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(jt) Kisch, Guido
THE JEWS IN MEDIEVAL GERMANY; A STUDY OF THEIR LEGAL AND SOCIAL STATUS.
8vo; xv, 655 pages; 24 cm. Bibliography on pages 565-605. First edition. Kisch received the I. Hirschfield award for "Best non-fiction work on Jewish history" for this work. Some underlining, otherwise Very Good Condition in Good Jacket with edgewear. (mx-1-8)
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[Xt] Haidenhaim, Ze'ev Wolf Bar Simson
HUMASH ME'OR 'ENAYIM : WA-HAYU LA-ME'OROT S' 'EN HA-QORE' WE-S' 'EN HA-SOFER ... / 4, SEFER BAMIDBAR [EYN HA-SOFER ONLY - JACQUES JUDAH LYONS COPY]
Later wrappers, 8vo. 219, 16 pages, 20 cm. In Hebrew. Personal copy of Rabbi Jacques J. Lyons with his stamp. Jacques Judah Lyons (1814-1877) was an American rabbi. He was born and educated in Surinam, but ultimately left for America in 1837. He was the rabbi at Congregation Beth Schalom in Virginia and from 1839 onward, was the elected rabbi of Congregation Shearith Israel in NYC. He helped found Mount Sinai Hospital (Wikipedia, 2019) . SUBJECTS: Humash. OCLC lists 4 copies worldwide (Ets Haim, U. Library Amsterdam, Bamberg) . Vinograd Roedelheim, 71. Lacks wrappers. Has been trimmed down with some minor loss of text to title page. (RAB-66-11)
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Wohlgemuth, J.
BEITRÄGE ZU EINER JÜDISCHEN HOMILETIK.
8vo. 107 pages. In German. Wohlgemuth (1867-1942) studied and taught at the Berlin Rabbinical Seminary, as well as teaching at the university in Berlin and the Adass Yisrael school. In 1914 he began Juschurun, which later became a leading Orthodox periodical. (EJ) OCLC lists 3 copies worldwide (Univ of CA-Los Angeles, Yale, Univ van Amsterdam) . Lacks outer binding, otherwise Good condition (MX-4-22)
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(xt) Selig, Gottfried, editor.
DER JUDE, EINE WOCHENSCHRIFT. VOLS I-III, COMPLETE (VOL I, NRS 1-26; VOL II NRS. 1-23; VOL III, NRS 1-25) [FIRST 74 ISSUES, COMPLETE THUS FAR]
1st edition. Beautiful original period half-leather over marbled boards with raised bands and gilt spine design. Title translates as, The Jew, A Weekly. German interspersed with Hebrew. Device on title. Headpieces, initials, tailpieces. Includes graphics of Jewish ceremonial art [for example, in Vol. II, between pp. 52-53; Vol. II: pp. (12), 368. Vol. III: pp.(16) ]. The editor of Der Jude, Gottfried Selig (1722-95), was a convert to Christianity who sought reconciliation between Christians and Jews, to which end, this periodical appeared containing much information about Jewish history, rites and customs. His assumption was that, equipped with deeper insight into Jewish life, a greater sense of understanding would arise within society as a whole. Seligs goal in publishing Der Jude was to make peace between Christians and Jews, but the work earned him opposition from both sides, with Jews claiming that its true goal was to convert Jews to Christianity, and Christians claiming that it lacked historical veracity and presented a false neutrality. Der Jude was issued between 1768-1772 in nine volumes. Kirchner 2084. Furst III, 309. Diesch 773. Yiddish scholar Judah Joffes set with his photographic bookplate. Marbled endpapers. Slight internal binding error at rear of vol III, otherwise a beautiful dramatic period set in Very Good Condition. Price for all 74 issues, bound in 3 volumes (GER-60-5)
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Rimon. Mark Wischnitzer; Rachel Wischnitzer [William Cohn, S. Rubinstein, E. Motylev]
MILGROYM ZEITSCHRIFT FAR KUNST UN LITERATUR [ISSUE 3, 1923]
First edition. Original wrappers. 4to. 48 + [4] pages. 32cm. In Yiddish. Milgroym was published bi-monthly in separate Hebrew and Yiddish editions (The Hebrew editions were titled Rimon) from 1922-1924 for a total of 6 issues and "embraced the study, both retrospective and contemporary, of art in all its manifestations painting, sculpture, music, theatre. " In Geveb called Milgroym "arguably the most visually stunning of the interwar Yiddish journals." Each issue contains illustrations and literary works from a wide array of Jewish artists. Milgroym also published works by the likes of Chaim Nachman Bialik, Jacob Klatzkin, Marc Chagall, El Lissitzky, and A. Z. Idelson. The present issue features an essay on the Synaoguge of Mohilev, with illustrations, by El Lissitzky; and essay on Jewish Artists in Russia by Henryk Berlewi, an essay on the Magen David by Moses Gaster; an essay on the Posthumous Work of Israel Wachser by Chaim Bialik, as well as other articles and illustrations, many in color. For a detailed analysis of the importance and cultural context of Milgroym, see Naomi Brenner's excellent essay, "Milgroyms Cultural Context (https://ingeveb.org/blog/milgroym-s-cultural-context), part of In Geveb's series on Milgroym and other interwar Yiddish journals. For more on Milgroym, see the In Geveb special issue dedicated to this wonderful periodical (https://ingeveb.org/issues/the-milgroym-project). SUBJECT(S):Jews -- Periodicals. Yiddish literature Jewish arts -- Periodicals. Art, Modern -- 20th century -- Periodicals -- Yiddish. Germany. Jüdische Kunst. OCLC: 1200783324. Wrappers are very lightly soiled and browning. Spine is worn. Internally Very Good. (ART-27-6A)
