Part 2 – October 2016

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1.     Ainsztein Reuben. Jewish Resistance in Nazi-Occupied Europe: with a historical survey of the Jew as fighter and soldier in the Diaspora. Barnes and Noble, 1974. 970 pp.dj torn at base of spine. several pages have slight pen marks in margin. Good +. Hardback & DJ.  (264485)    $110.00

2.     Aleksium Natalia (editor). Biuletyn Zydowskiego Instytutu Historycznego. Warsaw: Jewish Historic Institute, 1964. Nr 52  147 pp. paper yellowing and some loose pages articles in Polish pencil marks along side some articles, Lodz Lvov written in pen on cover filled with articles . Good-. Wrapper.  (264459)    $30.00

3.     Aleksium Natalia (editor). Biuletyn Zydowskiego Instytutu Historycznego. Warsaw: Jewish Historic Institute, 1967. Nr 62  158  pages articles in Polish pencil marks along side some articles, Yiddish words in red written on cover, filled with articles . Good. Wrapper.  (264458)    $30.00

4.     Alexander, Thomas and Beryl Parker. The New Education in the German Republic. NY: John Day Co., 1929. About schooling and the educational system in Weimar Germany. 8vo 387 pp.ex library with markings. Good condition. Hardcover .  (264402)    $10.00

5.     Anders W. Bez Ostatniego Rozdzizlu, Wspomnienia Z Lat 1939 – 1946. Montgomeryshire, 1950. 445 pp. tear to crown of spine “Without the Last Chapter Memoirs of the Years 1939-1946” Good-. Hardcover .

General of the Polish Army fighting the Nazis with the British. “Anders Army”  (264445)    $20.00

6.     Arad Yitzhak. Partisan, The: From the Valley of Death to Mount Zion. Holocaust Library, 1979. 241 pp. slight pen marks pastedown. Very Good-. Paperback.

Partisan in the Lithuanian forests fighting the Nazis  (264451)    $18.00

7.     Azema Jean Pierre. Le Regime de Vichy et les Francais. Fayard, 1996. 788 pp bookplate. Very Good. Paperback.  (264367)    $10.00

8.     Bachrach, Susan ( General Editor). Liberation 1945. Washington: USHMM, 1997. .128 pp. published in conjunction with exhibit, slight crease to back cover. new. wrapper.

Excellent collection of articles on Liberation, Confronting Atrocities, DPS, War Crimes Trials, Liberators. Many photos  (264501)    $18.00

9.     Bass, David (editor). Bibliography of Yiddish Books on the Catastrophe and Heroism: Bibliographical Series No. 11. NY: Yad Washem & YIVO, 1970. 54 pp. slight crease to cover. new. wrapper.

Second supplementary part of Vol. 3 in the Series.  (264399)    $10.00

10.     Bauer, Otto. Der Aufstand der osterreichischen Arbeiter: Seine Ursachen und seine Wickungen. Prag: Deutsche sozialdem Arbeitpartei, 1934. 2nd. 12mo 32 pp.rebound in wrapper, lacks part of title page. Good. wrapper.

Fighting the fascists  (264427)    $15.00

11.     Benes Edvard (preface). Two Years of German oppression in Czechoslovakia. London: Czech Ministry, 1941. .151 pages slight library marks. Good. Wrapper.

Includes material on the Persecution of Christian Churches and the Persecution of the Jews,destruction of Czech Schools  (264414)    $12.00

12.     Berenstein, Tatiana and Rutkowski, Adam. Assistance to the Jews in Poland 1939-1945. Polonia, 1963. 83 pp.covers bit worn. Good. Stiff Wrapper.  (264449)    $16.00

13.     Berghash Mark . Jews and Germans, Aspects of the True Self (CMP Bulletin Volume 4 Number 5). Calif Museum of Photography, 1985. 45 pp. water stains to last cornes of pages not affecting text Haunting photos and interviews with survivors. Good-. Stiff Wrapper.  (264469)    $21.00

14.     Berkowitz Judith. Young voices from the ghetto : a collection of children’s and young people’s poetry written in the ghettos of World War II. NEJS Brandeis, 1979. 60 pp. stapled mimeograph. Good. Stiff Wrapper.  (264457)    $36.00

15.     Braham Randolph editor. Perspectives on the Holocaust. SSM, 1984. 501 pp. dj torn. Good +. Hardcover & Dust Jacket.  (264503)    $23.00

16.     Brose, Eric. Christian Labor and the Politics of Frustration in Imperial Germany. Washington: Catholic University, 1985. 8vo 410 pp. new. Hardback & DJ.  (264431)    $9.00

17.     Browning Christopher. The Final Solution and the German Foreign Office; A Study of Referat D III of Abteilung Deutschland 1940-43. Holmes and Meier, 1978. 276 pp. bottom of spine slightly bumped. Very Good. Hardcover .  (264498)    $72.00

18.     Congdon, Lee. Exile and Social Thought: Hungarian Intellectuals in Germany and Austria: 1919-1933. Princeton: Princeton UP, 1991. 8vo 376 pp. new. Hardback & DJ.  (264417)    $10.00

19.     Coudenhove-Kalergi, Heinrich (Richard) Graf (inscribed). Das Wesen des Antisemitismus; Antisemitismus nach dem Weltkrieg. Leipzig: Pan Europa, 1932. 12.-15. Tausend. 284 pp. dj is detached, tears to backstrip, paper yellowing but not brittle. Fair-Good. Wrapper.

Inscribed (to Ernst Bardach) by R.N Coudenhove-Kalergi, May 1934  (264420)    $20.00

20.     Eilati Shalom. Crossing the River. Alabama, 2009. 293 pp. Very Good. Hardcover & Dust Jacket.

“Crossing the River” is a personal memoir–and more. Against the backdrop of Lithuania’s occupation–first by the Red Army, next by the Germans, and then again by the Russians–it is a story reflected through the prism of a sharp-eyed young child, Shalom Eilati. His story starts in the occupied Kovno Ghetto and ends with his flight across the Soviet border, through Poland and Germany and finally, his arrival in Palestine. (from the blurb)  (264429)    $10.00

21.     Fox Tamar. Inherited Memories; Israeli Children of Holocaust Survivors. Cassell, 1999. 198 pp. Very good condition. Paperback.

First part the children pesent their parents’ past. The second part is a review of the professional literature on “second generation” children. Specifics to children growing up in Israel in the 1950s and 1960s , issues of Israeli politics also  (264373)    $5.00

22.     Friedman Philip and Gar Joseph. Bibliografye fun Yidishe Bikher Vegn Khurban un Gevurah/ Bibliography of Yiddish Books on the Catastrophe and Heroism Joint Documentary Projects Bibliographical Series No. 3. Yad Vashem, 1962. 330 pp. number taped to spine ands light library mark on fep in plastic cover. Good +. Hardcover & Dust Jacket.  (264406)    $25.00

23.     Geve Thomas. Es gibt hier keine Kinder: Auschwitz/ Groß-Rosen/ Buchenwald – Zeichnungen eines kindlichen Historikers. gottingen: Wallstein, 1997. 152 pp. Good. Hardcover .

The drawings were of Auschwitz, Gross Rosen and Buchenwald by Geve himself. He hid when Buchenwald was evacuated and was rescued with the other 900 children who hid. He began making these color pencil drawings of all his experiences in the three camps at that time. Small quarto oblong.  (264440)    $85.00

24.     Gilbert Martin. The Righteous The Unsung Heroes of the Holocaust. Holt, 2003. 529 pp dj creased at top of spine. Very Good. Hardcover & Dust Jacket.

True stories of rescuers of Jews during the Shoah, many previously inknown.  (264410)    $9.00

25.     Gruber, Samuel. I Chose Life. NY: Shengold, 1978. 158 pp.dj creased. Good +. Hardback & DJ.

With the partisans fighting the Nazis. inscribed  (264438)    $12.00

26.     Grunspan Roman. The Uprising of the Death Box of Warsaw : a documentary book about Jewish and Christian lives under Nazi rule in the Warsaw ghetto and in the non-Jewish region of Warsaw. Vantage, 1978. 222 pp. dj torn, tape on spine, Memoir of Resistance fighter in Warsaw Ghetto, survived and fought with “Umbrella Group” against the Nazis. Good. Hardcover & Dust Jacket.  (264446)    $68.00

27.     Guber, Rivka (compiler). Village of the Brothers (Memoirs of the Members of Kfar Ahim). NY: Shengold, 1979. 192 pp. dj tears . Very Good. Hardback & DJ.

Israeli community whose members are Eastern European survivors of the Nazi Holocaust; twenty seven memoirs.  (260704)    $16.00

28.     Gutman, Yisrael, (editor). Patterns of Jewish Leadership in Nazi Europe: 1933-1945. Jerusalem: Yad Vashem, 1979. 419 pp. Very Good. Hardcover .

Proceedings of the Third Yad Vashem Int Historical Conference  (264492)    $30.00

29.     Horthy Admiral Nicholas. Memoirs. Garland, 1978. 268 pp. Very Good. Hardcover .

Head of Hungary and his foreign policy led him into an alliance with Germany in the 1930s..Controversial figure in his dealing and compliance with Hitler,Hitler finally invaded Hungary.and ultimately had Horthy arrested.  (264495)    $36.00

30.     Johnpoll Bernard. The Politics of Futility The General Jewish Workers Bund of Poland, 1917-1943. Cornell, 1967. 297 pp. slight tears to dj. Good +. Hardcover & Dust Jacket.  (264491)    $32.00

31.     Kahn Leon. No Time to Mourn: The True Story of a Jewish Partisan Fighter. Laurelton Pess, 1974. 211 pp. Long inscription from the author in Yiddish. Born in Eisiskes.Lithuania. Details the complicity of the local population in murdering of the Jews. Became active partisan fighter, After the War able to emigrate to Vancourver, Good. Paperback.  (264436)    $25.00

32.     Kallay Nicholas. Hungarian Premier: a Personal Account of a Nation’s Struggle in the Second World War. Greenwood, 1970. 518 pp. Very Good. Hardcover .

Was a Hungarian politician who served as Prime Minister of Hungary during World War II, from 9 March 1942 to 22 March 1944.Removed by Horthy, captured by Nazis and survived Dachau and Mauthausen.  (264496)    $36.00

33.     Kantorowicz, Hermann. The Spirit of British Policy: And the Myth of the Encirclement of Germany. London: Allen + Unwin, 1931. 8vo 539 pp. crown bruised, small piece of fep missing. Good. cloth.

Was Professor at University of Law at Univ of Kiel, fled to the USA and then taught at Cambridge, died 1940.Sternfeld: s 255  (264378)    $12.00

34.     Klotzel, C.Z. Eine Judische Jugend in Hamburg Vor dem Ersten Weltkrieg. na: Verein fur Hamburg. Gesch., 1987. 52 pp. Good +. wrapper.  (264365)    $15.00

35.     Knapp W. France: Partial Eclipse From the Stavisky Riots to the Nazi Conquest. London: Macdonald, 1972. 150 pp. good. Hardback & DJ.  (264364)    $15.00

36.     Koehl Robert. RKFDV: German resettlement and population policy, 1939-1945 a history of the Reich Commision for the Strengthening of Germandom (Harvard Historical Monographs). Harvard University Press, 1957. 263 pp. dj chiped. Very Good-. Hardcover & Dust Jacket.  (264497)    $95.00

37.     Kohn, Moshe (editor). Jewish Resistance During the Holocaust: Proceedings of the Conference on Manifestations of Jewish Resistance. Jerusalem: Yad Vashem, 1971. 562 pp.dj worn and torn creases to end papers sfep. Good condition. Hardcover & Dust Jacket.  (264487)    $.0

38.     Kostyrchenko Gennadi. Out of the Red Shadows; Anti-Semitism in Stalin’s Russia. Amherst NY: Prometheus, 1995. 333 pages . Very good. Hardback & DJ.

Includes the Tragedy of the Jewish Committee during the War and after , Ethnocide, Escalation of the Anti Jewish Purges, the “Doctors’ Plot” etc  (264472)    $15.00

39.     Kotlar, Helen . We Lived in a Grave. NY: Shengold, 1980. 124 pp. good. Hardback & DJ.

Memoir of the Holocaust in Poland.  (264437)    $10.00

40.     Kowalski, Isaac , compiler. Anthology of Armed Jewish Resistance: 1939-45: Volume 1. NY: Jewish Combatants, 1984. 645 pp. accounts of partisans, dj torn. Good +. Hardback & DJ.  (264461)    $48.00

41.     Kowalski, Isaac , compiler. Anthology of Armed Jewish Resistance: 1939-45: Volume 3. NY: Jewish Combatants, 1984. 647 pp. accounts of partisans, dj torn. Good +. Hardback & DJ.  (264462)    $43.00

42.     Kowalski, Isaac , compiler. Anthology nf Armed Jewish Resistance: 1939-45: Volume 4. NY: Jewish Combatants, 1992. 648 pp. accounts of partisans, slight tears first few pages. Good +. Hardback & DJ.  (264460)    $36.00

43.     Lappin, Elena (editor). Jewish Voices, German Words: Growing Up in Postwar Germany and Austria. CT: Catbird Press, 1994. 1st. 8vo 301 pp. new. Hardback & DJ.  (264403)    $7.00

44.     Latour Annie. Jewish Resistance in France 1940-1944. Holocaust Library, 1981. 287 pp, written by an acitve member of the Resistance. Good. Paperback.  (264432)    $16.00

45.     Le Francois Louis. J’ai Faim…! Journal d’un Francais den France depuis l’Armistice. NY: Brentano, 1942. 32o pages. Good. Wrapper.  (264430)    $10.00

46.     Lewin Isaac. These will I remember! : Biographies of Leaders of Religious Jewry in Europe who perished during the years 1939 1945 Volume 1. Research Institute of Religious Jewry, 1956. 3268pp. dj torn, In Hebrew. Good +. Hardcover & Dust Jacket.  (264452)    $55.00

47.     Lewis, Helen. A Time to Speak. NY: Carroll and Graf, 1994. 132 pp.dj tears. Good +. Hardback & DJ.

Holocaust memoir by survivor of Terezin and Auschwitz.  (264393)    $10.00

48.     Machover, J M. Dix Ans Apres la Chute de Hitler; 1945-1955. Paris: Editions du Centre, 1957. 306 pages, number on spine and slight library marks. Good +. Hardcover .  (264413)    $10.00

49.     Mahler, Raphael. Hasidism and the Jewish Enlightenment: Their Confrontation in Galicia and Poland in the First Half of the 19th Century. Phil: JPS, 1985. 412 pp.dj chipped Background material to Jewish life in the diaspora of Galicia and Poland in the 1850s and approach to life. good. Hardback & DJ.  (264489)    $23.00

50.     Mark Ber. Powstanie W Ghetcie Warszawskiem (Bibljoteczka Zwiazku Patrjotow Polskich W Zsrr). Moscow: Zwiazku Patrojotow Polskich W Zsrr, 1944. 70 pp. 12 mo. taped spine, first eight pages lack small pieces at bottom side not affecting text paper in good shape. Good-. Stiff Wrapper.

First account of the Warsaw Ghetto uprising by participant and published in USSR.  (264453)    $385.00

51.     Mendelsohn John introduction. Relief in Hungary and the Failure of the Joel Brand Mission Volume 15. Garland, 1982. 247 pp. Volume 15 in an 18 volume series The Holocaust. Very Good. Hardcover .  (264493)    $58.00

52.     Mendelsohn, Ezra. The Jews of East Central Europe Betwen the World Wars. Bloomington: Indiana UP, 1983. 300 pp.dj torn. Good +. Hardback & DJ.  (264396)    $10.00

53.     Milner Sonja. Sonja: Survival in War and Peace. Shengold, 1984. 91 pp. Born in Krewo near Vilna, Memoir survived labor camps and concentration camps. Good +. Paperback.  (264455)    $23.00

54.     Muller, Filip. Eyewitness Auschwitz: Three Years in the Gas Chambers. NY: Stein and Day, 1981. 180 pp. slight library mark and number taped to spine. Good +. Hardcover .

Testimony of a man who saw the deaths of millions and survived. Essential document.  (264434)    $15.00

55.     Neufeld Michael. The Rocket and the Reich: Peenemunde and the Coming of the Ballistic Missile Era. Free Press, 1993. 368 pp. Very Good. Hardcover & Dust Jacket.  (264483)    $12.00

56.     Paape Abraham Harry. De Dagboeken van Anne Frank. Amsterdam: Bakker, 1986. Rijksinstituut voor Oorlogsdocumentatie 714 pages dj torn , foxing to top fore edge. Good condition. Hardback & DJ.  (264397)    $25.00

57.     Papen, Franz von. Memoirs. NY: Dutton, 1953. 634 pp. water mark on one of first pages. good. cloth.

Politician and statesman who played a major role in Hitler’s drive to power.Explains his reasons for support and opposition.  (264470)    $9.00

58.     Pinkus Benjamin editor. National Jewish Solidarity in the Modern Period. Ben Gurion, 1988. 380 pp. In Hebrew with essays on the SHoah. Very Good. Hardcover & Dust Jacket.  (264482)    $26.00

59.     Presser, Dr J. The Destruction of Dutch Jewry. Dutton, 1969. 1st. 556 pp.dj worn and torn, evidence of paper clip three pages slight brown stains. good. Hardcover & Dust Jacket.  (264490)    $12.00

60.     Robinson, Jacob and Sachs, Henry. The Holocaust: The Nuremberg Evidence: Part One: Documents. Jerusalem: Yad Vashem, 1976. 8vo 370 pp. Very Good. cloth.

