaning here you are or that's for you, but can also mean take this and choke on it. As a teenager, he wrote for Der Groyser Kundes (The Big Prankster) and later co-edited Der Yiddisher Gazlon (The Yiddish Bandit) with Jacob Adler. He wrote for an assortment of Communist Yiddish publications including the Frayhayt (Freedom) newspaper and its successor Morgn Frayhayt (Morning Freedom) and the magazines Der Signal (The Signal) and Der Hammer (The Hammer) . When his sharp-tongued theater reviews caused him to be banned from theatrical productions, he resorted to attending plays in disguise. His own plays were performed by Maurice Schwartzs Yiddish Art Theater, Zuni Maude and Yosl Cutlers Modicut puppet theater, Artef (Arbeter Teater Faraband, Workers Theater Alliance) and the Federal Theater Project. Among his better known poems are the erotic Vilde Royzen (Wild Roses, 1915) and his 1932 Rivington Strit (Rivington Street) . After a long association with the Frayhayt and the Morgn Frayhayt, Rayz began to distance himself from the Communist cause with the onset of the show trials in the Soviet Union and publicly broke with the Morgn Frayhayt in the wake of the Molotiv-Ribbentrop Pact. He set out his reasons in Di, vos blayben mit der Morgn Frayhayt (Those who stay with the Morgn Frayhayt) in response to Morgn Frayhayt editor Moissaye Olgins Di vos gayen avek (Those who leave) . Rayz discusses his relationship to the Communist Party in his posthumous Moyde Ani (Wikipedia, 2019) . Very Good Condition in dust jacket which with heavy edgewear and lacking the jacket spine but not affecting Zui Mauds design. Very Good in Fair Jacket. (yid-41-93)
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Hirschauge, Eliezer
TROYM IN FARVIRKLEKHUNG : ZIKHROYNES FARTSEYKHENUNGEN UN BAMERKUNGEN VEGN DER ANARKHISTISHER BAVEGUNG IN POYLN.
1st edition. Original paper wrappers in protective library binder. 8vo. 101 pages, 23 cm. In Yiddish. Title translates to "Realization of Dreams: Memoirs and Observations on the Anarchist Movement in Poland. " Eliezer Hirschauge (1911-1954) was a Polish-Jewish anarchist and publicist who wrote a number of books and articles on the anarchist movement in Poland. He moved from Poland to Palestine in 1947 and was instrumental in the emerging anarchist movement of Tel Aviv (Wikipedia) . SUBJECTS: Jewish Anarchists - Poland - Biography. OCLC lists 16 copies worldwide (OCLC: 19307026) . Bound into pamphlet protector. Very good condition. (YID-33-28-BEJLGGX+)
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Sultansky, Mordecai Ben Joseph
SEFER PETAH TIKVAH: KELALIM KETSARIM BE-DIKDUK LESHON HA-KODESH
1st edition. 8vo. 226 pages, 23 cm. In Hebrew. Title translates to "Door of Hope: On the Grammar of the Holy Language. " Sultansky (1772-1862) was a Crimean Karaite Torah Hakham. He was one of the most prominent scholars of the Karaite sect. He claimed that Crimean Karaites had different origins than Rabbinic Jews (wikipedia, 2019) . SUBJECTS: Hebrew language - Grammar. OCLC lists 11 copies worldwide (OCLC: 50062577) . Boards are worn with some damp stains in margins. Internally very good. (RAB-66-12-BLD)
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McIlvaine, Charles; Leiser, Joseph; Straus, Oscar S; Root, Elihu; White, Andrew Dickson; Krauskopf, Joseph [Listed Speakers]
UNVEILING AND CONSECRATION OF THE JOHN HAY MEMORIAL WINDOW AT THE TEMPLE OF THE REFORM CONGREGATION KENESETH ISRAEL [EVENT PROGRAM]
1st edition. Original paper wrappers with glossy interior. 8vo. 6 pages, 25 cm. In English. A full program for the dedication of a large stain glass window to former Secretary of State John Hay. John Milton Hay (18381905) was a U.S. statesman who supported Romanian and Russian Jewish rights. Hay was a secretary of state under presidents William McKinley and Theodore Roosevelt from 1898 until his death in 1905. He was involved in U.S. diplomatic representations during this period on behalf of Romanian and Russian Jews. In 1902, at the urging of American Jewish leaders including Oscar S. Straus and Jacob H. Schiff, Hay addressed a note to the signatories of the Berlin Treaty of 1878 protesting Romania's violation of that treaty by its restrictions on Jews. Following the Kishinev pogrom of 1903, again after Jewish pressure and with an eye to domestic political considerations, Hay publicized a protest petition drawn up by B'nai B'rith. Oscar Straus, one of the speakers, was appointed to the Permanent Court of Arbitration at the Hague under President Theodore Roosevelt. He would be reappointed by President Roosevelt in 1908, President Taft in 1912, and President Wilson in 1920. Straus made history in 1906 when he became the first Jewish cabinet member after being appointed by Roosevelt as Secretary of Commerce and Labor. He also participated at the Paris Peace Conference, advising President Wilson on the interests of European Jewry. Elihu Root, another of the speakers, served as the Secretary of State under President Theodore Roosevelt and as Secretary of War under Roosevelt and President William McKinley. He is sometimes considered to be the prototype of the 20th century political wise man, advising presidents on a range of foreign and domestic issues
.Root was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1912. Andrew Dickson White, another speaker, was an American historian and educator, who was the cofounder of Cornell University and served as its first president for nearly two decades
.He was later appointed as a US diplomat to Germany and Russia (Wikipedia, 2018). Published as part of the series Sunday discourses by Rabbi Joseph Krauskopf featuring text of addresses from the event. "Presented by Rabbi Krauskopf" noted on front cover in pencil. Congregation Keneseth Israel is the sixth oldest Reform Jewish synagogue in the United States, beginning in Philadelphia in 1847 (Wikipedia, 2018). SUBJECTS: American Jewry. OCLC lists 7 copies worldwide (OCLC:18098188). Some pencil on front wrapper. Slight fading of images on wrapper. Very Good Condition. (AMR-54-3-BDXZ)
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[Lipkani] Zilberman-Silon, Mosheh. Berger-Tamir, Yaakov. Roitman, Neta.
