Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2011. First edition. Hardcover. Quarto. 552pp. Original photographic paper covered boards. The history of the Itzig family gives a kaleidoscopic view of the Prussian Society in the 19th century. The Itzig were one of the great Jewish families in Prussia in the late 18th and early..... More
Wien: Selbstverlag des Verfassers (self published), 1926. Softcover. 8vo. 152,10]pp. Original printed wraps. Interesting work on the history and life of Joachim Edler von Popper (1722-1795). Von Popper was a Court Jew to the Habsburgs in Bohemia. Illustrated with 12 b/w reproductions of photographs. Heavy chipping and tearing on wrappers..... More
Berlin: Jüdisches Wissenschaftliches Institut, 1928. Hardcover. 4to. 261(1), 34pp. Blue cloth with gold lettering to spine. Collection of articles on Jewish Society and Economy throughout the Ages, focusing on Eastern Europe. With contributions by Prof. Simon Dubnow, E. Ringelblum, A. Menes et. al. Severe staining, scuffing, rubbing to boards and..... More
Chicago: Belford-Clarke, 1890. Hardcover. 8vo. Vol. I xii, 389pp. Frontispiece b/w photograph of Sir Moses Montefiore with tissue guard. Vol. II x, 363pp. Frontispiece b/w photograph of Lady Judith Montefiore. Original blue cloth with gold stamped border and portrait of the Montefiore couple. Gold lettering on spine. Flower patterned endpapers..... More
Berlin: C. A. Schwetschke & Sohn, 1919. First edition. Hardcover. Quarto. VII, [1], 229, [3]pp. Original blue cloth with blind-stamped borders on covers and gold lettering on spine. Printer's device in gilt on spine. Printer's device on title-page. Fascinating work being the history of the Enlightenment movement among the Jews..... More
Jerusalem: Yad Vashem: The Holocaust Martyrs' and Heroes' Remembrance Authority, 1985. Hardcover. 4to. 10pp. 434pp. (2). Black cloth with red title-label in original printed dust jacket. Encyclopedia of Jewish life in the Netherlands from the late 16th century settlement by converso refugees from Portugal through the Holocaust. Offers a lengthy..... More
NP: Helen Wise Molony, No date. First edition. Softcover. "Written by Helen Wise Molony" in handwriting on title page. Octavo, 17pp. Original printed beige, string-bound wraps. Helen Wise Molony was the daughter of Rabbi Isaac Wise and Therese Bloch Wise. Her parents had met when he was Therese's tutor in..... More
Paris: Siege de la Societe, 1913. 8vo. 270 pp. In French. Brown wrapping is slightly teared on front cover, otherwise very good. More
Washington DC: W. F. Roberts, 1910. Hardcover. 8vo. 47pp. Maroon leather with gilt illustration and lettering to cover. Frontispiece, an etching of Henry Jones, founder of Bnai Brith. Work on the convention of the oldest still existing Jewish organization, Bnai Brith (see below). Magnificently illustrated with full-page b/w photographs and..... More
Berlin: NP, [1928?]. First edition. Softcover. 8vo. 139 pp. Original maroon paper wraps. Text in German. Minutes, essays and synopsis of this historical and landmark conference. Sunning and age wear to wraps. Name of "Louis I. Newman" the famous and influential Judaic scholar on front cover. Hinges starting, otherwise book..... More
London: S.L., 1930. Softcover. 8vo. 310 pp. Green wrappers. The World Union For Progressive Judaism is the international umbrella organization of the Reform, Liberal, Progressive and Reconstructionist movement. The World Union strengthens Jewish life in Israel and worldwide by establishing and supporting modern, pluralistic congregations and institutions, developing Jewish communal..... More
Palo Alto: Stanford University Press, 1949. First edition. Hardcover. Quarto. XIV, 176pp. Original half cloth over decorated coarse linen, with gold lettering on spine. Title-page in black and blue lettering. Decorative initials. Rare and fascinating tribute to Ernest Reuben Lilienthal and Bella Sloss Lilienthal by their five daughters and sons..... More
Jerusalem: Magnes Press, 1985. Hardcover. 4to. 399pp. Maroon cloth with gold lettering on spine in original printed yellow dust jacket. Work of pietistic ethical rebuke (Mussar) by an early 17th century Alsatian Jew. A very useful source for the study of early modern Jews, particularly of the class conflicts between..... More
