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Nyu York: Aroysgegeben Fun A. M. Yevalenko, 1900. Original printed Wrappers. 12mo. 67 pages. 19 cm. Singerman 5529. In Yiddish, with secondary English title: “Astronomy, by Dr. Ab. Caspe." Yiddish title translates as, "Astronomy: Sir Isaac Newton's greatest discovery." A popular introduction to Astronomy and the work of Isaac Newton..... More
Nyu-York; Shoken Buks, 1946. 1st edition. Original Wraps. 8vo. 45 pages. 23 cm. In Yiddish. The first Yiddish book ever published by Schocken Books. ‘The East-European Jew’. ‘This work is a popularization of the lecture presented at the ninth conference of YIVO in New York’ in 1945. “Heschel’s revised and..... More
Rio de Janeiro: Jewish Colonization Association, 1934. 1st edition. Original printed paper wrappers, 8vo, 7 pages. In Portuguese. Title translates as, “The Prayer: New Year’s Day Lesson 5695-1934” Isaiah Raffalovich, (1870–1956), was a “rabbi and author who promoted the development of Brazil's Jewish community. Born in Bogopol, Podolia [now in..... More
Rio de Janeiro: Jewish Colonization Association, 1933. 1st edition. Original printed paper wrappers, 8vo, 8 pages. In Portuguese. Title translates as, “The Virtue Of Contentment: Lesson From the Day of Atonement 5694-1933.” Yom Kipur sermon from the year of Hitler's assention to power by Isaiah Raffalovich, (1870–1956), a “rabbi and..... More
Rio de Janeiro: Jewish Colonization Association, 1930. 1st edition. Original printed paper wrappers, 8vo, 8 pages. In Portuguese. Title translates as, “Yom Kippur Lesson: Sermon for the Day of Atonement 5691-1930.” Isaiah Raffalovich, (1870–1956), was a “rabbi and author who promoted the development of Brazil's Jewish community. Born in Bogopol..... More
London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, Brown, And Green, 1825. 1st edition. Later cloth, 8vo. 171 pages, 22 cm. In English. The first English Biography of Moses Mendelssohn, founder of the Jewish Enlightenment or Haskalah [See S. Feiner, "Moses Mendelssohn: The First English Biography and Translations in: Journal of the History..... More
![Item 265770. THE CHUETAS OF MAJORCA; CONVERSOS AND THE INQUISITION OF MAJORCA [ASSOCIATION COPY BELONGING TO SUPREME COURT JUSTICE BENJAMIN CARDOZO AND LATER DANIEL FRIEDENBERG]](https://danwymanbooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/42470xt.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1694194520)
Scottdale, PA: Mennonite Publishing House, 1936. 1st edition. Original publisher’s cloth, large 8vo, xv, 227 pages. 26 cm. Important association copy, belonging first to Justice Benjamin Cardozo, the first Sephardic Jew to be appointed to the US Supreme Court, with his bookplate; Later to Jewish art scholar and book collector..... More
London : Longman, Orme, Brown and Longmans, 1838. 1st English-language edition. Period Quater leather and marbled boards, 8vo, IX, 329, 371 pages. In English with occasional Hebrew. Bound in two volumes (complete). In one of his most important works, Mendelssohn argues that no religious institution should use force, emphasizing that..... More
Washington, D.C.: Zionist Organization of America, 1930s? No Date [1930s?]. 1st edition? (see below), single fold pamphlet, 8vo, [4] pages (2 leaves), with photo of Brandeis on cover. Reprints excerpts and quotes from the writings of Justice Louis Brandeis: "Written nearly a quarter of a century ago [in 1915], the..... More
New York, Federation of American Zionists, 1918. Original paper wrappers, 8vo, 7 pages. 22 cm. Brandeis (1856–1941), was a “U. S. Jurist, the first Jew to be appointed to the U. S. Supreme Court….When Woodrow Wilson was elected president in 1912 on a platform of the New Freedom, he turned..... More
