Beth Israel Community Center Year Book 1958
Mexico City: 1958. Softcover. 4to. Synagogue yearbook with b/w photographs and advertisements. Text in English and Spanish. Some water damage. Overall in good- condition. More
Mexico City: 1958. Softcover. 4to. Synagogue yearbook with b/w photographs and advertisements. Text in English and Spanish. Some water damage. Overall in good- condition. More
New York: The World Union of Progressive Judaism, 1968. Hardcover. Octavo. (xxii), 407pp. Tan dust jacket with orange, white and blue lettering on front cover, orange and blue lettering on spine. Red cloth with gilt lettering on front cover and spine. On different aspects of the Siddur [Jewish Prayer Book]..... More
Labyrinthos, 1989. Softcover. 8vo. 189pp. (2). Original paper wrappers. History of Jews living in the Carpathian region of Eastern Europe. Text in Hebrew with English summary. Slight sunning to wrappers. Overall in good condition. More
New York: New York University Press, 1992. First edition. Paperback. Quarto. (xi) 598pp. Black cloth boards with pink lettering on the covers and spine. Edited by acclaimed Jewish-Historian David B. Ruderman, the publication is a compilation of 20 essays from different authors, on on a variety of subjects relating to..... More
London: English Zionist Federation, 1917. First edition. Softcover. Octavo. 24pp. Original printed gray wraps. Decorative end piece. "One common argument against Zionism, which those who employ it think particularly effective, is the contention that the very profession of Zionism is both a breach of faith by Jews and a peril..... More
New York: Schocken Books, (1976). First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. xiii, 306pp. Tan cloth with green lettering on spine in original printed dust jacket. Collection of essays, letters and articles by Gershom Sholem on the Zionist movement in Germany at the time of World War I and after, historic relations between..... More
New York: Union of American Hebrew Congregation, 1969. First edition. Softcover. Octavo. 20pp. Original illustrated white wraps with black lettering on cover. Narration for the filmstrip reflecting Jewish life in Budapest in 1967 and 1968 including introduction, technical data for projection and short bibliography. The filmstrip shows the Danube, the..... More
New York: Editions Historiques Franco-Juives, 1954. First edition. Softcover. 8vo. 152pp. Wrappers detached in two parts. Heavy tearing, chipping and age toning to wraps. Minor age yellowing to outer edges of pages. "This study is the first of a series on the Jews of France prior to 1789. The status..... More
Philadelphia: The Jewish Publication Society of America, 1973. First edition. Hardcover. 4to. xvi. 900pp. Blue cloth with silver lettering to spine in original printed illustrated dust jacket. Color frontispiece of Moses Mendelssohn. The authoritative biography of the 18th century German Jewish Enlightenment thinker Moses Mendelssohn. The author does a remarkable..... More
Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, (1991). First edition. Hardcover. 8v0. xii,267, [1]pp. Blue-grayish cloth with blue lettering on spine in original illustrated dust jacket. Work by H. Avni traces the shifting patterns of Jewish Immigration and Argentine immigration policy, both as manifestations of cultural and historical processes and as forces..... More
Jerusalem: Ben-Zvi Institute for the Study of Jewish Communities in the East, 1994. Softcover. Large octavo. 160pp. Original color photographic wraps. Issue number 58, devoted to the history of the Jews of Ethiopia in modern times. Illustrated with b/w reproductions of photographs. Text in English and Hebrew. Minor scuffing on..... More
Washington DC, London: The Christian Science Watchman, 1960. Softcover. Octavo. 8pp. Original printed yellow pamphlet with black ruling and publisher's device on cover. Has Mr. Ford unwittingly become the Jew's actual benefactor? is the question deliberated in brief excurse on financial prestige, scientific basis of Israel's covenant, the true Zion..... More
Bruxelles: Editions de l'Institut de Sociologie de l'Université Libre de Bruxelles. 1965. First edition. Softcover. Quarto. 104, [4]pp. Original printed wrappers. Fascinating work being a compilation of 5 studies on Reflections on Israel's demographic structures (written by A. Chouraqui); Remarks on problems of Arab Unity (written in English by E...... More
Bruxelles: Editions de l'Institut de Sociologie de l'Université Libre de Bruxelles, 1964. First edition. Softcover. Quarto. 107, [1]pp. Original printed wrappers. Fascinating work being a compilation of 5 studies on modern Israeli legal thinking (written by Prof. Sh. Ginossar); Israel in Belgium (written by Mgr. A. Simon); Oral history and..... More
Hanover, NH: Brandeis University Press, 1977. Softcover. Quarto. XXII, 450pp. Original printed wraps over red cloth with printer's device on front board and black lettering on spine. A social and institutional study of 19th century French Jewry during the neglected period between Napoleon and Dreyfus. This is also the first..... More
Firenze [Florence]: NP, 1983. Softcover. 8vo. 54pp. Illustrated wrappers. Work on the Jewish community, as seen through the periodical "Monitore Toscano". Clean and tight. In Italian. Very good condition. More
Jerusalem: The Zalman Shazar Center for Jewish History, 1992. First edition. Hardcover. 4to. 333pp. Green cloth with gold lettering on spine in original printed dust jacket. Frontispiece photograph of Prof. Shmuel Ettinger. A collection of essays by the late Shmuel Ettinger, a leading Israeli scholar of Jewish social history. Topics..... More
Bucarest: Federation of Jewish Communities of the Socialist Republic of Romania, [1978]. First edition. Softcover. Quarto. Unpaginated. [32]pp. Original decorative wrappers. Remarkable annual survey of the Jewish community of the Socialist Republic of Romania in 1978. It is profusely illustrated with numerous b/w photographic reproductions. Wrappers creased, thus slightly affecting..... More
New York: Yivo Institute for Jewish Research, 1974. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. x, 294 pp. in English. x, 537 pp. in Yiddish. Gray textured cloth over boards. Very good. More
Jerusalem: Yad Yitshak Ben-Tsevi, 1973. Mahadora Metsulemet. Hardcover. Octavo. [4], 359 pp. Pink, blue and white illustrated dust jacket over green cloth with gold lettering on cover and spine. Slight tears on top of DJ. Slight tonining in interior. DJ in good condition. Binding and interior in very good condition..... More
New York: Published by the author with the help of the Alexander Kohut Memorial Foundation, 1966. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. 159pp. Mottled blue cloth with gold lettering on spine. Glanz's study compares and contrasts the circumstances surrounding the immigration of Jews and Irish, and how these circumstances affected their behaviour..... More
New Haven: Yale University Press, (1965). Second printing. Hardcover. Octavo. Two volumes bound in one. Vol. I: 1772-1880. 210pp. With a new foreword by Alfred Levin. Vol. II: 1881-1917. [3],213pp. Edited by Mark Wischnitzer. Black cloth with gold lettering on spine in original illustrated dust jacket. Head and tail of..... More
Israel: Stock, (1998). Reprint. Softcover. 8vo. 203pp. Illustrated paper wraps. Preface by Robert Badinter. Overall very good condition. Text in French. More
Paris: Éditions du Cerf, 1987. First edition. Softcover. Small 4to. 212 pp. Traduit de l'allemand par Maurice-Ruben Hayoun. Préface de Josy Eisenberg.The nineteen epistles about Judaism translated into French. Judaism modernized and labeled as a reformed Judaism. Capitalism, Individualism and a new Liberalism cause the Jews to re-evaluate Judaism. Hirsch..... More
Paris: Berg international, (1990). Reprint. Softcover. Sm. 4to. 172pp. Stiff gray printed wrappers. Text in French. Overall very good condition. More