Schmerler, Abraham IsraelMareMagnum
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Original Wraps. 8vo. 36, [31] pages. 23 cm. First edition. In German. 'The Reallocation Campaign of the Emigration Department in the first year of existence'. Profusely illustrated (32 pages of plates at rear) report from the Jewish Community of Vienna concerning its work and skills training program, to assist the Jews of Vienna in emigration. One of the last publications of the Israelitische Kultusgemeinde during the holocaust period. Subjects: Jews - Austria - Vienna - History. Vocational education - Austria - AustriaIsraelitische Kultusgemeinde Wien. OCLC lists 6 copies (JTSA, Natl Libr Israel, Biblio Amsterdam, Tel Aviv, Univ Haifa, LBI) . Light wear to wraps, very clean and fresh. Very good condition. (HOLO2-115-11) xx
Original pictorial wrappers, starting. 8vo. 76, 8 pages; 22 cm. In Dutch. Title translates to Jews in Crisis! Illustrated with 8-page series of photomontages. Dutch journalist and resistance fighter Adrian Aloijsius Felix (Lex) Althoff (1904-43) displays his avante garde photographic style in this publication that sought to bring attention to the poverty of the Jews of Poland. The cropped and stylized images here depict Jewish genre scenes in creative compositions. Interestingly, a photograph of the Grand Rabbi of Munkacs, Chaim Elazar Spira (the Minchas Elazar) appears on the final page. SUBJECT(S) : Polish Jews, Poverty, Photographs. OCLC lists 14 holdings worldwide. A copy sold at auction for over USD 600 (with commissions) in 2015. Old tape stains on margin of title page. Some dampstaining. Minimal pencil markings that do not affect text. Library stamp. Very good condition. (SPEC-44-8)
12mo; 134 pages; Very Early (1934) anti-Nazi booklet by this heavily Jewish organization led by Samuel Untermeyer. "Selected addresses and writings by Samuel Untermyer" appear on pages 55-128. Also includes speeches by the Archbishop of Canterbury, Sir Austin CHamberlain, Sir John Simon, Lady Violet Bonham-Carter, Rev. James N. Gilli, Hon. Samuel Seabury, Prof. Raymond Moley, William Green (pres. Of AFL) , Dr. Abba Hillel Silver, David Brown ("Nazi Peace with Jews Unthinkable") Walter M. Citrine, etc. "Public Opinion as the force, the Boycott as the weapon, will break the power of Hitlerism." Certainly larger than most pamphlets, but has an ephemeral, agitational feel. Removed from later binding, so spine area on cover is worn, otherwise Very Good Condition. (Holo2-159-19)
1st edition, original wrappers, 4to. In French and Yiddish. 26+22 pages. Illustrations throughout. 15th Anniversary booklet for this important French Jewish Resistance organization, the Union des juifs pour la re´sistance et l'entraide. SUBJECT (S) : Jews -- Societies, etc. France -- Social conditions. Societies, etc. World War, 1939-1945 -- Underground movements. Jewish resistance -- France. History -- 20th century. Union des juifs pour la re´sistance et l'entraide. OCLC: 914338509, OCLC lists 2 copies worldwide (YIVO and National Library of Israel) . Few pen marks on cover, few chips to cover, else Very Good Condition. Rare and Important. HOLO2-141-19
40 p. , paper; first edition, published September 1943. Paperback, 40 pages, 8vo. Published the same year as the uprising, one of the first reports published in the US. Important. What may be the first ever published map of Treblinka, as well as a map of the Warsaw Ghetto on the rear cover. "The ghosts of the heroes of the gehtto battle will forever honor the streets....But persistent reports in the press in spring and summer 1943 indicate that not only their spirit but also their successors survive and carry on the fight there. The curtain may not yet have been rung down" (conclusion). Includes fold-out map with tear at crease. Lacks rear cover, front cover trimmed, stamped, and repaired, spine rebacked, otherwise Good condition. (Holo2-14-11A)
438 pages. Index. The gripping autobiography and fascinating reflections of a man, neither Jew nor Aryan, who recounts his dramatic WWII experiences and life afterwards. Unmarked. Above-average wear. Binding intact. A worthy copy of this fascinating life story. Book
1st edition. Original calf. 4to. X, 197, XXXI pages. 22 x 30 cm. In English, Hebrew, and Hungarian. Edited by Randolph L. Braham with the collaboration of Ervin Farkas. Brahams own copy, specially bound (in black leather and gilt title) and dedicated to Randolph L. Braham from the World Federation of Hungarian Jews (with dedication plate on endpage) . Profusely illustrated album of black and white photographs of Hungarian synagogues. "This album includes 467 photographs and drawings. The compilers succeeded in obtaining illustrations of most of the destroyed or converted synagogues. We hope this work will serve as an everlasting memorial to a significant element of Hungarian-Jewish culture and as a tribute to the thousands of martyrs who left from these very synagogues on their last fateful journey to destruction. (From the preface) . Subjects: Synagogues - Hungary. Edificios Religiosos (Arquitetura) Synagogues. Hungary. Light shelf wear to leather, overall very fresh and clean. Very good + condition. (BRAHAM-1-43)
No Date (1933? ) . 1st edition. Folded 1 leaf pamphlet. Unfolded 11x17 inches. Red and blue color, 12 photographs and illustrations in blue ink. The Non-Sectarian Anti-Nazi League to Champion Human Rights has opposed Nazism since 1933 when it began the boycott of German goods and services in America. By means of the boycott it is stopping millions of American dollars from going to Germany to be utilized for Nazi world-propaganda, to be converted into armaments for world war. By means of its educational campaign the League is arousing enlightened men and women to the need of defending our ideals. And (sic) institutions of our democratic government. These efforts to destroy Nazism in the United States also serve to aid the German people in their struggle for liberation. There is a section, Warnings vs. Nazism, which has quotes from President Roosevelt, Pope Pius XI, Sir Walter M. Citrine, The Nation, George II. Earle, William E. Borah, Fiorello H. LaGuardia, George W. Norris, George Cardinal Mundelein, Dorothy Thompson, and Dr. Paul Hutchinson about the dangers of Nazism. There is also a quote from Franklin D. Roosevelt under the title The Threat to Peace, in which he says There can be no peace if humble men and women are not free to think their own thoughts, to express their own feelings, to worship God. Very rare, no copies listed on OCLC. Very Good Condition. (HOLO2-144-24)
Original Wrappers. 8vo. 16 pages. 23 cm. First Edition. In Russian. Title translates as Fascist Antisemitism A Relic of Cannibalism. On Antisemitism in Germany. In 1935, V. V. Struve was elected a full member of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR, later became a member of the Bureau of the Division of Historical Sciences USSR. He was also a member of the National Committee of Historians of the Soviet Union and a member of the Archaeological Commission USSR. He was awarded the title of Honored Scientist of the USSR. Throughout the years V. V. Struve headed the Egyptian Department of the State Hermitage, was the director of the Institute of Ethnography and the Institute of Oriental Studies. (orientalstudies. Ru) Subjects: Antisemitism - Germany. National socialism. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Antisemitism. Ethnic relations. OCLC lists 4 copies worldwide. (Stanford, Libr. Of Congress, Univ. Of Toronto, Univ. Of Leeds) , none in New York. Spine repair. Some soiling, and age toning and edge wear. Good + condition. (HOLO-115-19)
1st edition. Original photographic paper wrappers, 8vo, 24 pages. Issued by the National Industrial Assembly of the Young Women's Christian Association. From just prior to US entry into the war. Emphasizes that the incoming refugees fleeing Nazism are not a threat to American labor, nor might they represent a "Fifth Column. A copy sold at auction for over USD 550 (including commissions) at auction in 2015. Very Good Condition. (holo2-128-4) xx
1st edition. Original photographic paper wrappers, 8vo, 24 pages. Issued by the National Industrial Assembly of the Young Women's Christian Association. From just prior to US entry into the war. Emphasizes that the incoming refugees fleeing Nazism are not a threat to American labor, nor might they represent a "Fifth Column. A copy sold at auction for over USD 550 (including commissions) at auction in 2015. Original price penned on margin of cover, light wear, Very Good Condition. (holo2-128-4A)
Cloth. 4to. 856 pages. In Dutch. Exile Dutch newspaper. A collection of bound original issues dating from July 1944 January 1945, including the critical time leading up to liberation of German occupation. Vrij Nederland (Free Netherlands) was established during the German occupation of the Netherlands in World War II as an free, weekly underground newspaper. Cover is slightly worn with some bumping at corners. Internal pages are darkened at edges, but all text is clear and binding is tight. Very good condition. (HOLO2-41-29)
1st Edition. Original Paper Wrappers. 8vo. 8 pages ; 23 cm. In English. From the 3rd Annual Sol Feinstone Memorial Lecture series at West Point. This lecture given by Pulitzer Prize winning novelist and writer Herman Wouk. Wouk served in the Navy in the Pacific Theater of WWII. He addresses the west point graduates about The Meaning of Freedom, concluding, In the last five years, working on The Winds of War Ive spoken three times: to the Naval Academy, to the Naval War caollege, and now to the United States Military Academy. It isnt because Im a militarist. Im not intrigued by the romance of war. Let me make this plain to you. In my view war is a massive criminal absurdity I believe, heart and soul, that in days to come it will fade from the minds of men and nations as a possible way to behave. That is what Im trying to say in my books. OCLC lists only one copy worldwide (Westpoint) . This cannot have been well-received at West Point, and certainly would not have been a speech it would have wanted to promote or make readily available outside the academy. Ex-library with Jewish institutional stamp and usual markings. Some markings on cover and waterdamage to the top of the paper wrappers and first page. Text is not effected and is bright and clean. Overall in about very good condition. (SPEC-42-20A)
1st Edition. Original Illustrated Wrappers. 8vo. 3 pages ; 23 cm. Holocaust-era Invitation Program for President Roosevelts 60th Birthday, held by The Religious Freedom Foundation asking Synagogues to arrange a service Commemorating our great President and the ninth consecutive year of the fight he has led against Infantile Paralysis in our nation. Includes a list of the ceremonies arrangement committee which is made up of about 100 notable Jewish leaders. Published 13 years before Salks vaccine. On January 3, 1938, Roosevelt founded the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis, now known as the March of Dimes The organization initially focused on the rehabilitation of victims of paralytic polio, and supported the work of Jonas Salk and others that led to the development of polio vaccines. (Wikipedia, 2017) This memorial program was Chaired by Congressman Sol Bloom, the influential Jewish Congressman from New York. In the run-up to World War II, he took charge of high-priority foreign-policy legislation for the Roosevelt Administration, including authorization for Lend Lease in 1941. (Wikipedia, 2017) . Though FDR was open about his Polio, he also tried to downplay it; this is an unusually public connection of FDR and Polio: FDR requested that the press avoid photographing him walking, maneuvering, or being transferred from his car. The stipulation was accepted by most reporters and photographers but periodically someone would not comply. The Secret Service was assigned to purposely interfere with anyone who tried to snap a photo of FDR in a disabled or weak state (FDR Presidential Library, 2017) . OCLC lists no copies anywhere. Creased and worn, with a few small tears and some discoloration. Good condition. Very Rare and significant publication linking FDR, Polio, American Political Leadership, and American Jewish Life. (AMR-52-26)
Original illustrated paper boards. 12mo. 194 pages. 18 cm. In German. 1000 Days in a Concentration Camp; A First Hand Report from the Concentration Camps Dachau, Mauthausen and Gusen; with authentic photographs and documents. Illustrated with 16 black and white photographs. We go past the Jewish blocks. Their ranks have thinned. Many little snow-covered heaps, from which human arms stretch in rigid accusation, testify to a tragedy of which we are the witnesses. (Gostner; quotation translated [pg 159] in Narrating the Holocaust by Andrea Ilse Maria Reite) . Erwin Gostner (1914-1990) , from South Tyrol, was arrested as a catholic anti-nazi when Austria was annexed to Nazi Germany, and spent three years, from 1938 to 1941, in Dachau and Mauthausen; he survived the war, and worked as a detective for the remainder of his life; this being his only work, it was originally self-published in 1945, and printed in a larger number in 1946. Subjects: Concentration camps - Germany. Dachau - Konzentrationslager Mauthausen (Oberösterreich) - Konzentrationslager Gusen (Langenstein, Oberösterreich) Konzentrationslager. World War, 1939-1945 - Prisoners and prisons, German. World War, 1939-1945 - Personal narratives. OCLC lists 22 copies. The US Holocaust Museum keeps their copy in their Rare Book Collection. Light soiling to boards, internally lightly aged, otherwise fresh and clean. Very good condition. (HOLO2-104-23) Xx
Original illustrated paper boards. 12mo. 194 pages. 18 cm. In German. 1000 Days in a Concentration Camp; A First Hand Report from the Concentration Camps Dachau, Mauthausen and Gusen; with authentic photographs and documents. Illustrated with 16 black and white photographs. We go past the Jewish blocks. Their ranks have thinned. Many little snow-covered heaps, from which human arms stretch in rigid accusation, testify to a tragedy of which we are the witnesses. (Gostner; quotation translated [pg 159] in Narrating the Holocaust by Andrea Ilse Maria Reite) . Erwin Gostner (1914-1990) , from South Tyrol, was arrested as a catholic anti-nazi when Austria was annexed to Nazi Germany, and spent three years, from 1938 to 1941, in Dachau and Mauthausen; he survived the war, and worked as a detective for the remainder of his life; this being his only work, it was originally self-published in 1945, and printed in a larger number in 1946. Subjects: Concentration camps - Germany. Dachau - Konzentrationslager Mauthausen (Oberösterreich) - Konzentrationslager Gusen (Langenstein, Oberösterreich) Konzentrationslager. World War, 1939-1945 - Prisoners and prisons, German. World War, 1939-1945 - Personal narratives. OCLC lists 22 copies. The US Holocaust Museum keeps their copy in their Rare Book Collection. Light soiling to boards, internally lightly aged, otherwise fresh and clean. Very good condition. (HOLO2-104-23A)
Paper Wrappers. 4to. Each issue is 4 pages. 20 issues. Issues 2 and 8 have supplemental sheet laid in, as well. Holocaust-era American Anti-Fascist periodical commonly touching on racist and anti-Semitic topics. Contents Include: Anti Propaganda, Rand Leads Anti-Semites, A Report on Carl Mote, Commoner Party to Fight Negroes, Jews, Ku Kluxers Active, Anglo-Israel Convenes, Anti-Semitism Keynotes Annual Kingdom Convention, Hate Sheet Invades New York City, Anti-Semitism Promoted, A Report on J. A. Lovell, Hatriots Canonize Patton, Call Him Anti-Semitic, A Report on the German-American Press, A Report on Anti-Semitism in the N. Y. News. OCLC lists 15 copies worldwide. Issues 18 and 19 are darkened and fragile with some chipping. Most issues have checkmarks next to headlines, but all text is clear. Good condition. Important anti-Nazi periodical from US. (HOLO2-41-26)
1st edition, original paper wrappers. 8vo, 8 pages. A sermon preached on New Years Morning, Saturday, September 8th, 1945 before Congregation Keneseth Israel of Allentown, Pennsylvania by Rabbi Braunstein, Ph. D. This sermon was preached before the release on Sept. 30, 1945 of Earl G. Harrisons Report to President Truman on the conditions of refugees and displaced persons in western Europe, and of the subsequent interchange of correspondence between the President and General Eisenhower. All of these strengthen and confirm the point-of-view expressed in this sermon. (page 8) Braunstein doesnt think that the Jews who fled should have to go back to their former homes. He says, The Intergovernmental Committee on Refugees, of which our Government is a member, recently declared that the Jewish D. P. will be given the opportunity to learn more about conditions in his country and give the governments more time to satisfy their nationals that they can return to their countries with the prospect of leading a healthy, normal life before reaching the conclusion that the person must be treated permanently as non-repatriable. These are elegant words to conceal the real decision of the Intergovernmental Committee on Refugees. That decision is this: Let the Jews cool off their heels in the German concentration camps until they realize they must return to their former homes. The simplest truth is that these Jews are afraid to return to their former homes. They who have cheated death for so many years at the hands of the Germans do not want to die at the hands of the Germans, do not want to die at the hands of their former co-citizens. And if their experiences in Poland and in Slovakia and elsewhere are any indication of how the wind is blowing, they have a right to fear. They have a right to refuse to return to their former homes. I have been wondering whether the late President Roosevelts promise of a world in which there would be freedom from fear will ever have meaning to the displaced Jews of Europe. (page 6) Subjects: Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) . OCLC: 992671406, OCLC lists two copies worldwide ( Harvard, NLI) . Slight wear to rear cover, Very Good Condition Overall. Rare and important (HOLO2-144-16)