KEHILAT LIPKANI: SEFER ZIKARON
Cloth, 4to. , 407 pages. In Yiddish. With photographs. Color painting reproduction tipped in as issued. SUBJECT (S) : Jews -- Moldova -- Lipcani -- History. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Moldova -- Lipcani. Lipcani (Moldova) -- Ethnic relations. OCLC lists 28 copies worldwide. Light wear to covers. Very good condition. (YIZ-3-18) xx
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Kopeloff, Isidore
AMOL UN SHPETER: DI LETSTE YORN FUN FORIKN YORHUNDERT BIZ TSVANTSIKSTE YOM FUN HEYNTIKN YORHUNDERT IN AMERIKE
1st edition. Original boards. 8vo. 412 pages, 22 cm. In Yiddish. Title translates to Once and For All: From the Last Years of the Last Century to the Last Twenty Years of the Present Century. Isidore Kopeloff (1859-1933) was a Yiddish writer. Kopeloff moved from Babroisk to the U.S. in 1881 and was active in socialist and anarchist circles. Many of his works focused on life in the old country. SUBJECTS: Yiddish (JTA, 1933). SUBJECTS: Yiddish nonfiction. OCLC lists 25 copies worldwide (OCLC: 17064491). Cloth lightly worn. Spine repaired. Overall good condition. (YID-33-6-LX+-e)
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(xt) Yehuda Hadassi, The Karaite
ESHKOL HA-KOFER: LEHA-RAV ... YEHUDAH HADASI BEN ... ELIHU HADASI ... HOVER BE-SHANAT ARBA'AT ELEFAYIM VE-TESHA MA'OT VE-TESHA SHENIM LE-BERIYAH KE-MOVA BE-ELEFA BE-YETA 33 ME-ZEH HA-SEFER VE-TA'ARIKH RUMI MI-SHNAT ELEF U-ME'AH VE-ARBA'IM U-SHEMONAH SHANIM; 'IM MOREH MAKOM HA-NIKRA NAHAL ESHKOL
, 1836 Hardback1st edition. 19th Century quarter-leather and boards, 4to (large), [2] 155 leaves, 33 cm. Explaining the commandments
written in the Torah
as far as the human intellect is capable of comprehending
Treatise regarding the tenets of the Karaite faith, arranged according to the Ten Commandments and in alphabetical order, written in poetic Hebrew. Lays out the the fundamentals of the Karaite faith and includes a harsh attack against rabbinic Judaism and its rabbis.Yehudah Hadassi, son of Eliyahu Hadassi, nicknamed "Ha-Avel," lived in Constantinople in the 12th century. This is his primary work. "This work was printed at Eupatoria (1836), with an introduction by Caleb Afendopolo entitled 'Nahal Eshkol.' Alphabets 99-100 and part of 98 were excluded from this edition by the censor, but have been published by Bacher in 'J. Q. R.' (viii. 431 et seq.). Hadassi mentions a previously written work of his entitled 'Sefer Teren bi-Teren,' a collection of homonyms which, he says, was an addition to the eighty pairs of Ben Asher (alphabets 163, 168, 173). There exists also a fragment which Firkovich (Cat. No. 619, St. Petersburg) entitled 'Sefer ha-Yalkut' and attributed to Hadassi, while Pinsker regarded it as an extract from Tobiah's 'Sefer ha-Mizwot.' P. F. Frankl, however, agreed with Firkovich in regarding it as a part of the 'Eshkol ha-Kofer,' which Hadassi had previously written in prose. In the Karaite Siddur there are four piyyutim by Hadassi" (Kaufmann Kolher & M. Seligsohn in EJ). A number of Karaite works were printed in Gozleve and they are all rare. A damaged copy sold at auction in 2015 for $900 with commissions. SUBJECT(S): Karaites. Karaitic literature. Ten commandments. OCLC: 37960603. Library marks on spine and blank endpapers, stamps on reverse of title page, otherwise clean. Generous wide margins. Early 19th Century paper has held up very well, a very nice copy, better than usually found. About Very Good Condition. (RAB-66-22-BFL-'x)
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Wisniowiec Nowy (Ukraine)
VISHNIVITS: SEFER-ZIKARON LI-KEDOSHE VISHNIVITS SHE-NISPU BE-SHO'AT HA-NATSIM
Ha-'orekh, Hayim Rabin. Tel Aviv, 1970. Very good condition. (YIZ-3-7)
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[Bialystok] Herschberg, Abraham; & Yudl Mark.
