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Imprint: Chicago: The Council, 1940-1946
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Paperback
Inscription: Signed, Inscribed Or Annotated
1st edition. All original paper wrappers, 4to, each copy is 1 leaf folded in half, making [4] pages. Included are: No.50 (September 17, 1940), No. 52 (October 1, 1940), No. 62 (December 30, 1940), No. 71 (March 3, 1941), Nos. 74-80 (March 24 -May 5, 1941), No. 82 (May 19, 1941), Nos. 84-151 (June 2- September 21, 1942), Nos. 153-223 (October 5-February 7, 1944), Nos. 226-234 (February 28-April 24, 1944), Nos. 236-305 (May 8, 1944-December 15, 1945). The numbering system then changed and continues as Vol. VII, Nos 1-19 (January 1-October 1, 1946), all present. 249 issues total, nearly complete and uninterrupted from March 1941-October 1946. Fascinating exile publication, published weekly to alert other refugees, and American decision makers as well, about Nazi abuses in Czechoslovakia and resistance to them, from the great ("Sokol Property Seized: Nazis Destroy Great Czech National Monument) to the small ("Czech Farmers Refuse to Breed Pigs") . Some material on Jews. "News Flashes From Czechoslovakia Under Nazi Domination" ran 1939-1945, then, following the end of the war, continued as simply "News Flashes from Czechoslovakia, " through 1946. The Czechoslovak National Council was established during WWI to help with war efforts. Headlines include, “Over 50,000 Czechs in Nazi Torture Chambers,” (no. 50) “New Persecution of Czech Catholics,” (no. 52) “Nazis admit Invasion of Czechoslovakia Before Dr. Hacha signed Agreement, “ (no. 74) “German Refugees in Czechoslovakia,” (no. 77) “Nazis Selling Out in Protectorate,” (no. 95) “President F.D. Roosevelt on American-Czechoslovak Relations,” (no. 115) “New Nazi Government for Czechs,” (no. 119) “Every Seventh Worker in Hitlerland a Foreigner,” (no. 120 “Nazis Discover Sabotage in Czech Literature and Art,” (no. 128) “Just Retribution to Nazis Pledged by Czechoslovaks,” (no. 139) “Czechoslovak Labor Under Nazism,” (no. 205) and “Religious Situation in Czechoslovakia” (Vol VII, no. 19). SUBJECT(S): History. 1938-1945 Czechoslovakia. Also included a publisher's notice about new name and printing schedule. OCLC: 2449105. A few issues have minor tearing and chipping, some are sunned, some have additional creasing from mailing. All are legible and intact. Majority are in Near Perfect Condition. Very Good Condition. (HOLO2-159-10)
Stock number:41196.
$US 5000.00
Imprint: Newark, N. J. ; Argyle Press, 1941
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardback
1st edition. Original Boards in dust jacket. 8vo. [4], 104 pages. 19 cm. Fold out map by Kaufman titled, “Map Showing Possible Dissection of Germany and Apportionment of Its Territory.” This famous polemic “outlines a comprehensive plan for the extinction of the German nation and the total eradication from the earth, of all her people. ” (Back cover) Self-published and at first obscure, this anti-German book became a central strategic piece for infamous Nazi propagandist Joseph Goebbels, who referenced the book throughout World War II claiming it as proof of a Jewish threat to Germany, writing in “his diary August 3, [1941], ‘He really could not have done it better and more advantageously for us if he had written the book to order. I will have this book distributed in millions of copies in Germany, above all on the front, and will write a preface and afterword myself. It will be most instructive for every German man and for every German woman to see what would happen to the German people if, as in November 1918, a sign of weakness were given. ’” (Herf, page 112, “The Jewish Enemy”) However, this mass publication plan never came to fruition, because Goebbels “feared copyright problems. The U.S. was still not in the war, and he worried that the U.S. might retaliate by stripping German works in the U.S. of copyright protection. ” (Bytwerk, 2012) Instead, edited and editorialized selections of the book were published in the widely circulated Nazi pamphlet DAS KRIEGSZIEL DER WELTPLUTOKRATIE alongside claims “that Kaufman was a close associate of Franklin D. Roosevelt, a member of his Brain Trust, and that Roosevelt himself had dictated some of Kaufman’s words. ” (Bytwerk, 2012). Theodore Newman Kaufman (1910 -1986; his middle name sometimes given “Nathan”), “was an American Jewish businessman,” born to German-Jewish immigrant parents, who became “known for his genocidal views on Germans. In 1941, he wrote and published ‘Germany Must Perish!’ which called for the sterilization of the German people and the distribution of the German lands. The text was used extensively in Nazi propaganda, often as a justification for the persecution of Jews and was specifically cited as a reason to round up the Jews of Hanover, Germany….Kaufman was a radical intent on preventing American involvement in future wars in Europe. In 1939, under the auspices of the ‘American Federation of Peace’, an unknown entity of which he was the president and probably only member, Kaufman produced several publications. One pamphlet….read:‘A possible plea to Congress. ... Have Us All Sterilized! ... If You Plan On Sending Us To A Foreign War ... Spare Us Any Possibility Of Ever Bringing Children Into This World — Into This Country Of Ours!’”It was with his famous fold-out map in “Germany Must Perish,” that Kaufman Germany and Austria showed how Germany and Austria could be dismembered; In those same pages he also advocated the forced mass-sterilization of all German men under 65 and the sterilization of most German women under 45. “This would eliminate 'inbred Germanism,' he proposed, thus solving a great deal of humanity's problems. He also promoted the distribution of Germany's lands among the neighboring countries,” illustrated in his famous map in his book. Indeed, “His effort was spearheaded by the self-publication of the book ‘Germany Must Perish!’ 'Since Germans are the perennial disturbers of the world's peace ... they must be dealt with like any homicidal criminals. But it is unnecessary to put the whole German nation to the sword. It is more humane to sterilize them. The army groups, as organized units, would be the easiest and quickest to deal with. ... The population of Germany, excluding conquered and annexed territories, is about 70,000,000, almost equally divided between male and female. To achieve the purpose of German extinction it would be necessary to only sterilize some 48,000,000 -- a figure which excludes, because of their limited power to procreate, males over 60 years of age, and females over 45. ...Complete sterilization of both sexes, and not only one, is to be considered necessary in view of the present German doctrine that so much as one drop of true German blood constitutes a German.’.... Kaufman's book…gained attention in Nazi Germany, where propagandists used it as evidence of an international Jewish plan to destroy the German people. On July 24, 1941, the Nazi Party's newspaper, Völkischer Beobachter, published a front-page article on the book titled: 'The Product of Criminal Jewish Sadism: Roosevelt Demands the Sterilization of the German People.' The newspaper alleged that Kaufman was a close ally of Samuel Irving Rosenman, an advisor to Franklin Delano Roosevelt and that: 'Given the close relationship of the writer to the White House, this monstrous war program can be seen as a synthesis of genuine Talmudic hatred and Roosevelt's views on foreign policy.' At the time, the German leadership was engaged in a propaganda campaign designed to rally popular support for the German invasion of the Soviet Union. Antisemitism in general, and Kaufman's ideas in particular, became a focus of this campaign.Nazi Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels read the book in early August and immediately grasped its value, writing in his diary: 'This Jew did a real service for the enemy [German] side. Had he written this book for us, he could not have made it any better.' Under Goebbels' direction, Germany Must Perish! continued to receive significant media attention in Germany. Portions of the book were read on national radio, and Goebbels ordered the printing of five million copies of a pamphlet that summarized Kaufman's ideas.”As an example, “Kaufman was condemned on the August 1942 edition of the Nazi wall newspaper ‘Parole der Woche’ [see photo] Nazi propaganda often used Kaufman's pamphlet as a justification for the persecution of Jews. When the Nazis required German Jews to wear a yellow badge on their clothing on September 1, 1941, they published a flyer explaining to the German people that those individuals wearing the star were conspiring to implement Kaufman's plan for the destruction of Germany. When the Jews of Hanover were forced from their homes on September 8, 1941, German authorities cited Kaufman's book as one of the reasons….The Nazi propaganda ministry continued to publish pamphlets, posters and flyers on Kaufman's ideas through the end of the war, and also urged newspapers and public speakers to remind Germans of Kaufman's book. Kaufman's last major appearance in Nazi propaganda occurred in late 1944, when a five-page section on him was included in the widely published booklet ‘Never!,’ which described a number of alleged plots to destroy Germany. Randall Bytwerk, an historian of communications at Calvin College, concluded that '[a] German at the time could not have missed encountering' propaganda about Kaufman.” The Nation Magazine (Nov 14, 1942) noted, “Few Americans have ever heard of a prominent fellow-citizen named Kaufmann ... In Germany every child has known of him for a long time. Germans are so well informed about Mr. Kaufmann that the mere mention of his name recalls what he stands for. In one of his recent articles Dr. Goebbels wrote, 'Thanks to the Jew Kaufmann, we Germans know only too well what to expect in case of defeat.'” (Wikipedia) "On 1 September 1941 all Jews remaining in Germany were forced to wear the Yellow Star when in public. In late September 1941, the Nazis released a remarkable mass pamphlet based on a book published in the United States titled 'Germany Must Perish!' The book proposed the partitioning of Germany and the sterilization of its population. The author, Theodore N. Kaufman, was an American Jew of no influence. The pamphlet, titled 'The War Aim of World Plutocracy,' [see photo] included excerpts from Kaufman’s book. In early November 1941, this four-page flyer was released. It justified the Yellow Star by reminding Germans of Kaufman’s pamphlet, which supposedly was the common goal of 'World Jewry.' Howard K. Smith’s 1942 book Last Train from Berlin (p. 197) states that every German got copies of the pamphlet along with the monthly ration card" (Calvin College German Propaganda Archive, 2022). Includes bibliographical references on page 104. SUBJECT(S): World War, 1939-1945. Guerre mondiale, 1939-1945. Politics and government National socialism -- Foreign public opinion, American. Pangermanism. National characteristics, German. Germans -- Foreign countries. -- Reparations. Reconstruction (1939-1951) -- Germany. Allemagne -- Politique et gouvernement. In 25 years this is only the 3rd copy of the 1st edition, in hardback, we have ever seen, and only the second in a dust jacket. The 96 page paperback second edition, though scarce, is far more common. Later reprints of American Neo-Nazi groups were distributed to "prove" Goebel's claims about the Jewish conspiracy against Germany. (More at https://research.calvin.edu/german-propaganda-archive/kriegsziel.htm; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germany_Must_Perish!) OCLC: 3619129. Dust Jacket in about very good condition with light edge wear, protected in mylar cover. Light shelf wear. Some discoloration to end pages Binding is tight. Text block is fresh and clean. Very good + condition in about Very Good Jacket. Rare and important (HOLO2-109-62-AELXCC+)
Stock number:41950.
$US 2500.00
Imprint: [New York,] Westchester Lodge No. 1386, B’nai B’rith, 1944
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
First edition. Original red boards with gold font. 4to, 150 pages, 32cm. Loaded with full page graphic anti-Nazi posters advocating American multiculturalism and promoting the US war effort, as well as drawings depicting Nazi atrocities, and photographs of B'nai B'rith leaders and other Jewish organizations, each graphic sponsored by a different Jewish business or family. Includes full page statement with photograph by Humphrey Bogart. Illustrated “Diary of Events of the First Five Years of Westchester Lodge.” Features quote by and portrait of Franklin Roosevelt, as well as stories, newspaper headlines, articles, and accounts of WWII and the people who fought to save Jews under the Nazi regime. We do not often see locally produced and focused material on Jews from a town or county fighting the Nazis SUBJECT(S) : World War II, American War Efforts, Jews. OCLC lists 4 holdings worldwide (NYPL, Fordham, HUC, Virginia Tech) , none west of Cincinnati. Slight toning to pages. Library stamp, some dust on original cover boards. Very good condition. Page after page of gorgeous Anti-fascist propaganda from the period! Scarce and important (Holo2-133-12)
Stock number:37858.
$US 2500.00
Imprint: Prag, Jüdischen Kultusgemeinde In Prag, 1940
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardback
1st edition. Folio. Newspaper. Illustrated throughout. Includes many advertisements and numerous personal family announcements. Following the Kristallnacht pogroms of November 1938, Jewish life in Germany and Czechoslovakia was even further curtailed and all remaining Jewish newspapers were shut down by the government. In their place, the Nazi Party ordered the creation of a single, new Jewish newspaper, "Das Jüdische Nachrichtenblatt, " that would be directly under Gestapo control. It was published concurrently in Berlin, Vienna and Prague and was occupied to a large extent with announcing the ever-increasing number of anti-Semitic discriminations, orders and exclusions imposed by the Reich government. Over the course of its history, the editors of the Jüdische Nachrichtenblatt were Leo Kreindler (1938-42) and Willi Pless (1942-43) . The Berlin edition ran from the 23rd November, 1938 until the final issue of 4th June 1943. The Prague edition continued until 1945. In a ghoulish twist of Nazi irony, Gentiles were forbidden from reading the Jüdische Nachrichtenblatt yet the newspaper's targeted readership, the Jews, were literally hounded to their deaths by the very authorities who presided over the newspaper's ownership! See Reiner Burger, Von Goebbels Gnaden: "Jüdisches Nachrichtenblatt" 1938-1943 (2001) . A mixed collection of 102 issues from Berlin and Prague sold at auction in 2015 for 9225.00 USD. These issues were at one point bound, but the binding was at some point removed. The newsprint is brown and quite fragile, with edgwear and old dampstains, but there is generally little text loss, except to a few letters on the lower outer margins of the final 10 issues. Now housed in an acid-free sleeved portfolio, with each issue in a separate clear sleeve for easy protected viewing. Fair condition, but very rare, very important, and very powerful. (kh-5-47)
Stock number:36443.
$US 2200.00
Imprint: New York: the Committee; the League, 1944
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Paper Wrappers
1st edition. A group of six items in total, including the following: 1) "They must not die: Save human lives," a brochure containing the Committee's plan of action (rescuing Jews from Axis-controlled countries and aiding those who have already escaped). The back cover states, "The Emergency Committee welcomes this opportunity to reproduce the inspiring creations of the virile pen and the creative heart of Arthur Szyk, in the form of Poster Stamps. The Committee hopes that generous support in contributions for and distributions of these Poster Stamps, will be forthcoming from the American people, to enable it to carry on its emergency mission for the rescue of some four million martyred humans. Let it not be said that the two million who have been exterminated have died in vain..." Inside are a folded sheet of Szyk’s 5 separate designs showing four scenes of the oppressed Jews of Europe–and, famously, one defiant image of a British Soldier, his machine gun raised in anger, holding a fallen elderly Jewish man. The sheets of stamps inside have adhered together, and we have not tried to separate them, but 2 rows of all five designs are visible. 2) There is a six-panel brochure similarly tilted: “The Shall Not Die - Save Human Lives - They Must Not Die,” advertising two other types of stamps: "Help us survive," showing Jewish men breaking away from a swastika made of barbed wire, and a set depicting the Four Freedoms.3) A full sheet of Szyk’s well-known full-color depictions, on stamps, of the 4 American freedoms celebrated by FDR in his famous Jan 1941 Speech (Of Speech, Of Religion, From Want, From Fear) 4) A full sheet of Szyk’s “Help Us Survive” stamps (adhered together where the sheet was naturally folded in half along the perferations), described in the above brochure, showing a middle aged and older Jewish man fleeing a barbed-wire swastika. 5) A brochure from the American League for a Free Palestine, issued in 1945, titled "There were 4 sons," with nine pages of text updating the story of the four sons from the Passover parable to meet the contemporary situation, followed by four sheets of stamps (one sheet in green, one in purple, one in orange, one in brown) by Szyk depicting the Wise Son from the Hagadah, here dressed as a soldier, with the slogan "For a Free Palestine." This booklet is in very good condition.6) Accompanying these items is a printed cover letter, partly toned, dated September 1944, urging the recipient to use the stamps on the backs of envelopes to draw attention to the ongoing Holocaust, and asking for donations to support the Committee's work. "The Emergency Committee welcomes this opportunity to reproduce the inspiring creations of the virile pen and the creative heart of Arthur Szyk, in the form of Poster Stamps. The Committee hopes that generous support in contributions for and distributions of these Poster Stamps, will be forthcoming from the American people, to enable it to carry on its emergency mission for the rescue of some four million martyred humans. Let it not be said that the two million who have been exterminated have died in vain. The grim stories of Nazi atrocities are true and they cannot be dismissed like a bad dream. Such crimes are a challenge to all civilized persons…" (from the inside back cover of “They Must Not Die: Save Human Lives”). In two cases, the stamps have stuck together because of the glue on the rear, otherwise Very Good Condition, all very displayable. Rare Szyk items (ART-28-10-ECC), DWB00003
Stock number:41943.
$US 2000.00
Imprint: Tel-Aviv: Gutenberg, 1940
Edition: First Edition
Binding: hardback
Inscription: Signed, Inscribed Or Annotated
1st edition. Original illustrated Cloth in dust jacket, 4to (large), [64] pages. Includes 34 full-page linocut illustrations, each one signed in pencil by the artist. Also signed and dated by the artist in pen on the title page. Calligraphic typeface, initials, double-sided dust jacket, and text illustrations, all in linocut, also by the artist. “sheloshim ve-arba'ah ha-tsiyurim me-et Aryeh Alv'ail.” Text in Hebrew. Beautiful accordion-style (double page) binding. In our research, we have come across no other copies with signed linocuts, so this may represent a special sub-edition, given that Allweil bound all published copies of the book himself. Published in the midst of the Holocaust, the ancient themes in Amos of abuse of the marginalized are everpresent in Allweil’s production. As Scott Ponemone notes, “In his autobiographical essay in the book Allweil (Arieh Allweil, Max Brod and I.M. Lask, Sinai Publishing, Tel Aviv, Israel, 1955), Allweil again used the quote ‘The prophet spoke to all generations…’ that served as his motto. He then said: ‘One of the writers advised me to quote these words as a motto in my illustrations to the book of Amos [this work]. This text I wrote with my personal lettering [i.e. his own Hebrew font], and opposite every written page I printed a Lino-cut. I similarly made three megillahs [scrolls, or more loosely translated, narratives]: Ruth, Esther and Lamentations. I put figures into our home, the people are our brothers, our parents and our children.’ I believe that what Allweil meant by the last sentence (‘I put figures into our home,…) is that his linocuts would reflect not only the Old Testament days of the Prophet Amos but the agonies of the Holocaust that began in the 1930s. In his essay, he then quoted from the biblical text of Amos and then indicated how he used contemporary events to illustrate that text: ‘ ‘Shall a trumpet be blown in the city.‘ This is a siren for an air-raid. On the day when I finished the book Amos, the first Italian bombs fell; they fell on our house, and we were saved. ‘Though they climb up to heaven, thence will I bring them down.’ This mean[s] aeroplanes. ‘With threshing instruments of iron.’ I know what this means–tanks.”” Indeed, several of the full-page linocuts show modern soldiers, a tank, an airplane, and German-style grenades, in addition to general scenes of death, destruction, and public torture, interspersed with the biblical-era characters and settings. Ponemone also notes that for Amos, Allweil “printed, cut and bound the pages himself. This herculean effort, while notable, would not have been sufficient had his illustrations not exhibited tremendous energy and imagination. If his Amos had been an isolated accomplishment, Allweil would deserve lasting renown.”Biographer and curator Galia Bar Or notes that Allweil (1901-1967) “made a distinctive contribution to Israeli art in two very different and contrasting fields: a new visual interpretation of biblical texts by means of black-and-white prints and calligraphy, in works that in a unique and topical way express his suppressed anguish at the horrors of the Holocaust period, and an original development of richly colorful and pictorial landscape painting…. The dialectical relations between these two orientations in Allweil’s oeuvre, nightmare and utopia, hints its complex character….In 1939 Allweil established an independent publishing firm named ‘Hillel’ [after his father], and in the course of the war years and the Holocaust he published books that he produced with his own hands, among them The Anonymous Jew, Lamentations, Amos and Esther. He hand-gouged the texts on linoleum, interspersed the illustrations with allusions to events of the period, printed the sheets, cut, folded and bound the books all by himself.”Galia Gavish, the author of two books on Allweil writes that he “produced his illustrated books in a German expressionist style and in a Jewish spirit. Similarly to European artists, who used Greek mythology as an political allegory for their period, Allweil drew his allegorical materials from the Jewish classics the Bible. Allweil’s choice of the Scrolls of Esther, Lamentations and Amos, and the Passover Haggadah, are significant. Each of these books has an apocalyptic atmosphere with a hopeful ending.”For more on Allweil, see Bar Or’s catalog “Arieh Allweil: Letters, Figures, Landscapes”(https://museumeinharod.org.il/en/letters-figures-landscapes), Gavish’s “Arieh Allweil: Prints & Calligraphy” and “Arieh Allweil: From Bitania to Vienna and Back;” and the Israel Museum’s information page on Allweil (https://museum.imj.org.il/artcenter/newsite/en/?artist=Allweil,%20Arieh). For more specifically on this work, Amos, see Scott Ponemone’s discussions online at http://www.scottponemone.com/arieh-allweil-the-book-of-amos-part-1/ and http://www.scottponemone.com/arieh-allweil-the-book-of-amos-part-2/. About the Biblical Book of Amos: The prophet Amos’s connection to the simple life of the people made its way into the center of his prophecies, as he showed a heart for the oppressed and the voiceless in the world. Though he came from the southern kingdom of Judah, Amos delivered his prophecy against the northern kingdom of Israel and the surrounding nations, leading to some resistance from the prideful Israelites (Amos 7:12). Jeroboam’s reign had been quite profitable for the northern kingdom, at least in a material sense. However, the moral decay that also occurred at that time counteracted any positives from the material growth. Amos was fed up. While most of the prophets interspersed redemption and restoration in their prophecies against Israel and Judah, Amos devoted only the final five verses of his prophecy for such consolation. Prior to that, God’s word through Amos was directed against the privileged people of Israel, a people who had no love for their neighbor, who took advantage of others, and who only looked out for their own concerns. More than almost any other book of Scripture, the book of Amos holds God’s people accountable for their ill-treatment of others. It repeatedly points out the failure of the people to fully embrace God’s idea of justice. They were selling off needy people for goods, taking advantage of the helpless, oppressing the poor, and abusing young women (Amos 2:6–8; 3:10; 4:1; 5:11–12; 8:4–6). Drunk on their own economic success and intent on strengthening their financial position, the people had lost the concept of caring for one another; Amos rebuked them because he saw in that lifestyle evidence that Israel had forgotten God. However, the people in the north used Amos’s status as a foreigner as an excuse to ignore his message of judgment for a multiplicity of sins.Rather than seeking out opportunities to do justice, love mercy, and walk humbly, they embraced their arrogance, idolatry, self-righteousness, and materialism. SUBJECT(S): Illustrated works. Bible. Amos -- Illustrations. art and symbolism. Painting. OCLC: 54756106. OCLC lists only 6 copies worldwide, all of them in the US (JTSA, Stanford, Spertus, HUC, Penn, UToronto). OCLC does also list 4 copies of the second printing from 1941, all in Israel. Light edgewear to double-sided dustjacket with small tape residue stain on reverse side, bookplate removed, slight foxing to margins of final two pages. Very Good Condition in Very Good Jacket. A Very Nice Copy. (ART-28-2)
Stock number:41540.
$US 2000.00
Imprint: Basel; V. Goldschmidt, [1944]
Binding: Hardback
5704 (1944). Original blank paper wrappers. 8vo. 64 pages. 21 cm. Reprinted in early 1944 for Jewish refugees in Switzerland with some additional notations. In Hebrew and German in parallel columns (with diacritic vowel marks under the Hebrew, and with Yiddish translation between Hebrew). Original 1938 title page, with verso 1944 German title page: “Den jüdischen Flüchtlingen in der Schweiz; Zur Feier des [Pesakh]-Festes im Jahre 5704; überreicht vom Schweizerischen Israelitischen Gemeindebund.” (For the Jewish Refugees in Switzerland; For the celebration of Pesakh in the year 5704; presented by the Swiss Federation of Jewish Communities). Copyright by Lehrberger & Co. of Frankfurt. A European-published hagada from the darkest period of the Holocaust, produced specifically for those feeling the inferno. During 1943 and 1944, the extermination camps were working at a furious rate to kill the hundreds of thousands of people shipped to them by rail from almost every country within the German sphere of influence, and by the spring of 1944, up to 8,000 people were being gassed every day at Auschwitz (USHMM, 2012). Passover 1944 began on April 8, the day that the roundups of the Jews of Carpatho-Ruthenia and northern Hungary started. On April 14, the last day of the Holiday, László Endre & László Baky (German-installed heads of the Ministry of the Interior) and Eichmann made the official decision to deport all the Jews of Hungary. With ten illustrations; an early 19th century German Orthodox Haggadah originally compiled by Wolf Heidenheim in 1822. Published for German-Jewish refugees in Switzerland under the auspices of the Swiss Federation of Jewish Communities, founded in 1904 to help protect the general interest of Jews in Switzerland; during the second world war, the Federation helped support the refugee community in Switzerland: “Prior to and during the Second World War, Switzerland gave refuge to about 23,000 Jewish refugees although the government decided that Switzerland would serve only as a country of transit. These Jews were protected during the Holocaust due to Swiss neutrality. The Jewish refugees, however, did not receive the financial support from the government that non-Jewish refugees received. Many more Jews were prevented from entering, effectively shutting the border.“ (Jewish Virtual Library; Switzerland). The publishers, Goldschmidt, issued an earlier printing in 1940 (listed in one library on OCLC), no copies of this issue (1944) listed in libraries on oclc. Subjects: Haggada shel Pesah. German-Jewish Refugees - Schweizerischen Israelitischen Gemeindebund. Holocaust. Previous Owner's name on front wrappers, with "Zurich 5" written underneath. Wraps lightly soiled, with small tear at bottom of backstrip; otherwise Very good condition. Rare and important. (HOLO2-104-15), Miz 1/13
Stock number:40720.
$US 2000.00
Imprint: W Poznaniu: Rotograwiura Drukarni sw. Wojciecha pod Zarzadem Panstwowym,, 1947
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Paperback
1st edition. Portfolio, Folio-size, [4] p., xvi leaves of plates, all illustrations. 32 cm. Text in Polish . 16 duotone watercolors of camp life, each accompanied by a textual description of a paragraph or two in the introduction. SUBJECT(S): Geographic: Oranienburg (Concentration camp) -- Pictorial works. Sachsenhausen (Brandenburg, Germany : Concentration camp) -- Pictorial works. OCLC lists only 3 sets worldwide (Yale, U of Illinois, NANTERRE-BDIC in France), none in New York and None in Poland. Extremely scarce. Some images from this portfolio (not originals, but prints, from this very edition, the same as these) are on display via the Museum of the Jews in Poland (in Warsaw) Former owner's numbers in margins of plates, not affecting images. Plates and introduction in Good Condition; Original portfolio with dramatic color graphic on cover is present, but lacks spine and shows heavy wear. (holo2-125-9), bought from poland
Stock number:35939.
$US 2000.00
Imprint: New York : Beate Klarsfeld Foundation, 1989
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Paper Wrappers
Inscription: Signed, Inscribed Or Annotated
1st English Language Edition. Original illustrated paper wrappers, Oblong Large Folio (46 x 30 cm), 564 pages. Inscribed by the publisher, Beate Klarsfeld, on the front end paper. Contents:Part one: Delousing gas chambers and other disinfection installations -- Part two: The extermination instruments -- Part three: Testimonies -- Part four: Auschwitz and the revisionists -- Part five: The unrealised future of K.L. Aischwitz-Birkenau. Includes bibliographical references (page 564). A massive and detailed research work based in large part on the extensivecollection of archival resources at the Polish Auschwitz-Birkenau Museum. Includes architects' drawings of the extermination facilities operated by the SS Camp Administration during 1942-45 as well as many black and white photographs. Much on the use of the poison gas Zyclon-B, manufactured by I.G.Farben Includes an extensive collection of drawings and illustrations of the crematoria furnaces manufactured by the Topf firm. The publisher, Beate Auguste Klarsfeld (née Künzel; born 1939) is a “Franco-German journalist and Nazi hunter who, along with her French husband, Serge, became famous for their investigation and documentation of numerous Nazi war criminals, including Kurt Lischka, Alois Brunner, Klaus Barbie, Ernst Ehlers [de] and Kurt Asche. In March 2012, she ran as the candidate for The Left in the 2012 German presidential election against Joachim Gauck, but lost by 126 to 991. Beate Auguste Künzel was born in Berlin….Her parents were not Nazis, according to Klarsfeld; however, they had voted for the Nazi leader Adolf Hitler. Her father was drafted in the summer of 1939 into the infantry….Beate spent several months in Lódz with her godfather, who was a Nazi official…. From the age of about fourteen years, Beate began to frequently argue with her parents because they did not feel responsible for the Nazi era, focused on the injustices and material losses they had suffered, and, while blaming the Russians, felt no sympathy for other countries. In 1960, Beate Künzel spent a year as an au pair in Paris….in Paris she was confronted with the consequences of The Holocaust. In 1963, she married the French lawyer and historian Serge Klarsfeld, whose father was a victim of the Auschwitz concentration camp exterminations…. Following a German government crisis in October and November 1966, and while the Klarsfelds were in Paris, Kurt Georg Kiesinger (CDU member) was chosen as the new German chancellor, supported by a coalition of the political parties CDU and SPD. In an article published….on 27 July of that year she accused Kiesinger of having made a 'good reputation' for himself 'in the ranks of the Brown Shirts' and 'in the CDU'. At the end of August, she was fired by the Franco-German Youth Office….. To draw attention to Kiesinger's Nazi past, Beate Klarsfeld initiated a campaign with various public gestures. It was revealed that Kiesinger had registered as a member of the Nazi Party in late February 1933 and by 1940 had risen to be deputy head of the political broadcasting department at the Foreign Ministry, a unit responsible for influencing foreign broadcasts. Kiesinger was in charge of liaison with the Reich Propaganda Ministry. Beate Klarsfeld accused Kiesinger of being a member of the board of Inter Radio AG, which had been buying foreign radio stations for propaganda purposes. She also asserted that Kiesinger had been chiefly responsible for the contents of German international broadcasts which included anti-Semitic and war propaganda, and had collaborated closely with SS functionaries Gerhard Rühle [de] and Franz Alfred Six. The latter was responsible for mass murders in Eastern Europe. Even after becoming aware of the extermination of the Jews, Kiesinger had continued to produce anti-Semitic propaganda. These allegations were based in part on documents that Albert Norden published about the culprits of war and Nazi crimes…. During a CDU party conference in the Berlin Congress Hall, in West Berlin, on 7 November 1968, Klarsfeld mounted the podium, slapped Kiesinger, and shouted ‘Nazi, Nazi, Nazi.’ A few days later.…She said that she had wanted to give voice to that part of the German people - especially the youth - who were opposed to a Nazi being the head of the Federal Government….The same day, on 7 November 1968, Klarsfeld received a 1-year custodial sentence in an accelerated hearing, but due to her part-French nationality she was not actually incarcerated…. In recognition of her action, the writer and later Nobel Prize laureate Heinrich Böll sent red roses to her in Paris. Günter Grass, however, deemed Klarsfeld's action 'irrational' and criticized Böll's reaction to it….Klarsfeld explained that her slap was on behalf of 50 million dead of World War II as well as for future generations. She wanted it to be understood as a slap in the 'repulsive face of ten million Nazis'....In 1969 she joined the Waldshut constituency federal election campaign as a direct candidate of the leftist Aktion Demokratischer Fortschritt against the direct candidate of the CDU, Chancellor Kiesinger. Kiesinger received 60,373 votes, Klarsfeld 644…. In February 1971 Klarsfeld demonstrated in front of the Charles University in Prague against 'Stalinisation, persecution and anti-Semitism'. As a result, she was temporarily banned from entering East Germany. That same year in Germany, with her husband and several other people, she tried to kidnap Kurt Lischka, who was responsible for the deportation of some 76,000 Jews from France. Lischka was living openly under his own name in Cologne. Klarsfeld planned to hand him over to justice in Paris, as a previous conviction in France blocked further legal action against Lischka in Germany. Although the kidnapping was unsuccessful, it served to draw media attention to Klarsfeld's cause. She turned herself in to the German authorities, saying that they must arrest either her or Lischka. In 1974 she was sentenced to two months' imprisonment for the attempted kidnapping, with Lischka testifying at her trial. After an international outcry, her sentence was suspended. Lischka remained at large until 1980, when he was sentenced to ten years' imprisonment. In the 1970s, Klarsfeld repeatedly denounced the involvement of the FDP politician Ernst Achenbach in the deportation of Jews from France. In 1976, she succeeded in stopping Achenbach's political activity as a lobbyist of Nazi war criminals. As the rapporteur of the Foreign Affairs Committee in the Bundestag until 1976, Achenbach was responsible for the Franco-German Supplementary Agreement to the Transition Treaty signed in 1971, and successfully prevented its ratification until 1974 when he was discredited by the campaigns led by the Klarsfelds. In 1984 and 1985 Beate Klarsfeld toured the military dictatorships of Chile and Paraguay, to draw attention to the search for the suspected Nazi war criminals Walter Rauff and Josef Mengele. In 1986 she spent a month in West Beirut, Lebanon, and offered to go into custody in an exchange for Israeli hostages. In 1986, she campaigned against the candidacy of former UN Secretary General Kurt Waldheim to the post of the Federal President of Austria, on the grounds of his being accused of involvement in war crimes as an officer of the Wehrmacht. She attended his campaign events and after his election she disrupted his appearances in Istanbul and Amman, where she was supported by the World Jewish Congress. On 4 July 1987, the SS war criminal Klaus Barbie (known as the butcher of Lyon) was convicted on her initiative. Barbie was found guilty of crimes against humanity and he was sentenced to life imprisonment. Klarsfeld rated this success as the most important result of their actions. In 1972 she had helped to discover Barbie's whereabouts in Bolivia. It is thanks to their commitment that the Maison d’Izieu (Children of Izieu) memorial was founded, which commemorates the victims of the crimes committed by Barbie. In 1991, she fought for the extradition of Eichmann's deputy Alois Brunner, then living in Syria, for the murder of 130,000 Jews in German concentration camps. In 2001, through the efforts of Klarsfeld, Brunner was sentenced by a French court in absentia to life imprisonment. In July 2001, Klarsfeld called for a demonstration in Berlin against the state visit of the Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. Beate and Serge Klarsfeld published a commemorative book in which the names of over 80,000 victims of the Nazi era in France are listed. They strove successfully to have the pictures displayed of about 11,400 deported Jewish children in the years 1942 to 1944. The French railway SNCF welcomed the project and displayed the pictures at 18 stations as a traveling exhibition (Enfants juifs Déportés de France). The German Railways (DB), the legal successor of Deutsche Reichsbahn, turned down a corresponding exhibition at DB-stations 'for security reasons' and referred them to the DB Museum in Nuremberg. The former DB CEO Hartmut Mehdorn argued the issue was much too serious, for display in German railway stations. Transport Minister Wolfgang Tiefensee spoke out in favor of the exhibition. At the end of 2006 Tiefensee and Mehdorn agreed to support a new, DB owned exhibition on the role of the Reichsbahn in World War II. The special Deutsche Bahn traveling exhibition 'Special Trains to Death' has been shown since 23 January 2008 at numerous German train stations. Since its opening, this exhibition has seen over 150,000 visitors. The hunt for Klaus Barbie was made into the movie Die Hetzjagd (The hunt) of 2008. In 2009, she was again nominated by the parliamentary group Die Linke for the Order of Merit. The award was contingent on the approval of the Foreign Office. The Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle declined to approve it. In the term of office of Joschka Fischer as foreign minister (1998-2005) the award had been previously vetoed. Since 2008, Klarsfeld
Stock number:42289.
$US 1800.00
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Imprint: 1945
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Portfolio
1st edition. Loose sheets as issued, in later custom clamshell box with original portfolio cover mounted on front. 4to. One of 3200 Numbered Copies. 111 plates of drawings, the first 100 relating to Buchenwald, plus 6 portraits, and 5 aquarelles in color. Captions in French, English, and Russian. 26 cm. Title page and preface in French. Boris Taslitzky began painting at the age of fifteen and attended the academie Montparnasse and the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris between 1925 and 1933. In 1933, he joined the Association of Revolutionary Writers and Artists (A. É. AR) where he became general secretary of the section of Painters and Sculptors, and then in 1935, he joined the Communist Party. In 1936, during the presentation of Quatorze Juillet, by Romain Rolland , Taslitzky participated in the exhibition that brought together Picasso , Léger , Matisse , Braque , Jean Lurcat , Laurens and Pinion in the lobby of the Alhambra Theatre. Taslitzky was captured in June 1940, escaped in August and joined the Resistance. He was arrested again in November 1941, sentenced to two years in prison, and then on July 31, 1944 was deported to Buchenwald , where he manages to make some two hundred drawings showing life in the camps. "If I go to hell, I will make sketches. Besides, I have experience, I've been there and I've drawn! ... ", he later said. His mother died at Auschwitz . In 1946, Taslitzky exhibited his works which were inspired by the Resistance and Deportation, winning the Prix Blumenthal. He was later awarded the Military Cross and Military Medal and in 1997 he received the insignia of Chevalier of the Legion of Honour under the Resistance and Deportation. He was both witness and actor in the story of French Resistance and the Holocaust. SUBJECT(S) : Concentration camps -- Pictorial works. Buchenwald (Camp de) Guerre mondiale 1939-1945. Prisonniers et déportés. Camps allemands. Buchenwald. Album. Concentration camps. Pictorial works. Wear to original illustrated cover, which has been mounted on front of box, but no damage to illustration. Moving, early, and important. (holo2-125-44) xx
Stock number:36072.
$US 1800.00
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Imprint: No Place (Amsterdam) , No Publisher, 1945
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Paperback
1st edition. Original paper wrappers, 12mo, 32 pages, chiefly photographic illustrations. 16 cm. “Exhibition of Photographic Images of German Concentration Camps and Destroyed Arnhem. ” Catalog for the exhibition, with 24 pages of full-page photos, plus 8 pages of photo descriptions. Text in Dutch. On page 10 is the famous and controversial photo of the Nobel Laureate Elie Wiesel in Buchenwald (first published in the "New York Times" on May 6, 1945 with the caption "Crowded Bunks in the Prison Camp at Buchenwald" taken inside Block 56 by Private H. Miller of the Civil Affairs Branch of the U. S. Army Signal Corps on April 16, 1945.) . In the year following the defeat of the Nazis, exhibitions of photos showing the horrors of the Concentration Camps were a way to show the people of Europe what had been done by the Germans and their allies, and, eventually, to build support for the idea of War Crimes trials. “Foto's ... Afgestaan door de U. S. I. S. (United States Information Service, Photographic Section, Amsterdam) en Jan Schiet, fotograaf, Amsterdam. ” Despite the title, there are no pictures nor text referring to Arnhem in the book—only from the concentration camps. The Arnhem material may have appeared only in the exhibition itself. OCLC lists only 4 copies worldwide, all in the Netherlands (Sept 2015) . Blue wrappers are sunned with some spotting, spine repaired, otherwise Very Good Condition. Rare and important. (holo2-126-33A) xx
Stock number:36549.
$US 1700.00
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Imprint: No Place (Amsterdam) , No Publisher, 1945
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Paperback
1st edition. Original paper wrappers, 12mo, 32 pages, chiefly photographic illustrations. 16 cm. “Exhibition of Photographic Images of German Concentration Camps and Destroyed Arnhem. ” Catalog for the exhibition, with 24 pages of full-page photos, plus 8 pages of photo descriptions. Text in Dutch. On page 10 is the famous and controversial photo of the Nobel Laureate Elie Wiesel in Buchenwald (first published in the "New York Times" on May 6, 1945 with the caption "Crowded Bunks in the Prison Camp at Buchenwald" taken inside Block 56 by Private H. Miller of the Civil Affairs Branch of the U. S. Army Signal Corps on April 16, 1945.) . In the year following the defeat of the Nazis, exhibitions of photos showing the horrors of the Concentration Camps were a way to show the people of Europe what had been done by the Germans and their allies, and, eventually, to build support for the idea of War Crimes trials. “Foto's ... Afgestaan door de U. S. I. S. (United States Information Service, Photographic Section, Amsterdam) en Jan Schiet, fotograaf, Amsterdam. ” Despite the title, there are no pictures nor text referring to Arnhem in the book—only from the concentration camps. The Arnhem material may have appeared only in the exhibition itself. OCLC lists only 4 copies worldwide, all in the Netherlands (Sept 2015) . Blue wrappers are sunned with some spotting, otherwise Very Good Condition. Rare and important. (holo2-126-33) xx
Stock number:36175.
$US 1700.00
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Imprint: Paris; S. N. P., 1945
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardback
Original Wraps. 4to (large) . 48 pages. 30 cm. First edition. In French. Rare extremely early (1945) illustrated French Exposition of Nazi Crimes. Catalogue, in magazine format, of Nazi crimes; illustrated throughout; with testimony, articles, and prefatory declarations by P. Teitgen, Bidault, Soustelle, and Frenay, denouncing the Nazi Crimes. Illustrated throughout; emphasizes the crimes of Vichy as well. Publié à l'occasion de l'exposition 'Crimes hitlériens'-Déclarations, articles, souvenirs. Sections as follows: l'allemagne et le nazisme, l'ordre hitlérien (congrès de Nuremberg, charnier de Belsen) Mensonges et pattes de velours, le vol de la terre, la guerre biologique, avec une composition de Paul Colin, pleine page, SS et gestapo, Buchenwald, témoignages de ceux qui "en" sont revenus, camp de femmes , l'homme cobaye, bloc 46, le criminel de guerre. [“Published on the occasion of the exhibition 'Crimes hitlériens' Declarations, articles, memories. Sections as follows: Germany and Nazism, Hitler's order (the Nuremberg Congress, the grave of Belsen) Lies and velvet paws, theft of land, biological warfare, with a composition of Paul Colin, full screen, SS and Gestapo, Buchenwald, testimonies of those who survived, the women's camp, the pig man, block 46, the war criminal. ”]Subjects: Guerre mondiale 1939-1945. Atrocités allemandes. OCLC lists only one copy worldwide (Nanterre) , located in France. Scarce. Damage to lower left coner, no loss of text, otherwise, Very Good Condition. (HOLO2-117-4)
Stock number:34090.
