Agus, Irving AbrahamMareMagnum
658 résultats
Original Cloth. 8vo. XXXIII, 749 pages. 24 cm. First edition. Complete in two volumes. Bibliography: v. 2, p. 703-719. Both a biography of Rabbi Meir of Rothenburg, a collection of his responsa translated from manuscripts, and a history of Jewish life in thirteenth century Germany. Meir ben Baruch of Rothenburg (c. 12151293) , teacher, scholar, tosafist, and supreme arbiter in ritual, legal, and community matters in Germany. Subjects: Responsa. Responsa - 1040-1600. Jews - Germany. Meir ben Baruch, of Rothenburg, approximately 1215-1293. Light soiling to cloth, light wear to backstrip, otherwise fresh and clean. Very good condition. (GER-43-53)
New York, Der Komitet, 1946-47. Paper Wrappers, Folio (Road Atlas size, 35 cm) , 32 pages. "Unity. " Yiddish Communist bimonthly (from May 1944-Jan 15 1945) , then monthly (through 1947) for writers, artists, and scientists, a periodical certainly read by many of those swept up in the Atom Spy witchhunts 10 years later. "Aroysgegebn fun Komitet fun Yidishe shrayber, kinstler un visnshaftler in Amerike. " Preceeded by periodical of the same name, also published in New York, in 1942.SUBJECT(S) : Jewish communists -- United States -- Periodicals. OCLC lists 3 holdings worldwide (LOC, UCLA, Columbia) . Bound in blank paper wrappers. Cover on 1945 has detached, with a bit of edgewear to the first and last pages; All printed on good paper, so condition remains Good+ Solid. Important volumes straddling the end of the war and the early post war period. (Y-37B) . Price per each issue.
New York, Der Komitet, 1943. Paper Wrappers, Large 4to (Life Magazine size) , 28 pages. "Unity. " Short-lived (1942-43 only) Yiddish Communist monthly for writers, artists, and scientists, a periodical certainly read by many of those swept up in the Atom Spy witchhunts 10 years later. "Aroysgegebn fun Komitet fun Yidishe shrayber, kinstler un visnshaftler in Amerike. " Succeeded by periodical of the same name, also published in New York, in 1944. SUBJECT(S) : Jewish communists -- United States -- Periodicals. OCLC lists 2 holdings worldwide (LOC & NYPL) . Very Good Condition. (Y-38)
Original Wraps. 8vo. 123 pages. 24 cm. First edition. Inscribed by the author. Title page verso: Wei oun wander; Douleur sans foyer, poe´sies. Sorrow Without a Home, post-holocaust poetry, with some pre-war poems, by Israel Aszendorf; published in Paris by the Yiddish Writers Club, illustrated by the famous Jewish artist, Benn. With frontispiece portrait of the author. Israel Ashendorf (19091956) , Yiddish poet, short story writer, and dramatist. Ashendorf grew up and lived in Lemberg (Lwow) , Galicia (now Lviv, Ukraine) , until World War II, when he fled to Uzbekistan. He spent five years in Paris and immigrated to Argentina in 1953. In Buenos Aires he served as supervisor of Jewish secular schools, taught Hebrew and Yiddish literature, and contributed to the Yidishe Tsaytung. His first poems were published in 1927, and thereafter he contributed to Yiddish periodicals in Europe, the Americas, and Israel. In 1929, he was co-editor of the literary journal Tsushtayer. Collections of his poetry were published in 1937, 1939, 1941, 1950, and 1956. His biblical dramas Der Meylekh Shoel (King Saul, 1948) and Der Meylekh Dovid (King David, 1956) express a pessimistic worldview. The posthumous collection Letste Shriftn (Last Writings, 1958) includes his poems and short stories. (EJ, 2007) Subjects: Yiddish Poetry. OCLC lists 20 copies. Front cover repair, backstrip torn at top and bottom, first page lightly torn at edge; otherwise, clean and fresh, binding firm. Good condition. (YID-18-1)
Nyu York : Linguist Pub. Co. , 1943. Paper Wrappers, 8vo, 247, 195 pages. The final 2 volumes in an annual which ran from 1939 until 1943. 25 cm. In Yiddish. SUBJECT (S) : Yiddish literature -- Bio-bibliography. OCLC lists 11 holdings worldwide. Institutional stamp, wear & chips to wrappers, Good Condition. Other volumes available, please ask. (Y-30) Price is per volume
