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Map of Palestine - Circa 1902
Outside dimensions 14.5" x 10.5" Circa 1902. Centerfold. Light wear. Please see our photo for details. Book
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par nr./32pp., le lot (78 nrs.): , bon état, le lot comprend: nrs.375 (févr.1927) à 452 (Déc.1939) [manque: nr.393], (artt. surtout sur la Syrie, l'Egypte, l'Abyssinie, la question palestinienne, la Mésopotamie, la Perse, Constantinople & les Balkans)
RARE reprint from The Journal of the Palestine Oriental Society of a thoroughly documented study of the cults, shrines ('awlia) and sanctuaries (maqamat) of Muslim saints, a major contribution to the ethnography of Arab Palestine (especially popular Islam and popular religion in Palestine) by Tawfiq Canaan (1882-1964), a pioneering physician, ethnographer and Palestinian nationalist. Besides being a major medical researcher and the first President of the Palestine Arab Medical Association, the director of several Jerusalem area hospitals before, during, and after the 1948 war, he wrote several books and more than 50 articles on the subject of Palestinian folklore in English and German, which serve as valuable resources to researchers of Palestinian and Middle Eastern heritage. Tawfiq was also a collector of over 1,400 amulets and talismans held to have healing and protective qualities, and upon publishing analyses of these objects, and other popular folk traditions and practices, he was recognized already in his lifetime as a major ethnographer and anthropologist. Contains also a Hebrew title-page, though the book is in English. 215x140mm. VIII+331 pages. Softcover. Cover and spine slightly rubbed. Cover and pages upper corner slightly bumped/wrinkled. Rear cover upper edge wrinkled and slightly chipped. Cover corners and edges, and spine edges and hinges rubbed. Inner cover browning. Pages slightly yellowing. [SUMMARY]: This extremely rare inquiry into the folklore and beliefs of Palestinian Arabs, one of the most outstanding contributions to the ethnography of Arab Palestine, is overall in good condition.
TWO VOLUME SET. 280x210 mm. 808 pages. Hardcover. In good condition. PLEASE NOTE: This item is overweight. We may ask for extra shipping costs.
RARE journal of a voyage to the Holy Land, Sinai and Petra in 1899-1901 with beautiful color illustrations by the author's husband. 220x145mm. 244 pages. Green cloth Hardcover. Gilt lettering on front cover and spine. Cover dirty and rubbed/worn. Cover corners bumped. Cover and spine yellowing. Spine edges bumped and peeling/tattered. Inner cover, whitepages and few pages throughout the book age-stained. Pages yellowing. [SUMMARY]: This extremely rare book, a real treat for any serious collector of Holy Land books, is in good condition.
FIRST EDITION of a RARE TWO VOLUME record of Sir Austen Henry Layard's first adventurous journey to the East and residence among different tribes of Persia in the years 1840-1842. This book mentioned by the late 19th-century English novelist George Gissing in his diary as 'one of the most interesting books'. The author - Sir Austen Henry Layard GCB PC (1817-1894), was an eminent English traveler, archaeologist, cuneiformist, art historian, draughtsman, collector, politician and diplomat, best known as the excavator of Nimrud and of Nineveh, where he uncovered a large proportion of the Assyrian palace reliefs known, and in 1851 the library of Ashurbanipal. Contains two beautiful b&w illustrations, two frontispieces and three fold-out maps. [BOTH VOLUMES]: 205x140mm. 490+511 pages [+20]. Olive green cloth Hardcover. Gilt lettering and red and green patterns on front cover and spine. Text block edges age-stained. Cover yellowing and dirty/stained. Cover corners and spine edges bumped and worn. Binding slightly visible on inner cover (but still intact). Small sticker on front whitepage. Illustrations and some pages slightly age-stained. Pages yellowing. [SUMMARY]: This extremely rare first edition of a two-volume illustrated memoir of travels and residence in Persia by an illustrious Late Victorian England personality is in good condition.
