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Item 54543. Review Of A Report Of The Committee, To Whom Was Referred The Several Petitions On The Subject Of Mails On The Sabbath: Presented To The Senate Of The United States, January 16, 1829, By The Hon. Mr. Johnson, Of Kentucky, Chairman Of Said Committee

Johnson, Richard M.

Item 40957Review Of A Report Of The Committee, To Whom Was Referred The Several Petitions On The Subject Of Mails On The Sabbath: Presented To The Senate Of The United States, January 16, 1829, By The Hon. Mr. Johnson, Of Kentucky, Chairman Of Said Committee

Boston: Peirce And Williams, 1829. 1st edition. Original paper wrappers. 8vo. 27 pages, 24 cm. In English. For approximately 20 years, from 1810 to 1830, there was an ongoing battle fought between the religious traditionalists (conservatives) and members of the government over the lack of Sabbath recognition. Mails were transported..... More

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Item 1795. KIVIE KAPLAN: A LEGEND IN HIS OWN TIME.

Kaplan, Kivie) Feingold, S. Norman & William B Silverman

Item 19103KIVIE KAPLAN: A LEGEND IN HIS OWN TIME.

New York: UAHC. First Edition. ISBN 0807400068. 8vo; viii, 258 pages; Kaplan was a JEWISH national president of the NAACP & activist for Racial Equality. Ex-library, otherwise Very Good Condition. (amr-19-16). More

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Item 804. A SKETCH OF JEWISH HISTORY.

Karpeles, Gustav.

Item 16087A SKETCH OF JEWISH HISTORY.

Philadelphia: Jewish Publication Society of America, 1897. Cloth; 12mo. 109 pages. Bound in red boards. Translated from German. "Special Series No. 5." Lectures delivered during the winter of 1895-96 before the lodges of the Independent Order of B'ne B'rith at Berlin. The translation is done from stenographic notes printed as..... More

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Item 1954. THE MISSION OF THE DROPSIE UNIVERSITY.

Katsh, Abraham I.

Item 19470THE MISSION OF THE DROPSIE UNIVERSITY.

Narrow 8vo. 23 pages. Illustrated. SUBJECT (S) : Dropsie University. OCLC lists 2 copies worldwide (Upenn, Upenn Center for Judaic Studies) , both at Penn. As the first state-accredited Ph. D. Program of its kind, Dropsie College is the world's founding institution of modern academic Jewish Studies. In the course..... More

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Item 1999. HEBREW LANGUAGE LITERATURE AND CULTURE IN AMERICAN INSTITUTIONS OF HIGHER LEARNING.

Katsh, Abraham Isaac.

Item 19518HEBREW LANGUAGE LITERATURE AND CULTURE IN AMERICAN INSTITUTIONS OF HIGHER LEARNING.

8vo. Iv, 91 pages. Illustrated with figures. SUBJECT (S) : Hebrew language - study and teaching - United States; Hebrew philology - study and teaching. SERIES: Monograph /Payne Educational Sociology Foundation ; ; no. 2; Variation: Monograph (Payne Educational Sociology Foundation) ; ; no. 2. Katsh (1908-1998) was born in..... More

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Item 265859. WHY ENGLAND SLEPT

Kennedy, John F. Introduction by Henry R. Luce. [JFK]

Item 42481WHY ENGLAND SLEPT

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

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Item 254275. DOSITHEUS, THE SAMARITAN HERESIARCH : AND HIS RELATIONS TO JEWISH AND CHRISTIAN DOCTRINES AND SECTS

Kohler, Kaufmann

Item 41650DOSITHEUS, THE SAMARITAN HERESIARCH : AND HIS RELATIONS TO JEWISH AND CHRISTIAN DOCTRINES AND SECTS

Chicago : Univ. of Chicago Press, 1911. 1st edition. Original paper wrappers. 8vo, pp. 404-435 (total of 32 pages). Offprint from the American Journal of Theology, v. 15, no. 3, July, 1911. “A study of Professor Schechter’s Recent Publication.” The Jewish Encyclopedia notes, “On May 13, 1896, Schechter discovered the..... More

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Item 9071. EZRA STILES AND THE JEWS: SELECTED PASSAGES FROM HIS LITERARY DIARY CONERCERING JEWS AND JUDAISM

