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New York, Jewish Labor Committee, 1941. 1st edition. Original printed paper wrappers, square 8vo (with secondary vertical fold as issued), 15 pages A 1941 collection of essays on the work of the Jewish Labor Committee by its own leaders as well as from Jewish and Labor leaders across the US..... More
New York: Liberated Guardian, 1971. 1st edition. Original color illustrated paper wrappers, 8vo 48 pages. 20 cm. Includes many photos. Heavily illustrated booklet issued to celebrate the 1st anniversary of the Weather Underground (“The Weathermen”), the left-wing militant organization which split off from Students for a Democratic Society (SDS). Both..... More
Uitgeverij Contact, Amsterdam, 1948. 1st edition, 3rd printing, Feb 1948 (1st printing was June 1947). Original publisher’s boards 12mo, ix 253 pages. First Edition of The Diary of a Young Girl, a book which continues to hold its place at the top of many literary lists: the most famous diary..... More
Berlin und Stettin: Bey Friedrich Nicolai, 1767. 1st edition. Period half leather, 12mo, 1 preliminary leaf, [10], 309 pages, [1] page frontispiece; 16 cm. In German. Title translates as, Phaedon; Or, On The Immortality of the Soul, In Three Conversations. Title page in red and black. The engraved frontispiece by..... More
Schweiz [Switzerland. Zurich?], No Publisher [Leipzig, P. Ph. Wolf], 1798. 1st German-language. edition. Original paper wrappers, 12mo, 23 pages. In German. Title translates as, “Johann Caspar Lavater, Pastor in Zurich, On the Directory of the French Republic: Along With a Litany, Useful For Life.” A French edition appeared in 1795..... More
Wien [Vienna]: Bey Sebastian Hartl, Buchhändler und Buchbinder in der Singerstrasse, 1785. 1st edition. Full leather with gilt-tooled binding, 12mo, 79 pages. 18 cm. In German. Meyer; no. 320. "Izt zum erstenmal zum Druck befördert." Mendelssohn was often referred to as the German Plato or the German Socrates. And “As..... More
Tel-Aviv; Published By Lion The Printer For The Zionist Organization Youth Dept, 1946. 1st English language edition. Paperback. 16mo. 120 pages. 16 cm. In the series Palestine Pioneer Library number 9. When the Buchenwald concentration camp was freed by the American Army on April 11, 1945, some of the Jewish..... More
![Item 277885. DER ENTLARVTE MOSES MENDELSOHN [SIC: MENDELSSOHN]; ODER VOELLIGE AUFKLAERUNG DES RAETHSELHAFTEN TODVERDRUSSES DES M. MENDELSSOHN UEBER DIE BEKANNTMACHUNG DES LESSINGSCHEN ATHEISMUS VON JACOBI.](https://danwymanbooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/42879.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1720867712)
Amsterdam [i.e. Berlin, Stuhr], 1786. 1st edition. Half leather with with gilt tooled spine, 12mo, [3]-120 pages. 17 cm. In German. Title translates as, “The Unmasked Moses Mendelsohn [Mendelssohn] or a Complete Explanation of the Mysterious Mortal Frustration of M. Mendelsohn Over the Announcement of [Gotthold Ephraim] Lessing's Atheism by..... More
New York: The Forward Association, 1997. 1st edition. Original photographic paper wrappers, 8vo 50 pages, includes illustrations and portraits. 26 cm. Includes bibliographical references. “The first issue of Forverts appeared on April 22, 1897, in New York City. The paper was founded by a group of about 50 Yiddish-speaking socialists..... More
![Item 277859. THE GHETTO FIGHTS [ASSOCIATION COPY BELONGING TO WARSAW GHETTO UPRISING SCHOLAR PHILIP FRIEDMAN]](https://danwymanbooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/42871.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1719611949)
New York, American Representation Of The General Jewish Workers' Union Of Poland, 1946. 1st English Language Edition. Softcover, 76 pages, 8vo, 23 cm. Published the year after the end of the war by the longest surviving leader of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising--as well as a participant in the Polish Solidarity..... More
![Item 277837. A YOR IN TREBLINKE. [TREBLINKA]](https://danwymanbooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/42870.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1718824615)
Nyu-York: Farlag "Unzer Tsayt," 1944. 1st American Edition. Paper Wrappers, 8vo, 61 pages. Includes illustrations. 22 cm. In Yiddish. Title translates as, "A Year in Treblinka." Translation of Rok w Treblince. Jankiel (Yankel, Yaakov, or Jacob) Wiernik (1889-1972) was a "Polish-Jewish Holocaust survivor who was an influential figure in the..... More
Nyu York : Yidisher Arbeter Komitet, 1946. 1st Edition. Original wrappers. 8vo. 55 pages. 23 cm. In Yiddish. Early post-Holocaust title, translates as "Jewish Children Back to Life. " Dr. Emanuel Pat was a well-known Yiddish journalist and cultural activist of the early twentieth century, who played a not insignificant..... More