PINKES BIALYSTOK; GRUNT-MATERYALN TSU DER GESHIKTE FUN DI YIDN IN BIALYSTOK BIZ NOKH DER ERSHTER VELT-MILKOHME PINKOS BIALYSTOK. [COMPLETE IN 2 VOLUMES]
1st edition. Original Cloth, 8vo, 480 + 380 pages. In Yiddish. The chronicle of Bialystok: basic material for the history of the Jews in Bialystok until the period after the First World War. Very Good Condition(YIZ-10-1)
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[Chenstochov] Singer, Samuel David, United Czenstochover Relief Committee and Ladies Auxiliary, New York. Illustrations by Arthur Szyk
TSHENSTOKHOV: NAYER TSUGAB-MATERIAL TSUM BUKH "TSHENSTOKHOVER YIDN"
1st edition, original cloth, 4to. Viii + 36 + iv pages, illustrations throughout. In Yiddish. The beginning of the Second World War is simultaneously the beginning of suffering, pain, death, martyrdom and heroism of the Jews of Czestochowa. In the early morning hours of Friday, the first of September, 1939, Nazi Germany attacked Poland. And already on the third day, at nine o'clock in the morning on Sunday, the third of September, the Nazi motorized units began to penetrate Czestochowa and, one day later, there began the first slaughter which received the name Bloody Monday. Monday, the fourth of September, under the false accusation that Jews had shot at Germans, a horrible pogrom took place that lasted three days. The first victim was Naftali Tenenboym, owner of a button factory at 7 Pilsudskego Street. The second victim was Luzer Prafart, who was known under the nickname Po Pientsh ([Polish for] five each). The third, Katz, a carpenter by occupation, was known as a leader in the artisans unions. Among the numerous victims in the three day pogrom was the son of the Rosh-Hayeshiva [Head of the Talmudic academy], Yakubovitsh. The first three days of Nazi rule over Czestochowa were marked by bloody murder and looting. Jewish economic life was completely paralyzed. Cultural, social, and political life, including the entire school system, was completely dissolved. Falling like hail, there were repressions and decrees aimed at psychologically choking Jewish life, the theft of Jewish property, the exploitation of the Jewish labor force for free, and the placing of Jewish life into a lawless situation." (translated from book, Jewishgen 2018) SUBJECT(S): Jews -- Poland -- Czestochowa. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945). OCLC: 19303642. Wear and small piece missing from spine. Very good condition. (YIZ-4-4)xx
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[Zaviertsa] Spivak, Sh (Shelomoh)
SEFER ZIKARON ANDENK-BUKH, K. K. ZAVIERTSHE VEHA-SEVIVAH
Cloth, small 4to. , 570 pages. In Yiddish. SUBJECT (S) : Jews -- Poland -- Zawiercie. Title on cover: Sefer zikaron li-kedoshe Zvirts'ah veha-sevivah. OCLC lists 22 copies worldwide. Light wear to cover, and spine. Edgewear to endpapers. Pages lightly tanned in margins. Good + condition. (YIZ-5-2)xx
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[Sosnovitz] Geshuri, Me'ir Shimon.
SEFER SOSNOVITS VEHA-SEVIVAH BE-ZAGLEMBIYAH (VOLUME ONE OF TWO)
(FT) Hardcover, 4to. , 743 pages. In Hebrew and Yiddish. SUBJECT(S) : Jews -- Poland -- Sosnowiec. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Poland Sosnowiec. Sosnowiec (Wojewodztwo Slaskie, Poland) -- Ethnic relations. Other Titles: Sefer Sosnovits un Zaglembyer umgegnt. OCLC lists 7 copies worldwide. Very good condition. (YIZ-5-4) xx
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[Zshelekhov] Shpayzman, Mordekhai
ZSHELEKHOVER BULETYN (JULY 1974)
1st edition. Original photographic paper wrappers, large 8vo. , 72 pages. Photograph of a synagogue in Zshelekhov on cover. Publication of the Zshelekhover Committee in Israel. With photographs, illustrations and charts. Cover and pages lightly tanned. Light wear to covers. Good + condition. (YIZ-6-2) XX
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[Vilna] Vilna Album Committee
YERUSHALAYIM DE-LITA IM BILD = YERUSHALAYIM DE LITA BE-TEMUNOT = VILNO JERUSALEM OF LITHUANIA IN PICTURES
1st edition. Original illustrated wraps. Folio. 11 pages. 35 cm. In Yiddish and English, captions in English, Hebrew, Yiddish, and Russian. We present six pages from various chapters of the Album Jerusalem of Lithuania in pictures. " With 27 illustrations, of various facets of Jewish Vilna (the Gaon, courtyard scenes, war refugees, partisans in the ghetto) . With a brief introductory piece (Yiddish, and English) requesting for contributions to the upcoming Album to be submitted, in the form of photographs of Vilna or subscriptions. The complete work appeared in 1974 with the title Jerusalem of Lithuania, edited by Leizer Ran. Subjects: Jews - Lithuania - Vilnius - Pictorial works. One copy on OCLC (Natl Libr Israel) . Scarce. Wraps lightly soiled, otherwise fresh and clean. Very good condition. (YIZ-15-21)
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Jacob ben Asher; Sirkes, Joel; Bayit hadash. Falk, Joshua ben Alexander
TUR HOSHEN HA-MISHPAT. HELEK SHENI [only]
Period leather, reinforced with period burlap chamise. 89 + 142 leaves [ ie 462 pages total]. In Hebrew. Printed entirely on blue paper. Includes commentaries Bayit hadash by Yo'el Sirkes, and, Bet Yis´ra'el, Perishah u-derishah by Yoshu?a Falk. At head of title: Gadol yihyeh kavod (ha-Bayit) ha-aharon min ha-rishon. SUBJECT(S): Jewish law. OCLC: 944730470. OCLC lists only 1 institution with holdings worldwide (NYU). Period leather, protected by burlap chamise, appears to be in Very Good condition; chamise shows wear at corners and at one edge. Paper and binding remain very good. A beautiful copy Rare. (KH-9-4)
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(xt) [Lodz] Jasny, A. Wolf, 1893-1968.