Kohut, George Alexander

Item 36512EZRA STILES AND THE JEWS: SELECTED PASSAGES FROM HIS LITERARY DIARY CONERCERING JEWS AND JUDAISM

Philip Cowen, New York, 1902. First English edition. Original black cloth with gold lettering on spine. 8vo, 155 pages. Reprinted from the American Hebrew, issues November 1901, to June, 1902. Deals with American Christian Hebraist Ezra Stiles. Important historical source on eighteenth century American Jews as Stiles was friends with..... More

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Item 4713. SEFER GORAL GEDALYAHU; SEFER TORAT GEDALYAHU

Kovetski, Yehi’el

Item 25495SEFER GORAL GEDALYAHU; SEFER TORAT GEDALYAHU

New York: Bi-Defus H. Lampert, 1913-1914. (FT) Hardcover, 8vo, 54, 38, 47 pages, 23 cm. In Hebrew. In Goldman. SUBJECT(S) : Jewish sermons, Hebrew. Bible. O. T. Pentateuch -- Sermons. OCLC lists 12 copies worldwide. Hinge repair. Fragile front and back pages. Wear and light chipping to edges of cover..... More

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Item 1025. JEWISH EXPERIENCES IN AMERICA: SUGGESTIONS FOR THE STUDY OF JEWISH RELATIONS WITH NON-JEWS

Lasker, Bruno (1880-1965) Ed.

Item 16873JEWISH EXPERIENCES IN AMERICA: SUGGESTIONS FOR THE STUDY OF JEWISH RELATIONS WITH NON-JEWS

New York, The Inquiry 1930.Cloth, 8vo, xiv, 309 pages. Includes diagrams. 20 cm. Also includes "A reading list"on pages 197-219; and "Other publications of the Inquiry" on pages 307-309. TABLE OF CONTENTS: 1. PREFACE. INTRODUCTION How a class, a club, and a fraternity got interested in studying their relations to..... More

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Item 265508. MYSTERY, PROPHECY, SERVICE, FREEDOM

Lazarus, Josephine [Emma Lazarus]; Hazard, Caroline

Item 42406MYSTERY, PROPHECY, SERVICE, FREEDOM

No Place [New York?] Privately printed, 1910? No Date: [1910?] 1st edition. Original printed boards, 12mo 73 pages. 17 cm. Introduction signed: C.P.H. [Caroline Hazard?] Preceded by a sonnet (“Dear Soul”) signed in the print: “Caroline Hazard 1890”. The introduction notes that "Josephine Lazarus planned ... a series of ....... More

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Item 1464. SYNOPSIS OF ARGUMENT BEFORE THE JUDICIARY COMMITTEE OF THE SENATE OF PENNA BY MOSES A. DROPSIE ON BILLS RELATING TO ARRESTS BY PRIVATE PERSONS AND PAYMENT OF FINES AND PENALTIES TO PRIVATE CORPORATIONS

(Leeser) Dropsie, Moses Aaron.

Item 18163SYNOPSIS OF ARGUMENT BEFORE THE JUDICIARY COMMITTEE OF THE SENATE OF PENNA BY MOSES A. DROPSIE ON BILLS RELATING TO ARRESTS BY PRIVATE PERSONS AND PAYMENT OF FINES AND PENALTIES TO PRIVATE CORPORATIONS

Printers. 1869. 8vo, 23 cm. 8 pages. Within the text Dropsie also argues the case also for repealing part of the Act for Punishment Of Cruelty To Animals, as well. “Born in Philadelphia on March 9, 1821 to a Jewish father and a Christian mother, Dropsie converted to Judaism at..... More

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Item 254191. CATECHISM FOR JEWISH CHILDREN: DESIGNED AS A RELIGIOUS MANUAL FOR HOUSE AND SCHOOL

Leeser, Isaac

Item 42153CATECHISM FOR JEWISH CHILDREN: DESIGNED AS A RELIGIOUS MANUAL FOR HOUSE AND SCHOOL

Philadelphia; Printed by Sherman & Co. for Abraham de Sola, 1873. Fourth Edition. 5633. Original Cloth. 12mo. X, 134 pages. 19 cm. Third edition. Singerman 2342. Dedicated to Rebecca Gratz. In 1873, the same year this edition was published, the distributor Rabbi Abraham de Sola, “by invitation of President Ulysses..... More

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Item 7042. “HISTORY OF THE JEWS AND THEIR RELIGION” IN: CYCLOPAEDIA OF RELIGIOUS DENOMINATIONS. CONTAINING AUTHENTIC ACCOUNTS OF THE DIFFERENT CREEDS AND SYSTEMS PREVAILING THROUGHOUT THE WORLD. WRITTEN BY MEMBERS OF THE RESPECTIVE BODIES.