RARE single volume containing THREE important texts on the Middle East, written in English during the 17th and 18th centuries. The first two are travel journals of pilgrims: the first is Henry Maundrell's journey from Aleppo to Jerusalem through the Galilee, and the second is an account of Italian missionaries' visit to mount Sinai. The third title is a detailed account of Islam, with a special emphasis on the rites of pilgrimage, written by the journalist Joseph Pitts. With 4 b&w plates and 2 fold-out plates. 210x125mm. VIII+520 pages. Patterned brown leather Hardcover. Embossed lettering and gilt decoration on spine. Text block edges marbled. Cover and spine worn. Cover heavily rubbed and scratched. Front cover detached. Cover corners/edges and spine edges bumped and peeling. Spine and spine edges peeling. Sticker on spine bottom edge. Ex-libris sticker and binder's sticker on endpaper. Ink inscription on whitepage. Rear whitepage bottom torn and partly missing (NO damage to text - blank whitepage). Pates and some pages somewhat age-stained. Pages yellowing and wavy. [SUMMARY]: Despite the damage to cover, this rare collection of early modern European texts on the Middle East is internally in good condition. PLEASE NOTE: This book's cover is very worn, loose or missing. If you'd like, we can send this book to be rebound for an extra charge.
FOUR VOLUME SET. 275x220 mm. [XXIV+736]+[XIX+731]+[XXII+790]+[XV+437] pages. Hardcover with dust jacket except volume I. Spine edges slightly bumped. Else all volumes in good condition. PLEASE NOTE: This item is overweight. We may ask for extra shipping costs.
Outside dimensions 14.5" x 10.5" Circa 1902. Centerfold. Light wear. Please see our photo for details. Book
SIGNED BY AUTHOR with DEDICATION dated 1983. EXTREMELY RARE extensively illustrated monograph on ancient mosaic patterns by Asher Ovadia - Professor Emeritus at Tel-Aviv University, an expert in archeology and art of classical culture. The signed dedication in Hebrew is addressed to Moshe Barasch (1920-2004) - a renowned art historian who founded the Art History department at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem and was Professor Emeritus there, the first Israeli art historian to attain worldwide recognition. Contains 44 full-page b&w plates with 120 figures. 285x220mm. 206 pages & 44 plates. Grey cloth Hardcover with illustrated dust-jacket. Red lettering on front cover and spine. Jacket slightly rubbed and slightly yellowing. Jacket edges wrinkled. Spine upper edge slightly bumped. [SUMMARY]: This extremely rare illustrated book on ancient mosaic patterns by an eminent authority in the field, of immense interest to art historians and archaeologists, is in good condition.
Very Good Ladino Paperback. Cr. 8vo. (20 x 14 cm). In Ladino (both Hebrew and Latin scripts). [44] p. Heavily stains on some pages. Agada de Pesah.= Hagadah shel Pesah. Pesah [i.e. Passover; Turkish: Hamursuz Bayrami] is a major Jewish holiday and one of the most widely celebrated Jewish holidays. Together with Shavuot and Sukkot, Passover was one of the Three Pilgrimage Festivals (Shalosh Regalim) during which the entire population of the kingdom of Judah made a pilgrimage to the Temple in Jerusalem. Samaritans still make this pilgrimage to Mount Gerizim, but only men participate in public worship. Nissim [or Nisim] Behar was a Rabi. Behar, whose family moved from Bursa to Istanbul Hasköy when he was very young, was sent to the Alyans School here. The family moved from Hasköy to Kuledibi in 1923. Growing up in a religious family Nisim's mother was a family known for their religiousness in Silivri, and they even got the name "Sofu" when the surname law was enacted. OCLC: 192101785.; Bali 378.; Yudlov 4069.; Yaari 2331. Rare.