DI GESHIKHTE FUN YIDN IN LODZSH [LODZ] : IN DI YORN FUN DER DAYTSHER YIDN-OYSROTUNG (VOLUME I ONLY, OF II)
1st edition. Original Cloth, 8vo. , 515 pages. In Yiddish. With photos and facsimiles. SUBJECT (S) : Jews -- Poland -- Lodz -- History. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Poland Lodz. Jews -- Persecutions -- Poland Lodz. Lodz (Poland) -- Ethnic relations. Other titles: Geshichte fun Jidn in Lodz in di jorn fun der Deitsher Jidn-Ojsrotung. Responsibility: A. Volf Yasni. OCLC lists 41 copies worldwide. Ex-library, otherwise Very good condition. (YIZ-7-6A) xx
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CRI DALARME AUX JUIFS DE PARIS - A NOYT GESHRAY TSU DI PARIZER YIDEN!
1st Edition. Original printed paper wrappers, 12mo [1], 15 [2] pages. In French and Yiddish. Issued by the Association Philanthropique de l'Asile de Nuit, Asile de Jour et de la Crèche Israélites. With extracts from the Rapport Moral de l'Oeuvre des Asiles, de Jour, de Nuit et de la Crèche Israélites de Paris (April, 1931). As more and more Jews fled, in successive waves, from the pogroms of Eastern Europe, many sought to take refuge in France. The "Asile Israélite philanthropic society was founded to provide temporary lodging for refugees who were passing through Paris. OCLC lists only 1 copy worldwide (NLI). Rare. Very Good Condition (K-1-1)
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[Romania] Bickel, Shlomo, .
RUMENYE: GESHIKHTE, LITERATUR-KRITIK, ZIKHREYNE`S.
8vo, 409 pages, portraits. In Hebrew. Related Titles: Rumania. Romanized record. In Yiddish. Title translates as, "Romania: History, Literary Criticism, Memories." Added Titlepage Rumania. Subjects: Jews--Romania. Yiddish literature--Romania. Argentina Buenos Aires Variant Series: Kiyum ; 26. Gilt lettering on spine, pages toning, frontis photo, Good condition. (Comhist4-6)
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(Jt) [Orlovo] Meirovitch, Aaron
SEFER Z'ELUDOK VE-ORLOVAH : GAL? ED LE-ZIKARON
(FT) Cloth, 8vo. , 329 pages. With Photographs. In Yiddish and Hebrew. SUBJECT(S) Jews -- Belarus -- Zheludok. Jews -- Belarus -- Orlovo. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Belarus -- Zheludok. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Belarus -- Orlovo. Zheludok (Belarus) Orlovo (Belarus) . Added title page: The book of Zoludek and Orlowa; a living memorial. Letter typed in Yiddish laid in. Light wear to covers, very good condition. (YIZ-1-18)
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[Maramures County] Rozman, Shelomoh.
SEFER ZIKHRON KEDOSHIM LI-YEHUDE KARPATOROS-MARAMURESH: LE-HANTSAHAT ZEKHER HA-KEHILOT ... HA-HAYIM HA-YEHUDIYIM BA- AYAROT UVA-KEFARIM, TE'UR MAKIF ' AL TEKUFAT HA-SHO'AH.
(FT) Embossed hardcover, 8vo. , 12, 32-543 pages. Photographs throughout. In Yiddish. SUBJECT(S) Descriptor: Jews -- Ukraine -- Zakarpats'ka oblast' -- History. Jews -- Romania -- Maramures -- History. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Ukraine -- Zakarpats'ka oblast'. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Romania -- Maramures. ; Zakarpats'ka oblast' (Ukraine) Maramures (Romania) ; Crisana (Romania) . OCLC lists 48 copies worldwide. Marbled textblock. Very good condition. (YIZ-2-3D)
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[Brest-Litovsk] Steinman, Eliezer
ENTSIKLOPEDYAH SHEL GALUYOT = ENTSIKLOPEDYE FUN DI GOLES LENDER: BRISK DE-LITA: OYFL. IN YIDISH
(FT) Hardcover, 4to. , 712 columns. With photographs throughout. In Yiddish. SUBJECT(S) : Jews -- Belarus -- Brest. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Belarus -- Brest. Brest (Belarus) -- Ethnic relations. Added title page: Encyclopedia of the Jewish diaspora, a memorial library of countries and communities: Brest-Lit. Volume. Other Titles: Brest-Lit. Volume; Brest-Litovsk volume; Entsiklopedye fun di goles lender Responsibility: dershinen in Hebreish unter der redak. Fun Eliezer Shtaynman. OCLC lists 26 copies worldwide. Light wear and staining to cover. Fragments of jacket laid in and taped to back cover. Pages lightly tanned. Good + condition. (YIZ-4-8)
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Unger, Menashe
SEYFER KDOYSHIM: RABEYIM OYF KIDESH-HASHEM [SEFER KEDOSHIM]
(FT) Publishers cloth . 8vo. XI, 444 pages. 24 cm. First edition. In Yiddish. Title page verso: Sefer Kedoshim. Yizkor for Chassidim and the martyred Rabbis of Poland; written by a long time correspondent of YIVO and historian of Polish Chassidism. Bound in blue cloth, gilt lettering, and decorative outer edges. Subjects: Rabbis - Biography. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) - Biography. World War, 1939-1945 - Jews. Light wear to cloth. Very good + condition. (YIZ-12-5)
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[Maramures County] Rozman, Shelomoh.
