Picciotto, James; Israel Finestein, ed.

Sketches of Anglo-Jewish History

London, The Soncino Press Ltd., 1956. Revised and Expanded Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Sturdy, attractive, tightly bound, internally clean hardcover copy, with unbruised tips, neat and tidy paste-downs; not ex-library, with neither highlighting nor underlining. Bright and shiny dust jacket, illustrated, showing only very minor wear, not price-clipped. Revised and expanded edition, and published in the tercentenary of the relocation of Jews to England. Volume contains scholarly apparatus in the form of, e.g., notes, index, and bibliography. First published in 1875. xxii [2], 2-512 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Near Fine/Very Good,

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Book number: 347595

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Walter Pohlmann

Das Judentum Und Seine Feinde

Berlin, Germany , Heuser's Verlag (Louis Heuser), 1893. First Edition. Softcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. A perfectly serviceable reference copy; nothing fancy, but complete, sunned and chipped a bit along the edges, tape-repaired at spine, rear panel having been detached. Previous owner's blue ink-stamp at front cover (Harri Edgren). German language46 pp. and sturdy.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Good

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Book number: 355777

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Walshaw, Rachela and Sam Walshaw

From out of the Firestorm: A Memoir of the Holocaust

New York, Shapolsky, 1991. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. An extremely engrossing memoir, a wartime narrative that begins in 1931 and the eventual razing to the ground of their village Wonchok, Poland, the making of Polish-Jewish ghetto, and then the authors' deportation to a concentration camp. Sterling condition hardcover copy, with unbruised tips, tight binding, and clean internals, showing only very slight shelf- and edge-wear; not ex-library, with neither underlining nor highlighting anywhere. Bright and shiny dust jacket, illustrated, showing only very minor wear, not price-clipped. Foreword by Isaac Kowalski, editor of the four-volume Anthology on Armed Jewish Resistance 1939-1945. [11], 2-154 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Used: Like New

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Book number: 349260

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Raskin, Eugene

Pirke Aboth (Sayings of the Fathers)

New York, Bloch Publishing Company, 1969. Second Edition. Hardcover. Size: 4to 11" - 13" tall. Second Edition of this new printing of the 1940 edition, bound in blue cloth with gilt decorations and lettering. Replete with black-and-white illustrations by the Jewish artist and engraver Saul Raskin. 10 1/2" x 14" in width and height, respectively, at 136 pp. Bright and shiny dust jacket, illustrated, showing moderate wear, especially to tips, but protected by a plastic coat, not being price-clipped. Two previous owners' gift inscriptions, one in Hebrew, another in English, from 1971. Text is in Hebrew, Yiddish and English. According to a Wikipedia article, "Pirkei Avot (Hebrew: פִּרְקֵי ×�Ö¸×'וֹת‎; also spelled as Pirkei Avoth or Pirkei Avos or Pirke Aboth), which translates to English as Chapters of the Fathers, is a compilation of the ethical teachings and maxims from Rabbinic Jewish tradition . . . Pirkei Avot consists of the Mishnaic tractate of Avot, the second-to-last tractate in the order of Nezikin in the Mishnah, plus one additional chapter. Avot is unique in that it is the only tractate of the Mishnah dealing solely with ethical and moral principles; there is little or no halakha (laws) found in Pirkei Avot." Foreword by the son of the artist, Eugene Raskin.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Used: Very Good

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Book number: 347202

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Martyrs' and Heroes' Remembrance

The Holocaust

Yad Vashem, Jerusalem, Martyrs' and Heroes' Remembrance Authority, 1977. First Edition. Softcover. Size: 4to 11" - 13" tall. Printed, staple-bound, only mildly worn and soiled report from the remembrance that was held in Yad Vashem, Jerusalem, to honor the martyrdom of thousands of Jews in concentration camps and in ghettos in the Warsaw Uprising and children in Terezin. Several hundred black-and-white illustrations and photographs. Fold-out drawings, arresting images, and bracing texts and newsreel footage. The museum was established in 1953 by an act of the Israeli Knesset. Includes Chronology, Essays include "Racism and anti-semitism in Nazi Germany," "Anti-Jewish policy and persecutions in Germany," "The Period of Restrictions and interment of Jews 1939-1941," and others.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Very Good