$US 1700.00
Imprint: Minkhn/Munich: Yatsa Le-Or al Yede Ha-Vaad Le-Hotsa'at Sefarim Etsel Va'ad Ha-Hatsalah/Vaad Hatzala, 1948
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Paperback
1st edition. Original Printed Paper Wrappers. 16mo. 84 pages. 16 cm. Yaari 2362; Yudlov 4093 (indenfying the variant with red covers). Not in Yerushalmi. The Scarce Pictorial Variant with blue-ink cover and 21 pages of DP Passover- and DP Passover-preparation photos. There is a printing error on p.83, with the 8 missing from the number. The first traditional English language hagadah published in Munich after the war. English and Hebrew in parallel columns. Includes 21 pages of photographs of Vaad Hatzalah on frontis and pages 65-84, showing Jewish Displaced Persons and and their supporters preparing for and enjoying Passover after liberation from the Nazis. Front wraps and verso photograph printed in blue ink, title page printed in green ink, rear photographs printed in blue ink. "a. Y. Ha-va'ad le-hotsa'at sefarim etsel Va'ad ha-hatslah, ha-Rav Naftali Barukh, ha-Rav Avi'ezer Burshtin" - title page. "Passover, 1948, marks the third Seder Service after the redemption from the bondage of the Nazi tyranny. “ (from page 1) . This illustrated hagadah seems to be for promotion of the Vaad Haztala's work to their supporters in the US and to help survivors to learn English, anticipating their eventual embarcation for the US, Palestine (soon Israel), or the British Commonwealth. The preface in English at the front of the book is addressed to "our American brethren, for their generous aid in assisting in the task of the spiritual and physical rehabilitation, the Sherith Hapleita extends its sincerest blessings and holiday greetings". Should not be confused with a similar 21-leaf haggadah issued the same year by the Vaad Hatzala in Munich which includes a Rabbinic commentary by Jacob Lisser ( from his book "Derech Chaim"), which is Yaari 2361, Yudlov 4092. SUBJECT(S): Haggadot -- Texts. Seder -- Liturgy -- Judaism -- Holocaust survivors -- Germany -- Pictorial works. Passover -- Haggadot -- Textes. Judai¨sme -- Liturgie -- Survivants de l'Holocauste -- Allemagne -- Ouvrages illustre´s. Pa^que OCLC: 122753607. OCLC lists 9 copies of the photographic edition (JTSA, Natl Libr Israel, USHMM, YU, Ohio State, Princeton, UMich, AmJewishU, YIVO), with the USHMM copy held in their Rare Book Room. Light toning to cover, otherwise Very good+ condition.Our colleagues offer copies in worse condition for $3300 and $4500; buy our gorgeous copy for less. An outstanding copy. Scarce (HOLO2-121-57B-'elx)
Stock number:42335.
$US 1600.00
Imprint: New York : Beate Klarsfeld Foundation, 1989
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Paper Wrappers
Inscription: Signed, Inscribed Or Annotated
1st English Language Edition. Original illustrated paper wrappers, Oblong Large Folio (46 x 30 cm), 564 pages in original shipping carton. Contents:Part one: Delousing gas chambers and other disinfection installations -- Part two: The extermination instruments -- Part three: Testimonies -- Part four: Auschwitz and the revisionists -- Part five: The unrealised future of K.L. Aischwitz-Birkenau. Includes bibliographical references (page 564). A massive and detailed research work based in large part on the extensivecollection of archival resources at the Polish Auschwitz-Birkenau Museum. Includes architects' drawings of the extermination facilities operated by the SS Camp Administration during 1942-45 as well as many black and white photographs. Much on the use of the poison gas Zyclon-B, manufactured by I.G.Farben Includes an extensive collection of drawings and illustrations of the crematoria furnaces manufactured by the Topf firm. The publisher, Beate Auguste Klarsfeld (née Künzel; born 1939) is a “Franco-German journalist and Nazi hunter who, along with her French husband, Serge, became famous for their investigation and documentation of numerous Nazi war criminals, including Kurt Lischka, Alois Brunner, Klaus Barbie, Ernst Ehlers [de] and Kurt Asche. In March 2012, she ran as the candidate for The Left in the 2012 German presidential election against Joachim Gauck, but lost by 126 to 991. Beate Auguste Künzel was born in Berlin….Her parents were not Nazis, according to Klarsfeld; however, they had voted for the Nazi leader Adolf Hitler. Her father was drafted in the summer of 1939 into the infantry….Beate spent several months in Lódz with her godfather, who was a Nazi official…. From the age of about fourteen years, Beate began to frequently argue with her parents because they did not feel responsible for the Nazi era, focused on the injustices and material losses they had suffered, and, while blaming the Russians, felt no sympathy for other countries. In 1960, Beate Künzel spent a year as an au pair in Paris….in Paris she was confronted with the consequences of The Holocaust. In 1963, she married the French lawyer and historian Serge Klarsfeld, whose father was a victim of the Auschwitz concentration camp exterminations…. Following a German government crisis in October and November 1966, and while the Klarsfelds were in Paris, Kurt Georg Kiesinger (CDU member) was chosen as the new German chancellor, supported by a coalition of the political parties CDU and SPD. In an article published….on 27 July of that year she accused Kiesinger of having made a 'good reputation' for himself 'in the ranks of the Brown Shirts' and 'in the CDU'. At the end of August, she was fired by the Franco-German Youth Office….. To draw attention to Kiesinger's Nazi past, Beate Klarsfeld initiated a campaign with various public gestures. It was revealed that Kiesinger had registered as a member of the Nazi Party in late February 1933 and by 1940 had risen to be deputy head of the political broadcasting department at the Foreign Ministry, a unit responsible for influencing foreign broadcasts. Kiesinger was in charge of liaison with the Reich Propaganda Ministry. Beate Klarsfeld accused Kiesinger of being a member of the board of Inter Radio AG, which had been buying foreign radio stations for propaganda purposes. She also asserted that Kiesinger had been chiefly responsible for the contents of German international broadcasts which included anti-Semitic and war propaganda, and had collaborated closely with SS functionaries Gerhard Rühle [de] and Franz Alfred Six. The latter was responsible for mass murders in Eastern Europe. Even after becoming aware of the extermination of the Jews, Kiesinger had continued to produce anti-Semitic propaganda. These allegations were based in part on documents that Albert Norden published about the culprits of war and Nazi crimes…. During a CDU party conference in the Berlin Congress Hall, in West Berlin, on 7 November 1968, Klarsfeld mounted the podium, slapped Kiesinger, and shouted ‘Nazi, Nazi, Nazi.’ A few days later.…She said that she had wanted to give voice to that part of the German people - especially the youth - who were opposed to a Nazi being the head of the Federal Government….The same day, on 7 November 1968, Klarsfeld received a 1-year custodial sentence in an accelerated hearing, but due to her part-French nationality she was not actually incarcerated…. In recognition of her action, the writer and later Nobel Prize laureate Heinrich Böll sent red roses to her in Paris. Günter Grass, however, deemed Klarsfeld's action 'irrational' and criticized Böll's reaction to it….Klarsfeld explained that her slap was on behalf of 50 million dead of World War II as well as for future generations. She wanted it to be understood as a slap in the 'repulsive face of ten million Nazis'....In 1969 she joined the Waldshut constituency federal election campaign as a direct candidate of the leftist Aktion Demokratischer Fortschritt against the direct candidate of the CDU, Chancellor Kiesinger. Kiesinger received 60,373 votes, Klarsfeld 644…. In February 1971 Klarsfeld demonstrated in front of the Charles University in Prague against 'Stalinisation, persecution and anti-Semitism'. As a result, she was temporarily banned from entering East Germany. That same year in Germany, with her husband and several other people, she tried to kidnap Kurt Lischka, who was responsible for the deportation of some 76,000 Jews from France. Lischka was living openly under his own name in Cologne. Klarsfeld planned to hand him over to justice in Paris, as a previous conviction in France blocked further legal action against Lischka in Germany. Although the kidnapping was unsuccessful, it served to draw media attention to Klarsfeld's cause. She turned herself in to the German authorities, saying that they must arrest either her or Lischka. In 1974 she was sentenced to two months' imprisonment for the attempted kidnapping, with Lischka testifying at her trial. After an international outcry, her sentence was suspended. Lischka remained at large until 1980, when he was sentenced to ten years' imprisonment. In the 1970s, Klarsfeld repeatedly denounced the involvement of the FDP politician Ernst Achenbach in the deportation of Jews from France. In 1976, she succeeded in stopping Achenbach's political activity as a lobbyist of Nazi war criminals. As the rapporteur of the Foreign Affairs Committee in the Bundestag until 1976, Achenbach was responsible for the Franco-German Supplementary Agreement to the Transition Treaty signed in 1971, and successfully prevented its ratification until 1974 when he was discredited by the campaigns led by the Klarsfelds. In 1984 and 1985 Beate Klarsfeld toured the military dictatorships of Chile and Paraguay, to draw attention to the search for the suspected Nazi war criminals Walter Rauff and Josef Mengele. In 1986 she spent a month in West Beirut, Lebanon, and offered to go into custody in an exchange for Israeli hostages. In 1986, she campaigned against the candidacy of former UN Secretary General Kurt Waldheim to the post of the Federal President of Austria, on the grounds of his being accused of involvement in war crimes as an officer of the Wehrmacht. She attended his campaign events and after his election she disrupted his appearances in Istanbul and Amman, where she was supported by the World Jewish Congress. On 4 July 1987, the SS war criminal Klaus Barbie (known as the butcher of Lyon) was convicted on her initiative. Barbie was found guilty of crimes against humanity and he was sentenced to life imprisonment. Klarsfeld rated this success as the most important result of their actions. In 1972 she had helped to discover Barbie's whereabouts in Bolivia. It is thanks to their commitment that the Maison d’Izieu (Children of Izieu) memorial was founded, which commemorates the victims of the crimes committed by Barbie. In 1991, she fought for the extradition of Eichmann's deputy Alois Brunner, then living in Syria, for the murder of 130,000 Jews in German concentration camps. In 2001, through the efforts of Klarsfeld, Brunner was sentenced by a French court in absentia to life imprisonment. In July 2001, Klarsfeld called for a demonstration in Berlin against the state visit of the Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. Beate and Serge Klarsfeld published a commemorative book in which the names of over 80,000 victims of the Nazi era in France are listed. They strove successfully to have the pictures displayed of about 11,400 deported Jewish children in the years 1942 to 1944. The French railway SNCF welcomed the project and displayed the pictures at 18 stations as a traveling exhibition (Enfants juifs Déportés de France). The German Railways (DB), the legal successor of Deutsche Reichsbahn, turned down a corresponding exhibition at DB-stations 'for security reasons' and referred them to the DB Museum in Nuremberg. The former DB CEO Hartmut Mehdorn argued the issue was much too serious, for display in German railway stations. Transport Minister Wolfgang Tiefensee spoke out in favor of the exhibition. At the end of 2006 Tiefensee and Mehdorn agreed to support a new, DB owned exhibition on the role of the Reichsbahn in World War II. The special Deutsche Bahn traveling exhibition 'Special Trains to Death' has been shown since 23 January 2008 at numerous German train stations. Since its opening, this exhibition has seen over 150,000 visitors. The hunt for Klaus Barbie was made into the movie Die Hetzjagd (The hunt) of 2008. In 2009, she was again nominated by the parliamentary group Die Linke for the Order of Merit. The award was contingent on the approval of the Foreign Office. The Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle declined to approve it. In the term of office of Joschka Fischer as foreign minister (1998-2005) the award had been previously vetoed. Since 2008, Klarsfeld has been, together with Michel Cullin of
Stock number:42288.
$US 1500.00
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Imprint: [Paris; None Listed], 1945
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Pamphlet
Original Wraps. 4to. [32] pages. 27 cm. First edition. In French. Catalogue of the Exposition Crimes hitlériens. Page [2] contains color reproduction of lithograph poster 'S. S. Crimes Hitlériens' exhibition in Paris at the Grand-Palais, which was originally held from June 10 until July 31, 1945. Committee of honor includes Mitterand; organizing committee includes Coste-Floret, Boissieu, Webel, Paoli, Herst, Billiet. Page [3] includes plan and legend for lay out of the exposition. Complete illustrated throughout, in red and black ink. Includes many gruesome photos of the fate met by members of the French Resistance throughout France, photographs from the Struthof Camp, tallies of deportations of French Jews, tallies of the numbers of forced laborers from France, etc. In June 1945, the French government sponsored a huge exhibition, filling twenty-nine rooms of the Grand Palais, entitled 'Hitler's Crimes'. One of the rooms was devoted, according to the catalogue, to 'The Jews'. It presented a chronology of the internment of Jews in the French Camps of Pithiviers, Beuane-la-Rolande, and Drancy, in the occupied zone, and at Gurs in Southwestern France under the rule of Vichy. It also gave a tally of deportations from Drancy to Germany: 62, 608. Subjects: World War, 1939-1945-Atrocities-Exhibitions World War, 1939-1945-France-Exhibitions France-History-German occupation, 1940-1945-Exhibitions. OCLC lists 6 copies. Creased, hole in front cover, light wear to wraps. Interior unaffected. Good condition. Scarce. (HOLO2-118-28B)
Stock number:34905.
$US 1500.00
Imprint: New York: New York Labor Committee / Signal Press, 1936.
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Paperback
1st edition. Original illustrated wrappers, 4to (large) , 34 pages. Loaded with illustrations. Event program. Striking cover illustration and one text illustration by Mitchell Loeb. Includes illustrations in text (halftones) and a section of ads. The World Labor Athletic Carnival was organized to directly oppose U. S. Athletes' participation in the 1936 Berlin Olympic Games, which were viewd as providing both legitimacy and a prime propaganda opportunity to Hitler's Nazi government. Put together in 1936 by a coalition of New York left-wing political organizations and labor unions including the heavily Jewish International Ladies' Garment Workers Union (ILGWU) , the Socialist and Communist Parties, the Jewish Labor Committee, and others, the Carnival took place over two days, coinciding with the two final days of the Berlin Games, and involved an array of high-profile American, Canadian, and a few international competitors including high-jumper Walter Marty, sprinters Eulace Peacock and Perrin Walker, and pole vaulter George Varoff. In the end, the Carnival proved something of a disappointment from both an attendance and an athletic perspective. Aside from Varoff's world-record setting performance in the pole vault, "... The New York Herald Tribune described the athletic performances as 'mediocre' and noted that the spectators were unenthusiastic'" (for a detailed account of the event, see Edward S. Shapiro, "The World Labor Athletic Carnival of 1936: an American Anti-Nazi Protest, " in American Jewish History v.74, no.3 (Mar 1985) , pp.255-273) . No copies anywhere in OCLC. Exceedlingly rare, we have never seen a copy offered for sale. Slightly stained and creased, but Very Good. A few event results have been supplied by the original owner in pencil. (holo2-149-1)
Stock number:41160.
$US 1500.00
Imprint: New York, Institute Of Jewish Affairs. ; American Jewish Congress. ; Inter-American Jewish Conference, 1941
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Paperback
1st edition. Original paper wrappers. 4to, approximately 200 leaves. 28 1/2cm. "Published ... Under the auspices of the American Jewish congress. "-- Foreword. Collection of detailed reports on the Jewish persuctions as of late 1941 throughout Europe, and organized by region, with anecdotal as well as statistical evidence and sources cited. The report came out just 2 months before the notorious Wansee Conference where German extermination policy became official, and the reports here, in detail and in in broad brush stroakes, reflect the quickly deteriorating situation for Jews under German occupation. For example from the Polish section: “We must declare at the very outset that words are powerless to portray the agony and suffering of Polish Jewry in the 80 days of Germany role. The hell-like reality of the Polish Jews, a hell-like reality which has already lasted more than 80o days, and where literally every minute, every second demands Jewish victims, without a stop, without any interruption, and the hand of the torturer and murderer, the robber and offender is still unwearied, --this reality is not to he described in words. Let the reader multiply what is described tenfold, twentyfold, and he will perhaps come near to an idea of the life of our brothers under the German lash” (p. POL-9) Sections include: Greater Germany, Rumania, Hungary, Italy, Czechoslovakia, Poland, Denmark, Norway, Belgium, Luxemburg, Holland, France, Yugoslavia, Bulgaria, Greece, Finland, Nazi-Soviet War Area, Refugees, Relief, & Conclusions. “Prepared by the Institute of Jewish Affairs ; submitted to the Inter-American Jewish Conference, November 23-24-25, 1941, Baltimore, Md. ” Includes refugee and relief activity at conclusion, and 2 pages of corrections and addenda at rear. Even at this date, of course, the nature of the what was to be the total devastation was not yet clear. Very Good Condition. Rare. With original hole punches, as issued. Markings on endpaper, title page, and back wrapper. Very Good Condition thus. An important collection of evidence from the period. (Holo2-120-27A)
Stock number:37171.
$US 1500.00
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Imprint: New York, Institute Of Jewish Affairs. ; American Jewish Congress. ; Inter-American Jewish Conference, 1941
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardback
1st edition, Later cloth with original wrappers bound in, 4to, approximately 200 leaves. 28 1/2cm. "Published ... Under the auspices of the American Jewish congress. "-- Foreword. Collection of detailed reports on the Jewish persuctions as of late 1941 throughout Europe, and organized by region, with anecdotal as well as statistical evidence and sources cited. The report came out just 2 months before the notorious Wansee Conference where German extermination policy became official, and the reports here, in detail and in in broad brush stroakes, reflect the quickly deteriorating situation for Jews under German occupation. For example from the Polish section: “We must declare at the very outset that words are powerless to portray the agony and suffering of Polish Jewry in the 80 days of Germany role. The hell-like reality of the Polish Jews, a hell-like reality which has already lasted more than 80o days, and where literally every minute, every second demands Jewish victims, without a stop, without any interruption, and the hand of the torturer and murderer, the robber and offender is still unwearied, --this reality is not to he described in words. Let the reader multiply what is described tenfold, twentyfold, and he will perhaps come near to an idea of the life of our brothers under the German lash” (p. POL-9) Sections include: Greater Germany, Rumania, Hungary, Italy, Czechoslovakia, Poland, Denmark, Norway, Belgium, Luxemburg, Holland, France, Yugoslavia, Bulgaria, Greece, Finland, Nazi-Soviet War Area, Refugees, Relief, & Conclusions. “Prepared by the Institute of Jewish Affairs ; submitted to the Inter-American Jewish Conference, November 23-24-25, 1941, Baltimore, Md. ” Includes refugee and relief activity at conclusion, and 2 pages of corrections and addenda at rear. Even at this date, of course, the nature of the what was to be the total devastation was not yet clear. Very Good Condition. Rare. With original hole punches, as issued. Ex-library, but only one stamp on original pages, to blank rear of title page. Other markings are only to later-added endpapers and binding, not to any original pages, Very Good Condition thus. An important collection of evidence from the period. (Holo2-120-27)
Stock number:36133.
$US 1500.00
Imprint: Budapest, Független Magyarorzág Kiadása, 1945
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardback
1st edition. original Paper Wrappers, 4to, [48] pages. Unpaginated. Text in Hungarian. Mostly illustrations. One of the first collections of Holocaust drawings published after the war. Original illustrated wrappers with red lettering on front cover. A pictorial album by Holocaust survivor Péter Áldor, depicting the atrocities of the German occupation and the repression of the local fascists. This work is profusely illustrated with 18 heart-gripping sketches illustrating in all its horror, human madness and misery. Light stains and wear to cover, internally extremely clean, Overall Very Good Condition, a nice copy. (Holo2-125-25), Hungary 2015
Stock number:36025.
$US 1500.00
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Imprint: Bruxelles; Editions Perce Neige, 1945
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Pamphlet
Original Wraps. 8vo. 16 pages. 24 cm. First edition. In French. Buchenwald; 2me année, no 5. 'Special number'. Dated May 1945. Illustrated brochure on the horrors of Buchenwald. Demands vengeance for the dead. Subjects: Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) - Pictorial works. Concentration camps - Pictorial works. Concentration camps. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Pictorial works. OCLC lists 6 copies worldwide. Aged, edges of cover previously strengthened with tape, overall clean and fresh. Good condition. (HOLO2-124-10) xx
Stock number:35495.
$US 1500.00
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Imprint: [Paris; None Listed], 1945
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Pamphlet
Original Wraps. 4to. [32] pages. 27 cm. First edition. In French. Catalogue of the Exposition Crimes hitlériens. Page [2] contains color reproduction of lithograph poster 'S. S. Crimes Hitlériens' exhibition in Paris at the Grand-Palais, which was originally held from June 10 until July 31, 1945. Committee of honor includes Mitterand; organizing committee includes Coste-Floret, Boissieu, Webel, Paoli, Herst, Billiet. Page [3] includes plan and legend for lay out of the exposition. Complete illustrated throughout, in red and black ink. Includes many gruesome photos of the fate met by members of the French Resistance throughout France, photographs from the Struthof Camp, tallies of deportations of French Jews, tallies of the numbers of forced laborers from France, etc. In June 1945, the French government sponsored a huge exhibition, filling twenty-nine rooms of the Grand Palais, entitled 'Hitler's Crimes'. One of the rooms was devoted, according to the catalogue, to 'The Jews'. It presented a chronology of the internment of Jews in the French Camps of Pithiviers, Beuane-la-Rolande, and Drancy, in the occupied zone, and at Gurs in Southwestern France under the rule of Vichy. It also gave a tally of deportations from Drancy to Germany: 62, 608. Subjects: World War, 1939-1945-Atrocities-Exhibitions World War, 1939-1945-France-Exhibitions France-History-German occupation, 1940-1945-Exhibitions. OCLC lists 6 copies. Some wear and staining to wraps. Closed tears, tape repairs and pen markings. Interior clean and fresh. Good condition. Scarce. (HOLO2-118-28A)
Stock number:34906.
$US 1500.00
Imprint: Paris; Librairie Arthème Fayard, 1946
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Paperback
Original Wraps. 4to. 112, [1] pages. 28 cm. First edition. In French. Includes 50 original color illustrations throughout of Compiegne Gusen 2, Buchenwald, Mauthausen, & Gusen 1. Illustrated narrative by the artist and survivor Bernard Aldebert. “Jean Bernard-Aldebert (1909-1974) was born in Saint-Etienne, and began his career as an illustrator for Le Pêle-Mêle in 1928. He was arrested and deported to the Gusan extermination camp in early 1944, after publishing a satirical drawing in Ric et Rac. His deportation was via Compiegne, KZ Buchenwald, KZ Mauthausen, KZ Gusen I to KZ Gusen II (Bergkristall-Esche II underground plant) . One of the very few survivors of Gusen, he captured his experiences during this ordeal in the album 'Chemin de Croix en 50 Stations', published by the Arthème Fayard group in 1946” (Lambiek Comicopedia, 2014) . Subjects: Guerre mondiale (1939-1945) - Camps de concentration - Récits personnels français. Déportés français - 1939-1945 - Récits personnels français. Gusen (Concentration camp) - Pictorial works. Gusen (Concentration camp) . Pictorial works. OCLC lists 19 copies. Clean and fresh. Very good condition. (HOLO2-118-31) xx
Stock number:34402.
$US 1500.00
Imprint: Moscow; Shkola I Kniga, 1926
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardback
First edition and 1 of 5000 copies published. Period boards. 4to, 136 pages. Folio. In Russian. “Jewish Massacre. 1918-1921.” With numerous photographic illustrations. A detailed album highlighting the horrific results of a wave of ferocious pogroms afflicted upon Jewish communities in the Ukraine including Skvira (Skver) , Poltava, Uman, Kiev and Yelizavetgrad during the Civil War years of 1918-21. The text has a distinctly Nationalist element, portraying Jews saved from the attacking native population by the Red Army. The publication was issued by Z. S. Ostrovsky on behalf of the Jewish Committee for Aid to Victims of Pogroms. With well over 200 photos, this work is based on an exhibit of images and documents put together by the Jewish Committee of Victims of Pogroms which was shown in 1923 in Moscow. It’s a brutal depiction of the third set of pogroms which swept in Russia from 1918 and 1921 in the wake of the Russian Revolution, much worse than the earlier massacres in the 1880s and then again in 1903-1906. This post-war set of pogroms were led by bands of soldiers from the disintegrating tsarist army. Ostrovsky's work doesn’t state the fact that the first pogroms to be accompanied by slaughter of Jews were perpetrated by units of the Red Army which retreated from the Ukraine in the spring of 1918 before the German army. These pogroms took place under the slogan "Strike at the bourgeoisie and the Jews." The Jewish communities of Novgorod-Severski and Glukhov in northern Ukraine were the most severely affected. These pogroms reached their climax in the massacre at Proskurov on Feb. 15, 1919, when 1,700 Jews were done to death within a few hours. On the following day, a further 600 victims fell in the neighboring village of Felshtin (Gvardeiskoye). Those responsible for these pogroms went unpunished, and henceforward the Ukrainian soldiers considered themselves free to spill Jewish blood. The Jews regarded Simon Petlyura, the prime minister of the Ukraine and commander of its forces, as responsible for these pogroms. The general chaos which reigned in the Ukraine in 1919 resulted in the formation of large and small bands of peasants who fought against the Red Army. The Jews in the villages, shtetls, and towns there were constantly terrorized by the peasants, who extorted money and supplies from them or robbed and murdered them. One of the most notorious pogroms carried out by the peasant bands was that in Trostyanets in May 1919, when over 400 people lost their lives. In the fall of 1919, there was a wave of pogroms committed by the counterrevolutionary White Army, under the command of General A.I. Denikin. (credit: Klinebooks). See Z. Gitelman, A Century of Ambivalence: The Jews of Russia and the Soviet Union 1881 to the Present (1988) pp. 97-108. SUBJECT(S): Pogroms -- Soviet Union. Jews -- Persecutions – Antisemitism -- Massacres -- Jews -- Ukraine. -- Belarus. -- URSS. Juifs -- Perse´cutions -- URSS. Antise´mitisme -- Massacres -- Juifs -- Bie´lorussie. Soviet Union -- History -- Revolution, 1917-1921. URSS -- Histoire -- 1917-1921 (Re´volution) OCLC: 702135039. OCLC lists 18 copies. Lacks the original front paper wrapper, but attractively bound in period boards with all text and photographic pages present as issued. Period Jewish library bookplate and owner's name, toning to paper as generally found, Good Solid Condition Dramatic piece. (SPEC-35-4-BCCLV).
Stock number:42281.
$US 1400.00
Imprint: New York: National Jewish Welfare Board, 1922-1938
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
1st edition. Period boards. 8vo. 16 volumes, 31 cm. Early volumes are generally around 200 pages each; later volumes end up more like 125 pages. Ca. 2800 pages total this run. Published quarterly, or ever 3 months; the run here includes the first 6 years of the Nazi period. After 1946, this publication was known as the JWB Circle. “The National Jewish Welfare Board (JWB) was formed on April 9, 1917, three days after the United States declared war on Germany, in order to support Jewish soldiers in the U.S. military during World War I….In 1921, several organizations merged with the JWB to become a national association of Jewish community centers around the country in order to integrate social activities, education, and active recreation. These merged organizations included the YWHA, YMHA, and the National Council of Young Men's Hebrew and Kindred Association” (Wikipedia). These quarterly journals report on those efforts and make suggestions for how to improve outreach, activities, and leadership; they also make other proposals and raise questions for the Jewish Community Center movement to grapple with. SUBJECTS: Jews - United States - Periodicals. OCLC: 2262910. Most OCLC holdings appear to be fragmentary. Excellent condition. (YID-33-10-’el)
Stock number:41247.
$US 1400.00
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed, Inscribed Or Annotated
1st Edition. Matted and Nicely Framed. 24 1/8 by 18 5/8 inches. Watecolor on Paper. “William Victor ‘Bill’ Gropper (December 3, 1897 – January 3, 1977) , was a U. S. Cartoonist, painter, lithographer, and muralist. A committed radical, Gropper is best known for the political work which he contributed to such left wing publications as The Revolutionary Age, The Liberator, The New Masses, The Worker, and The Morning Freiheit… Following World War II, Gropper traveled to Poland to attend the World Congress of Intellectuals for Peace of 1948 in Wroclaw… Due to his involvement with radical politics in the 1920s and 1930s, Gropper was called before the House Un-American Activities Committee in 1953… Gropper's alienation was accentuated when on March 24, 1911 he lost a favorite aunt in the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire… Afterwards, he decided to pay tribute to the Jews who died in the Holocaust by painting one picture on the theme of Jewish life each year. ” (Wikipedia, 2017) Gropper is one of the most prominent leftist Jewish painters of the 20th century. The Met Museum collection includes 94 Gropper works listed online, and the MoMA museum collection includes over 50 of Gropper’s works. Signed at Bottom. Stamped William Gropper / Croton-On-Hudson NY and titled (on the verso) . Provenance: Sotheby’s, “Important Judaica 04 December 2014, ” Item 134A. Very Good Condition. (PAINT-1-10)
Stock number:39016.
$US 1300.00
Imprint: New York, Polish labor group,, 1942
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Paper Wappers
1942. First Edition. Paper Wrappers, 8vo, 61 pages. Includes eight photographic illustrations, including three full-page photomontages by Polish avant-garde artist Teresa Zarnower, and original pictorial wrappers with two additional photomontages by Zarnower. Text in Polish. Published by the heavily Jewish Polish Labor Group in New York. The Destruction of Warsaw. Light wear to covers, with light crease through part of front cover and unobtrusive 4 digit number in pen at top near spine. Touch of wear to top of spine, Otherwise Very Good Condition, far better than generally seen of this rare and important Holocaust related avant-gard photography title. (HOLO2-117-61), ok 2020/4
Stock number:8595.
$US 1300.00
Imprint: Havana [Cuba]: Havaner Lebn, 1939
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardback
1st edition. Almost certainly the original publisher’s boards with dramatic illustrated color cover on front. 8vo, 93 pages, 24 cm. In Yiddish. Title translates as, “In the Buchenwald Concentration Camp: The Personal Experiences of Samuel Hilovich.” Manuel A. Tellechea describes this as “the first book about and denunciation of the Buchenwald concentration camp.” A checking of OCLC bears this out, at least as a full-length book. Includes 7 full-page illustrated plates, as well as dramatic red black and white cover illustration, by Simha Glezer. Also includes frontis photo of Hilovitsh and 1 facsimile. Sub-title on cover in German listed as “Recht oder Unrecht dein Vaterland;” title also listed on reverse of title page as “In Concentracie Lager Buchenwald.” Tellechea notes that “Aronowsky, who immigrated to Cuba before the Holocaust, was our [Cuba’s] most prominent Jewish poet. He authored two books of poetry in Yiddish entitled ‘Kuba: Lider un Poemes’ (Cuban Cantos) and ‘Tropisch Licht’ (Tropical Light). Several of his poems were translated into Spanish by Andrés Piedra-Bueno, who also published a translation of Aronowsky's epic poem ‘Maceo’ [Habana, Cuba: Ediciones Bené Berith Maimónides, 1950]. He was also a regular contributor to the Habaner Lebn, a Yiddish daily newspaper that was published in Cuba from 1932 to 1960. Eliezer Aronowsky's greatest claim to fame, however, is as the author of the first book about and denunciation of the Buchenwald concentration camp, which was published in Cuba in 1939 (In kontsentratsye-lager Bukhenvald: pedzenlekhe ibelebungenfun Samuel Hilovitsh. Havana: Havaner lebn, 1939)” (2008). In her 2018 essay “Becoming Cuban in Yiddish: The Poetry of Eliezer Aronowsky,” Rosa Perelmuter further notes that “Aronowsky's forward [to Hilovitsh] conveys a message to his readers about the importance of publicizing testimonials such as Hilovitsh's: ‘I leave it to the readers... and may they take on the holy duty of fighting from now on against the wild beast…’” (in Splendor, Decline, and Rediscovery of Yiddish in Latin America, 2018, p. 208)SUBJECT(S): World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Jewish. Guerre mondiale, 1939-1945 -- Re´cits personnels juifs. OCLC: 19309366. OCLC lists 7 copies worldwide (NYPL, USC, IU, Brandeis, Harvard, NYBC, HUC). Very light wear to boards, slight toning to paper as expected, a beautiful copy, Very Good Condition. A rare and important dramatically illustrated Cuban Yiddish imprint. (YID-43-15)
Stock number:42178.
$US 1200.00
Imprint: Bourges: Editions J. F. Boulet, 1948
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Paperback
1st edition, original portfolio wrappers, 8vo. 53 pages, plus many blank and unnumbered pages. Illustrations throughout. In French. Title translates as, “Without Flowers Nor Crowns.” This book is told “in the first person, in a succession of scenes, impressions, portraits, thoughts, reflections and emotions that, in chapters very brief and titled, make up a devastating panorama about Elina’s experience in Auschwitz.” (elcultural.com 2018). "When I returned from Auschwitz in 1945, I felt what I had just experienced with such acuteness that it was impossible for me to keep it to myself. I recorded it in notes and drawings. This constituted ‘Without flowers nor Crowns.’ I do not regret having written these notes as soon as I returned from camp because, over time, memories become distorted, they become watered down or dramatized, but always move away from the truth. (...)" Odette Elina (1910-1991) was a “painter, was deported by the Gestapo to Auschwitz-Birkenau in April 1944 as a communist, but above all and above all because she was Jewish. In 1940, she entered the French Resistance network, she had had an initial function to establish the liaison between the writers residing in the South zone (notably Mauriac, Aragon and Julien Benda) before entering the Secret Army in 1942. We actually know very little about the biographical career of Elina before and after her deportation, apart from her exacerbated desire on leaving the Camp to testify to her life in the Camp. ‘Without Flowers nor Crowns’, [was] originally published in 1948 in the wake of the first testimonies…on the Holocaust that appeared in the post-war years..." (Isabelle Dumont).  SUBJECT(S): World War, 1939-1945 -- Prisoners and prisons, German. Guerre mondiale (1939-1945) -- Camps de concentration -- Récits personnels. Französin. Elina, Odette. Auschwitz (Concentration camp). Konzentrationslager. OCLC: 58452978 (2005 edition by later publisher, with the OCLC record incorrectly listing the original 1st edition as 1947 instead of 1948).  OCLC lists no 1948 (or 1947) copies online. Pages are loose as issued, in an illustrated portfolio. This book is one of 270 numbered copies. Illustrated with 12 inset drawings, one reproduced on the cover; the title page mentions 13 drawings (?), but there are only 12, the same number as reproduced in the 1982 reissue [and also in the other copy of this first edition we examined], so "13" would seem to be incorrect or possibly counting the repeated drawing on the cover. Portfolio is slightly rubbed with short closed tear at lower front inside fold and spine has some creasing, else Very Good Condition. Important and exceedingly rare (HOLO2-141-27-IIIXX)
Stock number:41862.
$US 1200.00
Imprint: Nyu York [New York]: Velt-Koordinir-Komitet fun "Bund" un kroyvishe Yidishe Sotsialistishe Organizatsyes, 1947-1948
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Paperback
1st edition. 4to, Original Paper Wrappers, 8 pages each issue, 13 numbers in 12 separate issues, as published. In Yiddish. Title translates as “Bulletin of the Bund.” Complete run of this early post-Holocaust iteration the Bund’s monthly newsletter (also serving “Kindred Jewish Socilaist Organizations”), reflecting the concerns of it’s membership of secular Polish Holocaust survivors as well as pre-war immigrants to the US. Full of interesting articles including: Reports and declarations from the World Bund Conference in Brussels, including declarations on Antisemitism the workers’ movement, etc; The 1947 Socialist conference in Zurich; Bund activity in postwar-Poland, Belgium, Italy, France, Brazil, and Argentina; Jewish Socialists in Rumania; Bund Resolutions on the Camps; German Socialists and the Jewish Question; Professor Hirsh and Palestine; Discussion in the Bun on the Status of Palestine; On the Bundist Youth Movement in Poland; Special Camps; The Bulletin of the Bund [ie this periodical] in the [DP] Camps; “Five Years in the Warsaw Ghetto,’ by Bernard Goldshtein; Bundist Academy in the “Gan Eden” Camp in New York; A Memorial for the ‘Bund’ at the Congress of the French Socialists; etc. “The General Jewish Labour Bund in Lithuania, Poland and Russia (Yiddish: ‘algemeyner yidisher arbeter-bund in lite, poyln un rusland’), generally called The Bund or the Jewish Labour Bund, was a secular Jewish socialist party.... founded in Vilnius on October 7, 1897…..In 1917 the Polish part of the Bund, which dated to the times when Poland was a Russian territory, seceded from the Russian Bund and created a new Polish General Labor Bund which continued to operate in Poland in the years between the two world wars….The Bund sought to unite all Jewish workers in the Russian Empire into a united socialist party, and also to ally itself with the wider Russian social democratic movement to achieve a democratic and socialist Russia. The Russian Empire then included Lithuania, Latvia, Belarus, Ukraine and most of present-day Poland, areas where the majority of the world's Jews then lived. They hoped to see the Jews achieve a legal minority status in Russia. Of all Jewish political parties of the time, the Bund was the most progressive regarding gender equality, with women making up more than one-third of all members. The Bund actively campaigned against anti-Semitism. It defended Jewish civil and cultural rights and rejected assimilation. However, the close promotion of Jewish sectional interests and support for the concept of Jewish national unity (klal yisrael) was prevented by the socialist universalism of the Bund. The Bund avoided any automatic solidarity with Jews of the middle and upper classes and generally rejected political cooperation with Jewish groups that held religious, Zionist or conservative views. Even the anthem of the Bund, known as "the oath" (di shvue in Yiddish), written in 1902 by Sh. An-ski, contained no explicit reference to Jews or Jewish suffering. At the heart of the vision of the future of the Bund was the idea that there is no contradiction between the national aspect on the one hand and the socialist aspect on the other. As a strictly secular organization, the Bund renounced the Holy Land and the sacred language (Hebrew) and chose to speak Yiddish….In its early years the Bund had remarkable success, gaining an estimated 30,000 members in 1903 and an estimated 40,000 supporters in 1906, making it the largest socialist group in the Russian Empire…. the Bund was a founding collective member at the RSDLP's first congress in Minsk in March 1898. For the next 5 years, the Bund was recognized as the sole representative of the Jewish workers in the RSDLP, although many Russian socialists of Jewish descent, especially outside of the Pale of Settlement, joined the RSDLP directly….The Bund generally sided with the party's Menshevik faction led by Julius Martov and against the Bolshevik faction led by Vladimir Lenin during the factional struggles in the run-up to the Russian Revolution of 1917….In the Polish areas of the [Russian] empire, the Bund was a leading force in the 1905 revolution. At that time the organization probably reached the height of its influence. It called for an improvement in living standards, a more democratic political system and the introduction of equal rights for Jews. At least in the early stages of the first Russian Revolution, the armed groups of the "Bund" were likely the strongest revolutionary force in Western Russia. During the following years, the Bund went into a period of decay….The Bund eventually came to strongly oppose Zionism, arguing that emigration to Palestine was a form of escapism. The Bund did not advocate separatism. Instead, it focused on culture, rather than a state or a place, as the glue of Jewish ‘nationalism.’ …. The Bund also promoted the use of Yiddish as a Jewish national language and to some extent opposed the Zionist project of reviving Hebrew. The Bund won converts mainly among Jewish artisans and workers, but also among the growing Jewish intelligentsia. It led a trade union movement of its own. It joined with the Poalei Zion (Labour Zionists) and other groups to form self-defense organisations to protect Jewish communities against pogroms and government troops. During the Russian Revolution of 1905 the Bund headed the revolutionary movement in the Jewish towns, particularly in Belarus and Ukraine…..In 1921, the Communist Bund [in the USSR] dissolved itself and its members sought admission to the Communist Party....Many former Bundists, like Mikhail Liber and David Petrovsky, perished during Stalin's purges in the 1930s. The Polish Bundists continued their activities until 1948. During the latter half of the 20th century the Bundist legacy was represented through the International Jewish Labor Bund, a federation of local Bundist groups around the world….Among the exiled Bundists who went on with Socialist politics in America was Baruch Charney Vladeck (1886–1938), elected to the New York Board of Aldermen as a Socialist in 1917…[and] 1937 [and] manager of The Jewish Daily Forward…Moishe Lewis (1888–1950)....the father of David Lewis (1909–1981), a leader of the New Democratic Party in Canada….David Dubinsky (1892–1982), though never formally a member of the party, had joined the bakers' union, which was controlled by the Bund, and was elected assistant secretary within the union by 1906…..He later became a member of the Socialist Party of America, helped found the American Labor Party in 1936 and was from 1932 till 1966 the leader of the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union…..under the name Max Goldfarb, David Petrovsky (1886–1937) was a member of the Central Committee of the Jewish Socialist Federation of America, a member of the Socialist Party of America, and the labor editor of The Forward” (Wikipedia). SUBJECT(S): Jews -- United States -- Periodicals. Jewish socialists -- New York (State). Jewish labor unions. OCLC: 234327189. OCLC: 234327189. OCLC-Worldcat lists 6 holdings worldwide (NYPL, NLI, YIVO, Harvard, Yale, USHMM), though some listings may be for partial runs. Light wear, Very Good Condition. Rare and important complete set. (Yid-33-51)
Stock number:41256.
$US 1200.00
Imprint: [Budapest]: Jewish Agency For Palestine Dokumentációs Osztálya, 1946
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Paperback
1st edition. Original Paper Wrappers, 8vo 32 pages. In Hungarian. Title translates as, “Those who Died and Fought for the Honor of our People. ” Heavily illustrated catalog of an exhibit in Budapest, 1946, to illustrate the persecution of the Hungarian Jews during World War II. Printed entirely on glossy paper, this catalog includes 55 photos, facsimiles, and other images from the exhibition, primarily anti-Nazi Hungarian Jewish artwork and posters, but also anti-Semitic posters, death cam photos, and scenes of new life in Palestine. “The picture material was collected by the Jewish Agency for Palestine Documentation Department in January 1946” (translated from page 2) . The Foreword notes (translated) that “The first anniversary of the liberation of the Budapest ghetto has arrived. It is time to bring to the world the terrible documents of the tragedy of Judaism and put the still unbelievers who turn their heads into thinking; those who do not believe because they do not want to believe. But not only the persuasion of the doubters is the goal of this attempt, but also of recalling over and over again for those who forget quickly. This is the purpose of this sad picture book, with all the cries, complaints and death blows coming from all sides. These pictures are just dull shadows of reality. ” Subjects: Jews--Persecutions--Hungary--History--20th century. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) --Hungary--Exhibitions. OCLC: 1022126577. OCLC lists just one copy anywhere (NLI) . Light wear to wrappers, old dampstains to margins, but no images or text affected. Very Rare and important. (HOLO2-139-13U)
Stock number:39627.
$US 1200.00
Imprint: Praha (Prague) : Státni Nakl. Krásné Literatury, Hudby A Umeni, 1956
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardback
1st Edition: Original Boards with Original Dust Jacket. 8vo. 437 pages ; 21 cm. In the original Czech, later issued in English as “A Box of Lives. ” This is a beautiful copy of the scarce first edition with the original illustrated dust jacket. “Norbert Frýd (born Norbert Fried) (1913 – 1976) was a Czech writer, journalist and diplomat. He is known mainly for his autobiographical novel Krabice živých (A Box of Lives, 1956) , in which he describes his experiences in Nazi concentration camps. During World War II, he was imprisoned in the Theresienstadt, Auschwitz and Dachau-Kaufering concentration camps… The plot is set in the last months of 1944, in the fictional concentration camp of Gigling. The main character, the young intellectual Zdenek Roubík, is an assistant in the camp office. One of his jobs is to maintain the card index of the inmates, hence the title of the novel, ‘A Box of Lives. ’ In the camp, Roubík gradually manages to overcome the apathy and depression caused by the death of his brother and he becomes more actively involved in camp life. The author attempts to depict everyday life, social interactions and relationships in the camp, and the work and hardships of the inmates. The description of the SS guards in the camp is a focus of particular attention…The novel was acclaimed by contemporary critics, and republished in numerous editions and translations. ” (Wikipedia, 2017) Frýd’s successful novel was published twice in Czech in 1956, with this 1st edition being much rarer than the stated 2nd edition. OCLC lists just 4 copies worldwide (Emory, Wisconsin, Johannes-Gutenberg-Universitat Mainz, Univ Of Basel) , and none in New York City or in the North East United States. Slight toning. And minor edgewear to dust jacket but overall both book and jacket are in very good condition. Attractive, rare, and important. (holo2-135-48)
Stock number:38926.
