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183835428Boston: Published by Parker & Ditson 1838. 4to 12-3/4" x 10".7 1 blank pp. Disbound some loosening minor wear Good.<br /> <br /> "Henry Russell 1812-1900 was an English pianist baritone singer and composer. Born into a distinguished Jewish family Russell was a great-nephew of Chief Rabbi Solomon Hirschell. The composer lived in the United States from 1835 to 1841 whereupon he returned to England and spent the remainder of his artistic career producing musical extravaganzas. The present song is one of many instances of collaboration between lyricist Charles Mackay and musical composer Henry Russell. Other songs of theirs are: "There's a Good Time Coming" "Cheer Boys Cheer" and "To the West." <br /> "Mordecai Manuel Noah 1785-1851 was one of the most important figures of his time. He was a person of many accomplishments: lawyer newspaper editor playwright diplomat politician judge and major activist for Jewish causes. Noah commanded the respect of four U. S. Presidents: Adams Madison Jefferson and Jackson. It has been said that to the Jews of his day he was the quintessential American and to Americans he was the representative Jew" Kestenbaum.<br /> Kestenbaum Auction May 2013. Not in Rosenbach or Singerman. Published by Parker & Ditson unknown
186039878Washington 1860. 101 3 blanks pp. 36th Cong. 1st Sess. HED 76. Uncut and untrimmed. Bit of foxing. Near Fine.<br /> <br /> Lewis Cass President Buchanan's Secretary of State transmits documentation of the anti-Semitism of Swiss authorities. One Gootmann an American citizen was ordered "to quit the country on the ground of his being an Israelite merchant." Much material on this deplorable incident as well as other similar incidents is printed here; with efforts by American authorities to change Swiss behavior. The Report also reviews the litany of Swiss laws which stamp Jews with second-class citizenship and a variety of prohibitions which do not burden other ethnic groups. <br /> Singerman 1691. unknown
1867325457New York: L.H. Frank Publisher and Printer No. 432 Broome Street 1867. Ninth Stereotype edition. Hebrew and English on facing pages. 70 2pp. 12mo. Contemporary cloth-backed marbled boards. Small loss at bottom of title affecting a few words on verso. Bookplate of A.G. Levy. Ninth Stereotype edition. Hebrew and English on facing pages. 70 2pp. 12mo. The first Haggadah of Passover published in America appeared in 1837 published in New York by S. H. Jackson with an English translation by David Levi of London. Henry Frank first issued a Haggadah based on Jackson's printing though not attributing the translation to Levi in 1850. The present "ninth" stereotype edition by Frank's son is based on the 1860 edition. Goldman 134 L.H. Frank, Publisher and Printer No. 432 Broome Street unknown
1939187411939. Polish Jewish family photographs created between 1934 and 1939 documenting Jewish life in Poland during the final years before the outbreak of World War II and the destruction of much of Eastern European Jewry. The photographs record members of a Polish Jewish family including men women and children during a period when Jewish communities remained deeply rooted throughout Poland but faced increasing political hostility and anti-Semitic agitation across Central Europe. Poland contained one of the largest Jewish populations in Europe during the inter war period with many families living in small Jewish communities often referred to as shutters as well as in larger towns and cities. The images capture everyday family and community life immediately before the German invasion of Poland in September 1939 a moment that would fundamentally transform the lives of Jewish communities across the region.<br /> <br /> Photo archive consisting of 21 silver gelatin photographs mounted in a photograph album together with 10 additional loose photographs. Images measure approximately 2.5 x 3.5 inches and depict family members in individual portraits group gatherings and scenes of school children assembled in large smiling groups. Several photographs carry handwritten inscriptions on the verso written in Polish and possibly Yiddish indicating personal exchanges between family members or relatives. Among the photographs are two portraits of a Polish Jewish man wearing Polish Army uniform one dated 1939 documenting Jewish participation in the Polish armed forces in the months immediately preceding the outbreak of war. The album pages preserve images of family gatherings and posed portraits reflecting domestic and social life within a Polish Jewish household during the final years of the inter war period.<br /> <br /> The photographs were created during a period of growing political instability in Europe that culminated in the German invasion of Poland on September 1 1939. That invasion followed the collapse of the German Polish non aggression agreement and the signing of the German Soviet pact that divided Poland between the two powers. German forces entered Poland with a large mechanized army supported by aircraft and armored divisions overwhelming the Polish military within weeks despite organized resistance. Jewish citizens served in the Polish armed forces and were present throughout the country's military and civilian life before the war. Album measuring approximately 15 x 11 inches containing 21 mounted photographs and accompanied by 10 loose photographs. Minor edge wear present with occasional cracks to several prints that do not affect the clarity of the images. Many photographs bear inscriptions and dates on the verso. Overall condition very good. unknown
