Gold, Leonard Singer

A Sign and a Witness: 2,000 Years of Hebrew Books and Illuminated Manuscripts

New York / Oxford, The New York Public Library / Oxford University Press, 1988. First Edition. Softcover. Size: 4to 11" - 13" tall. Another fine contribution to the series, Studies in Jewish History, being a sterling condition softcover copy in tall quarto format, with unfurled tips, tight binding, and clean internals, showing only very slight shelf- and edge-wear. 224 pp., with 16 full color plates, a checklist of the exhibition from which this catalogue is drawn, a bibliography, a glossary, a list of contributors, and an index of illustrations. Foreword by Vartan Gregorian, an introduction by Gold, then chapters that include "The Dead Sea Scrolls: Light on the Text and the Canon of the Bible," Frank Moore Cross; "How Hebrew Manuscripts are Made," Malachi Beit-Arie; "The Decoration of Medieval Hebrew Manuscripts," Evelyn M. Cohen; "The Hebrew Manuscript as a Source for the Study of History and Literature," Menahem Schmelzer; "The Hebrew Book in a Christian World," David B. Ruderman; "Publishing and the Rise of Modern Hebrew Literature," Michael W. Grunberger; "Text and Texture: Early Adventures in the Fourth Dimension," Chaim Potok among others. Quite fine internally.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Fine

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Book number: 351941

Catalogue: Religion::Judaism

Keywords: Leonard Singer Gold Vartan Gregorian Frank Moore Cross Malachi Beit-Arie Evelyn M. Cohen Michael W. Grunberger Chaim Potok

Goldberg, E.Z.

The World of Sholom Aleichem

New York, Rachel Productions, 1953. First Edition. Softcover. Size: Oblong 12mo 7" - 7. A perfectly serviceable reference copy; nothing fancy, but complete and sturdy. Drawings by Ben Shahn, and laid in is a postcard from the publisher. Moderately worn of exterior, but clean and unmarked of interior. Oddly enough, a brief and due homage to the author of the play by his son-in-law. ~24 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Good

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Book number: 351426

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Keywords: Ben Shahn E.Z. Goldberg Sholom Aleichem

Goldin, Hyman E.

First Year in Hebrew: A Practical Method with Progressive Hebrew-English and English-Hebrew Exercises in Reading and Writing and a Hebrew Reader

New York, S. Druckerman, 1911. . Hardcover. Size: 12mo 7" - 7. A perfectly serviceable reference copy; nothing fancy, but complete and sturdy. Bound in printed brown paper over boards, blue cloth-packed, scuffing to tips, edges, extremities, covers worn and soiled a bit, some toning to endpapers front and rear, yet clean and unmarked of interior. Edition not stated, but Preface is written by the author in 1907, title page says 1911. iv + 139 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Good

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Book number: 346613

Catalogue: Religion::Judaism

Keywords: Hyman E. Goldin|Hebrew language|English language|Hebrew-English dictionary|English-Hebrew dictionary

Goldman, Alex J

Giants of Faith: Great American Rabbis

New York, The Citadel Press, 1964. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Sturdy, attractive, tightly bound hardcover, clean, if toned, minimal rubbing to extremities. Bound in black cloth. Bright and shiny dust jacket, illustrated, moderately worn, price-clipped. Volume contains scholarly apparatus in the form of, e.g., notes, index, and bibliography. Plentiful black-and-white illustrations and photographs. [7], 8-329 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Very Good/Good,

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Book number: 352370

Catalogue: Religion::Judaism

Keywords: Alex J. Goldman Jewish history Jewish culture Jewish rabbis religion

Goldreich, Gloria, ed.

A Treasury of Jewish Literature

New York, Holt Rinehart and Winston, 1982. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. A superior copy inside and out, being a 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, paper-backed, illustrated, showing only very minor wear, protected by a plastic coat, dust jacket not being price-clipped. Gift-quality condition inside and out. Stated First Edition, First Printing. Handsomely produced in peach boards, Star of Davids embossed at top front, gilt lettering bright on spine, bright and shiny dust jacket, illustrated, showing only very minor wear, protected by a plastic coat, price-clipped. Heavy focus on the literature of the Torah, the Apocrypha, of mysticism, Hasidism, Zionism, Malamud, Miller, Roth and many more artists and theologians. Volume contains scholarly apparatus in the form of, e.g., notes, index, and bibliography. Frontis matter + 2-243 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . As New/Fine,

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Book number: 348802

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Keywords: Gloria Goldreich|Jewish literature