Digest, Index and Chronological Tables prepared by Robinson and Sachs. Joint project of YIVO and Yad Vashem.  (264500)    $48.00

61.     Robinson, Jacob. Uprooted Jews in the Immediate PostWar World; Macmillan Co. N.Y.: International Conciliation, 1943. 291-310 pp. reprint. good. Stiff Wrapper.  (265023)    $16.00

62.     Rosenberg, Maxine. Hiding to Survive: Stories of Jewish Children Rescued from the Holocaust. NY: Clarion Books, 1994. 166 pp. Good. Hardback & DJ.  (265320)    $5.00

63.     Rubinowicza, Dawida. Pamietnik. Ksiazka, 1960. 122 pp. lacks covers  In the original Polish Diary of young boy from 1940-41 before his deporatation and murder at Treblinka. Good. Paperback.  (264447)    $15.00

64.     Russin, Suzanne Sturmthal. Democracy Under Fire –Memoirs of a European Socialist –Adolf Sturmthal. Durham: Duke, 1989. 8vo 207 pp. refugee labor leader, Austrian Social Democrat, material on Austria post WW1 and 1920s 1930s . Very good+. Hardback & DJ.

Refugee labor leader  (264366)    $8.00

65.     Saidel, Rochelle. Never Too Late to Remember: The Politics Behind New York City’s Holocaust Museum. Ny: Holmes and Meier, 1996. 8vo 290 pp. new. Hardback & DJ.  (264405)    $9.00

66.     Segal Lore. Other People’s Houses. Harcourt, Brace, 1964. 307 pp. Sent from Vienna on a kindertransport, eventually came to England, shunted to various homes, her parents got out and became servants. After the War came to Dominican Republic while waiting for visa to USA. Beautifully written work. Also wrote Her First American and Lucinella. Very Good. Hardcover & Dust Jacket.  (264443)    $45.00

67.     Simonow Konstanty. Obóz zagłady (extermination Camp). Moskwa: Wydawn. literatury w językach obcych, 1944. 24 pp. paper yellowing but not brittle, somewhat fragile, with about 10 pictures of the Lublin camp, one page of photos caught in half and may be lacking half a page of the photo, tear along side of cover lacking about inch triangle, next few pages creases, drawing on cove of smoke belching from an extermination camp chimney. Good-. Stiff Wrapper.

Simonov was a poet and playwright and during the War was a Soviet correspondent,  (264454)    $175.00

68.     Spalek, John. Deutsche Exilliteratur seit 1933: Kalifornien: Zwei Bande. Bern: Francke, 1976. 867+213 pp. Very Good. Paperback.

Exile writers in Hollywood and California. Text and Bibliography. Important reference.  (264385)    $36.00

69.     Sturmthal, Adolf. The Tragedy of European Labor 1918-1939. N.Y.: Columbia University Press, 1943. 389 pp.  Good +. Hardcover .

chapters on Hitler Socialist Foreign Policy and Fascism The Popular Front Underground Movement  (264372)    $15.00

70.     Szajkowski, Zosa (inscribed by). Analytical Franco-Jewish Gazetteer 1939-1945  With an Introduction to Some Problems in writing the History of the Jews in France During World War II. NY: AAJR, 1966. 350 pp. Important French American Jewish historian whose life was cut short by the discovery of his history of thefts from Jewish archives, See Lisa Leff’s book The Archive Thief. Very Good-. Hardcover .  (264486)    $85.00

71.     Tahan Ilana. Memorial Volumes to Jewish Communities Destroyed in the Holocaust: A bibliography of British library holdings. British Library, 2004. Royal octavo, black cloth with gold lettering, color frontispiece photo, xiv, 89 pp. Very Good. Hardcover .

Memorial Books in the sections organized by Countries and Regions and in the Encyclopedia Volumes, index of Towns and Villages, index of Variant Spellings, List of Abbreviations,  306 volumes are catalogued Selective Bibliography Introduction by Martin Gilbert.  (258453)    $15.00

72.     These Four Men: Winston Churchill, Joseph Stalin, Adold Hitler Franklin D. Roosevelt; a Series of Radio Dramatizations Presented By the National Broadcasting Company. NBC, 1941. 67 pp. ex library with markings, first few pages slight tears to top corners. Good. Hardcover .

Includes letter from NBC vice president to local library promoting the work.  (264422)    $10.00

73.     Treffen ehemaliger Eschweger Mitburger judischen Glaubens in der Kreisstadt Eschwege vom 25 Oktober bis 01 November 1989 Zeitungsartikel. Eschwege: Zeitungen, 1989. about 50 pages of xeoroxes of articles appearing in the local papers of visits and reunions of former residents of Eschwege who had fled in the 1930s from their homes. Good. Wrapper.  (264415)    $35.00

74.     Trunk, Isaiah. Jewish Responses to Nazi Persecution: Collective and Individual Behavior in Extremis. Stein, 1979. 368 pp. Important work dj bit worn and torn. Good +. Hardcover .  (264488)    $18.00

75.     Turner, Henry. German Big Business and the Rise of Hitler. Oxford: Oxford UP, 1985. 504 pp. Very Good. Hardback & DJ.  (264502)    $9.00

76.     Wallace Bert. Der Sturm zieht auf: Die Lebenserinnerungen eines deutschen Juden bis zu seiner Flucht 1939. Ahrimann, 1988. 127 pp. Very Good. Stiff Wrapper.  (264441)    $22.00

77.     Winkler Gabriela et al. Schatten des Zweiten Weltkrieges : eine Standortbestimmung; Tagung der Schweizerischen Gesellschaft für Aussenpolitik, 5. April 1997 im Hotel Bellevue, Bern = Le rôle de la Suisse pendant la Seconde Guerre Mondiale. Schweizerische Ges. für Aussenpolitik, , 1997. 109 pp.Conference proceedings. Very Good. Stiff Wrapper.  (264442)    $36.00

78.     Winks Robin. Cloak and Gown; Scholars in America’s Secret War. Collins Harvill, 1987. A study of the OSS and its work after the War; 606 pages. Very good condition. Hardback & DJ.  (264398)    $12.00

79.     Wolfenstein Hans. Von Juden in Steglitz. Beitrage zur Ortsgeschichte. Hans Wolfesntein, 1990. 76 pp. includes Shoah. Good. Wrapper.  (264409)    $15.00

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1.     Alvarez. Nothing Sacred: Nazi Espionage Against the Vatican, 1939-1945. Cass, 1997. 190 pp. Very Good. Paperback.  (263930)    $25.00

2.     Apenszlak, Jacob (editor). The Black Book of Polish Jewry: An Account of the Martyrdom of Polish Jewry Under the Nazi Occupation. NY: Roy Publishers, 1943. 343 pp. hinge starting, dj torn. Good. Hardcover & Dust Jacket.

Graphic description of the Nazi extermination policy. Note the date of publication.  (264614)    $25.00

3.     Arnal, Oscar. Ambivalent Alliance: The Catholic Church and the Action Francaise: 1899-1939. Pittsburgh: Univ. of Pittsburgh, 1985. 12mo 258 pp. Very Good. cloth.

Anti Semitic movement  (264343)    $15.00

4.     Balaban Dr Majer. Di Idn Sztot Lublin. Buenos Aires: Central Farband, 1946. 190 pp..embossed stamp tp  In Yiddish . good. Hardcover .

History of Jewish life in Lublin pre Holocaust.First published in 1919.  (264064)    $18.00

5.     Bar-Giora Bamberger, Naftali. Der judische Friedhof in Schmieheim : Memor-Buch; Zwei Bande. Gemeinde Kippenheim, 1999. 1078 pp. in two volumes, filled with pictures of graves. folio Includes Lagerplan. Very Good-. Hardcover .

Photo of each stone with explanation/translation of the Hebrew text into German  (264094)    $185.00

6.     Bartoszewski Wladyslaw. Warszawski pierscien smierci 1939-1944. Zachodnia Agencja Prasowa, 1967. 400 pp.dj worn and torn Warsaw Ring of Death, during the War. Good +. Hardcover & Dust Jacket.  (264336)    $27.00

7.     Bauminger, Roza. Przy pikrynie i trotylu. Krakow: Central Com Polish Jews, 1946. 62 pp.ex library. good. wrapper.

Memoir of time in a forced labor camp from Nov 1943 to July 1944. Skarzysk-Kamienna labor camp in Poland. In Polish.  (264290)    $25.00

8.     Benewick Robert. Political Violence and Public Order a study of British Fascism. allen lane , 1969. 304 pages, ex library with markings and pocket Material on Moseley and the Blackshirts. Good. Hardcover .  (264270)    $15.00

9.     Berger Jospeh. Displaced Persons: Growing Up American after the Holocaust. NY: Scribner, 2001. 347 pp. Near Fine. Hardback & DJ.

Refugee from Europe and experiences in USA after the War,became NY Times reporter  (264591)    $8.00

10.     Berges, Max. Cold Pogrom. Phil: JPS, 1939. 280 pp. dj tears . Good. Hardcover & Dust Jacket.

Novel of the persecution of the Jews in Nazi Germany. Berges fled Germany for Shanghai then Manila and came to the USA in Dec 1938 with the aid of Albert Einstein.  (264621)    $15.00

11.     Bickel Shlomo editor. Pinkas Kolomey. Kolomeyer Memorial Book, 1957. 442 pp. Memorial Book In Yiddish. Very Good. Hardcover .  (264068)    $75.00

12.     Butler nicholas (preface). Report of the International Commission to inquire into the causes and conduct of the Balkan Wars. Washington: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, 1914. cloth good+ ex library 405 pages with facsimiles and map amazing documentation .

Important documentation of the slaughters in the Balkans; region of Albania, Serbia, Bulgaria, Macedonia, Rumania, Turkey. Reads like foretelling of the Second World War slaughters and genocide.  (264191)    $20.00

13.     Chant Christopher editor. Warfare and the Third Reich The Rise and Fall of Hitlers Armed Forces. Smithmark, 1996. 446 pp. sfep. Very Good. Hardcover & Dust Jacket.  (260836)    $15.00

14.     Claman Henry. Jewish Images in the Christian Church: Art As the Mirror of the Jewish-Christian Conflict, 200-1250 CE. Mercer Univ, 2000. 210 pp. Very Good. Hardcover & Dust Jacket.  (264183)    $8.00

15.     Colby, Bainbridge (introduction). The Case of Civilization Against Hitlerism –Madison Sq. Garden. NY: American Jewish Congress /R.Ballou, 1934. 145 pp. number on spine and slight library stamp on fep. Good. Hardcover .

Includes addresses by Roger Baldwin, Abraham Cahan, Miriam Beard, Stephen Wise, Fiorello Laguardia .22 addresses.  (264237)    $15.00

16.     Collette Christine (editor). Jews, Labour and the Left, 1918-1948. Ashgate, 2000. 186 pp. Very good condition. Cloth.

Eight interesting essays including Gail Malmgreen on The Jewish Labour Committee and Anti Nazi Activitiy 1933-41, Jason Heppell on the Jewish Section of the Communist Party of Great Britain 1936-45  (264649)    $6.00

17.     Cornwell John. Hitler’s Scientists : Science, War, and the Devil’s Pact. Viking, 2003. Octavo in dust jacket, xx, 535 pp., b/w photos, notes, selected bibliography, index . Very Good. Hardcover .  (264534)    $8.00

18.     Cuomo, Glenn (editor). National Socialist Cultural Policy. NY: St Martin, 1995. 252 pp.dj slight chips . Very Good. Hardback & DJ.

Eight essays examine official Nazi attitude to theater, film architecture art and literature. Campaigns against the Weimar period.  (263966)    $40.00

19.     Curtis, Michael. Verdict on Vichy: Power and Prejudice in the Vichy Regime. Arcade, 2002. Octavo in dust jacket, xx, 419 pp., maps, b/w illustrations, fate of some of the collaborators, select bibliography, notes, index . Very Good. Hardcover .  (264535)    $8.00

20.     Dagan, Avigdor. The Court Jesters: a novel. Phil: JPS, 1989. 180 pp. new. Hardback & DJ.

Four men, inmates in a Nazi concentration camp who survive by amusing their tormentors.  (264632)    $5.00

21.     De Gruyter W Jos. Het werk van Kathe Kollwitz. Den Haag: : De Baanbreker, 1932. XVII + 61 illustrations. Very Good. Boards.  (264123)    $36.00

22.     Diehl, James. Paramilitary Politics in Weimar Germany. Bloomington: Indiana UP, 1977. 8vo 406 pp. good. Hardback & DJ.  (264187)    $20.00

23.     Distel, Barbara, et al. Dachau Review: History of Nazi Concentration Camps: Studies, Reports, Documents: Vol. 1. Dachau: Comite International de Dachau, 1988. 12mo 240 pp. Very Good. wrapper.

Excellent collection of essays and recollections/memories of the camps.  (264650)    $10.00

24.     Dobroszycki, Lucjan, (editor). The Chronicle of the Lodz Ghetto 1941-44. New Haven: Yale, 1984. Day by day reports of life in the Ghetto. Documents. 8vo 551 pp. good. Hardback & DJ.  (264640)    $15.00

25.     Doron David. Ghetto Kishinev The Final Pogrom. Kiryat Sefer, 1977. 170 pp. In Hebrew dj torn. Very Good-. Hardcover & Dust Jacket.  (264080)    $55.00

26.     Even-Shoshan, Shlomo. Minsk, ir ve-em (Minsk, Jewish Mother-City) Memorial Anthology Volume One. Jerusalem: The Association of Olim from Minsk and its Surroundings in Israel, 1975. 695 pp. In Hebrew. Very Good. Hardcover .  (264076)    $47.00

27.     Fishman, Joshua, editor. Studies on Polish Jewry: 1919-1939: The Interplay of Social, Economic and Political Factors in the Struggle of a Minority… NY: YIVO, 1974. in English and Yiddish. 8vo 294+536pp. (in one volume) book plate. Very Good. cloth.  (264637)    $15.00

28.     Gay Peter. Die Republik der Aussenseiter. Geist und Kultur in der Weimarer Zeit, 1918 – 1933. Fischer, 1970. 256 pp dj torn. Good +. Hardcover & Dust Jacket.  (251425)    $25.00

29.     Genizi, Haim. America’s Fair Share: The Admission and Resettlement of Displaced Persons: 1945-52. Detroit: Wayne State, 1993. 273 pp. Very Good. Hardback & DJ.  (264053)    $10.00

30.     Gispen Kees. Poems in Steel; National Socialism and the Politics of Inventing from Weimar to Bonn. NY: Berghahn, 2002. 356 pages. Very good. Cloth.

Issues dealing with inventions and patents  (264358)    $10.00

31.     Glaser Marlis. Bilder uber Menschen und Bucher, Bäume und Fruchte Neue Arbeiten 2008 – 2012 Recent works: – pictures about people and books, trees and fruits. Biberacher, 2012. 191 pp.Marlis Glaser’s paintings reflect on the poems of Else Lasker Schuler and interviews with and experiences of German Jewish refugees in Palestine/Israel and their children today. Very Good. Hardcover .

Bilder zu Liebesgedichten von Else Lasker Schuler Baume und Baum Paare und Abraham aber pflantze….  (264095)    $43.00

32.     Glazman Yosef ( GlassmanJoseph) editor. Pirsume Muzeʼon ha-loḥamim ṿeha-parṭizanim : Tel Aviv: Muesuem of the Combatants and Partisans, 1983. 93 pp. In Hebrew with 30 pp. in English. Good. Stiff Wrapper.  (264362)    $40.00

33.     Goda Norman. Tales from Spandau; Nazi Criminals and the Cold War. Cambridge, 2007. 290 pp. Very Good. Hardcover & Dust Jacket.

Sentenced to long prison sentences at the Trial of the Major War Criminals at Nuremberg, seven of Adolf Hitler’s closest associates – Rudolf Hess, Albert Speer, Karl Donitz, Erich Raeder, Walther Funk, Konstantin von Neurath, and Baldur von Schirach – were to have become forgotten men at Berlin’s Spandau Prison. Instead they became the focus of a bitter four decade tug-of-war between the Soviet Union and the Western Allies – a dispute on the fault line of the Cold War itself which drew in heads-of-state, military strategists, powerful businessmen, vocal church leaders, old-world aristocrats, international spies, and neo-Nazis. Drawing on long-secret records from four countries, Norman J. W. Goda provides an exciting new perspective on the terrifying shadow thrown by Nazi Germany on the Cold War years, and how that shadow helped to influence the Cold War itself. (from the blurb)  (264322)    $10.00

34.     Goldner Franz. Das Einsame Gewissen Die Osterreichische Emigration 1938 bis 1945. Wien: Herold, 1972. 364 pages inscription book plate. Very good. Cloth.  (264333)    $9.00

35.     Goldsmith Martin . Die Unausloschliche Symphonie: Musik Und Liebe Im Schatten Des Dritten Reiches – Eine Deutsch-Judische Geschichte. Herder, 2002. 380 pp. Very Good. Hardcover & Dust Jacket.  (263967)    $30.00

36.     Greenspan Sol. Jews in Plotzk (Yidn in Plotsk). A and H, 1960. 325 pp. In Yiddish, spine worn, top corners torn. Good +. Hardcover .  (264077)    $45.00

37.     Grussgott Abraham compiler. Be-ovdan moladeti : yad va-shem li-kehilah kedoshah Bardeyov, Tsekhoslovakyah : mi-yom hivasdah ve-ad hurbanah; Bardejov remembered : a memorial to the Jewish community of Bardejov, Czechoslovakia, 1734-1945. Brooklyn: 1099. 189 pp. English Hebrew and Yiddish with images and lists of names Memorial Book. Very Good. Hardcover .  (264254)    $95.00

38.     Hans Sarkowicz, Hrsg. Hitlers Kunstler: Die Kultur Im Dienst Des Nationalsozialismus. Insel Verlag, 2004. 453 pp.,contains 11 essays by various contributors on particular branches of the arts during the ThirdRreich – painting, design, theater, architecture, music, among others. Very Good. Hardcover .  (263965)    $45.00

39.     Hertz Friedrich. Rasse und Kultur; Eine kritsiche Untersuchung der Rassentheorien. Leipzig: Kroner, 1915. zweite auflage . 421 pages tear to spine covers worn some pages creased or dogeared at bottom at conclusion of book. Good. Cloth.