SEFER ZIKHRON KEDOSHIM LI-YEHUDE KARPATOROS-MARAMURESH: LE-HANTSAHAT ZEKHER HA-KEHILOT ... HA-HAYIM HA-YEHUDIYIM BA- AYAROT UVA-KEFARIM, TE'UR MAKIF 'AL TEKUFAT HA-SHO'AH.
1st edition. Original Embossed hardcover, 8vo. , 12, 32-543 pages. Photographs throughout. In Yiddish. SUBJECT(S) Descriptor: Jews -- Ukraine -- Zakarpats'ka oblast' -- History. Jews -- Romania -- Maramures-- History. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Ukraine -- Zakarpats'ka oblast'. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Romania -- Maramures. ; Zakarpats'ka oblast' (Ukraine) Maramures (Romania) ; Crisana (Romania) . OCLC lists 48 copies worldwide. Covers worn. Very good condition. (YIZ-12-7)
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[Poland] Trunk, Yehiel Yeshaia
POYLN: ZIKHROYNES UN BILDER [7 VOLUME COMPLETE SET]
1st edition. Publishers cloth. 8vo. 252; 318; 288; 304; 308; 244; 275 pages. 23 cm. First edition. In Yiddish. Poland; Memoirs and Pictures. The grand epic memoir of Yekhiel Yeshaye Trunk (18871961) ; which he began as soon as arriving in New York in 1941, it took a decade to complete. Trunks broad political, social, and cultural experiences informed his autobiographical epic Poyln, a study of the decline of the upper strata of Polish Jewish society and the rise of a new secular Jewishness embodied in folklore, Yiddish literature, and the Bund. This work, his crowning achievement, focused almost entirely on the multifaceted collectivity of Polish Jewry, while relegating his personal story and inner struggle to the sideline. (YIVO Encyclopedia) . Trunk was the chief archivist of YIVO at the time of his death, and was considered, in an obituary published in the New York Times, one of the leading historians in the United States on the destruction of European Jewry during the Nazi era. Seven volume set, bound in green cloth with gilt title. Subjects: Authors, Yiddish - Poland - Biography. Jews - Poland - History. First volume cloth heavily worn with previous owners bookstamp, otherwise very clean. All other volumes have minor shelf wear to cloth, otherwise clean and fresh. Very good + condition. (YIZ-15-9)
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(Xt) Morein, Icik
LETLAND: IR KULTUR, EKONOMIK, MELUKHE ORDNUNG, POLITIK, GEZELSHAFTLEKHKEYT, KURORTN
1st edition. Original paper wrappers inside later stiff pamphlet protector. 8vo. 128 pages with illustrations, portraits, maps; 23 cm. In Yiddish. Title translates to Latvia: Her Culture, Economy, Government, Politics, Society, and Resorts. A Latvian tour guide of sorts for Yiddish speakers, printed by the press division of the Latvian foreign ministry. The author hailed from Riga, Latvia where he was a speaker for the press division of the Latvian foreign ministry. He contributed to the Riga Yiddish daily newspaper Frimorgn (Morning) and was the author of a series of Yiddish-language guides to Latvia which the Latvian government published for Jewish tourists from other countries. (Yiddish Leksikon, 2017) . SUBJECTS: Latvia -- Civilization. OCLC lists 5 copies worldwide (NYPL, LOC, Harvard, HUC, UCL) (OCLC: 19306073) . Ex-library with usual markings. Light soiling to front wrapper. Pages browning with some damp stains in margins. Overall Good+ Condition. Scarce. (YID-40-54)
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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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HAYNT: YOYVL-BUKH 1908-1938
1st edition. Original paper wrappers. 4to. 329 pages. 33cm. In Yiddish. Holocaust-era imprint. Title translates to Haynt [Today]: Commemorative Book 1908-1938. 30th anniversary edition of Haynt, Yiddish daily newspaper, published in Warsaw between 1908 and 1939, shut down with the invasion of Poland. From its first years Haynt boasted an impressive list of authors and well-known writers such as Y. L. Peretz; David Frishman; Hillel Zeitlin; and Sholem Aleichem, a few of whose novels were serialized. Was one of the two longest running and most important Yiddish daily papers published in Warsaw in the early 1900s (YIVO, 2010) . Offers excellent insight into the interwar Polish Jewish literary and intellectual scene SUBJECTS: Jewish newspapers -- Poland -- Warsaw. OCLC lists 9 copies worldwide (OCLC 60600457) . Ex-library with no markings. Significant repairs throughout. Pages browning. All contents good. (YID-40-75)
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Dujowich, M. J.