Publishers cloth. 4to. 112 pages. 26 cm. First edition. In German. The Jewish City of Lublin. With 60 illustrations. Monograph of Lublins Jewish history by Majer Balaban (18771942) , historian and educator. Majer Balaban was a founder and architect of modern Polish Jewish historiography and the first to synthesize both Polish archival sources and Jewish communal records and rabbinic responsa. Balaban completed his dissertation in 1904, on Jews in Lwów at the turn of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries (Zydzi lwowscy na przelomie XVIgo I XVIIgo wieku; 1906) . Thereafter he taught in secondary schools until the outbreak of World War I, when he served as a military chaplain in the Austrian army. While stationed in Lublin, he took advantage of the opportunity to prepare a short monograph on the history of Jews in that community. (YIVO Encyclopedia) . His book on the Jews of Lublin, Die Judenstadt von Lublin (Berlin, 1919) , is a vivid survey of history of the Jews in that city. (EJ 2008) . Subjects: Jews - Poland. Lublin (Poland) . Poland; social history under capitalism, before 1945; social conditions; social groups; (movements of) national minorities; Jews. Binding repaired; light soiling to cloth, pages aged, otherwise fresh and clean. Good condition. (EE-5-31)
Original illustrated Wraps. 12mo. 50 pages. 20 cm. First English edition. With 28 illustrations. A brief history of the Jews in Hungary before and after 1945. The second part of the booklet contains pictures of synagogues and of community life. The author was head of the Jewish Museum of Budapest for many years, and was the sister of Imre Benoschofsky, chief Rabbi of Budapest. Subjects: Jews - Hungary - History. OCLC lists 12 copies. Fresh and clean. Very good + condition. (EE-5-8) Xx
First edition. Original paper wrappers. 8vo, 112 pages. 23 cm. In Yiddish. Title translates to "Twenty One and One: About Twenty-One Yiddish Actors Murdered by the Nazis in Vilna, 1941-1942." Preface by A. Morewski and Leiser Ran. Subjects: Jewish actors -- Biography. Jews -- Persecutions -- Lithuania -- Vilnius. Yiddish drama. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Lithuania -- Vilnius. Jewish actors. Jews -- Persecutions. Yiddish drama. OCLC lists 23 copies worldwide. Spine is starting. Light soiling to cover. Internally very clean. Overall good condition. (YID-23-6)
Original wrappers. 8vo. 260 pages, 20 cm. In Yiddish. Title translates to Documents of Crime and Martyrdom. A Montevideo-published Yiddish translation of Michal Borwiczs Dokumenty zbrodni I meczénstwa. Michal Borwicz (Maksymilian Boruchowicz) was born in Krakow in 1911, and died in Paris in 1987. A graduate of the Jagiellonian University in Krakow, he was a Jewish Polish author and historian, who studied the history of Polish Jewry during the Holocaust. Borwicz was an inmate in the Janowska camp in Lwow from 1942-1943. He was sentenced to death by hanging, however when the sentence was being carried out, the rope broke. He escaped from the camp and joined the partisans and commanded an Armia Krajowa (AK) unit in the Krakow area. After the war, he headed the Jewish Historical Commission in Krakow from 1945 to 1947. After emigrating to France in 1947, he directed the Centre d'etude de l`histoire des Juifs (Polonais) (Center for Research of the History of the Jews of Poland) in Paris until his death. (EHRI, 2018) . SUBJECTS: Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Poland. World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Jewish. OCLC lists 6 copies worldwide (OCLC: 10601885) . Pages are browning and brittle. Some chipping and edge wear. Otherwise good. (YID-40-61-L-'x)
1st edition. Original paper wrappers. 8vo. 86 pages, 24 cm. In English. This issue is dedicated to esteemed Yiddish writer, David Pinski. Pinski (1872-1959) is perhaps best known as a playwright. He explored topics that were previously ignored, like urban Jewish workers and sexuality. There are 11 articles dedicated to his work. SUBJECTS: Literature, Modern -- 20th century -- Periodicals. Intellectual life. Wrappers are edge worn. Otherwise very good condition. (YID-41-22)
Softbound. 8vo. 221, [8] pages. 24 cm. First edition. In French. Birobidjan, a Jewish land of the USSR. With 8 pages of color photographs of Birobidjan from the late 1980s. Subjects: Jews - Russia (Federation) - Birobidzhan. Juifs - Russie - Région autonome des Juifs. Birobidzhan (Russia) Birobidjan (URSS ; région autonome juive) . Light wear to wraps and edges, otherwise clean and fresh. Good + condition. (EE-5-44)
