Varsha [Warsaw], 1905. 1905 (both). 1st Yiddish editions (both). Period cloth, small 8vo, 40 + [23] pages. 20 cm. In Yiddish. Titles translate as “Labor and Capital” [Marx] and “What is a Constitution?” Both are 1st Yiddish editions and are also the first Yiddish publications of any books by either..... More

Nyu York: Tsentral-Komitet Fun Di Patronatn Far Di Politishe Arestirte In Poyln, 1937. 1st edition. Original illustrated paper wrappers. 4to. 24 pages. 31 cm. First edition. In Yiddish. Title translates as, 'To Aid." Important Landsmanschaften periodical to organize the campaign to free political prisoners in Poland and to fight Polish..... More

Yonkers [New York]: Internatsyonaler arbeter ordn, 1931. 1st edition. Original printed paper wrappers, 4to (magazine size), 32 pages per issue. Primarily in Yiddish with some articles in English. Title translates as, “The Funk: official organ of international labor organization.” The International Workers Order (IWO) “was a Communist Party-affiliated insurance, mutual..... More

New York: Natsyonaler Shul Komisye Fun Internatsyonaln Arbeter Ordn, 1938. 1st edition. Original photographic paper wrappers. 4to. 24 pages, 31 cm. In Yiddish with some advertisements in English. Includes many photos and illustrations, some by William Gropper. Title translates to "Proletarian Education: Official Organ of the National School Commission of..... More

New York: Natsyonaler Shul Komisye Fun Internatsyonaln Arbeter Ordn, 1935. 1st edition. Original printed paper wrappers. 4to. 24 pages, 31 cm. In Yiddish with some advertisements in English. Title translates to "Proletarian Education: Official Organ of the National School Commission of International Labor." A Yiddish-language publication of the National School..... More

New York: Nakl. Autora [by the Author], 1944. 1st edition. Original printed paper wrappers, 8vo, 31 pages. 23 cm. In Polish. Title translates as, “Anti-Semites and necrophiles: remarks on the Jewish question in Poland.” Published by a leading refugee Bundist intellectual as it became clear that Germany would be defeated..... More

Lodz: Centralna Zydowska Komisja Historyczna, 1946. 1st edition. Original Paper Wrappers. 8vo. 71 pages. 21 cm. In Polish. Title translates to English as, "The Extermination of the Jews of Zolkiew." One of four titles on the “suggested reading list” in the “Zolkiew” entry in the Yivo Encyclopedia of Jews in..... More

Paris, Felix Alcan, 1936. First Edition. Original gilt-printed publisher’s green cloth, Large 8vo, xv, 947, [3] pages. First edition of the first–and many would say most important–collaborative publication of the Frankfurt School (the Frankfurter Institut für Sozialforschung). The work includes abstracts in English and in French of all contributions. Sternfeld..... More

New York: Wilfred Funk, 1940. First edition, first printing. Original publisher’s cloth, 8vo 252 pages. Leading Holocaust scholar Randy Braham’s copy with “Braham” cleanly penned on the blank front endpaper. Why England Slept is the published version future U.S. President John F. Kennedy’s (1917-63) thesis from his senior year at..... More

New York, Bloch, 1915. 1st edition. Original printed paper wrappers, 12mo, pages 79-96 [16 pages]. 19 cm. Published during the Leo Frank appeals and commutation process. A leading Jewish founder of the NAACP weighs in on what will become the most famous Jewish lynching in American history. In 1913, 13-year-old..... More

Westminster, London : Friends Of Europe, 1937. 1st edition. Original stapled paper wrappers. 8vo, 29 pages. Friends of Europe publications; no. 54. “The following pamphlet is based on Dr. Alfred Rosenberg’s Unmoral im Talmud (published by Deutscher Volksverlag, Bayreuth) , which has a wide circulation in Germany. The author’s influence..... More

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

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