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Rimon. Mark Wischnitzer; Rachel Wischnitzer [William Cohn, S. Rubinstein, E. Motylev]
MILGROYM ZEITSCHRIFT FAR KUNST UN LITERATUR [ISSUE 6, 1924]
First edition. Original wrappers. 4to. 48 + [4] pages. 32cm. In Yiddish. Final issue. Milgroym was published bi-monthly in separate Hebrew and Yiddish editions (The Hebrew editions were titled Rimon) from 1922-1924 for a total of 6 issues and "embraced the study, both retrospective and contemporary, of art in all its manifestations painting, sculpture, music, theatre. " In Geveb called Milgroym "arguably the most visually stunning of the interwar Yiddish journals." Each issue contains illustrations and literary works from a wide array of Jewish artists. Milgroym also published works by the likes of Chaim Nachman Bialik, Jacob Klatzkin, Marc Chagall, El Lissitzky, and A. Z. Idelson. For a detailed analysis of the importance and cultural context of Milgroym, see Naomi Brenner's excellent essay, "Milgroyms Cultural Context (https://ingeveb.org/blog/milgroym-s-cultural-context), part of In Geveb's series on Milgroym and other interwar Yiddish journals. She discusses this issue in particular in her essay, "Milgroym and Rimon, Fraternal Twins" (https://ingeveb.org/blog/milgroym-and-rimon-fraternal-twins). For more on Milgroym, see the In Geveb special issue dedicated to this wonderful periodical (https://ingeveb.org/issues/the-milgroym-project). SUBJECT(S):Jews -- Periodicals. Yiddish literature Jewish arts -- Periodicals. Art, Modern -- 20th century -- Periodicals -- Yiddish. Germany. Jüdische Kunst. OCLC: 1200783324. Wrappers are very lightly soiled and browning.Wear to spine. Internally Very Good. (ART-27-6C)
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Philippson, Ludwig, editor
ALLGEMEINE ZEITUNG DES JUDENTHUMS. VOLUME 34, NOS. 1-52 (BUT LACKS NOS. 21, 24, 44 & 45) , 1867
Heavy wear to outer cover & outer issues, no text loss. Good; 4to (large) ; 192 total pages; "German Jewish weekly periodical founded by Ludwig Philippson in 1837....as an impartial organ devoted to all Jewish interest, it at first advocated a moderate historicalreform of Judaism as a revealed religion. " The weekly "was one of the firstJewish periodicals of Central and Western Europe. For many years it exercised great infulence in other European countries...[and] played a prominent role in the struggle of the Jews of Germany for civic emancipation....It was of great influence in promoting a knowledge and appreciation of Judaism and its history and in fostering the iner religiousand communal life of the German Jews. " (Universal Jewish Ency. 1939, I: 188). Wear and toning, otherwise good condition. GER-38-13D
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(XT) Bernfeld, Simon
GAVRI'EL RISER: ME'ORA'OT HAYAV U-FE'ULATO BE-ERETS MOLADTO UVE-YIS´RA'EL: 'IM TEMUNATO
1st edition. Period boards, 12mo, 88 pages. Title translates as Gabriel Risser: The Events of his Life and Activity in His Homeland and in Israel [ie. among the Jewish people]: with his Picture." Hebrew-language Biography of advocate for Jewish Emancipation Gabriel Riesser (1806-1863). Series: Bibliyotekah 'Ivrit [Hebrew Library] and Haye anshe ha-shem [The Lives of the People of God]. SUBJECT(S): Jews -- Germany -- Hamburg -- OCLC: 19141124. OCLC lists 23 copies worldwide. Lacks portrait, paper toning as expected, otherwise Good Condition. (GER-60-13-BOXZBBCC-del)
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Grini) Bratlie, Gunnar. Foreword by Francis Bull
SKISSER I SMUG. GLIMT FRA LIVET PÅ GRINI.
Boards bowed as uusally found. Paper & internal binding Very Good. Lacks Jacket ; Oblong 4to; 60 pages; Unpaginated & undated. Magnificent illustrated documentaryon life in Grini Concentration Camp in Norway. THe book actually has very little text aparat from Bull's foreword; It is essentially a book of sketches with short blurbs about each detailed illustration--not only of prisoners working, and being abused, but also of them painting, making music, celebrating holidays, etc. Bound in mock-marbled boards with illustrated endpapers. A wonderful book.