Jerusalem: The Holocaust Martyrs' and Heroes' Remembrance Aurthority, 1998. Hardcover. 4to. xvii, 453pp. 7pp. Black cloth with red title-label in original printed dust jacket. Encyclopedia of Jewish life in Greece through the Holocaust. Up until modern times, Salonika, in northern Greece, held the world's largest Jewish community. The majority of..... More
Leon: Centro de Estudios e Investigacion "San Isidor". Archivo Historico Diocesano... 1976. First edition. Hardcover. 4to. 487, [4] pp. Original leather with gold embossed lettering protected with modern Mylar. Coleccion "Fuentes y Estudios de Historia Leonesa" patrocinada y dirigida por La Caja De Ahorros y Monte De Piedad De Leon..... More
Paris: Université Paris VII, 1987. First edition. Softcover. Quarto. 58pp. Original printed wrappers with glassine. Fascinating Master's thesis about Jewish history and culture in Germany and France in the 19th century. Author's copy with Mrs Rozenbaumas' name, address... and phone number written on back of front cover. Text in French..... More
Leipzig: Verlag von Duncker & Humblot, 1911. First edition. Hardcover. Quarto. XXVI, 476pp. Original half vellum over paper covered boards, with gold lettering on spine. Colored endpapers. Printer's device on title-page. Ribbon marker. This fascinating work on Jews and the economy is a pendant to Max Weber's study on the..... More
Berlin: Joseph Jastrow, Verlagsbuchhandlung, 1936. First edition. Softcover. Quarto. 207pp. Original printed wraps. Scarce and fascinating work on the Eastern European Jews and the Minority treaties. Some age wear on wraps with spine and edges of covers age-toned. Upper part of front cover cut out (but present). Text in German..... More
London: NP, n/d. Softcover. 8vo. 48pp. Original wraps bound in cardboard rebacked with cloth. Front wrapper detached but present, parts of front and back wrapper missing. Rare copy of the fifth annual report by the Central Committee for Jewish Education. Wraps in poor, interior in very good condition. Rare. More
Buenos Aires: Union Central Israelita Polaca en la Argentina, 1941. First edition. Softcover. Quarto. 25, [1], 426pp. Original illustrated wraps. Spanish and Yiddish title-pages and covers. Scarce and fascinating work published to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the first settlement of Polish Jews in Argentina, and profusely illustrated with numerous..... More
Lille: Service de Reproduction des Theses de l'Université de Lille III, 1971. First edition. Hardcover. Folio. IV, 431pp. Original black binder's tape over printed wraps with title-label laid on spine. Scarce and captivating work on Jewish intellectual life in Morocco from the late 15th century to the early 20th century..... More
Менск (Minsk): Друкарня Я. А. Грынблята (Adradzen'ne), n.d. (1918). Facsimile edition. Spiral_bound. Oblong octavo. (32pp.) 18 single sided leaves, bound in thick cardboard white wrappers with a plastic spiral binding. The content is a facsimile of an original publication from 1918, discussing both the history and the then current state..... More
Reprinted from the Transactions of the Historic Society of Lancashire and Cheshire, 1929, n/d. Hardcover. 8vo. 53pp. Original printed paper-covered boards. Fascinating 'slice of life' on the Jews of Liverpool. Illustrated with photographic reproductions in duo tone showing the Crown Street Synagogue, the Great Synagogue's on Russell Street and Grove..... More
New York: The Bureau of Jewish Education, 1918. Hardcover. 8vo. ix, 596 pp. Brown cloth with wear to spine. History of Jewish education in New York and a discussion of its current status as of 1918. Includes information on the early history of Yeshiva University's Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary..... More
Armonk, New York: M. E. Sharpe, 1998. Hardcover. Quarto. XXV, 400pp. Original publisher's blue stiff paper covered boards with gold lettering on front cover and spine. The YIVO Institute for Jewish Research was founded in 1925 in Vilna as a center for scholarship on East European Jewish history, Yiddish language..... More