Paris; S. N. P., 1945. Original Wraps (covers lacking). 4to (large) . 48 pages. 30 cm. First edition. In French. Rare extremely early (1945) illustrated French Exposition of Nazi Crimes. Catalogue, in magazine format, of the first major post-war French exhibition on Nazi crimes; illustrated throughout; with testimony, articles, and..... More
's Gravenhage [The Hague]: Uitgeverij "de Schouw" 1943. 1st edition. Original color illustrated paper wrappers, 8vo, 12 pages. Includes color illustrations on every page. 21 cm. In Dutch. Title translates as, “The Adventures of Flash the Shepherd and Bull the Dog.” An allegorical story written in verse about the defeat..... More
's Gravenhage [The Hague]: Uitgeverij "de Schouw" 1943. 1st edition. Original color illustrated paper wrappers, 8vo, 12 pages. Includes color illustrations on every page. 21 cm. In Dutch. Title translates as, “The Adventures of Flash the Shepherd and Bull the Dog.” An allegorical story written in verse about the defeat..... More
Toronto [Ontario, Canada]: Naomi Chapter of Hadassah, 1934. 2nd edition [1st is 1928]. Original publisher’s cloth, 8vo, 199 pages. Includes illustrations. 24 cm. 2nd edition of the exceedingly rare first dated Jewish cookbook published in Canada (The first edition was 1928; Libbie Jacobs’ “The Council Kosher Cook Book,” was published..... More
![Item 265576. [INVITATION TO] RECEPTION TO THE CHIEF RABBI, THE VERY RE. RABBI ISRAEL BRODIE…CHIEF RABBI OF THE UNITED HEBREW CONGREGATIONS OF THE BRITISH COMMONWEALTH….OCT 30TH 1952….TO CELEBRATE THE OCCASION OF THE LAYING OF THE FOUNDATION STONE OF THE NEW SYNAGOGUE](https://danwymanbooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/42436.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1694093161)
Presume 1st edition. Single card, approx. 6”x3”. Very Good Condition (br-12-30). More
Swansea, No Publisher (The Congregation?), 1948. 1st edition. Single fold booklet, 12mo, 4 pages. Includes photos of Rabbi Morris and Rabbi Brodie. “Sir Israel Brodie KBE (1895-1979) was the Chief Rabbi of Great Britain and the Commonwealth 1948–1965. He was educated at Balliol College, Oxford. He served as a Rabbi..... More
![Item 265526. PRÆMONITUS PRÆMUNITUS: THE PROTOCOLS OF THE WISE MEN OF ZION. TRANSLATED FROM THE RUSSIAN TO THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE FOR THE INFORMATION OF ALL TRUE AMERICANS & TO CONFOUND ENEMIES OF DEMOCRACY & THE REPUBLIC, ALSO TO DEMONSTRATE THE POSSIBLE FULFILLMENT OF BIBLICAL PROPHECY AS TO WORLD DOMINATION BY THE CHOSEN PEOPLE. [WITH] AN ADDRESS ISSUED BY THE AMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE AND NINE ALLIED ORGANIZATIONS AS REBUTTAL TO THE IMPLIED INDICTMENT IN THE PROTOCOLS OF THE WISE MEN OF ZION [TIPPED IN]](https://danwymanbooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/42422.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1686672441)
New York: Beckwith Co., 1920-1921. 1st US editions [Main work is simultaneous with the Small, Maynard & Company edition, slightly different title; Rebuttal is 1st separate edition]. Main title is original printed publisher’s cloth, 8vo, 165 pages, with frontis and 4 facsimiles. 21 cm. Rebuttal is original paper wrappers, 12mo..... More
London: Nonpareil, 1982. 1st edition. Original illustrated paper wrappers, folio, 128 pages. Multiple illustrations on ever page, many in color. 31 cm. Supplement to Ruben's massiver Jewish Iconography (Revised 1981), which includes a long list of important artists, traditions and works. Reviewing an earlier edition of Jewish Iconography (subsumed into..... More