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(xt) Gotthelf, Jakob
DIE RECHTSVERHÄLTNISSE DER JUDEN IN BAYERN: AUF GRUNDLAGE DER NEUESTEN BAYERISCHEN GESETZE
1st edition. Later Paper Wrappers, 12mo, 196, viii pages ; 20 cm. In German.Title translates as, The Legal Situation of the Jews in Bavaria: Based On The Most Recent Bavarian Laws. Includes bibliographical references. SUBJECT(S): Jews -- Germany -- Bavaria. -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- Recht. OCLC: 474713190. OCLC lists 6 copies worldwide (Danish Nat Lib, British Lib, UHaifa, UStrasbourg, UMunster, Staatsbib Berlin), none in the US. Period stamp and signature on title page, occasional light foxing, Very Good Condition (GER-60-20)
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[Aachen] Pöllnitz, Karl Ludwig von; Hecquet, Philippe
AMUSEMENS DES EAUX D'AIX-LA-CHAPELLE: OUVRAGE UTILE A CEUX QUI VONT Y PRENDRE LES BAINS, OU QUI SONT DANS L'USAGE DE SES EAUX ; ENRICHI DE TAILLES-DOUCES, QUI REPRÉSENTENT LES VUES & PERSPECTIVES DE CETTE VILLE, DE SES BAINS & FONTAINES, EGLISES & EDIFICES PUBLICS. VOL II ONLY [OF 3]
1st edition. Full Leather binding with tooled spine with gilt lettering. 8vo, 443 pages. Illustrations throughout. In French. Title translates as, Water Amusements of Aix-la-chapelle [Aachen]: A Useful Work For Those Who Will Take The Baths There, Or Who Use Its Waters; Enriched With Tailles-douces, Which Represent The Views & Perspectives Of This City, Its Baths & Fountains, Churches & Public Buildings." This volume includes fold-out plates XII though XVII [6 in total], all of which are present, as well as numerous in-text illustrations. Includes fold out illustration of Bain de LEmpereur T Keysers Bad as a frontis. In French. Volume two only. Karl Ludwig was a German writer. He worked in the households of King Frederick William I of Prussia and Frederick the Great. He wrote La Saxe galante and Histoire secrete de la duchesse d'Hanovre, épouse de Georges I. Subjects: Baths -- Germany -- Aachen. Mineral waters. Balneology. Travel. Description and travel. OCLC number: 20181205. A single institution (University of Manchester) lists a 1734 copy; we presume this to be an error as no other copies pre-dating 1736 could be located anywhere. Former Owners small ex-libris (obliterated) and small ownership stamp on blak end paper. Some wear to covers, 1st foldout has some tearing along crease. Very Good Condition, attractive binding, plates, illustrations, and text paper. A nice copy. (AC-21-19)
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Israelitische Religionsgemeinde, Leipzig
AUS GESCHICHTE UND LEBEN DER JUDEN IN LEIPZIG; FESTSCHRIFT ZUM 75JÄHRIGEN BESTEHEN DER LEIPZIGER GEMEINDE-SYNAGOGE HERAUSGEGEBEN
used very good condition; Original orange and blue paper wrappers, 8vo, 88 pages; 22cm. First edition. Written in German. Title translates to From History and Life of Jews in Leipzig; Writing for the 75th [Anniversary] of the Establishment of of the Leipzig Community Synagogue. Includes frontis photo & plates & portraits. SUBJECT (S) : Jews -- Germany -- Leipzig. "vom Vorstand der Israelitischen religionsgemeinde, 1855-1930." OCLC lists 12 copies worldwide. Light Wear, Very good condition. (GERN-1-1B)
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(xt) Adler, Lazarus
VORTRÄGE ZUR FORDERUNG DER HUMANITÄT. VOL I ONLY [OF 2]
1st edition, original paper wrappers. 8vo, vii, 16 pages. In German. Volume 1 (of 2) only. Title translates to: Lectures on the Demands of Humanity. In 1852 Adler became district rabbi of the province of Hesse-Kassel and retained this post until his retirement to Wiesbaden in 1883. Adler represented the more conservative branch of the Reform movement in Germany. While a consistent advocate of religious and educational progress, he opposed measures, such as the abolition of circumcision, which he felt would create an unbridgeable gulf between factions of the Jewish community. He was president of the Kassel rabbinical conference (1868) and an important participant in the German-Jewish synods of Leipzig (1869) and Augsburg (1871). From 1837 to 1839 Adler published Die Synagoge, a periodical containing sermons, popular historical studies, and essays dealing with contemporary Jewish issues. (encyclopedia.com) OCLC: 35014204, OCLC lists 8 copies worldwide. Previous owners stamp on title page and front end page; ex library stamp on front end page; some edgewear. Good Condition Overall. (AMR-69-3)
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(xt)Sacher-Masoch, Leopold Ritter von; Cohen, Harriet Lieber
JEWISH TALES
1st English language edition; original cloth, 12mo. 317 pages. 18 cm. Singerman 4762. Originally in French by Leopold von Sacher Masoch; translated to English by Harriet Lieber Cohen. Leopold Ritter von Sacher-Masoch was an Austrian nobleman, writer and journalist, who gained renown for his romantic stories of Galician life. The term masochism is derived from his name. During his lifetime, Sacher-Masoch was well known as a man of letters, in particular an utopian thinker who espoused socialist and humanist ideals in his fiction and non-fiction. (wikipedia 2018). In these quiet, out-of-the-way villages had Sacher Masoch, united to the Jew by no tie of creed, found material for his Jewish Tales. It is here he has discovered they types which inspired these little prose poems. Racy, piquant, spirited, crowded with striking contrasts, replete with dialogue, now bright and comic, now grave and serious, they follow rigorously the lines of truth
. The work imposes itself upon us from its moral as well as its literary standpoint, and must unquestionably take high rank as one of the most original and artistic productions of the day. (preface) SUBJECT(S): Jews -- Fiction. Jewish fiction. OCLC: 5703086. Ex library with usual marks, some pencil marks opposite first page, few page edges slightly torn, else Very Good Condition. (AC-7-16)
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Wevers, John William
EXODUS / SEPTUAGINTA. VETUS TESTAMENTUM GRAECUM AUCTORITATE SCIENTIARUM GOTTINGENSIS EDITUM. VOL. II,1
