26 stories of Jewish families from many communities in Europe and the Middle East by Leopold von Sacher-Masoch. Each story is featured together with attractive picture plates by noted artists of the 19th century printed by Heliogravure.
[14], [12], 282, iv pages. 29 cm. French. Quality paper. [27] picture plates on thick quality paper. Only 125 copies were printed.
Original red leather binding. Gilt text on spine. Upper gilt edges.
Lightly chafed on spine. Very fine condition.
Anne Franks Tagebuch . Most probably the first Yiddish edition of The Diary of Anne Frank which was published in Bucharest by S. Rubinger (at the same time as the more well-known translation of Yehoshua Shiloni which was published in Tel Aviv in the same year). Bucharest, 1958?
264 pages, [1] title page with a picture, 20 cm.
The Diary of Anne Frank was written by Annelies Marie “Anne” Frank (1929-1945), a native of Frankfurt, during the period of two years in which she hid together with her family in a hiding place in Amsterdam. The diary was discovered after the family had been sent to the camps, and was given after the war to Anne’s father, the only one of the family to survive. The book became an international bestseller as soon as it was published and is considered one of the most important books of the 20th century. It has been translated to over 70 languages, including this first translation to Yiddish.
Water stains on the upper part of some of the pages. A number of pages are detached. Fine condition.
Critica Sacra or Observations on All the Radices or Primitive Hebrew Words of the Old Testament in Alphabetical
Order .
Philological work regarding Biblical words. First edition. London, 1641. Very rare.
[16], 573 pages, [40]. First edition. London 1641, section one (the second section was published before the first section in 1639). Comments and notations throughout the book.
This lexicon with its dictionary and index of Biblical words became the classic work and basis for future studies of language by experts such as William Gouge and Thomas Fuller. The author, Edward Leigh, was a Puritan. He authored a number of works; this is his most significant. Different editions were printed in many languages. This first edition of the work (the first section of two books) is very rare.
Original, parchment binding. Minimal aging stains and worming holes. Fine to very fine condition.
Hebräisch in der Schweiz by Karl Luthi. Bern, 1926. Limited edition. Rare.
[10] leaves, 45 pages. 23 cm. Limited edition, number 265 of 300.
Important bibliographic work regarding the history of the Hebrew book in Switzerland. Printed on quality paper, includes 10 leaves of picture plates (some colored) with title pages and Hebrew charts from early books.
Jacket title page. Excellent condition.
Mayseh Bikhl . Tales by David Berglsohn accompanied by illustrations by Lasar Seggal. Berlin, 1923.
48 pages, [8] illustration plates, 26 cm.
David Berglsohn (1884-1952) was a famous Yiddish author and playwright who wrote much about tormented young people and life in the shtetl. He is one of the “Martyrs of the Soviet Union” who was put to death together with twelve of his fellow poets at Stalin’s command, as part of a staged trial in August 1952.
Original cover well restored. A few water stains. Fine condition.
Thick book with pictures and stories published as a tribute to Jewish soldiers who served in the British army during World War I, edited by the army rabbi Michael Adler. Luxurious, numbered edition. London, 1922. Number 728 of 3000, with the publisher’s signature.
19, 636, [364] picture leaves, 28 cm.This two-section book was published as tribute to the 50,000 Jewish soldiers who served in the British army during World War I, a high percentage in proportion to the population of the Jewish community. The first section features letters of appreciation from elite members of society such as Winston Churchill and Herbert Samuel, Rabbi Yosef Herman Hertz, Rabbi of England (with a large portrait of him), and army officers. Includes an article by Zev Jabotinsky regarding the soldiers in Palestine, a full list of Jewish soldiers who served in the British army (including from other countries such as Australia, South Africa and India), a list of those who received medals and personal stories. The second section features 364 pages of pictures of Jewish soldiers on chrome paper.
Cloth embossed binding. Upper gilt cut leaves. Stains, one picture leaf is torn without loss. Generally fine condition.
Samson Raphael Hirsch, Juilaums-Nummer . 25 years since Rabbi Hirsch’s death. Articles, poems, biography and biography about Rabbi Hirsch. Frankfurt A.M., 1908.
56 pages, 28×37 cm.
Rabbi Samson Raphael Hirsch (1808-1888) was the leader of Orthodox Jewry in Germany. He greatly influenced the development of modern Jewry. While sharply battling the changes of the reformers, he integrated modernization under the motto: “Torah with
Derech Eretz “.
Original cloth binding. Glossy paper with pictures. Very fine condition.
Rabbinic polemic, a benchmark in the Orthodox war against the reform changes in Austria by Rabbi Zalman Spitzer. Vienna, 1872.
43 pages. German. A list of 389 rabbis who opposed the Reform.