#[22998]De achtjarige ! Meyer wordt "tertianos novitius" genoemd en moet dus in 1789 al enkele jaren leerling van het gymnasium zijn geweest. Exlibri van L.J. Hijmans van den Bergh en L. de Gou. l M7754 unknown
182440227Philadelphia: John Bioren 1824. 24pp. Stitched in original plain wrappers lightly dusted. Very Good.<br /> <br /> Kestenbaum calls this the "First printing of a Charter and official incorporation of a synagogue in America." The pamphlet prints the "Constitution" which is evidently considered the "Charter." Official certifications by the Commonwealth Attorney General Judges of the Supreme Court the Governor and the Secretary all printed here affirm the validity and recording of this "written instrument." <br /> The pamphlet begins with the Congregation's constitution and interspersed Hebrew text. This was a Sephardic congregation. "The fixed prayers shall always be read in the original Hebrew language according to the custom of the Portuguese Jews." The membership included prominent Philadelphia Jewish families: Gratz Phillips Levy Cohen De Cordova Pollok Seixas and others. Bye-Laws are printed at pages 14-24. <br /> Rosenbach 262. Singerman 0399. not in Goldman. AI 17613 2- NNAJHi PPDrop. OCLC records about twelve locations under several accession numbers as of July 2024. John Bioren unknown
191835880New York Washington 1918. Folio broadside printed in red and black inks photo illustration of about thirty-five middle-aged and elderly gentlemen including Felix Warburg sitting around a long table on which rest many documents. Light soil to a portion Very Good.<br /> <br /> At the outbreak of World War I 60000 Jews in Ottoman Palestine faced starvation. The Joint Distribution Committee was organized at the instance of U.S. Ambassador to Turkey Henry Morgenthau and Jacob Schiff to alleviate the suffering. They raised the necessary funds and turned their attention to the nine million Jews along the Eastern Front. Felix Warburg was chairman; he and his colleagues were kept busy all during the War and thereafter. <br /> Not located on OCLC. unknown
190716003JBoston: John W. Luce & Co 1907. First American Edition. Signed by Max Nordau with a revealing inscription dealing with anti-Semitism: “This play is called Doctor Kohn in the German original. The American editor insisted upon the change of title alleging an outspoken Jewish name would have a repulsing effect on the American reader and buyer. This shows remarkably an American publishers judgment of the degree of racial prejudice among his countrymen. Paris May 3d 1909 Dr. M. Nordau.†Max Nordau was a Hungarian-born doctor who settled in Paris in 1880 where he because a best-selling author not for his controversial works of social and artistic criticism and was a co-founder with Theodore Herzl of the Zionist Movement. Nordau helped draft the Basle Program at the first Zionist Congress in 1897 and played a major role in subsequent congresses. This book is the first translation in English which was originally published in German in 1898 and it concerns the question of intermarriage of Jews and Christians. Bookplate of writer Stephen Caplin. Very good plus to near fine copy in decorated gilt-stamped cloth. A remarkable copy. John W. Luce & Co hardcover
189139620New York: For Sale at J. Katzenelenbogen 35 Ludlow Street New York 1891. Oblong Broadside 9" x 14." The English alphabet is printed with each English letter in type and typescript upper and lower case. Edge-chipped old vertical center fold with splits not affecting text Each English letter in type is followed by its Hebrew counterpart. Mounted attractively in a dark modern frame. Good.<br /> <br /> This lower Manhattan firm printed many works in the Hebrew language. Goldman 471 records a 1918 publication printed by this firm when its office was at 266 Grand Street. For Sale at J. Katzenelenbogen, 35 Ludlow Street, New York unknown