1st edition, original cloth, 8vo. 474 pages, In Greek with editorial matter in German. " ... The creation and propagation of a critical text of the LXX/OG has been a basic concern in modern scholarship. The two great text editions begun in the early 20th century are the Cambridge Septuagint and the Gttingen Septuagint, each with a 'minor edition' (editio minor) and a 'major edition' (editio maior). For Cambridge this means respectively H.B. Swete, The Old Testament in Greek (1909-1922) and the so-called 'Larger Cambridge Septuagint' by A.E. Brooke, N. McLean, (and H. St. John Thackeray) (1906- ). For Gttingen it denotes respectively Alfred Rahlfs's Handausgabe (1935) and the 'Larger Gttingen Septuagint' (1931- ). Though Rahlfs (editio minor) can be called a semi-critical edition, the Gttingen Septuaginta (editio maior) presents a fully critical text, as described below. While both the Cambridge and Gttingen editions collect and organize textual evidence, they are based on different text-critical approaches. Whereas the Swete-Cambridge edition is 'diplomatic' (see below) the Rahlfs-Gttingen edition is expressly 'critical.' The difference between them did not, however, arise from any theoretical disagreement but, instead, from practical considerations. Whereas in the Cambridge view a critical edition of the LXX/OG was premature, Gttingen judged that its time had come. The Cambridge Septuagint project has since lapsed (1940), but the Gttingen editio maior continues. The central importance of critical editions in modern Septuagint Studies and their continued development is, therefore, not in doubt. Whereas a diplomatic edition uses as its base text a single, 'best' manuscript, to which other textual evidence is collated and organized into an apparatus, a critical text of the LXX/OG may be described as a collection of the oldest recoverable texts, carefully restored book by book (or section by section), aiming at achieving the closest approximation to the original translations (from Hebrew or Aramaic) or compositions (in Greek), systematically reconstructed from the widest array of relevant textual data (including controlled conjecture). The Gttingen Septuagint features two apparatuses (as does the Larger Cambridge Septuagint), the first for LXX/OG textual evidence proper and the second for so-called hexaplaric evidence, i.e. 'rival' translations/revisions of the translated LXX/OG (such as circulated under the labels 'Theodotion, ' 'Aquila, ' and 'Symmachus'), preserved largely through the influence of Origen's Hexapla. For LXX/OG research the importance of both apparatuses is second only to the critical text itself. Though in the nature of the case, the quest for each lost Greek original is without end, it is equally true that responsible research uses such critical texts as its starting point. Similarly, though the Greek original is not claimed to be superior to subsequent text-forms that have been generated (usually by revision of various sorts) in its transmission history, it nevertheless has logical as well as historical priority. It follows from the above that electronic tools aimed at facilitating research on the Septuagintal materials -- whether the LXX/OG as produced and published (the original text) or the LXX/OG as transmitted and received (i.e. its later history) -- ought to make use of the best available critical editions as base text rather than non-critical editions, a practice which would have a regressive effect on scholarship" (The International Organization for Septuagint and Cognate Studies) SUBJECT(S): Criticism, interpretation, etc. Bible. Exodus, Textual. OCLC: 25253135. Ex library with usual marks, else Very Good Condition. (AC-7-13)
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Wieder, Naphtali
HASHPA'OT ISLAMIYOT 'AL HA-PULHAN HA-YEHUDI. ISLAMIC INFLUENCES ON THE JEWISH WORSHIP
1st edition, original cloth, 8vo. 102 pages. 24 cm. In Hebrew, with added English title page. Wieder, who was an Orthodox Jewish scholar with training in Semitics and comparative philology, displays remarkable erudition in this study. When discussing rabbinics he uses primary sources; when discussing Islamics, he cites secondary sources of the best western scholarship, mostly that of Goldziher and his students. In his description and analysis of Rabbi Abraham Mainmunis innovations he worked directly with the Judeo- Arabic texts, sections of which are reproduced in an appendix to Islamic Influences on Jewish Worship. (Goldman, http://booksandjournals.brillonline.com/ 2018) SUBJECT(S): Worship in the Bible. Judaism -- Relations -- Islam. Interfaith relations. OCLC: 13848892. Cover board is cracked, some wear on spine, else Good Condition. (AC-7-14)
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Dan, Joseph; Talmage, Frank
STUDIES IN JEWISH MYSTICISM: PROCEEDINGS OF REGIONAL CONFERENCES HELD AT THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, LOS ANGELES, AND MCGILL UNIVERSITY IN APRIL, 1978
1st editon, original cloth, 8vo. X+220 pages. 24 cm. Contents: Mysticism in Jewish history, religion and literature / Joseph Dan -- Was Philo a mystic? / David Winston -- Jewish Merkavah mysticism and Gnosticism / Ithamar Gruenwald -- Hasidei Ashkenaz private penitentials : an introduction and descriptive catalogue of their manuscripts and early editions / Ivan Marcus -- The emergence of mystical prayer / Joseph Dan -- Response to Joseph Dan / Lawrence Kaplan -- Nahmanides' symbolical reading of history / Amos Funkenstein -- Response to Amos Funkenstein / David Lieber -- A philosophical-mystical interpretation of a Shi`ur Qomah text / David R. Blumenthal -- Response to David R. Blumenthal / Alti B. Rodal -- The function of the enigmatic in two Hasidic tales / Arnold J. Band. SUBJECT(S): Mysticism -- Judaism -- Congresses. Conference papers and proceedings. OCLC: 7795454. Top right corner slightly dented, else Very Good Condition. (AC-7-15)
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Budko, Josef [Joseph Yosef], illustrator. Edited and translated by Max Grunwald
HAGADAH SHEL PESACH. PESSACH-HAGGADA. [BUDKO HAGGADAH. HAGADA SHEL PESAH PASSOVER HAGGADAH PESAH PESSACH PESAKH]