Goldstein, Herbert Samuel

Forty Years of Struggle for a Principle: The Biography of Harry Fischel

New York, Bloch Publishing Company ("The Jewish Book Concern"), 1928. 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, though . Still sharp and distinctive gilt lettering to cover and spine, and bound in is a set of glowing reviews, printed on gray card stock. Comprised of Frontis, and the subtitle continues: "Compiled from Mr. Fischel's Daily Diary, Newspaper Clippings, Editorials and Addresses Delivered by Him during his Forty Years of Service to the Jewish Community." xvii 3-404 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Very Good

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Book number: 346335

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Keywords: Harry Fischel|Rabbi Herbert S. Goldstein|Jewish history|Jewish culture|Judaica|Judaism

Goldstein, Sidney, and Calvin Goldscheider

Jewish Americans: Three Generations in a Jewish Community

Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, Prentice-Hall, 1968. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Another fine contribution to the series, Ethnic Groups in American Life Series, edited by Milton M. Gordon. Sturdy, attractive, tightly bound hardcover, clean, if toned, minimal rubbing to extremities. Bright and shiny dust jacket, illustrated, little worn. xvii [1-274 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Very Good/Good,

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Book number: 352395

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Keywords: Ethnic Groups Sidney Goldstein Calvin Goldscheider Jewish history Jewish culture

Ignacz Goldziher

Microcard Catalogue of the Rare Hebrew Codices, Manuscripts and Ancient Prints in the Kaufmann Collection Reproduced on Microcards

Budapest, Hungary, Publishing House of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, 1959. First Edition. Softcover. Size: 12mo 7" - 7. Sturdy, still tightly bound softcover copy, minor to moderate wear of covers and text-block, but with neither underlining nor highlighting. Perfectly readable, usable copy, bound in heavy card stock, in gate-fold, printed, with some short closed tears along the edges. Introduced by a lecture of the late Professor Ignácz Goldziher. 44 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Very Good

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Book number: 351428

Catalogue: Religion::Judaism

Keywords: Kaufmann Collection Hebrew language microcards Ignacz Goldziher Jewish history Jewish culture

Gollancz, Hermann

The Foundation of Religious Fear, Special War Edition (for Presentation to Our Fighting Men)

London, Eyre and Spottiswoode, Ltd., for His Majesty's Printers, 1918. Special War Edition. Softcover. Size: 32mo - over 4" - 5" tall. Translated for the First Time From the Hebrew, and published in a little pocketbook-sized edition for The Fighting Men of World War One. Brown flexible covers, printed in black, toned of interior but not much, clean and unmarked. The author was the Goldschmid Professor of Hebrew, and this little tome is translated from the original Hebrew of the medieval manuscript on which it is based. LondonMember, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Very Good

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Book number: 346687

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Keywords: Hermann Gollancz|religion|Hebrew|World War One|WWI|Judaism

Goodman, Susan Tumarkin, Exhibition Curator

Artists of Israel: 1920-1980

Detroit, Michigan / New York, Wayne State University Press for The Jewish Museum, 1981. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 4to 11" - 13" tall. Susan Tumarkin Goodman was the Exhibition Curator for an exhibition sponsored for The Jewish Museum, with essays by her and by Moshe Barasch, Yona Fischer and Ygal Zalmona. The exhibition of the same name "surveyed a period of heroic innovation in Israeli art" and focused especially on 36 artists, a cross-section of the Israeli art community, from Yaacov Agam and Mordecai Ardon to Michael Gross and Leopold Krakauer to Reuven Rubin and Jakob Steinhardt, among many others. 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. Handsomely produced in a hunter-green cloth, extremely light wear at spine bottom and top. Bright and shiny dust jacket, illustrated, showing only very minor wear, protected by a plastic coat, dust jacket not being price-clipped. Complete with Lenders to the Exhibition, a Foreword by Joy Ungerleider-Mayerson, Acknowledgments, a cultural chronology, an artist chronology, then a Catalogue of the Exhibition. [4], 5-151 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Fine/Near Fine,