Rabbi Zalman Spitzer (1826-1893) was a prominent Jewish leader. He was a son-in-law of the Chatam Sofer and studied by his son, Rabbi Avraham Shmuel Binyamin, and the Maharam Schick. In 1871, a polemic started with the community leaders who supported the Reformers and were backed by the government. They wanted to change the prayerbooks and remove all mention of Zion and the future redemption. Rabbi Spitzer organized a counter-meeting in which over 500 people participated – a quarter of the Vienna community. This booklet (from 1872) includes the speech that Rabbi Spitzer delivered at this meeting. The second section features a list of 389 rabbis who supported his position includng the Ketav Sofer, Maharam Schick and the Divrei Chaim of Sanz.Due to its significance, this booklet has been digitized by the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek. 23 cm.
Jacket title page in disrepair. Aging stains. Fine condition.
Bibliotecha Ambrosiana Milano – elegant bibliographic work describing the Hebrew works in the Ambrosiana Library in Milan, Italy. Both sections of the book include many colored prints of rare works. The book was published in Milan in 1972 and only 650 copies were printed, 163 beautiful pages, 40 colored pictures. Liste 92 JVDAICA – booklet of Jewish bibliography, 78 pages, Vienna 1936. The Hebrew Book: An Historical Survery, 225 pages, many colored prints and facsimiles. The jacket is torn. All three books are in generally fine condition.
Guide and catalogue to old rare books by Moshe Rosenfeld. Jerusalem, 1987-1988. Two volumes. Hundreds of reproductions of title pages. Limited edition. Very fine condition. Books printed in Jerusalem, by Shoshana HaLevi. Jerusalem, 1963. First edition. Fine-very fine condition.
* Beit Eked Sefarim, four volumes, Tel Aviv, 1951-1956, second, revised edition. Moderate condition. *Otzar HaRabbanim, Rabbi Nosson Tzvi Friedman. Tel Aviv [1975] *Otzar HaSefarim, Ben Yaakov, New York [1960?]. All the books are in fine-very fine condition.
Printed in Amsterdam 1927. The first book is from [1627] in Spanish through about [1657]. Titles in Hebrew and Spanish, Dutch explanations. 66 books. Pictures. Soft, detached cover. Fine condition.
Composition siding with Tsar Alexander II, stating that he is Holy! by Moshe Rosenson ben Yosef. Only edition. The author was a proponent of haskala, religious reforms and world peace and was suspected of being a Christian missionary. Some Russian text. This copy has more leaves than that listed by the Bibliography of the Hebrew Book, however the partial title page and Russian title pages are lacking. Stains. ? in the margins of the title page. Fine-very fine condition.
Shemirat Beriat HaGuf, by Y.Ch. Zagarodsky, with preface and supplements by Dr. Gershon Levin, doctor in the Jewish Hospital in Warsaw. Charts. Fine condition.
Stefan Zweig. Jeremiah. דראמאטישא דיכטונג איין ניין בלידער. Warsaw, 1929. Yiddish. Partially vowelized. Illustration of the author before the title page. Yiddish translation of noted work by Stefan Zweig, noted Austrian-Jewish author, 1881-1942. Original, printed jacket (blemished). Very fine condition.
Large work regarding medicine by Swiss doctor, copied to Hebrew by Menachem Mendel ben Yehuda Leib Zabror. Rabbinical approbations, including one from the Pri Megadim. Blemishes with loss at the beginning of the book, missing one leaf [apparently]. Overall fine condition. Owner signatures and notations.
Letter from Rabbi Aharon Luzatto to his son Elishama Chaim, regarding medicine and opposing doctors. Interesting work from a Trieste sage who authored a number of works. Jacket title page with a picture of a snake, symbolizing medicine, surrounded by arrows. Uncommon. Fine-very fine condition.
Letter from Freiherr F. Rothschild of Vienna to a preacher in the Viennese royal court regarding Jewish education. Hebrew and German on facing pages. Each page within a border. Soft cover. Fine-very fine condition.
32 booklets for the study of Hebrew by Shevack Volkovsky. Yiddish and Hebrew. Fine-very fine condition. Stamp of Rabbi Yehoshua Heschel Eichenstein, Admor of Zidichov who moved to the United States where he was the first Admor in Chicago and the signatures of his son Rabbi Menachem Zvi Eichenstein. Fine-very fine condition
Monogroph on Jewish history in the city of Lublin, written by Meir Balaban (1877-1942), historian and education, founder of the research approach that integrated Polist historiography for use in rabbinical sources. This monograph was written during the the author’s stay in Lublin while serving as chaplain during the First World War. First edition. 112 pages, 59 illustrations. German. Fine condition.
Collection of memorial booklets printed in limited editions. Very fine condition.
One thousand abbreviations according to the international stenography rules of Felix von Kunowski, by Yaakov Maimon. Most of the booklet – the sketches were printed in Berlin, and the jacket was printed in Jerusalem. LIght blemishes to the jacket. The body of the booklet is in very fine condition.