1st edition thus. Original illustrated cloth, Small 8vo, [43] Hebrew + [42] German pages. With 39 woodcut historiated initials and lithograph etchings. Yudlov 2822; Not in Yaari. Joseph Budko (1888-1940) , was a "painter and graphic artist. Budko, who was born in Plonsk, received a traditional Jewish education. In 1902 he went to study at the art school in Vilna. In 1910 Budko moved to Berlin where he learned metal-chasing and also studied at the Museum of Arts and Crafts. In Berlin Budko met Hermann Struck who taught him the technique of etching. Eventually he also took up woodcutting, lithography, and painting. In 1933 Budko settled in Palestine. In 1935 he became the director of the reopened New Bezalel school of arts and crafts. Budko stressed the teaching of graphic design and utilized the ornamental value of the Hebrew letters. Budko's subject matter was determined by the Jewish environment in which he grew up and to which he returned in Jerusalem. Budko developed a style that combined the personal with the Jewish, being a synthesis of Jewish tradition and modern art. He also revived the spirit of Jewish book illustration, adapting it to modern design. Among the books he illustrated are the Haggadah, and he designed many bookplates. " (2007 Encyclopedia Judaica) . "Joseph Budkos Haggadah, 1921, skillfully integrated the Hebrew text with illustrations. Budko was thought to be withdrawn and outwardly cold, but his art was warm in a style that permitted a melding of tradition with modernism, slavery with redemption. His [illustration of a] faceless Jew trudges alone through history from a callous past to an unknowable future, moving over a snow-lined path, half-frozen, but determined and defiant. No signs or wonders for him - he knows he must make it on his own. " (Harris, "The way Jews lived: five hundred years of printed words and images, p. 353) . Yaari 1913; Yudlov 2821. Library of Congress Berman Haggadah Collection includes a copy. Very Good Condition (Yid-29-13B )
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[Mendelssohn, Moses] Wolf, Michael; Euchel, Isaac Abraham
TOLDOT HA-HAKHAM HA-HOKER ELOHI RABENU MOSHEH BEN MENAHEM ZTS"L
MENDELSSOHNS LEBEN VON ISAK EICHEL. [STANDS ON ITS OWN; VOL I, PART II OF ZEMIROT ISRAEL. SEMIROTH JISRAEL: SAMMLUNG DER KLASSISCHEN WERKE NEUHEBRÄISCHER POETEN UND PROSAIKER]
1st edition. Original printed wrappers, 16mo (small), 208 pages. In Hebrew with German-Heberw title pages as front cover. Biography and some writings of Moses Mendelssohn (Moses of Dessau; 17291786) philosopher of the German Enlightenment in the pre-Kantian period, early Maskil, and a renowned Jewish figure in the 18th century. Born in Dessau, son of a Torah scribe, Mendelssohn received a traditional Jewish education under the influence of David Fraenkel, who was then rabbi of Dessau. When the latter was appointed rabbi of Berlin in 1743, Mendelssohn followed him there in order to pursue his religious studies and to acquire a general education. He earned his livelihood with difficulty while simultaneously studying Talmud diligently and acquiring a broad education in literature and philosophy. In addition to his fluent knowledge of German and Hebrew, he acquired knowledge of Latin, Greek, English, French, and Italian. His teachers were young, broadly educated Jews, such as the Galician immigrant Israel M. Zamosc, who taught him medieval Jewish philosophy, the medical student Abraham Kisch, who taught him Latin, and the well-born Berlin Jew, A.S. Gumpertz, who taught him French and English and in general served as a model of a pious Jew immersed in the larger intellectual world. During this period he met the writer and dramatist G.E. Lessing (1754) and a deep and lifelong friendship developed between them. In 1750 he became a teacher in the house of Isaac Bernhard, owner of a silk factory; in 1754, he was entrusted with the bookkeeping of the factory and eventually he became a partner in the enterprise. Throughout his life he worked as a merchant, while carrying out his literary activities and widespread correspondence in his free time. Only in 1763 was he granted the "right of residence" in Berlin by the king. In 1762, he married Fromet Guggenheim of Hamburg, and they had six children. In 1754 Mendelssohn began to publish at first with the assistance of Lessing philosophical writings and later also literary reviews. He also started a few literary projects (for example, the short-lived periodical Kohelet Musar) in order to enrich and change Jewish culture and took part in the early Haskalah. In 1763, he was awarded the first prize of the Prussian Royal Academy of Sciences for his work Abhandlung über die Evidenz in metaphysischen Wissenschaften ("Treatise on Evidence in Metaphysical Knowledge"). However, when the academy elected him as a member in 1771, King Frederick II refused to ratify its decision. In 1769, he became embroiled in a dispute on the Jewish religion, and from then on, he confined most of his literary activity to the sphere of Judaism. His most notable and enduring works in this area included the translation into German and commentary on the Pentateuch, Sefer Netivot ha-Shalom ("Book of the Paths of Peace," 178083) and his Jerusalem: oder, Ueber religiöse Macht und Judenthum ("Jerusalem, or On Religious Power and Judaism," 1783), the first polemical defense of Judaism in the German language and one of the pioneering works of modern Jewish philosophy. An active intermediary on behalf of his own people in difficult times and a participant in their struggle for equal rights, he was at the same time a forceful defender of the Enlightenment against the opposition to it which gained strength toward the end of his life. In the midst of a literary battle against one of the leading figures of the counter-Enlightenment, he died in 1786 (EJ 2007; JE 1905). Zeitlin, p. 424. Bibliography of the Hebrew Book 1470-1960 #000109459. SUBJECT(S): Jews -- Germany -- Biography. Rabbis Philosophers. OCLC: 492895808. OCLC lists 4 copies (Staatsbib. Berlin, LBI, HUC, Hebrew Col.), though, strangely, our edition ends on page 208 (final page!) rather than the 224 as the OCLC copies indicate. Uncut copy, some wear & darkening to wrappers, paper remains bright white and nice. About Very Good- Condition. Nice copy of this scarce work. (KH-10-9)
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Geiger, Abraham; Maurice Mayer
JUDAISM AND ITS HISTORY
CLOSING WITH THE DESTRUCTION OF THE SECOND TEMPLE [&]
1st English Language Edition. Original publisher's quarter leather. 12mo. VIII, II, 343 pages. 20 cm. Singerman 1942. Vol. 1, no more published. Judaism and its History, by Abraham Geiger; translated from the German by Maurice Mayer, closing with the destruction of the second temple, to which is added an appendix, "Renan and Strauss. " Translation of: Das Judenthum und seine Geschichte. Tan leather with gilt lettering and trim, brown cloth boards; marbled fore edges with matching end papers. Abraham Geiger German rabbi and scholar; born at Frankfort-on-the-Main May 24, 1810; died at Berlin Oct. 23, 1874.
