Tel Aviv: Massadah Ltd., 1945. First edition. Softcover. Quarto. XXIV (in English), 192pp (in Hebrew). Original photo-illustrated wrappers. Published in Palestine shortly after the end of WWII, this medical and pedagogic handbook aimed to contribute in increasing "ten-fold the birth-rate and the efforts for the care and education of children...
Haifa: Eshkol. Hardcover. Oblong 8vo. 22pp. Blue half cloth over white paper boards with illustrations of animals. Hebrew children's book with poems about various animals such as camel, lamb, parrot and mouse. B/w and colored illustrations. Text in Hebrew. Back board stained. Tear to one of the pages. Overall in.....
Tel Aviv: Da'at, circa 1950. First edition. Hardcover. Small quarto. Unpaginated. 29pp. Original illustrated paper boards. Modern mylar. Charming children's work that teaches good behavior. In the story two brothers are complete opposites, Rami always behaves wrongly and Yossi always behaves properly. Each page has a short page overlay with...
St. Petersburg: Obschestvo dlia Rasprostraneniia Prosveschieniia mezhdu evreiiami v Rossii, 1910. First edition. Hardcover. Lg 8vo. 175,(3),12pp. Green wrappers with black titling, rebound in blue quarter cloth over paper boards. First inaugural issue of the "journal dedicated to the questions of Jewish upbringing and education." Contains a preface "from the...
Zabar Books. Hardcover. Large 8vo. 34pp. Green half cloth over illustrated paper boards. Decorative endpapers. Collection of Hebrew blessings, each illustrated with a demonstrative piece of artwork. An example of mid-twentieth century religious Zionist pedagogy and artwork. Text in Hebrew. Bottom corners rubbed. Overall in good condition.
Frankfurt a. M. Verlag Omonuth, 1922. First edition. Hardcover. Oblong 8vo. 83pp. Original black quarter-cloth over yellow paper boards with black lettering on cover. A collection of Hebrew songs for children. The songs are about animals, nature and the Jewish holidays. Includes b/w illustrations. An example of pre-Nazi Zionist culture...
New York: Farlag Matones, 1946. First edition. Hardcover. 4to. Unpaginated. (32pp.) Green illustrated cover. Rare Yiddish illustrated children's book of a boy meeting a bear in the woods. The author David Rodin wrote a number of Yiddish children's books such as "Di Dray Barimer" and "Vinkayinkele: Mayselekh in Gramen." Book...
Ramat Gan: Masadah. Hardcover. Oblong 8vo. Unpaginated. Original white paper boards with color illustration. Hebrew children's book, undated but likely from the early 1960s, about a boy and a girl enjoying the outdoors in summer time. Includes charming color illustrations. Text in Hebrew. Cover stained. Overall in good condition.
Frankfurt a. M. Verlag von Sänger & Friedberg, 1921. First edition. Hardcover. Large 16mo. 93pp + 2 pages of publisher's advertisement. Original 3/4 green cloth over printed paper covered boards, with green lettering on front cover. Interesting and scarce pedagogic study intended to give valuable hints to Jewish parents. Boards...
Tel Aviv: Dvir, 1938. First edition. Hardcover. Oblong 4to. 38pp. Original orange cloth with pasted on illustration. A collection of songs for children whose title can be translated as "The Open Moon." Includes whimsical illustrations of songs' subject matter such as children, toys and animals. Ella Amitan-Wilensky was an Estonian-Israeli...
(New York): B. Ostrowsky & S. Hurwitz, (1930). Hardcover. 1st volumes of a 2 volume set. 8vo. 89pp, (7). Original red cloth with illustration of a child on cover. A beginner's Yiddish book to teach children to write the Hebrew alphabet and read simple paragraphs in Yiddish. Includes lithograph illustrations...
New York: Bloch Publishing Company, 1931. Revised. Hardcover. 8vo. 70pp. Original green cloth with black lettering on cover. Revised version of a Hebrew alphabet book and reader first published in 1912. Includes b/w illustrations. Text in Hebrew. Corners slightly rubbed. Fore edge sunned. Overall in good condition.
Jerusalem: The Israel Exploration Society, 1952. Softcover. Lg. 4to. 76pp. Quarter cloth over wrappers. One-inch split along tail of spine. Rubbing to head of spine. Some discoloration and minor staining to wraps. Stamp of Brandeis University on front cover. Mimeographic typescript. Browning to pages. "A Thesis presented for the Degree...
New York: Shiloh, (1929). Hardcover. Large 8vo. 96pp. Blue cover with lithograph illustration on cover. Beginner's Hebrew reader with stories from the Midrash and biblical texts. Includes b/w illustrations. Text in Hebrew. Head and tail of spine rubbed. Top edge sunned. Corner of rear free endpaper torn. Name of previous...
New York: The Shoulson Press, 1950. First edition. Hardcover. 4to. 112pp. Original gray cloth with illustrated cover with red lettering on spine. Happy Holiday Children is a collection of 13 children's stories with figures from Bible or that relate to Jewish holidays. One story tells of a visit from Elijah...
Philadelphia: Julius H. Greenstone, 1918. First edition. Hardcover. Octavo. 102, [2]pp. Original blue cloth with gold lettering on spine. Free front endpaper inscribed and signed by Samuel Grossmann to "his good friend Samuel J. Borowsky." Photographic frontispiece. Remarkable work on Grossmann's "Land of the Aleph Bes," a play for Jewish...
Wien: Wilhelm Braunmüller, 1912. Softcover. 4to. lxiv, 592, [2, 15]pp. Disbound, with heavily chipped, torn and stained front wrapper only, lacking rear wrapper. Work on inscriptions of the Old Jewish cemetery in Vienna. Illustrated with b/w reproductions of photographs showing Jewish gravestones (Mit 202 Textabbildungen, 15 Tafeln und einem Friedhofsplane)...
New York: Farlag Matones, 1949. Third edition. Hardcover. 4to. 112pp. Blue cloth with pasted illustration of a man on horse back confronting a Jew in the woods. Illustrated Yiddish title-page and English title-page. Yiddish novel first published in 1931 about the adventures of a simple beggar named Shmerl, who has...
Paris: Supplement a Harmore. A.J.D.C. Department de l'Education, 1963. Hardcover. 4to. 140(2)pp. Photographic illustrated green paper covered boards. French translation of "Teaching and Learning", a work on Jewish pedagogics by Dr. William (Zev) Chomsky, father of acclaimed intellectual, linguist and political activist Noam Chomsky. According to Robert F. Barskey's book.....
The Commission of New Approaches to American Jewish Education by the Jewish Education Committee of New York, n/d. Softcover. 8vo. viii,40pp. Original wrappers. Minor creasing and staining to wraps. Introduction by Alan M. Stroock. "The membership of this Commission is to be of a representative nature and is to consist.....
New York: Farlag Matones, 1949. Third edition. Hardcover. 4to. 112pp. Blue cloth with pasted illustration of a man on horse back confronting a Jew in the woods. Illustrated Yiddish title-page and English title-page. Yiddish novel first published in 1931 about the adventures of a simple beggar named Shmerl, who has...
New York: The Bureau of Jewish Education, 1918. First edition. Hardcover. Quarto. [4], IX, [3], 596pp. Original brown cloth with gold lettering on front cover. Frontispiece folding map indicating the location of the Jewish religious schools in New York City. History of Jewish education in New York and a discussion...
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