Chapters on aryans and Semitics, on Judaism and Race, on he German character and Race, points out absurdities of Race and counters Chamberlain and Gobineau  (264342)    $20.00

40.     Hoegner, Wilhelm. Flucht vor Hitler. Erinnerungen an die Kapitulation der ersten deutschen Republik 1933. nymphenburger, 1978. 295 pp. dj torn. Good +. Hardcover & Dust Jacket.  (251427)    $17.00

41.     Hoffmann, Moses. Der Geldhandel der deutschen Juden während des Mittelalters bis zum Jahre 1350; Ein Beitrag zur deutschen Wirtschaftsgeschichte im Mittelalter
. Duncker, 1910. Staats- und sozialwissenschaftliche Forschungen, Heft 152. 236 pp. number on spine and slight library stamp on fep. Good-. Boards.  (264236)    $25.00

42.     Horn Josef. Main ḥoreve heim a idis stetl in Poiln tzwišn beide welṭ-milḥomes. Buenos Aires: Cultura, 1946. 155 pp.In Yiddish, cover and first page disbound, inscribed by aihtor, paper fragile, reading copy. Fair. Stiff Wrapper.  (264089)    $35.00

43.     Hornstein Gail. To Redeem One Person is to redeem the World: The Life of Frieda Fromm-Reichmann. NY: Free Press, 2000. 478 pp. new. Hardback & DJ.

Extraordinary life story of German Jewish refugee analyst who came from an Orthodox background and was E Fromm’s first wife, “Torahpeutics”  (264203)    $12.00

44.     House of the Wannsee Conference. The Wannsee Conference and the Genocide of the European Jews; guide and reader to the permanent exhibit in the House of the Wannsee Conference. Wannsee, 2002. Third Edition. 204 pp. filled with documents and photos. Very Good. Paperback.  (264243)    $7.00

45.     Huberband, Rabbi Shimon. Kiddush Hashem: Jewish Religious and Cultural Life in Poland During the Holocaust. Hoboken: Ktav, 1987. 8vo 474 pp. Very Good. Paperback.  (264641)    $8.00

46.     Hurstfield Julian. America and the French Nation 1939-1945. UNC, 1986. 308 pp. Very Good. Hardback & DJ.  (264055)    $10.00

47.     Jaffa Joshu. BeGetto Novogordok (In the Novogrod Ghetto and the Partisan Resistance); The Partisan Resisatnce in the Stronghold of the Bielski Brothers Band. Tel Aviv: Irgun Yotze Novograd BeYisrael, 1988. 392 pp. In Hebrew. Very Good. Hardcover .  (264081)    $85.00

48.     Katzenelson Jizchak Biermann Wolf. Dos Lied Vunem Ojsgehargetn Jidischn volk-Großer Gesang Vom Ausgerotteten Jüdischen Volk. Kiepenheuer, 1994. 237 pp.slight stains to cover . Good +. Hardcover & Dust Jacket.

Katzenelson was murdered at Aushcwitz. manuscript of his poem and Biermann’s German translation. Essay by Biermann also.  (264317)    $30.00

49.     Kerr Judith. The Other Way Round. Coward McAnn, 1975. 255 pp ex library with pocket  Novel for children of Jewish refugee family/children in London displaced by the War in early 1940s and finding ways to survive. Good. Hardcover & Dust Jacket.

Judith Kerr fled Nazi Germany with her family in 1933 and after a stay in Switzerland and France arrived in England in 1936. She is also the author of When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit  (264334)    $14.00

50.     Kluge, Alexander. Case Histories: Stories. NY: Holmes and Meier, 1988. 203 pp. new. Hardback & DJ.

Collection of 11 stories of German people between 1933-1960,a camp guard, two camp inmates, friends at a funeral,contactless. Kluge is also known as a filmmaker in Germany.  (251647)    $20.00

51.     Kolinsky Eva. After the Holocaust Jewish Survivors in Germany after 1945. Pimlico, 2004. 288 pp. Very Good. Paperback.  (264324)    $7.00

52.     Komitees Judisches Kriegsarchiv. Judisches Archiv; Mitteilungen des Komitees Judisches Kriegsarchiv. Wien: R Lowit, 1915-1916. Numbers 1, 2/3, 4/5, 6/7, 8/9: each issue about 45 pages. number on spine and library marks free end paper. Good +. Boards.

Articles on Austrian Jews in the War, with names of those honored with medals. Images of the War, destroyed Jewish towns and fleeing refugees.  (264244)    $75.00

53.     Konigseder Angelika. Waiting for Hope: Jewish Displaced Persons in Post-World War II Germany (Jewish Lives). NWUP, 2001. 299 pp. number taped to spine and slight library mark on fep. Very Good. Hardcover .  (264245)    $24.00

54.     Kotker, Norman. Learning About God. NY: Holt Rinhart, 1988. 200 pp. very fine. fine.

Satiric novel of Auschwitz and Bergen Belsen survivo and coming to tems with life and its viccissitudes in the USA.  (264352)    $12.00

55.     Kraus Yosef (?) editor. Katowice Kattowitz Sefer Zikaron. Hanasehat Yehudut Kattowitz, 1996. 404 pp. Memorial Book. Very Good. Hardcover .  (264253)    $125.00

56.     Kremer, S. Lillian. Women’s Holocaust Writing: Memory and Imagination. Lincoln: Univ of Nebraska, 1999. 8vo 297 pp. Very Good. Paperback.  (264210)    $12.00

57.     Kurt Tucholsky 1935-1975. Eine Ausstellung der Deutschen Bibliothek. Deutsche Bibliothek, 1976. 78 pp. exhibition catalog . Very Good. Stiff Wrapper.

Important journalist in Weimar Germany, edited Weltbuhne, died in exile in Sweden in 1935,  (264015)    $25.00

58.     Lang Berel. Heidegger’s Silence. Ithaca: Cornell, 1996. 129 pp. new. Hardback & DJ.

Discusses Heidegger’s complicity in Nazi politics and his slience after the War about the Shoah.  (264224)    $9.00

59.     Lazar, Moshe & Van Jole, Marcel. Pinchas Shaar 1923-1996. Arted, 1983. 175 pp. dj torn filled with color illustrations. Good +. Hardcover & Dust Jacket.

Polish Jewish survivor of Lodz, influenced by Picasso’s work, Shoah imagery immersed in some of his work in unusual way  (264118)    $25.00

60.     Liepmann Heinz. Das Vaterland Ein tatsachen Roman aus dem Heutigen Deutschland. Amsterdam: Kampen und Zoon, 1933. 295 pp. spine torn, some chips, lacks original covers. good tears to backstrip. wrapper.

Novel about life in Nazi Germany . Exile writer Sternfeld s.309-310  (244739)    $50.00

61.     Lorenz Dagmar (editor). Insiders and Outsiders; Jewish and Gentile Culture in Germany and Austria. Detroit: Wayne State, 1994. Twenty eight essays 364 pages. Very good. Hardback & DJ.  (264059)    $12.00

62.     Ludwig Georgs Gymnasium Darmstadt. Karl Wolfskehl. Lambert Schneider, 1955. 113 pp. Compendium of his work and contemporaries. Very Good. Boards.

Karl Wolfskehl (17 September 1869 – 30 June 1948) was a German Jewish author who wrote poetry, prose and drama in German. He was active in the Munich Cosmic Circle, a group of intellectuals in Munich led by Alfred Schuler. This group broke up in 1904 due to a rift between Wolfskehl, supported by Stefan George, and Ludwig Klages, supported by Schuler.He emigrated to Switzerland in (1933), then to Italy (1934) and ultimately, with his partner Margot Ruben (1908–1980), to New Zealand (1938)  (264347)    $20.00

63.     Lustiger, Arno. Schalom Libertad! Juden im spanischen Burgerkrieg. Frankfurt: Athenaum, 1989. 397 pp. Spanish Civil War. Very Good. Hardback & DJ.  (264316)    $17.00

64.     Maimon Rav Y L HaCohen. Arim Veimahot beYisrael  Part Three; Mazavit Kodesh LeHehillot Yisrael SheNerharbu BeYedei Arezim VeTamaim BeMilhamot HaOlam HaAhraront. Mossad HaRav Kook, 1952. In Hebrew Covers and spines worn; Part Three -David Flinker Warsaw 303 pp. Good-. Boards.

Histories of these towns and their destruction during the Second World War  (264117)    $45.00

65.     Maimon Rav Y L HaCohen. Arim Veimahot beYisrael Part One; Mazavit Kodesh LeHehillot Yisrael SheNerharbu BeYedei Arezim VeTamaim BeMilhamot HaOlam HaAhraront. Mossad HaRav Kook, 1952. In Hebrew Covers and spines worn; Part One One Austria Eisenstadt Berlin Vilna Vienna Lvov Monkatsch by various authors 371 pp. Good-. Boards.

Histories of these towns and their destruction during the Second World War  (264116)    $45.00

66.     Marley, Lord. Der Broyner Bukh vegn der untertsindung Funem Reichstag un vegn der Hitlerishe Terro; The Brown Book of Hitler Terror and Burning of the Reichstag. Moscow: Emes, 1933. 404 pp. In Yiddish .former owner stamped name on pastedown and title page ,crown and base of spine slight tears, corners bumped. Good +. Hardcover .

Early revelation to the world of the oppression/murder in Germany of the opposition and Jews under the Nazi regime. Extrememly scarce in Yiddish  (251502)    $175.00

67.     Marshall, Louis (et al). The Jews in the Eastern War Zone. NY: American Jewish Committee, 1916. 120 pp.spine worn corners bumped, library tape on spine. good. cloth.

What was happening to the Jews in the hands of the Russians and German troops.  (264197)    $7.00

68.     Michman Dan (editor). Remembering the Holocaust in Germany, 1945=2000 German Strategies and Jewish Responses. Jerusalem: Lang, 2002. 172 pp. number taped to spine and slight library mark on pastedown. Very good. Hardcover .

Ten authors from five countries present a variety of fresh analyses of the strategies Germans have adopted in coping with the Nazi past. Through historical, sociological, educational, and cultural approaches the unresolved tensions existing in German society – between the will to be accepted as an integral part of western civilization and to put the Nazi chapter in general and the Holocaust in particular behind, on the one hand, and an awareness of responsibility combined with recurring, sometimes sudden, manifestations of long-term results and implications of the past, on the other – are analyzed. Through its multifaceted approach, this book contributes to a better understanding of present-day German society and of Germany’s delicate relationships with both the United States and Israel. (from the blurb)  (264247)    $9.00

69.     Muller Jan-Werner. Memory and Power in Post-War Europe: Studies in the Presence of the Past. Cambridge, 2002. 288 pp. twelve essays. Very Good. Hardcover .

How has the past been used in domestic struggles for power, and how have historical lessons been applied in foreign policy? While there is now a burgeoning field of social and cultural memory studies, mostly focused on commemorations and monuments, this volume is the first to examine the connection between memory and politics directly. It investigates how memory is officially recast, personally reworked and often violently re-instilled after wars, and, above all, the ways memory shapes present power constellations. The chapters combine theoretical innovation in their approach to the study of memory with deeply historical, empirically based case studies of major European countries. The volume concludes with reflections on the ethics of memory, and the politics of truth, justice and forgetting after 1945 and 1989. (from blurb)  (264341)    $25.00

70.     Nachmansohn, David. German Jewish Pioneers in Science: 1900-1933:  Highlights in Atomic Physics, Chemisty and Biochemistry. Berlin/New York: Springer Verlag, 1979. Important reference work. 8vo 388 pp. dj torn. Very Good. Hardback & DJ.  (263920)    $24.00

71.     Naphtali Fritz. Wirtschafts Krise. Dietz, 1930. 32 pp. cover disbound talk given in Free Socialist High school in Berlin. good. Wrapper.  (264284)    $14.00

72.     O’Donnell Patrick. They Dared Return The true stories of Jewish Spies behind the lines in Nazi Germany. Da Capo, 2009. 237 pp. Very Good. Hardcover & Dust Jacket.  (264517)    $16.00

73.     Organ des Amtes Schriftumspflege. Bucher Kunde. Bayreuth: Gauverlag Bayerishce Ostmarck, 1938. Nazi educational publication, articles and book reviews. Feb.1938-Okt.1938.Vol 5.#2,4-10. Ausgabe A.+B  8 issues. good. wrapper.

Fur die gesamte geistige und weltanschauliche Erziehung der NSDAP und der Reichsstelle zur Forderung der deutschen Schriftums  (264296)    $65.00

74.     Pearl, S. Almazov. The Underground War in Europe; Di untererdishe milhomeh in europa. NY: self, 1943. 320 pp.spine frayed In Yiddish. Good-. Hardcover .

Includes material on the Nazi slaughter of the Jews and the Resistance. Very scarce.  (264092)    $40.00

75.     Perlow Itzjok . Seyfer Radom. Irgun yotsʼe Radom be-Yiśraʼel, 1961. 451 pp. In Hebrew and Yiddish, hinge started. slight library marks, Memorial Book. Good-.

Radom (Województwo Mazowieckie)  (264172)    $65.00

76.     Podro Joshua. Nuremberg the Unholy City. Anscombe, 1937. 127 pp. number on spine and slight library mark on fep. Good. Hardcover .

History of anti semitism in Nuremberg including the Nazi regime  (264644)    $15.00

77.     Price Hoyt and Schorske Carl. The Problem of Germany. Council on Foreign Realtions, 1947. 161 pp. number on spine and slight library mark, introduction by Allen Dulles. Good. Hardcover .

What are the prospets for economic recovery? What are the chances for democracy to take hold?  (264250)    $18.00

78.     Rabinovici Doron. Instanzen der Ohnmacht. Wien 1938-1945. Der Weg um Judenrat. Judischer Verlag, 2000. 495 pp. Very Good. Hardcover & Dust Jacket.  (251359)    $15.00

79.     Raschhofer Hermann. Political Assassination: The Legal Background of the Oberlander and Stashinsky Cases. Schlichtenmayer, 1964. 231 pp. number on spine and slight library mark on fep. Good. Paperback.

Documentation and research concerning the war activities of two German officals and Communist claims they were war criminals  (264267)    $17.00

80.     Reder, Rudolf. Belzec. Krakow: Central Jewish Hist Comm, 1946. 65 pp.lower corners creased, tear to top edge, spine worn library markings fragi;e. good. wrapper.

Survivor memoir. In Polish with six photos  (264289)    $36.00

81.     Reisen Abraham. Ḳoydenoṿ : zamlbukh tsum ondenḳ fun di Ḳoydenoṿer ḳdoyshim … ; Heymishe geshṭalṭn : dertseylungen.(Koidanover). United Koidanover Assn, 1955. 207 pp. In Yiddish . Memorial Book book plate library stamps paste down crown slight tear. Good +. Hardcover .  (264360)    $85.00

82.     Reiss, Lionel. New Lights and Old Shadows: New Lights of an Israel Reborn: Old Shadows of a Vanished World. NY: Reconstructionist Press, 1954. 159 pp. dj torn inscription in English on fep, includes drawings concerning the Shoah. good. Hardback & DJ.

Includes portraits of Ghetto People and Places. A Tribute to the Martyrdom of European Jewry. Magnificent paintings and drawings  (264327)    $24.00

83.     Robinson Jacob. Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms in the charter of the united Nations. Inst of Jewish Affairs, 1946. 166 pp. slight library marks. Good. Hardcover .  (264256)    $25.00

84.     Rosenfarb Chava . Das lid fun yidish kelner Abram. London: Narod, 1947. 87 pp. . in Yiddish, slight tape with number at base of spine and small stamp of former owner, second book of poems published by Rosenfarb. Very Good. Stiff Wrapper.