His lectures on Judaism and its history (Das Judenthum und Seine Geschichte, 2d ed. Of vol. I. , 1864; 3d vol. , 1869-71) were in the nature of university extension courses. Brilliantly presented, his views lost none of their scholarly thoroughness. His introductory lecture, giving his views on revelation, is especially worthy of note: the genius of the people of Israel is the vehicle of revelationa view at once liberal and loyal, though hopelessly in opposition to the mechanical theory of revelation held to be orthodox. In these lectures, too, Geiger gave without reserve the results of his studies on the origin of Christianity, while in connection with the second series he prepared a biography of Ibn Gabirol (1906 Jewish Encyclopedia) Subjects: Judaism - History. Jews - History. Ex-synagogue library with early (19th Century?) synagogue library bookplate on front pastedown with card pocket as expetcted, no other markings, all text pages clean, paper and binding nice an bright and tight with original marbled endpapers. Light wear to spine and boards, but tooled leather spine & corners remain attractive. Very Good Condition thus (AMR-44-11A)
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Budko, Josef [Joseph Yosef], illustrator. Edited and translated by Max Grunwald
HAGADAH SHEL PESACH. PESSACH-HAGGADA. [BUDKO HAGGADAH. HAGADA SHEL PESAH PASSOVER HAGGADAH PESAH PESSACH PESAKH]
1st edition thus. Original illustrated cloth, Small 8vo, [43] Hebrew + [42] German pages. With 39 woodcut historiated initials and lithograph etchings. Yudlov 2822; Not in Yaari. Joseph Budko (1888-1940) , was a "painter and graphic artist. Budko, who was born in Plonsk, received a traditional Jewish education. In 1902 he went to study at the art school in Vilna. In 1910 Budko moved to Berlin where he learned metal-chasing and also studied at the Museum of Arts and Crafts. In Berlin Budko met Hermann Struck who taught him the technique of etching. Eventually he also took up woodcutting, lithography, and painting. In 1933 Budko settled in Palestine. In 1935 he became the director of the reopened New Bezalel school of arts and crafts. Budko stressed the teaching of graphic design and utilized the ornamental value of the Hebrew letters. Budko's subject matter was determined by the Jewish environment in which he grew up and to which he returned in Jerusalem. Budko developed a style that combined the personal with the Jewish, being a synthesis of Jewish tradition and modern art. He also revived the spirit of Jewish book illustration, adapting it to modern design. Among the books he illustrated are the Haggadah, and he designed many bookplates. " (2007 Encyclopedia Judaica) . "Joseph Budkos Haggadah, 1921, skillfully integrated the Hebrew text with illustrations. Budko was thought to be withdrawn and outwardly cold, but his art was warm in a style that permitted a melding of tradition with modernism, slavery with redemption. His [illustration of a] faceless Jew trudges alone through history from a callous past to an unknowable future, moving over a snow-lined path, half-frozen, but determined and defiant. No signs or wonders for him - he knows he must make it on his own. " (Harris, "The way Jews lived: five hundred years of printed words and images, p. 353) . Yaari 1913; Yudlov 2821. Library of Congress Berman Haggadah Collection includes a copy. Spine rebacked, occational light foxing and staining, Good+ Condition (Yid-29-13C )
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Cohen, Hermann. Bruno Strauss, Ed.
