Birnbaum, Nathan, 1864-1937.MareMagnum
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19101st Edition. Period Boards. 8vo. 336 pages ; 25 cm. In German. Title translates into English as, Selected Writings On The Jewish Question. Part 1. Includes only Volume 1 of 2. Nathan Birnbaum (1864 1937) . (also known as Mathias Acher and other pseudonyms) .. Was an Austrian writer and journalist, Jewish thinker and nationalist. His life had three main phases, representing a progression in his thinking: a Zionist phase (1883 1900) ; a Jewish cultural autonomy phase (1900 1914) which included the promotion of the Yiddish language; and religious phase (19141937) when he turned to Orthodox Judaism and became staunchly anti-Zionist (Wikipedia, 2017) SUBJECT(S) : Jews. Zionism. Spine is missing, and somewhat ironically the exposed binding shows a repurposed newspaper cartoon of Jewish men having an argument. Boards slightly worn. Includes full pages portrait of Birnbaum. A few markings throughout but overall about very good condition. (GER-59-30)
1946Original boards. 4to. Xxviii, 890 pages; 31 cm. In Yiddish with added English title page. Title translates to The Jews in Poland Vol. 1. Written just after the Holocaust. SUBJECT (S) : Polish Jews, Holocaust, WWII. Very minimal edgewear. Very minimal rubbing and staining. Very good + condition. (HOLO2-134-74)
19781st Edition.8vo; 200 pages; Includes 11-page bibliography & 7-page index. Slight toning. Very minimal staining. Very good + condition in Very Good Jacket. (HOLO2-134-73)
19611st Edition. Original Red Illustrated Paper Wrappers. 8vo. 47 pages ; 25 cm. Exhibition catalog, loaded with photos. This exhibition [was] organized by the Centre of Jewish Contemporary Documentation and the Memorial to the Unknown Jewish Martyr. Contains a brief history describing day-to-day life in the Warsaw Ghetto with many photographs and documents. About 400, 000 Jews lived in the Warsaw Ghetto, which was the largest of all Jewish ghettos in Nazi-occupied Europe. OCLC lists 10 copies worldwide. Slight toning. Very minimal staining. Very good + condition. (HOLO2-130-4A)
1948Original Illustrated wrappers, 4to. 28 cm. Ceased in 1951. In Yiddish with English Rear Cover. Title from masthead. Includes music, poetry, fiction, journalism and, of course, many photos, photo-montages, and artwork. SUBJECT (S) : Jews -- Periodicals. OCLC lists 6 holdings that potentially include these issues. Minimal dampstaining. Minimal edgewear. Minimal rubbing and staining. Very good condition. (period-1-6A)
1946First edition. Original illustrated orange paper wrappers with framed illustration of a mother holding her children. 4to. 32 pages; 22 x 28 cm. The 1945 Annual Report of the JDC detailing their aid to Holocaust survivors and refugees from around the globe including Europe, South America, Shanghai, and Palestine. Includes several articles by various authors such as J. D. C. -A Living Tradition, So They May Live Again, and The American Scene, as well as facsimiles of letters from President Harry S. Truman amongs others. Peppered with captioned black-and-white photographs, some full page, of Jewish refugees around the world. The year 1945 opened with much of Europe still under the heel of the Germans. Again, as in previous years, the first task was to rescue the Jews in deadly peril of their lives. SUBJECT (S) : Jewish refugees, Holocaust, WWII. OCLC lists 4 holdings worldwide (UC Southern California, Spertus, Tel Aviv Univ, Staats- & Uni-bib Hamburg) . 4 hole punches. Minimal edgewear. Library stamp. Very minimal markings. Otherwise very good condition. (Holo2-103-47B)
1945First edition. Original paper wrappers. 8vo. 16 pages; 22 cm. In Hebrew and English. With a supplication for surviving brethren in and from Nazi land, a prayer for the king and the royal family, and prayers for the victims of the war. O God, Who art full of compassion, Who dwellest on high, grant perfect rest beneath the shelter of Thy Divine Presence to the men, women and children who have been slain in vast multitudes, and with appalling cruelties. Shuddering seizeth us when we remember the annihilation of hundreds of holy communities, and recall the murderous decree to destroy, to slay, and to cause to perish, all Jews, both young and old, women and little children, in the lands that are under the heel of arrogant iniquity. SUBJECT (S) : Holocaust, Prayers, WWII. OCLC lists 6 holdings worldwide. Some toning. Very minimal edgewear. Very good condition. (HOLO2-134-66)
