"The Return" by Sonia Levitin - 1987

First Edition, Signed by author

42 pp.

1984 Feldheim Slipcased edition of 3 Benzion Firer novels entitled: 3 Historical Novels. Housing Saadaih Weissman(1982), The Long Journey Home(1984) & The Twins(1983, 2nd edition). All in very good, gently read condition. Pages of all 3 volumes are clean, unmarked & bright. Dj's show faint shelfware with no rips & no discoleration. Boards on all 3 are clean & square. Gold lettering on spines are fine. Bindings firm & straight. Slipcase in excellent condition with slight wear on the pastedowns, no seam splits.

Boston, Beacon Press, 1989, trade paperback, 360 pp, Revised and expanded Edition (most of the material in this volume originally appeared in nos. 29/30 of the journal Sinister Wisdom (1986)), First Printing, Signed and inscribed by both Melanie Kaye/Kantrowitz and Irena Klepfisz 'To Abby' with personal messages, on the title page, Very Good in bright, pictorial card covers. Straight, tight and clean with no markings, slight corner bumps, corner crease to rear cover affecting the final two pages. A collection of writings, including poetry, by Jewish women worldwide regarding the value of women's participation in Jewish life, and the feminist struggle in the Jewish community. Illustrated throughout with black-&-white photographs. Appended: Glossary, Contributor's Notes, Resources. ISBN 9780807036051

"Complectens Voces omnimodas quae in sacris biblis exstant: Exemplorium Biblicorum copies et Locorum difficilium ex hebraeorum commentariis explicatione auctum et illustration accesserunt Lexicon Breve Rabbinico-Philosophicum et Index Latinos. Editio Nova, Sedulo recensita." Quarter tan calf with marbled boards. 616pp, right binding in gilt tooled quarter calf. Some foxing to pages and lightly tanned pages. Bumps and scuffs to cover consistent with age. Corners with wear and bumps.Johannes Buxtorf (December 25, 1564 – September 13, 1629) was a celebrated Hebraist, member of a family of Orientalists; professor of Hebrew for thirty-nine years at Basel and was known by the title, "Master of the Rabbis". His massive tome, De Synagoga Judaica (1st. ed. 1603), scrupulously documents the customs and society of German Jewry in the early modern period.

Brookline, Massachusetts, 1964. Privately published, very rare surviving anniversary book published at the dedication of The Young Israel of Brookline June 14, 1964. Blue cloth with stamped gilt titles and decorations. Unnumbered pages - our estimate is about 125. Half of the book is given in to congradulatory advertisements. There is some text covering some events and the history of the shul. It's charter is also reproduced. There are many black and white photographs. This book is very similiar in look and style to a yearbook. A paper cover has kept the book clean and in great condition. Please email if you'd like to verify the name or photograph of someone you think may be in the book. Included: Mr. Samuel C. Feuerstein; David G. Margolis; Rabbi Emanuel Forman; Dr, Saul Isserow; Dr. Samuel Dershowitz; Mrs. Lillian Freeman; Joseph Abelow. Also includes photographs of the building, nursery school; there are also many candid photographs of dedication related events (most of which… Read More

These books have a wealth of information bearing on genealogy and family, economic and social history, Jewish Law and the status of women. Jewish marriage contracts (Ketuba or Ketubbah) show the artistic taste of the lands in which Jews have resided. The Ketuba expresses the joy and jubilation of the marriage. The Ketubbah is a document recording the financial obligations which the husband undertakes toward his wife in respect of, and consequent to, their marriage, obligations which in principle are imposed on him by law. Most Jewish communities have followed the custom of decorating the Ketubbah. Includes marriage contracts from countries in the diaspora as disparate as India and Italy.
Two books inserted into slipcase. Each book has 116 pages with 16 black and white photographic illustrations of contracts, accompanying text on the opposite page plus 18 tipped-in color plates. Decorative endpapers. Text in Hebrew and English. Clean unmarked unread hardcover with light shelf wear to the dust jacket.

64 pp.

Farrar, Straus and Giroux, NY, 1973; First Edition, second printing; Signed; 8vo, 342 pages. Collection of 24 stories set in the United States and pre-war Poland. Very Good Plus, in a Very Good Plus dust jacket. Warmly inscribed, "With Love," and signed by the author to renowned Los Angeles philanthropist and patron of the arts Anna Bing Arnold and her husband Aerol. Clean, crisp, and bright, no chips or tears.

The Macmillan Company, NY, 1925; First Edition, second printing (June, 1925); 8vo, 377 pages; illustrated. First book by Rabbi Lewis Browne, a revealing history of the Jews, with 50 illustrated maps by the author. Widely regarded as one of the foremost comparative religionists of his day, Browne graduated Hebrew Union College in 1920 and was ordained rabbi to Temple Beth Israel in Waterbury, Ct. by Rabbi Stephen Wise. He left the rabbinate in 1926 to devote his time more fully to writing, and was thereafter much in demand on the national lecture circuit, where he was frequently teamed with Sinclair Lewis. Browne died a mysterious death in 1949 at his home in Santa Monica, California reportedly of "suicide by poison." Fine, in illustrated red cloth boards with gilt titles. Clean, crisp, bright, and sharp, binding tight, sound, and square. No ownership signatures or any other markings of any kind. A handsome copy.