$US 1200.00
Imprint: Shanghai: J. M. Ellenberg, 1943
Binding: Paperback
Original paper wrappers. 8vo. 36 pages each volume, 22 cm. In Hebrew. Title translates to “Essays from Conversations with Rav Yerucham Halevi Levovitz. ” Levovitz was the Mashgiach Ruchani of the Mirrer Yeshiva in Poland. One of the great exponents of Mussar. He was a talmid or Rav Simcha Zissel Broida one of the foremost disciples of Rabbi Yisroel Salanter. Below are eight fascicles printed in Shanghai. The first three fascicles were first published before the Holocaust in Baranovitch, the fourth was published in Kaiden due to the war. For a period during 1940, the town served as home to about 300 students and teachers from the Mir Yeshiva. After WWII, much of orthodox Jewry in Europe was wiped out, along with their many yeshivas (Jewish schools of higher learning) . One of the only yeshivas to survive as a whole body was the Mir Yeshiva, which managed to escape miraculously to Shanghai, China, and then on to America. Many of the new leaders of the American and Israeli yeshivas in the post-war period were students of the Mir, and thus followers of Rabbi Leibovitz. SUBJECTS: Litvak – Holocaust – Displaced Persons. There are no copies listed on OCLC. Wear and soiling to outer wrappers, along with small chip missing from bottom left corner. Internally Good. Overall Good Condition. Rare. (RAB-60-12-13-14)
Stock number:38282.
$US 1200.00
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Imprint: Frankfurt A. M. ; Droller, 1930-1937
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Original Cloth. 8vo. 384; 394; 414; 328; 356; 336; 324; 84 pages. 24 cm. First edition. In German and Hebrew. Periodical. Published partially under Nazism. Complete run for the first 7 years; 1930 through 1937; only lacks final two issues from 1938 [Heft 4-6 (Januar 1938) ; Heft 7-9 (April 1938) ]. Organ of the Rabbiner-Hirsch-Gesellschaft. Began 1930, ceased in 1938. Years 1930-1937 bound in cloth (7 volumes) ; Issue 1- 3 for year 8, 1938 in original wraps. Cloth and paper quality of years 1-4 superb; later volumes, from year 5 on, printed on lower quality paper, and year 7 is handbound in recycled cloth, as issued. Important organ of German orthodoxy; contains many articles dealing with the life, thought, and correspondence of Samson Raphael Hirsch. Contains many important essays from Isaac Breuer (including his 'Der neue Kusari') , Elie Munk, Moses Findling, Harry Abt, Jakob Katz, Jacob Levy, Joseph Breuer, Moses Auerbach, and many others. These essays detail German-Orthodox thought and the response to contemporary events of the period (marxism, zionism, youth movements, Agudas Jisroel, the Prussian state, etc. ) . Subjects: Orthodox Judaism - Periodicals. Hirsch, Samson Raphael, 1808-1888 - Societies, etc. OCLC lists 21 copies. Soiling to cloth, later issues aged (printed on low quality paper) ; last issue wraps soiled, fragile, loose. Otherwise fresh and clean. Good condition. (GER-44-28)
Stock number:33763.
$US 1200.00
Imprint: No Place (Tianjin): No Publisher (The Club), 1940
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Paper Wrappers
1st edition. Original printed wrappers, 12mo, 17 pages. In Russian. Title translates as, “Draft Statutes of the Jewish Club ‘Kunst.’" The cover notes, that this draft was “Approved by the resolution of the Board of Elders of the Club for presentation to the Extraordinary General Meeting. Minutes No. 43/49 of 12, XI. 1940.” Presumably the extraordinary meeting, and this resulting draft, were in response to increasing numbers of refugees arriving from Europe as Nazi forces continued to march east in 1940. The “Kunst” club was a Jewish theater group in Tianjin (“Kunst” means “Art” in German and Yiddish). Up until 1904 only ten Jewish families lived in Tientsin. In 1906 the Jews established the Tientsin Jewish Union which rendered various religious services. Side by side with this union the Tientsin Hebrew Association was active in the city and took care of welfare needs such as soup kitchens, hospitals, homes for the elderly, etc. The 1917 Russian Revolution fueled the rapid growth of the city's Jewish population with many Jewish immigrants from Russia, and “in 1920 the community was formally named The Hebrew Association of Tientsin (THA) [The organization named here in this charter booklet]. In this context the community built a synagogue, engaged a Rabbi and a Shochet, and provided full religious services. Committees for Eretz Israel affairs and hospitals were set up. A singular feature of the community was the establishment of the Benevolent Society in 1920, whose aim was to assist Jews in need and help them settle into their new environment.” Tianjin soon became the third largest Jewish community in China, after Shanghai and Harbin. In 1935, the number of Jewish people in Tianjin reached 3,500. Though most Jews left the city after the 1949 Chinese Revolution. (sinojudaic.org/tianjin), large numbers of Jewish refugees had been streaming to Tianjin before and during World War II, with the city occupied by the Japanese from July 1937 to August 1945. For more on the Tianjin/Tiensin Jewish community, see also https://kehilalinks.jewishgen.org/harbin/Growing_Up_in_Tientsin_Chapter_22. pdf. A similar booklet for a Jewish organization in Tianjin–but more common and from a less important date–sold at auction in 2023 for $875 (with commission). SUBJECT(S): Jews -- China -- Tientsin -- History -- Societies, etc. OCLC lists no copies anywhere. We could not locate a copy anywhere else using a google search. Perhaps a unique surviving example. Light stain to rear, named penciled on cover, newsprint toning as expected, about Very Good Condition. Exceedingly Rare (Holo2-160-11)
Stock number:42259.
$US 1100.00
Imprint: Tianjin: No Publisher [The Center?], 1931?
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Paper Wrappers
No Date (1931?)1st edition. Original green printed paper wrappers, 12mo, 4 pages, 17 cm. In Russian. Title translates as, “Constitution of the Jewish Charity Center in Tianjin. Approved by the General Meeting of the members of the Center on May 31, 1931.” Copy belonging to Leo Gershevitch, President of the Tientsin Jewish Hebrew Association, The Tientsin Zionist Organization, The Tientsin Jewish Union, the Tientsin Hebrew school, the Culture Club 'Kunst, ’ and other Jewish organizations in Tientsin, with his Yiddish stamp on cover. Up until 1904 only ten Jewish families lived in Tientsin. In 1906 the Jews established the Tientsin Jewish Union which rendered various religious services. Side by side with this union the Tientsin Hebrew Association was active in the city and took care of welfare needs such as soup kitchens, hospitals, homes for the elderly, etc. The 1917 Russian Revolution fueled the rapid growth of the city's Jewish population with many Jewish immigrants from Russia, and “in 1920 the community was formally named The Hebrew Association of Tientsin (THA) [The organization named here in this charter booklet]. In this context the community built a synagogue, engaged a Rabbi and a Shochet, and provided full religious services. Committees for Eretz Israel affairs and hospitals were set up. A singular feature of the community was the establishment of the Benevolent Society in 1920, whose aim was to assist Jews in need and help them settle into their new environment.” Tianjin soon became the third largest Jewish community in China, after Shanghai and Harbin. In 1935, the number of Jewish people in Tianjin reached 3,500. Though most Jews left the city after the 1949 Chinese Revolution. (sinojudaic.org/tianjin), large numbers of Jewish refugees had been streaming to Tianjin before and during World War II, with the city occupied by the Japanese from July 1937 to August 1945. For more on the Tianjin/Tiensin Jewish community, see also https://kehilalinks.jewishgen.org/harbin/Growing_Up_in_Tientsin_Chapter_22. pdf. A copy of a similar booklet (but with a copy listed in OCLC) sold at auction in 2023 for $875 (with commission). This work, however, is unlisted in OCLC and was un-findable on Google. It is possible there are no other surviving copies out in the world.SUBJECT(S): Jews -- China -- Tientsin -- History. OCLC lists not a single copy anywhere worldwide. Some pencil notes on rear cover, Very Good Condition, an outstanding copy of this very rare and important booklet . (Holo2-160-8)
Stock number:42250.
$US 1000.00
Imprint: Tianjin: No Publisher [The Author?], 1932?
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Paper Wrappers
No Date (1932?). 1st edition. Original ivory printed paper wrappers, 12mo, [12] pages, 17 cm. In Russian. Title translates as, “DRAFT STATUTES combined with draft board of TEDO Proposed by M. Todrin.” TEDO is a Russian acronym for the "Tianjin Jewish Spiritual Community." A paragraph at the bottom of the front cover lays out, in Russian, the goals of the project at hand: “Create One Community. Unite All Jews Around the Community and Let it Become a Representative of All Jewish People in Our City.” Copy belonging to Leo Gershevitch, President of the Tientsin Jewish Hebrew Association, The Tientsin Zionist Organization, The Tientsin Jewish Union, the Tientsin Hebrew school, the Culture Club 'Kunst, ’ and other Jewish organizations in Tientsin, with his Yiddish stamp on cover. Up until 1904 only ten Jewish families lived in Tientsin. In 1906 the Jews established the Tientsin Jewish Union which rendered various religious services. Side by side with this union the Tientsin Hebrew Association was active in the city and took care of welfare needs such as soup kitchens, hospitals, homes for the elderly, etc. The 1917 Russian Revolution fueled the rapid growth of the city's Jewish population with many Jewish immigrants from Russia, and “in 1920 the community was formally named The Hebrew Association of Tientsin (THA) [The organization named here in this charter booklet]. In this context the community built a synagogue, engaged a Rabbi and a Shochet, and provided full religious services. Committees for Eretz Israel affairs and hospitals were set up. A singular feature of the community was the establishment of the Benevolent Society in 1920, whose aim was to assist Jews in need and help them settle into their new environment.” Tianjin soon became the third largest Jewish community in China, after Shanghai and Harbin. In 1935, the number of Jewish people in Tianjin reached 3,500. Though most Jews left the city after the 1949 Chinese Revolution. (sinojudaic.org/tianjin), large numbers of Jewish refugees had been streaming to Tianjin before and during World War II, with the city occupied by the Japanese from July 1937 to August 1945. For more on the Tianjin/Tiensin Jewish community, see also https://kehilalinks.jewishgen.org/harbin/Growing_Up_in_Tientsin_Chapter_22. pdf. A copy of a similar booklet (but with a copy listed in OCLC) sold at auction in 2023 for $875 (with commission). This work, however, is unlisted in OCLC and was un-findable on Google. It is possible there are no other surviving copies out in the world.SUBJECT(S): Jews -- China -- Tientsin -- History. OCLC lists not a single copy anywhere worldwide. Pencil notation to top of front cover in Russian (“Tianjin Heb. Community…”) Very Good Condition, an outstanding copy of this very rare and important booklet . (Holo2-160-7)
Stock number:42249.
$US 1000.00
Imprint: Tianjin: No Publisher [The Community], 1933
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Paper Wrappers
1st edition. Original green printed paper wrappers, 12mo, 12 pages, 17 cm. In Russian. Title translates as, “Project [and] Statutes of the Tianjin Jewish community.” Up until 1904 only ten Jewish families lived in Tientsin. In 1906 the Jews established the Tientsin Jewish Union which rendered various religious services. Side by side with this union the Tientsin Hebrew Association was active in the city and took care of welfare needs such as soup kitchens, hospitals, homes for the elderly, etc. The 1917 Russian Revolution fueled the rapid growth of the city's Jewish population with many Jewish immigrants from Russia, and “in 1920 the community was formally named The Hebrew Association of Tientsin (THA) [The organization named here in this charter booklet]. In this context the community built a synagogue, engaged a Rabbi and a Shochet, and provided full religious services. Committees for Eretz Israel affairs and hospitals were set up. A singular feature of the community was the establishment of the Benevolent Society in 1920, whose aim was to assist Jews in need and help them settle into their new environment.” Tianjin soon became the third largest Jewish community in China, after Shanghai and Harbin. In 1935, the number of Jewish people in Tianjin reached 3,500. Though most Jews left the city after the 1949 Chinese Revolution. (sinojudaic.org/tianjin), large numbers of Jewish refugees had been streaming to Tianjin before and during World War II, with the city occupied by the Japanese from July 1937 to August 1945. For more on the Tianjin/Tiensin Jewish community, see also https://kehilalinks.jewishgen.org/harbin/Growing_Up_in_Tientsin_Chapter_22. pdf. This copy includes a small stamp on the inside rear cover in Yiddish, indicating it was collected in 1948 in Tianjin, part of a large effort at collecting material related to Jewish life in China for an exhibition in Shanghai that year. A copy of a similar booklet (but which lists a in OCLC) sold at auction in 2023 for $875 (with commission). This work, however, is unlisted in OCLC and was un-findable on Google. It is possible there are no other surviving copies out in the world. SUBJECT(S): Jews -- China -- Tientsin -- History. OCLC lists not a single copy anywhere worldwide. Light toning to edges of wrapper Very Good Condition, an outstanding copy of this very rare and important booklet . (Holo2-160-5)
Stock number:42247.
$US 1000.00
Imprint: New York,, 1937-1939
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Paperback
1st edition. Original paper wrappers. 8vo, 4-8 pages each. Conservative Jewish men's group newsletter from the Holocaust period from the the second synagogue founded in New York (1825) and the third-oldest Ashkenazi synagogue in the United States. "The object of the 'Tattler' will be to provide the members with a regular source of information and entertainment....The Pogroms in Russia during the Czarist regime or the activities of the Zionist movement in recent years had no such effect on the consciousness of the average American Jew except to stir a sense of pity and sympathy for the afflicted ones. But the cruel, heartless persecutions of the Jews in Germany by Hitler and his crew, caused a stirring in the blood of Native Americans of Jewish birth that made them turn about and recall the religion of their fathers and the God of Israel. We of The Men's Club of the Congregation B'nai Jeshurun welcome with open arms all those who are returning to the fold." Most issues include commentary on the increasing oppression of the Jews in Germany; other issues discussed include some current Jewish news, some retelling of Jewish history, congregation news, editorials, fun facts, jokes with lessons. OCLC: 944959016, OCLC lists 2 holdings worldwide (JTS & USHMM), though these holdings appear to be incomplete. First issue shows edgewear, other issues show only creases from folding, touch of wear, good quality paper with just the slightest toning. About Very Good Condition Overall. Rare (HOLO2-159-22A)
Stock number:41813.
$US 1000.00
Imprint: St.Peterburg : Tip.-lit. A.E. Landau [The Editor], 1883
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardback
1st edition. Period boards with original wrappers bound in; First issue in period paper binding, 8vo. 242, [74], 16, 39, 138, [50], 154, [42], 279, [51], 262, 61, 130, [46], 134, [62], 247, 146 pages [2173 pages total]. In Russian. Bound in two cloth and board volumes and one single-issue paper binding, each of the three volumes bearing the pre-war stamp of a Jewish organization in Germany and bookplate of “Jewish Cultural Reconstruction,” a New York based umbrella organization that served as a trusteeship for the Jewish people in the immediate aftermath of the Holocaust. This organization distributed heirless and unidentifiable cultural materials to scholarly institutions in the United States, Israel, Europe and Latin America, indicating that these volumes survived the Holocaust in Europe and were then re-distributed after the war. Voskhod was a monthly magazine dedicated to the interests of Jews, published without prior censorship in the capital of the Russian Empire, St. Petersburg, first as a monthly from January 1881 to Dec 1899 and then as a weekly from Jan 1900 to April 1906. “The magazine was a product of the Haskalah movement” (Wikipedia).“The founder of the Voskhod magazine was Adolf Efimovich (Aharon Khaimovich) Landau, who had previously published the Jewish Library almanac. The magazine also published a newspaper, first called ‘The Weekly Chronicle of the Sunrise’, and later simply ‘Voskhod’ (published from 1882 to July 1906). Some of the readers were former subscribers of the magazine ‘Jewish Notes’, who were recommended by the editor-in-chief of the latter before stopping the publication due to financial difficulties. In the second half of the 1890s, the actual editing passed from Landau to Ph.D. Semyon Osipovich Gruzenberg (until the summer of 1899).The program of AE Landau, who chose the motto ‘Progress outside and inside Jewry’ for the periodical, was: ‘a firm, free word to fight against all external and internal obstacles that hinder the correct development of Russian Jewry’; from the very first issue of Voskhod, he began to denounce the internal backwardness of the Jews, urging them to spiritual emancipation and to broad enlightenment; on the other hand, Voskhod fought just as vigorously against legal restrictions and harassment, despite extremely unfavorable external conditions.When Voskhod was founded, there were two more Russian-Jewish press organs, but from 1884 on Voskhod remained the only one and soon gained immense popularity among Jews in Russia. His direction created many enemies for him: he was attacked by the Jewish body ‘Hameliz’ for denouncing the dark phenomena of traditional Jewry, as well as by the followers of the Palestinian idea. Seeing the solution of the Jewish question only in progress and the achievement of equality in Russia, ‘Voskhod’ was negative about the idea of ??colonizing Palestine, and when in the 1880s. emigration from Russia increased,’Voskhod’ spoke out in favor of emigration not to Palestine, but to America. However, the magazine also gave space to some articles explaining the Palestinian idea (Lilienbluma et al.), And ‘never ceased to sympathize with those who had already migrated to Palestine.’” (Wikipe, translated from Russian) SUBJECT(S): Jews -- Russia -- Periodicals. OCLC: 30634880. OCLC lists 6 possible holdings for this volume (Yale, Brandeis, Harvard, Penn, YIVO, Spertus), though these holdings may well be incomplete and not include issues for 1883. Single paperbound volume for Jan/Feb has the incorrect title page from an earlier volume, which has been corrected in pen for the current issue. It shows some wear to outer binding and some foxing internally, but is overall solid and nice. Hardbound volumes include a few minimal institutional markings, with excellent bright white paper, including original wrappers and text, in Very Good Condition. Important and Scarce “survivor” set for 1883. (EE-7-1)
Stock number:41722.
$US 1000.00
Imprint: [Tel Aviv]: Irgun Olej Merkaz Europa, 1944
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Paperback
1st edition. Original paper wrappers, tall 12mo, 69 pages. 22 cm. In German. The first separate publication of a demand for Nazi reparations to the Jews. In July 1943, long before the war ended, Siegfried Moses coined the term “reparations” in relation to claims of Jewish citizens against the German state. He published an article on the restitution demands of Jews in the bulletin of the "Irgun Olej Merkaz Europa", Tel Aviv; they publish here those proposals as a separate work. For the first time, Moses proposed that a State can commit an injustice, for which it must then compensate the civilian population which suffered under that injustice. This legal opinion was later the basis for reparations by the Federal Republic of Germany. Siegfried Moses (1887-1974) was a German-Israeli lawyer and the first state comptroller Israel. After the Nazi seizure of power, he helped German Jews transfer assets to Palestine. From 1933 on he was also chairman of the Zionist Federation of Germany (ZVfD) and Vice President of the Reich Association of German Jews. In 1937 Moses himself fled to Palestine; then in 1941 he wrote (together with fellow German emigre Walter Schwarz) the text of the 1941 Palestinian Income Tax Act. In 1947 Moses was a member of the delegation of the Jewish Agency at the United Nations and in 1949, he became the first state comptroller Israel (Chief of Court) . In 1956-1957, he was also President of the "Council of Jews from Germany", the official association of Israelis of German origin. In 1955 he co-founded the Leo Baeck Institute, serving as its director, and was on the advisory board of the United Restitution Organization in Israel (Wikipedia, 2015) . SUBJECT(S) : Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Reparations. World War, 1939-1945 -- Claims. Jews -- Europe. Jewish property -- Germany -- History -- Post war problems -- Reparations for historical injustices. OCLC lists 17 copies worldwide, but only 5 copies in the US (NYPL, Yale, US Holocaust Museum, UChicago, Princeton) . Spine worn, corners bumped through, Good Condition. Very important. (holo2-126-34).
Stock number:36190.
$US 1000.00
Imprint: Moscow, Foreign Languages Pub. House, 1944
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Paperback
1st English Language Edition. Original Wrappers. 8vo. 83, [1] pages ; 19 cm. Contemporary report on one of the the first two war crimes trials against Nazi defendants, held almost 2 years before the Nuremberg Trials. A historic account of the Trial in which “three officials of the Kharkov Gestapo (Hans Rietz, Wilhelm Langfeld, and Reinhard Retzlaff) were tried before a Soviet military Court at Kharkov, Ukraine, from December 15, 1943, to December 18, 1943. All were found guilty and sentenced to death. ” (Jewish Virtual Library, 2017) Includes a transcript from the trial. Published in Moscow by the Soviet Government’s Foreign Languages Publishing House, which was publishing reports of ongoing regional atrocities in various languages. SUBJECT(S) : World War, 1939-1945 -- Russiav(Federation) -- Kharkiv. War crimes. Ex-library with Jewish Institutional Stamp and usual markings. Slight paper toning as expected. Institutional bookplate, no other markings, Very Good condition. Important. (holo2-135-8A)
Stock number:40864.
$US 1000.00
Imprint: New York City: Rabbinical Assembly Of America, 1941
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Paperback
No Date (1941). 1st edition, original wrappers, 8vo. 12 pages. Almost certainly published in 1941, as the Rabbinical Association was founded in 1901 and this booklet is “From the presidential message delivered at the 40th Annual Convention of the Rabbinical Assembly of America- Detroit, Michigan. ” Arzt says, “The moral re-awakening of America will be tremendously enhanced by tangible acts of sympathy and succor for the innocent victims of the holocaust across the seas. The Jews of America must, with increasing generosity and self-sacrifice, contribute of their means for the maintenance of the overseas program of relief. Our suffering brethren in war torn Europe will continue to hope against hope, if our thoughts, our prayers and our united efforts will be with them and for them. The religious forces in America should champion legislation for the suspension of all restrictive legislation to make possible the immediate admission of children from Europe for the duration of the war. Millions of Americans will eagerly offer the hospitality of their homes for these unfortunates. The arrival of a huge expeditionary army of little ones to these shores will immediately fortify our spirit and will generate in us a spirit of selflessness and sacrifice which will enable us to face the future with courage and confidence. ” (page 8) Not listed on OCLC or anywhere else online. Creased down the middle, previous owner’s name on written on cover, cover rubbed, else Good Condition. Extremely rare, perhaps a unique surviving copy (HOLO2-141-28)
Stock number:40162.
$US 1000.00
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Imprint: London : Victor Gollancz,, 1943
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Paperback
1st Edition. Original Paper Wrappers. 8vo. [16] pages ; 19 cm. In English. In this historic speech, Temple concludes, “My chief protest is against procrastination of any kind… The Jews are being slaughtered at the rate of tens of thousands a day on many days. We know that what we can do is small compared with the magnitude of the problem, but we cannot rest so long as there is any sense among us that we are not doing all that might be done. We have discussed the matter on the footing we are not responsible for this great evil… but it is always true that the obligations of decent men are decided for them by contingencies which they did not themselves create… We stand at the bar of history, of humanity, and of God. ” Holocaust-era speeches by the Archbishop of Canterbury and Lord Rochester made to the House of Lords outlining ongoing atrocities and calling for the British government to approach the problem of resettling Jewish refugees with more urgency. “William Temple (1881–1944) was a bishop in the Church of England. He served as Bishop of Manchester (1921–29) , Archbishop of York (1929–42) and Archbishop of Canterbury (1942–44) . A renowned teacher and preacher, Temple is perhaps best known for his 1942 book Christianity and Social Order, which set out an Anglican social theology and a vision for what would constitute a just post-war society…. Against the background of persecution of Jewish people during World War II, Temple jointly founded with Chief Rabbi Joseph Hertz the Council of Christians and Jews (CCJ) to combat anti-Semitism and other forms of prejudice in Britain. In March 1943, Temple addressed the House of Lords, urging action to be taken on the atrocities being carried out by Nazi Germany. ” (Wikipedia, 2016) SUBJECT(S) : Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) . World War, 1939-1945 -- Jews -- Rescue. In the US Holocaust Museum rare book collection. Some edgewear. In about very good condition. (HOLO2-130-9)
Stock number:37167.
$US 1000.00
Imprint: Palestine: Sifriat Poalim Workers' Book Guild, (1945)
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Paperback
First edition. Original illustrated wrappers, 12mo, 43, 10 pages. Text in English and Hebrew. 13 drawings made by a Jewish woman of her fellow inmates while in the concentration camp at Leibitsch which consisted of 1200 Jewish women who had been deported from the Kaunas Ghetto in East Prussia. “Lurie was liberated by the Red Army on 21 January 1945. In March 1945 she reached a camp in Italy, where she met Jewish soldiers from Palestine who were serving in the British army. One of them, the artist Menahem Shemi, organized an exhibition of drawings from the camps, which resulted in the publication of a booklet Jewesses in Slavery. This contained drawings by Lurie from Stutthof and Leibitz and was published by the Jewish Soldiers' Club of Rome in 1945. Lurie also created stage sets for the military song and dance group in the camp, which was founded by Eliahu Goldberg and Mordechai Zeira. Lurie reached Israel (Palestine) in July 1945 and was received with great excitement. Her stories were published in the press and her drawings were exhibited in exhibitions. In 1946 she was again awarded the Dizengoff Prize for a sketch Girl with Yellow Badge, which she had made in the Kovno ghetto” (World ORT and Beit Lohamei Haghetaot, 2001) . SUBJECT(S) : World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Jewish. Women in art. OCLC Worldcat lists 18 copies worldwide. Ex-library copy with small pocket and stamps in Hebrew, wrappers slightly toned with a couple of tiny stains, otherwise Very Good Condition. (holo2-125-38A)
Stock number:36066.
$US 1000.00
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Imprint: Paris; Edition Liberation, 1945
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Pamphlet
Original Wraps. 8vo. 31 pages. 21 cm. First edition. In French. On cover: Temoignages de deportes politiques en Allemagne. 'Testimonies of political deportees in Germany'. 'Extermination Camps: Documents, Testimony, Photographs of the Camps of the deported in Germany. ' Contains 8 pages of photographs, depicting deportations, ovens, those murdered. Testimonies describe the deportations of Jews and resistance members to Drancy and on to Auschwitz. Subjects: Concentration camps - Germany. World War, 1939-1945 - Atrocities. Atrocities. Concentration camps. World War (1939-1945) . Wraps torn at edges and soiled; bumped edges, otherwise fresh and clean. Good condition. (HOLO2-124-9)
Stock number:35494.
$US 1000.00
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Imprint: [Tel Aviv]; Mifleget Po'ale Erets-Yisra'el, 1946
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Original Cloth. 8vo. 121 pages. 25 cm. First edition. In Hebrew. Scenes of the Destruction. Important collection of photographic images of Holocaust, published the year after the war’s end in Palestine, not yet Israel. Introduction by Avraham Levinson. Subjects: World War, 1939-1945 - Pictorial works. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) - Europe. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) . World War (1939-1945) . Pictorial works. OCLC lists 18 copies. Light edge wear to cloth, endpages lightly foxed, otherwise clean and fresh. Very good condition. (HOLO2-124-4)
Stock number:35489.
$US 1000.00
Imprint: Moskwa (Moscow) : Nakladem Zwiazku Patrioto´w Polskich W ZSRR, 1944
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Paperback
1st Edition. Original Illustrated Paper Wrappers. 8vo. 70 pages ; 17 cm. Text in Polish. The first separate published account of the Warsaw Ghetto uprising, issued the year following the revolt. Title translates into English as, “Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. ” Issued under Soviet auspices it was written by a participant, the Polish historian, journalist and anti-Fascist activist, Bernard Mark (1908-1966) . “Mark narrates the events immediately preceding and during the 1943 armed uprising of Warsaw's Jews, and presents Jewish, Polish, and German documents pertaining to the Warsaw and other ghetto and camp rebellions. ” (Google Books, 2017) Published by Union of Polish Patriots in the USSR. SUBJECT(S) : Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Poland -- Warsaw. Jews -- Poland -- Warsaw. Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. OCLC lists 16 copies worldwide, but none in New York. Paper toning. Very good+ condition, a beautiful copy. (holo2-135-2A)
Stock number:39618.
$US 975.00
Imprint: Harbin: No Publisher (The Society, printed by Type. Progress), 1920s?
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Paper Wrappers
No Date (1920s?) 1st edition. Original blue printed paper wrappers, 12mo (small), 13 pages. In Russian. Title translates as, “Statutes of the Harbin Charitable Society ‘Gmilus-Hesed’ (for issuing interest-free loans) Harbin, China Corner. Market Nr.10”“Harbin is the capital of China’s northmost province Heilongjiang. It is a city of over 6 million people that lies sandwiched between North Korea and Russia in a region sometimes called Manchuria….Surprisingly, Harbin is a city built by Jews….As part of a secret alliance between China and Russia, in 1896 China gave Russia a land concession to build the Chinese Eastern Railway, an extension of the Trans-Siberian line. The planned railroad would cross from Manchuria all the way to Port Arthur, Korea. Harbin was chosen as the administrative center of this effort. At the time Harbin was not a city, but a small cluster of fishing villages….Construction began in 1897 and the railroad line opened for traffic in 1903. The Russian government wanted to develop and populate Harbin very quickly, so they were willing to give benefits to people who moved there. Jews and other minorities took up the offer. In Russia there was poverty and rampant antisemitism. Those that moved to Harbin saw an increase in their status and were given plots of land. They weren’t allowed to work on the railroad, but they could establish other businesses. As Harbin grew and developed Jews were able to become successful shopkeepers, contractors, and more. The lack of antisemitism amongst the native Chinese and the economic opportunities made Harbin an appealing location for Jews to relocate to. By 1903 there were 500 Jews in Harbin and they had formed their own self-governing community. That same year the first Jewish cemetery in all of China was established there. In 1905, in the aftermath of the Russo-Japanese war of 1905 many Jewish soldiers moved to Harbin. They were joined by Jewish refugees fleeing the pogroms in Russia. By 1908 the number of Jews in Harbin had grown to 8,000. In order to accommodate the growing population a large synagogue was opened in 1909. Additionally, a Jewish community center, hospital, and secondary school were also opened in the city. Of the 40 individuals sitting on the Harbin City Council, 12 were Jewish.…Jews owned and operated restaurants, lumber mills, coal mines, banks, metalworks, breweries, and candy shops in Harbin….After World War 1, even more Jewish refugees came to Harbin. The community grew to 10,000-15,000 people.… Under Jewish stewardship the loose collection of villages of Harbin become a true city. In the 1920s and 1930s the Harbin became an international cultural hub. Modern hotels, shops, and cafes began to open, pioneered by the Jewish community. There were 20 different Jewish newspapers and periodicals published in Harbin. Additionally, Jewish actors and musicians from around the world traveled to perform in Harbin. The city was colloquially referred to as the Oriental St. Petersburg or the Paris of the Orient. In 1921 the Jewish population had grown large enough that a new synagogue was constructed. In 1923, a Jewish national bank was opened….Harbin became a vibrant center for the Zionist movement. The Soviet Union outlawed Zionism, so Harbin was the perfect place for Russian language Zionism to thrive…. In 1931, Japanese forces began to occupy swaths of China including Harbin. They established a puppet regime in the region. At the same time Russian fascists were organizing in Harbin. The fascists and the new government were happy to work together. They began to economically extort the Jews of Harbin. Those that wouldn’t or couldn’t pay were subjected to violence, kidnapping, and even murder. In response many of Harbin’s Jews fled to other countries. By 1939, the Jewish population had shrunk to only 5,000….Former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert’s parents and grandparents were Jews who emigrated to Harbin from Russia…. Jews in Hardin emigrated in mass to Israel. In many cases the Israeli government directly aided in these moves. By 1955 there was [sic] less than 400 Jews left in Harbin….In 1982 there was only a single Jew left in Harbin, Anna Agre. She died in 1985 leaving the city with no Jews…. The synagogues and much of the beautiful architecture left behind by the Jews of Harbin still stand today, many of them refurbished. The city is studded with government placed historical plaques and markers telling the stories of the Jews that lived there” (Breakingmatzo.com). A similar booklet–but more common–for a Jewish organization in Tianjin sold at auction in 2023 for $875 (with commission). SUBJECT(S): Jews -- China -- History -- Societies, etc. OCLC lists no copies anywhere, perhaps a unique surviving example. Wrappers slightly toned, Very Good Condition, a very nice copy of this exceedingly rare title (Holo2-160-18)
Stock number:42266.
$US 950.00
Imprint: Harbin (China), No Publisher (The Organization, printed by Tipogr., Pechatnoye D’lo), 1925-1937
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Paper Wrappers
1st edition. Original printed paper wrappers, 12mo (small), 7 + [2] pages. In Russian with very occational Hebrew. Title translates roughly as, “Statutes of the Organization of Mutual Assistance for the Issuance of Small Interest-Free Loans to the Poor Jews of the Mountains. Harbin and its Environs 'EERO.'" Original booklet dated 1925, with final leaf (two pages, including two typed paragraphs at the very end) comprising amendments to the charter made through 1937.“Harbin is the capital of China’s northmost province Heilongjiang. It is a city of over 6 million people that lies sandwiched between North Korea and Russia in a region sometimes called Manchuria….Surprisingly, Harbin is a city built by Jews….As part of a secret alliance between China and Russia, in 1896 China gave Russia a land concession to build the Chinese Eastern Railway, an extension of the Trans-Siberian line. The planned railroad would cross from Manchuria all the way to Port Arthur, Korea. Harbin was chosen as the administrative center of this effort. At the time Harbin was not a city, but a small cluster of fishing villages….Construction began in 1897 and the railroad line opened for traffic in 1903. The Russian government wanted to develop and populate Harbin very quickly, so they were willing to give benefits to people who moved there. Jews and other minorities took up the offer. In Russia there was poverty and rampant antisemitism. Those that moved to Harbin saw an increase in their status and were given plots of land. They weren’t allowed to work on the railroad, but they could establish other businesses. As Harbin grew and developed Jews were able to become successful shopkeepers, contractors, and more. The lack of antisemitism amongst the native Chinese and the economic opportunities made Harbin an appealing location for Jews to relocate to. By 1903 there were 500 Jews in Harbin and they had formed their own self-governing community. That same year the first Jewish cemetery in all of China was established there. In 1905, in the aftermath of the Russo-Japanese war of 1905 many Jewish soldiers moved to Harbin. They were joined by Jewish refugees fleeing the pogroms in Russia. By 1908 the number of Jews in Harbin had grown to 8,000. In order to accommodate the growing population a large synagogue was opened in 1909. Additionally, a Jewish community center, hospital, and secondary school were also opened in the city. Of the 40 individuals sitting on the Harbin City Council, 12 were Jewish.…Jews owned and operated restaurants, lumber mills, coal mines, banks, metalworks, breweries, and candy shops in Harbin….After World War 1, even more Jewish refugees came to Harbin. The community grew to 10,000-15,000 people.… Under Jewish stewardship the loose collection of villages of Harbin become a true city. In the 1920s and 1930s the Harbin became an international cultural hub. Modern hotels, shops, and cafes began to open, pioneered by the Jewish community. There were 20 different Jewish newspapers and periodicals published in Harbin. Additionally, Jewish actors and musicians from around the world traveled to perform in Harbin. The city was colloquially referred to as the Oriental St. Petersburg or the Paris of the Orient. In 1921 the Jewish population had grown large enough that a new synagogue was constructed. In 1923, a Jewish national bank was opened….Harbin became a vibrant center for the Zionist movement. The Soviet Union outlawed Zionism, so Harbin was the perfect place for Russian language Zionism to thrive…. In 1931, Japanese forces began to occupy swaths of China including Harbin. They established a puppet regime in the region. At the same time Russian fascists were organizing in Harbin. The fascists and the new government were happy to work together. They began to economically extort the Jews of Harbin. Those that wouldn’t or couldn’t pay were subjected to violence, kidnapping, and even murder. In response many of Harbin’s Jews fled to other countries. By 1939, the Jewish population had shrunk to only 5,000….Former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert’s parents and grandparents were Jews who emigrated to Harbin from Russia…. Jews in Hardin emigrated in mass to Israel. In many cases the Israeli government directly aided in these moves. By 1955 there was [sic] less than 400 Jews left in Harbin….In 1982 there was only a single Jew left in Harbin, Anna Agre. She died in 1985 leaving the city with no Jews…. The synagogues and much of the beautiful architecture left behind by the Jews of Harbin still stand today, many of them refurbished. The city is studded with government placed historical plaques and markers telling the stories of the Jews that lived there” (Breakingmatzo.com). A similar booklet for a Jewish organization in Tianjin–but more common–sold at auction in 2023 for $875 (with commission). SUBJECT(S): Jews -- China -- History -- Societies, etc. OCLC lists no copies anywhere, and we could find no copies via a google search. Perhaps a unique surviving example. Wrappers toned, Very Good Condition, a beautiful copy of this exceedingly rare title (Holo2-160-16)
Stock number:42264.
$US 950.00
Imprint: Tientsin: No Publisher (The Association, printed by “Zanie”), 1935?
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Paper Wrappers
No Date (1935?)1st edition. Original publisher’s printed paper wrappers, 12mo, [16] pages. Cover Title is simply “The Russian Commercial Association of Tientsin.” Copy belonging to Leo Gershevitch (Gershevitch Bros. are listed at rear as a member firm), President of the Tientsin Jewish Hebrew Association, The Tientsin Zionist Organization, The Tientsin Jewish Union, the Tientsin Hebrew school, the Culture Club 'Kunst, ’ and other Jewish organizations in Tientsin, with his Yiddish stamp on cover. Includes a list of 32 members at rear (a mix of what appear to be Jewish and non-Jewish names) as well as 18 member firms (18 firms listed, including Gershvitch Bros.) Date is based on Russian edition from 1935, which lists the same members. Up until 1904 only ten Jewish families lived in Tientsin. In 1906 the Jews established the Tientsin Jewish Union which rendered various religious services. Side by side with this union the Tientsin Hebrew Association was active in the city and took care of welfare needs such as soup kitchens, hospitals, homes for the elderly, etc. The 1917 Russian Revolution fueled the rapid growth of the city's Jewish population with many Jewish immigrants from Russia, and “in 1920 the community was formally named The Hebrew Association of Tientsin (THA) [The organization named here in this charter booklet]. In this context the community built a synagogue, engaged a Rabbi and a Shochet, and provided full religious services. Committees for Eretz Israel affairs and hospitals were set up. A singular feature of the community was the establishment of the Benevolent Society in 1920, whose aim was to assist Jews in need and help them settle into their new environment.” Tianjin soon became the third largest Jewish community in China, after Shanghai and Harbin. In 1935, the number of Jewish people in Tianjin reached 3,500. Though most Jews left the city after the 1949 Chinese Revolution. (sinojudaic.org/tianjin), large numbers of Jewish refugees had been streaming to Tianjin before and during World War II, with the city occupied by the Japanese from July 1937 to August 1945. For more on the Tianjin/Tiensin Jewish community, see also https://kehilalinks.jewishgen.org/harbin/Growing_Up_in_Tientsin_Chapter_22. pdf. A similar booklet for a Jewish organization in Tianjin–but from a less important date–sold at auction in 2023 for $875 (with commission). SUBJECT(S): Jews -- China -- Tientsin -- History -- Societies, etc. OCLC lists no copies anywhere, and we could find no copies via a google search. Perhaps a unique surviving example. Some toning to cover, otherwise Very Good+ Condition, a beautiful copy of this exceedingly rare title (Holo2-160-14)
Stock number:42262.
$US 950.00
Imprint: No Place (Tianjin): No Publisher (The Club), 1941
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Paper Wrappers
1st edition. In Russian. Title translates as, “Statutes of the Jewish Club 'Kunst' City of Tianjin.” The cover notes that this charter was “Approved by the Extraordinary General Meeting of the Club members on December 16, 1941.” Presumably the extraordinary general meeting, and this resulting charter, were in response to increasing numbers of refugees arriving from Europe as Nazi forces continued their march east in 1940-1941. The “Kunst” club was a Jewish theater group in Tianjin (“Kunst” means “Art” in German and Yiddish). Up until 1904 only ten Jewish families lived in Tientsin. In 1906 the Jews established the Tientsin Jewish Union which rendered various religious services. Side by side with this union the Tientsin Hebrew Association was active in the city and took care of welfare needs such as soup kitchens, hospitals, homes for the elderly, etc. The 1917 Russian Revolution fueled the rapid growth of the city's Jewish population with many Jewish immigrants from Russia, and “in 1920 the community was formally named The Hebrew Association of Tientsin (THA) [The organization named here in this charter booklet]. In this context the community built a synagogue, engaged a Rabbi and a Shochet, and provided full religious services. Committees for Eretz Israel affairs and hospitals were set up. A singular feature of the community was the establishment of the Benevolent Society in 1920, whose aim was to assist Jews in need and help them settle into their new environment.” Tianjin soon became the third largest Jewish community in China, after Shanghai and Harbin. In 1935, the number of Jewish people in Tianjin reached 3,500. Though most Jews left the city after the 1949 Chinese Revolution. (sinojudaic.org/tianjin), large numbers of Jewish refugees had been streaming to Tianjin before and during World War II, with the city occupied by the Japanese from July 1937 to August 1945. For more on the Tianjin/Tiensin Jewish community, see also https://kehilalinks.jewishgen.org/harbin/Growing_Up_in_Tientsin_Chapter_22. pdf. A similar booklet for a Jewish organization in Tianjin–but from a less important date–sold at auction in 2023 for $875 (with commission). SUBJECT(S): Jews -- China -- Tientsin -- History -- Societies, etc. OCLC lists no copies anywhere, though we were able to locate a single copy at NLI (Nr. 990021316000205171). Wear at staples, stray mark on cover, newsprint toning as expected, about Good Condition. Very Rare (Holo2-160-12)
Stock number:42260.
$US 950.00
Imprint: No Place [Tientsin, Tianjin]: No Publisher [The Company], 1930s-1940s?
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Paper Wrappers
No Date (1930s-1940s). 1st edition. Original printed wrappers, 12mo, 8 pages. In Russian. Title translates as “Statutes of the Tianjin Commercial Credit Company.” Copy belonging to Leo Gershevitch, President of the Tientsin Jewish Hebrew Association, The Tientsin Zionist Organization, The Tientsin Jewish Union, the Tientsin Hebrew school, the Culture Club 'Kunst, ’ and other Jewish organizations in Tientsin with his Yiddish stamp on cover. Jews were involved in the Western Banking industry in Tianjin, China, but until 1904 only ten Jewish families lived in Tientsin. In 1906 the Jews established the Tientsin Jewish Union which rendered various religious services. Side by side with this union the Tientsin Hebrew Association was active in the city and took care of welfare needs such as soup kitchens, hospitals, homes for the elderly, etc. The 1917 Russian Revolution fueled the rapid growth of the city's Jewish population with many Jewish immigrants from Russia, resulting in Tianjin supporting the third largest Jewish community in China in the 1920s and 1930s, after Shanghai and Harbin. In 1935, the number of Jewish people in Tianjin reached 3,500. Though most Jews left the city after the 1949 Chinese Revolution. (sinojudaic.org/tianjin), large numbers of Jewish refugees had been streaming to Tianjin before and during World War II, with the city occupied by the Japanese from July 1937 to August 1945. For more on the Tianjin/Tiensin Jewish community, see https://kehilalinks.jewishgen.org/harbin/Growing_Up_in_Tientsin_Chapter_22. pdf. A copy of a similar booklet, which also has a copy in OCLC sold at auction in 2023 for $875 (with commission). This work, however, is unlisted in OCLC and was un-findable on Google. It is possible there are no other surviving copies out in the world. Two punch holes (for filing) to inner margin, (probably as issued, no text affected). Very Good Condition, a beautiful copy and exceedingly rare (Holo2-160-3)
Stock number:42245.
