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Signed and inscribed by Jan Karski upon front free endpaper. Karski [1914-2000] recounts his experiences when his homeland of Poland was rent asunder by the joint Nazi and Soviet invasion of 1939, and his harrowing subsequent life as a member of the Polish underground, during which he was captured by the Gestapo and severely tortured. Provides a ghastly eyewitness account of life in the Warsaw ghetto, into which Karski was smuggled so his observations could be reported to the outside world. Firearms advocates will cringe at Karski's account of what happened after he and a large group of Polish soldiers handed over their weapons to their 'comrades' from the Soviet Union. In 2012 Karski was posthumously awarded America's highest civilan honor, the Presidential Medal of Freedom, by President Obama. 391 pages. Moderate wear to publisher's red cloth. Dust jacket now preserved in archival-grade Brodart. Binding intact. A sound copy of this truly unforgettable WWII narrative. Laska 672, Kehr & Langmaid 5407, Weiner Library Catalogue Seven 997, Enser p.343. Book
21x14cm. XV+251 pages. Softcover. In good condition.
CONTAINS B&W PLATES. 21.5x15.5cm. XXXIX+697 pages. Hardcover. Cover slightly rubbed. Spine slightly rubbed. Else in good condition.
1st edition. 43x28 cm, 1 sheet. Pro-McCarran-Walter immigration act Antisemitic propaganda. Features 7 observations and reasons, 3 of which single out Jewish refugees. THE JEW COMMUNISTS AND THE JEW ZIONISTS, OPERATING THROUGH THEIR PROFESSIONAL JEW POLITICAL PRESSURE MACHINES, ARE OUT TO DESTROY THE McCARRAN-WALTER ACT. IT IS UP TO EVERY AMERICAN TO WRITE LETTERS, SEND TELEGRAMS TO MEMBERS OF CONGRESS AND THE UNITED STATES SENATE DEMANDING THAT THE McCARRAN-WALTER IMMIGRATION ACT REMAIN ON THE STATUTE BOOKS UN-BLEMISHED AND UN-AMENDED. The McCarran Act required Communist organizations to register with the United States Attorney General and established the Subversive Activities Control Board to investigate persons suspected of engaging in subversive activities or otherwise promoting the establishment of a "totalitarian dictatorship", either fascist or communist. Members of these groups could not become citizens and in some cases were prevented from entering or leaving the country. Immigrants found in violation of the act within five years of being naturalized could have their citizenship revoked. SUBJECT(S): Emigration and immigration law -- United States. Anti-Jewish propaganda --Internal Security Act of 1950. OCLC: 883658328, OCLC lists 2 copies worldwide (UKansas, Michigan State). Some red type and red detailing. Slight wear around edges, else clean copy. Very Good Condition. (HOLO2-159-52)
SIGNED BY AUTHOR. 22.5x16cm. 284 pages. Hardcover. Spine edges slightly bumped. Else in good condition.
Original Wrappers, inside period folder. 4to. 12 pages. 27cm. First edition. Errata slip pasted in on page 11. 15 tables detailing statistics of Jewish population distribution, migration and agricultural output. Presumably an accompanying piece to the memorandum submitted by the Jewish Agency for Palestine recommending the resettlement of Jewish refugees in the British Mandate of Palestine. Subjects: Evian Conference (1938) . Demography -- Jews. Jews -- Statistics. OCLC lists 9 copies worldwide. (Brandeis, Johns Hopkins, Ohio State, Hebrew Univ. , Kinneret, Natl. Libr. Of Israel, Tel Aviv Univ. , Ben Gurion Univ. , Univ. Of Haifa. ) , none in New York. Spine rebacked, and loose inside stiff paper period folder. Small library stamps on front and inside of front wrapper. Previous reinforcement and repairs done to covers. Wrappers missing top and bottom fore edge cover corners. Externally fair. Internally, text and pages in very good condition. (HOLO2-109-10)
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Original Wraps. 4to. 39 pages. 27 cm. First edition. Early post-war statements submitted to the Paris Conference by the World Jewish Congress, Agudas Israel World Organisation, American Jewish Conference, American Jewish Committee, Board of Deputies of British Jews, Anglo-Jewish Association, Conseil Representatif des Juifs de France, Alliance Israelite Universelle, South African Jewish Board of Deputies. Amendments to the proposed peace treaties, urging inclusion of annexes to secure the rights of the Jewish population. - cf. P. 2. Contents: Memorandum on the treaty with Roumania - Memorandum on the treaty with Hungary - Memorandum on the treaty with Italy - Memorandum on the treaty with Bulgaria. Subjects: World War, 1939-1945 - Peace proposals and settlements. World War, 1939-1945 - Jews. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) - Reparations. Jews - Legal status, laws, etc. Paris Peace Conference (1946) . OCLC lists 7 copies. In protective library folder, slight library stamp on pastedown, otherwise Very good condition. (ZION-6-34A)