THIS VOLUME ONLY - Qumran Cave 4, XV - The Sapiential Texts, Part 1. This book is from the library of Professor Michael V. Fox of the Hebrew and Semitic Studies Department at the University of Wisconsin. 315x235mm. X+246 pages & 18 full-page plates. Jacket edges/corners/hinges and rear side wrinkled. Small bump-mark on rear cover and jacket. Front cover upper corner and spine edges slightly bumped. Previous owner's (Prof.Michael V.Fox) stamp on front whitepage bottom edge. [SUMMARY]: This extremely rare edition of sapiential texts, culled from Dead Sea Scrolls by the leading contemporary biblical scholars, is in very good condition. PLEASE NOTE: This item is overweight. We may ask for extra shipping costs.
RARE comprehensive monograph on agricultural and archeological aspects of the Negev desert by Yehuda D. Nevo (1932-1992), an eminent Israeli archaeologist who discovered Kufic inscriptions in the Negev desert, four hundred of which were published in "Ancient Arabic Inscriptions from the Negev" published by IPS, Negev, Israel, in 1993. Contains 36 full-page plates, a bibliography, five appendices and many indices. 320x240. VI+259 pages. Hardcover. Cover slightly rubbed. Spine edges bumped. Several light bump-marks on rear cover. Rear cover upper corner wrinkled. [SUMMARY]: This extremely rare study of the Negev desert by an eminent authority in the field, a major contribution to the study of ancient Arab desert cultures, is otherwise in very good condition.
Original Wrappers. 8vo. Pages [17] - 71 (i. E. 55 pages) ; 24 cm. In Hebrew. Off-Print from the Hebrew Union College Annual, 23, pt. 2, 1950-1951, seventy-fifth anniversary publication. Inscribed by Abraham Joshua Heschel on the First Page. Martin Luther King, jr. , and Heschel "initially bonded over the prophets. King was drawn to Heschels intimate knowledge of the topic (Heschels masterwork, in a body of masterworks, was his book The Prophets) , and Heschel in turn admired Kings devotion to the Exodus story of Moses and the Israelites, adapted to the narrative of the civil rights struggle in the 1950s and 60s....Heschel...can also be considered a kind of prophet himself. The main job of the prophets of the Bible, after all, is to hold their peoples feet to the fire. Moses railed at the weak and foolish Israelites who strayed from the path the minute their leader ascended to the mountaintop to commune with God. King fulminated against the war in Southeast Asia as well as against the injustices rampant in white American culture toward those whom it had enslaved for hundreds of years. Heschel supported both these causes, incurring the disapproval of some Jewish leaders when he did not hesitate to vigorously excoriate U. S. Involvement in Vietnam, preaching widely on the subject, writing letters to presidents, and being a spokesman for other religious leaders in meetings with high-level military strategists like Secretary of State Dean Rusk...Heschel, like King, had the charisma a prophet needs. He was impossible to dismiss, even when his message stung. The consummate gadfly, he shined a bright light on the ills of American society and also on those of American Judaism in the mid-20th century, which he saw as stultifying, airless, soulless, moribund. He was an outlier on one crisis we face today: how to make Judaism not only appealing but actually indispensable for Jews of future generations. His words were bracing and his exhortations powerful, but, rendered in such breathtakingly poetic language (as well as expressed verbally in his disarming Polish accent) , they seem like a loving gift from a benevolent elder, not a rebuke: He even warned warmly. He was a Jew who had suffered and seen too much suffering, and who, unlike the rest of us, was capable of vision on a greater scale, the prophetic scale. He knew what he was talking about, and, like King, he believed people could rise up, be their best selves, and behave with righteousness and even with holiness. Heschel died in 1972, four years after his friend King was shot dead. Its a long time ago now. The prophets we have today dont speak in Kings mellifluous rhetoric or write in Heschels enchanting prose. Maybe we have murdered or hounded to death those