ZANGEN FUN MAYN FELD
1st edition. Original boards. 8vo. 247 pages. 21 cm. In Yiddish. Title translates to Songs of my Field: Memories of my Exhausted life. Title on title page verso: Espigas de mi campo. Dujowich (1873-1951). SUBJECTS: Jews -- Russia -- Biography. OCLC lists 16 copies worldwide (OCLC: 12385305). Wear to boards. Pages browning. Otherwise Good Condition. (YID-40-96-L-'x)
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(xt) [Orlovah] Meirovitch, Aaron
SEFER Z'ELUDOK VE-ORLOVAH : GAL' ED LE-ZIKARON
Cloth, 8vo. , 329 pages. With Photographs. In Yiddish and Hebrew. SUBJECT(S) Jews -- Belarus -- Zheludok. Jews -- Belarus -- Orlovo. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Belarus -- Zheludok. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Belarus -- Orlovo. Zheludok (Belarus) Orlovo (Belarus) . Added title page: The book of Zoludek and Orlowa; a living memorial. Ex-library with minimal markings, very good condition. (YIZ-1-18A)
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[Tshentochov] Mahler, Raphael
TSHENSTOKHOVER YIDN
(FT) xii, 404, cxliv pages. With photographs. In Yiddish. SUBJECT(S) Descriptor: Jews -- Poland -- Czestochowa. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- History. General Info: Responsibility: unter der redaktsye fun Rafa'el Mahler. OCLC lists 25 copies worldwide. Title page in facsimile, stains on spine, otherwise Very Good condition. (YIZ-4-5A)
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[Lukov] Heller, Binem.
SEYFER LUKOV: GEHEYLIKT DER HOREV GEVORENER KEHILE.
1st edition. Original publisher's cloth, large 8vo, 652 pages. Includes illustrations, facsimiless, portraits; 25 cm. In Yiddish. SUBJECT (S) : Jews -- Poland -- Luków (Siedlce) Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) . Added title page: "Sefer Lukow. " Partly also in Hebrew. Includes bibliographical references (p. 56-57) . OCLC lists 11 copies worldwide. Inside hinges repaired Good Condition. (YIZ-6-11) xx
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[Lukov] Heller, Binem.
SEYFER LUKOV: GEHEYLIKT DER HOREV GEVORENER KEHILE.
1st edition. Original publisher's cloth, large 8vo, 652 pages. Includes illustrations, facsimiless, portraits; 25 cm. In Yiddish. SUBJECT (S) : Jews -- Poland -- Luków (Siedlce) Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) . Added title page: "Sefer Lukow. " Partly also in Hebrew. Includes bibliographical references (p. 56-57) . OCLC lists 11 copies worldwide. wear and some discoloration to boards, Good Condition. (YIZ-6-12) xx
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[Bialystok] Herschberg, Abraham; & Yudl Mark.
PINKES BIALYSTOK; GRUNT-MATERYALN TSU DER GESHIKTE FUN DI YIDN IN BIALYSTOK BIZ NOKH DER ERSHTER VELT-MILKOHME PINKOS BIALYSTOK. [COMPLETE IN 2 VOLUMES]
1st edition. Original Cloth, 8vo, 480 + 380 pages. In Yiddish. The chronicle of Bialystok: basic material for the history of the Jews in Bialystok until the period after the First World War. OCLC: 10792576. Very Good Condition(YIZ-10-1)
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[Bialystok] Herschberg, Abraham; & Yudl Mark.
PINKES BIALYSTOK; GRUNT-MATERYALN TSU DER GESHIKTE FUN DI YIDN IN BIALYSTOK BIZ NOKH DER ERSHTER VELT-MILKOHME PINKOS BIALYSTOK. [VOL 2 ONLY OF 2]
1st edition. Original Cloth, 8vo, 380 pages. In Yiddish. The chronicle of Bialystok: basic material for the history of the Jews in Bialystok until the period after the First World War. Very Good Condition(YIZ-10-1A)
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(xt) [Ukraine] Osherowitch, Mendl
SHTET UN SHTETLEKH IN UKRAYINE UN IN ANDERE TEYLN FUN RUSLAND: FORSHUNGEN IN YIDISHER GESHIKHTE UN YIDISHN LEBNSSHTEYGER (COMPLETE IN TWO VOLUMES)
1st edition. Original Cloth, 8vo. 2 volumes. Vol. 1 306 pages; Vol. 2 305 pages. In Yiddish. SUBJECT(S) : Jews -- Soviet Union -- History. Jews -- Ukraine -- History. Title on added title page: Cities and towns in the history of the Jews in Russia and the Ukraine. Responsibility: fun M. Osherovitsh. OCLC: 38718164. OCLC lists 15 copies worldwide. Ex-library with bookplate, marking on spine, and stamp on title page. Light wear to cover and spine. Text in very good condition. (YIZ-6-5)
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THE SPIRITUAL MAGAZINE. NEW SERIES. VOL I & II 1866 & 1867[OF 9] [FIRST 24 ISSUES OF THE NEW SERIES]