First edition. Original blue paper wrappers. 8vo. 26 pages; 24 cm. The American Jewish Conference was an ad-hoc organization that formed to represent the American Jewish community as a whole on issues relating to Palestine and the status of Jews post World War II with representatives from 64 national Jewish membership organizations. Delegates included both Zionist and non-Zionist groups, all major religious bodies-orthodox, conservative, and reform, the representatives of labor, fraternal, service and social organizations from all fifty states. The Anglo-American Committee of Inquiry was a British and American committee tasked to examine political, economic and social conditions in Mandatory Palestine as they bear upon the problem of Jewish immigration and settlement in Palestine and the well-being of the peoples who lived there (Wikipedia, 2016) . The American Jewish Conference states support for Jewish immigration and settlement in Palestine and provides a clear, step-by-step explanation of their decision referencing key resolutions and papers from the period. Includes appendix of the national organizations affiliated with the American Jewish Conference. SUBJECT(S) : Palestine, Jewish immigration, Zionism 1917-1948. OCLC lists 12 holdings worldwide. Previous owners tamp on the front cover and first page. Some pencil markings that do not obstruct text. Slight browning of pages. About Very Good- condition. (zion-11-6)
Hole punched in period folder. 4to. 23 pages. 27 cm. First edition. DP-era statement from the American Jewish Committee and the Anti-Defamation league presented by Lester Gutterman recommending the lifting of immigration quotas, reform of laws regarding naturalization and a condemnation of the McCarran Act. The Presidential Commission on Immigration and Naturalization followed closely after Trumans veto of the Internal Security Act, a controversial piece of legislation requiring government registration of Communist organizations and limitations to immigration (also known as the McCarran Act) was overridden by Congress in 1950. Subjects: Jews Immigration. Presidential commission. American Jewish Committee. Anti-Defamation League. McCarran Act. No copies listed on OCLC. Light age toning. Small library stamp on title page verso. Library call numbers on folder cover. Very good + condition. (HOLO2-109-14)
Original Wraps. 12mo. 16 pages. 20 cm. First edition. Holocaust-era Statement of Withdrawal of the AJC from the American Jewish Conference. A contemporary news report described the withdrawal as such: The withdrawal of the American Jewish Committee from the American Jewish Conference was announced here last night following a full-day session of its executive committee attended by seventy-five leading representatives of Jewish communities throughout the country. The session was presided over by Jacob Blaustein, chairman of the General Committee. Protesting this decision, three Zionist members of the American Jewish Committee resigned and telegraphed other members urging them to do likewise. A statement on the position of the American Jewish Committee, presented by its president Joseph M. Proskauer, declared that 'the present demand for the eventual establishment of a Jewish Commonwealth in Palestine, made by the American Jewish Conference, and constituting one of its major decisions, as well as the subordination of other Jewish issues to the problem of the political structure of Palestine, are in such essential disagreement with the fundamental views of the American Jewish Committee that in the best interests of Jews in this and other countries, including Palestine, the Committee feels impelled to withdraw from the American Jewish Conference. ' The statement reaffirms the desire of the American Jewish Committee 'to utilize for the Jews of Europe the broadest opportunities which Palestine can offer. ' It assures that the Committee 'will apply its most diligent efforts to bring about the abrogation of the White Paper which closes the doors of Palestine to further Jewish immigration and restricts Jewish land purchase. ' At the same time it expresses the conviction that the problems of world Jewry cannot be solved by a single political panacea and that 'the salvation and rehabilitation of the stricken Jews of Europe cannot be achieved through Palestine alone and certainly not through overemphasis on the political constitution of Palestine. It can be achieved only by considering Palestine a part of the larger program which looks to the rehabilitation and resettlement of Jews throughout the world and the restoration of their equal rights. - JTA October 26, 1943. Subjects: World War, 1939-1945 - Jews. Jews. Zionism. American Jewish Committee. American Jewish Conference. OCLC lists 3 copies (Louisiana, HUC, Univ Washington) . Light wear to wraps, otherwise clean and fresh. Very good condition. (ZION-4-18)
used very good condition ; 1st edition. Original Illustrated paper wrappers, 8vo; 110 pages. Good example of work by American Jewry to get the word about how the Nazis were starving Jewish populations throughout Germany and Europe. Powerful graphs show "racial feeding" levels. Written by Shub "on the basis of research by Z. Warhaftig". Wolff I# 677. Robinson & Friedman # 541a. Important. Ex-library with usual marks, otherwise Very Good COndition. (HOLO2-34-72A)
8vo; 110 pages. Good example of work by American jewry to get the word out. Powerful graphs show "racial feeding" levels. Written by Shub "on the basis of research by Z. Warhaftig". Wolff I# 677. Robinson & Friedman # 541a. Important. (HOLO2-34-72)
Original Wrappers. 8vo. 166 pages. 21 cm. First Edition. In Ukrainian. "Although his first poems were written in 1916, Osmachka began his literary career while he was a student at the Kyiv Institute of People's Education from 1920 to 1923. He belonged to the literary organizations Aspys and Lanka [Later known as 'Maisternia Revoliutsiinoho Slovaâ' (Workshop of the Revolutionary Word) or MARS] and published his first collection of poetry, Krucha (The Precipice) , in 1922; it was followed by two more collections, Skytski vohni (The Scythian Fires, 1925) and Klekit ([Crane's] Clacking, 1929) . Like other members of MARS he was attacked and arrested for his 'unpolitical' literary works, but managed to save himself from execution by feigning insanity. During the 1930s he faced constant persecution by the authorities and was unable to publish any works. During the Second World War he fled to Western Ukraine, then to displaced persons camps in Germany, and finally to the United States. Osmachka's personal ordeal had lasting effects on him, and until his death he suffered from a persecution complex. Nonetheless he resumed his literary career in 1943 in Lviv with the publication of his fourth collection of poetry, Suchasnykam (To My Contemporaries) . In the displaced persons camps, where he was a member of the MUR literary organization, he published his epic poem, written in octaves, Poet (Poet, 1946) , as well as his first prose work, Starshyi Boiaryn (The Best Man, 1946)." (Encyclopedia of Ukraine. ) Subjects: Ukraine; Fiction; Short Stories. OCLC lists 2 copies worldwide. (Cleveland Pub. Libr. , Toronto Pub. Libr. ) Light age toning and edgewear. Very good contion. Scarce and important (UKR-1-29)xx
176 pages. "When the Germans invaded Poland in 1939, Emil Brigg was 14. Captured several times by the S.S. and forced to witness the mass execution of thousands of his people, he was both resourceful and determined enough to escape each time and eventually reached Hungary. There he joined a small underground organization and, for his part in the killing of a German agent, he was imprisoned and severely tortured." - from dust jacket. Above-average wear. Usual library markings. Binding intact. A worthy working copy. Book
Mit 135 Abbildungen, Dokumenten, Zeichnungen und Karten.
Cloth; 8vo. Xviii, 234 pages. Examination of a theater event that took place as a direct result of a call by Mussolini to create a Fascist theater for 20,000 spectators. This book examines the place of media, technology and machinery in the fascist imagination. Fascism and theater -- Italy. Theater -- Political aspects -- Italy. Named Person: Pavolini, Alessandro, 1903-1945. Apparent printing errors in first fourteen pages; otherwise, excellent condition in very good dust jacket. (H-34-2)
Original Publishers Cloth. 8vo. 646 pages. Illlus. Ports. Facsims. 21 cm. East German imprint. In German. 2. Auflage. Title translates to English as, SS In Action: A Documentation of the Crimes of the SS. SUBJECT (S) : Concentration camps -- Germany. World War, 1939-1945 -- Atrocities. Named Corp: Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiter-Partei. Schutzstaffel. Allemagne -- Histoire -- 1933-1945. Includes bibliographical references and indexes. Internal pages browned, but not fragile. Very good condition. (HOLO2-70-2)
1st edition. Original slipcase and stiff paper wrappers. 63, 42, 27, 43, 31, 55 pages [261 pages total] 21 x 30 cm. In Polish. Title translates to Looking at the Warsaw Ghetto. Six separate volumes entitled Krochmalna, Leszno, Karmelicka, Nowolipie, Mila, and Stawki. Jacek Leociak (1957-) is a Polish literary historian and author. He is professor of humanities and an employee of the Institute of Literary Research at the Polish Academy of Sciences and the Polish Center for Holocaust Research in Warsaw (Wikipedia, 2018). SUBJECTS: Jewish ghettos -- Poland -- Warsaw -- History -- 20th century. Jews -- Persecutions -- Poland -- Warsaw. OCLC:729248710. Very good condition. (HOLO2-142-12-ADFX)
Oversize 237p., illus. A selection of drawings & paintings from the collection of Kibbutz Lohamei Haghetaot, Isreal. One of 1000 copies. Hardcover Very good condition, slipcase edge faded in slipcase
Softbound. 4to. 117, [17] pages. 28 cm. First edition. Text in English; includes facsimiles of Yiddish language documents. Errata slip inserted. A detailed history of the cultural work and cultural associations in the Vilna Ghetto, with chapters on armed resistance, in the former YIVO, and sports. Profusely illustrated. Subjects: Jews - Lithuania - Vilnius - History. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) - Lithuania - Vilnius. World War, 1939-1945 - Jewish resistance - Lithuania - Vilnius. Ghetto. Wilna / Vilna Gaon Jewish State Museum. Lithuania - Ethnic relations - History. Near fine condition. (HOLO2-97-25) Xx