![Item 265519. HISTORY OF THE JEWS IN CHICAGO [MEMBERS’ NUMBERED EDITION] [ASSOCIATION COPY BELONGING TO THE CHICAGO COUPLE OF HENRY SCHIRESON/ROSALIE WEIN-ROBERTS OF THE 1940 CASE, UNITED STATES V. SCHIRESON]](https://danwymanbooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/42418.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1686602582)
Chicago: Jewish Historical Society of Illinois, 1924. 1st edition. Later cloth, Folio (large), 854 pages, plus [5] leaves of plates. Members Numbered Edition, this being number 72 (of how many?). Includes bibliographical references and index. Massive detailed encyclopedic work. Contents: The Jewish Influence Upon The Colonial Development of Illinois; Early..... More
![Item 265517. A JEWISH ICONOGRAPHY [LIMITED NUMBERED EDITION, INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR]](https://danwymanbooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/42416.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1686602573)
London: Nonpareil, 1981. Revised edition [First edition was 1954]. Original red publisher’s cloth with gilt in slipcase, folio (Large) xxxi, 277 pages. Multiple illustrations on ever page. 31 cm. Limited ed. of 650 numbered copies; this is no. 21, inscribed by the author. Massive work with over 2400 entries on..... More
![Item 265515. PRÆMONITUS PRÆMUNITUS: THE PROTOCOLS OF THE WISE MEN OF ZION. TRANSLATED FROM THE RUSSIAN TO THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE FOR THE INFORMATION OF ALL TRUE AMERICANS & TO CONFOUND ENEMIES OF DEMOCRACY & THE REPUBLIC, ALSO TO DEMONSTRATE THE POSSIBLE FULFILLMENT OF BIBLICAL PROPHECY AS TO WORLD DOMINATION BY THE CHOSEN PEOPLE. [PRAEMONITUS PRAEMUNITUS]](https://danwymanbooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/42414.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1686602570)
New York: Beckwith Co., 1920. 1st US edition [simultaneous with the Small, Maynard & Company edition, slightly different title]. Original printed publisher’s cloth, 8vo, 165 pages. Includes frontis and 4 facsimiles. 21 cm. Each facsimile is accompanied by a tissue guard sheet containing translation. According to this infamous text, a...... More
B. Klarsfeld Foundation, New York, N. Y., 1983. 1st English Language edition. 4to. Later cloth with original photographic paper wrappers mounted on front. xxxix + 663 pages. Illustrations throughout. In English. “The book by Serge Klarsfeld, … contains vital statistics of some 76, 000 Jews deported from France. Together with..... More
Leiden: Brill. 1976. 1st edition. Original publisher's cloth. 8vo. Xviii, 611 pages. SERIES: Publications of the Diaspora Research Institute ; ; v. 12; Variation: Pirsume ha-Makhon le-heker ha-tefutsot ; ; sefer 12. SUBJECT (S): Charitable uses, trusts, and foundations (Jewish law) ; Jews – Egypt – charities – sources; Cairo..... More
Varshe [Warsaw]: Literatur-Fond Baym Farayn Fun Yidishe Literatn Un Zshurnalistn In Varshe, 1922. Original illustrated paper wrappers with cover design by Chaim Wolf Weintraub, 4to (large), 85 pages. Includes Berlewi’s frontis portrait of the author (used as the feature illustration in the YIVO Encyclopedia’s article on Greenberg) with the original..... More
[New York], The Committee, 1939. 1st edition. Original printed stiff wrappers with brass clips, 4to, 30 single-sided typescript leaves, 29 cm. Published the same year as Kristalnacht, this report outlines the work of the United Palestine Appeal, the work of Keren Hayesod, and the possibilities for more refugees (primarily German..... More