with the capacity to make our hearts soar with their words of justice and compassion; weve gotten pretty cynical, maybe too cynical for those kinds of voices" (Sian Gibby in Tablet Magazine, 2016) . Abraham Joshua Heschel (January 11, 1907 December 23, 1972) was a Polish-born American rabbi and one of the leading Jewish theologians and Jewish philosophers of the 20th century....In late October 1938, when Heschel was living in a rented room in the home of a Jewish family in Frankfurt, he was arrested by the Gestapo and deported to Poland. He spent ten months lecturing on Jewish philosophy and Torah at Warsaw's Institute for Jewish Studies. Six weeks before the German invasion of Poland, Heschel left Warsaw for London with the help of Julian Morgenstern, president of Hebrew Union College, who had been working to obtain visas for Jewish scholars in Europe....Heschel believed the teachings of the Hebrew prophets were a clarion call for social action in the United States and worked for African Americans' civil rights and against the Vietnam War. He also specifically criticized what he called pan-halakhism, or an exclusive focus upon religiously compatible behavior to the neglect of the non-legalistic dimension of rabbinic tradition. Heschel is a widely read Jewish theologian whose most influential works include Man Is Not Alone...At the Vatican Council II, as representative of American Jews, Heschel persuaded the Roman Catholic Church to eliminate or modify passages in its liturgy that demeaned the Jews, or referred to an expected conversion to Christianity. His theological works argued that religious experience is a fundamentally human impulse, not just a Jewish one. He believed that no religious community could claim a monopoly on religious truth. " (Wikipedia, 2016) . Wrappers are toned. Otherwise very good condition. (AMR-52-19)
1st edition. Period Quarter leather with boards. 8vo. 327 pages, 23 cm. In Hebrew. Title translates to The Dawn: Lighting the Way for the Children of Israel in the Past and Present. Published from 1868-1885. Founded and edited by Peretz Smolenskin, a well-known member of the Haskalah movement and a Hebrew writer. Smolenskin was a leader in the revolt of young Jews against medievalism and a strong voice for Jewish nationalism. His Hebrew periodical, The Dawn (Ha-shahar), was highly influential in these spheres (Wikipedia, 2018). SUBJECTS: Jews - Periodicals - Hebrew literature. (OCLC: 1798921). Ex-library with usual markings. Pages browning. Very good condition. (ZION2-1-26-E-)
Original Wraps. 8vo. 4, 119, [1] pages. 23 cm. First edition. "A tribute to the Palestine pioneer movement Hechalutz on its tenth anniversary. " Published by the Zionist Labor Party "Hitachduth" of America, with the cooperation of Avukah, American Student Zionist Federation. Tribute to the Palestine Pioneer Movement, with over a dozen articles translated from Davar, Niv, Hedim, and other newspapers and journals in Palestine of the period, on the history of the pioneer movement, the first Pioneers and their paths of migration to Palestine, and the experience of newcomers; with three articles on the life of Joseph Trumpeldor. Includes Chaim Bialik's 'Speech on the Tenth Anniversary of the Hechalutz'. Subjects: Jews - Restoration. Jews - Palestine. Jews. Jews - Restoration. Middle East - Palestine. Light soiling to wraps, otherwise very clean and fresh. Very good. (ZION-5-2)
Later boards. 8vo. 4, 119, [1] pages. 23 cm. First edition. "A tribute to the Palestine pioneer movement Hechalutz on its tenth anniversary. " Published by the Zionist Labor Party "Hitachduth" of America, with the cooperation of Avukah, American Student Zionist Federation. Tribute to the Palestine Pioneer Movement, with over a dozen articles translated from Davar, Niv, Hedim, and other newspapers and journals in Palestine of the period, on the history of the pioneer movement, the first Pioneers and their paths of migration to Palestine, and the experience of newcomers; with three articles on the life of Joseph Trumpeldor. Includes Chaim Bialik's 'Speech on the Tenth Anniversary of the Hechalutz'. Subjects: Jews - Restoration. Jews - Palestine. Jews. Jews - Restoration. Middle East - Palestine. Ex-library with usual markings. Very good. (ZION-5-2A)
