London: Jewish Religious Union for the Advancement of Liberal Judaism, 1926. First edition. 8vo. 151 pp. Original blue wappers. Includes a program as a table of conents for this historic occasion. The president of the Jewish Religious Union for the Advancement of Liberal Judaism at the time of this publication..... More
Cincinnati, Ohio: Tract Commission of the Union of American Hebrew Congregations and the Central Conference of American Rabbis, 1905. Softcover. 8vo. 46 pp. Decorative paper wrappers. Puplished on the 250th anniversarey of the first arrival of Jewish people in America. David Philipson, (1862 - 1949) was a Reform rabbi and..... More
London et. al. Ararat, 1954. Hardcover. Quarto. 682 pp. In original white dj with red lettering on front, back cover and spine. Blue cloth binding with gold lettering to boards and spine. Contains essays on Jewish life in the Diaspora (both the West and the Middle East) and Israel, Jewish..... More
NP, 1932. Hardcover. 8vo. 422pp. Cloth binding with black lettering on cover and spine. Small closed tear on head of spine. Minor scuffing and age wear to binding. Spine sunned. An extensive list of every Jewish casualty that fought in W.W.I for Germany. In alphabetical order, lists date and place..... More
Paris: Librairie Hachette et Cie, [1884]. First edition. Hardcover. Octavo. XVIII, 423, [5]pp. Uncut. Modern black cloth with handwritten title laid on spine. In this scarce and remarkable work, Reinach writes all of his modern Jewish history as a history of the Emancipation. Rubbing along edges of binding. Previous owner's..... More
Leipzig: G. Laudien, 1892. First edition. Softcover. 8vo. vi. 328pp. Blue cloth with gilt embossed lettering in original paper wraps. Decorated endpapers, with free front endpaper missing. Ex libris plate to inside of front board. Ex library stamp to title page: " Archival Offenbach A.M." Work on the Jewish woman..... More
Oxford: Pergamon Press, 1984. First edition. Hardcover. Inscribed by author on free front endpaper. Small Quarto. ix, 289pp. Original photomontage paper-covered boards with black lettering on cover and spine. "The term Shtetl, derived from the diminutive of the German stadt (town), has been applied to small Jewish communities of Eastern..... More
Paris: Larose Editeur, 1951. First edition. Hardcover. Quarto. 108pp. Uncut. Original printed wraps. Scarce and captivating study compiling historical texts on Jewish life in Morocco from the mid- 16th century to the late 19th century. Minor age-toning and soiling on wraps. Text in French. Wraps in overall good+, interior in..... More
(1892). Hardcover. 8vo. 146pp. (1). Original paper wrappers bound with green library binding with black lettering on the spine. Report on the anti-Jewish pogroms in Russia under Czar Alexander III. These events led to mass Jewish immigration to the United States. The authors were American officials, who toured Russia at..... More
New York: Summit Books, 1990. First edition. Hardcover. Octavo. 250, [4]pp. Original pictorial wrappers over cloth spine and paper covered boards. Blind-stamped lettering on front cover and silver lettering on spine. Fly leaf signed by the author. Fascinating work being the moving testimony of a man who has worked to..... More
Prague: Council of Jewish communities in the CSR, (1982). Hardcover. 4to. 32pp. of text. 74pp. of plates. One fold-out map at rear. Original cream boards in dust jacket. Dj in good condition with small chips along bottom edge. Otherwise, in very good condition. More
Kansas City: The Temple, Congregation B'nai Jehudah, 1972. First edition. Hardcover. Quarto. XXIII, 466, [2]pp. Original full cloth with gold lettering on front board and spine. Pictorial endpapers. Half-title page inscribed and signed by the author. Fascinating work being "the finest Jewish congregational history that has yet been written" (Jacob..... More
London: Routledge, (1989). First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. v,186pp. Blue paper-covered boards with silver lettering on spine in original illustrated dust jacket. G. Alderman's work looks at London Jewry and London government before 1889, London Jewry in the Progressive Era, municipal reaction and the rise of labor, County Hall under labor..... More