Survivor author of Tree of Life who settled ultimately in Canada. About her father who was killed during the Shoah  (264036)    $75.00

85.     Rosman SHelomo. Sefer Shefar Harei Kedem Golot Carpatrom Marmarosh Betiferet Uvehurbana (Carpathain Mountains- Marmarosh) Helek Rishon. Zichron Kedoshim, 1991. about 500 pp. In Hebrew with photos, Memorial Book. Very Good. Hardcover .  (264107)    $75.00

86.     Rossing Karl. Mein Vorurteil gegen diese Zeit 100 Holzschnitte; nachwort von Manes Sperber. Hofmann und Campe, 1974. 207 + 25 pp. with 100 illustrations inscription in pen not by author on fep . : 100 woodcuts, anti Nazi artist who remained in Germany during the War, examples of his work reminiscent of the best graphics of Grosz and Masereel. Very Good-. Hardcover & Dust Jacket.  (264016)    $36.00

87.     Royce, Hans (Zimmerman Erich). 20.Juli 1944. Bonn: Kollen Verlag, 1953. 3rd. On the resistance and the attempt to assassinate Hitler. 8vo 216 pp., top corner bent, augmented edition. Good condition. Paperback.  (264232)    $6.00

88.     Schleifman, Nurit. Undercover Agents in the Russian Revolutionary Movement: The SR Party: 1902-1914. NY: St Martin, 1988. 12mo 222 pp. new. Hardback & DJ.  (264226)    $7.00

89.     Schwartz Mimi. Good Neighbors, Bad Times: Echoes of My Father’s German Village. Nebraska, 2008. 260 pp Returning to the village of Benheim and reconstructing memories. Very Good. Hardcover & Dust Jacket.  (264339)    $12.00

90.     Seel, Pierre. I, Pierre Seel, Deported Homosexual: A Memoir of the Nazi Terror. NY: Basic Books, 1995.  8vo 186 pp. Very Good. Hardcover & Dust Jacket.

Imprisoned and tortured by the Nazis in Alsace and then Schirmeck-Labroque concentration camp.  (264315)    $15.00

91.     Sefer Lukow. Lukower societies in Israel And USA, 1968. 655 pp. Memorial Book foxing on side fore edge. Good +. Hardcover .  (264085)    $85.00

92.     Sefer Lutsḳ.Sefer Lutzk. Irgun yotsʼe Lutsḳ be-Yiśraʼel, 1961. 608 pp, memorial Book In Yiddish, front cover bit shaken. back hinge needs tightening. Good. Hardcover .  (264108)    $95.00

93.     Sluyser Meyer. Before I Forget. Yoseloff, 1962. 197 pp. Life in the Jewish community of Amsterdam from turn of the century through end of WW2 Good +. Hardcover & Dust Jacket.  (264090)    $18.00

94.     Spizman, L., Editor. Women in the Ghettos Froyen in di getos Zamlbukh. Pioneer Women’s Organization,, 1946. 182 pp. In Yiddish spine worn. Good. Hardcover .  (264097)    $30.00

95.     Sproat Iain. Wodehouse at War: The extraordinary truth about P G Wodehouse’s broadcasts on Nazi radio. New Haven: Ticknor and Fields, 1981. 166 pp. good. Hardback & DJ.  (264227)    $9.00

96.     Stolper, Toni. Ein Leben: Wien Berlin New York In Brennpunkten Unserer Zeit: Gustav Stolper 1888-1947. Tubingen: Wunderlich, 1967. 498 pp .Refugee in NY from Nazi Germany. She co-founded the émigré self-help organization Self Help and the American Council for Emigrés in the Professions and played a leading role in integration assistance for emigrants. Good. Paperback.  (264351)    $12.00

97.     Stoltzfus, Nathan and Friedlander, Henry. Nazi Crimes and the Law. Cambridge University Press, 2008. 225 pp. Very Good. Hardcover & Dust Jacket.  (263968)    $40.00

98.     Die Synagoge an der Elbstrasse und die Synagoge an den Kohlhöfen. eine Rekonstruktion in Zeichnungen. Dolling und Galitz, 1991. 63 pp. Very Good. Paperback.  (264049)    $18.00

99.     Szyk Arthur and Roth Cecil. Szyk Haggadah. London: Beaconsfield Press, 1939. 1st edition of 250 copies printed on Vellum. Large 4to. ” Executed by Arthur Szyk. Edited by Cecil Roth. Signed by both. Hebrew and English Text. 48 pages are in color. Printed on double page pure vellum leaves. Full blue levant morocco binding by Sangorski . Good ++. Hardcover .

Arthur Szyk, a Polish Jewish artist and one of the most remarkable modern manuscript illuminators, collaborated with the British Jewish historian Cecil Roth in the creation of this masterpiece Haggadah during the 1930s. Only 250 of this book were published, the production commenced before the war and the first copies were avalible in 1939. The offered copy is no. 54 out of 125 that were offered for sale in the United States, another 125 were offered for sale in England.  (264177)    $36,000.00

100.     Tast Ton Van. Kleine Vaderlandse Historien door de oude Heerodotus. Baarn: Bosch und Keunin, 1945?. 32 pp, poem in Dutch with cartoon type illustrations, anti-Nazi publication. Good condition. Wrapper.  (264035)    $45.00

101.     Tatz, Colin. With Intent to Destroy; Reflecting on Genocide. Verso, 2003. 222 pp. new. Hardback & DJ.

Study of genocides in Germany, Australia and South Africa.  (264208)    $9.00

102.     The Banker (Peridocial). Germany The results of 4 Years of National Socialsim. London: The Bankder, February 1937. 85 pp.slight library markon tp , slight number on spine, tear to spine, serious study of the German Economy. Good. Wrapper.

Vol. XLI No 133  (264246)    $16.00

103.     Toren Haim. Once there was a village a descriptive Monograph (Dombroven Bessarabia). Odim, 1973. 198 pp. In Yiddish . Good +. Hardcover & Dust Jacket.  (264070)    $36.00

104.     Toury Jacob. Die politischen Orientierungen der Juden in Deutschland: Von Jena bis Weimar. Mohr, 1966. 387 pp. sfep. Very Good. Hardcover & Dust Jacket.  (263919)    $28.00

105.     Triwak Isaac commentary . Milḥamah ṿe-shalom be-Erets Yiśraʼel = Ḳrig un friden in Erets-Yiśraʼel = War and peace in Palestine : albom le-zikaron meha-yamim ha-rishonim shel ha-Tsiyonut ʻad ha-zeman ha-zeh … “Memorial album : From the first days of Zionism to the present time, with special consideration of recent events.” Tel Aviv: Bet hotsaʼat sefarim, 1930. 278 pp. In Hebrew Yiddish and English some toning to paper pages, wear to exterior at top of spine and to one fore-corner. there is a brief inscription to front free endpape. Good. Hardcover .

Photos of the deaths in Safed and Hebron from the Arab riots.. Reveals through photographs the growth of the Jewish settlements, constructions of the Jewish work brigades, and the proximity of the developing communities to the nearby Palestinian villages.Moving images. Ultimately pressure of the Arab communities led to British restrictions on Jewish refugees from Germany getting visas for Palestine.  (263928)    $175.00

106.     Veetz Ami. Al Hurvoteich, Tanislivov. Tel Aviv: Vaad Yotsei Tanislivov, 1947. 113 pp. In Hebrew . Good. Boards.  (264121)    $40.00

107.     Vogel, Carole Garbury (editor). We Shall Not Forget! Memoirs of the Holocaust. Lexington Mass: Temple Isaiah, 1994. 2nd. 513 pp.Interviews, very inspiring. new. Hardback & DJ.  (264693)    $9.00

108.     Waga Shlomo. Churbn Czenstochow.– ( Dos Poylishe Yidntum ; 46 ). Buernos Aires: Tsentral-farband fun Poylishe Yidn in Argentine, 1948. 224 pp. In Yiddish, slight library marks. Good +. Hardcover .  (264071)    $50.00

109.     Walendy, Udo. Europa in Flammen 1939-1945 Band II. Weser: Verlag fur Volkstum, 1967. Bild sonderdruck des historischen Quellenwerkes. Text denying the holocaust with horrific photographs. 52 pp. Good. Wrapper.  (264048)    $20.00

110.     Waxman Zoe. Writing the Holocaust Identity Testimony Representation. Oxford, 2008. 227 pp. Very Good. Paperback.

Arguing against the prevailing view that Holocaust survivors (encouraged by a new and flourishing culture of ‘witnessing’) have come forward only recently to tell their stories,Writing the Holocaust examines the full history of Holocaust testimony, from the first chroniclers confined to Nazi-enforced ghettos to today’s survivors writing as part of collective memory. Zoe Waxman shows how the conditions and motivations for bearing witness changed immeasurably. She reveals the multiplicity of Holocaust experiences, the historically contingent nature of victims’ responses, and the extent to which their identities – secular or religious, male or female, East or West European – affected not only what they observed but also how they have written about their experiences. In particular, she demonstrates that what survivors remember is substantially determined by the context in which they are remembering (from the blurb)  (264323)    $5.00

111.     Werfel Franz (Negroschel Joachim translator). Cella or the Survivors A Novel. NY: Henry Holt, 1989. 243 pp. good. Hardback & DJ.

Novel written in France eluding the Nazis,of Jewish family in 1938 Austria,discovering what it means to be a Jew.  (264630)    $9.00

112.     Werfel, Franz. Jacobowsky und der Oberst; Komodie einer Tragodie. Stockholm: Bermann Fischer, 1944. 129pp. chips and slight tears to covers, slight pem writing fep. Good +. Wrapper.

S.L. Jacobowsky, a Polish Jew always just one step ahead of the advancing Nazis, finds himself at a seeming dead end in Paris following his flight from Vienna. There remains only the option of the purchase of an outrageously priced automobile, and while Jacobowsky has funds, he cannot drive. The eternal optimist, he completes the exchange. Chance introduces him to Tadeusz Boleslav Stjerbinsky, a colonel of the Polish Army, determined to join loyal exiles in England. Stjerbinsky has no mode of transportation to the coast, but he is skilled at driving an automobile. He is also intolerant of Jews. Nonetheless Jacobowsky sets out with the colonel. Too late he discovers that the colonel is also a romantic, whose affair of the heart brings the odd-couple travelers on a circuitous route and within kilometers of the German Army merely to rescue Marianne, the colonel’s soul mate. Complications ensue when Marianne indicates a fondness for Jacobowsky, much to the colonel’s fury; but before the gentlemen can complete an honorable duel, they are discovered by a Nazi patrol. Wits and luck preserve them, and the final curtain falls on a now-tolerant colonel and Jacobowsky sailing to safety across the English Channel.  (264013)    $27.00

113.     Wiechert Ernst. Walder und Menschen Eine Jugend. Langen, 1936. 251 pp. dj worn. Good condition. Cloth.

Wiechert was strongly opposed to Nazism from the start. He appealed in 1933 and 1935 to the undergraduates in Munich to retain their critical thinking in relation to the national socialist ideology. This was rated as call to internal resistance. The minutes of the speech circulated illegally in Germany and reached Moscow in 1937 baked in bread. Here it was published in the influential exile magazine Das Wort (The Word). But Wiechert went even further and dared to openly criticize the imprisonment of Martin Niemöller by the Nazis in 1938.In consequence of his criticism, he was interned himself in the Buchenwald concentration camp for four months which became the most horrible time of his life. After that, he wrote down his memories about the time of his imprisonment and buried the manuscript. It was published after the war in 1945, entitled Der Totenwald (Forest of the dead), a shocking account of the conditions in Buchenwald. Joseph Goebbels had threatened after Wiechert’s release from concentration camp that Wiechert would be killed if he publicly voiced protest once more.

A  (264345)    $25.00

114.     Wischnitzer, Mark. To Dwell in Safety; The Story of Jewish Migration Since 1800. Phil: JPS, 1948. 368 pp.dj torn slight library marks. Good. Hardcover & Dust Jacket.

Includes material on the Holocaust and Post War migrations of DPS and refugees.  (264054)    $5.00

115.     Wofsberg-Aviad, Oskar. Die Drei Gemeinde: Aus der Geschichte der Judischen Gemeinden Altona…Hamburg..Wandsbek; Gedenkschrift zue Einweihung der Neuen Hamburger Synagoge. Munchen: Ner Tamid, 1960. 158 pp. Good +. Hardcover & Dust Jacket.  (264093)    $30.00

116.     Yehodut Latvia Sefer Zikron. Tel Aviv: Igad Yotzei Latvia We’Estonia, 1976. 457 pp. top pages slightly bumped, foxing to top fore edge. Very Good-. Hardcover .  (264084)    $75.00

117.     Zaidman Chaim. The Duty of Memory Di Hob fun Zikron My Moldavian Shtetl Harlav. Israel: Yiddish Kultur, 1982. 399 pp. In Yiddish Memories of his destroyed community. Good +. Hardcover .  (264065)    $48.00

118.     Zayit Meir. Gardenia-Young Maccabees in Romania Gordonia Macabi HaSair BeRomania. Hasefer BeHolda, 1978. 589 pp.In Hebrew, back cover stained, Zionist youth groups in Romaniain the 1930s and aliyah to Israel . Good. Hardcover .  (264101)    $100.00

119.     Zoltsman Moshe, Shain Baruch. Garwolin; a Memorial to the Jewish Community of Garwolin; Garvolin, sefer Zikaron. Farband fun di Garvoliner; Irgun Yotzei Garwolin, 1972. 302 pp. back cover glue stains. Good. Hardcover .  (264104)    $100.00

120.     Zweig, Arnold. Bilanz der Deutschen Judenheit: Ein Versuch. Amsterdam: Querido, 1934. 320 pp. slight library mark fep number on spine, covers wor. tear to crownn. Good. Hardcover .  (264240)    $9.00

Memorial Books – Yizkor – October 2016

1.     Abramski Nligh Irit editor. Pinkas HaKehillot – Encyclopaedia of Jewish Communities from their Foundations till after the Holocaust Libya Tunisia. Yad Vashem, 1997. 534 p. dj torn In Hebrew. Good +. Hardcover & Dust Jacket.  (261834)    $85.00

2.     Bernstein Mordechai. Pinkes fun finf farilikte kehiles` : Pruzshene, Bereze, Maltsh, Shershev, Selts : zeyer oyfkum, geshikhte un umkum; Chronicle of the destroyed Jewish communities of the towns Pruzana, Bereza, Malch, Scherschev and Seltz :. Buenos AIres: Aroysgegebn fun Landslayt-fareyn fun Pruzshene, Bereze, Maltsh, Shershev un umgegnt?in Argentine, , 1958. 972 pp. Good +. Hardcover .  (260963)    $75.00

3.     Blumental Nachman (editor). Miechov Memorial Book: Charshnitza and Kshoynge. Tel Aviv: Irgun Yotzey Miechov, 1971. 8vo 314 pp. good. cloth.

In Hebrew and Yiddish and a few pages of English. Memorial Book of residents who died in the Shoah.  (261871)    $65.00

4.     Blumental Nachman editor. Yizkor Baranow: A Memorial to the Jewish Community of Baranow. Yad Vashem, 1964. 236 pp. in Yiddish and 16 pp in English. Very Good. Hardcover .  (260702)    $75.00

5.     Blumental Nathan editor. The Book of Borstchoff Borszczow Bortchoff. Tel Aviv: Peretz, 1960. 341 pp.fore edge foxed. Good. Hardcover .  (261876)    $48.00

6.     Brat Itzhak. Sefer zikaron li-kehilat Makov-Mazovitsk  Makov-Mazovitk yizkor-bukh ; Mako´w-Mazowiecki. (Makow Mazowiecki). Mak?ov-Mazovitsk? be-Yis´ra’el uve-Artsot-ha-Berit, 1969. 510 pp. covers worn bottoms bumped. Good. Hardcover .  (261879)    $85.00

7.     (Brest Lit) Steinman Elieser (editor). Encyclopedia of the Jewish Diaspora: A Memorial Library of Countries and Communities Poland Series Brest Lit Volume. Jerusalem: Encyclopedia of Diaspora, 1958. In Yiddish. 710 pp. double column text, hinge starting. Good +. Hardback & DJ.

Vol 2 of the Encyclopedia  (261067)    $60.00

8.     (Brest Lit) Steinman Elieser (editor). Encyclopedia of the Jewish Diaspora: A Memorial Library of Countries and Communities Poland Series Brest Lit Volume. Jerusalem: Encyclopedia of Diaspora, 1958. In Hebrew 710 pp. double column text, hinge starting. Good +. Hardback & DJ.

Vol 2 of the Encyclopedia  (265001)    $60.00

9.     Dabrowska, Danuta & Wein, Abraham (eds.). Pinkas HaKehillot – Encyclopedia of Jewish Communities – Poland Vol.1 The Communities of Lodz and its Region. Yad Vashem, 1976. 284 pp. dj torn In Hebrew. Good +. Hardcover & Dust Jacket.  (261830)    $50.00

10.     Einhorn, Moses, editor. Wolkovisker Yizkor Book: Volume 1. NY: Self, 1949. ISBN: two copies. In Yiddish 512 pp. good. Hardcover .  (262038)    $40.00

11.     Former Residents of Mlawa. Pinkes Mlave (Memorial Book of Mlava). NY: Former Residents, 1950. In Yiddish. 8vo 483+63 pp.back hinge starting small puncture mark to cover and a few pages. Good. Hardcover .  (263556)    $75.00

12.     Former Residents. Mlawa: Pinkes Mlave (Memorial Book). NY: World Assn of Former Residen, 1950. In Yiddish. 8vo 483 + 60 pp. of pictures. Good. Hardcover .  (261223)    $85.00

13.     Gedenkbuch. Opfer der Verfolgung der Juden unter der nationalsozialistischen Gewaltherrschaft in Deutschland 1933-1945 zwei bande. Arolsen Koblenz: Bundesarchiv, Koblenz, und dem Internationalen Suchdienst,, 1986. Folios, blue cloth with gold lettering, xvi, 950 + viii, 951-1823 pp., names of relatives of former owner written in pen on end papers and noted with pen mark on the page.

