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8vo. Xxi, 280 pages. In Hebrew. Frontispiece. SUBJECT (S) : Zionism - biography; Levin, Shmarya, 1867-1935. Embossed covers, gilt title on spine. Front hinge starting, spine darkened, good condition. (HebLit-6-3)
(FT) 8vo. Viii, 311 pages. In Hebrew. Volume one (of three) only. SUBJECT(S) : Jews - anecdotes; Rabbis - anecdotes. Lipson (1885-1958) was a "Hebrew writer and folklorist. Born in Bialystok, he was ordained as a rabbi in 1903. After teaching for several years, he immigrated to the United States in 1913. There he wrote for the Hebrew and Yiddish press and edited the Hebrew weekly Ha-Ivri. He founded and edited the New York Hebrew daily Hadoar, which was the only modern Hebrew daily to appear in the U. S. When the newspaper was taken over by the Histadrut Ivrit and turned into a weekly, Lipson served for a period as editor. He immigrated to Erez Israel in 1930 and edited the religious daily Ha-Zofeh from its inception, in 1937, until 1944. For more than a generation he collected Jewish folklore which appeared in Mi-Dor-Dor, Anshei Middot, Midrash Zuta, and Emshol Lekha Mashal. He also translated many books from Hebrew to Yiddish and from Yiddish to Hebrew, including works by I. J. Singer, I. Bashevis Singer, and J. Opatoshu. " (EJ, 2007) Ex library. Backstrip detached, otherwise good condition. (HebLit-5-15)
(FT) 8vo. 314 pages. In Hebrew. SUBJECT(S) : Poetry, Hebrew. OCLC lists 21 copies worldwide. Meltzer (1909-2000) was "[born] in Tluste (eastern Galicia; present-day Tolstoye) , [and he] immigrated to Palestine in 1933, after having taught in Horodenka, Galicia. For a time he taught secondary school in Tel Aviv, but from 1937 he engaged in editorial work; first in the daily Davar, and later in the Am Oved publishing house and in the children's magazine Davar li-Yladim. From 1959 he was on the editorial staff of the Zionist Library publications of the Jewish Agency. His first poems were published in Ba-Derekh, the magazine of the teachers' seminary in Lvov where he studied. After his arrival in Erez Israel his poetry appeared mainly in Davar, but also in various literary journals. Meltzer attempted to capture the folk flavor of Eastern European Jewry by using hasidic tales and motifs in his ballads. [He] translated extensively from Polish-Jewish writers, especially from Yiddish writers, dramatists, and poets. " (EJ, 2007) Has worn dust jacket. Gift inscription, top corner bumped, good+ condition. (HebLit-5-30)
8vo. 583 pages. In Hebrew. English title: Studies in the literatures and languages of the Jews, short stories and translations from Yiddish poetry. SUBJECT (S) : Jewish literature - history and criticism; Yiddish literature - translations in Hebrew. Samuel Niger was the pseudonym of Samuel Charney (1883-1955) . A Zionist influenced by Adah Ha-Am and a Russian socialist revolutionary, he joined the Zionist-Socialist Workers Party, and was repeatedly arrested and tortured by Russian authorities. Though his first literary efforts were in Russian and Hebrew, his mature work was written mostly in Yiddish. After being imprisoned by Polish legionaires in 1919, Niger left for the United States. In New York, he worked for Der Tog, a Yiddish daily; beginning in 1920, he worked for the paper for 35 years, "becoming the most revered and feared Yiddish critic of his generation. " Outside of strictly literary work, Niger worked with the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research from its inception, a and helped found the Congress for Jewish Culture. (Liptzin, EJ) "Born in Chudnov, Volhynia (Russia) , Ribalow (1895-1953) received a yeshivah education and also studied at the University of Moscow; he emigrated to the United States in 1921. Two years later he was appointed editor of the Hebrew weekly Hadoar. For 30 years he wrote his weekly editorials under his pseudonym, M. Shoshani, and hundreds of essays which appeared in various periodicals and, eventually, were collected in five volumes. As an essayist he concentrated on literary criticism, especially of Hebrew poetry. Though his love for Hebrew sometimes led him to hyperbolic evaluations of Hebrew writers, he was a perceptive critic. Many Hebrew authors in the U. S. Made their debut under his guidance. Ribalow was a leader of Histadrut, an organization which propagates Hebrew culture in the United States. With Israel's President Izhak Ben-Zvi, he was co-president of the World Hebrew Union. "(EJ, Silberschlag) Ex library in library binding. Pages slightly water stained and wrinkled throughout, good condition. (HebLit-6-1)