$US 950.00
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Imprint: Leipzig: Kuhwald, 1938
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Paperback
1st printing of the 1938 edition. October, 1938. Original illustrated wrappers, 12mo (small) , 191 pages, including many, many period ads. Published just one month prior to Kristallnacht, this is a Name and Address Directory of the world’s leading Fur business district, the Brühl, and its counterpart in Berlin, both very heavily Jewish. Divided into 2 sections, one for the Brühl in Leipzig, and the other for Furriers in Berlin. In the 19th and early 20th Century, the “Brühl” had become synonymous with the Leipzig fur and Tobacco trade. It was the name of the large street where the trade was concentrated (also including Nikolai- and Reichs-strasse) . The Brühl reached it’s highest density with 794 shops in 1928. Of these, about 58 percent were Jewish run and owned. In the period 1926-1930, the Brühl controlled about one third of the world market in furs. With the great depression, followed by the Nazi seizure of power in 1933, the fur trade went into decline. For political reasons the fascist leadership limited the import quotas for goods from the USSR, such as raw fur. And, of course, increasingly, Jewish merchants in the Brühl were discriminated against and expelled. Many fled to England or the United States, where they established new fur businesses. Following Kristallnacht, which came only 1 month after the publication of this guide in October 1938, it became impossible for Jewish furriers to function. Some of the most famous Jewish fur traders included: Julius (Judel) Ariowitsch (1855-1908) ; Chaim Eitingon (1857-1932) , known as "Fur King from Brühl", founder of the Ez Chaim Synagogue and the Jewish hospital; the Frankel family; the Harmerlin Family; John B. (John [Joel] Berend) Oppenheimer & Company; F. Weiss (1893-1982) ; and Theodor Wolf (1833) . OCLC lists only one holding worldwide (German National Library) . Light wear, occational pencil scribbles, overall Very Good Condition. Quite rare and important. (holo2-125-28)
Stock number:36055.
$US 950.00
Imprint: Tianjin: No Publisher (The Society, printed by Universal Press), 1935?
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Paper Wrappers
1st Edition. Original printed paper wrappers, 12mo, [14] pages. In Russian. Title translates as, “Constitution of the Russian Commercial Society [or Association] in Tianjin.” Cover notes, “Approved December 30, 1934.”Copy belonging to Leo Gershevitch (Gershevitch Bros. are listed at rear as a member firm), President of the Tientsin Jewish Hebrew Association, The Tientsin Zionist Organization, The Tientsin Jewish Union, the Tientsin Hebrew school, the Culture Club 'Kunst, ’ and other Jewish organizations in Tientsin, with his Yiddish stamp on cover. Laid in is a double-sided carbon copy, folded in two, in Russian, with manuscript corrections, of the “Proe?kt: Polozheniye o Tekhnicheskoye Otdele Pri Russkoy Konvercheskoy” (Project: Regulations On The Technical Department Under The Russian Conversion [Concession?])Booklet includes a list of 32 members at rear (a mix of what appear to be Jewish and non-Jewish names) as well as 18 member firms (18 firms listed, including Gershvitch Bros.)Up until 1904 only ten Jewish families lived in Tientsin. In 1906 the Jews established the Tientsin Jewish Union which rendered various religious services. Side by side with this union the Tientsin Hebrew Association was active in the city and took care of welfare needs such as soup kitchens, hospitals, homes for the elderly, etc. The 1917 Russian Revolution fueled the rapid growth of the city's Jewish population with many Jewish immigrants from Russia, and “in 1920 the community was formally named The Hebrew Association of Tientsin (THA) [The organization named here in this charter booklet]. In this context the community built a synagogue, engaged a Rabbi and a Shochet, and provided full religious services. Committees for Eretz Israel affairs and hospitals were set up. A singular feature of the community was the establishment of the Benevolent Society in 1920, whose aim was to assist Jews in need and help them settle into their new environment.” Tianjin soon became the third largest Jewish community in China, after Shanghai and Harbin. In 1935, the number of Jewish people in Tianjin reached 3,500. Though most Jews left the city after the 1949 Chinese Revolution. (sinojudaic.org/tianjin), large numbers of Jewish refugees had been streaming to Tianjin before and during World War II, with the city occupied by the Japanese from July 1937 to August 1945. For more on the Tianjin/Tiensin Jewish community, see also https://kehilalinks.jewishgen.org/harbin/Growing_Up_in_Tientsin_Chapter_22. pdf. A similar booklet for a Jewish organization in Tianjin–but from a less important date–sold at auction in 2023 for $875 (with commission). SUBJECT(S): Jews -- China -- Tientsin -- History -- Societies, etc. OCLC lists no copies anywhere, and we could find no copies via a google search. Perhaps a unique surviving example. Very Good+ Condition, a beautiful copy of this exceedingly rare title (Holo2-160-15)
Stock number:42263.
$US 900.00
Imprint: Tientsin: No Publisher [The Library; printed by The Caxton Press, Ltd], 1931
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Paper Wrappers
1st edition. Original decorated printed paper wrappers, 12mo, 8 pages. Copy belonging to Leo Gershevitch, President of the Tientsin Jewish Hebrew Association, The Tientsin Zionist Organization, The Tientsin Jewish Union, the Tientsin Hebrew school, the Culture Club 'Kunst, ’ and other Jewish organizations in Tientsin, with his Yiddish stamp on cover. “The British Concession was the oldest foreign concession in Tientsin, dating from 1860. It was leased in perpetuity to the British Crown and occupied some 200 acres on the left bank of Pei Ho River. The seat of administration was at Gordon Hall, overseeing Victoria Park.A bustling commercial street cut through most of the foreign concessions, with a different name depending on which concession it cut through. In the British concession, it was known as Victoria Street, and it played host to numerous headquarters of international banks, as well as merchant houses” (Kennie Ting, 2014). Suffian Mansor notes that “The British informal empire in China is often mistakenly believed to have represented the British government's policies and views. The' second biggest Chinese treaty port, Tientsin, had a different point of view to that of China (mostly in treaty ports) and Westminster. Tientsin's British community's main interests lay either within the concession or in Tientsin's hinterlands. These interests included its people and property. In addition the British community was proud of the British empire's prestige. All these created a determination in the British community that any attempt to jeopardise their interests would be opposed. However, the situation in Tientsin was rather different to that of their counterparts in Shanghai. The limited power of the British Municipal Council meant that the British community had, reluctantly, to obey British liberal policy when faced with the rise of the antiimperialist movement m the mid-1920s” (“Tientsin and its hinterland in Anglo-Chinese relations, 1925-1937,” Bristol, 2009).A similar booklet for a Jewish organization in Tianjin–but more common –sold at auction in 2023 for $875 (with commission). SUBJECT(S): China -- Tientsin -- History -- Societies, etc. OCLC lists no copies anywhere. We could not locate a copy anywhere else using a google search. Perhaps a unique surviving example. Very faint stain to outer margin of cover, Very Good+ Condition. An outstanding copy, exceedingly rare (Holo2-160-13)
Stock number:42261.
$US 900.00
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Imprint: Paris; Lipschutz, 1934
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Original Publisher's Boards. 8vo. 48 pages. 24 cm. First edition. Early photographic expose of Nazism in Germany, in French, with parallel German and English translations. Mostly illustrated (pgs 6-47) , containing photographs and the printed speeches of Nazi leaders. Photographs of childhood, training of youth, propaganda, S. A. , S. S. , police in the Third Reich, which demonstrate that the “everyday tutelage of the people, no matter of what age, constitute the terror of the third Reich” (p. 5) . “The world is threatened by the brown hate! ! ” (p. 5) . Dt. Exilarchiv 4106; Sternfeld/Tiedemann 350. Subjects: National socialism. Political science. 1933 - 1945 Germany - Politics and government - 1933-1945. OCLC lists 29 copies. Light wear to spine, otherwise Very good condition. (HOLO2-125-23) xx, gotz perll 2015
Stock number:36023.
$US 900.00
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Imprint: No Place, No Publisher, 1948
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardback
1st edition. Later Cloth with covers bound in, Oblong 4to, Aproximately 100 leaves, mostly photographic plates. Includes 175 photographic illustrations. Introductory text and captions (many of Biblical origin) in English, Hebrew and Yiddish. “This album seeks to present a …picture of the wanderings of the 'remnants' of European Jewry - wanderings that began at the conclusion of the last war and still continue…” (From the introduction) . A collection of 175 black and white photographs documenting the “Bericha” - - the 'illegal' underground flight of surviving European Jews into Palestine immediately following the Holocaust. This was the great exodus of European Jews following the holocaust, who illegally crossed the borders of Soviet-occupied lands and made their way as illegal immigrants to the shores of Palestine. Special sections of this album are dedicated to children and orphans who took part in this immigration effort, and another section documents the famous journey of the ship Exodus. Compiled by Ephraim Dekel, a high-ranking Haganah officer and architect of the Bericha escape-route. SUBJECT(S) : Jewish refugees. Emigration and immigration. Jewish refugees. Berih? Ah (Organization) Israel -- Emigration and immigration -- Pictorial works. Staining to first 10 leaves, heavy wear to original cover, which is bound in, but photographic and text pages are very good--clear, solid, and powerful. A Good Copy. (holo2-125-10)
Stock number:35959.
$US 900.00
Imprint: Harbin (China), No Publisher (The Bank? Printed by Harbin Electro-Printing House D. S. Lemberg), 1923?
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Paper Wrappers
(No Date) 1923? 1st edition. Original Green printed paper wrappers, 12mo (small), 10 pages. In Russian. Title translates as, “Statutes of the Jewish People's Bank in Harbin.” Date based on founding date of bank (see below). “Harbin is the capital of China’s northmost province Heilongjiang. It is a city of over 6 million people that lies sandwiched between North Korea and Russia in a region sometimes called Manchuria….Surprisingly, Harbin is a city built by Jews….As part of a secret alliance between China and Russia, in 1896 China gave Russia a land concession to build the Chinese Eastern Railway, an extension of the Trans-Siberian line. The planned railroad would cross from Manchuria all the way to Port Arthur, Korea. Harbin was chosen as the administrative center of this effort. At the time Harbin was not a city, but a small cluster of fishing villages….Construction began in 1897 and the railroad line opened for traffic in 1903. The Russian government wanted to develop and populate Harbin very quickly, so they were willing to give benefits to people who moved there. Jews and other minorities took up the offer. In Russia there was poverty and rampant antisemitism. Those that moved to Harbin saw an increase in their status and were given plots of land. They weren’t allowed to work on the railroad, but they could establish other businesses. As Harbin grew and developed Jews were able to become successful shopkeepers, contractors, and more. The lack of antisemitism amongst the native Chinese and the economic opportunities made Harbin an appealing location for Jews to relocate to. By 1903 there were 500 Jews in Harbin and they had formed their own self-governing community. That same year the first Jewish cemetery in all of China was established there. In 1905, in the aftermath of the Russo-Japanese war of 1905 many Jewish soldiers moved to Harbin. They were joined by Jewish refugees fleeing the pogroms in Russia. By 1908 the number of Jews in Harbin had grown to 8,000. In order to accommodate the growing population a large synagogue was opened in 1909. Additionally, a Jewish community center, hospital, and secondary school were also opened in the city. Of the 40 individuals sitting on the Harbin City Council, 12 were Jewish.…Jews owned and operated restaurants, lumber mills, coal mines, banks, metalworks, breweries, and candy shops in Harbin….After World War 1, even more Jewish refugees came to Harbin. The community grew to 10,000-15,000 people.… Under Jewish stewardship the loose collection of villages of Harbin become a true city. In the 1920s and 1930s the Harbin became an international cultural hub. Modern hotels, shops, and cafes began to open, pioneered by the Jewish community. There were 20 different Jewish newspapers and periodicals published in Harbin. Additionally, Jewish actors and musicians from around the world traveled to perform in Harbin. The city was colloquially referred to as the Oriental St. Petersburg or the Paris of the Orient. In 1921 the Jewish population had grown large enough that a new synagogue was constructed. In 1923, a Jewish national bank was opened….Harbin became a vibrant center for the Zionist movement. The Soviet Union outlawed Zionism, so Harbin was the perfect place for Russian language Zionism to thrive…. In 1931, Japanese forces began to occupy swaths of China including Harbin. They established a puppet regime in the region. At the same time Russian fascists were organizing in Harbin. The fascists and the new government were happy to work together. They began to economically extort the Jews of Harbin. Those that wouldn’t or couldn’t pay were subjected to violence, kidnapping, and even murder. In response many of Harbin’s Jews fled to other countries. By 1939, the Jewish population had shrunk to only 5,000….Former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert’s parents and grandparents were Jews who emigrated to Harbin from Russia…. Jews in Hardin emigrated in mass to Israel. In many cases the Israeli government directly aided in these moves. By 1955 there was [sic] less than 400 Jews left in Harbin….In 1982 there was only a single Jew left in Harbin, Anna Agre. She died in 1985 leaving the city with no Jews…. The synagogues and much of the beautiful architecture left behind by the Jews of Harbin still stand today, many of them refurbished. The city is studded with government placed historical plaques and markers telling the stories of the Jews that lived there” (Breakingmatzo.com). A similar booklet for a Jewish organization in Tianjin sold at auction in 2023 for $875 (with commission). SUBJECT(S): Jews -- China -- History -- Societies, etc. OCLC lists no copies anywhere, though we located a copy at NLI (Nr. 990026744800205171). Wrappers toned with light wear, Very Good Condition, a beautiful copy of this rare title (Holo2-160-17)
Stock number:42265.
$US 875.00
Imprint: Tientsin: No Publisher [The Club, printed by the Far Eastern Press], 1936
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Paper Wrappers
1st printing. Original blue printed paper wrappers, 12mo, 19 pages, 17 cm. In English and Russian. “Adopted in 1935/1936.” Copy belonging to Leo Gershevitch, President of the Culture Club 'Kunst, theTientsin Jewish Hebrew Association, The Tientsin Zionist Organization, The Tientsin Jewish Union, the Tientsin Hebrew school, ’ and other Jewish organizations in Tientsin, with his Yiddish stamp on cover. The “Kunst” club was a Jewish theater group in Tianjin (“Kunst” means “Art” in German and Yiddish). Up until 1904 only ten Jewish families lived in Tientsin. In 1906 the Jews established the Tientsin Jewish Union which rendered various religious services. Side by side with this union the Tientsin Hebrew Association was active in the city and took care of welfare needs such as soup kitchens, hospitals, homes for the elderly, etc. The 1917 Russian Revolution fueled the rapid growth of the city's Jewish population with many Jewish immigrants from Russia, and “in 1920 the community was formally named The Hebrew Association of Tientsin (THA) [The organization named here in this charter booklet]. In this context the community built a synagogue, engaged a Rabbi and a Shochet, and provided full religious services. Committees for Eretz Israel affairs and hospitals were set up. A singular feature of the community was the establishment of the Benevolent Society in 1920, whose aim was to assist Jews in need and help them settle into their new environment.” Tianjin soon became the third largest Jewish community in China, after Shanghai and Harbin. In 1935, the number of Jewish people in Tianjin reached 3,500. Though most Jews left the city after the 1949 Chinese Revolution. (sinojudaic.org/tianjin), large numbers of Jewish refugees had been streaming to Tianjin before and during World War II, with the city occupied by the Japanese from July 1937 to August 1945. For more on the Tianjin/Tiensin Jewish community, see also https://kehilalinks.jewishgen.org/harbin/Growing_Up_in_Tientsin_Chapter_22. pdf. A copy of a similar booklet sold at auction in 2023 for $875 (with commission). SUBJECT(S): Jews -- China -- Tientsin -- History -- Societies, etc. OCLC: 234094995.OCLC lists one copy worldwide (NLI). Toning to cover, touch of egwear to cover in one spot, Very Good Condition, an outstanding copy of this rare and important booklet . (Holo2-160-10); 1st printing. Original blue printed paper wrappers, 12mo, 19 pages, 17 cm. In English and Russian. “Adopted in 1935/1936.” Copy belonging to Leo Gershevitch, President of the Culture Club 'Kunst, theTientsin Jewish Hebrew Association, The Tientsin Zionist Organization, The Tientsin Jewish Union, the Tientsin Hebrew school, ’ and other Jewish organizations in Tientsin, with his Yiddish stamp on cover. The “Kunst” club was a Jewish theater group in Tianjin (“Kunst” means “Art” in German and Yiddish). Up until 1904 only ten Jewish families lived in Tientsin. In 1906 the Jews established the Tientsin Jewish Union which rendered various religious services. Side by side with this union the Tientsin Hebrew Association was active in the city and took care of welfare needs such as soup kitchens, hospitals, homes for the elderly, etc. The 1917 Russian Revolution fueled the rapid growth of the city's Jewish population with many Jewish immigrants from Russia, and “in 1920 the community was formally named The Hebrew Association of Tientsin (THA) [The organization named here in this charter booklet]. In this context the community built a synagogue, engaged a Rabbi and a Shochet, and provided full religious services. Committees for Eretz Israel affairs and hospitals were set up. A singular feature of the community was the establishment of the Benevolent Society in 1920, whose aim was to assist Jews in need and help them settle into their new environment.” Tianjin soon became the third largest Jewish community in China, after Shanghai and Harbin. In 1935, the number of Jewish people in Tianjin reached 3,500. Though most Jews left the city after the 1949 Chinese Revolution. (sinojudaic.org/tianjin), large numbers of Jewish refugees had been streaming to Tianjin before and during World War II, with the city occupied by the Japanese from July 1937 to August 1945. For more on the Tianjin/Tiensin Jewish community, see also https://kehilalinks.jewishgen.org/harbin/Growing_Up_in_Tientsin_Chapter_22. pdf. A copy of a similar booklet sold at auction in 2023 for $875 (with commission). SUBJECT(S): Jews -- China -- Tientsin -- History -- Societies, etc. OCLC: 234094995.OCLC lists one copy worldwide (NLI). Toning to cover, Very Good Condition, an outstanding copy of this rare and important booklet . (Holo2-160-10)
Stock number:42252.
$US 875.00
Imprint: Tientsin: No Publisher [The Club, printed by the Pioneer Press], 1930
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Paper Wrappers
1st edition. Original beige printed paper wrappers, 12mo, 16 pages, 17 cm. In English and Russian. Copy belonging to Leo Gershevitch, President of the Culture Club 'Kunst, theTientsin Jewish Hebrew Association, The Tientsin Zionist Organization, The Tientsin Jewish Union, the Tientsin Hebrew school, ’ and other Jewish organizations in Tientsin, with his Yiddish stamp on cover. The “Kunst” club was a Jewish theater group in Tianjin (“Kunst” means “Art” in German and Yiddish). Up until 1904 only ten Jewish families lived in Tientsin. In 1906 the Jews established the Tientsin Jewish Union which rendered various religious services. Side by side with this union the Tientsin Hebrew Association was active in the city and took care of welfare needs such as soup kitchens, hospitals, homes for the elderly, etc. The 1917 Russian Revolution fueled the rapid growth of the city's Jewish population with many Jewish immigrants from Russia, and “in 1920 the community was formally named The Hebrew Association of Tientsin (THA) [The organization named here in this charter booklet]. In this context the community built a synagogue, engaged a Rabbi and a Shochet, and provided full religious services. Committees for Eretz Israel affairs and hospitals were set up. A singular feature of the community was the establishment of the Benevolent Society in 1920, whose aim was to assist Jews in need and help them settle into their new environment.” Tianjin soon became the third largest Jewish community in China, after Shanghai and Harbin. In 1935, the number of Jewish people in Tianjin reached 3,500. Though most Jews left the city after the 1949 Chinese Revolution. (sinojudaic.org/tianjin), large numbers of Jewish refugees had been streaming to Tianjin before and during World War II, with the city occupied by the Japanese from July 1937 to August 1945. For more on the Tianjin/Tiensin Jewish community, see also https://kehilalinks.jewishgen.org/harbin/Growing_Up_in_Tientsin_Chapter_22. pdf. A copy of a similar booklet sold at auction in 2023 for $875 (with commission). SUBJECT(S): Jews -- China -- Tientsin -- History -- Societies, etc. OCLC: 234094994. OCLC lists one copy worldwide (NLI). Punch holes to inner margin (as issued?), toning to cover, Very Good Condition, an outstanding copy of this rare and important booklet . (Holo2-160-9)
Stock number:42251.
$US 875.00
Imprint: Tianjin: No Publisher [The Community], 1933
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Paper Wrappers
1st printing. Original orange printed paper wrappers, 12mo, 12 pages, 17 cm. In Russian. Title translates as, “Statutes of the Tianjin Jewish community: approved by the general meeting of the members of the community on July 30, 1933 in Tianjin.” Copy belonging to Leo Gershevitch, President of the Tientsin Jewish Hebrew Association , The Tientsin Zionist Organization, The Tientsin Jewish Union [The organization in this booklet], the Tientsin Hebrew school, the Culture Club 'Kunst, ’ and other Jewish organizations in Tientsin, with his Yiddish stamp on cover. Up until 1904 only ten Jewish families lived in Tientsin. In 1906 the Jews established the Tientsin Jewish Union which rendered various religious services. Side by side with this union the Tientsin Hebrew Association was active in the city and took care of welfare needs such as soup kitchens, hospitals, homes for the elderly, etc. The 1917 Russian Revolution fueled the rapid growth of the city's Jewish population with many Jewish immigrants from Russia, and “in 1920 the community was formally named The Hebrew Association of Tientsin (THA) [The organization named here in this charter booklet]. In this context the community built a synagogue, engaged a Rabbi and a Shochet, and provided full religious services. Committees for Eretz Israel affairs and hospitals were set up. A singular feature of the community was the establishment of the Benevolent Society in 1920, whose aim was to assist Jews in need and help them settle into their new environment.” Tianjin soon became the third largest Jewish community in China, after Shanghai and Harbin. In 1935, the number of Jewish people in Tianjin reached 3,500. Though most Jews left the city after the 1949 Chinese Revolution. (sinojudaic.org/tianjin), large numbers of Jewish refugees had been streaming to Tianjin before and during World War II, with the city occupied by the Japanese from July 1937 to August 1945. For more on the Tianjin/Tiensin Jewish community, see also https://kehilalinks.jewishgen.org/harbin/Growing_Up_in_Tientsin_Chapter_22. pdf. A copy of a similar booklet (which also lists only 1 copy in OCLC) sold at auction in 2023 for $875 (with commission). SUBJECT(S): Jews -- China -- Tientsin -- History. OCLC: 236176584. OCLC lists only one copy anywhere worldwide (National Library of Israel). Very Good+ Condition, an outstanding and exceedingly rare association copy. (Holo2-160-4)
Stock number:42246.
$US 875.00
Imprint: No Place [Tientsin, Tianjin]: Far Eastern Press [Printer; Published by The Society], 1936
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Paper Wrappers
1st edition. Original printed wrappers, 16mo (pocket sized), 16 pages. Text in Russian and English. Copy belonging to Leo Gershevitch, President of the Tientsin Jewish Hebrew Association, The Tientsin Zionist Organization, The Tientsin Jewish Union, the Tientsin Hebrew school, the Culture Club 'Kunst, ’ and other Jewish organizations in Tientsin) with his Yiddish stamp on cover. Until 1904 only ten Jewish families lived in Tientsin, China. In 1906 the Jews established the Tientsin Jewish Union which rendered various religious services. Side by side with this union the Tientsin Hebrew Association was active in the city and took care of welfare needs such as soup kitchens, hospitals, homes for the elderly, etc. The 1917 Russian Revolution fueled the rapid growth of the city's Jewish population with many Jewish immigrants from Russia, resulting in Tianjin supporting the third largest Jewish community in China in the 1920s and 1930s, after Shanghai and Harbin. In 1935, the number of Jewish people in Tianjin reached 3,500. Though most Jews left the city after the 1949 Chinese Revolution. (sinojudaic.org/tianjin), large numbers of Jewish refugees had been streaming to Tianjin before and during World War II, with the city occupied by the Japanese from July 1937 to August 1945. For more on the Tianjin/Tiensin Jewish community, see https://kehilalinks.jewishgen.org/harbin/Growing_Up_in_Tientsin_Chapter_22. pdf. A copy of this booklet sold at auction in 2023 for $875 (with commission). OCLC: 84572579. OCLC lists only one library with holdings (Harvard). Essentially a mint condition copy, outstanding and exceedingly rare. (Holo2-160-2)
Stock number:42243.
$US 875.00
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Imprint: New York; Jewish Labor Committee, 1941
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Pamphlet
Original Wraps. 8vo. 15 pages. 22 cm. First edition. Declaration by Jan Stanczyk on the heroic struggle of the underground movement in Poland (Jewish and Polish) , the vicious eradication of all Poland’s citizens by the Nazi occupation, and the need to redress previous wrongs committed by the Polish government against its Jewish citizens. Contains six illustrations. “A pledge of Jewish equality in a 'post-war democratic Poland freed of the Nazi yoke, ' was given here today by Jan Stanczyk, Polish Minister of Labor and Social Welfare at a press conference preceding his address to the executive committee of the Jewish Labor Committee. 'The future relations between Gentiles and Jews in liberated Poland, ' said Mr. Stanczyk, 'will be built on entirely new foundations. Poland will guarantee all her citizens – including the Jews – full legal equality. This Poland will be a true democracy and every one of her citizens will enjoy equal rights irrespective of race, creed or origin. ' Emphasizing that the Jewish underground movement in Poland today is part of the great Polish underground army waging the struggle for the common cause of liberation, Mr. Stanczyk declared that the present war 'has wiped out the institutions and destroyed the power of groups which had striven to foment hatred among the people of Poland' and that their common fate has created a strong bond between Gentile and Jew. ” - JTA, 'Post-war Poland Will Guarantee Equality to Jews, Stanczyk Pledges', December 11, 1941. Subjects: Rzeczpospolita Polska (Government-in-exile) ; Jewish Labor Committee (U. S. ) . Jews - Legal status, laws, etc. - Poland. Civil rights - Poland. World War, 1939-1945 - Poland. Civil rights. Jews - Legal status, laws, etc. World War (1939-1945) . OCLC lists 8 copies. Light wear to wraps, overall very clean and fresh. Very good condition. Very important. (HOLO2-123-27)
Stock number:35452.
$US 850.00
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Imprint: Budapest; Kossuth, 1947
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Original Cloth. 8vo. 482, [12] pages. 25 cm. First edition. In Hungarian. 'You are the Witness! From Ukraine to Auschwitz. ' With 12 pages of plates (printed in blue ink) . Includes name register of Hungarian Jewish victims of the holocaust on pages 209-482. Finely bound in buckram with gilt title. Subjects: Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) - Registers of dead – Hungary. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) - Registers of dead - Ukraine. Holocaust survivors - Hungary – Registers. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Jews - Persecutions - Hungary. Jews - Persecutions. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) . OCLC lists 18 copies. Light wear to cloth; pages lightly aged, otherwise clean and fresh. Very good condition. (HOLO2-115-20)
Stock number:36026.
$US 850.00
Imprint: Minkhen; Nidpas A. Y. Ha-Vaad Le-Hotsa'at Sefarim Etsel Va'ad Ha-Hatsalah, 1947
Binding: Hardcover
Inscription: Signed, Inscribed Or Annotated
Original blue gilt-tooled calf leather. 12mo. 120, 194, 194 pages. 18 cm. Survivors Bible, printed by Vaad Hatzala. Pentateuch, Haftarot and Megilot with commentary of Rashi and Targum. 'Matanah me-et Va'ad ha-hatsalah le-she'erit ha-peletah. ' Title page has coloured illustration. With dedication page to President Harry Truman with superimposed American Flag. "The remnants of Israel that survived the great destruction wrought upon our people by Hitler's hoards, these shattered remenats the 'Sherith Hepleita' were weakened physically and spiritually...we wish to dedicate this Holy Bible, the very ancient well of civilization, to his Honor, the President of the United States of America, Harry S. Truman. His courageous and kind words, his noble acts and deeds in behalf of our people have served as a ray of hote in these trying, troubleed and most cdritical period of our people..." With "Mr. M. Shipper” inscribed in gilt on upper cover.Issued by the Vaad Hatzala Rescue Committee for the benefit of the survivors of the Nazi Holocaust (She’erit Hapleita). This custom-bound copy likely prepared for an American donor.See A.J. Karp, From the Ends of the Earth: Judaic Treasures from the Library of Congress (1991) p. 34 (illustrated). Subjects: Haftarot - Commentaries. Bible. Pentateuch - Commentaries. Bible. Five Scrolls - Commentaries. Pentateuch. Hebrew. 1947.; Holy Bible: Vaad Hatzala, Germany. OCLC lists 15 copies. A copy sold at auction in 2021 for over $1200. Outstanding copy in original deluxe blue leather binding, Very Good condition. (HOLO2-117-58B)
Stock number:41636.
$US 750.00
Imprint: Hechaluc kiadás. Budapest, 1945
Binding: Hardback
(1945) . Original Illustrated Paper Wrappers, Small 8vo, 216 pages. Eredeti borítóval. Includes 9 powerful original linocut illustrations, and cover design, by Shagra Weil. Also includes a bit of music.Title translates as "The Yellow Book. Data on the War Losses of Hungarian Jewry. 1941-1945." One of the earliest book about the Hungarian Holocaust. Published by Hechaluc (Hehalutz), the Zionist resistant movement, whose legendary headquarters was located at the Üvegház (Glasshouse) in Budapest, a former glass-store. During the Holocaust about 3000 people found shelter there and it was the center for producing fake identification documents to save Hungarian Jews from persecution. Shraga Weil (Ferenc Ferdinánd; 1918-2009) was a Hungarian born Israeli painter. He studied at the Academy of Art in Prague and École des Beaux Arts in Paris. During WWII he was active in the Zionist underground movement in Budapest, working in the workshop for forging documents. After the war he sailed for Palestine on an illegal immigrant ship and became a member of Kibbutz Ha'ogen where he lived until his death. In 1959 Weil was awarded the Dizengoff Prize for painting. He created the doors of the main entrance to the Knesset building and the President's residence in Jerusalem. Weil painted the wooden panels in the Israeli Hall at the Kennedy Center. Sándor Groszmann (Alexander Grossmann, Ben Erec; 1909-2003) was a journalist and publisher, one of the main activists of the Hungarian Zionist movement and co-founder of "Hashomer Hatzair" in Hungary. He was one of the leaders at the "Glasshouse". "When the argument arose about whether to absorb more Jews into the 'Glass House' as they might endanger the lives of those already living there, he said: 'For the sake of one hundred thousand Jews it is worth to endanger our own lives'". (Gur, D.; 2007). After the liberation he was the secretary of JDC (American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee) in Budapest and member of the board of the Hungarian Zionist Association and of the "Eretz-Israel" office. In 1949 he left Hungary and after living in Austria and Israel he settled down in Switzerland where he started to publish books and the periodical "Jöv?" (Future). [Bibl.: Gur, D.: Brothers for Resistance and Rescue. The Underground Zionist Youth Movement in Hungary during Word War II. Jerusalem-New York, 2007; Cohen, A.: The Halutz Resistance in Hungary, 1942-1944. New York, 1986.]. Paper aged, Very Good Condition. (holo2-125-27) xx
Stock number:36029.
$US 750.00
Imprint: Budapest; Országos Magyar Zsidó Segíto Akció, 1944
Binding: Hardcover
Original wraps. 8vo. 246, [2] pages. 23 cm. Serial publication. In Hungarian, with Yiddish. “OMZSA Yearbook”. The Országos Magyar Zsidó Segíto Akció (National Hungarian Jewish Aid Association; OMZSA) was a general assistance organization for the large Budapest community. The OMZSA was involved with cultural, legal, and economic battles on behalf of the (religious) Jewish Budapest community. For example, a series of drawings by the artist Imre Amos (1907-1945) entitled “Zsidó ünnepek (Jewish Holidays) , representing the Jewish holidays in the shadow of annihilation, became emblematic for Hungarian Jewry. (The series appeared in 150 copies published in 1940 by the Országos Magyar Zsidó Segito Akció [National Hungarian Jewish Aid Action]. ) ” (YIVO encyclopedia) . According to OCLC, four issues of the yearbook are known to exist (the earliest issue is titled “OMZSA Naptár” –OMZSA Calendar) . This issue contains a calendar of the days and holidays for the year (In Hungarian and Yiddish) , and extensive literary (poems, letters, short stories) and journalistic pieces by dozens of writers and editors from the Budapest community. For many of these authors, this would be their last published work. “[T]he Germans occupied the country on 19 March 1944, Gestapo chief Adolf Eichmann set up his SS command in Budapest, and the Budapest Jewish Council was established. What had been an extended process of stigmatization, ghettoization, deportation, and murder elsewhere was greatly concentrated and executed with great efficiency and speed in Hungary. The deportation and gassing of almost 440, 000 provincial Jews at Auschwitz-Birkenau began in mid-May and was swiftly accomplished by July as a result of full cooperation of the Hungarian authorities. Only intense diplomatic pressure threatening harsh postwar retribution caused Regent Horthy to call a halt to the deportations on 6 July, giving Budapest Jewry a temporary reprieve. In Budapest, a series of measures increasingly placed limitations on Jews who remained in the capital. Restrictions were placed on using the public transport; later telephones, bicycles, and cars were confiscated, and an evening curfew was imposed. From 3 April, all persons defined as Jews were obligated to wear a yellow star on their outer clothing… The reverses suffered by the Germans emboldened Horthy to announce in mid-October his intention to withdraw Hungary from the war. With German backing, Ferenc Szálasi and his Arrow Cross Party seized power on 15 October. Budapest’s Jews were now threatened by a far more vicious regime whose radical antisemitic ideology was wholly in tune with Hitler’s apocalyptic vision. Forced death marches began on 20 October and along with German deportations, affected some 75, 000 Budapest Jews. The city rapidly descended into chaos as roving Arrow Cross bands combed the streets rounding up Jews. The first murders in the streets began on 12 November; the first executions took place by the riverbank on 23 November. “ (YIVO Encyclopedia) Subjects: Jews - Hungary - Periodicals. Jewish almanacs. OCLC lists 7 copies. Wraps lightly worn, with light pencil marks on front cover and first endpage. Pages lightly aged, otherwise fresh. Very good condition. (HOLO2-103-36), yivo-50 2012
Stock number:30960.
$US 750.00
Imprint: Berwin, Ill.: Ceské národní sdruzení v Americe, 1939-1977
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Paperback
1st edition. Original wrappers. 4to, 29 cm. each issue approx. 16 pages each issue. Each volume includes 12 monthly issues. Illustrations throughout. In Czech with some English. This run includes vol. I, (1-12, beginning in October 1, 1939), vol. II (1-12), vol. III (1-12, beginning in 1941), vol IV (1-12, beginning in October 1942), vol. V (1-12), vol. VI (1-12), vol VII (1-12), vol. VIII (1-12, beginning October 1946), vol. IX (1-11, beginning in October 1947), vol X (1-12, beginning in October 1948), vol. XI (1-12, beginning in October, 1949), vol. XII (1-12, beginning in October 1950), vol. XIII( 1-12, beginning in October 1951), vol. XIV(1-12, beginning in October 1952), vol XV (1-5, 7-12, beginning in October 1953), vol. XVI (1-12, beginning in October 1954), vol. XVII (1-12, beginning in October 1955), vol. XVIII (1-12, beginning in October 1956) ,vol. XIX (1, 3-12, beginning in October, 1957), vol. XX (1-12, beginning in October 1958), vol. XXI (1-12, beginning in October 1959), vol. XXII (1-12, beginning in October 1960), vol. XXIII (1-12, beginning in October 1961), vol. XXIV (1-12, beginning in October 1962), vol. XXV (1-12, beginning in October 1963), vol. XXVI (1-12, beginning in October 1964), vol. XXVII (1-12, beginning in October 1965), vol. XXVIII (1-12, beginning in October 1966), vol. XXIX (1-12, beginning in October 1967), vol. XXXIV (7-11, beginning in May 1973), vol. XXXV (1-12, beginning in November 1973), vol. XXXVI (1-12, beginning in November 1974), vol. XXXVII (1-8, 10-12, beginning in November 1975), and vol. XXXVIII (4-8, beginning in February 1977). Total of 390 issues Publication began October 1, 1939. The Czech-American National Alliance began as “the Bohemian (later Czech) National Alliance in America (‘Ceske narodni sdruzeni’) which led a victorious fight against Austro-Hungary in the US. Czech Chicago was in the center of this liberation movement, together with the help of various Alliance’s branches, e.g., New York, Detroit and Omaha. Under the leadership of Dr. Fisher, who became the chairman, and Josef Tvrzicky, the executive secretary, the number of these branches throughout the US eventually grew to 350.” SUBJECT(S): History. Periodicals. Czechoslovakia. OCLC: 5048975, OCLC lists 10 copies worldwide. Most have previous owner’s name and address on front, few have notes on cover and pages, few have some tearing and chipping, some wear and sunning on most, Good Condition Overall. (HOLO2-159-12-LGG-’f)
Stock number:41262.
$US 650.00
Imprint: Tel-Aviv: Edition Olympia: M. Feuchtwanger, 1944
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Paperback
1st edition. Original stiff paper wrappers. 12mo. 63 pages, 18 cm. Published as the Allies were closing in on Nazi Germany as part of imagining what kind of compensation and restitution should be extracted from Germany for the Jews. SUBJECTS: Restitution and indemnification claims (1933- ) -- Germany. Jews -- Legal status, laws, etc. OCLC lists 6 copies worldwide (USHMM, UMi, Senckenberg, Hebrew U. , Columbia) , only 3 in the US. Wrappers are mildly edgeworn. Pages browning. Very good. (HOLO2-142-39)
Stock number:40954.
$US 650.00
Imprint: New York, N. Y. , "poland Fights," Polish Labor Group, 1944
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardback
1st English Languge Edition. Original illustrated publisher’s wrappers designed by Teresa Zarnower. 8vo. 48 pages. 21 cm. Published March 1944 (A second edition appeared 2 months later, in May 1944). Two facsimile illustrations. At head of title: Underground Poland speaks. One of the earliest published eyewitness accounts of life in Hitler's concentration camps, written by a Polish Underground Labor "historian," experienced in the underground struggle, who drew his material from actual contact with persons who survived and saw others suffer. Translated from Polish underground labor publication. Translation of: Obóz smierci, by Natalia Zarembina. (1895-1973) a Polish journalist and wife of Zygmunt Zaremba who founded the underground "Polska Partia Socjalistyczna - Wolnosc, Rownosc, Niepodleglosc" (Polish Socialist Party - Freedom, Equality, Independence), under Nazi occupation. It was his party which originally published. "Oboz Smierci".With facsimile of original title-page: Obóz smierci ... 1942. Publication sponsored by National C.I O. War Relief Committee. A horrifying first hand account of the occupation of Warsaw and the experience of concentration camps; the experience of the forced labor annex of Oswiecim is elaborated in detail. With map of concentration camps throughout Poland. An annex piece outlines the types of concentration camps: General Concentration Camps (“one of the oldest and most notorious is that at Oswiecim, which has recently been greatly expanded … A section of this camp has been converted into the so called 'camp of death'. ”) , forced labor camps (mainly filled with the deported Polish peasants) , concentration camps for clergy, concentration camps for women, concentration camps for Jews (“These camps have been established in conjunction with the Nazi campaign to liquidate the European Jews. Some of them are simply places of execution where Jews from Poland and the rest of Europe are asphyxiated, electrocuted, and machine-gunned. ”) , camps for 'improvement of the race' (teenagers – German and abducted Poles – who represent strict 'nordic' characteristics are kept in camps for forced copulation and reproduction) , camps for 'correction of youth' (little information … their inmates are Polish boys and girls) , Concentration camps for children so called 'educational institutes' (Polish children under 12 are seized in great numbers and subjected to the Nazi process of Germanization). The documentation is based on testimony from three escapees from Auschwitz. One was Eryk Lipinski (1908-1991) a Polish graphic artist arrested for producing false documents for the resistance (deported in August 1940); Henryk Swiatkowski (1896-1970)a Polish lawyer, (also deported in August 1940); and Edward Bugajski (1903-1956) the Polish Socialist fighter who defended Warsaw in 1939 and then later was part of the Warsaw Uprising of 1944, (deported in May 1941). The book details life in Auschwitz through early 1942, prior to the start of the mass exterminations at the camp.The cover artist, Teresa Zarnower (aka Zarnowerowna, 1895-1950), was a Polish avant-garde artist and architect who studied at the Warsaw School of Fine Arts. She had exhibited in 1923 at the "New Art Exhibition" in Vilna, the first constructivist show in Poland, as well as at the "Der Sturm" gallery in Berlin . She was co-founder of the Warsaw avant-garde artist's group "Blok" and co-editor of its magazine "Blok." She fled for New York in 1937.Subjects: World War, 1939-1945 - Atrocities. World War, 1939-1945 - Poland. Germany; political history and theory; 20th century; Third Reich; home politics; law, judicature, trials, oppression, concentration camps. Auschwitz (Concentration camp) . Light wear at corners, about Very Good Condition. Important. (HOLO2-113-54A)
Stock number:42331.
$US 600.00
Imprint: Moskve [Moscow]: Tsentraler Felker-Farlag fun F.S.S.R., 1929
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardback
1st edition. Bound in later basic boards, 8vo, 136 pages. 22 cm. In Yiddish. Title translates as, “For the stage: (Stories, Plays, Songs).” Includes musical notation, with music for 1-3 voices, principally unaccompanied. Dobrushin (1883–1953) was a “Soviet Yiddish literary author, critic, and scholar….Between 1902 and 1909, he lived in Paris, where he studied law at the Sorbonne and was active in the socialist Zionist movement. After recovering from an illness that had confined him to bed for several years, he published his first collection of poetry and short plays, Benkende neshomes (Longing Souls) in 1912; other publications soon followed. In 1916, Dobrushin settled in Kiev and his articles and poetry appeared in various Hebrew and Yiddish periodicals. During the civil war, he edited and contributed to the publications of the Kultur-lige. In 1920, he moved to Moscow, where he coedited the magazine Shtrom and other Soviet Yiddish periodicals.A prolific poet, playwright, and critic, Dobrushin enthusiastically responded to new developments in Jewish life in the Soviet Union. In the late 1920s, he was a regular visitor to Jewish agricultural settlements in Crimea, where he collected material for sketches and plays that were later produced on the Soviet Yiddish stage. As the chief literary consultant for the Moscow State Yiddish Theater (GOSET), Dobrushin adapted a number of works of Yiddish literature for the stage. In his capacity as a theater critic and historian, he published significant studies on the dramaturgy of Avrom Goldfadn, Mendele Moykher-Sforim, Sholem Aleichem, and Y. L. Peretz (collected under the title Di dramaturgye fun di klasiker [The Dramaturgy of the Classical Writers]; 1948), as well as on the Soviet Yiddish theater, including monographs about Yiddish actors Binyomin Zuskin (1939) and Solomon Mikhoels (1940). Dobrushin was the only critic and playwright among a group of six Soviet Yiddish writers who were awarded high Soviet decorations in 1939, and a village in Crimea was named after him.Dobrushin’s literary criticism covered all of Soviet Yiddish literature from the 1920s to the 1940s….As a literary historian, Dobrushin paid special attention to Sholem Aleichem, particularly to elements of folklore in his works. Dobrushin’s book Dovid Bergelson (1947) contains, notwithstanding its dogmatic Marxist-Leninist methodology, many valuable insights, and remains the only monographic study of one of the greatest of Yiddish writers. Another major theme of Dobrushin’s research was Yiddish folklore. In one of his last articles published before his arrest in 1948, he called for the collection and study of folklore among the survivors of the Holocaust. He was active in the historical commission of the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee from 1942. Dobrushin was arrested in late 1948, tortured during the interrogation, and sent to a prison camp in the Arctic Circle, where he died in exile in 1953” (Krutikov in YIVO Encyclopedia). For more on Dobrushin, see Gennady Estraikh, “In Harness: Yiddish Writers’ Romance with Communism” (Syracuse, N.Y., 2005) and Jeffrey Veidlinger, “The Moscow State Yiddish Theater: Jewish Culture on the Soviet Stage” (Bloomington, Ind., 2000). SUBJECT(S): Yiddish literature. Litte´rature yiddish. OCLC: 150587568. OCLC lists only 1 hard copy worldwide (NYBC, but their copy listing 135 pages instead of our 136). Lacks original covers (probably paper wrappers), but text complete with title page intact. Crude tape-repair to margins of title page, just touching one letter of title. Simple cardboard binding with taped backstrip, paper toned but clean and solid with clean repair to one leaf. Solid copy. Good Condition Thus. Very Rare. (YID-43-19-+)
Stock number:42182.