Memorial book listing the names of  German Jews who died in the Holocaust listing the place that they were deported from and the place where they died if known. Band 1: Geleitwort. Vorwort. Opfer der Verfolgung (A-L). Band 2: Opfer der Verfolgung (M-Z). Verschollene, deren Todesart und Todesdatum unbekannt sind. Nachwort. 1. Anhang: Orte mit judischen Einwohneren im Gebiet der heutigen Bundesrepublik Deutschland, gegliedert nach den Landern und preußischen Provinzen in den Grenzen von 1939. 2. Anhang: Ubersicht über die Deportationsziele. 3. Anhang: Verzeichnis veroffentlichen Listen judischer Burger einzelner Gemeinden und Gebiete und anderer Publikationen ber Verfolgungsmaßnahmen in einzelnen Orten. Erlauterungen. Abkuzungen bei Ortsnamen.  (261187)    $250.00

14.     Gruenbaum Itzhak. Entsiklopediah shel Galuyot (Encyclopedia of the Jewish Diaspora. A Memorial Library of Countries and Communities.) Poland series. Vol. 1 and 2 Warsaw. Jerusalem: Encyclopeida, 1951. 814 + 698 half pages In Hebrew two volumes dj torn. Good. Hardcover .  (261845)    $85.00

15.     Gruenbaum Itzhak. Entsiklopediah shel Galuyot (Encyclopedia of the Jewish Diaspora. A Memorial Library of Countries and Communities.) Poland series. Vol. 1  Warsaw. Jerusalem: Encyclopeida, 1951. 814 pp.half pages In Hebrew two volumes . Good. Hardcover .  (261846)    $45.00

16.     Gshuri, Bruckner or Gashbury, Bruckner. Sefer Sosnowiec v’hasviva b’Zaglembie  Book of Sosnowiec and the surrounding region in Zaglembie [volume 1 and 2). Sosnowiec Societies in Israel, 1973. 743 + 436 pp.small book plate on title page In Hebrew. Very Good. Hardcover .  (264928)    $85.00

17.     Hausner Tony (foreword) Mermelstein Max (editor). Skala on the River Zbrucz; A History of the former Skala Jewish Community. Skala Research Group, 2009. 404 pp. Very Good. Hardcover .

In 1978, the Skala Benevolent Society (SBS) published a Yizkor book called Skala, The book was written by the town’s former residents who had survived or emigrated previous to the Shoah. Published in Yiddish and Hebrew this is the English translation.Situated in eastern Galicia and once ruled by Austro-Hungary, the
town of Skala was part of Poland during World War II. It now is called Skala Podil’ska and is part of the Ukraine.  (261182)    $40.00

18.     Hershberg A S. Pinkes Byalistok: grunt-materyaln tsu der geshiktate fun di Yidn in Byalistok biz nakh der Ershter Velt-Milhome Band Pinkos Bialystok (The Chronicle of Bialystok) Basic Material for the History of the Jews in Bialystok till the Period after the First World War. Two Volumes. Bialystok Jewish Historical Association , 1949-1950. 480 +380 pp. Good. Hardcover .  (260960)    $120.00

19.     Hurbn Kehillat Shchuchyn .( Shtutsin). Tel Aviv: Irgun Yotsei Shchuchyn, 1954. 151 pp. foxing to end papers, boards worn Memorial Book. Good. Boards.  (264951)    $62.00

20.     Kanc SHimon. Volomin A Memorial Book to the Jewish Community of Volomin (Poland_. Tel Aviv: 1971. 600 pp, hinge started. Good. Hardcover .  (261860)    $100.00

21.     Kreb, Yosef  Kriev Yosef . Sefer Yizkhor Kehillat Sarny. Jerusalem: Yad Vashem, 1961. 507 pp.In Hebrew . Very Good. cloth.

Memorial book.to community destroyed in the Shoah  (264985)    $36.00

22.     Levin Judah. Sederet Kehillot Yisrael Ostrov Mazovitzk. Yad Yehudot Polin, 1966. 164 pp. In Hebrew. Very Good. Hardcover .

From the series “Scrolls of Poland” Megillat Polin  (262042)    $85.00

23.     Levine Yehudah Leb. Ozerkov Sidrot Kehillot Yisrael. Jerusalem: Yad Yehudot Polin , 1970s?. 128 pp.In Hebrew, memorial book to destroyed community. Very Good. Hardcover .

Part of Megillat Polin series  (266122)    $65.00

24.     (Lvov) Gelber N M. Entsiklopedyah shel galuyot Kerakh Revi’i Lvov (Helek A)/ Encyclopedia of the Jewish Diaspora: A Memorial Library of Countries and Communities Poland Series Lwow Volume, Part I. Hotsaat Hevrat Entsiklopedyah shel galuyot, 1956. 772 columns two to the page, b/w photos In Hebrew. Good. Hardcover .  (261068)    $62.00

25.     Mahler Raphael (editor). Sepher Sandz: The book on the Jewish community of Nowy Sacz. Sandzer Society, 1970. 886 pp. In Yiddish Memorial Book. Very Good. Hardcover .  (261184)    $100.00

26.     Margalit, Arye, Chief Editor; Gordin, Abba, Editor of Hebrew Section; Gelbart, M., Editor of Yiddish Section. Sefer Hazikaron Lekehilat Ostrow-Mazowieck; Yizkor Buch Fun Der Yiddisher Kehile in Ostrow-mazowieck [Ostrow Mazowieck Memorial book[. Tel Aviv: Sefer Hazikaron Lekehilat Ostrow-Mazowieck; Yizkor Buch Fun Der Yiddisher Kehile in Ostrow-mazowieck [Ostrow Mazowieck Memorial book[, 1960. 655 pp.new covers,spine and end papers, In Hebrew and Yiddish. Good +. Paperback.  (265386)    $65.00

27.     Mermelstein Max (editor). Skala. Skala Benevolent Society, 1978. 261 + 98 pp. In Yiddish and English, memorial book, In the Yiddish . Good. Hardcover .

Situated in eastern Galicia and once ruled by Austro-Hungary, the
town of Skala was part of Poland during World War II. It now is called Skala Podil’ska and is part of the Ukraine.  (262039)    $55.00

28.     Michman Jozeph. Pinkas HaKehillot – Encyclopedia of Jewish Communities The Netherlands. Yad Vashem, 1985. 557 pp. dj torn In Hebrew. Good +. Hardcover & Dust Jacket.  (261838)    $76.00

29.     Pat Yakov. Life and death in shadow of the forest : the story of Suprasl, a shtetl in eastern Poland; Hayyim we-Mawet be-sel hay-yaar.siporah shel Suprasl ha-Yehudit ayarah ba-mizrah Polyn. Israel: Murag. 182 +60 pp. In Hebrew and English. Very Good. Hardcover .  (261874)    $75.00

30.     Pat Yakov. Life and death in shadow of the forest : the story of Suprasl, a shtetl in eastern Poland; Hayyim we-Mawet be-sel hay-yaar.siporah shel Suprasl ha-Yehudit ayarah ba-mizrah Polyn. Israel: Murag. 182 +60 pp. In Hebrew and English. Very Good. Hardcover .  (261875)    $75.00

31.     Perlow Itzjok . Seyfer Radom. Irgun yotsʼe Radom be-Yiśraʼel, 1961. 451 pp. In Hebrew and Yiddish, hinge started. slight library marks. Good-.

Radom (Województwo Mazowieckie)  (264173)    $65.00

32.     Pinkas HaKehillot – Encyclopedia of Jewish Communities  Hungary. Yad Vashem, 1976. 557 pp. dj torn In Hebrew. Good +. Hardcover & Dust Jacket.  (261836)    $85.00

33.     Rabinowitsch, Wolf Zeev / Tamir (Mirski), N. Pinsk Sefer Edut Ve-Zikaron Le-Kehilat Pinsk-Karlin / Pinsk historical volume; History of the Jews of Pinsk, 1506-1941. Volume 1 Part one and two and Volume Two (three volumes). Former Residents of Pinsk-Karlin in Israel,, 1973+1966. 353+ 110 pp. (In Hebrew and English), volume 1 part two 564+159 pages In Hebrew and English. slight library marks, hinge started volume 2 654 pp. in Hebrew, hs water stains to side of cover, dj torn,two of the three volume set. Good. Hardcover & Dust Jacket.

353+112pp. 559+159pp. 655  (265606)    $250.00

34.     Rivlin Bracha . Pinkas HaKehillot – Encyclopaedia of Jewish Communities from their Foundations till after the Holocaust Greece. Yad Vashem, 1998. 534 p. dj torn In Hebrew. Good +. Hardcover & Dust Jacket.  (261840)    $95.00

35.     Sefer yizkor le-kehilat Shedlets / Siedlce: Libro recordatorio. In memoriam de los judios massacrados en nuestra ciudad natal en su 14o aniversario. [Memorial book of the community of Siedlce]. Buenos Aires: Ha-Irgunim shel yotse Shedlits be-Yisrael uve-Argentinah, 1956. 813 pp. foxing to end papers, hinge starting, tear to crown of spine, stains to cover . Good. Hardcover .  (265370)    $50.00

36.     Seifer Stryj. Irgun Yotzej Stryj in Israel, 1962. 68 + 262 pp. In English and Hebrew  , new boards and endpapers, slight water staining to beginning of Hebrew text not affecting text . Very Good. Boards.

Memorial book  (265572)    $45.00

37.     Shamri, Aryeh & First, Dov editors. Pinkas Novy-Dvor. Tel Aviv: Organization of Former Novy-Dvor Jews in Israel The United States Canada Argentina Uruguay and France, 1965. 556 pp. In Yiddish heavy tear to base of spine, staining to fore edges. Good. Hardcover .  (261852)    $100.00

38.     Singer Mendel (Berestechko Beresteczko Berestetchka). Hayetah ʻayarah : sefer zikaron li-ḳehilot Beresṭechḳah Beremelyah ṿeha-sevivah. Haifa: Irgun yotsʼe Beresṭechḳah be-Yiśraʼel, 1961. 555 pp. Memorial book to community N of Brody In Hebrew and Yiddish. Very Good. Boards.  (264910)    $47.00

39.     Slutzki, Yehudah. Bobruisk Memorial Book [Two Volumes]. Tarbut VeHinuch, 1967. Two Volumes In Yiddish . Very Good. Hardcover .  (261070)    $125.00

40.     Spero et al (editors). Yizkor Bukh (zum Andenken) 14 umgekumene parizer yidishe Shreiber. Paris: Union des Juifs pour la Resistance, 1946. 244 pp. In Yiddish, new spine . Good. Hardcover .

Memorial Book to Parisian Jewish writers murdered in the Shoah  (261914)    $75.00

41.     Stein A. Pinkes Klezk A Memorial to the Jewish Community of Klezk (Poland). Tel Aviv: 1959. 385 pp crown and base of spine slightly bumped folio in three parts Hebrew, album, Yiddish. Very Good. Hardcover .  (261478)    $150.00

42.     Sudarsky, Dr. Mendel & Katzenelenbogen, Uriah (editors). Lite (Lithuania) Volume 1. NY: Jewish Lithuanian Society, 1951. Hinges repaired, wear to spine. Filled with scholarly articles. In Yiddish. 2007half pages Important memorial book. Very Good. cloth.

History of Lithuanian Jewry; Environs, Neighbors, Mores, Languages, Portrait Paintings; Torah, Musar, Rabbinate, Hasidim, Misnagdim, Yeshibot; Articles i Articles include Enlightenment, Haskalah, Jewish Literary Milieu in Independent Lithuania; Cities and Towns: Reminiscences,Destruction of the Lithuanian Jewry  (261180)    $75.00

43.     Talmi Ephraim editor. Kehilat Sherpts sefer zikaron. Tel Aviv: Ha Irgumim sel Yotse Sherpts be Yisrael, 1959. 603 pp. stains to end papers, slight wear to covers and spine. Good. Hardcover .  (264912)    $65.00

44.     Tarkov Mark. Belchatow Yisker-Bukh / Belchatow memorial book. Buenos Aires: Association of Polish Jews in Argentina, , 1951. 511 pp. slight white specks on cover . Good +. Hardcover .  (261072)    $85.00

45.     Trus Alter. Brainsk Book of Memories; Braynsk : seyfer ha-zikhroyn : a bashraybung fun unzer heym . Brainsker Relief Committee, 1948. 445 pp. Very Good. Hardcover .  (261071)    $85.00

46.     Walk Joseph . Pinkas HaKehillot – Encyclopedia of Jewish Communities -Germany Wurtemberg Hohenzollern Baden. Yad Vashem, 1986. 548 pp. dj torn In Hebrew. Good +. Hardcover & Dust Jacket.  (261832)    $50.00

47.     Wirushov Sefer Zikaron. Tel Aviv: Mapot, 1970. 964 pp. hinges started, Memorial Book. Good. Hardcover .  (264916)    $95.00

48.     Yidn in Ukraine/ Jews in the Ukraine Volume One. Gezelshaft tzu Fareibikn der Ondenk fun Ukrainer Yidn, 1961. 342 pp. Very Good. Hardcover .  (261862)    $45.00

49.     Yidn in Ukraine/ Jews in the Ukraine In Two Volumes. Gezelshaft tzu Fareibikn der Ondenk fun Ukrainer Yidn, 1961 and 1967. 342 pp.+ 145 pp. Very Good. Hardcover .  (261861)    $95.00

50.     Zebedovitz Yosef Hayim. Kehillat Horodola Sefer zikaron. Tel Aviv: Vaad Yosei Horodola BeYisrael, 1950s. 260 pp. In Hebrew back hinge started. Good. Hardcover .

Memorial book  (262045)    $85.00

51.     (Zolkiew) Encyclopedia of the Jewish Diaspora. Zolkiew (Kiryia Nizgava). Jerusalem: Encyclop of Jewish Diaspora, 1969. Large 8vo 845 pp. double columns. foxing first few pages, tears to back pastedown. Good. Hardback & DJ.

Memorial book. In Hebrew A Memorial Library of Jewish Communities.  (261854)    $65.00

Miscellany – October 2016

1.     Abbott G F. Israel in Europe. Macmillan, 1907. 533 pp., index Fold-out map showing Jewish Population dispersion, slight library mark and pocket, slight tear to crown of spine. Good. Hardcover .  (264379)    $14.00

2.     Abramovitch R (introduction by). The Crimes of Stalin–the Crimes of the Regime; Special Report to the 20th Congress by Nikita Khruschev. der Wecker, 1956. 102 pp. In Yiddish, bookplate. Good. Wrapper.  (263868)    $35.00

3.     Aloni Nechemia. ktav Yad Shel Moshe Rabainu. Jerusalem: Reuven Mass, 1992. 420 pp. Fine/As new. Hardcover .  (264633)    $15.00

4.     An Israelite  probably Houston George . Israel vindicated : being a refutation of the calumnies propagated respecting the Jewish nation ; in which the objects and views of the American society for ameliorating the condition of the Jews are investigated. New York: Abraham Collins, 1820. Total of 110 pages, has missing pages .pp. 41-88 copied from another copy on firm paper very readable, sfep, , fighting the growing missionary movement to convert Jews in the USA; Rosenbach 210 Good. library binding.

Probably the work of a Gentile journalist George Houston financed by Collins and others…. Plea on behalf of real equality for the Jews ,followed pattern of Montesquieu in Lettres Persanes, strategy of letters as a literary device. Two American Jews, one in NY and one in Philadelphia wrote to each other and discussed Jewish problems of the day.They proved to their satisfaction that Jesus was not divine, that he was not the Messiah and may never have existed, Goal of the author was to do away with anything that impeded social relationships between Jews and Gentiles. Book’s bold approach and unabashed criticism of Christianity’s beginnings was denounced as calumnies by some Christians. Three years later Israel Vindicated was published in England, the first “Jewish” book to gain recognition abroad.(from Jacob Marcus United States Jewry) Important work.  (265070)    $150.00

5.     Assis Yom Tov (essays by) Folberg Neil (photos). And I Shall Dwell Among Then; Historic Synagogues of the World. NY: Aperture, 2000. 175 pages Filled with color photographs. Marvelous work. Very good. Hardcover .  (265619)    $15.00

6.     Avigad Nahman . Beth She’arim; Report of the Excavations during 1953-1958 Volume III Catacombs 12-23. New Brunswick: Rutgers, 1976. 299 pages +74 plates dj chipped. Good. Hardcover & Dust Jacket.  (263889)    $17.00

7.     Ayalon-Baranick, Benzion H. Hayoh Hayah Ma’Aseh: Shirm Sippurim Masorot Minhagim…. Folklor, 1946. 303 pp. In Hebrew. Good. Hardcover .  (265020)    $36.00

8.     Bar-Adon, B. Judaea Samaria and the Golan: Archaeological Survey 1967-1968. Jerusalem: Archaeological Survey, 1972. 294 pp. + Map In Hebrew. Very Good. Hardcover .  (264102)    $40.00

9.     Bialik Chaim  Kellner Viktor ubersetzung. Essays. Chaim Nachmann Bialik. Judischer Verlag, 1925. 240 pp. Good. Boards.  (264799)    $10.00

10.     Bibliothek der Jungen Kunst Band 1. Klinkhardt & Biermann, 1921. Some of the paper yellowing but not britttle. Contains essays and works by M. Pechstein, P. Becker-Modersohn, B. Hoetger, Ludwig Meidner, C. Klein, F. Heckendorf, R. Grszmann and H. Krayn Important study. Good. Boards.  (264346)    $65.00

11.     Bloch Chajim. Lebenserinnerungen des Kabbalisten Vital. Wien: Vernay, 1927. 179 pages, spine very torn. Good condition. Boards.