Leeser, Isaac

Item 31706“HISTORY OF THE JEWS AND THEIR RELIGION” IN: CYCLOPAEDIA OF RELIGIOUS DENOMINATIONS. CONTAINING AUTHENTIC ACCOUNTS OF THE DIFFERENT CREEDS AND SYSTEMS PREVAILING THROUGHOUT THE WORLD. WRITTEN BY MEMBERS OF THE RESPECTIVE BODIES.

Glasgow, Bell And Bain, 1853. 1st edition. Period Half leather and marbled boards with raised spine and leather spine title. Leeser's contribution is 8 pages. In this overview of Judaism, the "Pastor of the Hebrew Portuguese Congregation, Philadelphia, " Rev. Isaac Leeser, takes the reader back to the times of..... More

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Item 1786. ANTI-SEMITISM IN THE UNITED STATES: ITS HISTORY AND CAUSES

Levinger, Rabbi Lee J. (Lee Joseph)

Item 19073ANTI-SEMITISM IN THE UNITED STATES: ITS HISTORY AND CAUSES

New York: Bloch Publishing Co., 1925. First Edition. 8vo; 120 pages; 22 cm. Published also as thesis (PH. D. ) Pennsylvania University in 1925 under title: The causes of anti-Semitism in the US. Ex-library, otherwise Very Good Condition.(k-amr-20-52). More

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Item 243708. POSTHUMOUS WORKS OF MR. JOHN LOCKE: VIZ. I.OF THE CONDUCT OF THE UNDERSTANDING. II.AN EXAMINATION OF P. MALEBRANCHE'S OPINION OF SEEING ALL THINGS IN GOD. III.A DISCOURSE OF MIRACLES. IV.PART OF A FOURTH LETTER FOR TOLERATION. V.MEMOIRS RELATING TO THE LIFE OF ANTHONY FIRST EARL OF SHAFTESBURY. TO WHICH IS ADDED, VI.HIS NEW METHOD OF A COMMON-PLACE-BOOK, WRITTEN ORIGINALLY IN FRENCH, AND NOW TRANSLATED INTO ENGLISH.

Locke, John

Item 42126POSTHUMOUS WORKS OF MR. JOHN LOCKE: VIZ. I.OF THE CONDUCT OF THE UNDERSTANDING. II.AN EXAMINATION OF P. MALEBRANCHE'S OPINION OF SEEING ALL THINGS IN GOD. III.A DISCOURSE OF MIRACLES. IV.PART OF A FOURTH LETTER FOR TOLERATION. V.MEMOIRS RELATING TO THE LIFE OF ANTHONY FIRST EARL OF SHAFTESBURY. TO WHICH IS ADDED, VI.HIS NEW METHOD OF A COMMON-PLACE-BOOK, WRITTEN ORIGINALLY IN FRENCH, AND NOW TRANSLATED INTO ENGLISH.

London: printed by W.B. for A. and J. Churchill, 1706. 1st edition. All Original Period tooled calf with raised bands and spine label. 8vo, [iv], 336 pages. Often credited as a founder of modern “liberal” thought, Locke pioneered the ideas of natural law, social contract, religious toleration, and the right..... More

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Item 805. SONS OF THE COVENANT: A TALE OF LONDON JEWRY.

London) Gordon, Samuel.

Item 16098SONS OF THE COVENANT: A TALE OF LONDON JEWRY.

Philadelphia: The Jewish Publication Society of America, 1900. Cloth; small 8vo. 500 pages. First edition. Gilt titles; embossed with JPS seal. Eight illustrations by Mark Zangwill, including frontispiece. A novel about two Jewish youths in London. Gordon was a German-born English novelist; he wrote several works dealing with Jewish life..... More

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Item 8798. LIKE ALL THE NATIONS?

Magnes, J.L. (Judah)

Item 35948LIKE ALL THE NATIONS?

Herod's Gate, Jerusalem, 1930. 1st edition. Original Paper Wrappers, 8vo, 77 pages. "'Can we establish our life here,' he asked in his 1930 pamphlet Like All the Nation? 'not upon the basis of force and power, but upon that of human solidarity and understanding?' His tireless pursuit of a cooperative..... More

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Item 54181. LIKE ALL THE NATIONS?