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Book number: 349109

Catalogue: Religion::Judaism

Keywords: Susan Tumarkin Goodman|Moshe Barasch|Yona Fischer|Ygal Zalmona

Goodman, Susan Tumarkin, Guest Curator

Artists of Israel: 1920-1980

New York, The Jewish Museum, by the Wayne State University Press, 1981. First Edition. Softcover. Size: 4to 11" - 13" tall. First Edition. Susan Tumarkin Goodman was the Exhibition Curator for an exhibition sponsored for The Jewish Museum, with essays by her and by Moshe Barasch, Yona Fischer and Ygal Zalmona. The exhibition of the same name "surveyed a period of heroic innovation in Israeli art" and focused especially on 36 artists, a cross-section of the Israeli art community, from Yaacov Agam and Mordecai Ardon to Michael Gross and Leopold Krakauer to Reuven Rubin and Jakob Steinhardt, among many others. 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. Handsomely produced in a hunter-green cloth, extremely light wear at spine bottom and top. Bright and shiny dust jacket, illustrated, showing only very minor wear, protected by a plastic coat, dust jacket not being price-clipped. Complete with Lenders to the Exhibition, a Foreword by Joy Ungerleider-Mayerson, Acknowledgments, a cultural chronology, an artist chronology, then a Catalogue of the Exhibition. [4], 5-151 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Fine

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Book number: 350526

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Keywords: Moshe Barasch Yona Fischer Ygal Zalmona Susan Tumarkin Goodman Jewish artists

Goodman, Paul, ed.

Chaim Weizmann: A Tribute on His Seventieth Birthday

London, Victor Gollancz, 1945. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 12mo 7" - 7. Good-looking festschrift devoted the 70th birthday of the beloved Chaim Weizmann. Sturdy, attractive, tightly bound hardcover, greenish cloth over boards, bumping to spine head and tail, clean, if a bit toned, minimal rubbing to extremities. Dust jacket present, but heavily chipped at spine foot and along top edge, not price-clipped, and now protected in Brodar. Edited by Paul Goodman, Foreword by the Rt. Hon. The Earl Lloyd-George and a Preface by the Rt. Hon. L.S. Amery. 318 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Very Good/Poor,

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Book number: 355395

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Keywords: festschrift Chaim Weizmann Paul Goodman Earl Lloyd-Georg of Dwyfor L.S. Amery

Goodman, Philip

Illustrated Essays on Jewish Bookplates

New York, KTAV Publishing House, Inc., 1971. 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, a particularly bright copy. Chapters devoted to Early Jewish Bookplates, Love of Books related in bookplates, Love of Learning related in bookplates, Love of Zion related in bookplates, and them Biblical, musical, and American Jewish-themed bookplates, completed with an annotated bibliography about Jewish Bookplate Literature. 195 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Fine

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Book number: 347542

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Keywords: Philip Goodman|Judaica|Judaism|Jewish bookplates|books about books

Grafman, Rafi; Vivian B. Mann, ed.

Crowning Glory: Silver Torah Ornaments of the Jewish Museum, New York

Chicago, David R. Godine, 1996. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 4to 11" - 13" tall. Brand-new, still in shrink-wrap, neither shelf- nor edge-worn, neither sunned nor marked as a remainder. xvi + 400 pp., and with plentiful color photos and black-and-white photos throughout. A catalogue of Torah scroll ornaments illustrated with over 800 duotone and 33 full-color plates. The Table of Contents shows chapters devoted to Hallmarks, Pastiches and Dubious Objects, Index of Places of Origin, Index of Makers, Index of Person and Place Names in Inscriptions, and then a full Bibliography. Expertly edited by Vivian B. Mann, and with an article also by Vivian B. Mann entitled, "Torah Ornaments before 1600." Acknowledgments by Joan Rosenbaum. A fine book produced jointly between The Jewish Museum New York under the auspices of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America, in association with David R. Godine Publisher, Chicago. Massively heavy, oversized volume. From the personal library of Mr. Richard L. Press, formerly of Richard L. Press Fine Art Books of Sacramento, California, a man known fully to have had exquisite taste in art books, to have bought from the best, and to have curated his collection with mostly only stellar condition volumes.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . New/New,

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Book number: 347458

Catalogue: Religion::Judaism

Keywords: Vivian B. Mann|Rafi Grafman|Jewish art|Jewish history|Jewish culture|Torah|The Jewish Museum

Graves, Robert

King Jesus

New York, Creative Age Press, Inc., 1946. First American Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. A perfectly serviceable reference copy; nothing fancy, but complete and sturdy. A likely First American Edition. Forward cock to spine, oatmeal cloth covers, gilt-decoration stamped into green hexagon at front cover, gilt lettering over green labels at spine. Bright and shiny dust jacket, illustrated, chipped and worn, protected by a plastic coat, price-clipped. Frontis map of Palestine circa the time of Jesus. 424 pp. including Historical Commentary on the background to this marvelous work of historical fiction.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Fair/Fair,

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Book number: 356505

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Keywords: King Jesus Robert Graves