$US 600.00
Imprint: New York, Bloch Pub. Co, 1904
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Paperback
1st edition. Original green printed wrappers, 8vo, 32 pages. Early Zionist plea from the pivotal year of 1904, which saw both Herzl’s death as well as the first American publication of Herzl’s “The Jewish State.” Indeed, “by 1904, cultural Zionism was accepted by most Zionists and a schism was beginning to develop between the Zionist movement and Orthodox Judaism. In 1904, Herzl died unexpectedly at the age of 44 and the leadership was taken over by David Wolffsohn, who led the movement until 1911. During this period, the movement was based in Berlin (Germany's Jews were the most assimilated) and made little progress, failing to win support among the Young Turks after the collapse of the Ottoman Regime….Under Herzl's leadership, Zionism relied on Orthodox Jews for religious support, with the main party being the orthodox Mizrachi. However, as the cultural and socialist Zionists increasingly broke with tradition and used language contrary to the outlook of most religious Jewish communities, many orthodox religious organizations began opposing Zionism. Their opposition was based on its secularism and on the grounds that only the Messiah could re-establish Jewish rule in Israel.Therefore, most Orthodox Jews maintained the traditional Jewish belief that while the Land of Israel was given to the ancient Israelites by God, and the right of the Jews to that land was permanent and inalienable, the Messiah must appear before the land could return to Jewish control” (Wikipedia. “Albert M. Friedenberg (1881–1942) was an American lawyer and historian. “At the age of 19, he joined the American Jewish Historical Society and became one of its leading members; he was largely responsible for the issuance of 17 volumes of the Publications of the American Jewish Historical Society (ajhsp, nos. 18–34). Friedenberg wrote numerous papers and articles on the early history of Jews in America, immigration, historical aspects of Zionism, Jews in Masonry, and the Jewish periodical press, and also on local German Jewish history, literature, and biography. He acted as the New York correspondent of the Baltimore Jewish Comment (1902–10) and the Chicago Reform Advocate (1905–31), and as contributing editor of the New York Hebrew Standard (1907–23). Includes bibliographical references” (Encyclopedia.com). SUBJECT(S): Zionism. Interestingly, OCLC lists not a single hard copy anywhere–only microfilm and digital access copies (for example, OCLC: 894106828). An absolutely pristine, unread copy, amazingly preserved, Very Good+ Condition. Extremely rare, important, and well-preserved (zion2-3-3)
Stock number:41917.
$US 600.00
Imprint: New York: The Joint Defense Appeal of the American Jewish Committee and the Anti-Defamation League of B’nai-Brith, N.D.
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Paperback
No Date, proabably 1944 based on dates in image on front cover. 1st edition. Original paper wrappers. 4to, [4] pages. Single-fold oversize pamphlet. Big illustration on front of newspapers with headlines such as “The Jew Refugee Invasion of America Through Immigration and What To Do About It” and “Gentile News.” “THESE ARE DANGEROUS WORDS!” is written across in red. On the back is the title “Truth is a Weapon!” and text calling for the support and expansion of The Joint Defense Appeal. Inside is more headlines and newspapers under the title of “Missiles of Hate.” One such is a poster campaigning for Loyd Smith for congress. It says, “Loyd Smith will oppose having this nation, the United States of America, controlled by, or by the influence, of either, international Nazi, international Communist, Japanese imperialism, British imperialism or the international Jews. I solicit only the support of true Americans.” Acorss the 2 inside pages, “Circulated by thr hundreds and thousands, these are the words of the demagogue, who exploits Anti-Semitism to destroy the American way of Life… Their Repercussions Appear in the Daily Press with Increasing Frequency.” Not listed on OCLC or for sale anywhere else. Few horizontal creases, else Very Good Condition. Very displayable and exceedinly rare (HOLO2-144-27)
Stock number:41912.
$US 600.00
Imprint: Paris, Internationaler Sozialistischer Kampf-Bund, 1935-1937
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Paper Wrappers
Some wear, paper starting to brown but not fragile. Many are stamped "probenummer" ("Sample Number"--issues sent in free exchange with other political journals and left wing parties) on front cover. ; 8vo; This run includes the following 17 issues: Vol 10 (1935) : #s 1, 2, 3, 4, 11, 12; Vol 11 (1936) : #s 4, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13; Vol 13 (1938) : #s 23; Vol 15 (1940) #s 8, 10, 18, 19; 24 cm. German anti-fascist periodical published from France during Hitler's reign, essentially as an exile periodical. Excellent insight in to Socialist critiques of the Nazis from those who had been, until recently, inside Germany. Some writers include: Martin Hart, Hans Israel, Walter Buchholz, E. Kolb, Fritz Kempf, Arthur Seehof, Fritz Dreher, etc, Includes material on Antisemitism, Zionism, the Spanish Civil War, Pacifism, etc. Socilaistische Wart was issued monthly through 1935; then biweekly and later weekly. It began in May 1934 and ceased publication in May 1940 with Volume 15. Issues for May-Oct. 1934 are called 1. Jahrgang [volume 1]. ; beginning Nov. 1934, they are called 9. Jahrgang [Vol 9], continuing the numbering of the earlier title, ISK. (HOLO2-135-27), OK 06/12
Stock number:5772.
$US 600.00
Imprint: Hefah, Lohame Ha-Getaot : Ha-Makhon Le-Heker Tekufat Ha-Shoah,, 1985
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Paperback
First edition. Original blue, yellow, and grey paper wrappers. 4to. About 122 pages each; 24 cm. In Hebrew and English. Title translates to “Archives of the Yishuv Rescue Board in Istanbul. ” Volume 5 includes “Register of the Palestinian Swiss, Swedish, English, Spanish and Portugese Files. ” Volume 6 includes “Register of the Hungarian (corrected) , Italian, Albanian, Yugoslavian, Greek, French, German, Danish, Dutch, Belgian Files. ” Volume 7 includes “Register of the Romanian and the Bulgarian Files. ” “The most important part of the letters contains a description of the changes taking place in the Golah, in the nature of a summary of the reports received from the lands under Nazi occupation, and from countries subject to German influence. All these reports were received either directly or via the bureau in Switzerland. The time span embraced the peak period of the mass murders in Eastern Europe, including also the desperate attempts to effect rescue, especially of the remaining Jews in Slovakia and Hungary. ” SUBJECT(S) : Holocaust, Records, Archives. OCLC lists only 2 holdings for one or more of these volumes (Harvard, Swiss Nat Libr) . Slight rubbing. Very minimal markings and stains. Very minimal edgewear. Very good + condition. Scarce and important (HOLO2-134-54)
Stock number:38440.
$US 600.00
Imprint: Bordeaux [France]: S. I. P. ,, 1949
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Paperback
Original Wraps. 8vo. 11, [1] pages. 25 cm. First edition. In French. 'Memorial Ceremony; Eternal Memory! For the Martyrs 1940-1944'. With two full page illustrations: “wall memorial in Bordeaux, for those who perished 1940-1944; ” and “photograph of the minute of silence held during the memorial ceremony. ” Contains an introduction, and the content of memorial speech given by Rabbi Joseph Cohen to survivors of the Bordeaux Jewish community. Subjects: Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) - France - Bordeaux - Sermons. Slight toning. Mild edgewear. Very minimal markings. Very good + condition. Rare early Bordeaux Holocaust imprint. (HOLO2-117-3A)
Stock number:38430.
$US 600.00
Imprint: New York, Union Of Orthodox Jewish Congregations Of America, 1933-1937
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Paperback
First edition. Original illustrated paper wrappers with black-and-white photographs. About 12 pages; 28 cm. Good Nazi-era run of this sometimes monthly, sometimes bimonthly periodical published by the Union of Orthodox Jewish Congregations of America covering news related to Orthodox Jews. Issues filled articles, advertisements for Kosher products, a list of Kosher food options, and photographs. “The question is insistent and cannot be evaded: ‘As what kind of Jews shall we survive? ’” SUBJECT (S) : Orthodox Judaism, Periodicals. OCLC and WorldCat list 6 holdings worldwide. Overall, very good condition. Postage and mailing address. Slight toning. Minimal edgewear. Minimal pencil markings that do not affect text. Very minimal staining. (SPEC-44-4)
Stock number:38369.
$US 600.00
Imprint: West Point, N. Y. : United States Military Academy, 1987
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Paperback
1st Edition. Original Paper Wrappers. 8vo. 14 pages ; 23 cm. In English. From the 15th Annual Sol Feinstone Memorial Lecture series at West Point. This lecture given by Elie Wiesel a year after he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. Speaking to the US Military Academy, Weisel says, “I shall always remember… the day I was liberated by the American Army: April 11, 1945… I remember a black sergeant, huge, marvelous. I saw him cry, and I heard him curse; he saw the corpses, he saw the victims, he understood what no one would ever understand, that something had happened in history that had changed history, and in his helplessness, he simply cursed, and to me his curses became pure prayers…” OCLC lists just 3 copies worldwide (West Point, US Army War College, Texas A&M) . Ex-library with Jewish Institutional Stamp and Usual Markings. Very good+ Condition. Scarce and important. (HOLO2-130-55A)
Stock number:37160.
$US 600.00
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Imprint: Bordeaux [France]: S. I. P., 1949
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardback
Original Wraps. 8vo. 11, [1] pages. 25 cm. First edition. In French. 'Memorial Ceremony; Eternal Memory! For the Martyrs 1940-1944'. With two full page illustrations (wall memorial in Bordeaux, for those who perished 1940-1944; photograph of the minute of silence held during the memorial ceremony) ; contains an introduction, and the content of memorial speech given by Rabbi Joseph Cohen to survivors of the Bordeaux Jewish community. Subjects: Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) - France - Bordeaux - Sermons. OCLC lists only one copy worldwide (HUC) . Light soiling to wraps, light soiling to margins, otherwise fresh. Good + condition. Rare early Bordeaux Holocaust imprint. (HOLO2-117-3)
Stock number:34089.
$US 600.00
Imprint: Moscow, Foreign Languages Pub. House, 1943
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Paperback
1st English Language Edition. Original Wrappers. 8vo. 40 pages ; 19 cm. Contemporary account, published in 1943, of the very first war crimes trial against Nazi defendants, held following the Russians’ recapturing of Krasnodar From the Germans who had occupied it. SS-sonderkommando units massacred thousands of Russian citizens, Jews and communists. The trials were held immediately, in the summer of 1943, while the war against Hitler was ongoing. Includes transcript from the trial and gruesome photographs of the victims of the atrocities. SUBJECT (S) : War crimes -- Soviet Union. Back wrapper creased, with damage to top margin of final 10 leaves (no text affected). Marking on Front Wrapper.Small stamps on upper margin of front cover. Paper toning. Overall about Very Good- condition. Very important. (holo2-135-10)
Stock number:42274.
$US 500.00
Imprint: No Place [New York?]: Sidney Hollaender [printer; aka Ever Ready Label Corp], 1951
Edition: First Edition
Binding: paperback
1st edition. Original double-fold booklet with photo tipped in to front, 4to, 4 pages. Includes selections from the eulogy given by Simon H. Rifkind for Szyk, printed by Sidney Hollaender and given out at the funeral. Hollaender notes on the rear that he is printing this “in appreciation of a colorful friend.” See Arthur Szyk Society newsletter, v. 3, n. 1, 2001. In Szyk bibliographies, Hollaender is credited as the printer of Szyk’s “Lithograph of Lincoln’s Second Inaugural Address;” Hollaender’s daughter has indicated that Hollaender and his Ever Ready Label Corp in fact did a great deal of printing for Szyk. Szyk (1894–1951) was a leading 20th Century graphic designer, book illustrator, stage designer, and caricaturist Szyk. Born in Lodz, Poland, he spent his entire life producing images celebrating and encouraging resistance by Poland and the Jewish people. His work was well-known in Poland, France, and Great Britain prior to World War II. In 1937, he left Poland for London, where he worked for four years to produce the paintings that would comprise his famous Hagadah. His stinging caricatures of the Axis leaders Hitler, Mussolini, and Hirohito brought him great fame after he immigrated to the USA in 1940. His art was distinguished by its embrace of the Medieval and Renaissance and rejecting modernism. None listed on OCLC. We were able to locate only one copy, at the McGill Archives, using a google search. Certainly very few were printed to begin with; it appears that a very small number have survived. Light toning, Very Good Condition. (ART-28-9B-’+).
Stock number:42255.
$US 500.00
Imprint: Passaic, N. J. : Arbayter Ring, 1945
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
1st edition. Original boards. 8vo. 40 + 48 + 24 + 22 + [32] pages [166 pages total], 27 cm. In Yiddish. Includes photos. A complete Holocaust-era year run of Fraynd, founded in 1910, printed monthly, then, more or less, bimonthly. “Formed in 1900 by Yiddish-speaking Jewish immigrants from Eastern Europe, The Workmen's Circle at first acted as a mutual aid society, helping its members to adapt to their new life in America. It provided life insurance, unemployment relief, healthcare, social interaction, burial assistance and general education through its branches throughout the US as well as through its national office. Soon, the organization was joined by more politically focused socialist Bundists who advocated the anti-assimilationist idea of Yiddish cultural autonomy, led by education in Yiddish and socialist ideals. The Circle formed the Folksbiene Yiddish theatre troupe and promoted Jewish arts and music, Yiddish school programs for children and Yiddish summer camps. It became influential in the American labor movement and grew to serve more than 84, 000 members through hundreds of branches around North America. It also became involved with the Yiddish newspaper The Forward and operated old-age homes, medical clinics and other services. Politically, the Circle moved away from socialism towards liberalism by the time of the New Deal” (Wikipedia, 2018) . SUBJECTS: Jews -- United States -- Periodicals. Fraternal organizations -- United States -- Periodicals.OCLC: 18490414. OCLC lists 18 holdings, but most are for partial runs starting. Paper toning, but well protected with no edgewear. Beautiful original binding is gorgeous, Very Good Condition. (XXYID-43-38)
Stock number:42210.
$US 500.00
Imprint: Passaic, N. J. : Arbayter Ring, 1943
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
1st edition. Original boards. 8vo. 120 +24 +24 +24 pages [192 pages total], 27 cm. In Yiddish. A complete Holocaust-era year run of Fraynd, founded in 1910, printed monthly, then, more or less, bimonthly. “Formed in 1900 by Yiddish-speaking Jewish immigrants from Eastern Europe, The Workmen's Circle at first acted as a mutual aid society, helping its members to adapt to their new life in America. It provided life insurance, unemployment relief, healthcare, social interaction, burial assistance and general education through its branches throughout the US as well as through its national office. Soon, the organization was joined by more politically focused socialist Bundists who advocated the anti-assimilationist idea of Yiddish cultural autonomy, led by education in Yiddish and socialist ideals. The Circle formed the Folksbiene Yiddish theatre troupe and promoted Jewish arts and music, Yiddish school programs for children and Yiddish summer camps. It became influential in the American labor movement and grew to serve more than 84, 000 members through hundreds of branches around North America. It also became involved with the Yiddish newspaper The Forward and operated old-age homes, medical clinics and other services. Politically, the Circle moved away from socialism towards liberalism by the time of the New Deal” (Wikipedia, 2018) . SUBJECTS: Jews -- United States -- Periodicals. Fraternal organizations -- United States -- Periodicals.OCLC: 18490414. OCLC lists 18 holdings, but most are for partial runs starting. Paper toning, but well protected so only a touch of edgewear to upper outer corner not affecting text. Beautiful original binding is gorgeous, About Very Good Condition. (YID-43-37)
Stock number:42209.
$US 500.00
Imprint: Paris: Kultur Tsenter bay der Federatsye fun Yidishe Gezelshaftn in Frankraykh, 1948-1950
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Paper Wrappers
8vo; 1st edition. Original printed paper wrappers, 4to (large), ca 50 pages per issue. In Yiddish. Title translates as, “Existence: A Monthly Journal for Literature, Culture and Societal Problems.” Tipped in Woodcut Ex-libris by A. Kolnik on cover of issue of 1949, #2-3.Kiyum was a Yiddish monthly started by survivors in Paris, running 1948-1960; Succeeded by “Unzer kiyum.” Writing in 1952 about the Jewish periodicals in France over the preceding year, the American Jewish Year Book noted, "Particularly worthy of note was Kiyoum ("Existence"), a Yiddish monthly published by the Federation des Societes Juives de France, under the editorship of Israel Jefroykim. This magazine, which devoted its pages to the problems of continuity and creativity in Jewish life, had become one of the best of the serious magazines in Yiddish." [“France," in The American Jewish Year Book, Vol. 52 (1951), p. 283]. SUBJECT(S): Jews -- Periodicals. Yiddish literature -- Juifs -- Pe´riodiques. Litte´rature yiddish. OCLC: 10153490. Some covers, on heavy paper, have become fragile and detached, or show other light edgewear, though most remain quite Good. Text pages are also browning, as expected, but remain generally free of chips and breaks. (yid-42-26-L-’xcce)
Stock number:41982xt.
$US 500.00
Imprint: New York: Humanity Guild Incorporation, 1939
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Paperback
1st edition. Original paper wrappers. 12mo, 29 pages. Illustrated cover. Holocaust-era pamphlet condemning Nazi persecution of Jews in Germany and building support for Jewish refugees coming to America. “The income derived from the sale of this booklet and other publications of HUMANITY GUILD, Inc. will be used to provide a haven for refugees, and assure for them a peaceful and secure future.” (back cover) From the foreword, “Within the covers of this booklet we present material that should be of vital importance to every liberal minded person who is convinced that all human beings are alike entitled to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. It is a case of ‘Humanity vs. Nazi-Fascism’ with you acting as the judge. We accuse the Nazi-Fascists of wantonly destroying a great people whose contributions to human culture and civilization are incalcuable. Unless we also would condemn the Jews to an undeserving fate we must build for them a bridge to a more secure and happier future. Upon our verdict, then, depend the lives of these unfortunate human beings.” (page [1]) OCLC: 520077. Pencil marks on cover, else clean copy. Very Good Condition. Important and Extremely Rare (HOLO2-144-28-B-'+)
Stock number:41913.
$US 500.00
Imprint: Pariz (Paris) : [Publisher Not Identified], 1940
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Paperback
First edition. Original paper wrappers. 8vo. 119 pages; 18 cm. In Yiddish. Holocaust-era publication from Paris. Title translates to “Toward the historic day of judgment, the Jewish people between curses and redemption” Published early in the Holocaust, Ben-Adir argues for the enactment of national introspection and calm rather than territorialism! Ben-Adir (1878–1942) was writer and Jewish socialist leader, born in Krucha, Belorussia. He was a child prodigy and left for university in Minsk at the age of 16. While there, he was heavily influenced by Jewish socialism. After the First Zionist Congress in 1897, Ben-Adir published an article advocating political Zionism in opposition to the ideology of Ahad Ha-Am. After then Kishinev pogrom of 1903 Ben-Adir published a call for the formation of a Jewish party which would combine the aims of revolutionary socialism with national Jewish aspirations. Ben-Adir was one of the founders and ideologists of the Vozrozhdeniye group, and of its successor of the Sejmists (Jewish Socialist Workers' Party) whose program included Jewish national-political autonomy while envisaging territorial sovereignty as a remote aim. Ben-Adir stayed in Erets Israel between 1925 and 1927 but returned to Berlin, leaving for Paris in 1933. "Algemeyne geshikhtlekhe perspektivn un problemen -- tsentrale yidishe problem." SUBJECTS: Zionism – Jewish nationalism. OCLC Number:19316146. OCLC lists 14 copies worldwide. Minor browning, edgewear to wrappers at corners. Overall Very Good- Condition. (ZION-14-52)
Stock number:38000.
$US 500.00
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Imprint: Nyu-York; Farlag “unzer Tsayt”, 1944-1953
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardback
1st edition. Publishers cloth. 8vo. 252; 318; 288; 304; 308; 244; 275 pages. 23 cm. First edition. In Yiddish. “Poland; Memoirs and Pictures”. The grand epic memoir of Yekhiel Yeshaye Trunk (1887–1961) ; which he began as soon as arriving in New York in 1941, it took a decade to complete. “Trunk’s broad political, social, and cultural experiences informed his autobiographical epic Poyln, a study of the decline of the upper strata of Polish Jewish society and the rise of a new secular Jewishness embodied in folklore, Yiddish literature, and the Bund. This work, his crowning achievement, focused almost entirely on the multifaceted collectivity of Polish Jewry, while relegating his personal story and inner struggle to the sideline. ” (YIVO Encyclopedia) . Trunk was the chief archivist of YIVO at the time of his death, and was considered, in an obituary published in the New York Times, “one of the leading historians in the United States on the destruction of European Jewry during the Nazi era. ” Seven volume set, bound in green cloth with gilt title. Subjects: Authors, Yiddish - Poland - Biography. Jews - Poland - History. First volume cloth heavily worn with previous owners bookstamp, otherwise very clean. All other volumes have minor shelf wear to cloth, otherwise clean and fresh. Very good + condition. (YIZ-15-9), ok 2/2021
Stock number:31692.
$US 500.00
Imprint: New York, Non-Sectarian Anti-Nazi League To Champion Human Rights, 1934
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Paper Wrappers
12mo; 134 pages; Very Early (1934) anti-Nazi booklet by this heavily Jewish organization led by Samuel Untermeyer. "Selected addresses and writings by Samuel Untermyer" appear on pages 55-128. Also includes speeches by the Archbishop of Canterbury, Sir Austin CHamberlain, Sir John Simon, Lady Violet Bonham-Carter, Rev. James N. Gilli, Hon. Samuel Seabury, Prof. Raymond Moley, William Green (pres. Of AFL) , Dr. Abba Hillel Silver, David Brown ("Nazi Peace with Jews Unthinkable") Walter M. Citrine, etc. "Public Opinion as the force, the Boycott as the weapon, will break the power of Hitlerism." Certainly larger than most pamphlets, but has an ephemeral, agitational feel. Removed from later binding, so spine area on cover is worn, otherwise Very Good Condition. (Holo2-159-19)
Stock number:41171.
$US 500.00
Imprint: Paris: La Vulgarisation Scientifique, 1945
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Paperback
1st edition. Original Color paper wrappers, 16mo (small) , 92 pages, plus 8 pages of photo plates. In French. Title translates as, “Sadistic Germany. ” Very early (1945) photo documentary on the Nazi Concentration camps, part of the immediate postwar effort to document the atrocities, gain justice for the victims, and rebuild a democratic Europe. SUBJECT(S) : National socialism -- Psychological aspects. Concentration camps -- Germany. Sadism. Allemands. Nazisme. Guerre mondiale, 1939-1945 -- Atrocités -- Allemagne. OCLC: 34502035. OCLC lists only 5 holdings in the Western Hemisphere (NYPL, USHMM, Harvard, Northwestern, UNIVERSITE LAVAL). Edgewear to covers, internally excellent, overall Very Good Condition. (KH-9-10A-A) xx
Stock number:40856.
$US 500.00
Imprint: Washington D. C. : U. S. G. P.O, 1943
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Paperback
1st edition. Original paper wrappers. 8vo. 72 pages, 23 cm. In English. Front wrapper is marked “Confidential print. ” Early (1943) confidential internal discussion by the US congress of rescue of the Jews of Europe, as well of how to deal with refugees abroad, including whether to admit them to the United States and other topics concerning anti-semitism and Nazi abuses. SUBJECTS: World War, 1939-1945 -- Refugees. World War, 1939-1945 -- Civilian relief. Ex-library with usual, minimal markings. Edgewear to wrappers, zionist stamp, number penned on cover, tape repair to spine, Good Condition. Very important, a core Holocaust document. (YID-41-20A) xx
Stock number:40234.
$US 500.00
Imprint: Washington: U. S. Govt. Printing Office, 1946
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Paperback
1st edition. Original paper wrappers. 8vo. 47 pages, 23 cm. In English. From the refugee period, just following the end of World War II. “Statement by the President: I am very happy that the request I made for the immediate admission of 100,000 Jews into Palestine has been unanimously endorsed by the Anglo-American Committee of Inquiry. The transference of these unfortunate people should now be accomplished with greatest dispatch…. I am also please that the Committee recommends in effect the abrogation of the white paper of 1939, including existing restriction on immigration and land acquition to permit the further development of the Jewish national home…. ” Excerpts from the 79th Congress, 2d Session, 1946. “The Anglo-American Committee of Inquiry was a joint British and American committee assembled in Washington on 4 January 1946. The committee was tasked to examine political, economic and social conditions in Mandatory Palestine as they bear upon the problem of Jewish immigration and settlement therein and the well-being of the peoples now living therein; to consult representatives of Arabs and Jews, and to make other recommendations 'as may be necessary' to for ad interim handling of these problems as well as for their permanent solution” (Wikipedia, 2018) . SUBJECTS: Jewish-Arab relations -- History -- 1917-1948. Zionism. OCLC lists 26 copies worldwide (OCLC: 974264) . Pen number on front cover, light wear, Very good condition. (YID-41-19) xx
Stock number:40218.
$US 500.00
Imprint: Moskwa [Moscow]: Wydawnictwo Literatury W Jezykach Obcych [Foreign Language Literature Publishers], 1944.
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Paperback
1st edition. Original printed paper wrappers, 16mo, 47 pages. Stapled tan wrappers with brown and dark blue lettering on the covers. In Polish. Title translates as, "The Camp at Majdanek. " An extremely early Polish-language publication of Soviet novelist and journalist Boris Gorbatov’s report on the Majdanek Concentration Camp, and the atrocities committed there and in the area of Lublin, which were first published in Russian in the Soviet newspaper "Pravda" on August 11th and 12th of 1944, shortly after the liberation of the camp by Soviet forces in July. These writings constitute some of the earliest writing on the Holocaust in Eastern Europe. The writing describes the camp and the ongoings there in vivid detail, including interviews with local residents of Lublin. Following Gorbatov's report are two shorter pieces on the the camp, one by by Polish-Soviet Commission on Majdanek, and the other a statement by Hilmar Moser a German lieutenant general. Includes 8 photos of the camp, including images of the crematorium, human remains and victims’ shoes, as well as reproductions of Moser's written statement. OCLC lists only 2 copies worldwide, (FAU, Polish Union Catalog) . Tiny nick to one corner, otherwise Very Good Condition, an excellent copy. Rare and important (Holo2-139-18)
Stock number:39637.
$US 500.00
Imprint: New York, Arco Publishing Company, 1944
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardback
First edition. Original illustrated paper wrappers. 4to. 47 pages; 28 cm. Filled with illustrations and photographs of Nazi atrocities. Though other similar pictorals appears after the war, this appears to be the first of its kind issued before the end of the war. Divided into various articles with titles such as “Biological Warfare- Germany vs. Europe, ” “Nazi Slaughter Pens for Europe…, ” and “Yugoslavia: Land of Corpses…. ” Burnet Hershey “was a writer, known for Nutville (1935) , Rah, Rah, Radio (1935) and Hi De Ho (1937) ” (IMDB 2017) . Johannes Steel “is best known for his 1934 book The Second World War…. His book The Second World War predicted the war based on an assessment of Nazi intentions and historical parallels. Though the book had the war starting in 1935 rather than 1939 as it actually did, it became highly regarded after the start of the war, proving him essentially correct. Because of his prescience, he became widely followed, with a popular radio commentary in the U. S. During the war” (Wikipedia 2017) . “The poisonous ambitions Germany has injected into the minds of evil men will not disappear on V-Day, or any other day for many long years to come. The system Germany designed to crush all opposition can be easily adopted by any nation which is infected with the ancient lust to dominate the world. ” SUBJECT(S) : WWII, Nazis, Atrocities. OCLC lists 15 holdings worldwide. Spine repair, light wear to wrappers, Good condition. (HOLO2-134-51A)
Stock number:39024.
$US 500.00
Imprint: Praha (Prague) , Václav Petr, 1946
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardback
1st Edition. Original Boards with Original Illustrated Dust Jacket. 237 pages ; 22 cm. In Czech. Early post-Holocaust publication. Title translates into English as, “Sixth Spring. ” “Václav Jíru (1910-1980) was a Czech photographer and editor… In 1940 he was arrested by the Gestapo for membership in the resistance movement, and was sentenced to life imprisonment and jailed until the end of the war. In his book ‘The Sixth Spring, ’ he published his pictures taken shortly after the liberation, described his experience in prison and concentration camps. After the war he became a member of the Association of Czechoslovak Journalists and in 1948 a member of the Union of Czechoslovak Artists. He devoted himself to continue shooting photos, but also searched for new talented photographers…” (Wikipedia, 2017) SUBJECT(S) : Czech literature. OCLC lists 11 copies worldwide. Both book and dust jacket in very good condition. (holo2-135-38)
Stock number:38911.
$US 500.00
Imprint: Amsterdam, N. V. De Arbeiderspers, 1932
Binding: Paperback
Original pictorial wrappers, starting. 8vo. 76, 8 pages; 22 cm. In Dutch. Title translates to “Jews in Crisis! ” Illustrated with 8-page series of photomontages. Dutch journalist and resistance fighter Adrian Aloijsius Felix (Lex) Althoff (1904-43) displays his avante garde photographic style in this publication that sought to bring attention to the poverty of the Jews of Poland. The cropped and stylized images here depict Jewish genre scenes in creative compositions. Interestingly, a photograph of the Grand Rabbi of Munkacs, Chaim Elazar Spira (the Minchas Elazar) appears on the final page. SUBJECT(S) : Polish Jews, Poverty, Photographs. OCLC lists 14 holdings worldwide. A copy sold at auction for over USD 600 (with commissions) in 2015. Old tape stains on margin of title page. Some dampstaining. Minimal pencil markings that do not affect text. Library stamp. Very good condition. (SPEC-44-8)
Stock number:38464.
$US 500.00
Imprint: New York, American Jewish Conference., 1943
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Paperback
First edition. Original paper wrappers. 4to. About 8 pages each issue; 28 cm. Folded in half like a newspaper. Daily during the conference from 1943-1947. The American Jewish Conference “was an ad hoc organization that first met in Pittsburg in January 1943, and had its first official conference in August that year [these issues are from that conference]. The initial meeting included delegates from thirty-two national Jewish organizations. It was called to decide upon the role that the American Jewish community would play in representing Jewish demands after the war and helping to build Jewish Palestine. The result was the creation of the American Jewish Conference, which consisted of sixty-four Jewish groups, including American Jewish Committee; it constituted the most representative gathering of American Jews ever” (Wikipedia 2017) . Reflecting the concerns of this very middle-of-the-Holocaust period, articles cover the proceedings of the conference, as well as topics such as “Action Taken on Rescue and Postwar Status of Jews, ” Conference Adopts Palestine Resolution, ” and “Solemn Memorial Service Held for Martyred Jews. ” “During its five day assembly at the Hotel Waldorf-Astoria, New York, which began on Sunday afternoon, August 29, the Conference, composed of 502 elected representatives of the Jews of America, considered and recommended action ‘on problems relating to the rights and status of Jews in the postwar world’ as well as ‘upon all matters looking to the implementation of the rights of the Jewish people with respect to Palestine. ’ The latter took the form of a resolution demanding the fulfillment of the Balfour Declaration and of the Mandate for Palestine ‘whose intent and underlying purpose was to constitute Palestine as the Jewish Commonwealth. ’” SUBJECT(S) : Jews, Congresses, Palestine. Significant browning to pages, but solid, not fragile. Significant wear at paper fold that affects text. Minimal pencil markings that do not affect text. Good condition overall. (HOLO2-134-30)
Stock number:38415.
$US 500.00
Imprint: Shanghai : Va`ad Ha-Defusah Torah-Or, 1943-1945
Binding: Hardback
First Shanghai edition. Original boards. 8vo. Vol. Nashim-Kedushah is 256, 72, and 222 pages. Vol. Hafla’ah-Zeraim is 274 and 198 pages. Vol. Nezikin-Shoftim is 140, 128, 268, and 216 pages. Publication of this Mishneh Torah edition was made possible by a donation of Rabbi Zvi Efron, to whom a tribute is made. Published by the exiled Mir Yeshivah, one of the only yeshivas to survive as a whole body. In terms of the learning, yeshiva students say this was the most productive period ever, as they had nothing else to do other than sink into the study of the Rambam and the Talmud. This book of the Rambam was edited by the heads of the yeshiva during its years in the exile in Shanghai. SUBJECTS: Rambam – Holocaust – Displaced Persons. OCLC lists one copy at JTS. Very light wear to boards. Pages are browning. Text is very clean overall, but very lightly faded in some areas. Overall Very Good Condition. (RAB-60-22)
Stock number:38290.
$US 500.00
Imprint: Wien, H. Glanz, 1937
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Inscription: Signed, Inscribed Or Annotated
First edition. Original blue boards with gold font with beautiful original dust jacket. 8vo. 336 pages; 24 cm. Hitler-era publication, written in German with additional Hebrew title page. Includes a 9 word inscription written and signed by the author to Shalom Spiegel, renowned scholar and professor of Hebrew literature at JTS, in August 1937, just before the start of the war. Dr. Tulo Nussenblatt was a famous Zionist scholar and historian before WWII. During the war, Nussenblatt housed many people in his bunker in the Warsaw ghetto. He died in the uprising, still clutching his briefcase full of book materials about Theodor Herzl, about whom he wrote this book. A biography of Herzl divided into 4 sections with smaller divisions within each. Includes several black-and-white photographs of Herzl, his colleagues, and his possessions, as well as facsimiles of important letters, documents, and objects from his life. SUBJECT (S) : Theodor Herzl, Zionism. OCLC lists 21 copies worldwide. Library markings on spine of book, but not on dust jacket which is very clean. Slight toning. Fading on cover boards on spine and edges. Minimal pencil markings that do not affect text. Good condition in Very Good Jacket. A beautiful inscribed copy. (zion-12-39)
Stock number:37925.
$US 500.00
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Imprint: [Tel Aviv] : Lishkat Ha-Hadrakhah Ha-Merkazit Le-H. G. A., 1942
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Paperback
1st Edition. Original Illustrated Red Paper Wrappers Portraying an Anthropomorphized Bomb with a Swastika Symbol Destroying a Town. 8vo. 64 pages ; 16 cm. In Hebrew. Title translates into English as, “Armaments: Intended for Bomb Fire Viewers, and H. G. A. Service Members. ” Holocaust-era Manuel on bomb safety procedures. Illustrations throughout depicting proper procedure in crisis situations, as well as some technical sketches of various explosives. SUBJECT (S) : Civil Defense. Very scarce and of historical importance. OCLC lists no physical copies worldwide. Ex-library with Institutional Stamp. Some wear but overall good+ condition. (Holo2-131-29)
Stock number:37284.
$US 500.00
Imprint: Würzburg : Stahl, 1879
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardback
1st Edition. Original Paper Wrappers inside new boards and protective plastic. 8vo. 63 pages ; 22 cm. In German. Title translates into English as, “The Tenets of Neugermanischen Judeophobia with Special Reference to W. [Wilhelm] Marr’s Writings Historically and Factually Lit by Ludwig Stern. ” Stern was a German Talmudic scholar, teacher, author, and contemporary of Wilhelm Marr, who published this work in the same year as Marr’s infamous pamphlet, Der Weg zum Siege des Germanenthums über das Judenthum (The Way to Victory of Germanicism over Judaism, 1879) . Wilhelm Marr (1819-1904) , a radical agitator, had been on the left wing in the 48 revolutions; he later popularized the term anti-semitism. In ‘Der Weg zum Siege des Germanenthums über das Judenthum, ’ he introduced the idea that Germans and Jews were locked in a longstanding conflict, the origins of which he attributed to race, argued that Jewish emancipation resulting from German liberalism had allowed the Jews to control German finance and industry, and called for the expulsion of Jews from Germany. Marr later renounced anti-semitism at the end of his life, and declared himself as originally a 'philo-semite', undoubtedly under the impact of the debates in the SPD. This work was published in the same year as The Way to Victory of Germanicism over Judaism. OCLC lists 18 copies worldwide, and none outside of Europe. Water-damage throughout but text is very readable. Ex-Library with Jewish Institutional Stamp and Usual markings. A few tears to paper wrappers. Good condition. Important. (holo2-131-26)
Stock number:37282.
$US 500.00
Imprint: [Paris]: [Consistoire Central Israélite De Paris], 1946
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Paperback
1st Edition. Original Paper Wrappers. 8vo. 87 pages ; 21 cm. In French. Title translates into English as, “The Parisian Community After Liberation. ” A Directory of Jewish life in Paris published two years after the Liberation of Paris. Contains listings for The Rabbinate, Temple Administrators, Religious Schools, Cultural Associations, Other Associations of General Interest, Social Workers, Fraternal Organizations, Pro-Palestine Organizations, and Youth Movments. Also contains introductory remarks by Chief Rabbi of Paris Julien Weill, and the president of the Consistoire de Paris, Georges Wormser. Wormser served as head of the cabinet for French prime minister and Dreyfusard Georges Clemenceau. OCLC lists just 6 copies worldwide. Water damage throughout. About good condition. (holo2-131-12)
Stock number:37270.
$US 500.00
Imprint: Munich; Ukrainian Publishing Association, 1946
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Paperback
Original Wrappers. 8vo. 163 pages. 21 cm. Illustrated. First edition. In Ukrainian. Line drawing illustrations depicting prisoners, and camp labor. Written by Daniel Tchaikovsky, under the pseudonym O. Danskyi. Tchaikovsky was a journalist, member of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists, and supporter of OUN leader Stepan Bandera. He was imprisoned in Auschwitz from 1942 until the camp was liberated in 1945. (Wikipedia) This account of Auschwitz is the first survivor's account to be published in Ukrainian, and is one of the earliest accounts of the horrors Nazi concentration camps. (Preface to the second edition) Subjects: Concentration camps -- Germany. Auschwitz. Some age toning and edgewear. Repair to spine. Missing page 161. Otherwise fine. (UKR-1-45A)
Stock number:37202.
$US 500.00
Imprint: Tlemcen, 1939
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Paperback
Inscription: Signed, Inscribed Or Annotated
1st Edition. Original Red Paper Wrappers with silhouette of Lion on the front. 8vo. 16 pages ; 22cm. In French. Title translates into English as, “Rabbi Ephraim Elncaoua (The Rabbi of Tlemcen) 1360-1442.” Scarce Holocaust-era publication about Rabbi Ephraim ben Israel Alnaqua (1360-1442) here published in Tlemcen itself. Alnaqua was “a physician, rabbi, theological writer, and founder of the Jewish community at Tlemçen, North Africa… According to a legend, Alnaqua escaped from the Spanish Inquisition, which had martyred his father and mother at the stake, and came to Maghreb mounted on a lion, using a serpent as a halter. Azulai (refered) to him as a miracle-worker. Alnaqua succeeded, after all other physicians had failed, in curing the only daughter of a king of the Zayyanid dynasty. Refusing the reward of gold and silver offered him by the king, he begged only that the Jews living near Tlemçen might be united in it. In this way the community was formed. Alnaqua's first care was to establish a large synagogue: this is still in existence (as of 1906) , and bears his name. Above the rabbi's chair, on which the verse Jer. Xvii.12 is engraved, a lamp burns perpetually. Alnaqua's grave, surrounded by those of his family, is in the old cemetery: it is sacred to North African Jews, and (as of 1906) is frequently visited by pilgrims from all Algeria…” (Wikipedia, 2016) No holdings worldwide on OCLC. Inscribed by the author on inside page. Ex-library with usual markings. Creased in center. Rare, important, and even inscribed. Good+ condition. (HOLO2-130-29)
Stock number:37030.
$US 500.00
Imprint: Leipzig : Gustav Horner,, 1879
Binding: Hardback
Period boards. 8vo, 41 pages. In German. SUBJECT (S) : Jews -- Germany. Named Person: Marr, Wilhelm, b. 1819. OCLC lists 5 copies (Cornell, Univ. Chicago, Bayerische Staatsbibliotek - Germany, Nat. Library of Israel. SUBJECT(S) : Antisemitism -- Germany. Germany -- Ethnic relations. Ex-library with usual markings. Good condition. (BIB-18-4A)
Stock number:36385.
$US 500.00
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Imprint: For The Refugee Children's Evacuation Fund, London, 1943
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Paperback
1st edition. Original illustrated paper wrappers, 8vo, 24 pages. Loaded with Photographic illustrations of refugee children’s artwork, including children who came to England on the Kindertransport from Germany. Consists of 20 reproductions of paintings and drawings by children in the exhibition "The war as seen by children, " a foreword by J. G. Siebert, outlining the history of the exhibition, and a speech by Austrian-emigre artist Oskar Kokoschka at its opening, January 4, 1943, in the Cooling galleries, New Bond street, a fund-raiser for the German refugee school at Theydon Bois. Variant title: “Our Children To-day and To-morrow. No. 1.” SUBJECT (S) : Child artists. Art -- Exhibitions. World War, 1939-1945 -- Pictorial works. World War, 1939-1945 -- Children. Exhibition catalogs. A similar copy sold at auction in 2015 for over USD 650. Light Wear, Very Good Condition. (Holo2-126-16) xx
Stock number:36116.
$US 500.00
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Imprint: Praha : Svaz Osvobozených Politických Veznu,, 1946
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Paperback
1st edition. Original Red Paper Wrappers, 8vo, 31 pages. In Czech. “Preklad z moskevské ‘Pravdy’…. Prelozeno z rustiny. ” Title translates as “Auschwitz: The Grave of Four Million Innocents. ” Published by the Association of Liberated Political Prisoners, Survivors and Victims of Nazism. This is a Soviet-zone, Czech-published translation of the Soviet Investigation into War Crimes which was originally published in Pravda. As such, it reflects the Soviet view which emphasized Soviet rather than Jewish suffering at the hands of the Nazis…. This may be a reason so few copies of this pamphlet survived in Czechsoslovakia. OCLC-Worldcat lists only one copy worldwide (Czech State Research Library in Olomouc) . Underlining on a few pages, touch of spinewear, Otherwise Very Good Condition, a striking copy. (holo2-125-45)
Stock number:36073.