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Book number: 351311

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Rhine, Abraham Benedict

Leon Gordon: An Appreciation

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, The Jewish Publication Society of America, 1910. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Sturdy, attractive, tightly bound, internally clean hardcover copy, with unbruised tips, neat and tidy paste-downs; not ex-library, with neither highlighting nor underlining. Bumping to spine head and foot. Still bright and distinctive gilt lettering to spine. Fine duotone photograph of Leon Gordon, the noted Jewish poet and critic, born Judah Leib Gordon, 1830-1892, at frontis, tissue-protected. Volume contains scholarly apparatus in the form of, e.g., notes, index, and bibliography. 181 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Very Good

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Book number: 346333

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Hochhuth, Rolf; Winston, Richard and Winston, Clara, translators

The Deputy

New York, The Grove Press, 1964. First U.S. Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Sturdy, attractive, tightly bound hardcover, clean interior but for previous owner's inscription at first free endpaper, with minimal rubbing to extremities. Bright and shiny dust jacket, illustrated, little worn, protected by a plastic coat. A searing, book-length version of the play that burst onto the scene in 1963 in Germany, questioning why Pope Pius XII, the alleged embodiment of Christ on Earth, stood by and stood down during the Holocaust--and worse. Stated First Printing of this First U.S. Edition. Translated by Richard and Clara Winston from the original German. Foreword by Dr. Albert Schweitzer. "The question raised in The Deputy is how Pope Pius XII - Christ's deputy on earth - could fail to speak out against the mass murder of six million Jews and, by his silence, fail to give voice to Christianity's most fundamental principles."Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Used: Very Good

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Keywords: Rolf Hochhuth The Deputy Richard Winston Clara Winston Pope Pius XII antisemitism the Holocaust

Hoffmann, Roald and Shira Leibowitz Schmidt

Old Wine New Flasks: Reflections on Science and Jewish Tradition

New York, W.H. Freeman & Co., 1997. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Sterling condition hardcover copy, with unbruised tips, tight binding, and clean internals, showing only very slight shelf- and edge-wear; not ex-library, with neither underlining nor highlighting anywhere. Bound in two-tone, tan paper over boards, tan linen cloth-backed, and with gilt lettering to spine. Volume contains scholarly apparatus in the form of, e.g., notes, index, and bibliography. The senior author is a Nobel Laureate. xii + 362 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Fine/Fine,

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Book number: 347430

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Keywords: Judaica|Judaism|Jewish history|Jewish culture|Jewish tradition|Old Testament|Roald Hoffmann |Shira Leibowitz Schmidt

Morris, Robert and Michael Freund

Trends and Issues in Jewish Social Welfare in the United States 1899-1958

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, The Jewish Publication Society of America, 1966. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. A fine social historical survey of American Jewish social welfare programs and efforts, seen through the lens of the proceedings and reports of the National Conference of Jewish Communal Services. Sturdy, attractive, tightly bound hardcover, big, fat, Imperial octavo format, clean, unmarked interior, minimal rubbing to extremities. Bluish-gray cloth over boards, gilt lettering to spine. Bright and shiny dust jacket, illustrated, little worn, not price-clipped. Foreword by Robert Morris. Contributions by Samuel Joseph, Eugene S. Benjamin, David M. Bressler, H.L. Sabsovich, Mirris Goldstein, Harold Silver, Solomon Lowenstein, Charles Zunser, Lee K. Frankel, Ludwig B. Bernstein, Julian W. Mack, Boris Bogen, Jacob Billikopf, Morris Loeb, Morris D. Waldman, Jennie F. Purvin, and several score more authories in Jewish history and culture. xxix [2], 4-642 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Near Fine/Very Good,

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Book number: 352427

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Rose, Norman

Chaim Weizmann: A Biography

New York, Elisabeth Sifton Books / Viking Press, 1986. . Hardcover. Size: Large 8vo 9" - 10. Sturdy, attractive hardcover copy, with unbruised tips, tight binding, and clean internals, showing only very slight shelf- and edge-wear beyond a remainder mark along top edge; not ex-library, with neither underlining nor highlighting anywhere. Bright and shiny dust jacket, illustrated, showing only very minor wear, not price-clipped. Volume contains scholarly apparatus in the form of, e.g., notes, index, and bibliography. Plentiful black-and-white photographs, including a glossy photo section, photo portrait of Weizmann at middle front. xiv, 520 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Used: Very Good

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Book number: 351317

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Rosenbaum, Jeannette W.