Chapters on Kabbala und Mystik, Zum Traumproblem, Magie Wahrsagung u dergl.,written by Chief Rabbi  (264834)    $40.00

12.     (Bristow Miss Amelia ) . The Orphans of Lissau, and other interesting narratives, immediately connected with Jewish customs, domestic and religious, with explanatory notes. Gardiner and Son, 1830. two volumes spines stamped in gilt; extremities lightly rubbed, scattered foxing throughout, sfep, tear to title page corner volume two 268+ 278 pp. Good. Boards.

Miss Bristow in the 1820s and 1830s published a series on the theme of perils of leaving the true faith. Sophia de Lissau Emma de Lissau . Bristow (1783-?) converted from Judaism and resided in London. She seemed to be on an evangelical mission to warn of the dire consequences of leaving Christianity and depicts Judaism in a very negative way. By leaving her faith Margaret Warburton brings disaster upon her new family and ultimately disappears,  (264697)    $275.00

13.     Bush, George. A Grammar of the Hebrew Language; with a brief Chrestomathy for the Use of Beginners. New York: Leavitt Lord, 1835. Endpapers foxed and mild foxing throughout, Spine, front and back covers embossed with over-all foliate design. Title and author incorporated in a gold stamped Gothic building on spine . Good condition. Cloth.

Rosenbach 384. From 1831 to 1847, Bush was Professor of Hebrew and Oriental Literature at New York University. He also began several works, including the Life of Mohammed (1830), A Grammar of the Hebrew Language (1835), an extensive series of commentaries on books of the Old Testament, and the highly controversial Anastasis: or, the doctrine of the resurrection of the Body, rationally and scripturally considered (1844). Mr. Bush was also a committed advocate for the abolishment of slavery. In 1845 Bush converted to the General Church of the New Jerusalem. He quickly became a prominent spokesman of the church, and helped the spread of the church’s magazine. Bush served as editor for the New Church Review and the spiritualist magazine, The Hierophant, and he authored and helped disseminate a large number of Swedenborgian tracts, including the widely read Statement of reasons for believing the doctrines and disclosures of Emanuel Swedenborg (1846) and Mesmer and Swedenborg (1847). Bush continued his promotional work for the New Church until his death, following a protracted and debilitating illness, in 1859. Ironically, Bush is a distant relative of his namesakes. (Wikipedia) Rosenbach 384  (264998)    $125.00

14.     Catalogue of the Permanent Collection, Rubin Museum, Tel-Aviv. Rubin Museum, 1993. 122 pp. In Hebrew and English with many color images. Very Good. Hardcover & Dust Jacket.  (264901)    $24.00

15.     Clayton John. Mitzvah Man. Texas Tech, 2011. 253 pp. Novel of a man dealing with the senseless death of his wife develops healing powers and the consequences. Marvelous written local author. Very Good. Hardcover & Dust Jacket.  (264754)    $23.00

16.     The Copenhagen Haggadah Altona-Hamburg, 1739. Facsimile Edition. Nahar, 1986. 34 pp includes seperate introduction by Chaja Benjamin. Very Good. Hardcover .  (265365)    $30.00

17.     Einat Amela (inscribed). Diba She-Eyn Ba Kalon  Life Without Disgrace. Yediot Aharanot, 1994. 180 pp. In Hebrew. Very Good. Hardcover .  (265017)    $25.00

18.     Ewald Geo (signed by A Geiger) . Grammatica critica Linguae Arabicae, cum brevi metrorum doctrina; Volumen Prius Volumen Posterius (two volumes). Leipzig : Hahn, 1831. 394+ 348 pp. marbled worn boards, cloth type repaired spine, Signature of Abraham Geiger ( A.Geiger) on paste down of volume one with his handwriting in Hebrew above in small script and small library stamps of Bibl. d Verein Isr. Rel. Lehrer Frankfurt am Main, volume two is also ex library from a different library. Good-. Boards.

Geiger was considered the founding father of Reform Judaism.  (264604)    $175.00

19.     Fishbane Simcha. The Boldness of an Halakhist: An Analysis of the Writings of Rabbi Yechiel Mechel Halevi Epstein – “The Arukh Hashulhan”; A series of social anthropological essays. Academic Studies Press, 2008. 184 pp. Very Good. Hardcover & Dust Jacket.

It analyses the rabbi’s approach to Jewish law and Jewish life, designed to promote the spiritual welfare of Jews under the pressures of growing secularisation and russification. Although based upon the principles of the traditional judicial process, the rabbi’s rulings demonstrate a profound understanding of the contemporary social and historical reality facing the Jews of Russia at the turn of the century. (from the blurb)  (265121)    $14.00

20.     Fishleder Rabbi Israel. Mivtsar Yiśrae̕l : o, parperao̕t ha-hakhmah, ha-mekhil musar ve-mishpat ‘al-pi sevarot mefarshe ha-Mikra veha-Talmud … ‘im heárot ve-hea̕rot le-‘inyanim shonim. Mexico: 1958. 489 pp. in Hebrew 5pp. in Yiddish. Good +. Hardcover .

La fortaleza de Israel, introducción a la sabiduría judía. Los conceptos de moral y justicia de acuerdo con las interpretaciones de los sabios y comentaristas judíos de la Biblia y del Talmud, ordenados alfabéticamente por temas, con aclaraciones y observaciones apropiadas.  (263865)    $95.00

21.     Fishof, Iris, Curator. From the Secular to the Sacred: Everyday Objects in Jewish Ritual Use. Jerusalem: Israel Museum, 1985. Exhibition catalog. 8vo 108 pp. good. wrapper.  (264996)    $15.00

22.     Friedberg B. Lūḥōt zikkārōn Sēfer kōlēl tōledōt rabbānē hā’īr Qraqa … [Auch m. dt. Tit.:] Luchot Sikaron. enthaltend: Biographien der Rabbiner, Gelehrten und Gemeindvorster zu Krakau, vom Anfang d. XVI. Jh. bis auf die Gegenwart nebst Grabinschriften. Beiträge zur Geschichte der Juden in Polen u. Deutschland. Frankfurt-am-Main: Kauffmann, 1904/ 1969. reprint. 124+ 4 pp. In Hebrew, this is a reprint. Very Good. Hardcover .  (264098)    $45.00

23.     Frieden Ken. Classic Yiddish Fiction; Abramovitsch Scholem Aleichem and Peretz. SUNY, 1995. 364 pages. Very good. Hardcover .

Eleven Essays.  (264618)    $10.00

24.     Geiger, Abraham. Salomo Gabirol–und Seine Dichtungen. Leipzig: Oskar Leiner, 1867. 147 pp. ex library paper yellowing. Good. Hardcover .  (264069)    $25.00

25.     Greenbaum Leo curator. The Story of the Jewish Labor Bund, 1897-1997. A Centennial Expedition (Presented by the Yivo Institute for Jewish Research.). YIVO, 1998. 34 pp. exhibition catalog. Very Good. Stiff Wrapper.  (263833)    $16.00

26.     Grossbard Simcha (collected by) Haggadah. The Sefas Emes Haggadah. TArgum, 1995. 220 pp. sfep. Very Good. Hardcover & Dust Jacket.  (264702)    $36.00

27.     Grossbard Simcha (collected by) Haggadah. The Sefas Emes Haggadah. TArgum, 1995. 220 pp. sfep. Very Good. Hardcover & Dust Jacket.  (265248)    $18.00

28.     Gutman Nahum. Haggadah shel Pesach metzuyeret al yedey Nahum Gutman. Omanut, 1930. 53 pp. few loose pages, spine torn, foxed and wine stained some beautiful wood cuts. Fair. Stiff Wrapper.  (264612)    $40.00

29.     Gutmann, Joseph ( editor). No Graven Images: Studies in Art and the Hebrew Bible. NY: KTAV, 1971. 599 pp. twenty seven essays, spine worn, hinge started bokplate and sfep. Very Good. Cloth.  (264125)    $65.00

30.     Gutstein, Morris. A Priceless Heritage: The Epic Growth of 19th Century Chicago Jewry. NY: Bloch, 1953.  488 pp. Good +. Hardcover .  (265107)    $17.00

31.     Haenle S. Geschichte Der Juden Im Ehemaligen Furstenthum Ausbach. Frankfurt-am-Main: Hofmann, 1867. 240 pp. some dog eared pages, sfep. Good. Boards.  (264156)    $75.00

32.     Halperin Raphael. Atlas Eytz Chayim  Aṭlas ʻets-ḥayim : seder ha-dorot le-ḥakhme Yiśraʼel mi-shilhe teḳufat ha-geʻonim ʻad gerush Sefarad. Hotsaʼat Heḳdesh Ruaḥ Yaʻaḳov,, 1978. 295 pp. + chart insert, bottom corners bumped, crown of spine torn, In Hebrew. Good. Hardcover .  (264168)    $30.00

33.     Hardan David editor Buber Martin. Leket Frpm the Treasure House of Jassidism a selection from “Or Haganuz”. WZO, 1969. 72 pp. In English and Hebrew. Good +. Stiff Wrapper.  (263855)    $23.00

34.     Heuzeroth Gunter. Judisch-deutscher Mitburger unserer Heimat. Altenkirchen: Kresies Altenkirchen, 1978. offprint from yearbook 35 pages with photos with history of the Jews and waht happened during the Nazi period. Very good. Wrapper.  (264609)    $25.00

35.     Hillel Rabbi D’Beth, Fischel Walter editor. Unknown Jews in unknown lands : the travels of Rabbi David d’Beth Hillel, 1824-1832. Krav, 1973. 130 pp. with map map some slight library markings, reprint. Very Good. Hardcover .

edited with an introduction and notes by Walter J. Fischel.  (264620)    $40.00

36.     Huisman Piet. Sephardim: The Spirit That Has Withstood the Times. Hisman, 1986. 90 pp. Very Good-. Hardcover & Dust Jacket.  (264088)    $25.00

37.     Jahshan, Ghattas. Guide to the West Bank of Jordan. Jerusalem: National Printing Press, 1962. fourth printing. 95 pp. slight crease to cover, picture of King Hussein on fep. Good. Stiff Wrapper.  (264839)    $12.00

38.     James-Chakraborty, Kathleen. In the Spirit of Our Age: Eric Mendelsohn’s B’nai Amoona Synagogue. Missouri Historical, 2000. 83 pp. filled with illustrations of this important work by refugee architect from BauHaus movement. Very Good. Hardcover & Dust Jacket.  (264902)    $15.00

39.     Katz Dovid (editor) . Oksforder Yidish: A Yearbook of Yiddish Studies I  (1990). harwood, 1990. 399 pp. In Yiddish. Very Good. Hardcover .

Includes “Yiddish in Yiddish,” Dovid Katz, “Blitz and Witzenhausen: New Aspects of an Old Conflict,” Marion Aptroot, “Yiddish Culture in Prewar Piotrkow (Pyeterkov),” Majer Bogdanski, “Jews in Polish Folklore,” Wladyslaw T. Bartoszewski, “Halachic Sources of Old Yiddish Words, ” Joseph Bar-El, “On Mendele’s Syntax in ‘Fishke der krumer,'” Lewis Glinert, “Why do Literary Historians Ignore A.N. Stencl?” Jeffrey Grossman, “On the Origins of Ashkenaz and Yiddish,” Shmuel Hiley, “Abraham Sutzkever’s ‘Ode tsu der toyb,'” Heather Valencia, “The Politics of Researching Spoken Yiddish in the USA and the USSR,” Rakhmiel Peltz, “In Honor of Professor Chone Shmeruk,” S.S. Prawer, “Older Yiddish Lexicography: Sources and Methods,” Dovid Katz, “Watchmaking in Mikhalishek,” Menke Katz, “A Conspiracy and a Question Mark,” Robert D. King, “Irony in Arthur Schnitzler and Lamed Shapiro,” Dafna Clifford, “Beginnings of Modern Literary Yiddish (1771-1798),” Dov-Ber Kerler, “My Teacher Elye Falkovitsh,” Joseph Kerler, “Remnants of Yiddish in the German of Schopfloch,” Hadassah Shy, “Yiddish Literature and Collective Memory: The Khmelnitski Pogroms,” Chone Shmeruk, “In Memorium: Hartog Beem,” “In Memorium: Florence Guggenheim-Grunberg,” “Seven Letters from Sholem Ash to Moyshe Sanders.”  (264765)    $85.00

40.     Katz Eli (editor). Book of Fables. the Yiddish Fable Collection of Reb Moshe Wallich Frankfurt Am Main, 1697. Wayne State, 1994. 305 pp. few pages of pencil annotations by Joachim Neugroschel. Good +. Hardcover & Dust Jacket.  (264419)    $15.00

41.     Katz Jacob editor. he Role of Religion in Modern Jewish History : Proceedings of Regional Conferences of the Association for Jewish Studies, Held at the University of Pennsylvania and the University of Toronto in March-April 1974. AJS, 1975. 169 pp. eight amazing essays. crease to cover. Very Good. Hardcover .  (264484)    $40.00

42.     Katz Jacob. The “Shabbes Goy”; A study in Halakhic flexibility. JPS, 1989. 252 pages. Good. Paperback.  (264297)    $10.00

43.     King Joe. From the Ghetto to the Main: The Story of the Jews of Montreal. Montreal: JPS, 2003. 352 pp.inscribed by author. Good +. Paperback.  (264428)    $10.00

44.     Kirchner, Paul Christian. Jüdisches Ceremoniel, oder Beschreibung dererjenigen Gebräuche, welche die Juden so wol inn als ausser d. Tempel, bey allen u. jeden Fest-Tägen, im Gebet, bey d. Beschneidung, bey Hochzeiten, Auslösung d. Erst-Geburt, im Sterben, bey der Begräbnüs und dergleichen, in acht zu nehmen pflegen. Nunmehro aber bey dieser neuen Auflage mit accuraten Kupfern versehen. … und selbst eigener Erfahrung, um vieles vermehret und mit Anmerkungen erläutert v. Sebastian Jacob Jungendres
. Nuremberg: Peter Conrad Monath, 1726. 226pp. + Verzeichnis + Register. Quarto. Loose originally tipped in folded engraved half-title, 28 engraved folded plates including frontispiece after J.G. Puschner. Sewn on five raised double cords, panels gold stamped foliate designs, brown author label extant but title label missing, crown and foot of leather spine missing, no evidence of headbands. Sewing intact, front hinge loose, leather rubbed. Paper in very good condition, slight water stain in hinge visible until page 72; occasional old graphite marking “Nbene!” in margins. Folded engraved plates all have slight tears, some have more and a very few are in bad condition, details can be supplied. Endpapers and free endpapers are contemporary paste paper design, all in very good condition. Ink inscription on recto page before frontispiece . In paper box, : “A la memoire perpetuelle de la maison d’Emsheim a celle de Judenbourg 1836” Fair. Full Leather.

Signifigant work on Jewish religious observance with extraordinarily detailed description of Jewish life feast days and rituals. Plates illustrate all the holidays and Shabbat, life cycle rituals and ritual objects.  (264467)    $675.00

45.     Klatkin Jacob susanne. Herman Kohen : shiṭato be-musar u-mishnato be-Yahadut. Berlin: Rimon, 1923. 153 pp. In Hebrew covers disbound lacks pine, paper yellowing but not brittle. Good-. Boards.  (264468)    $45.00

46.     Kol Kitve David Frishman Volume one. Mexico: Lili Frishman, 1950. 382 pp. ex library with markings and hinge starting. Good. Hardcover .  (263835)    $20.00

47.     Korn, Bertram. American Jewry and the Civil War. Phil.: JPS, l951. 8vo 33l pages sfep. good. Hardcover .  (264639)    $20.00

48.     Lazar Moshe. Almeric, Arcidiano de Antiochia: La fazienda de Ultra Mar (Biblia Romanceada et Itinéraire biblique en prose castillane du XIIe siècle). Salamanca: 1965. 224 pp. Good +. Stiff Wrapper.  (264264)    $25.00

49.     Leeser Isaac. Instruction in the Mosaic Religion. Translated from the German of J. Johlson. Philadelphia: Adam Waldie, 5590 (1830). (Rosenbach 321). 139 pp. lacks pages 3-6, dark water stain about an inch from top of book on inner folds of many pages not affecting text, some stains throughout, boards are rough with tears to spine and wear to covers , needs tightening. Good-. Boards.