$US 500.00
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Imprint: New York; American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, 1945
Edition: First Edition
Binding: LooseLeaf
Bound material. 4to. [4], 111 pages. 30 cm. First edition. Primer produced by the research department, containing descriptions and statistical information on JDC programs and countries of operation up to 1945. With a history of the JDC, phases of emergency relief, rehabilitation and reconstruction programs, 'Fight against Extermination' [pgs. 92-111]. Subjects: Jewish refugees - History - 20th century. World War, 1939-1945 - Jews - Rescue. Jewish refugees. American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee - History. American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee. Jews - Rescue. World War (1939-1945) . Jews - Europe - Economic conditions. Jews - Economic conditions. OCLC lists 4 copies (USHMM, Harvard, Brandeis, HUC) , none in New York. Lightly aged; clean and fresh. Very good condition. (HOLO2-123-40)
Stock number:35465.
$US 500.00
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Imprint: London; Narod Press, 1940
Binding: Pamphlet
Original Wraps. 8vo. 19 pages. 24 cm. Early (1940) report on the massacre of the Jews of Poland; Second Impression. “First published: May 1940. Second Impression: September 1940.” Variant, second impression, with name of publisher on rear wrap, and added preface (mentions the capitulation of France in the war) and date of impression on verso of front wrap. Memorandum submitted to the 39th Annual Conference of the Labour Party at Bournemouth by the Jewish Socialist Labour Party (Poale Zone) of Great Britain. Memorandum on Nazi persecution of Jews in the first months of the war and the need for immediate settlement in Palestine: “The second world war has revealed the unparalleled tragedy of the Jewish people. … The sufferings and humiliation of the Jews under Nazi rule have no counterpart even in the cruelty and crime deliberately practised against other inhabitants of the vanquished states. Robbery of the last means of subsistence, starvation, physical ill-treatment, seclusion in overcrowded ghettoes, suppression of all cultural life, concentration camps, slave labour, massacre, and the Lublin reserve destined to become the grave of its compulsory inhabitants – this is the lot of Jewry under Nazi rule. ” - pg 3. Subjects: World War, 1939-1945 - Jews - Congresses. Jews - Colonization – Palestine - Congresses. Jews - Palestine - Congresses. Jews. Jews - Colonization. World War (1939-1945) Conference proceedings. Middle East - Palestine. OCLC lists 12 copies. Light wear to wraps, very clean and fresh. Very good condition. (HOLO2-123-6)
Stock number:35431.
$US 500.00
Imprint: New York, The World Jewish Congress;, 1943
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Paperback
40 p. , paper; first edition, published September 1943. Paperback, 40 pages, 8vo. Published the same year as the uprising, one of the first reports published in the US. Important. What may be the first ever published map of Treblinka, as well as a map of the Warsaw Ghetto on the rear cover. "The ghosts of the heroes of the gehtto battle will forever honor the streets....But persistent reports in the press in spring and summer 1943 indicate that not only their spirit but also their successors survive and carry on the fight there. The curtain may not yet have been rung down" (conclusion). Includes fold-out map with tear at crease. Lacks rear cover, front cover trimmed, stamped, and repaired, spine rebacked, otherwise Good condition. (Holo2-14-11A), ok 2020/4
Stock number:34788.
$US 500.00
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Imprint: New York, Commission On Community Interrelations Of The American Jewish Congress., 1945-46
Binding: Pamphlet
Staple bound leaves. 4to. 28 cm. Various pagination. Single-sided mimeographed pages. 15 Holocaust & early post-war reports . Starting with research and community engagement projects in Coney Island, Baltimore and Kingston, NY and later expanding to Boston and Chicago, Baltimore, New Mexico and Gary , Indiana. Describing incidents and responses to inter-community hostility, issues of race relations and response to anti-Semitic crimes and organizing. First issue contains privacy notice: “Not for Publication. This first set of informal reports on the progress of CCI projects has been prepared primarily for the confidential use of a limited number of readers closely related to the activities of the Commission. It is being distributed to the CCI’s National Advisory Board and Advisory Councils on Research and Operations, to Executive Committees of the Commission and the American Jewish Congress, to technical consultants and the staff of the Commission, and to active collaborators on the projects. ” SUBJECT (S) : Antisemitism -- Periodicals. Antisemitism. OCLC lists 3 sets worldwide [U of Illinois (nrs 7-11 only) , HUC, UTexas], none outside the American Midwest. Some issues have shelf wear and toning consistent with age. Some tears and chipping damage to top left corners of No. 11 – 15. Small chip in top left corner affecting the text on page 6 of No. 13. Light library markings. All issues clean and fresh. Very good condition. (AJCong-27-28)
Stock number:34648.
$US 500.00
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Imprint: Wien; Israelitische Kultusgemeinde, 1939
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardback
Original Wraps. 8vo. 36, [31] pages. 23 cm. First edition. In German. 'The Reallocation Campaign of the Emigration Department in the first year of existence'. Profusely illustrated (32 pages of plates at rear) report from the Jewish Community of Vienna concerning its work and skills training program, to assist the Jews of Vienna in emigration. One of the last publications of the Israelitische Kultusgemeinde during the holocaust period. Subjects: Jews - Austria - Vienna - History. Vocational education - Austria - AustriaIsraelitische Kultusgemeinde Wien. OCLC lists 6 copies (JTSA, Natl Libr Israel, Biblio Amsterdam, Tel Aviv, Univ Haifa, LBI) . Light wear to wraps, very clean and fresh. Very good condition. (HOLO2-115-11) xx
Stock number:34034.
$US 500.00
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Imprint: Wien, Herzfeld & Bauer, 1869
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Original boards. 8vo. VI, 332 pages. 25 cm. First edition. Contains bookstamp of Rabbi Davin Schoenberger of Aachen (who served as chief rabbi of Aachen, Germany, from 1926 to 1938; he performed the marriage of Anne Frank's parents, as reported in his obituary in the New York Times, December 10, 1989) . In German, some Hebrew throughout. “Studies in Jewish and Jewish-Arabic Religious Philosophy. ' Extensive study of medieval Jewish religious philosophy; focuses on theological discussions, Aristotelianism, Maimonides, etc. Adolf Abraham Schmiedl (1821–1914) , “Austrian rabbi and scholar. Born at Prossnitz (Prostejov) , Moravia, Schmiedl served as rabbi in Gewitsch, Moravia (1846–49) ; then as Landesrabbiner at Teschen, Silesia (to 1852) and later at Bielitz (Bielsko) , Prosnitz, and Vienna. ” - 2008 EJ. Bound in original marbled boards. Subjects: Jewish philosophy. Philosophy, Medieval. Backstrip absent, light foxing throughout, corners of boards lightly bumped, otherwise fresh and clean. Very good condition. (GER-44-35)
Stock number:33770.
$US 500.00
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Imprint: Munich; Ukrainian Publishing Association, 1946
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Paperback
Original Wrappers. 8vo. 163 pages. 21 cm. Illustrated. First edition. In Ukrainian. Line drawing illustrations depicting prisoners, and camp labor. Written by Daniel Tchaikovsky, under the pseudonym O. Danskyi. Tchaikovsky was a journalist, member of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists, and supporter of OUN leader Stepan Bandera. He was imprisoned in Auschwitz from 1942 until the camp was liberated in 1945. (Wikipedia) This account of Auschwitz is the first survivor's account to be published in Ukrainian, and is one of the earliest accounts of the horrors Nazi concentration camps. (Preface to the second edition) Subjects: Concentration camps -- Germany. Auschwitz. Previous owners markings on title and half title pages. Previous institutional markings on cover. Some age toning and edgewear. Back strip has tears and previous repair with non-archival tape. Light staining internally along top edge, not affecting text. Good condition. (UKR-1-45)
Stock number:33714.
$US 500.00
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Imprint: New York; American ORT Federation, 1941
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardback
Original Wraps. 4to. 11 pages. 28 cm. First edition. Typewritten copy. Detailed report on the re-establishment of vocational training courses in ORT facilities in Warsaw, discontinued during the siege of Warsaw (as the Ort Building on Dluga street was destroyed) , with no classes functioning during the 1939-40 school year, but renewed, with saved equipment and machinery moved to ORT Quarters at Zabia and Stawski. The renewed courses, until May 1941, consisted of 2, 500 pupils; the enlargement of courses offered, the programs, results, conditions for development, plans for new courses, statistics of the artisan courses, office work courses, agricultural courses, and housekeeping courses are given in detail. A section entitled Cooperation with ORT, concerning relations with the Jewish Council, and the self-financing of ORT towards its courses was negotiated. Subjects: Jews - Poland - Warsaw. Vocational education - Poland - Warsaw. World ORT Union - Reports. OCLC lists one copy (NYPL) . Light wear to edges, otherwise fresh. Good + condition. (HOLO2-113-27)
Stock number:33134.
$US 500.00
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Imprint: Zagreb; Dom & Svijet, 1997
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardback
Softbound. 8vo. 252 pages. 24 cm. First English edition. Translated from Croatian into English by Lidija Simunic Mesic. Original title: Gubitci stanovistva Jugoslavije 1941-1945. Written by Vladimir Žerjavic (1912 – 2001) a Croatian economist and a United Nations consultant; this volume is a survey of the demographic shifts and accompanying population losses during the second world war in Yugoslavia, the author arrives at a figure of one million deaths, rather then the 1.7 million presented by Tito to the United Nations in the late 1940’s. A controversial work. Subjects: World War, 1939-1945 - Casualties - Yugoslavia. World War, 1939-1945 - Casualties - Yugoslavia - Statistics. Kriegsopfer Geschichte 1941-1945. Yugoslavia - Population - History. OCLC lists 25 copies. Light shelf wear to wraps, otherwise fine. Great condition. (HOLO2-104-38)
Stock number:31633.
$US 500.00
Imprint: Ersualem : Ha-Madpis Ha-Memshalti, 1953
Binding: Paperback
(FT) Original illustrated paper wrappers, large 8vo. , 200 pages. Illustrated with photographs, maps and art. Bold cover art of a Jewish resistance fighter. “The Holocaust and Resistance” In Hebrew. Early Holocaust photo book issued by the Israeli government. SUBJECT(S) Descriptor: Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Edgewear and tear to cover, corner missing on back cover. Pages tanning. Good condition. Seldom offered for sale. Important (YID- 14-5)
Stock number:29005.
$US 500.00
Imprint: No Place Listed: Non-Sectarian Anti-Nazi League, N.D.
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Paperback
No Date (1933? ) . 1st edition. Folded 1 leaf pamphlet. Unfolded 11x17 inches. Red and blue color, 12 photographs and illustrations in blue ink. “The Non-Sectarian Anti-Nazi League to Champion Human Rights has opposed Nazism since 1933 when it began the boycott of German goods and services in America. By means of the boycott it is stopping millions of American dollars from going to Germany to be utilized for Nazi world-propaganda, to be converted into armaments for world war. By means of its educational campaign the League is arousing enlightened men and women to the need of defending our ideals. And (sic) institutions of our democratic government. These efforts to destroy Nazism in the United States also serve to aid the German people in their struggle for liberation. ” There is a section, “Warnings vs. Nazism, ” which has quotes from President Roosevelt, Pope Pius XI, Sir Walter M. Citrine, The Nation, George II. Earle, William E. Borah, Fiorello H. LaGuardia, George W. Norris, George Cardinal Mundelein, Dorothy Thompson, and Dr. Paul Hutchinson about the dangers of Nazism. There is also a quote from Franklin D. Roosevelt under the title “The Threat to Peace, ” in which he says “There can be no peace if humble men and women are not free to think their own thoughts, to express their own feelings, to worship God. ” Very rare, no copies listed on OCLC. Very Good Condition. (HOLO2-144-24)
Stock number:40740.
$US 475.00
Imprint: Germanyah; Defus Shemu'el Friedman, [1947]
Binding: Hardback
Original Wraps. 12mo. 116 pages. 20 cm. She'erit Hapleita (surviving remnant) edition of a hagadah first published in Vilna by Rom, in 1891 or 1892. In Hebrew. Photostat reprint of Haggadah commentary Migdal Eder compiled by Rabbi Israel David Miller, published in Germany for a Displaced Persons readership. Haggadah with 115 commentaries, from Maimonides, Rashi; many Hasidic commentaries, including one from the Ba'al ha-Tanya, founder of Habad, Dubno Maggid, Gaon of Vilna, and many others. Verso dedication from Friedman to those martyred in the holocaust. Subjects: Displaced Persons – 1947 – Germany - Haggadah. Haggadah. Migdal ? Eder; Hemdat Yisra'el. Haggadot - Texts. Seder - Liturgy - Texts. Judaism - Liturgy - Texts. Haggadah -- Commentaries. Haggadah - Commentaries, Collections. No library holdings on OCLC.. Scarce. Wraps are browning and slightly soiled. Spine repair. Pages are browning. Overall Good Condition. (HAG-14-12A)
Stock number:38479.
$US 475.00
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Imprint: Moscow; Academy Nauk USSR, 1941
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Paperback
Original Wrappers. 8vo. 16 pages. 23 cm. First Edition. In Russian. Title translates as “Fascist Antisemitism – A Relic of Cannibalism”. On Antisemitism in Germany. “In 1935, V. V. Struve was elected a full member of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR, later became a member of the Bureau of the Division of Historical Sciences USSR. He was also a member of the National Committee of Historians of the Soviet Union and a member of the Archaeological Commission USSR. He was awarded the title of Honored Scientist of the USSR. Throughout the years V. V. Struve headed the Egyptian Department of the State Hermitage, was the director of the Institute of Ethnography and the Institute of Oriental Studies. ” (orientalstudies. Ru) Subjects: Antisemitism - Germany. National socialism. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Antisemitism. Ethnic relations. OCLC lists 4 copies worldwide. (Stanford, Libr. Of Congress, Univ. Of Toronto, Univ. Of Leeds) , none in New York. Spine repair. Some soiling, and age toning and edge wear. Good + condition. (HOLO-115-19)
Stock number:34035.
$US 475.00
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Imprint: New York; World Federation Of Hungarian Jews, 1968
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardback
1st edition. Original calf. 4to. X, 197, XXXI pages. 22 x 30 cm. In English, Hebrew, and Hungarian. Edited by Randolph L. Braham with the collaboration of Ervin Farkas. Braham’s own copy, specially bound (in black leather and gilt title) and dedicated to Randolph L. Braham from the World Federation of Hungarian Jews (with dedication plate on endpage) . Profusely illustrated album of black and white photographs of Hungarian synagogues. "This album includes 467 photographs and drawings. The compilers succeeded in obtaining illustrations of most of the destroyed or converted synagogues. … We hope this work will serve as an everlasting memorial to a significant element of Hungarian-Jewish culture and as a tribute to the thousands of martyrs who left from these very synagogues on their last fateful journey to destruction. ” (From the preface) . Subjects: Synagogues - Hungary. Edificios Religiosos (Arquitetura) Synagogues. Hungary. Light shelf wear to leather, overall very fresh and clean. Very good + condition. (BRAHAM-1-43)
Stock number:33988.
$US 475.00
Imprint: Washington, DC, 1942
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Paperback
1st Edition. Original Illustrated Wrappers. 8vo. 3 pages ; 23 cm. Holocaust-era Invitation Program for President Roosevelt’s 60th Birthday, held by The Religious Freedom Foundation asking Synagogues to arrange a service “Commemorating… our great President and the ninth consecutive year of the fight he has led against Infantile Paralysis in our nation. ” Includes a list of the ceremonies arrangement committee which is made up of about 100 notable Jewish leaders. Published 13 years before Salk’s vaccine. “On January 3, 1938, Roosevelt founded the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis, now known as the March of Dimes… The organization initially focused on the rehabilitation of victims of paralytic polio, and supported the work of Jonas Salk and others that led to the development of polio vaccines. ” (Wikipedia, 2017) This memorial program was Chaired by Congressman Sol Bloom, the influential Jewish Congressman from New York. “In the run-up to World War II, he took charge of high-priority foreign-policy legislation for the Roosevelt Administration, including authorization for Lend Lease in 1941.” (Wikipedia, 2017) . Though FDR was open about his Polio, he also tried to downplay it; this is an unusually public connection of FDR and Polio: “FDR requested that the press avoid photographing him walking, maneuvering, or being transferred from his car. The stipulation was accepted by most reporters and photographers but periodically someone would not comply. The Secret Service was assigned to purposely interfere with anyone who tried to snap a photo of FDR in a ‘disabled or weak’ state” (FDR Presidential Library, 2017) . OCLC lists no copies anywhere. Creased and worn, with a few small tears and some discoloration. Good condition. Very Rare and significant publication linking FDR, Polio, American Political Leadership, and American Jewish Life. (AMR-52-26)
Stock number:38972.
$US 450.00
Imprint: West Point, N. Y. : United States Military Academy,, 1976
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Paperback
1st Edition. Original Paper Wrappers. 8vo. 8 pages ; 23 cm. In English. From the 3rd Annual Sol Feinstone Memorial Lecture series at West Point. This lecture given by Pulitzer Prize winning novelist and writer Herman Wouk. Wouk served in the Navy in the Pacific Theater of WWII. He addresses the west point graduates about The Meaning of Freedom, concluding, “In the last five years, working on ‘The Winds of War…’ I’ve spoken three times: to the Naval Academy, to the Naval War caollege, and now to the United States Military Academy. It isn’t because I’m a militarist. I’m not intrigued… by the romance of war. Let me make this plain to you. In my view war is a massive criminal absurdity… I believe, heart and soul, that in days to come it will fade from the minds of men and nations as a possible way to behave. That is what I’m trying to say in my books. ” OCLC lists only one copy worldwide (Westpoint) . This cannot have been well-received at West Point, and certainly would not have been a speech it would have wanted to promote or make readily available outside the academy. Ex-library with Jewish institutional stamp and usual markings. Some markings on cover and waterdamage to the top of the paper wrappers and first page. Text is not effected and is bright and clean. Overall in about very good condition. (SPEC-42-20A)
Stock number:37139.
$US 450.00
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Imprint: The Womens Press, New York, 1940
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Paperback
1st edition. Original photographic paper wrappers, 8vo, 24 pages. Issued by the National Industrial Assembly of the Young Women's Christian Association. From just prior to US entry into the war. Emphasizes that the incoming refugees fleeing Nazism are not a threat to American labor, nor might they represent a "Fifth Column. ” A copy sold at auction for over USD 550 (including commissions) at auction in 2015. Original price penned on margin of cover, light wear, Very Good Condition. (holo2-128-4A)
Stock number:36550.
$US 450.00
Imprint: The Womens Press, New York, 1940
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Paperback
1st edition. Original photographic paper wrappers, 8vo, 24 pages. Issued by the National Industrial Assembly of the Young Women's Christian Association. From just prior to US entry into the war. Emphasizes that the incoming refugees fleeing Nazism are not a threat to American labor, nor might they represent a "Fifth Column. ” A copy sold at auction for over USD 550 (including commissions) at auction in 2015. Very Good Condition. (holo2-128-4) xx
Stock number:36458.
$US 450.00
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Imprint: Mannheim, W. Burger, 1946
Binding: Hardcover
Original illustrated paper boards. 12mo. 194 pages. 18 cm. In German. ‘1000 Days in a Concentration Camp; A First Hand Report from the Concentration Camps Dachau, Mauthausen and Gusen; with authentic photographs and documents. ’ Illustrated with 16 black and white photographs. “We go past the Jewish blocks. Their ranks have thinned. Many little snow-covered heaps, from which human arms stretch in rigid accusation, testify to a tragedy of which we are the witnesses. ” (Gostner; quotation translated [pg 159] in “Narrating the Holocaust” by Andrea Ilse Maria Reite) . Erwin Gostner (1914-1990) , from South Tyrol, was arrested as a catholic anti-nazi when Austria was annexed to Nazi Germany, and spent three years, from 1938 to 1941, in Dachau and Mauthausen; he survived the war, and worked as a detective for the remainder of his life; this being his only work, it was originally self-published in 1945, and printed in a larger number in 1946. Subjects: Concentration camps - Germany. Dachau - Konzentrationslager Mauthausen (Oberösterreich) - Konzentrationslager Gusen (Langenstein, Oberösterreich) – Konzentrationslager. World War, 1939-1945 - Prisoners and prisons, German. World War, 1939-1945 - Personal narratives. OCLC lists 22 copies. The US Holocaust Museum keeps their copy in their Rare Book Collection. Light soiling to boards, internally lightly aged, otherwise fresh and clean. Very good condition. (HOLO2-104-23A), Augusta Antiquariat 1/13
Stock number:34340.
$US 450.00
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Imprint: Mannheim, W. Burger, 1946
Binding: Hardcover
Original illustrated paper boards. 12mo. 194 pages. 18 cm. In German. ‘1000 Days in a Concentration Camp; A First Hand Report from the Concentration Camps Dachau, Mauthausen and Gusen; with authentic photographs and documents. ’ Illustrated with 16 black and white photographs. “We go past the Jewish blocks. Their ranks have thinned. Many little snow-covered heaps, from which human arms stretch in rigid accusation, testify to a tragedy of which we are the witnesses. ” (Gostner; quotation translated [pg 159] in “Narrating the Holocaust” by Andrea Ilse Maria Reite) . Erwin Gostner (1914-1990) , from South Tyrol, was arrested as a catholic anti-nazi when Austria was annexed to Nazi Germany, and spent three years, from 1938 to 1941, in Dachau and Mauthausen; he survived the war, and worked as a detective for the remainder of his life; this being his only work, it was originally self-published in 1945, and printed in a larger number in 1946. Subjects: Concentration camps - Germany. Dachau - Konzentrationslager Mauthausen (Oberösterreich) - Konzentrationslager Gusen (Langenstein, Oberösterreich) – Konzentrationslager. World War, 1939-1945 - Prisoners and prisons, German. World War, 1939-1945 - Personal narratives. OCLC lists 22 copies. The US Holocaust Museum keeps their copy in their Rare Book Collection. Light soiling to boards, internally lightly aged, otherwise fresh and clean. Very good condition. (HOLO2-104-23) Xx, Augusta Antiquariat 1/13
Stock number:31618.
$US 450.00
Imprint: London, The Netherland Publishing Company Ltd., 1945?
Binding: Hardcover
Cloth. 4to. 856 pages. In Dutch. Exile Dutch newspaper. A collection of bound original issues dating from July 1944 – January 1945, including the critical time leading up to liberation of German occupation. Vrij Nederland (Free Netherlands) was established during the German occupation of the Netherlands in World War II as an free, weekly underground newspaper. Cover is slightly worn with some bumping at corners. Internal pages are darkened at edges, but all text is clear and binding is tight. Very good condition. (HOLO2-41-29), OK 06/12
Stock number:26684.
$US 450.00
Imprint: New York, Friends Of Democracy, 1945
Binding: Paperback
Paper Wrappers. 4to. Each issue is 4 pages. 20 issues. Issues 2 and 8 have supplemental sheet laid in, as well. Holocaust-era American Anti-Fascist periodical commonly touching on racist and anti-Semitic topics. Contents Include: “‘Anti’ Propaganda, ” “Rand Leads Anti-Semites, ” “A Report on Carl Mote, ” “Commoner Party to Fight Negroes, Jews, ” “Ku Kluxers Active, ” “Anglo-Israel Convenes, ” “Anti-Semitism Keynotes Annual Kingdom Convention, ” “Hate Sheet Invades New York City, ” “Anti-Semitism Promoted, ” “A Report on J. A. Lovell, ” “Hatriots Canonize Patton, Call Him Anti-Semitic, ” “A Report on the German-American Press, ” “A Report on Anti-Semitism in the N. Y. News. ” OCLC lists 15 copies worldwide. Issues 18 and 19 are darkened and fragile with some chipping. Most issues have checkmarks next to headlines, but all text is clear. Good condition. Important anti-Nazi periodical from US. (HOLO2-41-26), OK 06/12
Stock number:26681.
$US 450.00
Imprint: The Hague/'s-gravenhage, Nederlandsche Roode Kruis, 1947-1948
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Wrappers
8vo; 1st edition. Original printed paper wrappers, 20, 52 pages. 1st 2 serially issued volumes of the detailed Dutch Red Cross report on deportation of Dutch Jews to Auschwitz via Westerbork; special attention to when & what train. Wiener Library (Wolff) I: 1659. Many Graphs. Includes errata Slip. An important and rare early document. Very light wear, pages starting to brown, Very Good Condition (Holo2-141-40)
Stock number:40858.
$US 425.00
Imprint: No Place [Allentown]: No Publisher [Congregation Keneseth Israel], 1945
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Paperback
1st edition, original paper wrappers. 8vo, 8 pages. A sermon preached on New Year’s Morning, Saturday, September 8th, 1945 before Congregation Keneseth Israel of Allentown, Pennsylvania by Rabbi Braunstein, Ph. D. “This sermon was preached before the release on Sept. 30, 1945 of Earl G. Harrison’s Report to President Truman on the conditions of refugees and displaced persons in western Europe, and of the subsequent interchange of correspondence between the President and General Eisenhower. All of these strengthen and confirm the point-of-view expressed in this sermon. ” (page 8) Braunstein doesn’t think that the Jews who fled should have to go back to their former homes. He says, “The Intergovernmental Committee on Refugees, of which our Government is a member, recently declared that the Jewish ‘D. P. ’ will be given the opportunity to learn ‘more about conditions in his country and give the governments more time to satisfy their nationals that they can return to their countries with the prospect of leading a healthy, normal life before reaching the conclusion that the person must be treated permanently as non-repatriable. ’ These are elegant words to conceal the real decision of the Intergovernmental Committee on Refugees. That decision is this: ‘Let the Jews cool off their heels in the German concentration camps until they realize they must return to their former homes’. The simplest truth is that these Jews are afraid to return to their former homes. They who have cheated death for so many years at the hands of the Germans do not want to die at the hands of the Germans, do not want to die at the hands of their former co-citizens. And if their experiences in Poland and in Slovakia and elsewhere are any indication of how the wind is blowing, they have a right to fear. They have a right to refuse to return to their former homes. I have been wondering whether the late President Roosevelt’s promise of a world in which there would be freedom from fear will ever have meaning to the displaced Jews of Europe. ” (page 6) Subjects: Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) . OCLC: 992671406, OCLC lists two copies worldwide ( Harvard, NLI) . Slight wear to rear cover, Very Good Condition Overall. Rare and important (HOLO2-144-16)
Stock number:40732.
$US 425.00
Imprint: Passaic, N. J. : Arbayter Ring, 1950
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
1st edition. Original boards. 8vo. Most issues 16 pages, one 48 and one 24 [184 pages total], 27 cm. In Yiddish. Includes photos, especially in the extra large 50th anniversary issue. A complete DP-era year run of Fraynd, founded in 1910, printed monthly, then, more or less, bimonthly. “Formed in 1900 by Yiddish-speaking Jewish immigrants from Eastern Europe, The Workmen's Circle at first acted as a mutual aid society, helping its members to adapt to their new life in America. It provided life insurance, unemployment relief, healthcare, social interaction, burial assistance and general education through its branches throughout the US as well as through its national office. Soon, the organization was joined by more politically focused socialist Bundists who advocated the anti-assimilationist idea of Yiddish cultural autonomy, led by education in Yiddish and socialist ideals. The Circle formed the Folksbiene Yiddish theatre troupe and promoted Jewish arts and music, Yiddish school programs for children and Yiddish summer camps. It became influential in the American labor movement and grew to serve more than 84, 000 members through hundreds of branches around North America. It also became involved with the Yiddish newspaper The Forward and operated old-age homes, medical clinics and other services. Politically, the Circle moved away from socialism towards liberalism by the time of the New Deal” (Wikipedia, 2018) . SUBJECTS: Jews -- United States -- Periodicals. Fraternal organizations -- United States -- Periodicals.OCLC: 18490414. OCLC lists 18 holdings, but most are for partial runs starting. Bookplate. Dampstains throughout, but no real damage, pages remain clear and not stuck or damaged. Printed on heavy glossy paper which remains bright white. Good Condition. (YID-43-43)
Stock number:42215.
$US 400.00
Imprint: Passaic, N. J. : Arbayter Ring, 1951
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
1st edition. Original boards. 8vo. One issue 20 pages, the others 16 pages each [148 pages total], 27 cm. In Yiddish. Includes photos. A complete DP-era year run of Fraynd, founded in 1910, printed monthly, then, more or less, bimonthly. “Formed in 1900 by Yiddish-speaking Jewish immigrants from Eastern Europe, The Workmen's Circle at first acted as a mutual aid society, helping its members to adapt to their new life in America. It provided life insurance, unemployment relief, healthcare, social interaction, burial assistance and general education through its branches throughout the US as well as through its national office. Soon, the organization was joined by more politically focused socialist Bundists who advocated the anti-assimilationist idea of Yiddish cultural autonomy, led by education in Yiddish and socialist ideals. The Circle formed the Folksbiene Yiddish theatre troupe and promoted Jewish arts and music, Yiddish school programs for children and Yiddish summer camps. It became influential in the American labor movement and grew to serve more than 84, 000 members through hundreds of branches around North America. It also became involved with the Yiddish newspaper The Forward and operated old-age homes, medical clinics and other services. Politically, the Circle moved away from socialism towards liberalism by the time of the New Deal” (Wikipedia, 2018) . SUBJECTS: Jews -- United States -- Periodicals. Fraternal organizations -- United States -- Periodicals.OCLC: 18490414. OCLC lists 18 holdings, but most are for partial runs starting. Bookplate. Dampstains throughout, but no real damage, pages remain clear and not stuck or damaged. Printed on heavy glossy paper which remains bright white. Good Condition. (YID-43-42)
Stock number:42214xt.
$US 400.00
Imprint: Passaic, N. J. : Arbayter Ring, 1949
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
1st edition. Original boards. 8vo. One issue 40- pages, the others 16 pages each [152 pages total], 27 cm. In Yiddish. Includes photos. A complete DP-era year run of Fraynd, founded in 1910, printed monthly, then, more or less, bimonthly. “Formed in 1900 by Yiddish-speaking Jewish immigrants from Eastern Europe, The Workmen's Circle at first acted as a mutual aid society, helping its members to adapt to their new life in America. It provided life insurance, unemployment relief, healthcare, social interaction, burial assistance and general education through its branches throughout the US as well as through its national office. Soon, the organization was joined by more politically focused socialist Bundists who advocated the anti-assimilationist idea of Yiddish cultural autonomy, led by education in Yiddish and socialist ideals. The Circle formed the Folksbiene Yiddish theatre troupe and promoted Jewish arts and music, Yiddish school programs for children and Yiddish summer camps. It became influential in the American labor movement and grew to serve more than 84, 000 members through hundreds of branches around North America. It also became involved with the Yiddish newspaper The Forward and operated old-age homes, medical clinics and other services. Politically, the Circle moved away from socialism towards liberalism by the time of the New Deal” (Wikipedia, 2018) . SUBJECTS: Jews -- United States -- Periodicals. Fraternal organizations -- United States -- Periodicals.OCLC: 18490414. OCLC lists 18 holdings, but most are for partial runs starting. Bookplate. Very light damp to margins of first 2 issues, really just a bit wavy, no damage. Printed on heavy glossy paper which remains bright white. Beautiful original binding is gorgeous, Very Good Condition. (YID-43-40)
Stock number:42212xt.
$US 400.00
Imprint: Passaic, N. J. : Arbayter Ring, 1947
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
1st edition. Original boards. 8vo. 16-24 pages each issue [130 pages total], 27 cm. In Yiddish. Includes photos. A complete DP-era year run of Fraynd, founded in 1910, printed monthly, then, more or less, bimonthly. “Formed in 1900 by Yiddish-speaking Jewish immigrants from Eastern Europe, The Workmen's Circle at first acted as a mutual aid society, helping its members to adapt to their new life in America. It provided life insurance, unemployment relief, healthcare, social interaction, burial assistance and general education through its branches throughout the US as well as through its national office. Soon, the organization was joined by more politically focused socialist Bundists who advocated the anti-assimilationist idea of Yiddish cultural autonomy, led by education in Yiddish and socialist ideals. The Circle formed the Folksbiene Yiddish theatre troupe and promoted Jewish arts and music, Yiddish school programs for children and Yiddish summer camps. It became influential in the American labor movement and grew to serve more than 84, 000 members through hundreds of branches around North America. It also became involved with the Yiddish newspaper The Forward and operated old-age homes, medical clinics and other services. Politically, the Circle moved away from socialism towards liberalism by the time of the New Deal” (Wikipedia, 2018) . SUBJECTS: Jews -- United States -- Periodicals. Fraternal organizations -- United States -- Periodicals.OCLC: 18490414. OCLC lists 18 holdings, but most are for partial runs starting. Paper toningin first 4 issues toning, but well protected with no edgewear; final 2 issues printed on heavy glossy paper which remains bright white. Beautiful original binding is gorgeous, Very Good Condition. (YID-43-39)
Stock number:42211.
$US 400.00
Imprint: Moskve [Moscow]: Der Emes, 1944
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Paper Wrappers
1st edition. Original Stiff Printed paper wrappers, 8vo, 336 pages. Errata slip present at rear. 23 cm. In Yiddish, with table of contents in Yiddish and Russian. Title translates as “On To Victory: An Anthology.” Title in Russian, “K Robede: Literaturnyi Sbornik,” appears on rear cover. One of 7000 copies printed. Cover design by Aron Gefter (1894-1963) an artist who studied at VKhUTEIN from 1921–1924. Starting in 1925 Gefter began creating political and anti-religious caricatures for Soviet periodicals that were as aggressive as works by Cheremnykh and Moor. He was the main artist associated with the magazine ‘Der Apikoires’ (aka ‘Bezbozhnik’). Artist Gersh Inger (1910-1995) produced the two dramatic illustrated half titles for the book.This publication, from the height of the Holocaust, collects together the works of 45 poets and writers; by the time of publication in August 1944, three of them had already died on the frontlines battling the Nazis. Their names—L. Reznik, G. Shvedik and M. Goldstein—are thus memorially framed in the table of contents.Edited by poet Peretz Markish (1895-1952) whose two poems open the second section of the book, which is entitled “Will Not Forget and Will Not Forgive.” Markish, a member of the Jewish Anti-Nazi Committee, waswas arrested in 1949 and shot together with other accused writers on the Night of the Murdered Poets, Aug 12, 1952.SUBJECT(S): Yiddish literature -- Soviet Union. Litte´rature yiddish -- URSS. World War, 1939-1945--Poetry.--Fiction.OCLC: 794979796. As sometimes happens on OCLC, the it is likely that at least some of the copies listed as digital “internet resources” (OCLC: 12794047) are in fact hard copies. Sunning, some wear and staining to covers, especially at corners. Paper internally is toning as expected, but is strong with no tears. Good Condition. (Yid-43-20-EL-’axcc)
Stock number:42183.
$US 400.00
Imprint: Paderborn, J. W. Schroder, 1883
Edition: First Edition
1st seperate edition. Original orange paper covers, Softcover, 108 pages, 8vo. In German with Hebrew citations. Published during the Rohling-Bloch Affair. Rohling, (1839-1931) , was an "antisemitic polemicist. A fanatical ultramontanist priest from the Rhineland, Rohling published in 1871 his Der Talmudjude (based on J. A. Eisenmenger 's Entdecktes Judenthum) , a collection of deliberately corrupted quotations, imaginary statements, and forgeries against the Talmud. The book appeared in successive editions and became very popular. When Franz Holubek, a leader of the Viennese artisan movement, was sued for inciting a crowd against the Jews (April 4, 1882) , he pleaded not guilty, claiming that he had obtained his information in good faith from the books of Rohling, a full professor at the German University of Prague. Rohling's academic appointments were obtained through the intercession of high Church dignitaries. Holubek's acquittal was a victory for the growing political antisemitism. Rohling and his works acquired further notoriety through the Tiszaeszlar blood libel affair, when Rohling volunteered to testify that Jews required Christian blood for their ceremonies. After Franz Delitzsch , the renowned Protestant Orientalist, had revealed Rohling's ignorance and baseness, Rohling accused Delitzsch of being a Jew and then castigated Adolf Jellinek and Moritz Guedemann as cunning knaves for denying Holubek's charges. Rohling's challenger was Joseph Samuel Bloch who, after repeated sorties against him, published a series of articles in July 1883 under the title, "An Offer to Commit Perjury, " in which he branded Rohling a liar and perjurer. Forced by public opinion to sue Bloch for libel, Rohling enlisted the aid of two antisemites, Brimanus (a Romanian-Jewish renegade who had taught Rohling Hebrew and was author of the scurrilous Der Judenspiegel under the pseudonym "Justus") and Ecker (a convicted forger, priest, and professor at an obscure seminary in Paderborn) . Neither could attend the trial. Bloch recruited the respected Orientalists Theodor Noeldeke and Karl August Wuensche, who completely demolished all Rohling's academic pretenses. Even Paul Lagarde condemned Rohling's works. In 1885, shortly before the trial was due to open, Rohling withdrew his suit after Bloch had collected an immense amount of material against him. He paid the costs of the trial, lost his academic chair, and left the public scene, nevertheless continuing to publish antisemitic tracts. Rohling's Talmudjude was translated into several European languages; E. Drumont wrote the introduction to the French edition. The work continued to be published for more than 50 years, and served as a source for Nazi antisemitic doctrines" (EJ, 2007) . Hinge repair, lightly browned pages, with taped repair at spine. Chipping to edges of cover. Otherwise, very good condition. (BIB-15-29)
Stock number:24298.
$US 400.00
Imprint: [New York]: [Bloch], 1895
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Paperback
1st edition. Original green paper wrappers, 12mo, 56 pages. Singerman 4882. In his early days in the United States, Isaac Moses "was considered a radical Reformer, but later he took a more moderate position. In 1884 he introduced his own prayer book (Tefillat Yisrael). Moses was a founding member of the Central Conference of American Rabbis and a member of the Reform committee charged with compiling an official prayer book. The appearance of the Union Prayer Book in 1894 has been credited to his personal initiative in preparing and circulating a manuscript when the committee's work seemed to be leading nowhere. Moses also published a number of sermons and textbooks for children. His Sabbath School Hymnal, first issued in 1894, ran into 14 editions. While in Milwaukee, he edited the weekly Der Zeitgeist (1880-82). " (encyclopedia.com) In one of these sermons, Rabbi Moses discusses the evils that occurred in Egypt and then goes on to say, "Does not out civilization show the most alarming symptoms of the evils and the diseases of Egypt? We have fought for the emancipation of the negro, but the enslavement of the masses by our modern indutrial system threatens to become a plague worse than ever befell the birth-place of Moses. " Subjects: Jewish sermons, American. English -- United States. OCLC: 25225212, Spine rebacked, coveres rubbed and worn, but solid. Good Condition Overall. Scarce. (AMR-57-6-BL).
Stock number:40853.
$US 400.00
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Imprint: Yerushalayim : Rashut ha-zikaron la-Sho'ah vela-gevurah, 1954-1961
Binding: Hardcover
Cloth, Large 4to, 24-36 pages per issue. Yad Vashem Bulletin. In Hebrew; Some issues have summaries in English. Includes Holocaust & modern photos and index. SUBJECT(S): World War, 1939-1945 -- Jews -- Periodicals. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Periodicals. Original issues bound in cloth, Very Good Condition. (H-41-1)
Stock number:14013.
$US 400.00
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Imprint: Tokyo; Kyo Bun Kwan, 1937
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Inscription: Signed, Inscribed Or Annotated
1st edition. Original Boards, 4to. Xiv, 229 pages. 29 cm. First Edition. Inscribed by author in Hebrew on front endpaper. English interspersed with Hebrew and other exotic alphabets. The Son of a Shinto priest and descendant from a long line of Shinto priests, the author Abram Kotsuji (1899-1973) was a Japanese Hebraist and ardent philo-Semite who founded the Institute of Biblical Research at the University of Tokyo. The present work is his Phd dissertation. During the Holocaust years Kotsuji greatly assisted the hundreds of rabbis and yeshiva students from Eastern Europe (including the entire Mir Yeshiva) who escaped before the German onslaught to Kobe, Japan and later to Japanese-occupied Shanghai. In 1959 Kotsuji formally converted to Judaism in Jerusalem. Internally some age toning but very clean.Very Good Condition. (HOLO-114-17a)
Stock number:33373.
$US 400.00
Imprint: [New York] : Soviet Russia Today, N.D.
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Paperback
Inscription: Signed, Inscribed Or Annotated
No Date (1943?) 1st edition. Original paper wrappers. 8vo, 31 pages. Early (1943) expose and condemnation of Nazi atrocities in the occupied Soviet Union. Likely published 1943, as the end of the booklet says "(signed) Molotov// Moscow, May 11, 1943." Introduction by Jessica Smith. "With a dignity and restraint that seem almost superhuman this note by Foreign Commissar Molotov sets forth fresh proofs of the subhuman savagery of the Hitlerites. In previous notes to the United Nations Molotov has presented documentary evidence of the fiendish atrocities visited on Soviet citizens in the Nazi-occupied areas. In this one he gives details of the manner in which millions of Soviet citizens are driven into slavery…. As they systematically lay waste the Russian towns and villages during occupation or retreat, the German marauders simultaneously seek to enslave or destroy all of the Soviet people who fall into their clutches. The majority of able-bodied citizens, young and old, men and women, girls and boys, are forcibly shipped into Germany. Those who resist are murdered. The rest are packed like cattle into railroad cars. Those who sicken on the awful journey are thrown out. The railroad embankments are littered with their bodies all the way. " (from introduction) This note was sent to "all ambassadors and minsters of the countries with which the U. S. S. R. Maintains diplomatic relations. " Subjects: World War, 1939-1945 -- Atrocities. OCLC: 5863608. Near Perfect, Very Good Condition. (HOLO2-145-2-AMP) xx
Stock number:40875.
$US 400.00
Imprint: London: Fred Stone, 1945
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Paperback
1ST Separate Edition. Original paper outside pages, no cover, as issued. 8vo booklet, 11+[1] pages. Reprinted from the Soviet Information Bulletin in Washington. Includes article “Jew Baiting Must Be Wiped Out: No Mercy for Murderers, ” by Komarov, who was the most respected name in systematic botany in the USSR, ex-president of the Academy of Sciences, a deputy of the Supreme Soviet, and holder of the highest Soviet civil award-a “Hero of Socialist Labour. ” Also contains smaller sections “Conference of European Jewry, ” “Fight for Humanity, ” “Meeting of Jewish Communists, ” “French Jews Reorganise, ” and “Commentary. ” The general theme is uniting forces and countries to fight against antisemitism. From Komarov’s article, “To keep silence about this is to deliver our children to death. In this matter, if any country gives shelter to the Hitlerites or their ideas, in the shape of discriminatory legislation in the shape of racial organisation or racial Press, it is no longer an internal affair of that country. If your neighbour uncloses in his backyard a container with poison gases which threaten to spread over the entire town, you will not waste time by asking for permission to enter his backyard, you will do so to avert death for thousands of people. Racial ideas are more dangerous than any poison gas. It is our generation’s duty to the future, to the cause of the progress of civilisation and humanity, not only to put out the smoking fire of Fascism but to uncover and extinguish every smouldering coal of it. ” (page [12]) Very rare, not listed on OCLC nor could we locate copies anywhere else. Some creases on pages from the time of printing. 2 small stains on back page, corners are slightly bent. Good Condition Overall. (HOLO2-144-21)
Stock number:40737.
