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American Jewish Historical Society

THE TWO-HUNDRED AND FIFTIETH ANNIVERSARY OF THE SETTLEMENT OF THE JEWS IN THE UNITED STATES : ADDRESSES DELIVERED AT CARNEGIE HALL, NEW YORK, ON THANKSGIVING DAY 1905, TOGETHER WITH OTHER SELECTED ADDRESSES AND PROCEEDINGS

New York: New York Co-operative Society, 1906. First Edition. Hardcover. xiii,262 pages. Gray cloth with paper label on front and spine, octavo. Corners nudged, textblock square. Light discoloration to paper label, cover bright. Bookplate to front pastedown and small name stamp on front endpaper, otherwise clean and bright copy.

Price: $30.00

Bassin, M. (Editor)

ANTALOGY : FIVE HUNDRED YEARS YIDDISH POETRY

New York: 1917. Hardcover. IN YIDDISH.Two 4tos, measuring 10.5" x 8", with lovely four-color design (black, red and blue on white) to front boards, and a smaller three-color image to rear. Bottoms and fore-edges deckle edged, tops trimmed. Images and graphics throughout, including line drawings of each poet, with biographical...

Price: $250.00

Behrman's Jewish Book Shop

CATALOG OF JEWISH BOOKS FOR THE JEWISH HOME -- GIFTS FOR BAR MITZVAH, CONFIRMATION, BIRTHDAY, WEDDING, ETC.

New York: Behrman's Jewish Book Shop, ca. 1950's? Paperback. UNIQUE! Small 12 pp, continuous fold-out pamphlet. Measures 6.25 x 3.50". Contains one green and one goldenrod-colored separate sheets of advertisements. Black lettering to tan paper. Clean, solid. Contents suggest books such as : The Story of the Jews ; Justice...

Price: $18.00

Boteach, Shmuel

WRESTLING WITH THE DIVINE : A JEWISH RESPONSE TO SUFFERING

Northvale, New Jersey: JASON ARONSON INC., 1995. FIRST EDITION. Hardcover. The author addresses the fundamental Jewish concept of reward and suffering. How can one maintain faith in a benevolent God i light of such events as The Holocaust, or incurable disease. Just a hint of shelfwear to the jacket. 299...

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Cowan, Paul

A TORAH IS WRITTEN

Philadelphia: Jewish Publication Society, 1986. 2nd Printing. Hardcover. 32 pages, illustrated with photos throughout by Rachel Cowan. Purple cloth, tall octavo. A clean bright copy in nice dust jacket with tiny closed tear at top by spine. Describes training, materials and tools and process of transcribing handwritten torah scrolls.

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Davis, Yaakob ben Yitshak (Arthur), and Naftali ben Mordechai (Herbert M.) Adler

MAHZOR AVODAT OHEL MO'ED KE-MINHAG POLIN SERVICE OF THE SYNAGOGUE: A NEW EDITION OF THE FESTIVAL PRAYERS WITH AN ENGLISH TRANSLATION IN PROSE AND VERSE: DAY OF ATONEMENT PART I: EVENING SERVICE.

London: George Routledge & Sons, 1904. HARDCOVER. In Hebrew and English. Published as part of "A New Edition of the Festival Prayers with an English Translation in Prose and Verse", based on the scholarly edition of Heidenheim and upon manuscripts of the thirteenth to the sixteenth centuries. 82 pp. Shelfwear...

Price: $18.00

Flapan, Simha

THE BIRTH OF ISRAEL: MYTHS AND REALITIES

New York: Pantheon, 1987. Stated First Edition. Hardcover. Very slight edgewear, a little bit of shelfwear to DJ. Some very faint little speckles to top edge. Silver lettering to navy spine, gray boards with a small silver "S.F." to front board. Very clean, tight, bright. With six maps. 277 pp...

Price: $55.00

Flapan, Simha

THE BIRTH OF ISRAEL: MYTHS AND REALITIES

New York: Pantheon, 1987. Stated First Edition. Hardcover. Very slight edgewear, a little bit of shelfwear to DJ. Some very faint little speckles to top edge. Silver lettering to navy spine, gray boards with a small silver "S.F." to front board. Very clean, tight, bright. With six maps. 277 pp...

