New York: The Bureau of Jewish Education (Lipshitz Press), 1918. First edition. Hardcover. 4to. ix, 596pp. Original binding in brown cloth with gilt lettering on cover and spine. Frontispiece folding map indicating the location of the Jewish religious schools in New York City. History of Jewish education in New York..... More
New York: Bloch Publishing Company, 1927. First edition. Large octavo. xxi, (3), 682pp. Later acetate dust jacket over burgundy cloth lettered in gilt. Illustrated with a frontispiece portrait of Lincoln, several facsimiles of documents and 24 photographic portraits. A large article from the Yiddish language "Forward", dated January 8, 1955..... More
New York: Ktav Publishing House, Inc., 1969. Hardcover. 8vo. Original blue cloth with embossed label and gold lettering on spine. A selection of articles published by the American Jewish Quarterly. Includes articles by Salo W. Baron, Arnold Wiznitzer, Abraham G. Duker, Robert Gordis, Bernard D. Weinryb, J. D. Eisenstein and..... More
New York: Philip Cowen, 1902. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. 155pp. Original blue cloth with gold lettering on the spine. Blue endpapers. Reprinted from the American Hebrew, issues November 1901, to June, 1902. Deals with American Christian Hebraist Ezra Stiles. Important historical source on eighteenth century American Jews as Stiles was..... More
Cincinnati: Published by the author, 1888. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. vii,352pp. Blind-stamped brown cloth with gold lettering on spine. Head and tail of spine and corners bumped and rubbed. Some scuffing and minor staining to binding. Decorated endpapers. Ex-libris of Arthur S. Wolpe on inside of front board and small..... More
Atlanta: NP, 1917. First edition. Softcover. Quarto. 9.5x6". 31pp. + a fold-out image. Tan wrappers with embossed gilt lettering on the front cover. As the title states, this publication is a history of Hebrew Benevolent Congregation synagogue (now known simply as "The Temple"), the oldest Jewish congregation in Atlanta, Georgia..... More
Philadelphia: The Jewish Publication Society of America, 1894. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. 268pp. Gilt stamped dark green cloth with gilt lettered spine. Head and tail of spine and corners bumped and rubbed. Staining to top page edge. Scuffing to boards. Boards slightly bowed. Bookplate to inside of front cover. Hinges..... More
NP: University of Kentucky Press, (1960). Hardcover. Ex library. 8vo. xii, 175 pp. Brown cloth with attached dustjacket. Library inventory plate on tail of spine. Rubbing to head and tail, and edges of spine. Minor scuffing to dj. Information library plate pasted on free front endpaper. Includes "every person identifiable..... More
NP: Privately printed, 2006-2007. First edition. Hardcover. Quarto. 72, [4], 166pp. Gold-stamped maroon leatherette. Each volume inscribed by author on fly leaf preceding title-page. San Francisco author F. T. Weiss writes about his personal and his family's history beginning in the mid 19th century. Illustrated with b/w and color reproductions..... More
Spartanburg, South Carolina: The Reprint Company, 1983. Reprint. Hardcover. 8vo. 352 pp. Red cloth with gold lettering on front cover and spine. Frontis piece with a b/w illustration of the interior of the Hebrew Synagogue of Charleston, South Carolina in 1794 taken from a lithograph in the possession of Mayer..... More
[San Francisco]: Bernard Kaufman, Jr., 2004. Limited first edition. Hardcover. 1/200. Quarto. 496pp. Red cloth boards with gilt lettering on the front cover and spine. Silver ribbon marker. Signed and inscribed by the author in black marker on the half-title page. A work charting the globe-trotting and tumultuous history and..... More
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Culver City, CA. Labyrinthos, 1993. Deluxe Limited Edition. Hardcover. 1/200. 4to. XX, 283pp. on acid-free paper. Original black smyth-sewn clothbound with gold illustration on front cover and gilt lettering on spine. Includes ribbon marker and slipcase. Ninth volume in the "Sephardic Classical Library" series. The Manuscript 2015 of the University..... More
Springfield, Mass. The Pond-Ekberg Company, 1953. Limited edition. Hardcover. 1/150. Quarto. x,154pp. Half-cloth over blue paper-covered boards with gold lettering on cover and spine. Title-page vignette. Signed by Hannah London on limitation page. Fascinating collection of b/w photographic reproductions of miniatures depicting early American Jews. Photo section on glossy paper..... More
Los Angeles: Los Angeles Jewish Institutions and Their Leaders, 1957. First edition. Hardcover. Small Quarto. 224 pp. Blue cloth with decorative, gothic lettering on front cover. Work is composed of biographical entries of prominent Jews of the South and Western United States accompanied by b/w portrait photographs of Jewish pioneers..... More
Los Angeles: Los Angeles Jewish Institutions and Their Leaders, 1957. Hardcover. 4to. 224 pp. Blue cloth binding. Black & white photographs throughout. This is volume 3 of the monographic series on Southwestern Jewry. Minor wear. Otherwise in very good condition. More
Chicago: Globus Printing Corporation, 1941. First edition. Hardcover. Quarto. 60, 204pp. Decorative brown cloth with English and Yiddish lettering. Scarce Jubilee Book published in honor of the 30th anniversary of the American Sokolover Independent Verein. Includes a 26 page essay titled "The Story of the Sokolov Immigrants in Chicago", by..... More
Cincinnati: John G. Kidd & Son, Inc., 1941. First edition. Hardcover. Quarto. [12], 526pp. Original blue cloth with gold lettering on front cover and spine. Inside of front cover inscribed and signed by David Philipson. Frontispiece portrait of the author. Printer's device on title page. Significant story of American Jewish..... More
Chicago: The College of Jewish Studies, 1952. Hardcover. Large 8vo. English section 197 pp. Hebrew section 120pp. Original blue cloth with gold lettering on front and rear covers and spine. Collection of articles relating to Jewish life in Chicago. Bibliographical information on Chicago, as well as numerous tables on the..... More
New York: Wecker, 1926. First edition. Softcover. Small quarto. 400pp. Printed tan and green wrappers with red lettering on the front cover. Black lettering on the spine. This Jewish yearbook was the first of two such books published, 1926-1927, by David Shub. As stated in the title, the publication presents..... More
New York: Bloch Publishing Co., 1942. First edition. Softcover. 2 volumes. 68pp. 80pp. Original tan wrappers. Front wrapper on Vol.II detached but present, back wrapper of same volume missing. Discoloration, creasing and some scuffing to wrappers. Front wrapper of Vol.I has closed tear along spine but still attached. Vol.I. looks..... More
Philadelphia: The Jewish Publication Society of America, 1956. First American edition. Hardcover. Complete in 2 volumes. Quarto. (3) 335, (3) 290pp. Original blue cloth with silver lettering on black labels of spines. Top edges blue. Frontispiece portrait of the author in volume I. Printer's device on each title page. A...... More
New York: Columbia University Press and The Jewish Publication Society of America, 1963. Hardcover. 3 volumes. 4to. xxxv, x, xi, 1034pp. Original red cloth with gold lettering on spine. Red top edge. Collection of official documents, business and personal correspondence detailing Jewish life in America in the late eighteenth and..... More
NP: Privately Printed, 1933. First edition. Hardcover. Quarto. XX, [2], 423, [1]pp. Original printed wrappers over brown cloth with black lettering on spine and front cover. Remarkable history of the cultural rise of the Jews of Chicago that runs parallel with their social and economic development. Of particular importance in..... More
Waltham, Mass: Ktav Publishing, INC., (1971). Hardcover. 2 volumes. 4to. lxxxiii, 497pp. 374pp. Original black cloth with blue imprinted title label and silver lettering on spine. Collection of articles originally published in the American Jewish Historical Society's Publications and Quarterly. Authors include Arnold Wiznitzer, Cyrus Adler and Elkan Nathan Adler..... More
Leiden: Brill, 2004. First edition. Hardcover. Octavo. xiv, 323, (3)pp. Index and selected bibliographies. Dark over light purple boards, spine lettered in white. A fine, as new copy This volume brings together several of Prof. S.N. Eisenstadt's essays written over the years on Jewish history and identity. The major argument..... More