8vo; 1st edition. Original printed paper wrappers, 20, 52 pages. 1st 2 serially issued volumes of the detailed Dutch Red Cross report on deportation of Dutch Jews to Auschwitz via Westerbork; special attention to when & what train. Wiener Library (Wolff) I: 1659. Many Graphs. Includes errata Slip. An important and rare early document. Very light wear, pages starting to brown, Very Good Condition (Holo2-141-40)
1st Edition. Original Illustrated Paper Wrappers depicting a barbed wire fence. 34 pages, plus 8 pages of photo plates; 18 cm. In Dutch. Title translates into English as, Concentration Camps. Scarce early photo report on Nazi camps. Sections include, From the Diary of a Prisoner, The Pernicious Spirit, and Facts and Numbers. OCLC lists just 5 copies worldwide, none outside the Low Countries. Some edgewear. Good+ condition. (holo2-130-63)
1st edition. Original Paper Wrappers, 4to, 48 pages. Photographic illustrations. The National Conference on Palestine took place on March 9, 1944 in Washington D. C. At the Statler Hotel, wherein influential American Christians rallied in support of Palestine as a national home and democratic commonwealth for the Jewish People. Speakers included Harvard University professor Carl J. Friedrich and future-New York City mayor Robert F. Wagner who attacked the British White Paper of 1939 as "Palestine's Munich. Stamp on cover, Very Good Condition. (kh-5-54)
Cloth, Large 4to, 24-36 pages per issue. Yad Vashem Bulletin. In Hebrew; Some issues have summaries in English. Includes Holocaust & modern photos and index. SUBJECT(S): World War, 1939-1945 -- Jews -- Periodicals. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Periodicals. Original issues bound in cloth, Very Good Condition. (H-41-1)
Original Cloth. 12mo. 120, 194, 194 pages. 18 cm. Survivors Bible, printed by Vaad Hatzala. Pentateuch, Haftarot and Megilot with commentary of Rashi and Targum. 'Matanah me-et Va'ad ha-hatsalah le-she'erit ha-peletah. ' Title page has coloured illustration. With dedication page to President Harry Truman with superimposed American Flag. "The remnants of Israel that survived the great destruction wrought upon our people by Hitler's hoards, these shattered remenats the 'Sherith Hepleita' were weakened physically and spiritually...we wish to dedicate this Holy Bible, the very ancient well of civilization, to his Honor, the President of the United States of America, Harry S. Truman. His courageous and kind words, his noble acts and deeds in behalf of our people have served as a ray of hote in these trying, troubleed and most cdritical period of our people..." Subjects: Haftarot - Commentaries. Bible. Pentateuch - Commentaries. Bible. Five Scrolls - Commentaries. Pentateuch. Hebrew. 1947.; Holy Bible: Vaad Hatzala, Germany. OCLC: 506554087. OCLC lists 15 copies. A copy sold at auction in 2021 for over $1200. Light wear to boards, rear board replaced, rebacked with new corners, endpages repaired, Good condition. (HOLO2-117-58A)
1st edition. Original Boards, 4to. Xiv, 229 pages. 29 cm. First Edition. Inscribed by author in Hebrew on front endpaper. English interspersed with Hebrew and other exotic alphabets. The Son of a Shinto priest and descendant from a long line of Shinto priests, the author Abram Kotsuji (1899-1973) was a Japanese Hebraist and ardent philo-Semite who founded the Institute of Biblical Research at the University of Tokyo. The present work is his Phd dissertation. During the Holocaust years Kotsuji greatly assisted the hundreds of rabbis and yeshiva students from Eastern Europe (including the entire Mir Yeshiva) who escaped before the German onslaught to Kobe, Japan and later to Japanese-occupied Shanghai. In 1959 Kotsuji formally converted to Judaism in Jerusalem. Internally some age toning but very clean.Very Good Condition. (HOLO-114-17a)
Original illustrated paper wrappers. 12mo. 26 pages, 12 cm. In French. Title translates to "Would Hitler Not be Dead?" This strange short story casts doubt on the death of Hitler. It hypothesizes that in March 1945, Hitler usurped the identity of a certain Moses Levy, who was murdered in a concentration camp. Unclear to this cataloguer whether this is a serious proposal or a work of pure fiction. Certainly weird conspiracy theories circulated widely (and wildly) in the closing days of the war. No copies exist in OCLC or Worldcat and we were unable to locate another copy anywhere. Wrappers are very lightly soiled and aged. Extremely good condition. Exceedingly rare and unusual. (HOLO2-142-40)