HERMANN COHENS JÜDISCHE SCHRIFTEN [COMPLETE IN THREE VOLUMES] [HERMAN COHEN'S]
1st edition as such. Original period decorated boards with black spines lettered in gilt. 8vo. 3 volumes. LXIV, 375, VIII, 483, 375 pages. Frontispiece portrait of Cohen volume I. In German. Series: Veröffentlichungen der Akademie für die Wissenschaft des Judentums. Contents: 1. Bd. Ethische und religiöse Grundfragen. --2. Bd. Zur jüdischen Zeitgeschichte. --3. Bd. Zur jüdischen Religionsphilosophie und ihrer Geschichte. Published after Cohen's death. "Cohen is generally acknowledged to be one of the ablest representatives and exponents of the neo-Kantian school. He was one of the founders of the Gesellschaft zur Förderung der Wissenschaft des Judenthums, which held its first meeting in Berlin in Nov. , 1902." (Isidodre Singer, JE) "The dignity of man is central to Cohen's ethical thought. A proponent of humanistic socialism, he regarded a nation's treatment of its working classes as an index of its level of morality. While he called Marx "God's historical messenger, " he rejected historical materialism as well as the atheistic trends prevalent in the workers' movement" (Samuel Hugo Bergman, EJ). A nearly complete collection of Hermann Cohen's shorter philosophic and theological Jewish Writings with the intention to present the public with the development of the scope of his work, including six unpublished lectures from the estate ("Die Messiasidee" - "Die Versöhnungsidee" - "Der Stil der Propheten" - "Die Lyrik der Psalmen" - "Über die ästhetische Bedeutung unserer religiösen Bildung" - "Das soziale Ideal bei Platon und den Propheten)." SUBJECT(S) : Judaism. Jews -- History. Feldman considers Cohen's philosophy "the most significant system of Jewish religious philosophy since Hasdai Crescas." Absolutely gorgeous set, Very good+ condition, stunning. (GER-6-27B)
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KRINGS, Wilfried
Wertung und umwertung von allmenden im Rhein-Maas-Gebiet vom Spättmittelalter bis zur Mitte des 19.Jahrhunderts - Eine historisch-sozialgeographische Studie
Assen, Van Gorcum 1976 geïll. met 11 fig., XXII + 107pp., linen cover with dustwrapper, in the series "Maaslandse Monografieën" vol.20
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GRAF Jurgen
L'holocauste au scanner. Témoignages oculaires ou lois naturelles
xii + 134pp., 18cm., br., bon état, G75908
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Various authors
Zwanzigster Internationaler Eucharistischer Kongress in Cöln vom 4. bis 8. August 1909 (amtlicher Bericht herausgegeben im Auftrage des Lokal-Komitees)
[x] 956 + 47pp.+ plates out-of-text + frontispice, cloth, gilt edges, 23cm., G, R75915
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SAUER Joseph
Die Zerstörung von Kirchen und Kunstdenkmälern an der Westfront
xv + 133pp. + 98 ills.out-of-text, 24cm., in the series "Arbeitsausschuss zur Verteidigung deutscher und katholischer Interessen im Weltkrieg" A.G.14, softcover, stamp, some foxing, G, G75839
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Various authors
Jahrbuch der Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Göttingen, 2008
527pp.with ills. (of which some in colour) + frontispice in colour, 24cm., cloth, very good condition, ISBN 978-3-11-022160-2, W75757
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TEUCHERT Hermann
Die Sprachreste der niederländischen Siedlungen des 12. Jahrhunderts
viii + 515pp.with 65 maps, 26cm., cart.cover (spine in cloth), few foxing on edges, good condition, T75759
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MENZENBACH Johann
Ludwig Windthorst in seinem Leben und Wirken, insbesondere in seiner politischen Thätigkeit
623pp. + plate out-of-text + frontispice (portrait), 20cm., cart.cover (spine in leather, some use), marbled edges, few foxing, name of previous owner on several pages, good condition, [text printed in Gothic German], G75628
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KRUDEWIG Johannes & KLINKENBERG Joseph
Die Kunstdenkmäler der Stadt Köln. Erster Band. I und II. Abteilung: Quellen (bearbeitert von Johannes Krudewig) & Das Römische Köln (bearbeitet von Joseph Klinkenberg)
393pp.with 182 ills. + 14 plates, 27cm., in the series "Die Kunstdenkmäler der Rheinprovinz" Sechster Band I. und II Abteilung, softcover (some use), text in good condition, S75415
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CLEMEN Paul
Die Kunstdenkmäler der Stadt und des Kreises Bonn
vii + 403pp.with 267 ills. + 29 plates, 25cm., in the series "Die Kunstdenkmäler der Rheinprovinz" Fünfter Band III, bound in cart.cover (marbled plates), few foxing, stamp on verso of title page, good condition, S75416
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GIERMANN Renate
Die neueren Handschriften der Gruppe Novissimi. 1 Noviss. 2° - 100 Noviss. 2°, 1 Noviss. 4° - 78 Noviss. 4°, 1 Noviss. 8° - 235 Noviss. 8°, 1 Noviss. 12° - 19 Noviss. 12° [in: "Kataloge der Herzog August Bibliothek Wolfenbüttel" vol.20]
xvi + 376pp.with ills., 31cm., in the series "Kataloge der Herzog August Bibliothek Wolfenbüttel" vol.20, blind softcover, pages unuct, interior and text in very good condition, T75404
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SCHNITZKER Elisabeth
Die Gründung der Universität Rostock 1419
105pp. + 4 folding plates out-of-text, 24cm., in the series "Mitteldeutsche Forschungen" vol.73, copy from the library of the Belgian medievalist Raymond Macken with his signature, cloth (some waterstains on cover), text and interior VG, O75210
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PULTZ Otto (description) & DIETZEL Armin & BAUER Gunther (eds.)
Die deutschen Handschriften der Universitätsbibliothek Erlangen [in: Katalog der Handschriften der Universitätsbibliothek Erlangen, Neubearbeitung" vol.4]
253pp., 25cm., copy from the library of the Belgian medievalist Raymond Macken with his signature, softcover, pages uncut, good condition, T75218
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KURRAS Lotte
Die Deutschen mittelalterlichen Handschriften. Zweiter Teil: Die Naturkundlichen und historischen Handschriften, Rechtshandschriften, Varia
xix + 113pp., 30cm., copy from the library of the Belgian medievalist Raymond Macken with his signature, in the series "Die Kataloge des Germanischen Nationalmuseums Nürnberg" Erster Band, softcover (some foxing), text in good condition, T75228
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WEIMANN Birgitt
Die mittelalterlichen Handschriften der Gruppe Manuscripta Germanica [in: "Die Handschriften der Stadt- und Universitätsbibliothek Frankfurt am Main", vol.4]
xxii + 225pp., 30cm., copy from the library of the Belgian medievalist Raymond Macken with his signature, in the series "Kataloge der Stadt- und Universitätsbibliothek Frankfurt am Main. Band 5: Die Handschriften der Stadt- und Universitätsbibliothek Frankfurt am Main" vol.4, blind softcover, good condition, T75231
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HAGENMAIER Winfried
Die lateinischen mittelalterlichen Handschriften der Universitätsbibliothek (ab Hs.231) [in "Kataloge der Universitätsbibliothek Freiburg im Breisgau" Band 1, Teil 3]
xx + 274pp., 30cm., in the series "Kataloge der Universitätsbibliothek Freiburg im Breisgau. Band 1: Die Handschriften der Universitätsbibliothek und anderer öffentlicher Sammlungen in Freiburg im Breisgau und Umgebung", Teil 3, softcover, most pages uncut, very good condition, T75226
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IRTENKAUF Wolfgang, KREKLER Ingeborg & DUMKE Isolde
Codices poetici et philologici
xx + 279pp. + portrait, 30cm., copy from the library of the Belgian medievalist Raymond Macken with his signature, in the series "Die Handschriften der Würtembergischen Landesbibliothek Stuttgart" Erste Reihe Zweiter Band, softcover, good condition, T75227
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DANIEL Natalia, KORNRUMPF Gisela & SCHOTT Gerhard
Die lateinischen mittelalterlichen Handschriften aus der Folioreihe. Erste Hälfte + Zweite Hälfte [2 vols.]
