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Yidn In Ukraine Jews In The Ukraine [2 volumes].
New York: Shulsinger Bros.; Marstin Press 1961-1967..
4to. pp. [8], 342; [12], 145. few b/w illus. text in Yiddish. Cloth (second volume damp stained at front cover, pastedown & throughout small portion of pagination, with corners rubbed).
$150 USD Book Number: aly1401 Order / Enquire

ABOAB, Isaac.
Menorat ha-Ma'or. [Transliterated Title]. text in Yiddish translation; Hebrew commentary Nefesh Yehudah by Moses Frankfurter [1672-1762]. With Introduction and notes by Moses Büdinger.
Metz: Ephraim Hadamar, 1829..
3 Volumes. 8vo. ff. [18], 819. engraved frontis. contempoary calf (bindings worn but solid, some scattered foxing). The most important and influential work on ethics in fifteenth century Jewish literature. The author was one of the leading Talmudic scholars of his day. Zedner p. 381. Friedberg p. 620, no. 2216.
$1249 USD Book Number: elala2345 Order / Enquire

ABRAMS, Alan.
Special Treatment: The Untold Story of Hitler's Third Race.
Secaucus, NJ: Lyle Stuart Inc., [1985]..
8vo. pp. 261. 4 double-sided plates. index. tipped-in errata. quarter cloth. dw. (price-clipped dw. sunned & with few tears to edges). Review copy. laid in is a 2-page typed letter, signed by Abrams, dated July 18, 1983 & addressed to Canadian poet and novelist Joy Kogawa, in which among things he asks if she would write a few comments on the book for use as a dw. blurb. also laid in is Abram's business card, signed, addressed to Kogawa, saying 'First review', with clipping of Windsor Star review by Gary Clarkson, April 13, 1985. First American Edition.
$75 USD Book Number: dola2762 Order / Enquire

ALTSHULER, David [Editor].
The Precious Legacy Judaic Treasures From The Czechoslovak State Collections.
New York: Summit Books & Washington: Smithsonian Institution Travelling Exhibition Service, [1983]..
8vo. pp. 288. 220 illus. (many colour, some full-page). biblio. index. wrs.
$51 USD Book Number: JTSeALTS3 Order / Enquire

ANDREW, James [1773-1833].
Hebrew Dictionary And Grammar, Without Points; Together With A Complete List Of Such Chaldee Words As Occur In The Old Testament, And A Brief Sketch Of Chaldee Grammar.To Which Is Added, A New, Correct, And Interesting Account Of Scripture Chronology.
London: Printed For The Author, And Published By Messrs. Ogle, Duncan, And Co., 1823..
8vo. pp. xvi, 200. untrimmed in original cloth-backed bds. (spine defective, covers worn, flyleaves removed). First Edition.
$250 USD Book Number: elala1302 Order / Enquire

ARBAL, Rachel & Lily MAGAL (Editors).
In the Land of the Golden Fleece The Jews of Georgia - History and Culture...
[Tel Aviv]: Beth Hatefutsoth, The Nahum Goldmann Museum of the Jewish Diaspora..., [1992]..
4to. pp. 206, [1]. profusely illus. (some colour). bds. dw. First Edition.
$50 USD Book Number: dola244 Order / Enquire

BEIDER, Alexander.
A Dictionary of Jewish Surnames from the Russian Empire.
Teaneck: Avotaynu, Inc., [1993]..
4to. pp. xxii, 760. bds. dw.
$150 USD Book Number: aly1405 Order / Enquire

BIBLE. OLD TESTAMENT. HEBREW.
.Biblia Hebraica Cum optimis impressis & Manuscriptis Codicibus in & extra Germaniam.collata.Studio & Opera D.Henrici Opitii.
Kiel: Printed by Barthold Reuther for the Editor, 1709..
thick 4to. first title in Hebrew & Latin. Latin glosses. engraved title/frontis. woodcut ornaments & initial. contemporary calf, gilt edges (worn, head & foot of spine defective, some foxing). few old marginal notes. First Edition Edited by Heinrich Opitz [1642-1712], German Orientalist and professor of Greek and of divinity at Kiel. "The editor was as learned as he was pious: and the present unostentatious volume, printed with a fine large Hebrew type.was the fruit of thirty years incessant toil in the study and correction of the sacred text. The result was eminently successful; for Opitius is justly classed among the most erudite of Hebraic critics.". (Dibdin) Darlow & Moule 5142. Dibdin (4th Edn.) I pp. 64-65.
$1499 USD Book Number: TBLBBIBL62 Order / Enquire