(FT) 8vo. Frontispiece photo. In Hebrew. Volume two (of six) only. SUBJECT(S) : Zionism. OCLC lists 20 copies worldwide. Nordau (1849-1923) was a co-founder of the World Zionist Organization. He was a political Zionist, not a cultural or religious Zionist, having ceased being an observant Jew at eighteen, instead becoming a "militant naturalist and evolutionist, " and making his fame with Die Conventionellen Luegen der Kulturmenschheit, first published in 1883. Also at eighteen, he started his career in journalism, on the staff of the Pester Lloyd. While condemning modern culture and politics, the situation of the Jewish people was never far from Nordau's mind. He met Theodor Herzl in 1982, and soon after began discussing the possibility of a Jewish state with him. He was vice president of the First through Sixth Zionist Congresses, and president of the Seventh through Tenth. (EJ, 2007) Bookplate, otherwise very good condition. (HebLit-5-19)
(FT) 8vo. 257 pages. In Hebrew. English title: Sefer hamishkalim : studies in Hebrew philology. SUBJECT(S) : Hebrew language - metrics and rhythmics; Hebrew poetry - history and criticism. Very good condition. (HebLit-5-10)
8vo. 60 pages. In Hebrew. SUBJECT (S) : Cain (Biblical figure) -- Poetry. OCLC lists 28 copies worldwide. Regelson, (18961981) , was a Hebrew poet. Born near Minsk, Regelson arrived in the United States as a boy of nine. Though his formal education was not extensive, he read voluminously and acquired substantial knowledge in poetry and philosophy. He began to publish poems immediately after World War I. Although mainly a poet, he also wrote philosophical essays and satirical sketches, and translated from English into Hebrew, and from Hebrew and Yiddish into English. (EJ, Silberschlag) In good condition. (Heblit1-8)
(FT) 8vo. 59 pages. In Hebrew. Second edition. SUBJECT(S) : Jews - Jerusalem - history -- 17th century; Jerusalem - history; Governors - Jerusalem - biography; Muhammed ibn Farrukh, fl. 1635; Jerusalem - ethnic relations. OCLC lists 10 copies worldwide. Rivlin (1889-1942) was an "historian and journalist in Erez Israel. Rivlin was born in Jerusalem into one of its old established families. He went into business and then became the secretary of the United Old Age Home in Jerusalem. As a young man, he became a correspondent for the New York Yiddish paper, Morning Journal, and also published studies on the history of Jewish settlement in Erez Israel, Jerusalem in particular, and in neighboring countries. In this field, Rivlin's major achievement was his revised and enlarged edition of Aryeh Leib Frumkin's Toledot Hakhmei Yerushalayim 1490-1870, which he expanded into a history of all Jewish settlement in Erez Israel. Rivlin also published selections from the Pentateuch commentary by the 16th-century Jerusalem rabbi and physician Raphael Mordecai Malkhi, Likkutim mi-Perush ha-Torah shel R. M. Malkhi; a biography of Joseph Sundel Salant; a new edition of the 17th-century work on Jerusalem, Horvot Yerushalayim; and Sefer ha-Yahas le-Mishpahat Rivlin u-Mishpahat ha-Gra mi-Vilna. His collection of material on Erez Israel in the responsa literature remained unpublished. " (2007, EJ) Ex library. Pages tanned, good condition. (HebLit-4-4)
8vo. 76 pages. Frontispiece. In Hebrew. SUBJECT (S) : Philosophy of nature. OCLC lists 2 copies worldwide (Univ of Michigan, Temple Univ) . Pages tanned, good condition. (HebLit-4-7)
(FT) 8vo. 191 pages. Illustrated. In Hebrew. SUBJECT(S) : Education - Palestine; Schools - Palestine. OCLC lists 25 copies worldwide. Scharfstein (1884-1972) was a Hebrew educator both in Galicia and the United States, where he moved in 1914. In 1916, he began teaching at the Teachers Institute of the Jewish Theological Seminary, eventually becoming professor of Jewish education, and serving there until 1960. "A prodigious contributor to the Hebrew press, his column in the American Hebrew weekly Hadoar dealt with political and, especially with literary events. From 1907 Scharfstein also published educational texts embracing Hebrew literature, Jewish education, Bible, and Hebrew language. " (Silberschlag, EJ) Ex library. Boards chipped and stained, back hinge starting, good condition. (HebLit-4-13)
