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1948(FT) Original Wrappers. 8vo. 55 pages. 23 cm. First edition. Title page verso: The Old Man of Lompaduni and other Stories. This beautifully illustrated book of childrens stories is printed in seven colors of ink. The author of these seven stories in Yiddish was Yuri Suhl, who emigrated from Poland to the United States in the 1920s, and became well known as a Yiddish poet and childrens writer. His other works included the popular "They Fought Back: The Story of Jewish Resistance in Nazi Europe. " That work was praised as a landmark contribution to Holocaust literature and Suhl spent more than five years documenting it before it was published in 1967. His other works included "Eloquent Crusader: Ernestine Rose, " a biography of the Polish-born feminist, and two autobiographical novels: "One Foot in America" and "Cowboy on a Wooden Horse. " He was also a trustee of the fund set up for the sons of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg. The illustrator, William Gropper (18971977) , a cartoonist, painter, lithographer, and muralist; he grew up in the lower east side, and an aunt of his died in the triangle shirtwaist factory fire. He was a dedicated left wing political cartoonist for both English and Yiddish papers. During the second half of the 1930s, Gropper dedicated his art to the efforts to raise popular opposition to fascism in Europe. Following World War II, Gropper traveled to Poland to attend the inaugural convention of the World Congress of Intellectuals for Peace of 1948 in Wroclaw. This Yiddish childrens book was printed there, both for an audience of international anti-fascist partisans and survivors gathering to found the World Peace Council, as well as for those survivors living in Wroclaw, one of the largest post-war Jewish communities in Poland for a few years. Rare, OCLC lists 12 copies. Subjects: Children's stories, Yiddish. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) . Front cover repaired with tape, edges chipped. All pages lightly aged, but clean and fresh. Good condition. Scarce and important (HOLO2-97-42)
1940Single sided flyer. [1] page. 56 x 41 cm. Large announcement for the draft of all males over 21 and under 36, declaring the need to register and the ability to do so at any local public school in the Assembly district, from 7am to 9pm on October 16th. Includes 11 points of information that will be needed to fill out the draft register. An interesting period piece, with tape still clinging to edges, ostensibly from when this document was torn down; Subjects: Draft registration New York City. United States. Army - Recruiting, enlistment, etc. - World War, 1939-1945. Slightly torn upper left corner and tear at tape line on right portion. Upper edges lightly chipped and bumped. Previously folded in a poor fashion, leaving various crease lines. Otherwise, clean and fresh. Good condition. (LB-5-26)
1947Small folio, 17, 33pages. First Edition. Inscribed by Vishniac's father, Solomon.With an introductory essay by Abraham Joshua Heschel. A most moving depiction of vibrant Jewish life before the Holocaust. 31 black and white photographs, many now iconic images of Eastern European Jewish life. Original boards, beautiful clean copy in jacket that lacks 3 inches of the spine and has spine label at the bottom but otherwise nice. Inscribed by Vishniac's father, Solomon, in the old Russian style, on the end paper. We had an expert from the Roman Vishniac collection at the Institute for Contemporary Photography take a look at it and this is what they concluded: "Its written in the old Russian language (tsarists times) and says 'In memory to dear Ida Glezer from the devoted friend Solomon Vishnyak (signiture) Roman Vishnyak.' So here we have confirmation. Roman Vishniac's father, Solomon Vishniac, inscribed his son's book to a friend, in the old Russian language of tsarist's times (whereas, Roman Vishniac's Russian was quite modern...So, not signed by Vishniac, but by his father. Confirmed attribution." Very Good Condition in Good Jacket with damaged spine and spine label on jacket only (EE-3-20) xx
1942Original Wraps. 8vo. 16 pages. 21 cm. First edition. In English with three pages of Hebrew at rear. Torah v'Avodah Library. Contains discussion of the significance and laws of the Feast, the Kindling of the Lights, and contains Hebrew passages from Talmud, Midrash, and Maimonides. With discussion of the celebration of the feast in Eretz Israel. Bachad was a religious Zionist youth movement in pre-war Germany called Brit Chalutzim Datiim which shortened its name to its initial letters Bachad. Its members prepared themselves for Aliya. A group of them came over to England among the refugees who were permitted to enter this country in the years immediately before the war. They were accommodated in a castle in Wales [Gwrych Castle] and set up Hachshara centres in Bromsgrove and other places, as well as a Merkaz Limmud in Manchester to which members came from the Hachsharah centres for periods of three or six months for intensive Jewish studies. Later on a farm was bought at Thaxted in Essex which became not only a model Hachsharah centre but very quickly a successful agricultural venture which at one time won first prize for having the best milk yielding cow in Essex! (Bauk, 2013) . Subjects: Hannukah. OCLC lists one copy (Natl Libr Israel) . Ex-libris stamp of Aron Owen (author of a short biography on Rashi) . Light soiling to wraps, otherwise fresh. Good + condition. Quite scarce. (SPEC-40-17)
1946First Shanghai edition. Original boards. 8vo. 54, 68, 80, 86, 90 pages. 23 cm. In Hebrew. Title translates to The Shining Light. Zeev Wolf was a Hasidic rabbi best known for the present book, originally published in Koretz in 1787. It is important for its wealth of material on the history of ? Asidism and the teachings of its founders. This edition was published in conjunction with the displaced community of Yeshivat Chachmei Lublin. During the 1930s and 1940s as the situation of the Jewish communities in Europe deteriorated, many students from the yeshivah escaped via Japan due the efforts of the Japanese Consul General in Kovno, Lithuania. SUBJECTS: Lublin --Holocaust Displaced Persons-Hasidim. Not listed on OCLC or the National Library of Israel database. Internally Very Good. Overall in Very Good Condition. (RAB-60-18)