Magnes, J.L. (Judah)

Item 40093LIKE ALL THE NATIONS?

Herod's Gate, Jerusalem, 1930. 1st edition. Original Paper Wrappers, 8vo, 77 pages. "'Can we establish our life here,' he asked in his 1930 pamphlet Like All the Nation? 'not upon the basis of force and power, but upon that of human solidarity and understanding?' His tireless pursuit of a cooperative..... More

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Item 7001. MAIMONIDES BENEVOLENT SOCIETY; GOLDEN JUBILEE 1853-1903; JANUARY TWENTY-FIFTH, 1903, GRAND CENTRAL PALACE.

Maimonides Benevolent Society

Item 31569MAIMONIDES BENEVOLENT SOCIETY; GOLDEN JUBILEE 1853-1903; JANUARY TWENTY-FIFTH, 1903, GRAND CENTRAL PALACE.

1903. Later Wrappers. 8vo. 54 pages. 23 cm. First edition. Illustrated with ten plates depicting the leaders of the society and the cemetery of the Maimonides Benevolent Society; with an essay expounding upon the history of this society. This benevolent society, comprised of German-Jews in New York City, was founded..... More

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Item 65494. THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF MALCOLM X [1ST EDITION, 2ND PRINTING]

Malcolm X. Written "with the assistance of" Alex Haley. Introduction by M.S. Handler. Epilogue by Alex Haley.

Item 41921THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF MALCOLM X [1ST EDITION, 2ND PRINTING]

Grove Press, 1965. 8vo; First edition, second printing [Stated], from same year as 1st printing. Not Book Club. Original publiher's cloth in dust jacket, 8vo, 455 pages. “In 1998, Time named The Autobiography of Malcolm X one of ten 'required reading' nonfiction books.The Autobiography of Malcolm X has influenced generations..... More

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Item 4329. PENINIM YEKARIM: KOLEL HIDUSHE TORAH U-DERUSH LEFI RUAH HA-ZEMAN

Margolies, Sol

Item 24597PENINIM YEKARIM: KOLEL HIDUSHE TORAH U-DERUSH LEFI RUAH HA-ZEMAN

New York: S. Margolies, 1926. (FT) Paperback, 47 pages, 8vo, 21 cm. In Hebrew. SUBJECT(S) ; Jewish sermons, Hebrew. OCLC lists 7 copies worldwide. Wear to edges of cover and binding. Staining to cover. Light wear. Otherwise, very good condition. (Rab-37-8). More

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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]

Meites, Hyman L., editor; David E. Hirsch, Associate Editor

Item 42418HISTORY 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]

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

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Item 76012. RUACH HAYIM (THE SPIRIT OF LIFE) OR JEWISH DAILY LIFE ETHICALLY PRESENTED

Mendes, H. Pereira (Henry Pereira)

Item 41936RUACH HAYIM (THE SPIRIT OF LIFE) OR JEWISH DAILY LIFE ETHICALLY PRESENTED

New York: Bloch Publishing Co, 1917. First edition. Original publisher’s blue cloth, 12mo. 191, [1] pages. "Manual of religious duty giving ethical, spiritual reasons that appeal to the emotions, as well as to modern intelligence naturally so influenced by modern thought" (from author's preface). Henry Pereira Mendes (1852-1937) was an..... More

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Item 243360. SEDER TEFILAH. THE ORDER OF PRAYER FOR DIVINE SERVICE. II VOLUME: DAY OF ATONEMENT [VOL II ONLY, OF 2] [DAILY PRAYERS. REFORM, MERZBACHER]

Merzbacher, Leo, editor and translator; Adler, S. M.(Samuel M.), editor.[Temple Emanu-El (New York, N.Y.)]

Item 42038SEDER TEFILAH. THE ORDER OF PRAYER FOR DIVINE SERVICE. II VOLUME: DAY OF ATONEMENT [VOL II ONLY, OF 2] [DAILY PRAYERS. REFORM, MERZBACHER] סדר תפלה

New York, Printed by Thalmessinger & Cahn, 1863. 2nd Revised Edition, edited, revised, and corrected by S. Adler, 1st printing thus. Original gilt tooled leather, 8vo, 396 pages. In Hebrew and English on facing pages. Formerly Singerman 1780, now merged into Singerman 1667 as vol II, variant 1 (Thalmessinger &..... More

Price: $6,200.00

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