Price: $65.00

Flavius - Josephus, William Whiston (translated by)

THE COMPLETE WORKS OF FLAVIUS - JOSEPHUS THE CELEBRATED JEWISH HISTORIAN COMPRISING THE HISTORY AND ANTIQUITIES OF THE JEWS, WITH THE DESTRUCTION OF JERUSALEM BY THE ROMANS AND DISSERTATIONS CONCERNING JESUS CHRIST, JOHN THE BAPTIST, JAMES THE JUST, AND THE SACRIFICE OF ISAAC, TOGETHERWITH A DISCOURSE ON HADES, OR HELL. WITH HIS AUTOBIOGRAPHY

1111. Hardcover. Book is completely intact. Moderately worn and soiled boards with four bumped corners. Shaken. Head and foot of spine creased and frayed. Front hinges started. Black lettering on spine of yellow-green cloth-covered boards. Gilt lettering is worn on front board. Illustrated. Pages are 789 pp with index. Flavius...

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Friedlander, Albert H. and Herbert Bronstein (editors); Leonard Baskin, Illustrator

THE FIVE SCROLLS : HEBREW TEXTS, ENGLISH TRANSLATIONS, INTRODUCTIONS, AND NEW LITURGIES; (Cloth Art Edition)

NEW YORK: CCAR Press, 1984. Baskin, Leonard. Hardcover. FIRST EDITION. New translations of Ecclesiastes, Esther, Song of Songs, Ruth, and Lamentations, enriched with 37 watercolor paintings and each joined with an introduction, special liturgies, explanitory notes, and essays. 323 pp. Oversized volume with blue cloth boards, gilt lettering to spine...

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Gaster, M. (Prolegomenon by Haim Schwarzbaum)

THE CHRONICLES OF JERAHMEEL; OR, THE HEBREW BIBLE HISTORIALE. BEING A COLLECTION OF APOCRYPHAL AND PSUEDO-EPIGRAPHICAL BOOKS DEALING WITH THE HISTORY OF THE WORLD FROM THE CREATION TO THE DEATH OF JUDAS MACCABEUS

NEW YORK: Ktac Publishing House, Inc., 1971. Hardcover. FIRST EDITION. Translation of the first part of the manuscript entitled Sefer ha-zikronot, a unique manuscript located in the Bodleian Library. This is a reprint, with prolegomenon, of the 1899 edition which was issued as New series, v. 4 (i. e. 11)...

Price: $95.00

Greenstone, Julius H.

THE MESSIAH IDEA IN JEWISH HISTORY

Philadelphia: Jewish Publication Society Of America, 1906. FIRST EDITION (NAP). Hardcover. Brown cloth over boards. Light wear to extremities. Top corners lightly bumped. Scuff to rear board. 347 pp. Unmarked.

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Griffiths, David B.

A CRITICAL BIBLIOGRAPHY OF WRITINGS ON JUDAISM : JEWISH STUDIES, PART I

Lampeter, Dyfed, Wales: Edwin Mellen Press, 1988. FIRST EDITION. Hardcover. First comprehensive critical bibliography of Judaica in English. Majority of entries are in English, but works in Modern Hebrew, Yiddish, French and German are included where necessary, and also as guides for advanced study. Companion volume (Part II) also available.

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Griffiths, David B.

A CRITICAL BIBLIOGRAPHY OF WRITINGS ON JUDAISM : JEWISH STUDIES, PART I I

Lampeter, Dyfed, Wales: Edwin Mellen Press, 1988. FIRST EDITION. Hardcover. First comprehensive critical bibliography of Judaica in English. Majority of entries are in English, but works in Modern Hebrew, Yiddish, French and German are included where necessary, and also as guides for advanced study. Companion volume (Part I) also available...

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Herlitz, George and Bruno Kirschner LOT 74

JUDISCHES LEXIKON : EIN ENZYKLOPADISCHES HANDBUCH DES JUDISCHEN WISSENS IN VIER BANDEN MIT UBER 2000 ILLUSTRATIONS, BEILAGEN, KARTEN UND TABELLEN (BAND I, A – C)

Berlin: Judischer Verlag / Herlitz and Kirschner, 1927. Hardcover. IN GERMAN. 3/4 LEATHER. Leather is very worn. Corners nudged. Front cover attached half-way by mesh cloth only. Five classic bands and 5 panels (top panel missing). Gilt lettering on panels. Olive-green, cloth-covered boards. Frontispiece, color illustration of the Ten Commandments...