BLOCH, Sam E. (Editor).
Holocaust and Rebirth Bergen-Belsen 1945-1965.
New York & Tel Aviv: Bergen-Belsen Memorial Press of the World Federation of Bergen-Belsen Associations, [1965]..
folio. pp. lxxxv, 386. text in English, Yiddish & Hebrew. illus. throughout. index. cloth. glassine dw. (edges of dw. chipped). First Edition.
$150 USD Book Number: dola248 Order / Enquire

BORWICZ, Michel (Editor).
1000 Ans De Vie Juive En Pologne 1000 Years Of Jewish Life In Poland...
Paris: Centre D'Études Historiques (auprès de l'Association Des Juifs Polonais En France) Affilié Au Congrès De Culture Juive, [1956]..
folio. pp. 440. text in French, English, Polish, Hebrew & Spanish. profusely illus. cloth (foxing to endpapers). slipcase. First Edition.
$350 USD Book Number: dola249 Order / Enquire

BUHLE, Paul (editor).
Jews and American Popular Culture 3 Volumes.
Westport & London: Praeger, 2007..
8vo. pp. xviii, 279; xiv, 368; xiv, 283. b/w illus. index. bds (extreme lower edge of volume 1 pagination damp stained as well as minor portions of volumes 2 & 3).
$125 USD Book Number: aly406 Order / Enquire

BUXTORF, Johannes [1564-1629].
Synagoga Judaica, Auspiciis Authoris iam olim Latinitate donata [by David Le Clerc], Nunc primum in vulgus emissa.
Basel: Ludwig Koenig, 1641..
8vo. pp. 16 p.l., 498, [14]index. typographic title border. woodcut printer's device on title. woodcut ornaments & initials. 18th century calf (front cover detached, joints cracked, extremities worn, few leaves foxed, light dampstain to lower margins near beginning of text). Second Edition in Latin and the First Edition to be Edited by Johannes Buxtorf the Younger [1599-1664]. "A valuable repertory of information regarding the opinions and ceremonies of the Jews" (Encyc. Brit., 11th Edn.), compiled by the celebrated German Hebrew and Rabbinic scholar Joannes Buxtorf, professor of Hebrew at the University of Basel. Buxtorf's knowledge and scholarship were so highly regarded by his contemporaries that he was frequently consulted by Jews themselves on maters relating to their ceremonial law. The present work was first published in German in 1603, followed by an expanded Latin version the following year. Buxtof also published Manuale Hebraicum et Chaldaicum (1602), Lexicon Hebraicum et Chaldaicum (1607), and Biblia Hebraica (1618). His two most important works, the Lexicon Chaldaicum, Talmudicum, et Rabbinicum and the Concordantiae Bibliorum Hebraicorum, were left unfinished at the time of his death, and were posthumously edited for publication by his son.
$500 USD Book Number: elala507 Order / Enquire

CARO [or KARO], Joseph Ben Ephraim [1488-1575].
[Shulhan 'Arukh].
Vilnius: Romm, 1879..
Hebrew text. 8vo. pp. 1 p.l., vi, 608. modern bds. (text lightly embrowned). Late Vilnius printing of this classic Rabbinic code, a digest of the larger Beth Yoseph, which Caro considered to be his greatest work. Rabbi Caro, a Spanish exile who removed first to Nicopoli, Bulgaria and then to Adrianople, where he acted for a long time as head of an academy, eventually settled in Safed, Palestine. (See Waxman, A History of Jewish Literature, II pp. 144ff).
$410 USD Book Number: JROhuCAR64 Order / Enquire

CUNAEUS, Petrus [Pieter VAN DER KUN] [1586-1638].
De Republica Hebraeorum Libri Tres; Variis annotationibus.A Johanne Nicolai.
Leyden: Henrik Teering, 1703..
4to. pp. 20 p.l., 368, 368a-368n, [1], 369-482, [18]index. title in red & black. woodcut ornaments, initials, & title vignette. contemporary vellum (vellum soiled, some light marginal dampstaining, lower outer corner of a few leaves defective). First Edition Edited with Notes and Commentary by German antiquary Johann Nicolai [1665-1708]. Van Der Kun's treatise on the Hebrew republic was first published by Louis Elzevier in 1617. The author, a noted Dutch scholar, was an associate of Grotius and Scaliger, and professor of Latin and law at Leyden. cfBrunet II 442. cfGraesse II 307.
$524 USD Book Number: JNARCUNA29 Order / Enquire

DAYAN, Ruth & FEINBERG, Wilbert.
Crafts of Israel.
New York: Macmillan Publishing Co. Inc. & London: Collier Macmillan Publishers, [1974]..
8vo. pp. [185]. profusely illus. (some colour). First Edition.
$77 USD Book Number: JYAafDAY49 Order / Enquire

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