First Hebrew edition. Original boards. 8vo, 271 pages, 21 cm. Ex-library with usual markings. This is a Hebrew translation of Shakespeare's "Coriolanus". Very Good Condition. (AC-1-19)
(FT) 8vo. 333 pages. In Hebrew. Shimoni, (18861956) , was a Hebrew poet. He was born in Bobruisk, district of Minsk, Russia, the son of a learned maskil. Shimoni studied with private tutors and read avidly, especially in the impressive library belonging to the father of his childhood friend, Berl Katznelson. He soon began to write, publishing his first poem, a free translation from the Russian of Simon Frug, in Gan Sha'ashu'im. His first original poem, "Sihat Resisim" (1902) , appeared in the children's paper Olam Katan, but his career is considered to have begun with the poem "Bein ha-Shemashot" (1902) , published with Bialik's encouragement in Lu'ah Ahi'asaf (no. 12, 1904) . (EJ, Staff) In very good condition (Heblit1-10)
(FT) 8vo. 167-336 pages. In Hebrew. Volume two (of seven) only. SUBJECT(S) : Jews - history - 70-1789; Jews - history - 1789-1945. "Born in Lodz, Poland, Shmueli emigrated to Erez Israel in 1933. He taught at several U. S. Institutions of Jewish learning, and in 1969 was professor of philosophy and religion at Cleveland State University. Most of Shmueli's literary and journalistic efforts-all in Hebrew-were devoted to education, sociology, history, and philosophy. " (Silberschlag, EJ) Covers have spots of wear, good condition. (HebLit-6-15)
4to. 350 pages. In Hebrew. Third edition. SUBJECT (S) : Poetry. OCLC lists 3 copies worldwide (Univ of Cape Town, London Borough of Hamlet Towers, Univ of Leiden) . Shneour was a "Hebrew and Yiddish poet and novelist who, together with Bialik and Tchernichowsky, is considered to be one of the three great figures in Hebrew poetry of his generation. " (EJ, 2007) Tape with title on spine, past of front cover faded, good condition. (HebLit-4-16)
12mo. 112 pages. In Hebrew. SUBJECT (S) : Jewish historians - biography; Slouschz, Nahum, 1872-1966; Western Mediterranean - description and travel; Mediterranean Sea - description and travel. OCLC lists 25 copies worldwide. Slouzschz, a scholar, writer, archeologist, historian and translator, was born near Vilna. He spent his young adulthood in Odessa, where he was part of the Hovevei Zion movement and the Hebrew renascence. He later moved to Geneva, where he was a founder of the Swiss Zionist Federation. For a time he joined the Jewish Territorial Organization in order to investigate the possibilities of a Jewish settlement in Tripoli-Cyrenaica. In 1904 he became the chair of Hebrew language and literature at the Sorbonne. During World War I he was involved in activities to influence the French government to agree with the Balfour Declaration, and in 1919 he moved permanently to Erez Israel, where he reviewed the Palestine Exploration Society and edited its publications. He discovered the ancient second-century synagogue of Hammath in Tiberias and excavated Absalom's Tomb in Jerusalem (EJ) Covers a little worn, back is spotty, good condition. (HebLit-6-14)
(FT) 12mo. 120 pages. Illustrated. In Hebrew. First edition. SUBJECT(S) : Josiah, King of Judah. OCLC lists 21 copies worldwide. Shalom Speigel's copy with his bookplate. Has tanned, edgeworn dust jacket. Underlining and marginalia throughout (presume Spiegel's) , good+ condition. (HebLit-4-18)
(FT) 8vo. In Hebrew. Smolenskin, (1840 or 18421885) , was a Hebrew novelist, an editor, and a publicist. A leading exponent of the Haskalah in Eastern Europe and an early advocate of Jewish nationalism, Smolenskin is best known for the important Hebrew monthly Ha-Shahar which he founded in 1868, and edited12 volumes in alluntil his death (EJ Patternson). Spine repaired, title page detached, hinges starting. Otherwise clean and fresh, good condition. (Heblit-1-15)