1940First edition. Original paper wrappers. 8vo. 2 pages; 22 cm. In Hebrew and English. The prayer service takes place in the midst of the war, just weeks after Churchill became Prime Minister of Great Britain and weeks before France surrendered to Germany. The war was not going well for the Allied Forces. SUBJECT (S) : Prayer, WWII, Holocaust. OCLC lists 3 holdings worldwide (Harvard, National Libr of Israel, British Libr) , only one in the US. Very minimal edgewear. Slight toning. Very good + condition. (HOLO2-134-67)
1945Original paper wrappers. 8vo. 4 pages; 22 cm. In Hebrew and English. A prayer service to commemorate Armistice Day, just months after World War II ended. Armistice Day is commemorated every year on 11 November to mark the armistice signed between the Allies of World War I and Germany at Compiegne, France, for the cessation of hostilities on the Western Front of World War I, which took effect at eleven oclock in the morning-the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month of 1918. The date was declared a national holiday in many allied nations, and coincides with Remembrance Day and Veterans Day, public holidays (Wikipedia 2017) . SUBJECT(S) : Prayer, Armistice Day, WWII. OCLC lists 1 holding worldwide (National Libr of Israel) . Moderate edgewear. Slight toning. Very minimal staining. Good + condition. Rare (HOLO2-134-68)
1941Original paper wrappers. 8vo. 8 pages; 22 cm. In Hebrew and English. At this point in March, 1941, the bombings on London had become increasingly devastating, including one on March 8th that hit Buckingham Palace and on March 19th that was the worst so far of that year. Hitler had given orders to expand Auschwitz and President Franklin D. Roosevelt had signed the Lend-Lease Act. SUBJECT (S) : Prayer, WWII, Great Britain. OCLC lists 1 holding worldwide (National Libr of Israel) . Minimal edgewear. Minimal markings. Slight toning. Very good + condition. (HOLO2-134-70)
1940Cloth boards with red dustjacket, vi, 87 pages; 20 cm. Has title: Inside Germany. Subjects: World War, 1939-1945 -- Germany. World War, 1939-1945 -- Great Britain. Germany. Slight toning. Ex-library markings. Tape stains. Minimal wear and markings to jacket. Very good condition. (Holo2-21-6A)
1980Original black cloth boards with blue illustrated dust jacket with photographs of Nazi trial and Auschwitz. 8vo, 145 pages, 20 cm. Series: Legal affairs-justice-contemporary events; volume 31. Translation of Die Strafverfolgung nationalsozialistischer Verbrechen 1945 bis 1978. Addenda sheet inserted. Includes bibliographical references. Subjects: War crime trials. Minimal rubbing to dustjacket. Very minimal markings. Very Good+ Condition. An excellent copy. (k-H-43A)
1938Original cloth boards. 12mo. 102 pages, 24 cm. In German. Holocaust-era imprint. Inscrbed "In deepest reverance" by the author in English on title page. Title translates roughly to Praying Judaism. Rabbi Davin Schoenberger performed the marriage of Anne Franks parents and later fled Nazi Germany...It was while serving as chief rabbi of Aachen, Germany, from 1926 to 1938 that Rabbi Schoenberger married the parents of the Jewish teen-ager whose wartime diary was later read around the world. The Schoenbergers and their daughter fled Europe after their synagogue was burned to the ground on Kristallnacht, Nov, 9, 1938, when Government-incited mobs attacked Jews and Jewish institutions and properties. (NYT Dec. 10, 1989) . This book was published that same year. Part of the Series: Sammlung Jüdischer Wissen, Band II. SUBJECT(S) : Judaism, Liturgy. OCLC lists 17 holdings worldwide. Staining to boards, including some on inside of front board. Internally clean, Good Condition overall. (GER-52-4A)
19931st edition. Original blue cloth boards. 4to. 182 pages; 24 cm. Includes tables. Walter Zwi Bacharach is Professor Emeritus of General History at Bar-Ilan University. He was born in Hanau, Germany in 1928. In 1938, he escaped with his family to Holland, where they were captured in 1942. He was sent to Westerbork transit camp, then to the Theresienstadt ghetto, and to the Auschwitz-Birkenau extermination camp. He survived a death march and was liberated by U. S. Forces. He immigrated to Palestine in 1946 (Yadvashem.org 2017) . I immediately asked myself what had caused the deviation in the course of German history which had caused us so much suffering? What was the nature of that protracted process which had dragged millions, and me among them, into a world permeated with bottomless hatred of Jews? My curiosity was born out of stunned horror, it sought the answer to my own personal existence, which I perceived as a kind of rebirth. SUBJECT(S) : Anti-semitism, Catholic Anti-semitism, WWII, Holocaust. OCLC lists 12 holdings worldwide. Ex-library markings. Very minimal markings. Very minimal edgewear. Very good + condition. (HOLO2-134-76)