188232820516<p>5 x 8 1/2 in . 4pp. Very good.</p><p><b>This is the rare original announcement and program for a major early benefit concert supporting Jewish refugees from Russia. </b>The pogroms carried out in 1881-82 drove countless Russian Jews to the West. This era marks the beginning of the period of the greatest Jewish immigration to the United States.</p><p>The concert was held at Mechanics Hall in Boston in 1882. The featured conductors are Carl Zerrahn and George Henschel. Henschel had become the first conductor of the Boston Symphony Orchestra a year earlier. Here he leverages his position to support Jewish refugees.</p><p>"Beginning in the 1880s a much larger wave of Jewish immigrants arrived in Boston from the Pale of Settlement in Russia and Eastern Europe. During the nineteenth century the Russian czars had confined Jews to this region and subjected them to religious persecution expulsions and forced military conscription. Passage of the May Laws in the 1880s made matters worse by forbidding Jews from owning or renting land outside of towns or cities and limiting their access to education. From 1881-1883 and again in the early twentieth century Jews were also targeted in violent riots or "pogroms" that left thousand dead and caused many more to flee" Boston College 2018.</p><p>The concert program includes pieces by Jewish composers or with Jewish themes including selections from from Mendelssohn's <i>Elijah</i> Handel's <i>Samson</i> and Henschel's "There was an Ancient King" sung by Henschel himself the finest baritone of his day. The performance concludes with Handel's "Hallelujah" chorus performed by the Salem Oratorio Society and the Lynn Choral Union.</p><p>The conductor featured in this program Sir Isidor George Henschel 1850-1934 was a German-born Jewish baritone pianist conductor and composer. He became the first conductor of the Boston Symphony Orchestra in 1881. On his appointment he sent his ideas for an innovative seating chart to his close friend Johannes Brahms who replied in an approving letter of mid-November 1881.</p><p><b>Very rare. Not in WorldCat.</b> Robert Singerman <i>Judaica Americana</i>2d ed Penn Libraries website 2019 3064 notes that the sole located copy once ascribed to the AJHS was "not found in either the Boston or New York collection Jan. 2016."</p> Printed By Jewish Watchman Print[ers]
179540136New-York: Printed and Sold by Samuel Campbell No. 124 Pearl-Street 1795. 54 1 1 blank pp. Light to moderate foxing disbound corner chip costs a page number. Good. <br /> <br /> "Richard Cumberland's play The Jew was the first English play to have an admirable and virtuous Jew for its hero an innovation that Irish and American editions immediately underlined by renaming it The Jew; or the Benevolent Hebrew. The play was exceptionally popular. From the first it was repeatedly performed in London Dublin Philadelphia Baltimore and Boston as well as in Providence Rhode Island Norfolk Virginia and Charleston South Carolina. Within four years of its first printing in 1794 The Jew sold six London editions three Irish editions and three American editions not to mention the German and Dutch translations and it continued to be reprinted in Britain and America throughout the nineteenth century. . . <br /> "As Michael Ragussis observes The Jew 'represented a revolution in the representation of Jewish identity on the English stage.' Imitated by playwrights and novelists alike Cumberland's benevolent Hebrew Sheva became the ancestor of Rebecca in Sir Walter Scott's Ivanhoe of Daniel in George Eliot's Daniel Deronda and of the Monteverdos father and daughter in Maria Edgeworth's Harrington characters deployed like Sheva to counter anti-Semitic prejudice. On the other side of the Atlantic too as Louis Harap confirms The Jew was one of the most important. . . plays of Jewish interest that was produced on the American stage during the early period one that 'was familiar to practically the entire theater audience' in 'Philadelphia New York Charleston Providence and Charleston.' It was among the relatively few plays selected from the extensive English repertoire for repeated performance in America" online Free Library Cumberland's Benevolent Hebrew in eighteenth-century Britain and America.<br /> Rosenbach 102. Singerman 6092. Evans 28515. ESTC W27470. Printed and Sold by Samuel Campbell, No. 124, Pearl-Street unknown
1702306604London: Charles Bill Executrix of Thomas Newcomb 1702. 453-454 pp. 4to. Contemporary blind-stamped paneled calf manuscript spine label. 453-454 pp. 4to. "To the end that sufficient maintenance be provided and allowed for the children of Jewish parents who shall turn Protestants ." The law was enacted in response to the case of Jacob de Mendez Berta who refused to support his 18-year-old daughter Mary after her conversion. The testimony of Mary and her Protestant supporters is recorded in the Journals of the House of Commons after which it was resolved that a bill i.e. the present Act be written to address her case.<br /> <br /> The law remained in effect until the middle of the 19th century though it was enacted expressly for Mary de Mendez Berta's benefit and does not seem to have been enforced thereafter. <br /> <br /> In bound collection of Acts from the reigns of William III years 13 & 14 and Queen Anne years 1-5. Charles Bill, Executrix of Thomas Newcomb unknown