Berlin: Jüdischer Verlag, 1919. Hardcover. Inscribed by author. 8vo. 112pp. Illustrated red paper-covered boards. Fascinating history of the Jews of Lublin covering the 16th -18th centuries. The author was a founding figure in the study of Polish Jewish history, a field that had largely been ignored by an earlier generation..... More
Kaposvár: Miniatur Konyvgyujtok Klubja, 1984. Limited facsimile edition. Hardcover. 1/150. 3x2". 144pp. [1]. Dark blue faux-leather boards with gilt-lettering and ten commandments design on the front cover. This is # 123 (as stated on the colophon at rear) from a limited edition of 150 copies. A reprint in miniature form..... More
Philadelphia: Jewish Publication Society, 1932. First edition. Hardcover. Quarto. xxviii, 258pp. Original green cloth with blind tooled bordering and gold lettering on spine. Hebrew and English title pages. A collection of poems by the 17th century Italian rabbi, Leone Modena. Of particular interest are Modena's poems dedicated to prominent Christians..... More
Cambridge, Massachusetts: Peabody Museum, 1964. First edition. Hardcover. Ex-library. 4to. xi,108,14,[8]pp. Blue cloth with gold lettering on spine. Tipped-in frontispiece of a photographic color reproduction showing a Jewish wedding procession in the Sahara. "This book is the record of a people who are gone. It tells of the ancient Jewish..... More
Bruxelles: Editions de L'Universite de Bruxelles, (1972). Conference publication. Softcover. 8vo. 422pp. Original wrappers. "Les actes du Deuxieme Colloque sur la Vie Juive dans l'Europe contemporaine, tenu a l'linstitute de Sociologie de l'Universite Libre de Bruxelles, du 9 au 12 janvier 1967. Textes reunis et revus par Willy Bok et..... More
Gießen: Alfred Töpelmann, 1915. First edition. Softcover. 8vo. 48pp. Original wrappers. Some creasing and discoloration to wraps. Text in Gothic script. Wraps in good-, interior in overall very good condition. Hermann Cohen (1842-1918) was a German-Jewish philosopher. He began to study philosophy early in life and soon became a student..... More
Köln: Verlag des Hauptbureaus des jüdischen Nationalfonds, 1920. First edition. Softcover. Octavo. 40pp. original decorative wrappers with black lettering on cover. Decorative title page. Illustrated with numerous evocative in-text b/w photographs, some with permission of the Vienna Jewish newspaper "Palästina im Bilde." Account of the history of Jews in Jemen..... More
Zürich: Verlag Jüdische Buch-Gemeinde, 1961. First edition. Softcover. Dedicated to Dr. W. Weinberg by author on title page. Octavo. 48 (2)pp. Original pictorial wrappers with brown and beige lettering on cover and spine. Contributions to history and folklore of Jews in Switzerland, volume 7. Treatise of Jews in the cities..... More
London: Luzac & Co., 1906. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. ccii. 274pp. Cloth spine over gilt decorated leather. Corners bumped and worn. Some scuffing and rubbing to boards. Top edge gilt. Stain to fore-page edge. Library stamps to first few pages up to title page. Tissue-guarded frontispiece. An interesting account of..... More
New York: William B. Helmreich, ca. 1992. First edition. Spiral Bound. 4to. 47pp. Spiral-bound plastic covers. Fascinating study by Professor William B. Helmreich, Ph.D., Professor and Chairman, Departments of Sociology and Judaic Studies at CUNY Graduate Center & City College of New York. "The March of the Living has been..... More
Paris: Felix Alcan, (1938). Softcover. 8vo. 104pp. Printed paper wraps. Etude comparative sur la criminalite de la population juive et non-juive de la Republique Polonaise. Text in French. Binding in good, interior in very good condition. More
Magdeburg: Selbstverlag der Historischen Kommission. Auslieferung durch Ernst Holtermann, 1928. Softcover. Sm. 4to. 132-166pp. Original printed tan wraps. Special printing of "Sachsen und Anhalt," containing an excerpt from the 1928 annual issue of the historical commission for the provinces of Saxony and Anhalt. With article by University Professor Dr. Guido..... More