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Heschel, Abraham Joshua

MAN'S QUEST FOR GOD : STUDIES IN PRAYER AND SYMBOLISM

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1954. FIRST PRINTING. HARDCOVER. Hardback (8vo) in blue cloth; 151 pages. True 1st printing, with "A" and Scribner's seal on copyright page. Clean, square, fairly tight; occasional pencil marginalia; lovely Hebrew bookplate on fep. With dust jacket; DJ edgeworn, price-clipped; two small chips at spine...

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Heschel, Abraham Joshua (foreward by Susannah Heschel)

GOD IN SEARCH OF MAN : A PHILOSOPHY OF JUDAISM

Northvale, NJ: Jason Aronson Inc., 1987. FIRST EDITION. Hardcover. New foreward by author's daughter. Religion, according to the Rabbi Heschel, is an answer to man's ultimate questions, a response to the grandeur and mystery of human life. Offers a rational analysis of faith without using rationality to try and justify...

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Imber, Naphtali Herz

TREASURES OF TWO WORLDS : UNPUBLISHED LEGENDS AND TRADITIONS OF THE JEWISH NATION; Half-bound Leather

Los Angeles, California: Max Cohn, 1910. First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Red cloth-over-boards, with gilt lettering to front. Rebacked in deep-red Niger Morocco (small-grained goatskin leather), ruled in gilt, with 5 raised bands, and dual contrasting spine labels. Head and tail untrimmed. Offsetting to endpapers, small edge-tears and occasional spotting to...

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Kahane, Meir (Rabbi)

TIME TO GO HOME

Los Angeles, CA: Nash Publishing, 1972. First Edition. Hardcover. The late Rabbi Kahane warns all American Jews that the potential for a significant wave of Hatred against the Jews, similar to that which occurred in Europe, exists in the U.S. today. Detailing the comparison between pre-Nazi Germany and the America...

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Kittel, Rudolf (Editor)

BIBLIA HEBRAICA

Germany: WURTTEMBERGISCHE, 1973. Hardcover. In Hebrew. Bound in light brown cloth boards, with maroon lettering to spine and cover, slightly faded. Sewn in silk ribbon. Very minor staining to boards, which are slightly shaken. 1434 pp, not counting maps. A 14-page English Key to the Symbols and Latin Words and Abbreviations laid-in.

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Kraemer, David

RESPONSES TO SUFFERING IN CLASSICAL RABBINIC LITERATURE

New York: Oxford University Press, 1995. Hardcover. SHARP VOLUME. Dustjacket near fine. Mild shelf and edgewear. Sunning to jacket spine. Silver metallic lettering debossed to spine of chocolate-brown, cloth-covered boards. Clean, tight, bright. 261 pp with notes, bibliography and indices. "Bringing to bear recent methods in the history of religions...

Price: $65.00

Melnikoff, Pamela

THE STAR AND THE SWORD

NEW YORK: Crown Publishers, Inc., 1965. Schwarz, Hans. FIRST U.S. EDITION. Hardcover. Set in a Jewish community in 12th century Yorkshire, England, tells the story of two children who find themselves orphaned after a pogrom kills their parents. Setting out to find relatives in Oxford, they are befriended by Robin...

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MONTEFIORE, C.G. (Ed.)

THE BIBLE FOR HOME READING (PART I : TO THE SECOND VISIT OF NEHEMNIAH TO JERUSALEM); With comments and reflections for the use of Jewish parents and children

London: Macmillan and Co. Limited, 1925. Reprint. HARDCOVER. Almost new in dust jacket, with the exception of just a hint of wear to bottom edge and a bit of corner wear. With two silk marker ribbons. Beautiful copy of an 80 year old book.

Price: $25.00

Morprugo, A. V. (translator)

L'HAGGADA ILLUSTRATA

Tel Aviv: Sinai, 1969. Paperback. Fascimile edition. Illustrated bilingual Haggadah, with Hebrew text parallel to Italian translation. Originally published in 1864 in Trieste. This was the first Haggadah in the history of Hebrew printing to make use of lithographs. Many black and white illustrations and decorations. Features sheet music for...

Price: $75.00

Mueller, Ernst

HISTORY OF JEWISH MYSTICISM

Oxford: East and West Library, 1946. Hardcover. FIRST PRINTING. Mild wear to boards. Repaired blue, black and white jacket. Jacket price-clipped. Gilt lettering on spine. Gilt lettering in dark blue gilt trimmed label to front of blue boards. 197 pp with appendix, bibliography and index of names. Clean, tight. The...

Price: $30.00

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