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Rödelheim: Druck U. Verlag Von. I. Lehrberger And Comp. 1863. Hardcover. Period boards. 8vo. 312 pages, 21 cm. In Hebrew and German. Title translates to “Elegies for Tisha Ba’Av: With Megillat Eikhah, the Call to the Torah, and all other Prayers according to the Ashkenazi Rite. ” SUBJECTS: Ninth of..... More
![Item 7678. BIBLIA SACRA POLYGLOTTA: TEXTUS ARCHETYPOS VERSIONESQUE PRAECIPUAS AB ECCLESIA ANTIQUITUS RECEPTAS COMPLECTENTIA [THREE FASCICLES; 1-3, LACKING THE FOURTH]](/pictures/thumb/33106.jpg?v=1661884814)
Londini; Sumptibus Samuelis Bagster, 1827-1828. Hardcover. Original boards. 4to. 400, 400, 399, 399 pages. 29 cm. First edition. First edition of the Biblia Sacra Polyglotta, with advertisements on rear board for further volumes soon to be printed in other languages; text block with wide margins pages uncut, boards measure 29..... More
New York: Aberbach Fine Art, 1974. Hardcover. 1st edition. Original boards and illustrated dust jacket. 4to. 156 pages, 29 cm. In English. Samuel Bak is an American surrealist painter and writer who survived the Holocaust and immigrated to Israel in 1948. Since 1993, he has lived in the United States..... More
Boston; Pucker Gallery, 2002. Original illustrated wraps. 4to. 44 pages. 28 cm. First edition. Catalog of two exhibitions, Return to Vilna I and Return to Vilna II, held between 31 August and 20 November, 2002 at Pucker Gallery, Boston, Mass. With 67 full color illustrations. Samuel Bak “was born in..... More
Lewiston, Edwin Mellen Press, 1993. Hardcover. 1st edition. Original blue cloth boards. 4to. 182 pages; 24 cm. Includes tables. “Walter Zwi Bacharach is Professor Emeritus of General History at Bar-Ilan University. He was born in Hanau, Germany in 1928. In 1938, he escaped with his family to Holland, where they..... More
Wien, J. Knöpflemacher & Sohn, 1865. Hardcover. Later green boards with original paper wrappers bound in. 12mo. 4, 103 pages; 18cm. In Hebrew. Title translates to “Book of Living: Gathered Together All of the Mitzvot that Man Shall Do in His Entire Life...and the Way of Life from the Opinion..... More
Warsaw : Bi-Defus B. Lifshits. 1910. Hardcover. (FT) 8vo. 157 pages. In Hebrew. Complete - two volumes bound in one. SUBJECT(S) : Judaism - apologetic works; Christianity - controversial literature. OCLC lists 2 copies worldwide (Spertus Institute, JTSA) . Pages tanned, otherwise very good condition. (HebLit-2-19) xx. More
Magentsa, Yohan Virtsh'e Hofbukh. 1896. Paperback. Original orange paper wrappers. 8vo. 86 pages; 22 cm. In Yiddish with German title page. Title roughly translates to “Words for the House of Jacob. ” Text of each page outlined in a green box. Seligmann Baer Bamberger “was a Talmudist and a leader..... More
Berlin: S. Cronbach, 1898. Paper Wrappers. 1st edition. Period boards. 8vo. 7, 175 pages, 22 cm. Includes photo plates. In German. Title translates to “Palestine: Land and People.” Published the year after Herzl’s groundbreaking “Judenstaat.” Bambus (1863-1904) was a prominent German Jew and one of the first to join the..... More
Tel Aviv; Beth Hatefutsoth, The Nahum Goldmann Museum Of The Jewish Diaspora, 1996. Hardcover. Original Cloth. 4to. 143 pages. 29 cm. First edition. Illustrated throughout with black and white, some color, photographs. Jews in Arab lands today: photographs; in conjunction with the Exhibition "Jews in Arab Lands Today - Photographs"..... More
Westminster, UK: Friends Of Europe, 1934. Paperback. 1st edition. Original paper wrappers, 8vo, 19 pages. Interesting period analysis, in under 20 pages, of the “new German Mythology” which is being taught to Germany’s children. The author includes no fewer than 8 references to Antisemitic references to the Jews or Jewish..... More
New York : Carleton, 1870. Hardback. Early Uniform Edition. Original Publisher’s cloth with gilt spines, 12mo, 5 volumes: 472 + 406 + 351 + 255 + 304 pages. Each volume also contains an 8-page publisher’s catalog bound in at rear. Sabin, 78464; Howe’s USiana, 245. Includes indexes. Originally published serially..... More
Jerusalem : No Publisher. 1962. Paperback. (FT) 8vo. 11, 109 pages. In Hebrew. SUBJECT(S) : Creation; Judaism and science. OCLC lists 2 copies worldwide (Yale, JTSA) . Ex library. Light water stains throughout, covers soiled, good condition. (HebLit-2-18). More
