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Philadelphia: Adam Waldie, 1830. 1st edition. Period half red morocco over marbled boards, 8vo, viii, 139 pages. In English with some Hebrew. The first book by Isaac Leeser printed in America.as well as the first Religious Manual For The Jews of America. It is the English translation by Isaac Leeser..... More
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
![Item 266134. THE OCCIDENT AND AMERICAN JEWISH ADVOCATE. A MONTHLY PERIODICAL DEVOTED THE DIFFUSION OF KNOWLEDGE ON JEWISH LITERATURE AND RELIGION. VOLS 1-15, 19-24, & 26; PLUS VOL. 25 NR 8 (SINGLE ISSUE), 1843-1869. 22+ OF 24 MONTHLY VOLUMES [LACKING 16 & MOST OF 25] [VOLUMES 17 AND 18 CHANGED FORMAT FROM MONTHLY TO WEEKLY, AND FROM QUARTO TO FOLIO SIZE, ARE NOT PART OF THIS MONTHLY SET AND ARE ESPECIALLY RARE]](https://danwymanbooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/42564.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1699894208)
Philadelphia: Isaac Leeser-C. Sherman, Printer, 1843-1869. 1st edition. Mixed period half leather (most) or modern cloth (5 volumes); single issue is in original canary yellow wrappers. An almost complete monthly run of Isaac Leeser’s Occident, the first widely circulated Jewish periodical in America and an unmatched source for details of..... More
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
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
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
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
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
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
![Item 65494. THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF MALCOLM X [1ST EDITION, 2ND PRINTING]](https://danwymanbooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/41921.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1656080298)
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
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
![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
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