19481st edition. Original paper wrappers. 8vo, 47 pages. Easty post war report on the heroic wartime activities of the British Secion of the WJC. 11 plates of letters in back. The British Scection was formally established at a National Conference in November, 1936, when an Executive Committee was elected. From the first, the Section participated actively in all the campaigns conducted by the World Jewish Congress in relation to many problems affecting European Jewry, especially those arising from the Nazi anti-Jewish terror and the sufferings of East European Jewry through the persecutions, humiliations and discriminations of reactionary Governmnets. It called a number of important National Conferences, such as that for the Defence of Rights of Polish Jews in 1937, a mass demonstration to protest against Nazi terror in 1938, and conducted a campaign in which over 300 University professors and lecturers signed a protest against tge Ghetto Benches in Poland in 1939. On these occasions, the British Section received messages from many outstanding leaders of the churches and political parties (page 3) OCLC: 857441, OCLC lists 4 copies worldwide (HUC, British Libr Reference Collections, National Libr of Israel, and Eth-bibliothek Zurich). Corners dented, cover edges slightly sunned, clean copy. Very Good Condition. (HOLO2-144-3-'a+)
Best.-Nr. DADAX3484570059De Gruyter 2001-03-21. Reprint 2011. hardcover. New. 6.14x0.81x9.21. Buy with confidence. Excellent Customer Service & Return policy. De Gruyter hardcover
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1991xxviii, [2], 514 pages. Several black and white reproductions of archival photos. "Documents more than 21,000 towns in Central and Eastern Europe where Jews lived before the Holocaust. An exceptionally clear and easy to use reference work which will save enormous research time and frustration for students of this subject. For all interested in European place names and this period of history, it instantly becomes an invaluable and indispensable standard reference work." - dust jacket. Former library copy with minimal markings and light wear. Dust jacket now preserved in archival-grade Brodart. A quality copy. Book
1983[12], 277 pages. List of abbreviations. Glossary of Jewish and Zionist organisations. Footnotes. Index. "Searches through the Zionist record - and finds evidence that it sought the patronage and benevolence of avowed anti-Semites and, ultimately, the collaboration of the Fascists and Nazis. In a carefully researched and closely reasoned work, Brenner shows how from the beginning Zionism's leaders were prepared to go to almost any length to achieve the goal of a separate Jewish homeland." - back cover. Unmarked with average wear. Binding intact. A sound copy of this controversial work. Book
1961139, 5 [ads] pages. Black and white photos. Critically annotated on many pages by prior owner who applied a masking tape label to the front cover upon which to state his disagreement with the content. Annotation on page 101 suggests prior owner served in the air force of an allied country during WWII. Notes on title page document the development of this person's revisionist view of WWII from 1945 through 1995. Heavy wear. Binding open at page 81. One page of photos loose but present. In short, a poor but intriguing copy. Book
1981159 pages. Black and white illustrations. "Author is a holocaust survivor who, when this book was written, lived in Montreal. He escaped from Vilna and after the second world war spent several years in West Germany where he directed the War Crimes Section of the Legal Department of the Central Committee of Liberated Jews in Munich. For three years after the war he devoted all his energies to the prosecution of Nazi accomplices throughout Europe. His departure from Germany in 1949 marked the end of almost 10 years during which he had been an inmate of Nazi ghettos, a fugitive hiding out in the Polish countryside, an intelligence officer in a Russian-commanded partisan brigade, an unwilling member of the Soviet Secret Police, a refugee in West Germany, and finally a hunter of Nazi war criminals." - paraphrased from pages 20-21. Years after its publication, this book is being used to argue that the author lied about his wartime conduct to gain entry to Canada. Clean and unmarked with light wear. Sound copy. Book
200080 pages. "In this booklet, Ernst Zundel replies to an article in the Atlantic Monthly, February 2000 issue. Paragraph pairs are numbered and separated by a line. Mr. Zundel's answers are bolded." - page 1. The article deals with the libel suit brought by historian David Irving against American historian Deborah Lipstadt after she referred to him as "one of the most dangerous spokespersons for Holocaust denial." Pencil underlining and marginalia up to page 31. Average wear. A sound copy. Book
1940Best.-Nr. 40003New York N. Y. : American Hebrew 1940. Hardcover. 1st edition. 4to. Period Cloth 4to Approximately 20 pages each issue approximately 520 pages total. Issues were published weekly. Holocaust-era American weekly Jewish magazine. “From the time of its founding The American Hebrew covered many topics of intense Jewish interest internationally” wikipedia. This set of magazines contain articles showing reform Jewish perspectives on WWII and the Holocaust including material about Jewish refugees “Behind the War” “Relationship Between Religion and Democracy “War Propaganda in England and Germany” as well as more mundane topics such as an essay we noted titled “Resort Guide: Another List of Ideal Vacation Spots Selected for American Hebrew Readers.” SUBJECTS: Jewish newspapers. -- United States. OCLC: 1479954. Many copies have a YMHA stamp on cover of magazine. Cloth cover has staining and dampstains pages are not affected. Spine says “American Hebrew 147 May-Nov. 1940”. Magazines in Very Good Condition. B HOLO2-140-11-X-'mmecc. New York, N. Y. : American Hebrew hardcover
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