New York City, American ORT Federation, 1944. 1st edition. Original paper wrappers. 28 cm.,11 pages. Annual report from the American Ort Foundation. “Attached you will find a detailed explanation of ORT’s requirements for 1944 with the background of its accomplishments in 1943. As impressive as the record for 1943 is..... More
![Item 277825. [NATIONAL JEWISH WELFARE BOARD] NEWSLETTER VOL. 1 NO. 2. APRIL 30, 1945.](https://danwymanbooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/42864.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1718813029)
New York: National Jewish Welfare Board, 1945. 1st edition. Original paper wrappers. 4to, 4 unnumbered pages. Issue from just prior to Germany’s surrender.“ “The National Jewish Welfare Board (JWB) was formed on April 9, 1917…in order to support Jewish soldiers in the U.S. military during World War I. The impetus..... More
![Item 277824. [NATIONAL JEWISH WELFARE BOARD] NEWSLETTER VOL. 1 NO. 19, AUGUST 27, 1945.](https://danwymanbooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/42863.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1718813030)
New York: National Jewish Welfare Board, 1945. 1st edition. Original paper wrappers. 4to, 4 unnumbered pages. Issue from the very end of the war, a week prior to Japan’s surrender “The National Jewish Welfare Board (JWB) was formed on April 9, 1917…in order to support Jewish soldiers in the U.S...... More
Kansas City, Mo. : Friends of Democracy, 1938. 1st edition, original paper wrappers, 8vo, 4 unnumbered pages. 18 cm. Pamphlet explaining why “Hitlerism and Christianity cannot live side by side.” (page [2]) “The Friends of Democracy organization was founded by Unitarian minister Leon Milton Birkhead in 1937. The group described..... More
Des Moines, Iowa: Advertisers Press, 1944. 1st edition, original paper wrappers. 8vo, 23 cm,. 20 pages. Published as the war in Europe was finally coming to an end, Mann concludes by suggesting, “No peace treaty should be concluded with Germany. The state of armistice should be maintained for an indefinite..... More
![Item 277821. OJ ITEMS VOL. 1, NO. 2. FEBRUARY 4, 1946 [I.E. OFFICE OF JEWISH INFORMATION] [1 ISSUE ONLY, OF 15 PUBLISHED]](https://danwymanbooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/42860.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1718813029)
New York: American Jewish Congress Office of Jewish Information, 1946. 1st edition. Serial publication, original paper wrappers. 8vo, 6 unnumbered pages accordion folded, + front and rear + 4 blank. “A Weekly Service on Jewish Affairs issued to the press by the Office of Jewish Information.” Headlines of this issue..... More
Northampton (Mass.), Printed by Thomas M. Pomroy, for S. & E. Butler, 1805. 3rd American Edition (1st are New York, 1787 & 1796). Period leather, 8vo, 563 pages, 22 cm. Includes bibliographical references. "By M.D. Vattel ... Translated from the French.” Cohen, Bibliography of Early American Law 7187. Shaw &..... More
New York: Belgian Information Center, 1941. 1st edition, original illustrated paper wrappers. 32 unnumbered pages ; 12 x 14 cm. "Collected and translated by Mrs. Betty Barzin."--Page 2 of cover. “The cover of this pamphlet is a reproduction of the envelope of a letter from Belgium censored by the Oberkommando..... More
Herford [UK]: Amberger & Maschmeyer, 1946. 1st edition, original printed paper wrappers, 16 mo (small) 8 pages. “In 1933 there were in Prussia alone, more than 2000 practising lawyers who were of the Jewish faith. The following list of Jewish attorneys, judges, and civil servants in the whole of Germany..... More
New York: Representation of Polish Jewry, American Division, 1943. 1st edition, original paper wrappers. 20 numbered leaves (40 pages). 28 cm. Serial publication, Number 2, published August, 1943. Table of Contents: Polish Jews Demand a Representative in the Polish Government; The Tragic Death of Prime Minister Sikorski; The First Anniversary..... More
New York): Jewish Opinion Publishing Corporation, 1944. 1st edition. Original publisher’s cloth in dust jacket, 8vo, 285 pages + Portrait Frontis. Holocaust-era imprint. Stephen S. Wise (1874-1949) was born in Budapest and as a child emigrated to New York, where he received his Jewish and secular education. He was ordained..... More
New York, N.Y.: "Poland fights," Polish labor Group, 1944. 1st edition, Original Printed Paper Wrappers, 8vo, 38 pages, 22 cm. "First printing: August 1944." Membership and leadership of the Polish Labor Group (later the American Friends of Polish Democracy) was heavily Jewish, and included various American antifascists, Socialists & labor..... More
Accord, NY : Blue Thread, an imprint of Jewish Currents magazine, 2016. 1st edition. Original photographic paper wrappers, perfect binding, 8vo,v, 214 pages. Includes portraits. 23 cm. "Erratum" slip present. “Abe and Julia Kotelchuck were pursued as Communist Party activists by J. Edgar Hoover's FBI with a relentless vindictiveness that..... More