19561st Edition. Original Illustrated Paper Wrappers. 4to. 8X11 inch color plates of Treccanis works ; 29 cm. Composed of 10 unbound plates of Treccanis work. Ernesto Treccani (1920 2009) was an Italian painter and intellectual. Born in Milan on August 26, 1920, he joined the art avant-garde groups and movements opposed to Fascist culture His first personal exhibition, held at the Galleria Il Milione in Milan, where he exhibited many times during his artistic path, was in 1949. After the Resistance, he was the leader of the Pittura group and editor of magazines such as Il 45 and Realismo', directed by Raffaele De Grada (Wikiepdia, 2017) OCLC lists just 2 copies worldwide (Harvard, Sistema Bibliotecario Ticinese) . Some wear and slight water damage to wrappers but plates are clean. Slight toning but overall about very good condition. (ITART-1-25) xx
19741st Edition. Original Green Boards. 8vo. [59] pages ; 20 cm. In French. Title translates into English as, Recent Works Of Remo Brindisi: Exhibition From June 6th To July 6th 1974. Remo Brindisi (1918 1996) was an Italian painter (He) formed the Gruppo di Linea together with Gianni Dova and Ibrahim Kodra and was later associated with the realist movement, while maintaining, however, complete autonomy with respect to the major artistic trends of the age. His focus on issues of social commitment and protest culminated in the period 196061 with a series of large paintings devoted to the history of Fascism, in which figurative painting of an expressionist character was combined with an approach modeled on the examples of Art Informel (Wikipedia, 2017) . SUBJECT(S) : Exhibition catalogs. OCLC lists 3 copies worldwide (Michigan, Bibliotheque D'art Et Darcheologie, Biblio Hertziana Institut Fur Kunstgesch) , no copies in France. Very good condition. (ITART-1-41)
1946Cloth. 8vo. 278 pages, illustrations, facsims, 26 cm. "Concerns the most flagrant anti-Jewish laws found on the statute books of enlightened countries--a remnant of a decade of Nazi proaganda." Looks at the restricting of kosher butchering as a form of religious oppression; while examining the Nazi period, the book also looks at the post-war period ahead, and calls for guarantees that Jews everywhere be able to practice shehitah. "The study upon which this volume is based was sponsored by the Agudath Israel World Organization and the American Jewish Committee"--Foreword. Scarce publisher's promotional slip laid in; it notes that "The printing, as well as the circularizing [sic] of this book in necessary quarters, has entailed considerable cost." Subject Shehitah. Added Authors: Munk, Michael L. Berman, Jeremiah Joseph, 1902-. Ex-library with usual marks, otherwise Very good condition. (amr-19-23A)
19471st Edition. Original Wrappers. 8vo. 29, [3] pages ; 22 cm. Early post-Holocaust publication. Joseph Martin McCabe (1867 1955) was an English writer and speaker on freethought, after having been a Roman Catholic priest earlier in his life. A staunch critic of the Catholic Church, McCabe joined groups such as the Rationalist Association and the National Secular Society. Although he criticised Christianity from a rationalist perspective, he was involved in the South Place Ethical Society which grew out of dissenting Protestantism and was a precursor of modern secular humanism. (Wikiepdia, 2017) SUBJECT(S) : Antisemitism -- History. OCLC lists 8 copies worldwide. Slight wear to wrappers and slight edge wear. Otherwise about very good condition. (HOLO2-135-18)
19411st Edition. Original Green Illustrated Wrappers. 8vo. 55 pages ; 20 cm. From the series: Democracy in Action, no. 8. Members of the council are printed on final pages, and include some of the more notable Jewish Americans of the mid 20th Century. Includes several sections on the origins and characteristics of Nazism. This book was originally put together before US-Entry into World War II, but was later published after US entry in late 1941. Includes a short piece by Stephen Vincent Benet, the Pulitzer Prize Winning Author of John Browns Body. Some wear to wrappers. Otherwise about very good condition. (HOLO2-135-22) xx
19371st English Edition. Original Paper Wrappers. 8vo. 67 pages ; 21 cm. Period account of Nazi anti-semitism from the Economic Bureau of the World Jewish Congress. Contents include Germany and the Jews Before 1933, The General Nazi Policy, The Decline of the Jewish Population, The Process of Extermination, and The Impoverishment of German Jewry. SUBJECT (S) : Jews -- Germany. Persecutions. Some browning and markings on wrappers. About Very Good Condition. (HOLO2-135-24) xx