Signature of Simon Stern Philadelphia 1852 on t.p. , and Simon Stern No 23. on f.e.p. Morais In Jews of Philadelphia devotes four pages to the accomplishments of Stern for Jewry and the city of Philadelphia, The scarcity of books concerning the Jewish religion emphasized the fact that there was no American Jewish publisher. Having translated Johlson’s Instruction in the Mosaic Religion, Leeser issued in the winter of 1829-30 proposals to publish it and The Jews and the Mosaic Law. When no offers were forthcoming, he became his own publisher. (Wikipedia)  (265071)    $245.00

50.     Leeser Isaac. The Jews and the Mosaic law. Part the first: containing a defence of the revelation of the Pentateuch, and of the Jews for their adherence to the same. Philadelphia: Carey and Hart, 5594 (1833). 278 pp. Original boards which are pinkish worn and stained ,contains Masonic book plate and embossed plate on cover and slight Masonic stamp at base of spine, spine torn and tears along edges of spine and base of spine, foxing to end papers, spine worn and has original label, slight damp staining bottom of last pages. Good. Boards.

Leeser’s first book.Rosenbach 375; Singerman 0578.  (265011)    $1,000.00

51.     Lehmann Manfred. Commentary of Rashi on the Pentateuch by R. Shlomo Yitzhaki (1040-1105). Critical edition based on a Yemenite manuscript written in c. 1440, and medieval fragments from Germany, Spain, Provence and Italy. Comparisons and listings of variants, fully annotated, based on the first printed edition (Reggio de Calabria 1475), Berliner’s edition and Sefer ha-Zikkaron. Lehmann Foundation, 1981. 39+ 231 pp. Hebrew with English introduction. Very Good. Hardcover .  (264147)    $85.00

52.     Liebe Georg. Das Judentum in der deutschen Vergangenheit mit 106 abbildungen und Beilagen nach Originalen..aus dem funfzehnten bis achtzehnten Jahrhundert. Leipzig: Diederichs, 1903. 127 pages. Good. boards.

Filled with text and drawings of the depiction of Jews from the 15th to the 18th centuries. Monographien zur deutschen Kulturgeschichte  (263765)    $40.00

53.     Mahler, Raphael. A History of Modern Jewry 1700-1815. NY: Schocken Books, 1971. 740 pp. dj worn. Very Good. Hardcover & Dust Jacket.

Mahler was Professor of Jewish History at Tel Aviv University.  (264616)    $20.00

54.     Mann, Vivian . Gardens and Ghettos: The Art of Jewish Life in Italy. University of California, 1989. 356pp. Very Good +. Cloth.  (264288)    $15.00

55.     Maurer Trude . Diskriminierte Burger und emanzipierte “Fremdstammige”: Juden an deutschen und russischen Universitaten. Leykam, 2013. 118 pp. Very Good. Hardcover .  (264895)    $10.00

56.     Meyers-Kingsley Dara. Two Site Specific Artworks at the Center for Jewish History Luminous Manuscripts Diane Samuels and Biblical Species by Michelle Doner. Center for Jewish History, 2008?. about 25 pages with many color illustrations, magnificent. Very Good. Wrapper.  (265085)    $18.00

57.     Michaelis Johann David. Supplementa ad lexica hebraica. Partes sex. EA. 6 Teile in 2 Bänden.
. Gottingen: Rosenbusch, 1792. 1-994, 1189-2376, lacks the volume with pages 995-1189. volume 1 aleph to het, volume 2 cuf through tuf , ex library with perforation marks on tp, volume 1 has velum boards and volume 2 has quarter leather, both volumes are worn , and spines have some tears and wear to boards. Good-. Boards.  (264179)    $85.00

58.     Navon Chaim. Genesis and Jewish Thought. KTAV, 2008. 379 pp. Very Good. Hardcover .  (265126)    $9.00

59.     Noah Mordecai. Travels in England France Spain and the Barbary States in the Years 1813-14 and 15. Kirk and Mercein, 1819. 431 pp.+ appendix, endpapers foxed and some foxing throughout, lacks 4 plates and frontispiece, a reading copy, spine repaired, boards worn. Good-. Boards.

Served as diplomat, important American Jewish leader.  (265072)    $175.00

60.     Offenberg K (editor). Bibliotheca Rosenthaliana. Treasures of Jewish booklore. Marking the 200th anniversary of the birth of Leeser Rosenthal, 1794-1994. Amsterdam Univ Press, 1996. 143 pp. beautiful work with many color plates. Good +. Hardcover & Dust Jacket.  (264423)    $30.00

61.     The Passover Hagadah shel Pesaḥ Jerusalem Edition. Jerusalem: Hamadfis, nd not first edition. 56 pp. In Hebrew and English dj torn color illustration on cover. Good +. Hardcover & Dust Jacket.

Original illustrations and designs b y Arieh Al Hanani with English Translations Musical Compositions arranged by S Rosowsky  First illustrated Hagadah prined in eretz Israel. Elhanani was born in 1898 in Ukraine and immigrated in 1922 to Jerusalem, Israel. In Kharkov he was part of a group that designed revolutionary propaganda posters. He undertook the Jewish anthropological expedition into the Pale of Settlement with substantial influence on Russian-Jewish avant-garde art. He was part of the design of the first production of the design set for the theater dedicated to Peretz stories, as well as the second ohel exhibition of 1927. (C. Rubin Arieh El-Hanani, Tel Aviv, Rubin Museum, 1993). (Wikipedia)  (263861)    $200.00

63.     Publications of the American Jewish Historical Society Number 21. AJHS, 1913. 304 pp. large library stamp on fep. Good. Hardcover .

Included in the work are “The Earliest Extant Minute Book of the Spanish and Portugese Congregation Shearith Israel in New York, 1728-1760,” “Minute Book of the Spanish and Portugese Congregation Shearith Israel in New York, 1760-1786,” “Biographical Sketch of Naphtali Philips,” “Sketch of the Spanish and Portugese Congregation Shearithy Israel about 1855,” Naphtali Phillips, “Biographical Sketch of Mordecai Manuel Noah,” “Address of Mordecai Manuel Noah, deleivered in 1825.  (264196)    $17.00

64.     Rahmer Dr M Rabbiner Synagoge Gemeinde Magdeburg. Israelitisches Predigt-Magazin 1 Jahrgang; Homiletische Monatsschrift. Friese, 1874. Boards worn, paper yellowing but not brittle, Issues include: nov dez 1874 jan/feb 1875, marz,april/mai.,juni; 33-296 pp. prefaced byDer Predigt der Gegenwart by Dr Horowitz. Good. Boards.

Filled with sermons by various Rabbis on all kinds of subjects. Scare  (264982)    $85.00

65.     Reershemius Gertrud. Biographisches Erzahlen auf Jiddisch; Grammatische und diskursanalytische Untersuchungen. Tubingen: Niemeyer, 1997. 422 pages . Very good. Paperback.  (264841)    $15.00

66.     Rose Emily. Portraits of Our Past Jews of the German Countryside. Phil: JPS, 2001. 371 pp. new. Hardback & DJ.

Study of her family and others in Southern Germany and emigration to the USA.  (264205)    $6.00

67.     Roth, Cecil. The History of Jews of Italy. Philadelphia: Jewish Pub Soc of America, 1946. 1st’. 575 pp. Good condition. cloth.

Essential work on the subject. By author of the Jews of Venice, History of the Marranos, and A Life of Menasseh Ben Israel.  (264624)    $26.00

68.     (Russia) Schwarz Solomon. Ha Antishameut bibrith Ha Moatzet Anti Semitism in the Soviet Union. 1952: Asaf, Tel Aviv. 192 pp. slight library mark on fep and number on spine, paper yellowing, In Hebrew. Good. Hardcover .  (264648)    $10.00

69.     Salomon Max. Amatus Lusitanus Und Seine Zeit: Ein Beitrag Zur Geschichte Der Medicin Im 16 Jahrhundert. Hirschwald, 1901. 71 pp.covers statined , stained by water along sides, reading copy bound with Harry Friedenwald Amatus Lusitanus an offprint 50 pp. also water stained reading copy. Fair. Hardcover .  (264159)    $27.00

70.     Scheidt, Balthasar; Johann Andreas Dantz; Jacob Rhenferd; et al. Novum testamentum ex Talmude et antiquitatibus Hebraeorum illustratum. Lipsae: Joh. Frid. Braunii, 1736. In Latin and Hebrew, [30], 1216, (96) pages thick 4to. leather backed boards, spine dried and flaked, theological school book plate and spine number. Commentary written in English on the work in pen from 18th century on page facing the title page, Scheidt was a University of Strasbourg Professor of Oriental Languages during the 17th Century. Good. leather boards.

The editor of the work was Johann Gerhard Meuschen . Work presents a Christian Hebraist’s presentation and discussion of ascribed references in the Talmud to Jesus and the New Testament. There is a also a collection of additional writings that purport to show Judaica antecedents to the revelations of the New Testament.. There are other important acacademics involved in the work with a large segment devoted to Jewish baptismal practices. All to justify Christian interpretations.  (265013)    $225.00

71.     Scholem G. Shabbetai Zevi; and the Shabbetaian Movement during his Lifeime. Tel Aviv: Oved, 1967. 842 pages in two volumes, in Hebrew. Very good condition. Hardback & DJ.  (264731)    $20.00

72.     Schreier Barbara A. Becoming American Women; Clothing and the Jewish Immigrant Experience, 1880-1920. Chicago Historical Society, 1994. 154 pp. large creases to front and back covers, a few pages at the beginning and the end are a bit scuffed up. Very Good-. Paperback.  (264321)    $10.00

73.     Schrogin Joseph. Gezangen Songs for Voice and Piano. Metro Music, 1972. 323 pp. songs in transliterated Yiddish inscribed by Schrogin. Good. Hardcover .  (263867)    $25.00

74.     Schwab Dr Isaac. Can Jews be Patriots? A Historical Study. NYC: Industrial School of the Hebrew Orphan Asylum, 1878. 45 pp. lacks covers. Good. Wrapper.

Singerman 2723  (263850)    $55.00

75.     Shadur, Joseph. Traditional Jewish Papercuts. An Inner World of Art and Symbol. UPNE, 2002. 263 pp. Classic work. very good. Hardcover & Dust Jacket.  (265065)    $30.00

76.     Shadur,Joseph. Young Travelers to Jerusalem: The Holy Land in American and English Juvenile Literature: 1785-1940. Jerusalem: Bar Ilan, 1998. 207 pp. excellent study and bibliography. very good. cloth.  (264283)    $10.00

77.     Shapiro Yonathan. The Formative Years of the Israeli Labour Party. The Organization of Power 1919 1930. Sage, 1976. 280 pp. Very Good. Hardcover .  (264634)    $18.00

78.     Sturmann, Manfred; Einleitung von Arnold Zweig. Althebraische Lyrik Nachdichtungen; Einleitung von Arnold Zweig. Munchen: Allgemeine Verlagsanstalt, 1923. 197 pp. slight foxing along spine, slight library mark. Good. Boards.

Born in Koenigsberg (East Prussia), his first book, Althebraeische Lyrik – a rendering of biblical poetry into German – appeared in 1923 with an introduction by Arnold Zweig. This was followed by several books of his own lyrical poems, the first of which, Die Erben (1929), was awarded the Lyrics Prize of the City of Munich. After his immigration to Erez. Israel in 1938, he continued writing poetry as well as short stories in German. Literary administrator of Else Lasker Schuler.  (264859)    $12.00

79.     Sudemann, Dr. M. (Oberrabbiner in Wien). Das Judenthum in seinem Grundzugen und nach seinen geschichtlichen Grunlagen …. Wien: Lowit, 1902. 12mo 105 pp. library stamp tp cover worn marbled boards . Good. Boards.  (264819)    $15.00

80.     Sukenik E. Ossar ha-Megillot ha-genuzot šeb-bide Ûnîversîta ha-Ivrît. Bialik Hebrew University, 1954. 54 pp. of text and pages of facsimiles of documents in protected fold out box. Very Good. Stiff Wrapper in box.  (263862)    $175.00

81.     The Supreme Awqaf Council. A Brief Guide to the Dome of the Rock and Al-Hara Al-Sharif. Jerusalem: Islamic Orphanage Press, 1956. 98 pp. lacks part of back cover. Good. Stiff Wrapper.  (264838)    $12.00

82.     Torren Haim. Sham yashavnu; prike tsiyur ve-havai “There we sat” Sketches and Stories. Yavneh, 1970. 157 pp. In Hebrew. Very Good. Hardcover .  (264970)    $18.00

83.     Triwaks I. War and Peace in Palestine – Memorial Album. From the First Days of Zionism to the Present Time with Special Consideration of Recent Events. A Collection of Pictures with Comments and Explanations by I. Triwaks. Tel Aviv Publishing, 1930. 275 + LVII pp. In Hebrew Yiddish and English, extensive documentation of the settlements, the building up of the land, the nearvy Arab communities and photos of the 1929 riots and massacre of the Jews. Very Good. Hardcover .  (264967)    $135.00

84.     Turniansky, Chava (ed.). Sefer Massah U’Merivah (1627) by Alexander Ben Yizhak Pfaffenhofen. Magbes, 1985. 398 pp.In Hebrew and Yiddish. Very Good. Hardcover & Dust Jacket.  (264167)    $95.00

85.     Werbluner Salomo editor. Commentaria Hebraica in R. Mosis Maimonidis (Joseph Kaspi). Frankfurt-am-Main: 1848. 151 pp. with some addditional material and then essay by Peretz Samuelanskin Bekorot Teheyah published in Odessa 22 pp.the front end paper has an inscription in pen that bled through to title page. Good. Boards.  (264981)    $40.00

86.     Wise, Isaac [Henry Toch’s copy]. A Defense of Judaism versus Proselytizing Christianity. American Israelite, 1889. 129 pp. Slight tear to crown, corners bumped. Bloch Publishing stamped on tp. Good. Cloth.

Bookplate of Henry Toch and his signature on page facing title page (July 3 1889). Judaica Museum at Temple Emanu El in NYC was the result of his donations in 1928.  (264411)    $36.00

87.     Yiddish Scientific Institute Yidisher ṿisnshafṭlekher insṭiṭuṭ. Studies in Philology Filologishe shrifṭn. Third Volume. Wilno: Vilner Farlag b kletskin, 1929. 624 pp. in Yiddish with English summary of articles ,lacks part of spine at bottom, wear along sides of boards,paper yellowing but not brittle, hinges started, former owner’s name on fep . Good-. Boards.

Some rather interesting and amazing articles.  (264987)    $150.00

88.     Zahavy Tzvee  translator. The Talmud of the Land of Israel, A Preliminary Translation and Explanation Volume 1 Berakhot. Chicago, 1989. 373 pp. Very Good. Hardcover .  (264781)    $26.00

89.     Zameret Zvi. Across A Narrow Bridge; Shaping the Education System during the Great Aliya. Ben Gurion University, 1997. 356 pp. In Hebrew. Very Good. Hardcover .  (264657)    $20.00

90.     Zarchin, Michael. Jews in the Province of Posen: Studies in the Communal Records of the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries. Dropsie, 1939. 115 pp. spine worn and slight bumps to crown and base of spine. Good +. Hardcover .

study of 42 manuscripts concerning of the Jews of Posen  (264595)    $20.00

91.     Zunz Dr. Die Ritus des synagogalen Gottesdienstes, geschichtlich entwickelt. Lamm, 1919. 249 pp. zweit auflgae, paper yellowing . Good-. Hardcover .  (264157)    $20.00

92.     Zurreno Mosseh. Discurso. Lisboa: 1925. 18 pp. paper yellowing but not brittle, book plate ex library, hinge started , with preface by Moses Amzalak has facsimile page of talk given by Zurreno in the Synagogue in Rotterdam in 1698 Good. Boards.  (264516)    $45.00

Interview with New Vilna Review (3/7/11)

Ken Schoen, founder and owner of Schoen Books, has created an oasis filled with important and rare Jewish texts at his store located inside a 1930’s era firehouse in South Deerfield, Massachusetts. Visitors to the shop can expect to find volumes in multiple languages, classical music playing on the stereo and the occasional poetry reading as well as a proprietor and staff dedicated to sharing their love for Jewish books and ideas with customers. In this interview with the New Vilna Review, Mr. Schoen talks about what inspired him to begin this endeavor, how his business has changed over time and the kinds of things that he likes to read.

NVR: For our readers who may not have heard of Schoen Books, can you give us a brief description of your business and what inspired you to start this unique bookstore?

I like to tell people that The Haunted Bookshop, a novel by Christopher Morley was my inspiration. His fictional bookshop proprietor delighted in identifying and prescribing the right tome for the soul. My rampant bibliomania, my desperate need to buy yet another book led finally to its logical conclusion: I became a book dealer. I satisfied the passion for hunting books with the excuse that I would sell them, having had the pleasure of possession for a brief moment. Walter Benjamin has captured eloquently the profound psychological and perhaps sensual pleasure in collecting books and holding them.  (Walter Benjamin: “Unpacking my Library: A Talk about Book Collecting,” in Illuminations, Engl. trans. (London: Fontana, 1982), pp. 59-60, 63, and 66-67. http://www.idehist.uu.se/distans/ilmh/Ren/benj-bookcoll.htm)

Some of our holdings can be seen on the web site http://www.schoenbooks.com. We specialize in Judaica in all languages including Yiddish and Polish, but especially German Judaica; also, books on the Shoah, works by exile and refugee writers, books about Israel, and also the social sciences. We upload internet catalogs of recent acquisitions and send them to. We travel widely purchasing fine scholarly libraries. There are at least 20,000 books that are stranded in my bookstore hotel. They call out for new homes.