$US 400.00
Imprint: New York: Council Against Intolerance In America, N.D.
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Paperback
No Date (1939? ) . 1st edition. 1 leaf brochure, folded in half, [4] pages. 10 photographs throughout. Likely published in 1939. The front page features the headline “IT HAPPENED IN AMERICA, ” and under it a picture of people saluting the American and Nazi flags. That is captioned “20,000 NAZIS SALUTE SWASTIKA. ” Also on that page is “In 1939, thousands of Bund members and their friends gathered in Madison Square Garden to sing their hymn of hate against democracy. Religious freedom, racial brotherhood, everything Americans hold dear was attacked. Our President was subjected to a stream of vilification. Hitler alone received cheers. ” There is a report on the Council Against Intolerance in America’s Independence Day Ceremony which took place on July 4, 1939. On the back there is a form to donate money to the Council Against Intolerance in America, “to defend the American tradition of religious freedom and human equality. ” Very rare, no copies on OCLC Folded in thirds horizontally, as issued. Paper is slightly crinkled in places, on the back there is a small piece of tape stuck and a small place where a layer of paper was pulled off. Very Good Condition. (HOLO2-144- 20)
Stock number:40736.
$US 400.00
Imprint: Minkhen; Nidpas A. Y. Ha-Vaad Le-Hotsa'at Sefarim Etsel Va'ad Ha-Hatsalah, 1947
Binding: Hardcover
Original Cloth. 12mo. 120, 194, 194 pages. 18 cm. Survivors Bible, printed by Vaad Hatzala. Pentateuch, Haftarot and Megilot with commentary of Rashi and Targum. 'Matanah me-et Va'ad ha-hatsalah le-she'erit ha-peletah. ' Title page has coloured illustration. With dedication page to President Harry Truman with superimposed American Flag. "The remnants of Israel that survived the great destruction wrought upon our people by Hitler's hoards, these shattered remenats the 'Sherith Hepleita' were weakened physically and spiritually...we wish to dedicate this Holy Bible, the very ancient well of civilization, to his Honor, the President of the United States of America, Harry S. Truman. His courageous and kind words, his noble acts and deeds in behalf of our people have served as a ray of hote in these trying, troubleed and most cdritical period of our people..." Subjects: Haftarot - Commentaries. Bible. Pentateuch - Commentaries. Bible. Five Scrolls - Commentaries. Pentateuch. Hebrew. 1947.; Holy Bible: Vaad Hatzala, Germany. OCLC: 506554087. OCLC lists 15 copies. A copy sold at auction in 2021 for over $1200. Light wear to boards, rear board replaced, rebacked with new corners, endpages repaired, Good condition. (HOLO2-117-58A)
Stock number:40240.
$US 400.00
Imprint: Stockholm,bonniers, 1945
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Paperback
1st edition, original paper wrappers, 8vo, 183 pages illustrations, portraits, maps 22 cm. In Swedish. Title translates to “Red Cross Expedition to Germany. ” Sven Frykman, the author, was a major involved in the famous “white busses” operation. The operation, run by the Swedish Red Cross and the Danish government, rescued inmates from concentration camps in places under Nazi control and transported them to Sweden. SUBJECT (S) : World War, 1939-1945 -- Prisoners and prisons, German. OCLC: 22123343. OCLC lists 11 copies worldwide. Some wear and staining on the cover, spine is fixed with tape and is chipped, Otherwise Very Good (Holo2-139-3)
Stock number:39571.
$US 400.00
Imprint: The American Journal Of International Law, 1947
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Paperback
1st Separate Edition. Original Wrappers. 8vo. [146]- 151 pages (ie 8 pages) ; 26 cm. "Reprinted from The American Journal of International Law. Vol. 41, No. 1, January 1947." The first written report by Lemkin, the lawyer who coined the term genocide, on his accomplishment of making genocide a crime under international law in 1946. "Raphael Lemkin (1900 1959) was a lawyer of Polonized-Jewish descent who is best known for coining the word genocide and initiating the Genocide Convention. Lemkin coined the word genocide in 1943 or 1944 from the rooted words genos (Greek for family, tribe, or race) and -cide (Latin for killing) . " (Wikipedia, 2017). Interestingly, the former owner has jotted on the front cover, “WIndsor 6 3312 Alvin Johnson,” which would appear to the the phone number and name of the New School founder who saved Jewish scholars who were fleeing Nazi Germany. “ in the beginning of the Holocaust, the U.S. State Department largely refused to admit Jewish refugees trapped in Europe to the United States. Johnson, he said, discovered a loophole.‘He learned there was a back door to saving life,’... Jerry Klinger, president of the Jewish American Society for Historic Preservation…said. ‘If a refugee was a farmer, the State Department was willing to let them come to America, even begrudgingly. Johnson’s simple solution was to have Jewish academics classified as farmers.’For individuals he saved, many of whom were academics in Germany, adjusting to agrarian life wasn’t easy. However, with Johnson’s help and the support of the community, the refugees were able to get by….The New School established the University in Exile as a safe haven for Jewish intellectuals threatened by the rise of European Fascism. The University in Exile served as an institutional home to Claude Levi-Strauss, Erich Fromm, and Max Wertheimer, among others” (https://blogs.newschool.edu/news/2018/04/new-school-co-founder-alvin-johns on-honored-in-north-carolina-for-saving-jewish-families/). Scarce and important. OCLC lists no copies worldwide. Previous owners notation on the front cover. Some edgewear, with a few small tears, and no text effected. Paper toning. Good+ condition. (HOLO2-135-86)
Stock number:39282.
$US 400.00
Imprint: Vaad Hatzala, Munich, 1947
Binding: Hardback
Original Boards. 12mo. 120, 194, 194 pages. 18 cm. Survivors Bible, printed by Vaad Hatzala. Pentateuch, Haftarot and Megilot with commentary of Rashi and Targum. Issued by the American Va'ad Hatzala Rescue Committee for the benefit of the She'arith Hapleitah - survivors of the Nazi Holocaust. See A. J. Karp, Library of Congress Catalogue, p. 34 (illustrated) . Title page has colored illustration. With introductory pages in Hebrew and English, superimposed over colored Stars and Stripes, dedicating the volume to President Harry S. Truman. Subjects: Haftarot - Commentaries. Bible. Pentateuch - Commentaries. Bible. Five Scrolls - Commentaries. Pentateuch. Hebrew. 1947.; Holy Bible: Vaad Hatzala, Germany. OCLC lists 15 copies. Slight wear to boards and paper toning but otherwise in very good condition. (HOLO2-117-58A)
Stock number:38870.
$US 400.00
Imprint: Praha, F. R. Zdrsk,, 1945
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Paperback
1st Edition. Later Wrappers with Original Paper Wrappers Bound Inside. 8vo. 24 pages ; 15 x 20 cm. In Czech. Title translates into English as, “The Gentry-Volk: 11 Epigrams About The Teutonic Saviors Of The World. ” Published in the last year of the German occupation of Czechoslovakia, this book contains 11 outlandish caricatures of Nazi incompetence, and defeat, from the illustrator Josef Novák. The cover image is of a bird defecating on a Swastika SSI. SUBJECT (S) : Germany -- History -- 1933-1945 -- Humor, caricatures. OCLC lists just 4 copies worldwide (Hoover Institute, Yale, NL of Czech Republic, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek) . Slight wear to protective wrappers and a few minor discolorations and edge wear on Original Wrappers. Otherwise very good condition. (holo2-135-5)
Stock number:38625.
$US 400.00
Imprint: New York, Jewish National Fund Of America, 1941
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Paperback
First edition. Original paper wrappers. 8vo. 12 pages; 21 cm. Very early (1941) use of the term “saving remnant” to describe what would be left of Jewry following the unfolding Holocaust in Europe, a reference to Genesis 45: 7, sometimes translated as: “God sent me before you to preserve for you a remnant in the earth, and to keep you alive by a great deliverance. ” Holocaust-era speech delivered by Dr. Israel Goldstein, rabbi and president of the JNF, encouraging donations to expand settlements in Palestine to make room for WWII refugees when the war ends. “What a great privilege, and what a tremendous responsibility is ours-ours, Oh, American Israel-to lay broad foundations for our people’s future! It is our responsibility because it is our good fortune, by grace of numbers, security and wealth, to be the “saving remnant” of our people. ” Presented just after the death of Louis D. Brandeis, Goldstein also reviews the accomplishments of the JNF over its 40 year history. Encourages SUBJECT(S) : Zionism, Jewish National Fund. OCLC lists 1 holding worldwide (Univ of Minnesota) . Some browning to pages and minimal edgewear. Very good- condition. Scarce. (zion-12-49)xx
Stock number:37936.
$US 400.00
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Imprint: Antwerpen: APEA, 1945
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Paperback
1st Edition. Original Illustrated Paper Wrappers depicting a barbed wire fence. 34 pages, plus 8 pages of photo plates; 18 cm. In Dutch. Title translates into English as, “Concentration Camps. ” Scarce early photo report on Nazi camps. Sections include, “From the Diary of a Prisoner, ” “The Pernicious Spirit, ” and “Facts and Numbers. ” OCLC lists just 5 copies worldwide, none outside the Low Countries. Some edgewear. Good+ condition. (holo2-130-63)
Stock number:37247.
$US 400.00
Imprint: [Wien Vienna]: AJDC, 1947
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Paperback
First edition. Original illustrated blue paper wrappers. 8vo. 59 pages, 20 cm. In German with musical notations. Title translates to “Ghetto and Concentration Camp Songs from Latvia and Lithuania. ” Fifteen songs each preceded by a brief historical extract. Collected and edited by Latvian-born Johanna (Lichtenberg) Spector (1915-2008) , who grew to achieve renown as an ethnomusicologist specializing in the documentation of the musical culture of varied Jewish communities around the world. SUBJECTS: Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Songs and music. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) . OCLC lists 11 copies worldwide. Minor shelf wear. Overall Very Good Condition. (HOLO2-131-28) xx
Stock number:37240.
$US 400.00
Imprint: American Palestine Committee And Christian Council On Palest, (New York), 1944
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Paperback
1st edition. Original Paper Wrappers, 4to, 48 pages. Photographic illustrations. The National Conference on Palestine took place on March 9, 1944 in Washington D. C. At the Statler Hotel, wherein influential American Christians rallied in support of Palestine as a national home and democratic commonwealth for the Jewish People. Speakers included Harvard University professor Carl J. Friedrich and future-New York City mayor Robert F. Wagner who attacked the British White Paper of 1939 as "Palestine's Munich. ” Stamp on cover, Very Good Condition. (kh-5-54)
Stock number:36455.
$US 400.00
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Imprint: [London]; [Soviet Embassy], 1943
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Pamphlet
Original Wraps. 12mo. 15 pages. 19 cm. First edition. “A Soviet war news pamphlet”. Price 2d. “CPS 25277” on rear wrap. Contains Decree of the Supreme Soviet for establishing the Extraordinary State Commission to investigate Nazi Atrocities; and April 6, 1943 'Statement by the Extraordinary Commission for the Ascertainment and Investigation of Crimes of the German-Fascist Invaders and their Associates, on Outrages against Citizens and Damage to Collective Farms, Public Organisations, State Enterprises and Institutions of the U. S. S. R. In the towns of Vyazma, Gzhatsk and Sychevka, Smolensk region, and in the town of Rzhev, Kalinin region. ' The Statement contains numerous firsthand source material on atrocities and murders in these regions, abduction for slave labor in Germany, wholesale destruction of towns, museums, etc. Mass shootings; contains a list of German officers responsible for these crimes. The Extraordinary State Commission was established on 2 November 1942, by a decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet, for officially 'investigating the Crimes of the German–Fascist Aggressors' and their allies, and was the major official body for recording and documenting Nazi war crimes and pillage. The Reports of the Commission comprised major evidential material presented at the Nuremberg trials and the Japanese war criminals' trials. The reports appeared in English in the daily publication Soviet War News issued by the Press Department of the Soviet Embassy in London. Subjects: Atrocities - Soviet Union - History - 20th century. World War, 1939-1945 - Soviet Union. Atrocities. German Occupation of Soviet Union (1941-1944) World War (1939-1945) Soviet Union - History - German occupation, 1941-1944. OCLC lists 4 copies (Florida, Oxford, Northwestern, Swansea) , none in the Northeast. Light wear to wraps, otherwise clean and fresh. Very good condition. Scarce and Important. (HOLO2-123-51)
Stock number:35507.
$US 400.00
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Imprint: Warszawa; Bydgoszcz: Spóldzielnia Wydawnicza "ksiazka", 1946
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardback
Later Wraps (with original front wrapper mounted on front) . 8vo. 308, [2], [14] pages. 22 cm. First edition. In Polish. With 14 pages of photographs at rear. Includes 100 pages of documents (nazi directives relating to the camps) . With summaries in French, Russian, and English outlining the history of Oswiecim. Contains preface from Waclaw Barcikowski, Friedman's 'To Jest Oswiecim', and 'Grupa Oswiecim' by noted poet, novelist and publicist Tadeusz Holuj (resistance member, he was deported to Auschwitz; and later served as secretary general of the International Auschwitz Committee) . Philip Friedman (1901-1960) , Polish Jewish historian. "Friedman survived the Holocaust by hiding in Poland, but he lost his wife and a daughter. After 1944, he was appointed director of the Central Jewish Historical Commission (created by the Central Committee of Jews in Poland) , whose mission was to gather data on Nazi war crimes. In this capacity he not only collected testimonies and documentation but also supervised the publication of a number of pioneering studies, including his own on the concentration camp at Auschwitz. This work, To jest Oswiecim, was published in Warsaw in 1945 and appeared in an abridged English version as This Is Oswiecim (1946) . " (Yivo Encyclopedia) . Subjects: Auschwitz (Concentration camp) . OCLC lists 15 copies. Rebacked in later thick wraps, with original wrap pastedown. Lightly bumped edges, lightly aged; overall fresh and clean. Good + condition. (HOLO2-117-1) xx
Stock number:34087.
$US 400.00
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Imprint: Sweden; Netherlands Commissioner For Repatriation, 1945
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Paperback
Original Wrappers. 8vo. 119 pages. 22 cm. First Edition. In Dutch and English. Title translates as, “Dutch Nationals Found In German Camps. ” First list of Dutch deportees and concentration camp survivors released by G. F. Ferwerda, Netherlands Commissioner for Repatriation. “Lists of deportees, liberated from concentration-, and internment-camps only will be circularized by my London office from time to time. The lists are obtained from various sources and the identity of the persons concerned cannot always be checked without further investigation. It is, therefore, pointed out that the lists are of a provisional character, that in the confused state of affairs, existing in Germany, mistakes are unavoidable and the accuracy can in no way be guaranteed. ” (Preface) Subjects: Holocaust – Concentration Camps. Repatriation. OCLC lists 1 copy worldwide. (Netherlands Institute for War Documentation) Back wrapper detached. Previous marks from tape near back strip. Spined repaired. Shows edgewear and age toning. Good +condition. (HOLO-114-1)
Stock number:33354.
$US 400.00
Imprint: Warszawa; Bydgoszcz: Spóldzielnia Wydawnicza "ksiazka", 1946
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Later Boards. 8vo. 308, [2], [14] pages. 22 cm. First edition. First appearance. In Polish. With 14 pages of photographs at rear. Includes 100 pages of documents (nazi directives relating to the camps) . With summaries in French, Russian, and English outlining the history of Oswiecim. Contains preface from Waclaw Barcikowski, Friedman's 'To Jest Oswiecim', and 'Grupa Oswiecim' by noted poet, novelist and publicist Tadeusz Holuj (resistance member, he was deported to Auschwitz; and later served as secretary general of the International Auschwitz Committee) . Philip Friedman (1901–1960) , Polish Jewish historian. “Friedman survived the Holocaust by hiding in Poland, but he lost his wife and a daughter. After 1944, he was appointed director of the Central Jewish Historical Commission (created by the Central Committee of Jews in Poland) , whose mission was to gather data on Nazi war crimes. In this capacity he not only collected testimonies and documentation but also supervised the publication of a number of pioneering studies, including his own on the concentration camp at Auschwitz. This work, To jest Oswiecim, was published in Warsaw in 1945 and appeared in an abridged English version as This Is Oswiecim (1946) . ” (Yivo Encyclopedia) . Bound in attractive later marbled boards; original wraps absent. Subjects: Auschwitz (Concentration camp) . OCLC lists 15 copies. Pages aged, minor edge wear, otherwise clean. Good condition. (HOLO2-113-55)
Stock number:33177.
$US 400.00
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Imprint: [New York]; M. Levin, 1967
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publishers cloth. XIV, 86 pages. 1st edition. “Shoshanna Rozen and Dori Ben Zev as Anna and Peter” (text accompanying photo on cover) . "Privately published by the author for literary discussion"; “Arranged by Batya Lancet and Peter Frye for the Israel Soldiers theatre, as directed by Peter Frye. ” Contains a long preface by Meyer Levin about the controversial history, in the face of copyright restrictions from Otto Frank, to perform this play, which apparently was a major success at its debut show in Israel. Contains the entire script for the play, adapted from the Diary of Anne Frank; 3 photographs from performances at the Israel Soldiers Theatre, and numerous reviews on back page. Subjects: Frank, Anne, 1929-1945 - Drama. OCLC lists 15 copies. Cover soiled with small pen mark on upper right page, pages lightly creased, otherwise fresh. Good + condition. Rare (HOLO2-103-22)
Stock number:30946.
$US 400.00
Imprint: Prague, Sozialdemokratischen Partei Deutschlands, 1937
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardback
Paper Wraps. 8vo. 53 pages.. 1st issue, Published in exile by the heavily Jewish SPD, these monthly reports covered sociopolitical and economic conditions in Germany, and were harshly critical of the Nazi regime. CONTENTS: “Factory Owners’ Uneasiness, ” “The German Concentration Camps: Dachau, Lichtenburg, Sachsburg, Hamburg-Fuhlsbuttel, Women’s Concentration Camp Moringen, House of Correctional Osterstein. ” OCLC lists 5 copies worldwide (Staats & Universitatsbibliothek Hamburg, Univ m Hannnover & TIB, Universitatsbibliothek Oldenburg Ibit, Bibliothek Des Herder-Instituts, Universitatsbibliothek Passau) . Internal pages are lightweight, tissue-like paper. Some chipping at edges and tears on corners of covers, but all text is clear. Good condition. Extremely early discussion of the German concentration camps. (HOLO2-33-4)
Stock number:26174.
$US 400.00
Imprint: Pariz (Paris) : [Publisher Not Identified], 1940
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Paperback
First edition. Original paper wrappers. 8vo. 119 pages ; 18 cm. In Yiddish. Paris Yiddish imprint published the same year the city was overrun by Nazi forces. Title translates to “Toward the historic day of judgment, the Jewish people between curses and redemption” Published early in the Holocaust, Ben-Adir argues for the enactment of national introspection and calm rather than territorialism! Ben-Adir (1878–1942) was writer and Jewish socialist leader, born in Krucha, Belorussia. He was a child prodigy and left for university in Minsk at the age of 16. While there, he was heavily influenced by Jewish socialism. After the First Zionist Congress in 1897, Ben-Adir published an article advocating political Zionism in opposition to the ideology of Ahad Ha-Am. After then Kishinev pogrom of 1903 Ben-Adir published a call for the formation of a Jewish party which would combine the aims of revolutionary socialism with national Jewish aspirations. Ben-Adir was one of the founders and ideologists of the Vozrozhdeniye group, and of its successor of the Sejmists (Jewish Socialist Workers' Party) whose program included Jewish national-political autonomy while envisaging territorial sovereignty as a remote aim. Ben-Adir stayed in Eretz Israel between 1925 and 1927 but returned to Berlin, leaving for Paris in 1933. SUBJECTS: Zionism – Jewish nationalism. OCLC lists 14 copies worldwide. Minor browning and edgewear. Overall Very Good Condition. (ZION-13-52-'L)
Stock number:38346.
$US 375.00
Imprint: New York, Playbill Incorporated, 1955
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Paperback
First edition, November printing (The play opened in October, 1955, the month prior) . Original paper wrappers. 8vo. 52 pages; 23cm. Program for the Original Broadway Production, at the Cort Theater, of “The Diary of Anne Frank” with the original cast, from the month after it opened. The entire cast and crew of the production, Kermit Bloomgarden, Joseph Schildkraut, Susan Strasberg, Frances Goodrich, Albert Hackett, Dennie Moore, Jack Gilford, Clinton Sundberg, Lou Jacobi, Garson Kanin, Boris Aronson, Helene Pons, and Leland Watson, had successful careers in the entertainment industry. Joseph Schildkraut, the actor who played Otto Frank, was a prolific film and theatre actor who performed in Show Boat (1927) , The Twilight Zone (1961) , Marie Antoinette (1938) among several others. He “received an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role as Alfred Dreyfus in The Life of Emile Zola (1937) ” and was nominated for a Best Actor Emmy Award in 1963 (Wikipedia, 2016) . Susan Strasberg, daughter of Lee Strasberg of the Actors Studio, was “the youngest actress to star on Broadway with her name above the marquee title” for her Tony nominated role as Anne Frank in this production (Wikipedia, 2016) . Strasberg starred and guest-starred in many other roles throughout her career and wrote two books, one an autobiography and one about her friendship with Marilyn Monroe. Jack Gilford, the actor who played Mr. Dussel, was discovered by his mentor Milton Berle, was nominated for several Tony Awards and an Academy Award, and started the comedy tradition of monology later used by comedians such as Lenny Bruce and Woody Allen. His career was derailed when choreographer Jerome Robbins named him and his wife, Madeline Lee, as Communist sympathizers to HUAC. Features hundreds of illustrated advertisements, some with cartoons and some with black-and-white photographs, for restaurants, cars, clothing stores, and more. Includes several articles such as “What the man will wear, ” “What’s What, ” and “Facing Your Audience. ” SUBJECT(S) : Anne Frank, Broadway, Theatre. OCLC lists no holdings worldwide. Minimal markings and wear. Very good + condition. Rare. (Holo2-133-10A)xx
Stock number:37941.
$US 375.00
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Imprint: Ciudad Trujillo; R. D. , Montalvo, 1946
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardback
Original Wraps. 8vo. 354 pages. 25 cm. First edition. In Spanish, English, and French. “Capacidad de la República dominicana para absorber refugiados, díctamen de la Comisión nombrada por el poder ejecutivo para el estudio del informe de la Brookings institution sobre 'La colonización de refugiados en la República dominicana. ' Capacity of the Dominican republic to absorb refugees ... Capacité de la République dominicaine pour absorber der refugiés. ” Trilingual report commissioned by the executive committee (Trujillo) of the Dominican Republic to study the Brookings Institution report on the capacity for the refugee settlement in the Dominican Republic. With maps, fold out statistic tables, and various charts. Subjects: Refugees - Dominican Republic. Brookings Institution. Refugee settlement in the Dominican republic. Light institutional pencil markings on endpages; spine split, edge wear to wraps, with some loss at edges, otherwise clean and fresh. Good condition. (HOLO2-115-53)
Stock number:34069.
$US 375.00
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Imprint: Tel-Aviv : Hotsa'at Igud Yots'e Lita Be-Yi'sra'el, 1972
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher's cloth. 4to. 430, 396, 512 pages. Dust jackets. in Hebrew. Includes illustrations, maps, indexes. Title on title page verso: Lithuanian Jewry, Published by The Association of The Lithuanian Jews in Israel. Contents: Vol. II: Ha-Yehudim be-Lita me-1918 ad 1941 (Jews in Lithuania 1918-1941); Vol. III: Ha-Yehudim be-Lita Ha'atzma'it (Jews in Independent Lithuania); Vol. IV: Hurban Yahadut Lita (Destruction of Lithuanian Jewry). SUBJECT(S) : Jews -- Lithuania -- History. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Lithuania. Vol. II slight water damage to endpages, slight tears to DJ, overall very good condition; Vol. III institutional marks on endpages, slight tears and boxing to DJ, overall very clean and fresh, very good condition; Vol. IV hinge and slight boxing to DJ, otherwise extremely clean, overall fine condition. A beautiful, informative and definitive set. (HOLO2-98-19B)
Stock number:33023.
$US 375.00
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Imprint: Tel Aviv: Ma?arakhot, 1959
Binding: Hardback
Inscription: Signed, Inscribed Or Annotated
(FT) Hardcover with dustjacket, 8vo, 2 Volumes, 572 pages (continuing page-count) , Illustrated. Inscribed by author. On the underground organization that helped Jewish refugees during World War II to escape to the British Mandate for Palestine. Aliyah Bet. Ex-library. Dustjackets have edgewear, overall very good condition in good attractive illustrated jackets. An attractive set of this important work. (HOLO2-89-92)
Stock number:29618.
$US 375.00
Imprint: Zolkova: Bi-Defus Gershon Ben H?ayim David, David Ben Menahem Man V?e-Hayim David Ben Aharon, 1755
Binding: Hardback
(FT) Hardcover, large 4to, 71 leaves, 34 cm. In Hebrew. SUBJECT(S) : Talmud. Kodashim -- Commentaries. Many leaves mutilated. Printed in double columns. Title page with architectural border. This book survived the Holocaust in Europe, and was presented by The Jewish Cultural Reconstruction, Inc. , a New York based umbrella organization that served as a trusteeship for the Jewish people in the immediate aftermath of the Holocaust This organization distributed heirless and unidentifiable cultural materials to scholarly institutions in the United States, Israel, Europe and Latin America. It contains the bookplate of the Jewish Cultural Reconstruction. Other Titles: Tson kodashim; Katzin Rare Book Collection. OCLC lists 1 copy worldwide (Spertus) . Stained pages. Hinge repair. Chipping to edges and corners of pages. Large tear on title page, some text loss. Bumped cover corners and cover binding edges. Otherwise, good condition. (Heb-18-15)
Stock number:26740.
$US 375.00
Imprint: New York: American Representation of the General Jewish Workers' Union of Poland, 1945
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Paperback
First English edition. Original paper wrappers, bound into pamphlet protector. 8vo, 46 pages, illustrations, 22 cm. Translation of: Rok W Treblince. Jankiel (Yankel or Yaakov) Wiernik (1889-1972) was a Polish-Jewish Holocaust survivor who was an influential figure in the Treblinka extermination camp uprising. Wiernik was interned in the Warsaw ghetto and was deported to Treblinka in August 1942. He worked there as a carpenter, building gas chambers, observation towers, etc. Describes the camp, the arrival of transports, methods of killing, and the cruelty of German and Ukrainian guards. Wiernik and a few other prisoners escaped from the camp and also killed some guards in August 1943. After his escape during the uprising of 2 August 1943, Wiernik wrote a clandestine account of the camp's operation titled A Year in Treblinka consisting of his experiences and eyewitness testimony of a Sonderkommando slave worker at a Nazi secretive death camp responsible for the annihilation of anywhere from 700,000 to 900,000 innocent victims. Following World War II Wiernik testified in the Ludwig Fischer's trial in 1947, [and] the Eichmann Trial in 1961….Wiernik published Rok w Treblince (A Year in Treblinka) in 1944 as a clandestine booklet printed through the efforts of Jewish National Committee (Zydowski Komitet Narodowy, ZKN), Bund (underground organisations of the remnants of Polish Jews) and Polish Council to Aid Jews Zegota by means of an underground printer organized by Ferdynand Arczynski. The circulation was estimated by Wladyslaw Bartoszewski as 2,000 copies. It was sent through Polish underground channels to London, translated into English and Yiddish and printed in USA by American Representation of the General Jewish Workers Union of Poland” (Wikipedia, 2016). Subjects: Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives. Treblinka (Concentration camp) . OCLC: 233992530. Light toning, author's name penned onto front cover, Very Good Condition, bound into pamphlet protector. Centrally important period documentation by an eyewitness (H-17-1C)
Stock number:42273.
$US 350.00
Imprint: New York: American Representation of the General Jewish Workers' Union of Poland, 1945
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Paperback
First English edition. Original paper wrappers. 8vo, 46 pages, illustrations, 22 cm. Translation of: Rok W Treblince. Jankiel (Yankel or Yaakov) Wiernik (1889-1972) was a Polish-Jewish Holocaust survivor who was an influential figure in the Treblinka extermination camp uprising. Wiernik was interned in the Warsaw ghetto and was deported to Treblinka in August 1942. He worked there as a carpenter, building gas chambers, observation towers, etc. Describes the camp, the arrival of transports, methods of killing, and the cruelty of German and Ukrainian guards. Wiernik and a few other prisoners escaped from the camp and also killed some guards in August 1943. After his escape during the uprising of 2 August 1943, Wiernik wrote a clandestine account of the camp's operation titled A Year in Treblinka consisting of his experiences and eyewitness testimony of a Sonderkommando slave worker at a Nazi secretive death camp responsible for the annihilation of anywhere from 700,000 to 900,000 innocent victims. Following World War II Wiernik testified in the Ludwig Fischer's trial in 1947, [and] the Eichmann Trial in 1961….Wiernik published Rok w Treblince (A Year in Treblinka) in 1944 as a clandestine booklet printed through the efforts of Jewish National Committee (Zydowski Komitet Narodowy, ZKN), Bund (underground organisations of the remnants of Polish Jews) and Polish Council to Aid Jews Zegota by means of an underground printer organized by Ferdynand Arczynski. The circulation was estimated by Wladyslaw Bartoszewski as 2,000 copies. It was sent through Polish underground channels to London, translated into English and Yiddish and printed in USA by American Representation of the General Jewish Workers Union of Poland” (Wikipedia, 2016). Subjects: Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives. Treblinka (Concentration camp) . OCLC: 233992530. Light toning, Very Good Condition. Centrally important period documentation by an eyewitness (H-17-1B)
Stock number:42272.
$US 350.00
Imprint: Passaic, N. J. : Arbayter Ring, 1951
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
1st edition. Original boards. 8vo. One issue 20 pages, the others 16 pages each [148 pages total], 27 cm. In Yiddish. Includes photos. A complete DP-era year run of Fraynd, founded in 1910, printed monthly, then, more or less, bimonthly. “Formed in 1900 by Yiddish-speaking Jewish immigrants from Eastern Europe, The Workmen's Circle at first acted as a mutual aid society, helping its members to adapt to their new life in America. It provided life insurance, unemployment relief, healthcare, social interaction, burial assistance and general education through its branches throughout the US as well as through its national office. Soon, the organization was joined by more politically focused socialist Bundists who advocated the anti-assimilationist idea of Yiddish cultural autonomy, led by education in Yiddish and socialist ideals. The Circle formed the Folksbiene Yiddish theatre troupe and promoted Jewish arts and music, Yiddish school programs for children and Yiddish summer camps. It became influential in the American labor movement and grew to serve more than 84, 000 members through hundreds of branches around North America. It also became involved with the Yiddish newspaper The Forward and operated old-age homes, medical clinics and other services. Politically, the Circle moved away from socialism towards liberalism by the time of the New Deal” (Wikipedia, 2018) . SUBJECTS: Jews -- United States -- Periodicals. Fraternal organizations -- United States -- Periodicals.OCLC: 18490414. OCLC lists 18 holdings, but most are for partial runs starting. Bookplate. Dampstains throughout, but no real damage, pages remain clear and not stuck or damaged. Printed on heavy glossy paper which remains bright white. Good Condition. (YID-43-41)
Stock number:42213xt.
$US 350.00
Imprint: Nyu York, Vilner Albom Komitet, 1974
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Cloth
4to; 1st edition. 4to, Volume 1 and 2 cloth, Volume 3 softcover, all as issued. An outstanding photographic memorial to the Jewish Vilna, "The Jerusalem of Lithuania. " with well over 2000 photos and facsimiles. Folding map of Vilna, often missing, is present in the pocket of volume I, as issued. Title and all text and captions in Russian, English, Hebrew, and Yiddish. Includes indexes. SUBJECT(S): Jews -- Lithuania -- Vilnius -- Pictorial works. Juifs -- Lituanie -- Vilnious -- Ouvrages illustre´s. Juden. OCLC: 970933020. Ex-library with minimal markings. Very Good Condition. (YIZ-12-15C), MP
Stock number:42141.
$US 350.00
Imprint: New York, Forward Association, 1947
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Oblong 4to; 575 pages; First edition. Original Publisher's Cloth. Oblong 4to. 575, [7] pages. illus. 20 x 27 cm. In Yiddish and English throughout. A defining work on the lost Jewish communities of Europe. Others have come out in the last 2 decades, but this was the first (many, though by no means all, photos are by Vishniak) . Documenting Jewish life in Eastern Europe with over 600 photos (and text in English and Yiddish) , this work was an early post-war portrayal of these communities within the obvious context that they were gone forever, some with almost no trace of their thousand year histories remaining. Abramovitch himself was a refugee from this world--he was a leader of the Mensheviks in exile who worked at the Jewish Daily Forward and was also active in the Bund. Published as a memorial to these extinct communities, the book is bound in attractive heavy red linen with gilt spine and cover lettering in English and Yiddish, with a paper label (with a woodcut design) on the front. Card pocket and institutional markings on blank endpapers, otherwise very clean inside, Bit of discoloration to spine, otherwise Very good condition. Excellent copy. (HOLO2-75-11B)
Stock number:41299.
$US 350.00
Imprint: [Laval] : [Impr. Administrative De La Préfecture De La Mayenne],, 1966
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Paperback
1st edition, original wrappers , 4to. 32 pages. In French. Tables and charts throughout. Inscription on title page by Francis Robin. Title translates to “The Mayenne Under German Occupation, 1940-1944. Deportations, Internments, Shootings. ” “M. Francis Robin was able to mitigate the dryness of this account by using brief comments that illuminate all the sacrifices of the Mayenne under occupation... I pay tribute to him for the pure feelings that inspired his contribution to the history of the Second World War” (Translted from the preface) . Robin was part of Comité d'histoire de la 2ème guerre mondiale, or the History Committee of the 2nd World War. OCLC: 491859518, OCLC lists 3 copies worldwide (Bibliotheque Nat, University Strasbourg and Paris-Ihtp) , none outside France. Cover has a line drawing depicting people in striped clothes huddled together surrounded by barbed wire while others look on. Cover is bent on edge and has a small piece missing, splatter stains in cover and title page, and a few other pages, Otherwise Very Good Condition. Rare and important (HOLO2-141-33)
Stock number:40081.
$US 350.00
Imprint: London, 1942
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Paperback
1st Edition. Original Paper Wrappers. 8vo. 12 pages ; 22cm. In English and Hebrew on opposite pages. In December 1942 Jewish communities in 30 countries worldwide held a day of fasting for the Jewish victims of the ongoing Nazi massacres across Europe. This is the official service published by the Office of the Chief Rabbi for use on this historic day of Fasting in the United Kingdom. The British fast took place 4 days before the British and American governments issued The Joint Declaration by Members of the United Nations condemning the ongoing events of the Holocaust. OCLC lists 6 copies worldwide (Harvard, LBI, ULondon, British Lib, NLI, Senckenberg) only 2 in the United States Small stain on cover margin and at staples, Very Good- Condition. (HOLO2-130-26)
Stock number:37027.
$US 350.00
Imprint: New York, Forward Association, 1947
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Oblong 4to; 575 pages; First edition. Original Publisher's Cloth. Oblong 4to. 575, [7] pages. illus. 20 x 27 cm. In Yiddish and English throughout. A defining work on the lost Jewish communities of Europe. Others have come out in the last 2 decades, but this was the first (many, though by no means all, photos are by Vishniak) . Documenting Jewish life in Eastern Europe with over 600 photos (and text in English and Yiddish) , this work was an early post-war portrayal of these communities within the obvious context that they were gone forever, some with almost no trace of their thousand year histories remaining. Abramovitch himself was a refugee from this world--he was a leader of the Mensheviks in exile who worked at the Jewish Daily Forward and was also active in the Bund. Published as a memorial to these extinct communities, the book is bound in attractive heavy red linen with gilt spine and cover lettering in English and Yiddish, with a paper label (with a woodcut design) on the front. Owner's inscription on blank end paper, Bit of discoloration to covers, faint shadow from spine label, otherwise Very good condition. Excellent copy. (HOLO2-75-11A)
Stock number:39183.
$US 350.00
Imprint: New York, The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee,, 1946
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Paperback
First edition. Original illustrated orange paper wrappers with framed illustration of a mother holding her children. 4to. 32 pages; 22 x 28 cm. The 1945 Annual Report of the JDC detailing their aid to Holocaust survivors and refugees from around the globe including Europe, South America, Shanghai, and Palestine. Includes several articles by various authors such as “J. D. C. -A Living Tradition, ” “So They May Live Again, ” and “The American Scene, ” as well as facsimiles of letters from President Harry S. Truman amongs others. Peppered with captioned black-and-white photographs, some full page, of Jewish refugees around the world. “The year 1945 opened with much of Europe still under the heel of the Germans. Again, as in previous years, the first task was to rescue the Jews in deadly peril of their lives. ” SUBJECT (S) : Jewish refugees, Holocaust, WWII. OCLC lists 4 holdings worldwide (UC Southern California, Spertus, Tel Aviv Univ, Staats- & Uni-bib Hamburg) . 4 hole punches. Minimal edgewear. Library stamp. Very minimal markings. Otherwise very good condition. (Holo2-103-47B)
Stock number:38698.
$US 350.00
Imprint: V Bratislave; Dokumentacná Akcia Pri USZNO, 1949
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardback
1st edition. Cloth. 4to. Unpaginated (142 pages). 29 cm. First edition. In Slovak. Title translates as: The tragedy of Slovak Jewry: photographs and documents. Published in Bratislava by the Documentation Centre of CUJCR [Documentation project of the union of Jewish religious congregations in Bratislava]. Principally a phto-illustrated volume depicting the various facets of the destruction of the Jews of Slovakia; includes graph of deportation convoy charts, photographs from the extermination camps, photographs of leading Czech collaborators, anti-semitic wall propaganda posters, etc. Subjects: Jews - Czechoslovakia - Pictorial works. World War, 1939-1945 - Atrocities - Pictorial works. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) - Slovakia - Pictorial works. Judenverfolgung. Slowakei. New blank endpapers, some staining on last few leaves, otherwise Very good condition. (HOLO2-105-17), ken wachtel 2014
Stock number:35033.
$US 350.00
Imprint: Baltimore, Har Sinai Congregation, 1909
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Paperback
1st edition in English. Original string-bound Paper Wrappers, 18, [6] pages plus [5] leaves of tissued photo plates 25 cm. "Translated from the German by Rev. C. A. Rubenstein, A. M. , Rabbi, Har Sinai Congregation, in commemoration of the centenary of the birth of David Einhorn, Nov. 10, 1909…. Personal recollections of Dr. David Einhorn by Solomon Lauer. " SUBJECT (S) : Jewish sermons -- Maryland -- Baltimore. OCLC lists 8 copies worldwide, none west of Cincinnati. Touch of edgewear to wrapper which is splitting at spine, all tissued plates and text pages very good. Scarce and important. (kh-3-21)
Stock number:34085.
$US 350.00
Imprint: N.D.
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardback
Presume 1st edition. Unknown date or publisher [1950's? ]. Original wraps. 4to. [8] pages. 34 cm. First edition. In Dutch. Reproduction of eight ink drawings by Alfred Mazure on the subject of the Hongerwinter of 1944-1945, when thousands of Dutch civilians starved to death. Mazure, a comic book artist of the period, whose work was banned owing to his refusal to make nazi cartoons, worked in the soup kitchens during the Hunger Winter period; he drew these ink sketches at the time. Mazure left Holland postwar after being declared a collaborator, his work and support with the resistance notwithstanding. Subjects: Netherlands - History - German occupation, 1940-1945. None listed on OCLC. Scarce. Clean and fresh. Very good condition. (HOLO2-113-50)
Stock number:33167.
$US 350.00
Imprint: Warsaw: Spóldzielnia Wydawnicza “czytelnik”, 1945
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardback.
1st Polish edition. Later boards, 8vo, 91 pages. Includes 12 illustrated plates. In Polish. Title translates to “Majdanek: Court Proceedings of the Special Criminal Court in Lublin. ” A recording of court Preceedings of the Polish-Soviet Special Criminal Court established in Lublin in August 1944, in order to investigate the Nazi crimes in the Majdanek extermination camp. This Polish edition was published with several photographic reproductions, showing the members of the commission, the Nazi officers of the camp, the findings, human remains in Majdanek. The Majdanek concentration camp was established on Heinrich Himmler's order and operated from October 1, 1941 until it was liberated by the Soviet Army on July 22, 1944. It is known to be the best preserved Nazi concentration camp of the Holocaust, as the Germans did not have enough time to destroy the evidences of their crimes. The Commission for investigating the German crimes was established in August 1944 and soon they published this booklet in several languages. Despite of the importance of this statement it must be mentioned that the Commission made many erroneous assumptions regarding the duration of the camp or number of people killed at Majdanek, probably because they were motivated rather by political and propaganda agenda than by a search for historical facts. The total number of the victims is still controversial, in this report 1.5 million victims of different nationalities were counted, however according to the latest researches there were 79, 000 victims, 59, 000 of whom were Jews. [Kranz, T. : Bookkeeping of Death and Prisoner Mortality at Majdanek. Pp. 81-110. In: Silberklang, D. (ed. ) : Yad Vashem Studies. Vol. 35: 1. Jerusalem, 2007.].. WorldCat lists 15 copies worldwide. Overall in very good condition. (HOLO-2-140-1U) .
Stock number:39625.
$US 340.00
Imprint: Los Angeles: Coordinating Council, Youth Section Of The Workmen's Circle, 1940
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Paperback
1st edition. Original stapled paper covers, 4to (8.5x11 inch) mimeographed sheets stapled at left, 11, 11 and 4 pages. First three issues of the bulletin for members of the Youth Section of the Workmen’s Circle (Arbayter Ring) . Updates on Jewish socialists active in southern California. The second issue includes a poignant piece about a college student who committed suicide in despondence over the situation in Europe and the fear that immigrants in the US would be expelled or put in camps. Interesting war-time look at how young left-wing American Jews were responding to the unfolding Holocaust in Europe and changing conditions in the US. No copies on OCLC, so unknown if any later issues were published, but quite possibly complete. First issue has creased pages and a long closed tear to the back cover. Exceedingly rare. Important. (holo2-139-16A)
Stock number:39496.