1st edition. Period boards. 8vo. 7, 175 pages, 22 cm. Includes photo plates. In German. Title translates to Palestine: Land and People. Published the year after Herzls groundbreaking Judenstaat. Bambus (1863-1904) was a prominent German Jew and one of the first to join the Hibbat Zion movement. He published extensively and was a notable contributor to Germany's largest Jewish periodicals (EJ, 2007). SUBJECTS: Travel - Palestine. OCLC Number: 252289652. Our colleague offers a copy with a damaged cover for $500.00. Light foxing. Very good condition. (ZION2-1-32-e)
1st Separate Edition. Original Wrappers. 12mo. 5 pages ; 16 cm. Printed as a tri-fold pamphlet with text on every page but the cover. Reprinted from the New York Evening Post (December 12, 1917) by the Zionist Organization of America. Published the year after the FAZ was renamed and Zionist Organization of America is printed on the title page. In 1909 Friedlander became the founding president of Young Judaea, an amalgam of several Zionist youth groups. In 1912, together with Rabbi Mordecai Kaplan, a professor of homiletics and philosophy of religion at the Jewish Theological Seminary, he guided young Jewish adults in combating assimilation into secular American society or Reform circles. These efforts resulted in a popular lecture series, which were a predecessor of the Young Israel movement to combat the wave of assimilation by Jews .He was part of the Governing Board of the Intercollegiate Menorah Society, the Executive Committee of Bureau of Education of the Jewish Community of New York City and the Executive Committee of the Federation of American Zionists. He was known for his ardent support of Zionism. In 1918, Friedlander was invited to travel to Mandate Palestine as the Jewish representative of a Red Cross relief mission. In January 1920, Friedlander traveled to Poland as part of a four-member commission of the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee to distribute $35 million to starving Jews in Poland and Ukraine. The US State Department gave its permission for the trip, but would not issue passports or afford any protection to the commission members. On July 5, Friedlander and Rabbi Bernard Cantor were murdered by soldiers of the Red Cavalry near Kamenetz-Podolsk, Ukraine (Wikipedia, 2018). OCLC lists just 4 holdings worldwide 4 (Harvard, Smith, HUC, UVa) , none in New York. Very light soiling to front wrapper. Overall Very Good Condition. (ZION-10-30A)
1st edition. Original stiff paper wrappers. 8vo. 78, 148 pages, 17 cm. Part I. Ten Lectures -- Part II. The Herzlian period. Yitzhak Gruenbaum (1879-1970) was a prominent leader of Poland's Zionist movement during the interwar period and of the Yishuv during Mandatory Palestine. He was Israel's first Interior Minister. SUBJECTS: Zionism - History. OCLC lists 21 copies worldwide (OCLC: 35917471) . Front wrapper on vol. 1 is edgeworn. Wrappers on other volume are edgeworn and browning. Contents very good. (ZION2-2-37-A)
First edition. 10 original illustrated postcards in original illustrated envelope. These were Bezalel artists Meir Gur Aryeh best known illustrations that were included in his Pioneer songs book. SUBJECTS: Folk songs, Hebrew -- Israel -- Texts. Halutzim -- Poetry. Original illustrated envelope is edge worn with some tearing. Cards are very good+ condition, a beautiful set. (ZION2-1-4)
First edition. Original blue, grey, and black illustrated paper wrappers. 8vo. 31 pages; 21cm. Dramatic visual presentation of the fundraising methods, achievements, and goals over the 35 years since the organizations inception in 1902 including the Blue-White Box, the J. N. F. Stamp, the Golden Book, the Tree Fund, Flower Day and Flag Day, and the Dunam Land contributions efforts. Among the mementoes carefully preserved at the Jewish National Fund headquarters in Jerusalem, is a tarnished little old tin box. It was bequeathed to the Keren Kayemeth by a woman Zionist in Germany. This little box-odd as it may seem-has been the means for raising, during the past thirty-five years, the rather astounding sum of approximately $4, 000, 000 or about 18% of the Funds total income since its inception. Includes photographs, illustrations, and graphs on almost every page. SUBJECT (S) : Jewish National Fund, Israel, Fundraising. OCLC lists only one holding worldwide (Spertus) . Very good condition. (zion-11-15)