19381st Edition. Original Wrappers. 8vo. 29 pages ; 24 cm. Holocaust-Era Report. The Jewish Agricultural SOCIETY, organization chartered in New York in 1900 to provide East European immigrants with training "as free farmers on their own soil " A subsidiary of the *Baron de Hirsch Fund, the society emphasized self-supporting agricultural activities, with rural industry to supplement farm incomes. Its Industrial Removal Office, autonomous after 1907, relocated thousands of immigrant workers from the cities. Among the society's continued functions was the extension of loans on generous terms to farm cooperatives as well as individuals. It offered placement services and advice to potential agriculturists. (Jewish Virtual Library, 2017) . SUBJECT(S) : Jews -- United States. Jewish farmers. Very good condition. (HOLO2-135-25)
1940Original Orange printed paper wrappers, showing distinctive elements of both modern and traditional typeface. 8vo, 24 pages, 21 cm. In Yiddish. Rare 1940 Riga edition of the 1936 Soviet constitution, certainly one of the last Yiddish publications in Latvia; OCLC-Worldcat literally lists not a single Yiddish publication from Riga 1941-1987. Immediately after the establishment of German authority [in Latvia] in the beginning of July 1941, the elimination of the Jewish and Roma population began, with major mass killings taking place at Rumbula and elsewhere. The killings were committed by the Einsatzgruppe A, and the Wehrmacht. Latvian collaborators, including the 5001, 500 members of the Arajs Commando (which alone killed around 26, 000 Jews]) and other Latvian members of the SD, were also involved. 30, 000 Jews were shot in the autumn of 1941 with most of the remaining Jewish people being rounded up and put into ghettos. In November and December 1941 the Riga Ghetto became crowded and to make room for the imminent arrival of German Jews, who were being shipped out of the country, all the remaining 30, 000 Jews in Riga were taken from the ghetto to the nearby Rumbula Forest and shot (Wikipedia, 2016) . SUBJECT(S) : Soviet Union. Konstitutsiia (1936) -- Politics and government. OCLC lists only 1 copy anywhere (Harvard) . Only the lightest wear to wrappers, an amazingly well-preseverd copy of this exceedingly rare Yiddish imprint. (yid-26-6)
1914Later cloth with original paper cover mounted on front. 8vo. 94 pages. 24 cm. In German. Series: Ergänzungshefte zur Neuen Zeit, Nr. 20. Title translates to English as, Race and Judaism. SUBJECT (S) : Race. Jews. Jewish question. Zionism. Rassismus. Antisemitismus. Politique internationale. Juifs. Avant 1914. Politique internationale. Racisme. Avant 1914. Allemagne. Juifs. Avant 1914. Pages are slightly darkened, but all text is clear. Ex-libris with usual markings. Otherwise a nice and clean copy. Very good condition. (HOLO2-61-17A)
19431st Edition. 2 pages: 15 X 17 cm. Holocaust-era publication. Program from a two-year anniversary Pearl Harbor service and symposium at Ansche Chesed synagogue in Manhattans Upper West Side. Every American owes it to himself to commemorate Pearl Harbor fittingly. The speakers included, H. I. Feldman (a congregant, and notable New York City Architect, often associated with the Yale School of Architecture) , Rabbi Joseph Zeitlin, Irma Kraft, and Oscar Gruen. The chair of the event was Dr. A. H. Chaikin. OCLC lists no copies worldiwde. Creased and worn, with top corner torn off. In good condition. Rare. (AMR-52-20)
19471st Edition. Original Illustrated Boards Depicting Haviva Reick parachuting. 8vo. 163 pages ; 21 cm. In Czech. Early post-Holocaust publication. Includes photographs of Haviva Reick throughout. Haviva Reik (19141944) was one of 32 or 33 parachutists sent by the Jewish Agency and Britain's Special Operations Executive (SOE) on military missions in Nazi-occupied Europe. Reik went to Slovakia in fall 1944 and worked with local Jewish people to resist the German occupation there. She established a camp for Russian prisoners of war who had escaped, and helped organize a Jewish resistance unit. The Germans organized forces to put down the Jewish resistance, and Reik and the other parachutists escaped with about 40 local Jews into the mountains. In November 1944, however, Reik and the other parachutists were captured, killed, and buried in a mass grave (Wikipedia, 2017) SUBJECT(S) : Reick, Haviva, 1914-1944. Jews--Palestine--Biography. World War, 1939-1945--Underground movements--Slovakia. OCLC lists 10 copies worldwide. The US Holocaust Museum keeps their copy in their Rare Book Room. In very good condition. Important (holo2-135-41)