Publishers cloth. 8vo. Xvi, 142 pages. 22 cm. Illustrated. First U. S. Edition. Black and white photographs, as well as diagrams and charts. The Jews of the former Soviet Union have always been the subject of intense controversy. In the past 25 years, especially, they have been the source of considerable speculation. [ ]The issues swirling around the Jews in the republics now known as the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) have sparked debate because of the status of these Jews has deep policy implications for Russia, Israel, the United States, and other countries. [ ] This volume is the first based on an on-site survey of Jews in the CIS. In addition to providing data on the Jews of Moscow, Kiev, and Minsk who collectively account for over a quarter of all Jews residing in the three Slavic republics of the CIS the author places the survey results in their social and historical contexts. He explains why ethnic distinctiveness persisted and even became accentuated in the Soviet era and also describes the position of Jews in Soviet and post-Soviet society and some of the dilemmas they face. (Dust jacket description) Subjects: Jews -- Politics and government. Jews -- Politics and government. Jews -- Politics and government. Jews Identity. Jews -- Migrations. Antisemitism. Former Soviet republics -- Ethnic relations. Dust jacket protected in mylar sleeve. Fine, like new condition. (EE-6-8)
Publishers boards. 8vo. 495 pages. 23 cm. Illustrated. First edition. 12 leaves of plates with reproductions of documents, black and white photographs, and early 20th century artwork in color and black and white. English title page, with title translated as Russian-Jewish Culture. Table of content and essay abstracts in Russian and English. Collection of materials presented at a conference in Moscow in 2005. Deals with various aspects of Russian-Jewish culture: everyday life, political life and the life of the artistic elite, artistic legacy and literature. Subjects: Jews -- Russia -- Intellectual life -- Congresses. Jews -- Soviet Union -- Intellectual life -- Congresses. Some rubbing to boards and light edge wear. Text is clean and fresh. Very good condition. (EE-6-14)
Later boards. 16mo. 32 pages. 14 cm. First edition. In Yiddish. A collection of 243 Yiddish proverbs; compiled by the famous Yiddish folklorist Yehuda Leib Cahan (1881-1937) . Subjects: Proverbs, Yiddish. Folklore. OCLC lists 17 copies. Lightly soiled first few pages, otherwise fresh. Very good condition. (YID-18-14)
Original Wraps. 8vo. 112 pages. 24 cm. First edition. In German. The Jewish Question in Romania. Provides a historical narrative with specific details about various pieces of legislation. In the series: Kriegspolitische Einzelschriften, Hft. 21. Subjects: Jews - Romania. Romania; social and political history; 1878 - 1944; social and political structure; social conditions, social groups; ethnic minorities, in Transylvania only after 1918, Dobrudza. Light soiling to wraps, edge wear, small tear to cover, otherwise fresh and clean. Good condition. (EE-5-12)
Softbound. 16mo. 120 pages. 16 cm. First edition. Guide and catalogue to the traveling exhibition on Romanian Jewish lives, through pictures and interviews; Centropa is devoted to gathering interviews of Jewish residents in Eastern Europe, and has put on many exhibitions of their collections. Fully illustrated throughout. Subjects: Jews - Romania - History - 20th century - Pictorial works - Exhibitions. Jews - Romania - Interviews - Exhibitions. Jews - Romania - Biography - Exhibitions. Romania - History - 20th century - Pictorial works - Exhibitions. OCLC lists 4 copies. Clean and fresh. Very good + condition. (EE-5-10)
Large 8vo. 424 pages. First edition. SUBJECT (S) : Clothing workers Illinois Chicago; Arbitration, industrial Illinois Chicago; Illinois Chicago history. Hefty tome detailing this heavily (though not exclusively) Jewish & Italian Union's first 12 years--organizing, strikes, allies, etc. The union, officially founded in 1914, had its roots in the massive 1910 strike in Chicago (against Hart, Schaffner, & Marx) , primarily led at the shop floor level by Jewish and Italian women, at the top by Sidney Hillman, and aided by Jane Addams and the Women's Trade Union League. The union was condemned by Sam Gompers as a breakaway from the craft-organized (and largely nativist) United Garment Workers of the AFL, and became leaders of a "new unionism" that included the development of unemployment insurance, cooperative housing, labor banking, & consumer cooperatives. Ex library. Top inch of backstrip is torn off, hinges starting, good condition. (ComHist-10-21)
