Berlin: Druck Max Cohn, 1890. Softcover. Octavo. 57pp., 1 foldout. Original tan wraps with black ruling and lettering on cover. Excerpt from the negotiations of the fifth regular meeting of the Great Lodge of Germany VIII. List of newly elected representatives at front. Contributions by Julius Bien, president, Joseph Abraham..... More
Berlin: Preußischer Landesverband jüdischer Gemeinden, 1922. First edition. Softcover. Small Quarto. 11 (1)pp. Original tan wraps with black lettering and publisher's device on title page. Contains 39 articles of the charter and the text of the resolution agreed upon at the Berlin conference of June 25, 1922. The articles specify..... More
St. Petersburg: Вторая государственная типографин (Vtoraia gosudarstvennaia tipo, 1920. First edition. Hardcover. Quarto. (lxxii) 422pp. Original green printed wrappers bound into a patterned tan faux-vellum binding. The publication is a historical survey of the activities of government run Jewish schools in Russia from the 1820s through the 1850s. The text..... More
Leipzig, Wien, Prague: Heimatverlag Leopold Stocker, 1921. Original document. Loose leaf. 48mo (3 1/2 x 4 5/8"). 1 leaf. Two-sided original small orange illustrated handout with black lettering. Advertisement distributed by the Heimatverlag Leopold Stocker, offering three titles by Karl Paumgartten, one by Heinrich Ardninger, and picture postcards furthering a...... More
Livorno: Saʻadon Molkho Ve-Havero, [1820]. Third edition. Hardcover. Octavo. 28 double-sided leaves with Hebrew pagination. Rebound in red soft leather boards, with new heavy stock endpapers. The third edition printed of this historical and literary memoir, by Safed-born Rabbi Jacob ben Hayyim Berab (ca 17th-18th century). The work offers a...... More
Bordeaux: Feret & Fils, 1908. Softcover. Quarto. 198pp. + 1 plate and a map. Printed beige wrappers, with black lettering on the front cover and spine. Pages uncut. The work is scholarly text chronicling the research into the history of Spanish and Portuguese Jewish community of Bordeaux, undertaken by Professor..... More
Des Moines, Iowa: Koch Brothers Printing Co., 1904. First edition. Hardcover. Octavo. XVI, 359pp. Original cloth with black lettering on front board and spine. Fascinating account of the history of the Jewish settlers, farmers, shop owners of Iowa. Ex-library copy. Library stamp on title-page, and blind stamp on dedication page..... More
New York: Freiheit, 1932. First edition. Softcover. Large quarto. 48pp [1]. Illustrated b/w wrappers with black lettering on the front cover. A single issue of the Yiddish Communist magazine “Der Hammer”, featuring a striking b/w cover illustration by renowned Jewish-American artist and cartoonist William Gropper (1897-1977). Text in Yiddish, printed..... More
Leiden, New York,Köln: E. J. Brill, 1992. First edition. Hardcover. Quarto. (4) 501 (1)pp. Original light blue cloth with gilt lettering and publisher's device on cover, gilt lettering and ruling on spine. Publisher's device on title page. Brill's Series in Jewish Studies Vol. V. Scholarly treatise on the economic elites..... More
New York: United Czenstochover Relief Committee in New York, 1958. First edition. Hardcover. Quarto. (viii) 336pp. (4). Red leather, with gilt-stamped illustration and lettering on the front cover and spine. Top edge in red. Cover illustration by Chonon Kiel. English and Yiddish title pages. The publication is a supplement to..... More
Frankfurt: J. Kauffmann, 1876. First edition. Softcover. Octavo. 24pp. Original white wraps with black lettering on cover. Text elucidating a controversy between Rabbi Süskind from Wiesbaden and the Israelite Religious Community in Frankfurt. Published by Limbarth, Süskind's pamphlet was a scathing attack on the 'Statutes of the Jewish Religious Society..... More
Berlin: T.B.–Zeitung, 1928. Loose leaf. Folio. 4pp. Original newsprint with black lettering, protected by modern mylar. Article by Willy Hellpach, sixth State President of Baden, from 1928 in which he takes a pro-Jewish position, pages 55–57 of the T. B. –Zeitung, at a time of rising anti-Semitism. The article was..... More
Versailles [Paris]: Société des études juives, 1891. First edition. Softcover. Small octavo. 12pp. [1]. Tan printed wrappers with black lettering on the front cover. Finely printed on uncut leaves of high quality paper. This scarce publication was printed in the occasion of the 80th birthday of prominent French-Jewish scholar Joseph..... More