1889146767London: Abraham J. Lev & Co.; John Snow & Co. 1889-90. First and only editions of the first two years of Reverend Isaac's periodical for the Jewish people gathering issues from May 1889 to December 1890. This rare publication includes the complete story of "The Star of Peace" by "Ben Abram" in which the adventures of Isaac Da Costa in Jamaica and in England were those of Isaacs's own father. We were unable to trace any copy in commerce and only six in institutions; Library Hub locates three copies only Edinburgh UCL BL and WorldCat adds a further three Harvard Hebrew Union College National Library of Israel. The Everlasting Nation was published between 1889 and 1892 and comprised four volumes in total. "There is no periodical in existence which professes to start from the stand-point and to comprehend a like variety of topics as those which are enumerated in the Programme of 'The Everlasting Nation'. The magazines which are connected with existing missionary work are necessarily of a missionary character. But here our attitude is that of the Hebrew-Christian" introduction. Albert Augustus Isaacs 1826-1903 was a 19th-century historian and anthropologist specializing in the history of the Middle-Eastern Jewish and Arabic people. His travels familiarized him with Palestine and he wrote among others The Dead Sea 1857 and A Pictorial Tour in the Holy Land 1858 which is illustrated with the many photographs he took himself. Born and baptised into the Church of England in Jamaica Isaacs was of Jewish parentage and "throughout his long life he identified himself with every movement for the welfare of his brethren according to the flesh. In 1866 he was appointed by Lord Berners vicar of Christ Church Leicester in his old diocese of Peterborough where for more than 25 years he laboured in season and out of season carrying on his ministry on staunch Protestant and evangelical lines and being surrounded by a large band of fellow-workers who heartily appreciated his teaching and work. Mr. Isaacs was known as 'the Jew of Leicester' and continued his great interest in all efforts for the conversion of his brethren to Christianity" Bernstein. 2 vols octavo. 1 plate occasional in-text illustration decorative initials. Original dark blue cloth titles in gilt to spines and front boards decorations to boards blocked in black and blind dark brown coated endpapers. Housed together in a custom dark blue cloth slipcase. Slight wear to corners spines sunned rubbed the bindings otherwise sound hinges repaired front hinge of vol. 2 tender between title and index internally fresh; a very good set. Rev. A. Bernstein "Some Jewish Witnesses For Christ" 1909 pp. 281-8. hardcover
1941List2962New York City 1941. Thirty-three sketches mainly measuring 6 x 8 or 8 x 10 inches affixed to black construction paper. Sketches are pen and ink or pencil some with captions. With seventeen typed pages mainly measuring 6 ½ x 7 inches. In an 11 x 14 ½ inch portfolio. Spine of portfolio missing all pages separated; sketches excellent construction paper with much marginal chipping; typed pages with adhesive verso else excellent. Overall very good to excellent. Bitia Rosendor 1920–2011 was a Jewish artist born in Jerusalem and raised in Antwerp Belgium. Rosendor studied painting and sculpture at the Koninklijke Academie voor Schone Kunsten in Antwerp but her studies were interrupted by the outbreak of World War II. The Rosendor family fled Europe via Portugal in 1941 and were detained at Ellis Island where these sketches were produced.<br /> <br /> The sketches include portraits of other detainees and immigration employees and views from the island. Most have captions including brief notes about the subjects such as “She became hysterical and was taken to the hospital†“A little orphan going all alone to the Dominican Republic†and “‘Liberty’ through barsâ€â€”the latter on an illustration of the Statue of Liberty seen through the bars on the internment center’s windows.<br /> <br /> The typed text describes Rosendor’s experience waiting for the family’s Visa to be approved. The ordeal is mostly one of boredom; she writes:<br /> <br /> “Everyone had the same endless day to pass but everyone passed it differently. There was no possible way to be original but each of us retained her or his personality. The emptiness of the hours was heavy to bear.â€<br /> <br /> The boredom though is punctuated by “incidentsâ€; some negative as when “Once a Chinese girl wept for three days uninterrupted refused to eat refused everything†and some positive as when “A friend seen last time at the Antipodes†disembarks “from a newly entered ship . and suddenly: ‘YOU’! -’YOU’â€.<br /> <br /> Rosendor would live with her family in Brooklyn until the 1950s when she returned to Europe with her husband Jewish-American painter Martin Reisberg a fellow immigrant whom she met in the city. The pair returned to Belgium where they ran a gallery and created exhibitions together until Rosendor’s death in 2011.<br /> <br /> Of interest to scholars of the Holocaust American immigration and the Jewish immigrant experience in the 1940s. unknown