(FT) 12mo. 108 pages. In Hebrew. SUBJECT(S) : Fiction. CONTENTS: Ashkenazim--Nitpardah ha-havilah--`Erev Yom Hakipurim--Holo ha-perati shel ha-"Doktor" ha-tsa`ir-- Be-bet ha-kevarot--Flotenforlageh. Saul Tchernichowsky (1875-1943) , was born in Russia, and educated there as well as in Germany and Switzerland. Aside from rendering translations from English, German, French, Greek, and Latin, he was a Hebrew-language poet in his own right. He began publishing in 1892, and his first book, Hezyonot u-Manginot, or Visions and Melodies, came out in 1898. Aside from being a poet and translator, Tchernichowsky was a physician and a dedicated Zionist, visiting Palestine in 1925 and then settling there six years later. (Schweid, EJ). Parts of covers faded, spine slightly chipped, half-title detached, pages tanned, good condition. (HebLit-6-17)
(FT) 8vo. 267 pages. In Hebrew. SUBJECT(S) : Philosophy, Jewish. In very good condition (Heblit1-9)
(FT) 8vo. 234 pages. In Hebrew. English title: Dusk in the Catskills. First edition. Inscription. SUBJECT(S) : Fiction. OCLC lists 29 copies worldwide. Wallenrod (1899-1966) was a "Hebrew writer on American Jewish life. Born in Vizno, Belorussia, he emigrated to Erez Israel in 1920, but shortly afterward left to study in France and the United States. Wallenrod served as instructor and later professor of Hebrew literature at Brooklyn College in New York. From 1929, he frequently contributed stories and essays to Hebrew periodicals. His novels Ki Fanah Yom and Be-Ein Dor, as well as his collections of short stories Ba-Deyotah ha-Shelishit and Bein Homot New York, describe the life of immigrant Jews in the United States and their difficulty in adjusting to their new surroundings. Among his works are essays and literary criticism Mesapperei Amerikah, a travelogue Derakhim va-Derekh, and others. He was coauthor, with Abraham Aharoni, of Fundamentals of Hebrew Grammar and Modern Hebrew Reader and Grammar. In English he wrote The Literature of Modern Israel and in French, Dewey, l'éducateur. " (EJ, 2007) Good+ condition. (HebLit-4-11)
(FT) 12mo. 118 pages. In Hebrew. SUBJECT(S) : Talmud - study and teaching. OCLC lists 12 copies worldwide. Covers worn, endpapers and title page tanned and chipped, water stain in bottom corner throughout, good- condition. (HebLit-5-2)
(FT) 8vo. 391 pages. In Hebrew. SUBJECT(S) : Poetry, Hebrew. "[Zeitlin] grew up in Gomel, Vilna, and Warsaw. His early poetic works were lyrical; later, philosophic concepts appeared in his verses, and then followed an attempt to express mystical religious insights within formal rhythmic structures. A philosophic aesthete deeply rooted in Jewish tradition and mysticism, Zeitlin's lyrics are often contemplative liturgic hymns. Well versed in world literature, Zeitlin wrote with equal facility in Hebrew and Yiddish. [In 1926] he became literary editor of the Warsaw Yiddish daily Unzer Ekspres. When [WWII] came, he was saved; in the spring of 1939, Maurice Schwartz invited him to New York for the Yiddish Art Theater's premiere of his play. The war prevented Zeitlin's return to his family, all of whom were killed by the Nazis. As contributor to the New York Yiddish daily Jewish Morning Journal and professor of Hebrew literature at the Jewish Theological Seminary of America, Zeitlin profoundly influenced the American Jewish scene after World War II. His Hebrew essays, poems, and lectures during his frequent visits to Israel similarly influenced Hebrew literature. " (EJ, 2007) Good condition. (HebLit-5-14)
Large 8vo; 154 + 10 pages; Later leather boards over Original Paper Wrappers. 8vo. 154, x pages, [6] pages of plates. Subtitle: "On Completing Forty Years of Distinguished Service as Librarian of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America." One essay by Moses Marx in English: "The Last Hebrew Books Printed in the Fifteenth Century: The Second Edition of the Mashal Ha-Kadmoni and the Quarto Tur Orah Hayyim"; remainder of essays are in Hebrew. Good condition. (FEST-1-121)
Large 8vo; 154 + 10 pages; 1 essay (10 pages) by Moses Marx in English: The Last Hebrew Books Printed in the Fifteenth Century: The Second Edition of the Mashal Ha-Kadmoni and the Quarto Tur Orah Hayyim (on Gershom Soncino and includes 6 photo plates of the book) ; remainder of essays are in Hebrew. Very Good+ Condition (FEST-6-6)
Large 8vo; 154 + 10 pages; 1 essay (10 pages) by Moses Marx in English: The Last Hebrew Books Printed in the Fifteenth Century: The Second Edition of the Mashal Ha-Kadmoni and the Quarto Tur Orah Hayyim (on Gershom Soncino and includes 6 photo plates of the book) ; remainder of essays are in Hebrew. Bottom of spine bumped, Good Condition (FEST-6-6A) xx