8vo. Xviii, 226 pages. Plate illustrations. SUBJECT (S) : Jews Ukraine Zakarpats'ka oblast history; Jews Romania Sighetu Marmatiei history; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Ukraine Zakarpats'ka oblast; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Romania Sighetu Marmatiei; Hasidism Ukraine Zakarpats'ka oblast; Hasidism Romania Sighetu Marmatiei. Light wear to jacket. Very good condition. (EE-3-15)
Original wraps. 8vo. 133, [2] pages. 24 cm. First edition. In German, with some Hebrew. 'On Botany in the Talmud. ' Wraps list: Pest, 1871, Selbstverlag der Verfassers (self-published by the author) ; however title page lists 1870. Treatise on botanic science in the Talmud written by Rabbi Moritz Duschak (1815-1890) ; Austrian rabbi and author. He was a pupil in Talmud of R. Moses Sofer of Presburg, and was for a long time rabbi at Gaya, Moravia. In 1877 he became preacher in Cracow and teacher of religion at the gymnasium of that city. He was a modern preacher and the author of works in the German language. Although engaged to deliver his sermons at the Temple, his sympathies were mostly with the old-style Orthodox people of the 'Klaus, ' who could better appreciate his Talmudical knowledge. His position as preacher was thus somewhat anomalous; and after several years' service he left Cracow and settled in Vienna, where he spent his last days in neglect and disappointment. - 1906 JE. Important study, still cited in medical literature on plant use in human diets. Subjects: Plants in rabbinical literature. Talmud - Natural history. Botany. Plants in literature. Wraps and title page lightly soiled, edges bumped, otherwise fresh and clean. Good + condition. (GER-43-20)
Original paper wrappers. 8vo; 64 pages. By one of the Bund's key leaders in Poland. Very Good Condition with some markings in first pages. (AC-2-11)
Softbound. 12mo. 219 pages. 19 cm. Second edition. Reprint of the Frankfurt a. M. , 1886 edition. In German. The Jewish Colonies in Russia; Culture-Historical Study and Contribution to the history of the Jews in Russia. History and documentation of the limited nineteenth century Jewish agricultural colonies in tsarist Russia. Subjects: Jews - Russia. Jewish farmers. Agricultural colonies - Russia. Clean and fresh. Very good condition. (EE-5-45)
1st edition. Original boards with gilt lettering. 8vo. 96 pages, 25 cm. In Yiddish. Title translates to Candlewicks. Asselin (1889-1974) was a prominent Russian-American poet. He published hundreds of poems in Yiddish and his work was featured in the biggest Yiddish newspapers of his day. The Judaica Section of Harvard currently features the Alter Esselin Archive. (Wikipedia, 2018) . SUBJECTS: Yiddish poetry. Light edge wear to boards. Very Good Condition overall. (YID-40-69-CFLX)
Publishers cloth. 8vo. 424, 78 pages. 24 cm. First edition. In Yiddish. Long inscription by author. English title page: Jewish music in Poland between the two World Wars. With 78 page section of songs and choruses, chiefly unaccompanied, with Yiddish and romanized Yiddish. Published for the World Federation of Polish Jews. Subjects: Jews - Poland - Music - History and criticism. Songs, Yiddish. Music - Poland - History and criticism. Very Good+ condition. (EE-3-13)
Publishers cloth. 8vo. 249, [9] pages. 23 cm. First edition. Published by the Magnes Press, under the auspices of the Center for research on Roumanian Jewry (Je´rusalem) . With fold out demographic Map of Moldavia from 1845. History of Jewish craft occupations and artisan guilds in Moldavia; throughout the 19th century the number and diversity of Jewish skilled craftsmen increased by the decade. Subjects: Jews - Romania - Moldavia - Economic conditions. Jewish artisans - Romania - Moldavia. Moldavia - Ethnic relations. Light wear to wraps, otherwise fresh and clean. Very good condition. (EE-5-14)
8vo. 303 pages, illustrated. First edition. In Yiddish. Includes English translation of title on copyright page: "The Jews of Johannesburg. " Dustjacket worn but present, otherwise very good condition. (ComHist-15-9A)