1st Edition Period Half Leather with raised bands and gilt spine lettering and adornment. 8vo, iv, 572, iv, 572 pages. Complete 1st 24 issues of the New Series of this monthly spiritualist periodical. Continuation of The British Spiritual Telegraph and The Christian spiritualist. Includes essays by Henry Ward Beecher, and about Bengal Spiritualism, Levitation in Spain, Spiritualism and Christianity, Zouave a Young Creative Medium, etc. Bibliography of Spiritualism, Lincolns Dream of Warning, Manx Superstitions, SUBJECT(S): Spiritualism -- Periodicals. OCLC: 728344879. OCLC lists only 3 holdings worldwide (Boston Pub Libm Kings Col London, British Lib). Front blank endpaper of Vol I loose, all text pages clean and nice, binding solid and good. Some rubbing and edgwear to boards and spine, Still attractive, About Very Good- Condition Overall. Rare and important. (AC-22-18)
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"By a Searcher After Truth"
THE RAPPERS: OR, THE MYSTERIES, FALLACIES, AND ABSURDITIES OF SPIRIT-RAPPING, TABLE-TIPPING, AND ENTRANCEMENT
No Date [1854] 1st edition. Original Green Cloth with embossed gilt illustrated front board & spine Small 8vo, [i]-x, [11]-282 pages; with 6 pages of undated ads. Includes 2 dramatic frontispieces separated by a tissue guard, one shows casting out the evil spirits, the other shows table tipping (reproduced in gilt on the front cover), both with attractive young women at the center. Published just 6 years after the founding of the Spritualist movement in America. Spiritualists often set March 31, 1848, as the beginning of their movement. On that date, Kate and Margaret Fox, of Hydesville, New York, reported that they had made contact with a spirit that was later claimed to be the spirit of a murdered peddler whose body was found in the house, though no record of such a person was ever found. The spirit was said to have communicated through rapping noises, audible to onlookers. The evidence of the senses appealed to practically-minded Americans, and the Fox sisters became a sensation
.many early participants in Spiritualism were radical Quakers and others involved in the mid-nineteenth-century reforming movement. These reformers were uncomfortable with more prominent churches because those churches did little to fight slavery and even less to advance the cause of women's rights. Such links with reform movements, often radically socialist, had already been prepared in the 1840s, as the example of Andrew Jackson Davis shows. After 1848, many socialists became ardent spiritualists or occultists. Socialist ideas, especially in the Fourierist vein, exerted a decisive influence on Kardec and other Spiritists (Wikipedia). Only one copy has appeared at a major auction house in the last 100 years. OCLC: 504493987. OCLC lists only 1 copy worldwide (British Library). Rear board also attractively embossed. Spine sunned, occasional light foxing. Very Good Condition. An excellent attractive copy of this exceedingly rare book. (AC-22-20)
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Spinoza, Benedictus De
DER TEOLOGISH-POLITISHER TRAKTAT [TRACTATUS THEOLOGICO-POLITICUS]
Publishers cloth. 8vo. X, 375 pages. 21 cm. First Yiddish edition of the Tractatus Theologico-Politicus. Along with Di Etik, also published in 1923, this represents the very first appearance of any of Spinozas works in any Jewish language. Perhaps one of the most controversial texts of the early modern period, the TTP, in its critique of religion and of Jewish "chosenness", is possibly one of the most appropriate of Spinozas works to be translated into Yiddish for secular readers. Translated by N. Perlman, who also translated Jack London, Anatole France, Schopenhauer, and Thomas Paine into Yiddish. Subjects: Philosophy and religion. Free thought. Spinoza, Benedictus de, 1632-1677 - Translations into Yiddish. OCLC Number: 150623442.Spine darkened, touch of wear to foot and crown of spine. Very Good condition. (YID-16-15-E) Xxxx
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Arlosoroff, Chaim
KROPOTKIN
1st separate edition. Original illustrated paper wrappers, 12mo, 22 pages, Includes illustrations ; 22 cm. In Yiddish. Appears to reproduce an essay, with new pagination, from The "Hayem Arlozorov Bukh: Tsu Zayn Tsentn Yortsayt" (Detroit, 1944), here published in honor of the 85th anniversary of the Fraye Arbayter Shtime, the 20th Century American Anarchist Yiddish Newspaper. Kropotkin (1842-1921 was, after the death of Bakunin, the main theorist of anarcho-communism. OCLC: 19310432. OCLC lists 10 copies worldwide. Light wear, Very Good Condition (yid-33-87-L-'ex)
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Farber, Simon, editor.