39481Philadelphia: Printed by C. Sherman 5605. 8vo 5 volumes. 8 7/8 x 5 1/2 inches. Hebrew and English text on facing pages. Each volume inscribed at the head of the English-language title "To my beloved wife from her affectionate husband" the first volume with a later family annotation. Contemporary purple morocco spine in six compartments with raised bands lettered in gilt in the second and fourth repeating gilt decoration in others marbled edges marbled endpapers.<br/> <br/> Provenance: Solomon Nunes Carvalho each cover stamped in gilt<br/> <br/> Rare large-paper association copy of the first Jewish translation of the Pentateuch into English.<br/> <br/> More than any other person of his time Isaac Leeser 1806-1868 envisioned the development of a major center of Jewish culture and religious activity in the United States. He single-handedly provided American Jews with many of the basic religious texts institutions and conceptual tools they needed to construct the cultural foundation of what would later emerge as the largest Jewish community in the history of the Jewish people. Printed in 1845 this edition of the Pentateuch in five volumes included a vocalized Hebrew text of each of the Five Books of Moses together with an English translation and notes as well as the haftarot prophetic readings. Leeser actually began working on The Law of God in 1838. Among the factors involved in his decision to begin systematically working on a translation was the recent opening of Rebecca Gratz's Sunday School which met for the first time in March 1838 in Philadelphia and was desperately in need of appropriate study material. Students were compelled to use the King James Bible for want of a Jewish alternative. Religiously objectionable passages in other texts provided by Protestant organizations were either pasted over or torn out by Gratz's staff. Leeser who supported the Sunday School and was its chief academic resource person felt compelled to find more suitable texts for the students. The impetus for Leeser throughout was always his desire to provide the Jews of America with an English text of the Bible that was produced by one of their own and was not tainted by conversionist motivations. This copy with provenance to Solomon Nunes Carvalho who was a noted American painter photographer writer and inventor best known for traveling with John C. Fremont on his fifth expedition through Kansas Colorado and Utah. He published an account of that journey titled "Incidents of Travel and Adventure in the Far West; with Colonel Fremont's Last Expedition" 1860 and was considered a pioneer in travel photography. Isaac Leeser the hazzan of Congregation K.K. Mikveh Israel married Carvalho and his wife Sarah Miriam Solis on October 15 1845 in Philadelphia where Carvalho's father had a workshop.<br/> <br/> Rosenbach 569; Singerman 884; Goldman 7; Lance J. Sussman "Another Look at Isaac Leeser and the First Jewish Translation of the Bible in the United States" Modern Judaism Vol. 5 No. 2 Gershom Scholem Memorial Issue. May 1985 pp. 159-190. Printed by C. Sherman unknown
1825338079Annapolis: J. Hughes 1825. 167 1pp. The Jew Bill appearing on pages 154-155. With: Laws made and passed by the General Assembly of the State of Maryland at the Session begun and held at the City of Annapolis on Monday the Twenty-sixth Day of December 1825 which includes the enactment of the Jew Bill on page 21. 2 vols. 8vo. Later tan cloth. Association of the New York Bar inked stamps and blindstamps. 167 1pp. The Jew Bill appearing on pages 154-155. With: Laws made and passed by the General Assembly of the State of Maryland at the Session begun and held at the City of Annapolis on Monday the Twenty-sixth Day of December 1825 which includes the enactment of the Jew Bill on page 21. 2 vols. 8vo. Although Article VI of the Constitution of the United States declares that "no religious test shall ever be required as a qualification to any office or public trust under the United States" at the federal level many states continued to prevent Jews Catholics and Quakers from occupying public offices. Beginning as early as 1797 Jewish citizens of Maryland led by Jewish leaders Solomon Etting and Jacob Cohen had regularly but unsuccessfully petitioned the legislature for equal status. The "Jew Bill" as it came to be known was defeated in 1802 1804 1819 and 1823. In 1824 led by Irish Catholic Thomas Kennedy and with a Democrat majority in the legislature the Jew Bill was once again brought before the legislature passing at the beginning of 1826. <br /> <br /> The present volumes recording the laws passed by the General Assembly at those sessions include both the proposed law - that "every citizen of this state professing the Jewish religion . appointed to any office of public trust shall make and subscribe a declaration of his belief in a future state of rewards and punishments in the stead of the declaration now required." - and the final vote of passage on January 5 1826 ensuring to Jews the same rights and privileges as Christians in the state. <br /> <br /> An important record of a seminal moment in Jewish American history. J. Hughes unknown