First edition. Original boards. 8vo. 43 pages. 18cm. In Hebrew with some English. Singerman 5198. Goldman 579: âKadushin was born in Radoshkovichi, Byelorussia, ca. 1859. He studied in the yeshivot of Zasliai (Lithuania) and Volozhin and was ordained by R. Naphtali Zevi Judah Berlin [Netziv] and R. Isaac Jacob Reines. He was a rash yeshivah in Minsk for four years, after which he lived in Vilna. Kadushin immigrated to America ca. 1885. He served as a mohel (ritual circumciser) in New York and as a rabbi and mohel in New Rochelle. Kadushin attempted to professionalize the practice of milah (circumcision) . He complained that âevery individual and sluggard who comes to this land and does not desire to carry on his back the heavy load of the peddler titles himself a mohel. Â He claimed to âhave seen hundreds of actual arelim (uncircumcised individuals) â as a result of the ignorance of these mohelim. Kadushin himself circumcised âseven thousand boysâ" He died in 1932. This manual contains the services (with an English translation) and an anthology of the laws for weddings, circumcisions, bar mitzvahs and the redemption of the first-born. Kadushin published it for religious functionaries unable to study the procedures directly from the codes because their time was consumed with their livelihood. Â Title translates to âZion: Part II of Brit Yitzhak â Sermons on the Matter of Settling Eretz Yisrael, Holidays, and other Occasions. Â Includes a prayer for the government and a prayer for the settlement of Eretz Yisrael. SUBJECTS: Sermons. OCLC lists 3 copies worldwide (UCLA, Harvard, JTS) . Very Good Condition. Scarce (ZION-14-31)
1st edition. Original paper wrappers. 8vo. 30 pages, 23 cm. Franz Katz was the Executive Director of the Brooklyn Zionist Region. He was active in Zionist activism prior to statehood and aided the delegation of the Jewish Agency for Palestine as a liaison to Sweden, Norway, Denmark, and Iceland. In August 1948, he travelled to Palestine and documented the most critical moments in Israel's history, writing about the lead up to independence for the Brooklyn Eagle. SUBJECTS: Israel. OCLC Number: 24731760. OCLC lists 2 copies worldwide (Leo Baeck, USouthampton) . Very good condition. Rare. (ZION2-2-28)
No Date [1918-1919]. 1st edition. Original boards. 8vo. 164 pages, 18 cm. Dr. Joseph Krimsky was a member of the American Zionist Medical Unit, which came to Eretz Israel in 1918 with 44 medical professionals from a variety of fields. Pilgrimage & Service details Krimsky's tour of duty, along with portraits, sketches of replaces, and reports of events (Davis, 1995) . SUBJECTS: Missions, Medical - Palestine. OCLC lists 18 copies worldwide (OCLC: 10809233) . Includes on note page "With compliments of the author. " In very good condition. (ZION2-2-27)
1st Edition. Original Blue Wrappers. 8vo. 32 pages ; 23 cm. In Hebrew, With Title Pages printed in both Hebrew and English on Front and Back Wrappers. Rabbi Dr. Isaac Lewin, (1906 - 1995) was a Professor Emeritus Of Jewish History at the Bernard Revel Graduate School of Yeshiva University In New York Lewin an architect of the Declaration on the Elimination of All Forms of Intolerance and of Discrimination Based on Religion or Belief, which was Proclaimed by General Assembly resolution 36/55 of 25 November 1981. For this, he was awarded the United Nation's Medal of Peace. He was also awarded by the city of Warsaw with the Golden Badge of Merit in 1988, for promoting international relations and cooperation among peoples He taught at YU from 1944 until 1985. He was an author and editor of works in English, Hebrew, Yiddish, and he could converse comfortably in German and French. (Wikipedia, 2017) Published in the year of Israeli independence, two years before the Harari Decision, when there was ongoing dispute over what would constitute an Israeli constitution. OCLC lists 10 copies worldwide. Slight toning and minor wear to wrappers. Overall very good condition. Important. (HOLO2-135-23)