DER YUNYON ARBAYTER. VOL I, NRS 1-52, DEC 4 1925 -DEC 6, 1926. [COMPLETE FIRST VOLUME, PROBABLY OF ONLY TWO PUBLISHED] [YUNION UNION]
1st Edition. Original paper wrappers bound into period cloth, 4to, 6-16 pages per issue. In Yiddish. Includes some cartoons and other illustrations, including one we noticed by William Gropper. Der Yunion Arbayter (The Union Worker) lasted 2 volumes, running weekly until 1927. The first volume, complete, is here. A.L.G.V.Y / I.L.G.V.Y. stands for the Yiddish name for the heavily Yiddish speaking International Ladies Garment Workers Union; this newspaper was published by an Anarchist section within the union. Yiddish-speaking Jewish anarchists were one of the pillars of the U.S. anarchist movement before World War II. This largely immigrant radical milieu was centered in New York City and opposed capitalism, the state, and organized religion. Yiddish-speaking anarchists built militant unions, anarchist newspapers, and other organizations to further their cause. Many famous anarchists were linked to this movement, including Johann Most, Emma Goldman, Alexander Berkman, and Rudolf Rocker. Yiddish-speaking anarchists played a pivotal role in unions like the International Ladies Garment Workers Union (ILGWU), while the Yiddish anarchist newspaper the Fraye Arbeter Shtime (The Free Voice of Labor) was the largest and longest-lasting U.S. anarchist publication and formed a significant part of the Yiddish cultural landscape. In the 1930s a second generation of bilingual Jewish anarchists emerged, including Sam and Esther Dolgoff, and Audrey Goodfriend, whose influence is still felt in todays anarchist movement.Despite the importance of Yiddish anarchism to the histories of both the U.S. Left and the Jewish community, it has been largely forgotten and written out of historical scholarship (YIVO). Cited in Paul Avrichs Anarchist Portraits (Princeton, 1988) pp 192 & 196. Listed in John Pattens Yiddish Anarchist Bibliography - Periodicals (https://www.katesharpleylibrary.net/w9gk09). SUBJECT(S): Jewish anarchists. OCLC 10218086. OCLC lists 3 holdings worldwide LOC, YIVO, NYU), with NYU holding only this one volume and the Union List of Serials suggesting that the run may have "Ceased with Sept. 26, 1927 issue?" Rear hinge starting. Three issues printed on lower quality paper have darkened, but without any edgewear or breakage. The other 49 issues, printed on quality paper and well protected, remain bright white. All issues clear and very well preserved. Very Good Condition. An outstanding complete volume of a very rare and important Yiddish Anarchist periodical. (YID-42-20)
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Kvitko, Leib; Ryback, Issachar [Y.] Ber, illustrator. [Riback]
FOYGLEN [FOYGELN FOIGLEN FOIGELN]
1st edition. Period boards with original multichrome illustrated wrappers bound in. Oblong 4to, 15 pages. All pages illustrated with large modernist illustrations by Ryback 24 x 32 cm. In Yiddish. Title translates as, Birds. Illustrations in color appear on the front and back covers. Large illustrations in blacm and white appear within the book. A Fair-good condition copu, with Cover almost completely detached and several detached leaves. Tears to borders of all of the leaves. Fragile paper sold for over $2600 at auction in 2014. See: Futur Antérieur, L'Avant-Garde etle Livre Yiddish (1914-1939) (Skira, Paris, 2009. No. 152). A Limited reprint of the book was issued in 1983. Issachar Ber Ryback (1897-1935 ) was a Jewish-Ukrainian-French painter [who] attended the art school in Kiev until 1916. He joined a progressive group of painters and was influenced by advocates of a modern Jewish literature such as David Bergelson and David Hofstein. The painters Alexander Bogomazov and Alexandra Exter were in Kiev at the time, and they taught him in 1913. In 1916 El Lissitzky and Ryback were given the task to make Jewish art memorials of schtetls [sic] from Ukraine and Belarus. When he participated in an exhibition of Jewish paintings and sculptures in Moscow the spring 1917, his works were especially recommended.During the October Revolution in 1917, he took part in multiple activities to redefine avantgarde Yiddish culture, e.g., he was a member of Kultur Lige in Kiev. Later he went to Moscow. After his father was killed by Petliura's soldiers in the pogroms in Ukraine, he fled in April 1921 to Kaunas and in October 1921 he obtained a visa for Germany. He was in Berlin until 1924.He was a member of the Novembergruppe and exhibited his Cubist pictures at both the Berliner Secession and the Juryfreien Kunstausstellung
.At the time the Jewish education organization World ORT was situated in Berlin and he made the design for its logo.In 1924 he tried to work in the Soviet Union by decorating scenes at Yiddish theaters.In 1926 he emigrated to Paris and did not return to Russia.In 1928 he had a solo exhibition in the Galerie aux Quatre Chemins and in 1929 in the "Galerie LArt Contemporain. His style of painting had turned to the Expressionistic coloring of the School of Paris in the interwar period. Further exhibitions followed at galleries in The Hague, Rotterdam, Brussels and Antwerp. In 1935 he traveled to the opening of his exhibition in Cambridge. He did not live to see the retrospective exhibition in Paris organised by Georges Wildenstein.Rybak was a contemporary of Jewish-Russian artists Natan Issajewitsch Altman, Boris Aronson and Marc Chagall, who transmitted the Jewish tradition in modern art (Wikipedia). SUBJECT(S): Yiddish poetry. Children's literature, Poe´sie yiddish. Litte´rature de jeunesse. OCLC: 19306454. OCLC.OCLC lists 3 copies (Yale, Princeton, HUC), plus YIVO and Harvard list a 1930 edition (OCLC: 970831653), which we presume to be the same book, for a total of 5 copies worldwide. Rounded outer corners, childs notes on later blank endpapers, which are damaged, and some light crayoning to several of the illustrations. Fragile paper, with chip to outer edge, a few leaves detaching, no text or illustration affected. A copy in worse condition sold for over $2600 at auction in 2014. An emblematic rare Ryback childrens book (YID-36-15)
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INZER HOFENUNG. 1926, NRS 2 [FEB 1], 10 [SEPT 1], &11 [OCT 1] [YNZER HOFENUNG, UNZER UNDZER HOFNUNG] [3 ISSUES TOTAL]
1st edition. Original paper wrappers with modernist typeface, 8vo, 32 pages each. In Yiddish. Semimonthly Yiddish literary periodical which ceased publication in the 1930s. 22 cm. SUBJECT(S) : SUBJECT(S): Jews -- Poland -- Periodicals. Yiddish literature -- Juifs -- Pologne -- Pe´riodiques. Litte´rature yiddish. OCLC: 22650745. OCLC lists 9 libraries with holdings of any issues. Ex-library with usual markings, Paper browning as expected, some staining, Nr 11 is fragile with edgewear and spine repair, all are complete, no loss, Fair condition overall (yid-41-94-ELCC-'x)
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