We are in South Deerfield, which is in Western Massachusetts (about 90 miles west of Boston, about 80 miles East of Albany, and 30 minutes north of the Massachusetts Turnpike and Springfield. We maintain a (usually) open shop weekdays and by appointment on Sundays. In all cases, a call ahead is strongly recommended; 413-665-0066.

NVR: Can you give us a snapshot of what your clientele looks like – who comes to Schoen Books?

Scholars and research libraries are our main clientele via the internet. Occasionally itinerant pilgrims stop by. We have been known to serve a light lunch.

There are only about five or so serious full-time book dealers in the United States specializing in out-of-print scholarly Judaica. And serious seekers of obscure titles know where to find us.

NVR: What can visitors to your bookstore expect to find?

A mysterious adventure unfolds behind the bay doors of the 1930s WPA former firehouse. Those with a vivid imagination may bump into Franz Kafka reading an insurance text, Theodor Herzl reading a pamphlet on Palestine, Sigmund Freud pondering a sphinx, Gershom Scholem scribbling marginalia on mysticism, Uriel Weinreich deciphering Yiddishisms, and Bruno Schulz sketching under the sign of the crocodiles.

Wandering the aisles is an intellectual journey…and a place to linger and delight in the journeys of others and commence your own pilgrimage. The books are not organized by subject, but find themselves nonsensically shelved simply by order of appearance…much like the list characters in a theatrical playbill. The shop is a respite from the maddening pace and pressures of modern life, a place of solace and also community. The strains of a Bach suite or a Schubert trio completes the experience.

Throughout the year, we hold occasional poetry readings and talks about art, travel and Jewish topics. The shop is close to several museums: Historic Deerfield and Pocumtuck Valley Memorial Association in Deerfield, the National Yiddish Book Center, Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art, and the Five Colleges and their art museums.

NVR: How have you built up your inventory over the years? Have the kinds of books that you sell changed much since you first started your business?

I buy books from professors who are retiring or downsizing for various reasons, and university libraries that are weeding and deaccessioning. I do not mind library markings. Most of my clientele doesn’t either. The content is the primary concern. Much of European Judaica was destroyed by the Nazis and what made it over to the United States came with the refugees or was purchased earlier by American libraries. I feel it is a sacred task to bring these books back to being read again. In the interim we offer them refuge.

When I started in 1990, there seemed to be a greater interest in books on the Shoah, and Holocaust Centers were building their collections. Now, there seems to be less interest. Or, it may reflect a lack of funds or a shift toward electronic purchases. The unusual titles and those in foreign languages sell best and the Europeans are buying more than ever before.  The more common titles are now easy to find inexpensively anywhere via the internet. For those titles you no longer need a specialist. They are so inexpensive that I donate many of these titles to local schools.

NVR: Can you tell us a little about your background and what inspired your passion for Jewish books?

I grew up surrounded by German Jewish refugees in Forest Hills (Queens, N.Y.). All my grandparents were cattle dealers in Germany (http://www.schoenbooks.com/wordpress/?p=111 ) and my father had a coffee roasting business in NYC, selling coffee to restaurants. I have continued the tradition of being a merchant. I did not become a yeshiva bocher as all my male cousins did, but instead I sought out scholarly Judaica to read. It is partly to honor the heritage of my family coming out of Germany that I became immersed in German Judaica.

I was a school teacher in New York City and then a psychiatric social worker focused on children and families. I have always belonged to a Conservative movement shul and within that orbit I have founded a Men’s Club and run a Jewish Seniors group in Northampton, MA.

NVR: Is there anything else you would like to add? The “we” I have been referring to includes my wife, Jane Trigère and my young assistant, Nathaniel Otting, who is the main blogger on my web site. It gives me great naches that he has started his own bookshop (http://www.flying-object.org).

Jane is an artist (www.trigere.com) and some of her work is in an exhibition now (until June 30, 2011) at the Hebrew Union College Museum in NYC. She was a member of kibbutz Kfar Giladi for 6 years and also co-founded Yedidei Hasefer (Israel Bibliophiles) in 1980. She is descended from seamstresses and tailors. Her father Robert Trigère was born in Odessa, raised in Paris and came to the USA in 1937. He and his sister Pauline were major players in the garment industry on Seventh Ave. in NYC.

The children from our blended family are Rebecca who is starting out in social work, Seth who works for the Electronic Frontier Foundation, Rachel who is a massage therapist, and Shatay who is an art director. We are the proud grandparents of three future readers.

What few people know about me is that I am addicted to detective thrillers in the genre of Alan Furst and Philip Kerr.

Today I would like to prescribe two novels that are not well-known and need a wider audience:

  • The 13th Man by Murray Teigh Bloom is a thrilling novel of suspense based on historical events.
  • The Song of Names by Norman Lebrecht is a mystery about identity and loss after the Shoah.

For more information on Schoen Books, please click here. (http://www.schoenbooks.com/)

Copyright 2011 The New Vilna Review.

Venturing into a Strange Land (8/18/08)

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I have lived for many years now in a small farming village in Western Massachusetts.We are one of about 10 Jewish families surrounded by a predominantly Polish and Yankee population. I have repeated my family’s story.

The central square of Herborn, the Marktplatz, had been anchored in my consciousness since memory began. A painting of the square hung in my parents’ home, an iconic representation of a disappeared world. It always seemed so tranquil and quaint in a way that resembled nothing I knew in Forest Hills, Queens. It was a far off mystery dream location.

 

My mother would never ever go back to this town of her birth. The painting captured a memory of happy youth in Germany, but the actual town represented the horrors of upheaval.

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Grave of Nathan Sternberg

My son Seth has made four trips to Germany. He visited my mother’s home town and cleaned the gravestones, including that of my great grandfather Nathan Sternberg. Seth has been trying to convince me for many years to return to Germany to visit my mother and father’s home towns.

I had not planned to revisit my grandparents’ Heimat. For me, Germany represented a burial ground, a country that had decimated European Jewry, and I did not want to wander on its soil again. In 1965, as a naïve and idealistic seventeen year-old, I had traveled to Germany to study German at the Goethe Institute. Seeing people old enough to have fought in the War filled me with turmoil. I did not want to be immersed in such pain again.

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With my son’s encouragement and support (although he was unaware of that), I steeled myself to conquer my inner landscape, letting go of the turmoil and rage. Seth and I bought air tickets to Frankfurt and a Eurail pass for three weeks in Germany. Hopefully, “everything (would become) illuminated.” everything-illuminated11

But, there was also a personal story that needed resolution. A family secret had haunted me and needed to be laid to rest at the cemetery in Vacha. I would be going as an “emotional tourist” visiting the site of a family tragedy, fulfilling a promise, and doing the work of teshuvah for my family.

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The main street of Herborn

The first part of the pilgrimage was to Herborn, a bustling town about 45 minutes outside of Frankfurt where my mother Betti was raised. Her parents Emma and Heinrich Sternberg, cattle dealers, had been good friends with their neighbors the Meckels and my mother’s best friend was their daughter Johanna.

Their homes on the Austrasse shared a common garden which extended the length of the block and was behind the Sternberg stables and butcher shop.

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The photo below shows the shop attached to the home and a portrait of the family with friends. From the right rear is my great grandmother Josefina Rosenthal, her son-in-law Heinrich Sternberg, his wife, my grandmother Emma. In the front row are their children. From the right is Leo, Betti, my mother, and Bernhard.

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My mother studied piano at the conservatory in Frankfurt and taught Johanna also. In 1935 at the encouragement of her brothers who had immigrated to the USA and had read Mein Kampf, she left her parents and Germany and came to the USA. In 1938, she and her brothers were able to bring her parents out of Germany to America. Growing up, I heard of the friendship of the two families—the Sternbergs and the Meckels. My mother was never emotionally able to return to her heimat but Johanna did visit my mother once.

What I learned on this trip from Johanna’s daughters was the extent of this friendship. During the 1930s the Meckels had hidden food in the backyard garden so that my grandparents could survive. Had this cache been discovered the Meckels would have been imprisoned by the Nazis. On this trip, I made sure to visit their graves and offer a prayer of thanks to them.

Johanna married Paul Schnittert, a lawyer. He tried to avoid the military but was eventually conscripted and sent to serve in Norway. When the War ended he was captured by the Americans and imprisoned. My grandparents wrote letters to the US authorities on his behalf stating that he was not a Nazi and about the help rendered by his family. He was released from the prison. After the War my family sent parcels and care packages of food and coffee and clothing to the Meckel family and it helped them to survive.

 

Seth has continued this family friendship of over 100 years into the next generation.

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In Herborn the town archivist showed me sites where Jews had lived and the plaque where the synagogue once stood. They also discovered and restored a mikvah. It was the “extinct people tour.” This is a town with no Jews. They fled to foreign lands or vanished on transports to their deaths.

Seth and I walked to the Jewish cemetery and cleaned the moss off the stones and said prayers. The cemetery was well maintained and had not been damaged during the Nazi period because it bordered on a Psychiatric Hospital and a Christian cemetery.

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Vacha Town Center, where they would hold regular markets

Vacha had been a border town in East Germany and thus no one from my immediate family had visited. It is a beautiful village that time has forgotten. I felt as if I was back in the 1920s and admire the strength of my grandparents—maintaining their Orthodox Jewish life in this little German village. Kaufmann and Therese Schon were part of a community of 20 Jewish families. They lived on Steinwegstrasse (1915 views on right). vacha-postcards

cow-sale-documentThey The Schons were cattle dealers like my other grandparents, as the bill of sale on the left proves. Herr Georg Hess and his wife from Wolferbutt are paying off the cost of a cow purchased on Nov. 5, 1934. It seems that Kaufmann Schon was also a shochet as the document on the right from the provincial Rabbi Dr. M. Cahn from Fulda reveals. shochet-letter100

My grandparent’s home had been taken over and combined with the small hospital next door during the 1940s or so. With the reunification of Germany in 1989, the hospital was closed. The home like, many in Vacha, was abandoned and I could only peer through the windows. I fantasized about moving back into my grandparents’ home and the return of Jewish life somehow to this little village.

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Just as in Herborn, I went on tour of the town and was shown where the Jews used to live and the synagogue used to stand and curiously a restored mikvah. It was haunting and I felt like an American Indian visiting former grounds where ancestors had worshipped. There were no more Jews in this village. Only signs and memorials and a room in the local museum.

Since at least the 18th Century the Schons lived in nearby Volkershausen. Kaufmann’s father was Isaak and his mother was Hanna. They had five children pictured here: Rosalie, Kaufmann (far right), Veilchen (front center), Louis, and Ida. Kaufmann was the one to move to Vacha in the early 1900’s.

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My father Isaak left to come to America in 1927 as a very young man seeking the golden dream of fortune. He lost that fortune in 1929 in the stock market collapse but continued to work as a coffee salesman. New York City is dotted with many restaurants and delis who were his customers, and these contacts would become important very soon. He rescued 69 individuals during the 1930s and many of them found work in these modest eateries. He rescued his whole family except his sister Selma. Selma was suffering from some serious mental illness. The family knew she would not be admitted into the US as a refugee because of immigration restrictions.

My father’s schoolbooks; the left inscribed by his fellow classmates, and the right by his schoolteacher, Hugo Baumgart.

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Jewish School in Vacha, in 1920.
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1. Edith Oppenheim, 2. Ruth Gans, 3. Grete Katz, 4. Anni/Emmi Bachrach, 5. Dina Schoen, 6. Julius Kahn, 7. Siegfried Schoen,   8. Ilse Katz, 9. Lothar Gross, 10. Karl Schoen, 11. Selma Schoen,  12. Martha Katz, 13. Herta Oppenheim, 14. Klara/Clare Gross, 15. Marga Oppenheim, 16. Willy Baumgart, 17. Manfred Schoen, 18. Leo Katz, 19. Walter/Hermann Bachrach, 20. Miller Seewald

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My grandparents Kaufmann and Therese did not want to leave her behind when they finally left Germany in February 1939. At the time she was in a mental hospital in Hildburgshausen some hours away from Vacha. My grandparents negotiated with the mayor of Vacha for her care in perpetuity. The family home was left to the town of Vacha with the understanding she would be cared for and when the time came, buried in the Jewish cemetery. What happened next, I am sure you are all aware of… She was murdered by the doctors at the hospital as part of the euthanasia program. The promise was betrayed.

Growing up in the German Jewish shtetl of Forest Hills, Queens, I had never known about Selma and only learned of her short life after my father died in 1981 and I received a large handwritten family tree. Her name appeared next to my father’s. For some time no one would answer my questions about this mysterious aunt. Finally, I was told her story as I have just told you. Here was a tragedy that had been buried and there was a family shame that was hidden.

I was resolved to transform the family secret and shame into an acceptable reconciliation a belated Jewish burial of sorts. I have been saying kaddish for her for many years and in 1986 I gave her name to my daughter. But, Selma needed a place in the family cemetery.

Seth and I drove up to the cemetery on a hill overlooking Vacha—a very bucolic tranquil spot. The cemetery had been repaired some years ago through the financial contribution of a distant cousin Louis Schoen. In order not to invite renewed vandalism, it was decided to leave the stones leaning on their bases rather than put them upright again. A few local residents, Inge Wimmer, an historian, Gunter Hermes, the head of the Vacha Museum, and Olaf Ditzel, a book dealer, had been involved in doing research on the Jews of Vacha and repairing the cemetery. They also were very helpful to us during our stay in Vacha.

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In the cemetery I located the grave of Kaufmann’s twin sister Veilchen. It was broken in half. Next to the gravestone I placed a small smooth round stone with the name Selma Schon written on it and her date of birth. Her stone would be next to her aunt Veilchen.

On behalf of my entire family, I spoke out loud to Selma, pleading for her forgiveness for having left her behind, and on top of that, for having buried her memory. I told her she was not forgotten. Both Seth and I were sobbing. Seventy years after her murder, I said some prayers for her… that the Master of Mercy shelter her and that her soul be bound up in the bond of Life and that she repose in peace.

I felt a heavy weight leave me. I had also found some peace.

Together with Seth I had spied out the land and the people that had terrified my family and I was no longer afraid. I found myself at ease. Two generations had passed and the profaned land is transforming itself. The newest generation has a full awareness of the crimes of the grandparents.

It is this generation that Seth is making friends with. Together, I hope they will work to make this world a better place.

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This journey was inspired by the work of the Jewish Historical Society of Western Massachusetts and was made possible through the generosity of The Harold Grinspoon Foundation Incentive Grant.

My thanks to my wife Jane Trigere for her encouragement and design help.

 

In the News: “Ken Schoen, Jewish Book Dealer”

By Catherine Madsen

Rural New England is home to some surprising Jewish treasures, places you might never expect to find outside New York. One of these is Schoen Books, which hides unassumingly in a small former firehouse in South Deerfield, Massachusetts. It’s easy to miss: the firehouse looks like a common brick house with unusually large garage doors, and only a printed sign in one of the garage-door windows reading SCHOEN BOOKS and in the other a poster of the eyes of Albert Einstein reveal that anything odd is going on. But step behind those doors and you encounter tohu vavohu: 25,000 volumes of Judaica, Holocaust literature, modern European history, works on Zionism and Israel, works by exile and refugee writers, works on psychoanalysis–a rich chaos of books, journals, ephemera, rarities, in all languages and in all states of preservation.

Ken Schoen is one of five or so dealers in the country who handle Jewish books in this volume and at this intensity. He sells to scholars, collectors, and libraries all over the world, providing a level of personal service that is rare in this age of computerized ordering. He has helped to supply the library at the U.S. Holocaust Museum and libraries in England, Germany, Israel, and China, as well as academic libraries all over this country. He has also helped develop a library for the Hatikvah Holocaust Center in Longmeadow, Mass., which his wife Jane Trigère directs. (Bookselling runs in her family: Jane’s brother Ed Morrow owns the Northshire Bookstore in Manchester, Vermont.) Much of Schoen’s business is done by phone, fax, and e-mail–as is inevitable with such a far-flung clientele–and the store does not keep regular hours because he is often away on buying trips, but he will give lunch to any visitor who calls ahead: he and his family live above the store.

“It’s a yeshiva-like existence,” he says–a total immersion in buying, selling, and cataloging Jewish books. Hundreds of books a week pass through his hands. Recent additions to his stock are a collection of French material from the 1940s and a 2500-volume rabbinic library of classic Jewish texts. Often his acquisitions include old prayer books that have been superseded by new editions; some shelves overflow with siddurim, haggadot, Reform hymnals, the outmoded liturgical books of families and synagogues. No one buys such material; the traditional way of retiring holy books is to bury them, but Schoen prefers to locate people who need them. For some years he has been supplying Jewish communities in Germany with German-Hebrew siddurim and chumashim, some of them beautiful prewar editions with leather bindings and gold edges. Schoen’s parents both came from Germany, and he undertook the German prayer book project partly to honor them; it is part of a larger labor of love, the retrieval of 19th and 20th-century German-Jewish material, to which he feels called. He speaks feelingly of the honor of doing his work; clearly there is nothing else he would rather be doing.

Schoen plans eventually to renovate the front of the store (where the fire engines used to be parked) as a community center which will offer concerts, readings, and classes. This will extend the labor of love in a new direction, and should attract many people who know of his work only through his ads and through rumor to come and see for themselves this remarkable store.

Catherine Madsen is a writer, lay leader at the Jewish Community of Amherst, and contributing editor to the theological journal, Cross-Currents. Currently, she is a visiting lecturer in the Jewish Studies Department at Mt. Holyoke College.