Jerusalem: Mosad Ha'Rav Kook, 1959. First edition. Hardcover. Oblong Octavo. (22pp.) 256pp. Rebound in grey textured faux-leather boards. Assembled and edited by Lithuanian-born Hebrew poet Ya'akov David Kamson (1900-1980), the book is a striking and comprehensive visual and text survey of the modern pre-Holocaust history of Jews in Lithuania, with..... More
Leipzig: Th. Grieben's Verlag (L. Fernau), 1892. First edition. Hardcover. Octavo. vii, 92pp. Original plum half cloth over textured brown paper-covered boards with brown lettering on paper label of spine. Marbled edges. Dedicated to Wilhelm von Gutmann, Austrian entrepreneur and president of the Israelite Community in Vienna from 1891-92. Short..... More
Wien: Jasper, Hügel & Manz, 1851. First edition. Hardcover. Small octavo (7 x 4 3/4"). [8], 422, [2]pp. Original quarter grey cloth over marbled paper covered boards, with gold lettering to spine. All paper edges blue. First edition of Bohemian Jewish writer Leopold Kompert's magnum opus depicting the life, customs, and..... More
Belgrade: The Federation of Jewish Communities in Yugoslavia, 1958-1959. Ex-Library. Hardcover. Octavo. Orange cloth library tape over grey paper boards, with black handwritten lettering on spine. This is a collection of the entire year 1959 (Year 10), from the periodical, consisting of 7 original separate softcover volumes bound together in..... More
Warsaw: The Society to Assist Poor Jews of Warsaw, “Ezra"/ Rabinowicz, 1908 (1909). First edition. Softcover. Octavo. 49pp., 13pp. Light blue-green wrappers with decorative Art Nouveau-style border around black text on both covers. This extremely scarce publication is an annual report from 1908 of the Jewish charity "Ezra", which helped..... More
Paris: Editions Astrid, 1980. First edition. Hardcover. Large 4to. 476pp. Original blue cloth in originally printed dust jacket. Profusely illustrated with b&w and color (tinted) photographic postcards from all over the world, ca. 3 dozen countries. Part of the collection includes "Les Peuples par L'Image." Preface by Alain Poher. Text..... More
Paris: Editions Astrid, 1980. First edition. Hardcover. 4to. 476 pp. Embossed maroon cloth binding with illustrated endpapers and color illustrated dust jacket. A beautiful illustrated volume of Jewish history from the turn of the century. Contains over 1000 images of color and black & white postcards showing Jewish life in..... More
Berlin: Selbstverlag Institut Kirche und Judentum, 1979-1981. Softcover. 13 volume set. 8vo. Green paper wrappers. A collection of 13 short volumes in German on the relationship between Christianity and Judaism. 1) Jerusalem - Symbol und Wirklichkeit 2) Wie aktuell ist das Alte Testament? 3) Treue zur Thora 4) Judenfeindschaft im 19. Jahrhundert 5) Zionismus 6)..... More
Constantinople: Ekspres Matbaasi, 1929. First edition. Softcover. 8vo. 204 pp. Original printed wrappers. Par David Fresco au Temple Kenesseth Israel a Galata. French translation of conferences on Spanish Jews. Judaism through the ages as a foundation and its' states of being. Topics include Samedi, Moise ben Amram, pessimism and optimism..... More
New Haven: Yale University Press, 2008. First edition. Hardcover. Large Quartos. Vol. 1: (xxviii) 1166pp. Vol.2: 1167 - 2400pp. Original brick-colored cloth boards with blind-stamped insignias, and black and silver lettering on the front covers and spines. "The goal of the YIVO Encyclopedia is to recover and represent the civilization..... More
Frankfurt am Main: Joseph Baer & Co., 1904. Hardcover. 4to. 208, 464,v,pp. Gray cloth with white lettering on cover and spine. Beveled edges. Decorative endpapers. Published to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the Realschule der israelitischen Gemeinde in Frankfurt. The Philanthropin existed from 1804 until its closure by the Nazi's..... More
Berlin: Verlag von Poppelauer, 1910. Softcover. 8vo. 188pp. Illustrated wrappers. Chipping, creasing, scuffing and minor discoloration to wrappers. One-by two inch piece to right corner of front wrapper missing. Parts of spine loose but attached. Pages unopened. Frontispiece. An interesting account of the authors return to Abyssinia in 1908. Jacques..... More