![Item 54702. HAGADAH LE-PESACH IM PERUSH DERECH CHAYIM VE-NEHORA SHALEM ME'ET HA-GAON RABBI YAAKOV [LORBERBAUM] ME-LISA ZIKHRON TZADIK LIVRAKHA. MATANA ME'ET VA’AD HA-HATZALA LE-HASHE'ERIT HAPLEITA [HAGGADAH LEPESAH]](/pictures/thumb/41362.jpg?v=1656096082)
Munich: Vaad Hatzala, 1948. paperback. 1st edition thus. Period blank paper wrappers, 8vo, 21 pages. Printed in Germany for the Holocaust survivors (She'erit HaPleita) in the displaced persons camps. Hagadah with several hasidic commentaries. Printed for the Holocaust refugees by the Va’ad Hatzalah, a group organized by Rabbi Eliezer Silver..... More
New York : [Publisher Not Identified], 1923. Hardback. 1st English Edition. Original Boards. 8vo. 186 pages ; 19 cm. “Bassen was (b) orn in Vasilkov, Ukraine. In July 1905 he emigrated to the United States and became a furrier. He published a drama, ‘Tsurik tsu zikh, drame fun idishn lebn..... More
New York : [Publisher Not Identified], 1923. Hardback. 1st English Edition. Original Boards. 8vo. 186 pages ; 19 cm. “Bassen was (b) orn in Vasilkov, Ukraine. In July 1905 he emigrated to the United States and became a furrier. He published a drama, ‘Tsurik tsu zikh, drame fun idishn lebn..... More
Vilna: Grininke Beymelekh, 1936. Paperback. |1st edition. Original paper wrappers. 8vo. 46 pages, 26 cm. In Yiddish. Title translates as” Mendele Anthology: Published for the 100th Birthday of MMS.” A nazi-era Yiddish language study book on Mendele Mokher Sefarim, produced by the children's publishers Grinke Beymelekh ("Green Saplings"). Mendele Mokher..... More
Wien [Vienna]; Phaidon-Verlag, 1928. First edition. Clothbound. 12mo. 263 pages; 20 cm. In German. Red cloth bound with gilt lettering, red ribbon page marker, frontispiece portrait of Samuel Oppenheimer, and a half dozen plates of portraits. "The Jews in Old Vienna“, written by the journalist Ludwig Bato, is a history..... More
NY: American Friends Of Czechoslovakia, N.D. Paperback. 1st edition. Ca. 1939. Original paper Wrappers, 12mo 8 pages. ”Young people who have known nothing but the era of freedom…. Are immune to the means used to win youth in the [German] Reich: uniforms and parades, anti-Semitism and propaganda of hate, the..... More
[Merhavyah]; Hotsaat Ha-Kibuts Ha-Artsi Ha-Shomer Ha-Tsair, 1940. Hardcover. Original Cloth. 8vo. 185 pages. 21 cm. First Hebrew edition. Translated from the German by Avraham Kohen. Translation of Die Nationalita¨tenfrage und die Sozialdemokratie. A translation of the Austrian Socialist Otto Bauer's first book, The Nationalities Question and Social Democracy (first published..... More
Philadelphia : The Congregation. 1926. Hardcover. 8vo. 85 Pages. SUBJECT (S) : Synagogues – Pennsylvania – Philadelphia – periodicals; Jews – Pennsylvania – Philadelphia – history -- 20th century; Philadelphia (Pa. ) -- Congregation Adath Jeshurun. OCLC lists 2 copies worldwide (Stanford, JTSA) . Includes a history of the congregation..... More
[New York], 1934. Paperback. 1st Edition. Original Wrappers. 8vo. [4] pages ; 23 cm. Early Nazi-era speech damning Hitler, given at the New York scholarly institution which, under the leadership of the author, would come to be most associated with refugee scholars. “Charles Austin Beard (1874 – 1948) was, with..... More
New York City, National Council Of Jewish Women, 1942. Hardback. 1st Edition. Original Paper Wrappers. 8vo. [2], 76 pages ; 24 cm. In English. World War II Era handbook from the National Council of Jewish Women on best practices for getting immigrant families citizenship in the United States. “The National..... More
New York City, National Council Of Jewish Women, 1942. Hardback. 1st Edition. Original Paper Wrappers. 8vo. [2], 76 pages ; 24 cm. In English. World War II Era handbook from the National Council of Jewish Women on best practices for getting immigrant families citizenship in the United States. “The National..... More
Cape Town; City Printing Works, 1930. Hardcover. Publishers cloth. 4to. 177 pages. 27 cm. First edition. With 9 leaves of plates. With frontispiece portrait of Bertha Beinkinstadt. Poem titles in Hebrew and English. Includes poems by Chaim Nachman Bialik, Saul Tchernichowsky, David Shimonowitz, Jacob Cohen, David Frischman, Simon Frug, Yehoash..... More