$US 335.00
Imprint: Tel Aviv, The Joint, 1947-1948
Edition: First Edition
Binding: paperback
No Date [1947-1948] 1st Edition Thus. Original Paper Wrappers, Tall 12mo, [1], 32, [1] pages. In Hebrew. "Printed for the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee." Stamped "Bethaus-Vorstand der Israel. Kultusgemeinde Wien" on cover ("Chapel of the Board of the Jewish Religious Community Vienna") Printed in Tel Aviv for the use of Holocaust survivors in the American DP camps in Europe, this copy was clearly used by survivors in the Vienna region. During the Holocaust, as European Jewry was pushed to the brink of annihilation by Nazi Germany, the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee was the main financial benefactor towards Jewish emigration from Europe and rescue attempts of Jews from Nazi-controlled territories. From the outbreak of World War II through 1944, American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee made it possible for more than 81,000 Jews to emigrate out of Nazi-occupied Europe to safety. JDC also smuggled aid to Jewish prisoners in labor camps and helped finance the Polish Jewish underground in preparations for the 1943 Warsaw Ghetto revolt. In addition, JDC was a major channel keeping American Jewish leaders informed—often in detail—about the holocaust. Yudlov 4109; Yaari 2370 or 2371; Berman (LOC) no. 1112. Bibliography of the Hebrew Book 1470-1960 #000187706. SUBJECT(S): Seder -- Liturgy -- Texts. Judaism Haggadot. OCLC: 930762932. OCLC lists only 4 copies worldwide (Stanford, LOC, Gottfried Wihelm Leibniz Bibliothek, Staatsbibliothek Berlin). Light toning and wear Good Condition, nice copy. Scarce (HAG-25-6B) x
Stock number:41360.
$US 325.00
Imprint: New York, Overseas Relief For Displaced Persons, 1946
Softcover, 8vo, 64 pages. In Hebrew and German. Hagadah published for Jewish DPs. Yudlov 4127. SUBJECT(S): Haggadot -- Texts. Seder -- Liturgy -- Texts. Judaism -- Holocaust survivors -- Prayers and devotions. OCLC: 907936072. OCLC lists 3 copies worldwide (Amer Jewish U, USHMM, NLI). Scarce. Very Good condition, outstanding copy. (hag-7-44B)
Stock number:25845.
$US 325.00
Imprint: Riga: Izdvnieciba “kamf”, 1940
Binding: Paperback
Original Orange printed paper wrappers, showing distinctive elements of both modern and traditional typeface. 8vo, 24 pages, 21 cm. In Yiddish. Rare 1940 Riga edition of the 1936 Soviet constitution, certainly one of the last Yiddish publications in Latvia; OCLC-Worldcat literally lists not a single Yiddish publication from Riga 1941-1987. “Immediately after the establishment of German authority [in Latvia] in the beginning of July 1941, the elimination of the Jewish and Roma population began, with major mass killings taking place at Rumbula and elsewhere. The killings were committed by the Einsatzgruppe A, and the Wehrmacht. Latvian collaborators, including the 500–1, 500 members of the Arajs Commando (which alone killed around 26, 000 Jews]) and other Latvian members of the SD, were also involved. 30, 000 Jews were shot in the autumn of 1941 with most of the remaining Jewish people being rounded up and put into ghettos. In November and December 1941 the Riga Ghetto became crowded and to make room for the imminent arrival of German Jews, who were being shipped out of the country, all the remaining 30, 000 Jews in Riga were taken from the ghetto to the nearby Rumbula Forest and shot” (Wikipedia, 2016) . SUBJECT(S) : Soviet Union. Konstitutsiia (1936) -- Politics and government. OCLC lists only 1 copy anywhere (Harvard) . Only the lightest wear to wrappers, an amazingly well-preseverd copy of this exceedingly rare Yiddish imprint. (yid-26-6)
Stock number:38884.
$US 325.00
Imprint: Brooklyn: The Watch Tower, 1939
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Paperback
1st edition. Original illustrated paper wrappers, 12mo, 64 pages. 4.75x7 inches. Cover shows a miserable prisoner flanked by ball & chains of swastika and hammer & sickle, behind whom hover Hitler, Mussolini, Stalin, and front and center The Pope. "Jehovah's Witnesses were subjected to intense persecution under the Nazi regime. The Nazis targeted Jehovah's Witnesses because they were unwilling to accept the authority of the state, because of their international connections, and because they were strongly opposed to both war on behalf of a temporal authority and organized government in matters of conscience. Within months of the Nazi takeover, regional governments, primarily those of Bavaria and Prussia, initiated aggressive steps against Jehovah's Witnesses, breaking up their meetings, ransacking and then occupying their local offices. By April 1, 1935, the Reich and Prussian Minister of the Interior ordered the responsible local officials to dissolve the Watchtower Society. Many actions of Jehovah's Witnesses antagonized Nazi authorities. While Witnesses contended that they were apolitical and that their actions were not anti-Nazi, their unwillingness to give the Nazi salute, to join party organizations or to let their children join the Hitler Youth, their refusal to participate in the so-called elections or plebiscites, and their unwillingness to adorn their homes with Nazi flags made them suspect. A special unit of the Gestapo compiled a registry of all persons believed to be Jehovah's Witnesses. Gestapo agents infiltrated Bible study meetings" (USHMM 2016) No copies listed in OCLC. Evenly- toned newsprint, Very Good Condition. Holocaust-related Jehovah's Witnesses material is rare, this imprint especially so. (HOLO2-134-61) xx
Stock number:38407.
$US 325.00
Imprint: [London, Eng. ]: Friends Of Europe, 1934-1939
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Magazine
1st edition. Original paper wrappers, 4to, each issue has 8-16 pages. Broken run of 11 issues, including the first and final issues, of this important Anti-Nazi monthly from England. It began with Nr 1 (present here) following the assumption of Power by Hitler, changing names from “Monthly Survey…” to “Europe To-Morrow” after Nr 65 (also present here) following the German invastion of Poland. “Europe To-Morrow” saw it’s final issue with Nr 3, issued in December 1939 (also present here) . The Friends of Europe was a British group of anti-fascists and enemies of the Nazi regime in the 1930s and 1940s. The group worked mainly through publication of a series of writings, of which appeared between 1933 and 1939. Their stated goal was to “encourage effective co-operation for the prevention of war and the establishment of peace, as well as to provide accurate informations about Nazi Germany for use throughout Great Britain, the British Empire, the USA, Europe, and wherever the English tongue is known. ” Horizontal folds as expected, with occational wear, but no text loss, overall very good condition. (Holo2-126-15)
Stock number:36130.
$US 325.00
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Imprint: Kiev; Ukrainian-Finnish Institute Of Management And Business, 1992 and 1995
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
First volume in later boards, second volume in original wrappers. 8vo. 156 and 272, [4] pages. 20 cm. First Edition. In Russian. The authors prepared"The Essays of History of Jewish in Ukraine" to publication in two volumes. They will be published in Kiev (Ukraine) and Germany soon. It is the first attempt in Ukraine to review on the documentary basis the main periods of the Jews' life in the area of present-day Ukraine for two thousand years – from the first Jewish communities in the colonies of Crimea, founded by ancient Greeks, till now; from the first persecutions of Jews – the fascist genocide and the state antisemitism in the former Soviet Union. […] We hope this book will be interesting and useful to those, who is holding the attention on the history of the Jewish people. " (Preface) Subjects: Jews -- Ukraine -- History. Ukraine -- Ethnic relations. Both volumes ex-library, with volume one rebound in later boards. Small tear to lower front cover of second volume. Both have inscriptions on title page. Very good condition. (UKR-1-35)
Stock number:33704.
$US 325.00
Imprint: Prague, Sozialdemokratischen Partei Deutschlands, 1940
Paperback. 8vo. 92 pages. Published in exile by the heavily Jewish SPD, these monthly reports covered sociopolitical and economic conditions in Germany, and were harshly critical of the Nazi regime. CONTENTS: “The Situation of the Evacuated Families: Reports from South West and Central Germany, ” “The German Rule of Terror in Poland. ” OCLC lists 5 copies worldwide (Staats & Universitatsbibliothek Hamburg, Univ m Hannnover & TIB, Universitatsbibliothek Oldenburg Ibit, Bibliothek Des Herder-Instituts, Universitatsbibliothek Passau) . Some chipping at edges of covers and small tears on backstrip. Writing in pencil from previous owner on cover. Pages darkened at edges but all text is clear. Good condition. (HOLO2-33-12)
Stock number:26182.
$US 325.00
Imprint: London : Anglo-Palestinian Club, 1946
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Paper Wrappers
Presume 1st edition. Original printed paper wrappers, 16mo (pocket sized), 32 pages. 13 cm. In August “ 1940, David Ben-Gurion…attended a reception at the Anglo-Palestinian Club in London’s Windmill Street for those members of the Palestinian Company of the Auxiliary Military Pioneer Corps who had escaped Hitler’s forces.Above all, he was astounded at the resilience of the British at this time of national peril and, if necessary, to stand alone against the Nazi plague.He wrote to his long suffering wife, Paula: ‘I am dumbfounded by the levelheadedness and inner confidence of this wonderful nation. It is as if nothing can shock it and nothing undermines its faith and confidence that victory will come in the end.’ Simultaneously he raged against the terrible reality that the Jews were powerless both in the Yishuv (Jewish settlement in Palestine) and in the diaspora to stop the conquering Nazi armies….Ben-Gurion saw his trip as an act of solidarity with London, whose citizens were dying in their tens of thousands. It was also an act of resistance. He wrote: ‘I saw consummate heroism, physical and moral, not of individuals, not of pioneers. but of a nation, of millions of workers, merchants, shopkeepers, office workers... I know of no more majestic and sublime sight in all of history.’He included the Jews of Whitechapel in that tribute. In Ben-Gurion’s eyes, London became sanctified and he felt ‘holiness in that place’”(Shindler in Jewish Chronicle, 2019).OCLC: 1117627654. OCLC lists one copy worldwide (NLI). Previous Owner's name on cover, Very Good Condition. Rare. (BR-12-21)
Stock number:42349.
$US 300.00
Imprint: New York: Joint Executive of the Jewish Black Book Committee, N.D.
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Paper Wrappers
4to; No Date (1945). 1st edition. Original printed paper wrappers, 8vo 40 pages; Illustrated with facsimiles and a double page map indicating the Jewish Population in Pre-Hitler Europe. From the Preface by Albert Einstein: "This material is selected from a collection of documents dealing with the destruction of large sections of the Jewish people. It appears in the present brochure prior to the publication of the complete report." It includes contributions from Grossman on Treblinka, the Nuremberg Laws, Sutzkever on Schweigenburg and Maurer, The Colored Slips, some material collected by Ehrenburg, etc. The Black Book itself, published in 1946 was “an indictment of the Holocaust and documentation of evidence leading up to it commissioned by the World Jewish Congress. It was submitted for evidence at the Nuremberg Trials as evidence against the Nazis for crimes against the Jewish people. The book was prepared in 1946 by the Jewish Black Book Committee, which included the World Jewish Congress; the Jewish Anti Fascist Committee, USSR; Vaad Leumi, Palestine; and the American Committee of Jewish Writers, Artists, and Scientists. The Black Book is broken down into seven sections: Indictment, Conspiracy, The Law, Strategy of Decimation, Annihilation, Resistance, and Justice. Indictment: This section, written by Max Radin, outlines the accusations against the Nazis that the book makes. Radin gives three ways in which the Nazis killed Jews: pogrom, gas chamber, and starvation. He also accuses the Nazis of deliberately organizing society to put Jews at the bottom, indoctrinating children to think like Nazis, and robbing Jews of their property and driving them from their homes. Conspiracy: This section, written by Frances McClernan, describes the beginnings of Nazi antisemitism as a carefully organized plan that was a basic part of Nazi dynamics. First, the Nazis hid their plan to take over the world by accusing Jews of planning the same. Using pseudoscience and falsified history, they created something called the ‘Jewish World Plot’ where the Jews would exterminate Aryans and take over the world. The Nazis rejected the God of the Old Testament, since he was described as ‘the God of the Jews’. They would often selectively choose passages of the New Testament to support their ideology. In 1937, Dr. Heinz Weidemann, Bishop of Bremen, wrote a Nazified version of the Gospel of St. John. In order to indoctrinate children to Nazism, the Nazis not only had to educate the youth of Germany but also had to un-educate years of European culture. After ten years of Nazi propaganda and grooming society to believe that Jews were the enemy, they eventually came to actual violence in 1932 when shops were destroyed and people beaten. On March 29th of the following year, a boycott of Jewish businesses was ordered. Nazis spread antisemitism in any country they could. Often, they advertised antisemitism as a defensive front against communism. The Nazis made Jews the enemy of the Soviets, saying that the USSR was controlled by Jews living in prosperity while the people suffered. They also planted Judaism in any country they could to justify their aggression, such as using photographs as evidence that Franklin Roosevelt was a Jew. They used this to justify the war. The Law: This section, written by Anne L. Bloch, gives a history of all anti-Jew laws passed by the Nazis starting in April 1933 and extending throughout the war. These laws were based on what the 'Aryan Man' deemed right or wrong, and since Jews were considered a 'legal wrong' they had to be eliminated. Strategy of Decimation: This section, written by Gitel Poznanski, describes the three ways that the Nazis weakened the Jewish population before putting them into death camps. The first was expulsion - forcing the Jews out of Nazi-occupied land and into Poland or the USSR. This made them easier targets for slave labor later and severed any connections they may have made at home. The first arrests of Jews were for their ‘protection’, which quickly turned into the first detention camps in 1933. Using these camps as a threat, the Nazis forced Jews to emigrate very quickly, which often lead to illegal immigration. In Austria this process was much worse. In Germany the process of expulsion took place over about five years, but after the Anschluss the process was carried out in only a few months. Because of this there were over 3,500 deaths by suicide in the first year of the occupation, and the number of Jews in Austria shrunk from 180,000 to 55,000. Poznanski goes on to describe similar practices in many other Nazi-occupied countries: Czechoslovakia, Holland, Belgium, Luxembourg, France, Norway, Denmark, Hungary, Greece, and Yugoslavia. The next process was the institution of slave labor. 165,000,000 Europeans were forced to work under threat of being sent to concentration camps. The Nazi strategy was not to treat them like valuable resources to be kept alive; instead they were 'worked to the point of debilitation' and ‘kept on the edge of starvation’. This practice was carried out in Germany, Czechoslovakia, Holland, Belgium, France, and Poland. The last process was starvation. The book provides many graphs and figures of how much food was rationed to people in each occupied country. Germany always got the most food, and any food to be found in another country was pillaged so that ‘Germany ate while her subjects starved’. Annihilation: This section describes the grim Nazi death camps and how they came to be. Originally Nazis would kill the Jews using traditional methods of hanging and shooting, but these were found to be too slow and inefficient. To fix this problem, they started using the gas chamber as their main method of murder. When they realized that the tide of the war had turned and that they might be forced to answer for their crimes, the Nazis began to dig up the corpses of those who had been killed in gas chambers and burn them. In order to again make the process more efficient, crematoriums were built on the gas chambers. This section also provides many eyewitness accounts of the concentration camps, mostly prisoners of war. Resistance and Justice: These sections, written by Frances McClernan and B.Z. Goldberg respectively, are the two shortest in the book. The first, Resistance, describes how the Jewish people resisted during the war, and how some of them escaped. The second and last, Justice, states how everything documented in the book is not the complete record of Nazi crimes, and could never represent the ‘full horror of the Nazi nightmare’. The section also brings the book to a conclusion: ‘The objective of this effort was to bring before the world the basic pattern and the salient, incontestable facts of the murderous fascist conspiracy against the Jews.’ Initial reviews for The Black Book were mixed. Frederic Ewen called it ‘the most thoroughly documented and dramatic indictment of the Nazi atrocities available today’ and ‘a story which must be read for its horrible truth’. However, Hannah Arendt thought the book a technical failure, saying ‘The Black Book fails because its authors, submerged in a chaos of details, were unable to understand or make clear the nature of the facts confronting them’” (Wikipedia).OCLC 22146635. OCLC lists 9 copies worldwide, none at the US Holocaust Museum and none at any Ivy League Institution. Contents clean and complete, front wrapper has three small stains/foxing, Very Good Condition (holo2-148-6-E-'+), MP
Stock number:42162.
$US 300.00
Imprint: London, World Jewish Congress, 1948
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Paperback
Inscription: Signed, Inscribed Or Annotated
1st edition. Original paper wrappers. 8vo, 47 pages. Early post-war report on the heroic wartime activities of the British Section of the WJC. 11 plates of letters in back. “The British Section was formally established at a National Conference in November, 1936, when an Executive Committee was elected. From the first, the Section participated actively in all the campaigns conducted by the World Jewish Congress in relation to many problems affecting European Jewry, especially those arising from the Nazi anti-Jewish terror and the sufferings of East European Jewry through the persecutions, humiliations and discriminations of reactionary Governmnets. It called a number of important National Conferences, such as that for the Defence of Rights of Polish Jews in 1937, a mass demonstration to protest against Nazi terror in 1938, and conducted a campaign in which over 300 University professors and lecturers signed a protest against tge “Ghetto Benches” in Poland in 1939. On these occasions, the British Section received messages from many outstanding leaders of the churches and political parties” (page 3) OCLC: 857441, OCLC lists 4 copies worldwide (HUC, British Libr Reference Collections, National Libr of Israel, and Eth-bibliothek Zurich). Corners dented, cover edges slightly sunned, clean copy. Very Good Condition. (HOLO2-144-3-'a+)
Stock number:41908.
$US 300.00
Imprint: New York, Bialystok Jewish Historical Association, 1949
Edition: First Edition
Binding: HARDBACK
1st edition. Original Cloth, 8vo, 480 + 380 pages. In Yiddish. The chronicle of Bialystok: basic material for the history of the Jews in Bialystok until the period after the First World War. OCLC: 10792576. Very Good Condition(YIZ-10-1), ok 2/2021
Stock number:41479.
$US 300.00
Imprint: New York, Gezelshaft Tsu Faraybikn..., 1967
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Cloth
1st edition. Original publisher's cloth, 4to; 342 + 145 pages; In Yiddish. Title translates as, "Jews in the Ukraine." With lots of illustrations and detailed index. OCLC: 18462513. Ex-library with usual marks, Light wear, about Very Good Condition. (YIZ-5-8A)xx, ok 2/2021
Stock number:41478.
$US 300.00
Imprint: Varsha: [Drukarnia Uniwersalna], 1938
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Paperback
1st edition. Original paper wrappers. 4to. 329 pages. 33cm. In Yiddish. Holocaust-era imprint. Title translates to “Haynt [Today]: Commemorative Book 1908-1938.” 30th anniversary edition of Haynt, Yiddish daily newspaper, published in Warsaw between 1908 and 1939, shut down with the invasion of Poland. From its first years Haynt boasted an impressive list of authors and well-known writers such as Y. L. Peretz; David Frishman; Hillel Zeitlin; and Sholem Aleichem, a few of whose novels were serialized. Was one of the two longest running and most important Yiddish daily papers published in Warsaw in the early 1900s (YIVO, 2010) . Offers excellent insight into the interwar Polish Jewish literary and intellectual scene SUBJECTS: Jewish newspapers -- Poland -- Warsaw. OCLC lists 9 copies worldwide (OCLC 60600457) . Ex-library with no markings. Significant repairs throughout. Pages browning. All contents good. (YID-40-75)
Stock number:40129.
$US 300.00
Imprint: Buenos Aires; Talleras Graficos Julio Kaufman, 1950
Binding: Pamphlet
Original Wraps. 16mo. 31 pages. 15 cm. In Yiddish with Hebrew. "Le-shanah ha-ba'ah bene horin be-ara de-Yisra'el. " - Cover. With added Spanish title page at rear: La Nueva Hagada? De Pesaj: del presente 1933-1945 - epoca – Hitleriana. La Noche Sagrada de Egipto y la liberacion del judaismo europeo del yugo nazi. ” New Haggada for the commemoration of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, the resistance and martyrs in during the Hitlerian epoch. Replete with songs of the partisans. Endpages contain facsimile of letters from representatives of the State of Israel in support of this Haggadah. Subjects: Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) - Miscellanea. Haggada. OCLC lists 2 copies (Harvard, Natl Libr Israel) . Light soiling to wraps, otherwise clean and fresh. Very good condition. Scarce. (HAG-16-12A)
Stock number:38523.
$US 300.00
Imprint: Oslo, Florlagt Av H. Aschehoug, 1945
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Cloth
8vo; 306 pages; In Norwegian. Grogaard's drawings--camp scenes, cartoons, portraits of his imprisoned comrades--are wonderful--some are charicatures, others are beautiful busts which show off his skill as a trained artist. With a drawing on nearly every page of this large book, there probably does not exist a better illustrated work on on the Nazi concentration camp at Grini. Very Good Condition. Lacks Jacket (ART-12-12)
Stock number:6446.
$US 300.00
Imprint: Liège: G. Thone, 1946
Edition: First Edition
Binding: paperback
1st edition, original orange paper wrappers. 8vo, 35 pages, photographs throughout. In French. Title translates to “War Crimes Committed During the Liberation of National Territory, September 1944: Foret.” Phtographs of “Les ruines du chateau du Foret (The ruins of the Forest Castle),” “La cour de la ferme Labeye apres le drame (The courtyard of Labeye farm after the tragedy),” map “Un plan general des lieux (A general plan of the premises),” “Une range de victims de la tragedie de Foret (A range of victims of Foret's tragedy),” and “Le corps a demi calcine d’un des martyrs (The half-calcined body of one of the martyrs).” OCLC: 22146250. OCLC lists 3 copies in North America (YIVO, NYPL, Hoover) Very Good Condition. Scarce. (HOLO2-159-33-’a+)
Stock number:41445.
$US 300.00
Imprint: Tel Aviv, The Joint, 1947-1948
Edition: First Edition
Binding: paperback
No Date [1947-1948] 1st Edition Thus. Original Paper Wrappers, Tall 12mo, [1], 32, [1] pages. In Hebrew. "Printed for the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee." Printed in Tel Aviv for the use of Holocaust survivors in the American DP camps in Germany. During the Holocaust, as European Jewry was pushed to the brink of annihilation by Nazi Germany, the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee was the main financial benefactor towards Jewish emigration from Europe and rescue attempts of Jews from Nazi-controlled territories. From the outbreak of World War II through 1944, American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee made it possible for more than 81,000 Jews to emigrate out of Nazi-occupied Europe to safety. JDC also smuggled aid to Jewish prisoners in labor camps and helped finance the Polish Jewish underground in preparations for the 1943 Warsaw Ghetto revolt. In addition, JDC was a major channel keeping American Jewish leaders informed—often in detail—about the holocaust. Yudlov 4109; Yaari 2370 or 2371; Berman (LOC) no. 1112. Bibliography of the Hebrew Book 1470-1960 #000187706. SUBJECT(S): Seder -- Liturgy -- Texts. Judaism Haggadot. OCLC: 930762932. OCLC lists only 4 copies worldwide (Stanford, LOC, Gottfried Wihelm Leibniz Bibliothek, Staatsbibliothek Berlin). Light wear, winestain on cover, Good Solid Condition. Scarce (HAG-25-6) x
Stock number:41432.
$US 300.00
Imprint: New York, Bialystok Jewish Historical Association, 1949
Edition: First Edition
Binding: HARDBACK
1st edition. Original Cloth, 8vo, 480 + 380 pages. In Yiddish. The chronicle of Bialystok: basic material for the history of the Jews in Bialystok until the period after the First World War. Very Good Condition(YIZ-10-1), ok 2/2021
Stock number:14335.
$US 300.00
Imprint: Tel Aviv, The Joint, 1947-1948
Edition: First Edition
Binding: paperback
No Date [1947-1948] 1st Edition Thus. Original Paper Wrappers, Tall 12mo, [1], 32, [1] pages. In Hebrew. "Printed for the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee." Printed in Tel Aviv for the use of Holocaust survivors in the American DP camps in Germany. During the Holocaust, as European Jewry was pushed to the brink of annihilation by Nazi Germany, the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee was the main financial benefactor towards Jewish emigration from Europe and rescue attempts of Jews from Nazi-controlled territories. From the outbreak of World War II through 1944, American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee made it possible for more than 81,000 Jews to emigrate out of Nazi-occupied Europe to safety. JDC also smuggled aid to Jewish prisoners in labor camps and helped finance the Polish Jewish underground in preparations for the 1943 Warsaw Ghetto revolt. In addition, JDC was a major channel keeping American Jewish leaders informed—often in detail—about the holocaust. Yudlov 4109; Yaari 2370 or 2371; Berman (LOC) no. 1112. Bibliography of the Hebrew Book 1470-1960 #000187706. SUBJECT(S): Seder -- Liturgy -- Texts. Judaism Haggadot. OCLC: 930762932. OCLC lists only 4 copies worldwide (Stanford, LOC, Gottfried Wihelm Leibniz Bibliothek, Staatsbibliothek Berlin). Light wear and toning, Good Solid Condition. Scarce (HAG-25-6) x
Stock number:41358.
$US 300.00
Imprint: New York, Schocken, 1947
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Inscription: Signed, Inscribed Or Annotated
Small folio, 17, 33pages. First Edition. Inscribed by Vishniac's father, Solomon.With an introductory essay by Abraham Joshua Heschel. A most moving depiction of vibrant Jewish life before the Holocaust. 31 black and white photographs, many now iconic images of Eastern European Jewish life. Original boards, beautiful clean copy in jacket that lacks 3 inches of the spine and has spine label at the bottom but otherwise nice. Inscribed by Vishniac's father, Solomon, in the old Russian style, on the end paper. We had an expert from the Roman Vishniac collection at the Institute for Contemporary Photography take a look at it and this is what they concluded: "It’s written in the old Russian language (tsarist’s times) and says 'In memory to dear Ida Glezer from the devoted friend Solomon Vishnyak (signiture) Roman Vishnyak.' So here we have confirmation. Roman Vishniac's father, Solomon Vishniac, inscribed his son's book to a friend, in the old Russian language of tsarist's times (whereas, Roman Vishniac's Russian was quite modern...So, not signed by Vishniac, but by his father. Confirmed attribution." Very Good Condition in Good Jacket with damaged spine and spine label on jacket only (EE-3-20) xx
Stock number:41288.
$US 300.00
Imprint: Moscow, Foreign Languages Pub. House, 1943
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Paperback
1st edition. Original paper wrappers. 8vo, 15+ [1] pages. Holocaust-era denunciation of use of Slave labor by Nazi Germany. "In executing the fiendish plans of the Hitlerite government, the German authorities organized the wholesale transportation of the civilian Soviet population to German slavery in the entire occupied Soviet territory without even a pretense of 'voluntariness. ' In the Soviet territory occupied by by the Germans there is literally not a single town, not a single village and not a single inhabited point from which the German fascist freebooters have not driven into slavery a considerable section of men, women, young persons and children. " (page 5) Subjects: World War, 1939-1945 -- Atrocities. OCLC: 38780021, OCLC lists 5 copies worldwide (Hoover, US Dept of State, UKS, UToronto) . Few labeling notes in pen on cover, previous owner's stamp on back cover. Good Condition Overall. (HOLO2-145-12)
Stock number:40822.
$US 300.00
Imprint: London: Office Of The Chief Rabbi,, 1944
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Paperback
1st edition, original wrappers, 12mo. 7 pages. 15 cm. On the 1-year anniversary of the uprising, Rabbi Hertz discusses the world’s reaction, asking, “What has been--we wonder--the reaction in Allied lands to this stark Satanism? ” He praises church leaders among the few who were vigorous in their protests, answering rhetorically, stating, “Well the Press--with few honourable exceptions--passed it over in silence; and the larger public has thus remained unmoved by this mass crucifixion of a whole people. Only men and women of light and leading realised that Nazism was a maniacal assault on all the ethical foundations of society--pity, decency, and respect for life; an attempt to make a clean sweep of the sacred Heritage of Man. Foremost among them were the Heads of the Churches, with their passionate plea that, as the crimes were unheard-of, unheard-of measures were called for to stop them. ” (page 6) . The author, Joseph Herman Hertz (1872-1946, London) , was “chief rabbi of the United Hebrew Congregations of the Commonwealth and author of books on Judaism and of influential commentaries on the Bible expressing a fundamentalist viewpoint....Hertz was elected to his post as chief rabbi in England in 1913. His career in that position was a colourful one. He attacked the newly formed Liberal Jewish movement (a movement more or less equivalent to U. S. Reform Judaism) . His powerful attacks on anti-Semitism included one, in the presence of the Russian ambassador, against Russian discrimination. ” (Britannica.com 2018) SUBJECT(S) : Jewish sermons, English -- Great Britain. Warsaw Ghetto Uprising (Warsaw, Poland: 1943) . History. OCLC: 83060276, OCLC lists 5 copies online (YIVO, USHMM, Harvard, USC, NLI) . Near perfect condition, Very Good Condition, a beautiful copy (HOLO2-141-6)
Stock number:40027.
$US 300.00
Imprint: New York, N. Y. : American Hebrew, 1940
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
1st edition. 4to. Later Cloth, 4to, Approximately 20 pages each, approximately 520 pages total. Issues were published weekly. Holocaust-era American weekly Jewish magazine. “From the time of its founding, The American Hebrew covered many topics of intense Jewish interest internationally” (wikipedia 2018). This set of magazines contain articles about WWII, such as the topic of Jewish refugees, “Behind the War,” “Relationship Between Religion and Democracy, “War Propaganda in England and Germany,” as well as things essays as a “Resort Guide: Another List of Ideal Vacation Spots Selected for American Hebrew Readers.” SUBJECT(S): Jewish newspapers. -- United States. OCLC: 1479954. Many copies have a YMHA stamp on cover of magazine. Cloth cover has staining and dampstains, pages are not affected. Spine says “American Hebrew 147 May-Nov. 1940”. Magazines in Very Good Condition. (HOLO2-140-11-J)
Stock number:40003.
$US 300.00
Imprint: New York, American Representation Of The General Jewish Workers' Union Of Poland,, 1946
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Paperback
used Good Condition; 1st English Language Edition. Softcover, 76 pages, 8vo, 23 cm. On the warsaw uprising, written by a participant who survived. Leading Holocaust historian Lucy Dawidowicz' Copy, with her ownership name pencilled on front cover, name and date penned on title page, and occational margin notes in pencil. Indeed, "Upon her [Dawidowicz'] return to the U.S. [in 1947] she worked as a researcher for the novelist John Hersey's book The Wall, a dramatization of the 1943 Warsaw Ghetto Uprising," the subject of this work and a project for which this very copy would have been a primary resource. SUBJECT (S) : World War, 1939-1945 -- Poland -- Warsaw. Jews -- Poland -- Warsaw. "Translation of a pamphlet published in Warsaw, Poland, in 1945 by the Central Committee of the 'Bund. '" Bit of edgewear to wrappers, spine tapped Good Condition. (Holo2-18-24A), ok 2020/4
Stock number:39679.
$US 300.00
Imprint: Nyu York (New York) : Aroysgegebn Fun Der Idisher Kultur Gezelshaft?,, 1932
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardback
Inscription: Signed, Inscribed Or Annotated
1st edition. Original modernist illustrated cloth cover, 8vo, 159, [1] pages ; 22 cm. In Yiddish. Signed by author on end paper. Features construtivist cover by Aron Gudelman. This is featured as “fig. 25” in Hillel Kozovsky’s “C’Etait l’Epoque ou l’On a Commence a Illustrer les Livres Juifs, ” [appearing in French Translation in ‘Futur antérieur: l'Avant-garde et le livre yiddish (1914-1939) , ’ p. 47]. Aron Gudelman (Ataki, Bessarabia, 1890 - New York, 1978) “was a sculptor, illustrator, etcher, lecturer, and teacher. Born in Russia, he immigrated to New York in 1905 at the time of pogroms in Russia. After attending the Cooper Union and the National Academy of Design, in 1914 he studied with Jean-Antoine Injalbert at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris. Supporting himself as a machinist in the 1920s, Goodelman became a communist. His concerns about social and economic conditions were expressed in his art. He participated in exhibitions at the John Reed Club in the early 1930s. After World War II, Goodelman created artworks related to the Holocaust. He taught at City College of New York in the 1960s” (National Museum of American Art, 1996) . Very light wear, spine sunned with touch of wear at crown and foot. A beautiful copy, with the original velveteen on the cloth cover still very much in tact. Very Good Condition (Yid-26-8A)
Stock number:39022.
$US 300.00
Imprint: Nyu York (New York) : Aroysgegebn Fun Der Idisher Kultur Gezelshaft?,, 1932
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardback
Inscription: Signed, Inscribed Or Annotated
1st edition. Original modernist illustrated cloth cover, 8vo, 159, [1] pages ; 22 cm. In Yiddish. Signed by author on end paper. Features construtivist cover by Aron Gudelman. This is featured as “fig. 25” in Hillel Kozovsky’s “C’Etait l’Epoque ou l’On a Commence a Illustrer les Livres Juifs, ” [appearing in French Translation in ‘Futur antérieur: l'Avant-garde et le livre yiddish (1914-1939) , ’ p. 47]. Aron Gudelman (Ataki, Bessarabia, 1890 - New York, 1978) “was a sculptor, illustrator, etcher, lecturer, and teacher. Born in Russia, he immigrated to New York in 1905 at the time of pogroms in Russia. After attending the Cooper Union and the National Academy of Design, in 1914 he studied with Jean-Antoine Injalbert at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris. Supporting himself as a machinist in the 1920s, Goodelman became a communist. His concerns about social and economic conditions were expressed in his art. He participated in exhibitions at the John Reed Club in the early 1930s. After World War II, Goodelman created artworks related to the Holocaust. He taught at City College of New York in the 1960s” (National Museum of American Art, 1996) . Very light wear, spine sunned with touch of wear at crown and foot. A beautiful copy, with the original velveteen on the cloth cover still very much in tact. Very Good Condition (Yid-26-8)
Stock number:39021.
$US 300.00
Imprint: Toronto : Canadian Association For Adult Education, 1944
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Paperback
1st Edition. Original Wrappers. 8vo. 56 pages ; 18 cm. With an Introduction from Claris Edwin Silcox. A Canadian account of ongoing Holocaust Atrocities, here establishing the number of Jewish dead at 3 million in 1944. Black begins, “Anti-Semitism is, perhaps, the worst blot on the escutcheon of the Christian Church ; it is also one of the most dangerous maladies of our age…” “I shall trouble you, ” Black writes, “With only one more bit of statistics regarding the Jewish domination of Europe. Of the approximately 7, 000, 000 Jews formerly resident in Axis-dominated Europe, some 3, 000, 000 have already been murdered. ” SUBJECT (S) : Antisemitism. Judaism -- Relations -- Christianity. Wrappers are worn with some discoloration. Otherwise Very Good Condition. (holo2-135-6)
Stock number:38626.
$US 300.00
Imprint: Shanghai: Mfitsei Or, 1946
Binding: Hardcover
First Shanghai edition. Original boards. 8vo. 54, 68, 80, 86, 90 pages. 23 cm. In Hebrew. Title translates to “The Shining Light. ” Zeev Wolf was a Hasidic rabbi best known for the present book, originally published in Koretz in 1787. It is important for its wealth of material on the history of ? Asidism and the teachings of its founders. This edition was published in conjunction with the displaced community of Yeshivat Chachmei Lublin. During the 1930s and 1940s as the situation of the Jewish communities in Europe deteriorated, many students from the yeshivah escaped via Japan due the efforts of the Japanese Consul General in Kovno, Lithuania. SUBJECTS: Lublin --Holocaust – Displaced Persons-Hasidim. Not listed on OCLC or the National Library of Israel database. Internally Very Good. Overall in Very Good Condition. (RAB-60-18)
Stock number:38286.
$US 300.00
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Imprint: No Place Listed, H. V. D. Woude, [1945]
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Paperback
[1945] 1st Edition. Original Illustrated Paper Wrappers with red illustration of a sinking ship from the infamous May 3rd 1945 bombing of the Thielbek, Cap Arcona, and Deutschland. 8vo. 35 pages ; 21 cm. In Dutch. Title translates to, “Neuengamme: The Disaster in the Bend of Lubeck. ” “The Neuengamme concentration camp, was a German concentration camp, established in 1938 by the SS near the village of Neuengamme in the Bergedorf district of Hamburg, Germany. It was operated by the Nazis from 1938 to 1945. Over that period an estimated 106, 000 prisoners were held at Neuegamme and at its subcamps…” (Wikipedia, 2016) “British forces arrived on May 4, 1945. In early May 1945, the SS loaded some 9, 000-10, 000 prisoners—most of them evacuated from Neuengamme and its subcamps—onto three ships anchored in the Baltic Sea off the coast of Neustadt in Schleswig-Holstein. Some 7, 000 lost their lives when the British attacked two of the ships in the course of a raid on the harbor on May 3. The Thielbek, carrying about 2, 000 prisoners, sank quickly. The Cap Arcona, carrying more than 4, 500 prisoners, burned and capsized during the attack. Only about 600 prisoners from both ships survived. ” (US Holocaust Museum) . This is a Dutch account of the tragedy by survivor H. Rolsma. Rolsma’s byline on the cover also reads, “Prisoner No. 77431” OCLC lists 6 copies worldwide, none outside of the Netherlands. Some edgewear. Good+ condition. Important story. (holo2-130-62)
Stock number:37246.
$US 300.00
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Imprint: Yerushalayim : Shoken [Shocken], 1950/51
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardback
1950/51. 1st edition. Original Cloth in the rare illustrated dust jacket. 8vo, 385 pages. 23 cm. In the original Hebrew. Book of Holocaust poetry published just after the Holocaust by one of the greatest 20th-century Hebrew and Yiddish poets. Leah Orent notes that "On Tisha b'Av, the day of collective mourning for Jewish national disasters both ancient and modern, it has become customary to read Holocaust literature. Greenberg's Rehovot ha-Nahar is an epic Holocaust lamentation, published in 1951. Reading a representative selection from the text, we…. Examine how the poet's private voice merges with that of his persona as spokesperson for the Jewish people, addressing a silent God in heaven and confronting the murderers on earth. We…consider the speaker's struggle to balance the guilt of a survivor with his sense of prophetic vocation. Ultimately, the collection articulates a vision of Jewish history flowing like an eternal river from Abraham to Sinai through the horrors of the Holocaust towards the revival of the kingdom of Israel and messianic redemption" (2014) . Indeed, Greenberg's poems in this collection are cited by, for example, leading Holocaust scholar David S. Wyman in "The World Reacts to the Holocaust" (Baltimore, 1996, see for example page 922) . Very Good Condition with dustjacket mounted onto boards. A very nice and attractive copy. (holo2-122-48A)
Stock number:37196.
$US 300.00
Imprint: Leipzig, F. A. Brockhaus, 1850
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Softcover
VG; 8vo; 1st edition. Later Wrappers, 4to, 471 pages.This volume only, complete for Juden-Jüdische Literatur (essentially the section of the encyclopedia dealing with Jews) Excellent mid-19th Century German overview of Jewish hsitory, with an empahsis on the Medieval & Modern periods. Contibuters Jewish and Christian scholars. Sections Include Juden (Geschichte) ; Judenchristen; Judenemancipation; Judenschlacht; Judenteutsch (i. E. Judeo-German) ; etc The entire Encyclopedia was a collasal work, 167 volumes publihsed between 1818-1889--and the editors only made it A-Phyx ! Heavy mid-19th Century rag paper has held up very well; Very Good Condition (KH-3-26), bloch 2014
Stock number:36048.
$US 300.00
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Imprint: Yerushalayim : Shoken [Shocken], 1950/51
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardback
1950/51. 1st edition. Original Cloth in the rare illustrated dust jacket. 8vo, 385 pages. 23 cm. In the original Hebrew. Book of Holocaust poetry published just after the Holocaust by one of the greatest 20th-century Hebrew and Yiddish poets. Leah Orent notes that "On Tisha b'Av, the day of collective mourning for Jewish national disasters both ancient and modern, it has become customary to read Holocaust literature. Greenberg's Rehovot ha-Nahar is an epic Holocaust lamentation, published in 1951. Reading a representative selection from the text, we…. Examine how the poet's private voice merges with that of his persona as spokesperson for the Jewish people, addressing a silent God in heaven and confronting the murderers on earth. We…consider the speaker's struggle to balance the guilt of a survivor with his sense of prophetic vocation. Ultimately, the collection articulates a vision of Jewish history flowing like an eternal river from Abraham to Sinai through the horrors of the Holocaust towards the revival of the kingdom of Israel and messianic redemption" (2014) . Indeed, Greenberg's poems in this collection are cited by, for example, leading Holocaust scholar David S. Wyman in "The World Reacts to the Holocaust" (Baltimore, 1996, see for example page 922) . Very Good Condition in the moving woodcut dust jacket which shows just a bit of rubbing and edgewear, also in Very Good Condition. A very nice and attractive copy. (holo2-122-48)
Stock number:35409.
$US 300.00
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Imprint: [New York]; M. Levin, 1967
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publishers cloth. XIV, 86 pages. 1st edition. “Shoshanna Rozen and Dori Ben Zev as Anna and Peter” (text accompanying photo on cover) . "Privately published by the author for literary discussion"; “Arranged by Batya Lancet and Peter Frye for the Israel Soldiers theatre, as directed by Peter Frye. ” Contains a long preface by Meyer Levin about the controversial history, in the face of copyright restrictions from Otto Frank, to perform this play, which apparently was a major success at its debut show in Israel. Contains the entire script for the play, adapted from the Diary of Anne Frank; 3 photographs from performances at the Israel Soldiers Theatre, and numerous reviews on back page. Subjects: Frank, Anne, 1929-1945 - Drama. OCLC lists 15 copies. Ex-library with usual marks, small stain on cover, otherwise Very Good Condition. Rare (HOLO2-103-22A)
Stock number:35029.
$US 300.00
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Imprint: Budapest; Park Ko¨nyvkiado´, 2007
Binding: Hardcover
Original Cloth. 4to. 1, 590 pages. 28 cm. First Hungarian edition. Edited by Randolph Braham. Housed in illustrated box. Three volume set: 1. Ko¨t. Abau´j-Torna va´rmeyge-Ma´rmaros va´rmegyge - 2. Ko¨t. Maros-Torda va´rmeyge-Zemple´n va´rmegye - 3. Ko¨t. Fu¨ggele´k. “The illustrated three-volume Geographical Encyclopedia of the Holocaust in Hungary is a magisterial resource, thorough and exhaustive, chronicling the wartime fate of the Jewish communities in that country where virulent antisemitism is anything but dead, even today. With scores of detailed maps and hundreds of photographs, this reference work is organized alphabetically by county, each prefaced with a map and a contextual history describing its Jewish population up to and into 1944. Entries track the demographic, cultural, and religious changes in even the smallest communities where Jews lived before their marginalization, dispossession, ghettoization, and, finally, deportation to labor and death camps. The encyclope¬dia endows scholars and lay researchers with both panoramic and microscopic views of the virtually last-minute destruction of most of the Jews of Hungary, until then the last sizable surviving Jewish community in occupied Europe. ” - USHMM. Subjects: Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) - Hungary - Encyclopedias. Jews - Persecutions - Hungary - Encyclopedias. Antisemitism - Hungary - Encyclopedias. Judenvernichtung. Antisemitism. Jews - Persecutions. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) . OCLC lists 17 copies. Brand new in publishers plastic. Very good + condition. (BRAHAM-1-45) xx
Stock number:33990.
$US 300.00
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Imprint: London; M. L. Cailingold, 1939
Binding: Hardback
Original Wraps. 8vo. 30, [2] pages. 21 cm. In Hebrew and Yiddish (“Taitsh”) , not the more common Hebrew-English edition. 'Haggadah Shel Pesah, in Hebrew and Yiddish; Stories of the Exodus from Egypt'. Illustrated throughout. An English and Hebrew Haggadah was issued in the same year by Cailingold, arranged by H. Meiliz; the English Haggadah was often reissued throughout the 1930's. