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No date (1948-1952) . Original illustrated orange, green, and white paper wrappers with illustration of an Israeli farmer. 12mo. 4 pages; 15 cm. A DP/Early Statehood-era pamphlet encouraging membership to the LZOA-Poale Zion by highlighting two important members of the organization, Rabbi James G. Heller, prominent Reform rabbi and Zionist leader, and Maurice Samuel, prolific author and Zionist who was best known for his book You Gentiles (1924) . Labor Zionist Pioneers who built the land-reclaimed the soil-normalized the occupational structure of the Jewish people. Also includes statistics about the accomplishments of Labor Zionism as well as a quote from David Ben-Gurion, Prime Minister of Israel and Labor Zionist. Includes green tinted black-and-white headshots of Heller and Samuel as well as photos of Israelis farming, laboring, and arriving in Israel. Written in green and orange font with an illustration of an Israeli farmer sowing seeds. SUBJECT(S) : Labor Zionism, Israel. OCLC lists no holdings worldwide. Library stamp and very minimal markings. Very good + condition. Rare. (zion-12-23)
1941Original paper wrappers. 8vo. 11 pages; 19 cm. A Holocaust-era program investigating how being Jewish affects American Jews lives, attempting to describe and analyze the social situation for Jews in 1941, the middle of WWII. It should not be inferred that antisemitism and other barriers are the only factors which keep the Jewish group from disappearing. Much of the Jewish social and economic concentration is kept up by Jews as a matter of habit and tradition. However, many of these bonds seem to be losing their effectiveness for young American Jews, since such Jewish interests have no prestige-value in general American society. Avukah was an educational and cultural student Zionist organization on college campuses across America. SUBJECT (S) : American Jews, Social conditions, Zionism. OCLC lists 3 copies worldwide (National Library of Israel, Balch Inst for Ethnic Studies Libr, Univ of Texas, Austin, Harry Ransom. ) Slight toning. Minimal markings. Ink smudges that affect some text on back paper wrapper. Very good condition. (zion-12-25)
1949First edition. Original front illustrated paper wrapper (detached) with photographs of a close up of a wall with shadows of branches and a whole through which the horizon can be seen. 8vo. [42] pages. 22.5 cm. Includes forward by Yitzhak Ben-Zvi, second and longest-serving President of Israel (Wikipedia, 2016) . A history of Jerusalem with dozens of black-and-white photographs of scenery, sites, and people-some famous, some ordinary. All the values - human, religious, moral and cultural - that Jerusalem has bequeathed to the world were the product of high-minded men belonging to Israel, - men who thought and spoke in Hebrew, felt the ache of their people, predicted its future and proclaimed its mission to humanity. Includes biblical quotes in Hebrew and English in the upper margin of several pages. SUBJECT(S) : Jerusalem, Israel, 1948 War. OCLC lists no holdings worldwide. Front cover page detached with stains, many tears, and folds that somewhat affect text. Back cover missing. Dampstaining, tear in first page that affects text. Slight toning. Fair condition. Rare. (zion-12-29)
No date (1940s) . First edition. Original blue cardstock wrappers. 8vo. 60 pages; 21 cm. "The cataclysmic events that have descended upon us in rapid succession have awakened both the conscience and consciousness of Jewry. People who but yesterday sheltered themselves in the fools paradise of Emancipation have emerged from their crumbling shells and are re-identifying themselves with our people. Renegade sons who denied the nationhood of Israel and sought an escape in the isms of the moment found themselves of a sudden on a shattered foundation. A Holocaust-era collection of various speeches about Zionism that Aron Horowitz gave around Canada during his three years as Western Executive Director of the Zionist Organization of Canada and Educational Supervisor of all Western Canadian Hebrew Schools. Includes topics such as The Role of Hebrew in Our National Renaissance, Zionism and Jewish Education, and Religion as a Philosophy of Life. SUBJECT(S) : Zionism, Jewish education. OCLC lists 13 copies worldwide. Several stamps and library markings on binding and inside title page. Minimal pencil marks and pen inscription in Hebrew that do not affect text. Slight toning. Very good condition. (zion-12-31) .
1942First edition. Original paper wrappers with red font. 8vo. 74 pages; 23 cm. A Holocaust-era in-depth analysis of the pros and cons of the Kvutza, a communal settlement, in Palestine by Shalom Wurm, author and one of the founders of the Bet Alpha settlement in Emek Yizreel. As an experiment in socialist community building the kvutza faces two grave problems. One is the secular equivalent of the relation between church and state-in this case between ideology and community. The other is the problem of leadership. Includes several black-and-white photographs, some of kvutza scenery and one of people playing instruments. SUBJECT (S) : Zionism, Agricultural societies, Palestine. Significant dampstaining. Minimal folds and tears. Some stains and slight toning of original paper wrappers. Good condition. (zion-12-32)
1940First edition. Original paper wrappers with blue spine. 12 mo. 79 pages; 17 cm. Includes fabulous, artistic close-up black-and-white photographs of peoples faces. A short Holocaust-era anthology of prose, poetry, photography, and short stories about Palestine written in Hebrew and translated to English for this publication. Includes more than a dozen works by various authors with titles such as Grocery, Haberdashery and Books, The Story of a Blanket, and I Am The Daughter. There is another bookshop in the City within the Walls, but quite of a different kind. Its owner is a little fellow with a long beard, who fears God, loves his fellow-man, and is known as Little Grandpa. In his shop there are no secular books to be found but holy works written in a holy spirit in the Holy Tongue, as is fitting and proper to so worthy a Jew as he. And since by reason of our many iniquities, holy books do not provide a livelihood for their owners in our days, our good Jew, gentle Little Grandpa, must supplement his traffic in books with the sale of writing materials and even of haberdashery, may it not be reckoned as a transgression. Number 1 in a series of anthologies from the Palestine Pioneer Library. SUBJECT (S) : Palestine, Modern Hebrew Literature. OCLC lists 21 holdings worldwide. Some toning. Library marking on spine. A few pages damaged. Very minimal markings. Good condition. (zion-12-33)
1937Original boards with original dust jacket. 8vo. Pages 11-77; 21 cm. Written in German. Title translates to Verses of a Jew. A collection of Jewish poetry. Dedicated to all of the fighters for a Jewish state. Divided into 5 sections. Georg Mannheim was an Austro-Czechoslovakian journalist and writer. He worked for Bohemia, a daily newspaper, as a political reporter but quit after Nazi powers censored the content of the paper. He founded a magazine called Truth, In which he led a journalistic struggle against fascism in Europe without political consideration (Wikipedia, 2016) . He was blacklisted by the Nazis and placed on their list of banned authors and books. He was arrested in September 1940 and sent to Dachau where he died in 1942. SUBJECT(S) : Jewish poetry, German poetry. Some dampstaining and marks. Slight toning. One pencil mark that does not affect text. Library stamp. Very good condition. (ZION-22-36)
1934Original paper wrappers rebound in period boards. 8vo. 32 pages. 16 cm. In Hebrew. Hitler-era Lithuanian Yiddish edition of this Zionist Classic, Auto-Emancipation. Pinkser (1821-1891) born in Odessa, was originally an advocate of Haskalah enlightenment and assimilation for Russian Jews. However, after the pogrom of 1881, he became a Zionist. As such, he led the organization Hibbat Zion, supported emigration to a Jewish homeland, and published his famous book, Auto-emancipation. Originally published anonymously, this work analyzed the psychological and social roots of antisemitism and called for the establishment of a Jewish national center. Though Pinsker did not originally wish to endorse Palestine as the only possibility for the Jewish homeland, towards the end of his life, he was convinced that it was the only workable option. (EJ, 2007) . SUBJECTS: Zionism Jewish nationalism. OCLC doesnt list any copies of this edition. Good+ Condition. (ZION-14-39)
No Date (1910s). First edition. Period boards. 8vo. 39 pages, 20 cm. In Yiddish. Title translates to The ABCs of Labor Zionism. Isaac Zaar (1884-1957) was born Isaac Rabinovitshh in the Vilna district. He was heavily active in his local Zionist movements and wrote extensively on the topic. In 1907, Zar participated in the eighth Zionist Congress and from there took off for the United States to edit the organ of Labor Zionism, Der idisher kemfer (The Jewish fighter) . SUBJECTS: Labor Zionism. OCLC Number: 123003560. OCLC lists 5 copies worldwide (YIVO, HUC, Brandeis, NYPL Stanford)., . Ex-library with usual markings. Very Good Condition. Scarce. (ZION-14-46-X-l)
1917First edition. Original paper wrappers. 8vo. 12 pages, 20 cm. In Hebrew. Title translates to The Hebrew Labor Union and Its Aspirations. The Histadrut Ha-Ivrit organization was devoted to encouraging the knowledge and use of the Hebrew language, the publication of Hebrew books and periodicals, and an interest in Hebrew culture. The organization held its opening convention in December 1917 because of the activity of Zionists and Hebraists who found themselves in the United States as the result of World War I. The organization published a variety of materials including HaDoar newspaper, the Yearbook of American Jews, and more. SUBJECTS: Hebrew language -- United States -- 20th century. Jews -- United States -- Languages. Zionism -- United States. OCLC Number: 19186761 OCLC lists 3 copies worldwide (Harvard Penn, and UMD). Very Good Condition. Scarce. (ZION-14-49)
1923First edition. Original paper wrappers. 8vo, 8 pages, 17 cm. In Hebrew. Title translates to Ayanots New Release: for the 13th Zionist Congress in Carlsbad in 1923. A publishing catalog for the small publishing firm founded by famed Jewish philosopher, Simon Rawidowicz in 1922. The catalog was printed specially for the 13th Zionist Congress (in which the Jewish Agency was conceived) and was presumably used as a marketing tool. They published more than a dozen titles during their first three years, many of which are featured in this catalog. Chaim Nahman Bialik, who was friends with Rawidowicz in Berlin, opposed the publishing house because it competed with Devir Publishing house, of which he was the editor-in-chief. (Myers, 2014) . Rawidowicz would go on to serve as chair of the Department of Near-Eastern and Judaic Studies at Brandeis University. SUBJECTS: Jewish publishing. OCLC does not list any copies. Binding is starting. Edgewear to wrappers and browning pages. Otherwise Good Condition. Rare (ZION-14-50)
No Date (1940s? ) . 18x13. Medium black and white photo. This photo shows a funeral near the grave of H. N. Bialik and Ahad Ha-Am, thus dating it to post-1934. The cemetery was founded in 1902 on a tract of unoccupied land in Jaffa, six years before the founding of Ahuzat Bayit, the first neighborhood of Tel Aviv. Buried there are the city's founders, early residents, and cultural and historical figures, including Moshe Sharett, the second Prime Minister of Israel. Today, only persons holding plots purchased long ago and a small number willing to pay many thousands of dollars are buried there. The eastern section is the oldest and includes the tombs of the early leaders in Tel Aviv, and Jews from Jaffa. The remains of well-known persons may be found in the southwest corner. Some creases. Overall Good Condition. (ZION-14-56)
1910First edition. Original paper wrappers rebound in period boards. 8vo. 101 pages, 23 cm. In Yiddish. Title translates to The People and The Land: A Special Anthology for the Study of Philosophy. Features articles by Yiddish literary giants such as Ben-Adir, Baal Mahshevos, Yosef Luria, etc. Edited by Shalit and devoted to philosophical and social enlightenment and to the critique of Zionism. Moshe Shalit (1855-1941) was a researcher, journalist, essayist, ethnographer, and humanist of the inter-war period. Shalit devoted himself to the promotion of Yiddish language and of literature in a spirit of openness and intercultural exchange. Shalit was an active member of the Jewish Scientific Institute, YIVO, which became the Yiddish Institute for Jewish Research. He was murdered by the Nazis. (Wikipedia, 2016) . SUBJECTS: Zionism. OCLC lists 11 copies worldwide. Ex-library with usual markings. Very Good Condition. (ZION-14-61)
1819First edition. Period boards. 8vo. 122 pages, 17cm. In Hebrew with some Latin characters. Title translates to Research of the Land: A Book Covering the Lands Covered in the Holy Books. Lowisohn published this distinctly modern study and census nearly a century before the official advent of Zionism, covering the many places that appear in the bible. Lowisohn (1788-1821) was a Jewish Hungarian historian and poet who brought the ideas of the German enlightenment to Hungary as part of the Haskalah. The distinctly secular approach to biblical geography makes this piece particularly relevant to later Jewish nationalism. SUBJECTS: Palestine Topography. Bible. Old Testament -- Geography. OCLC: 19149175. OCLC lists 7 copies worldwide (UCLA, Harvard, Wayne State, HUC, Penn, Denmark, Ets Haim-Amsterdam). Vinograd, Vienna 500. Binding repaired. Overall Very Good Condition. (ZION-14-63)
1867First edition. Contemporary boards. 8vo. 486 pages, 23 cm. In French. Title translates to Essay on the History of Geography in Palestine After the Talmud and Other Rabbinic Sources. Joseph Derenburg (1811 1895) was a Franco-German orientalist who was born in French-controlled Mainz. He played a large part in the revival of Jewish education in France. Though much of his work focused on Saadia, this essay is his most important work. It is an original contribution to the history of the Jews and Judaism in the time of Christ, and has been much used by many later historians of the subject. SUBJECTS: Jews -- History -- 586 B. C. -70 A. D. Jews. Rabbijnse literatuur. Geografie. OCLC Number: 474636288. Ex-library with usual markings. Very Good Condition. (ZION-14-64)
1957First Spanish edition. Period boards. 8vo. 446 pages, 21 cm. In Spanish. Title translates to The Life of Jabotinsky: Rebel and Statesmen. First Spanish translation of Schechtmans famed work on Jabotinsky. Schechtman (1891-1970) was a writer and Revisionist political activist. He developed a close relationship with Jabotinsky through Zionist activism. He was also one of the founders of the World Union of Zionists-revisionists (Paris, 1925) . In 1929-1931 he was the editor of Yiddish weekly "Der Noyer Veg" (The New Way) in Paris. From 1931 to 1935 Schechtman was a member of the executive committee of the Zionist Organization(WZO) , when both he and Jabotinsky left the ZO to co-found the New Zionist Organization. His later years were spent in the US working for YIVO, the OSS, and the Jewish Agency. SUBJECTS: Revisionist Zionists -- Biography. OCLC lists 5 copies worldwide (JTS, Yale, FAU, Dartmouth, NLI). OCLC Number:42909167. Very Good Condition. (ZION-14-66)
1957First edition. Original paper wrappers. 8vo. 446 pages, 21 cm. In Spanish. Title translates to The Life of Jabotinsky: Rebel and Statesmen. First Spanish translation of Schechtmans famed work on Jabotinsky. Schechtman (1891-1970) was a writer and Revisionist political activist. He developed a close relationship with Jabotinsky through Zionist activism. He was also one of the founders of the World Union of Zionists-revisionists (Paris, 1925) . In 1929-1931 he was the editor of Yiddish weekly "Der Noyer Veg" (The New Way) in Paris. From 1931 to 1935 Schechtman was a member of the executive committee of the Zionist Organization(WZO) , when both he and Jabotinsky left the ZO to co-found the New Zionist Organization. His later years were spent in the US working for YIVO, the OSS, and the Jewish Agency. SUBJECTS: Revisionist Zionists -- Biography. OCLC lists 5 copies worldwide (JTS, Yale, FAU, Dartmouth, NLI). OCLC Number:42909167. Spine rebacked, cover has been trimmed close with loss of one letter in author's name (Text pages inside retain good margins). Overall Very Good Condition. (ZION-14-66A)
19263 Original tickets. 11x6, 11x7, 11x8. In Yiddish. The earliest ticket is from 1926 and is for a night of music by Shalom Aleichem, as part of a Hebrew theater series. The second is for a night of music put on by Poalei Zion and features Hazzan Isaac Glickstein and Miss. Mildred Breger. The last ticket is from 1939 for an event with Zalman Shneur, the famed Yiddish poet. All events took place in Roxbury, Massachusets, a major center of Jewry on the east coast and home to the original Hebrew Union College. SUBJECTS: Hebrew theater Yiddish. No copies on OCLC. Very Good Condition. (ZION-14-67)
1949First edition. Original paper wrappers. 8vo. 144 pages and portrait, 17 cm. In Hebrew. From the First year of Israeli Statehood. Title translates to Zeev Jabotinsky: An Anthology in Honor of His Memory. Published for the nine year anniversary of his death and features commemorative essays by Menachem Begin, Ari Jabotinsky, and more. Vladimir (Zeev) Jabotinsky (18801940) , Zionist leader, founder of Revisionist Party; he was involved in Zionist politics since the turn of the century in Russia, was famous as a publicist, poet, essayist, and orator in Russian, Hebrew, and Yiddish; he founded the Jewish Legion in the first world war, and in the 1920s, founded the right-wing Revisionist Zionist movement Betar after having broken with mainstream Zionism. During a tour of the United States in 1940, he died suddenly, and due to the animosity toward him on the part of Ben-Gurion, his remains were not returned to Israel until after Ben-Gurions final resignation as prime minister in 1964. (Yivo Encyclopedia) . SUBJECTS: Jabotinsky, Vladimir, 1880-1940. OCLC lists 9 copies worldwide. Minor foxing on cover. Pages are browning. Overall Good+ Condition. (ZION-14-68)
1906First edition. Original paper wrappers rebound in period boards. 8vo. 74 pages ; 17 cm. In Hebrew. Title translates to “The Land of Israel Today and Onwards. Â Meyouhas (1868-1942) was a popular figure during the Yishuv. He wrote extensively Muslims of Palestine. The Meyouhas’ are a Jerusalem Sephardi family that has produced notable rabbis and merchants in Jerusalem for hundreds of years. SUBJECTS: Palestine -- Description and travel. OCLC lists one copy worldwide (JTS) . Ex-library with usual markings. Good- Condition. Scarce. (ZION-14-29).
1946First edition. Original boards. 8vo. 788 pages, 24 cm. In Hebrew. Title translates to “Book of the Second Wave of Immigration. Â Both editors were major figures of the Second Aliyah. This anthology features essays from the major forefathers of Zionism, including Berl Katznelson, Ben-Gurion, Tibenkin, and many more. Overall a comprehensive look at the most important and influential wave of Zionist immigration to Palestine. SUBJECTS: Zionism – Immigration. Minor wear to boards. Very Good Condition. (ZION-14-35)
1936First edition. Original black cloth boards. 4to. XII, 307; 287 pages. 28 cm. In German. 'The Desert and Promised Land; A history of Israel from its beginning until the period of the return from Babylon. ' Owned by Lehmann. Two volume set. With 18 plates and one map in volume one; 15 plates and 2 folded coloured lithographed maps loosely inserted in rear pocket. Volume one: Geschichte Israels von den Anfängen bis zum Tode Salomos (published by Kurt Wolff Verlag) Volume two: Geschichte Israels vom Tode Salomos bis Ezra und Nehemia (published by Schocken Verlag) . The Magnum Opus of Elias Auerbach (18821971) , Israeli physician, biblical scholar, and historical writer. Auerbach emigrated from Berlin to Erez Israel in 1909 and settled in Haifa. Wueste und Gelobtes Land (2 vols. ) , his main work, which also appeared in Hebrew as Ha-Midbar ve-Erez ha-Behirah (2 vols. , 195762) , a history of Israel from its beginning until the period of the return from Babylon. - EJ 2008. Please read Elias Auerbach's Desert and Promised Land. There you will find in print all the daring statements you touched on in your last letter. Horeb-Sinai etc. He treats only the historical factors but that he does thoroughly and the book is based on a critical and systematic knowledge of the Bible and its sources. -Arnold Zweig to Sigmund Freud, March, 1935. Subjects: Jews - History - To 586 B. C. Minimal stains and slight toning. Minimal pencil markings that do not affect text. Some dust on foredge. Very good condition. (GER-43-11A)
1919First edition. Original boards. 12mo. 132 pages. 16cm. In Hebrew. Title translates to "When will they Speak Hebrew?" Ben-Yehuda (18581922), Hebrew writer and lexicographer, generally considered the father of modern Hebrew, and one of the first active Zionist leaders. Born Eliezer Yizhak Perelman in Luzhky, Lithuania, he officially adopted the pseudonym Ben-Yehuda, which he had previously used in his literary activities, when he went to Palestine. The Ben-Yehuda household thus was the first Hebrew-speaking home established in Palestine, and his first son, Ben-Zion (later called Ithamar Ben-Avi), the first modern Hebrew-speaking child. - EJ 2008. SUBJECT(S) : Hebrew language. Lightly faded boards. Otherwise Very Good Condition. (HEBLIT1-1)
1940Original Wraps. 8vo. 14 pages. 22 cm. First edition. Brochure by Samuel Rosenblatt outlining the aims and aspirations of the Mizrachi movement, with survey of cultural, educational, and literary work of the Mizrachi movement. Written by Samuel Rosenblatt, Rabbi of the Beth Tfiloh Congregation in Baltimore, Maryland; Lecturer on Jewish Literature at the Johns Hopkins University. Subjects: Zionism. Mizrachi Organization of America. OCLC lists 3 copies (Harvard, Johns Hopkins, Nypl) , none outside the US East Coast. Library stamps. Minimal pencil markings that do not affect text. Minimal rubbing. Very good + condition. (ZION-4-41B)
1928Original Boards. 8vo. [344] pages (with various paginations) . 24 cm. Illustrated. First edition. In Hebrew and English. Includes a short dictionary in Spanish, Russian, Italian, German, French, English, Hebrew, and transliterated Hebrew. Many period advertisements in English and Hebrew. Descriptions of tourist attractions, Jewish cultural figures, and history in the Middle East and Palestine. Subjects: Jews -- Palestine -- History -- 20th century. Health resorts -- Palestine. Palestine -- Guidebooks. Palestine -- Tours. OCLC lists 8 copies worldwide. (Brooklyn College, Yeshiva Univ. , Emory Univ. , Brandeis, Cleveland Public Library, NYPL, GW Univ. , Natl. Libr. Of Israel. ) Ex-library with only one tag on spine. Some shelf wear and age toning. Overall in Very Good Condition. (ZION-3-7A)