Myer Myers, Goldsmith 1723-1795

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Jewish Publication Society, 1954. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 4to 11" - 13" tall. 141 pp., a sturdy, attractive, tightly bound, internally clean hardcover copy, bound in brick-red cloth over boards, with gilt lettering to spine, with unbruised tips, neat and tidy paste-downs; not ex-library, with neither highlighting nor underlining. An accessible, important compilation of the life and work of Myer Myers, a new chapter in the field of Early American goldsmithing and colonial American Jewish history and culture. Illustrated endpapers (a map of New York) both front and rear.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Very Good

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Book number: 351308

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Rosenberg, David

Chosen Days: Celebrating Jewish Festivals in Poetry and Art

Garden City, New York, Doubleday & Company, 1980. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Exquisite full-color illustrations by Leonard Baskin augment this lovely paean to Jewish history and culture. Stated First Edition, with "1" in number line present. Sterling condition hardcover copy, with unbruised tips, tight binding, and clean internals, showing only very slight shelf- and edge-wear; not ex-library, with neither underlining nor highlighting anywhere. Bright and shiny dust jacket, illustrated, showing only very minor wear, protected by a plastic coat, dust jacket not being price-clipped. ix [5], 6-212 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Fine/Fine,

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Book number: 351612

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Keywords: Leonard Baskin David Rosenberg Jewish history Jewish culture Jewish ritual

Rosenthal, Robert

The Ludwig Rosenberger Collection of Judaica

Chicago, The Joseph Regenstein Library at the University of Chicago, 1976. First Edition. Softcover. Size: 4to 11" - 13" tall. Robert Rosenthal has curated a fine collection of Judaica that was shown in 1976 at the Joseph Regenstein Library at the University of Chicago. Introduction by Rosenthal and then a fine curated catalog broken into several periods, beginning with "Pre-Emancipation 1200-1777" and then "The Enlightenment and Emancipation 1656-1858" and then "The Modern World 1840-1940." Unpaginated, but roughly 24 pp. and a full index of authors.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . As New

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Book number: 350408

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Roth, Cecil

The Great Synagogue London 1690-1940

London, Edward Goldston & Son Ltd, 1950. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: Large 8vo 9" - 10. Quite handsomely bound in Imperial octavo format, a big, tall blue cloth-bound copy, with gilt lettering to front cover and spine. Faint residue of what might be an address sticker at first free endpaper. Presentation copy from the Secretary of the Great Synagogue itself, to Naomi Newman Macht (1920-2008), of Hagerstown, Maryland, mother of Mary Macht, both the bookplate and note of compliments affixed neatly inside the front flap. Fine reproduction in color of a painting of the Great Synagogue from 1809 at frontis tissue-protected. The work was prepared in 1940, the 250th anniversary of the Synagogue's founding. 75 sharp and distinct black-and-white plates, and then with key to plates following, from List of Illustrations. xiv + 311 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Used: Very Good

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Book number: 349261

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Rubenovitz, Mignon L.

Altars of My Fathers

New York, The National Women's League of the United Synagogue of America, 1957. Second Edition. Hardcover. Size: 4to 11" - 13" tall. Sturdy, attractive, tightly bound hardcover, clean, if toned, minimal rubbing to extremities. Bound handsomely in blue cloth over boards, sharp and distinct gilt lettering to spine, front cover, gilt illustration at front panel bottom. Plentiful illustrations via works of art to depict Jewish ideals and ways of life in the form of black-and-white photos of ceremonial objects, graphics, and rare works of Judaica from the collection of the Jewish Museum of Temple Mishkan Tefila, Boston. Mignon L. Rubenovitz co-founded Hadassah and the National Women's League, while her husband was the Rabbi at Congregation Mishkan Tefila, Boston. 92 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Near Fine

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Book number: 351932

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Keywords: Mignon L. Rubenovitz Jewish history Jewish culture altars Judaism religion ritual