2 vols.: xxvii,330 + xix,261pp., 30cm., copy from the library of the Belgian medievalist Raymond Macken with his signature, in the series "Die Handschriften der Universitätsbibliothek München" Dritter Band [Erste + Zweite Hälfte], softcover, good condition, T75230
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POWITZ Gerhardt & BUCK Herbert
Die Handschriften des Bartholomaeusstifts und des Karmeliterklosters in Frankfurt am Main
xxxii + 570pp., 30cm., copy from the library of the Belgian medievalist Raymond Macken with his signature, in the series "Kataloge der Stadt- und Universitätsbibliothek Frankfurt am Main. Band 3: Die Handschriften der Stadt- und Universitätsbibliothek Frankfurt am Main" vol.2, blind softcover (with vague ink traces), softcover, good condition, R75233
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BOLLNOW Otto Friedrich
Deutsche Existenzphilosophie
40pp., 24cm., in the series "Bibliografische Einführungen in das Studium der Philosophie" vol.23, softcover, pages uncut, good condition, F75062
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TSCHAN Francis J.
Saint Bernward of Hildesheim. 2: His works of art & 3: Album [2 vols.]
2 vols.: vii,503pp. + [16] + [268]pp. & 268 plates, 24cm., in the series "Publications in mediaeval studies" vol.12-13, copy from the library of the Belgian scholar Buytaert O.F.M., cloth, good condition, R75071
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PENSA Mario (MECKAUER Walter, transl.)
Das deutsche Denken. Untersuchung über die Grundformen der deutschen Philosophie. Autorisierte und ergänzende deutsche Ubertragung
416pp., 22cm., cloth, good condition, text in German (translation of the original Italian title "Il pensiero tedesco. Saggio di psicologia della filosofia tedesca"), F75058
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GLAISHER J.W.L.
On the early history of the signs + and - and on the early German arithmeticians
144pp.with ills., 21cm., extract from the "Messenger of Mathematics" vol.51 (1921-1922), softcover, good condition, F75037
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BEISSEL Stephan
Die Verehrung der heiligen und ihrer Reliquien in Deutschland im Mittelalter
xv + 143 + 31pp., 23cm., reprographic reprint of the 1890/92-edition, in the series "Bibliothek Klassischer Texte", cloth, dustwrapper, very good condition, [text printed in Gothic German], H76032
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DOLD Richard
Maria Viktoria, die letzte Markgräfin von Baden-Baden
84pp. + frontispice (portrait), 22cm., softcover, stamp, few foxing, good condition, [text printed in Gothic German], G75611
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TINGSTEN Herbert (KUIPER Joh. E., vertal.)
De nationale dictaturen. De gedachtenwereld van nationaal-socialisme en fascisme
243pp., 23cm., ingebonden in gecart.band, stempeltje, luttele roestvlekjes, goede staat, G74894
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NITHARDUS [NITHARD] (PERTZ Georgius Heinricus, ed.) & RIMBERTUS [RIMBERT] (WAITZ G., ed.) & ABBO (PERTZ Georgius Heinricus, ed.) & WAITZ G. (ed.)
Nithardi Historiarum libri IIII + Vita Anskarii auctore Rimberto accedit Vita Rimberti + Abbonis De bello Parisiaco libri III + Annales Hildesheimenses [4 works in 1 volume]
4 works in 1 volume: vii,57 + 100 + 51 + 69pp., 22cm., 1st work [Nithardus]: 2nd edition, in the series "Scriptores rerum Germanicarum in usum scholarum ex monumentis Germaniae historicis recusi", bound in cart.cover (marbled plates, spine in cloth), signature of previous owner on title page and in the text, few stamps and foxing, good condition, [texts in Latin], G74830
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THIETMARUS [THIETMARI] [THIETMAR VON MERSEBURG, DIETMAR VON MERSEBURG] (LAPPENBERGIUS Ioh. M. & KURZE Fridericus, eds.)
Thietmari Merseburgensis episcopi Chronicon, post editionem Ioh. M. Lappenbergii recognovit Fridericus Kurze
xviii + 293pp., 22cm., in the series "Scriptores rerum Germanicarum in usum scholarum ex monumentis Germaniae historicis recusi", bound in cart.cover (marbled plates, spine in cloth), signature of previous owner on title page and in the text, few stamps and foxing, good condition, [text in Latin], G74832
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SCHEEL Katja (hrsg.)
Et respondeat. Studien zum Deutschen Theater des Mittelalters
xi + 266pp.with portrait, 24cm., in the series "Mediaevalia Lovaniensia" Series 1 Studia 32, softcover, fine condition, [with contributions in German], T74601
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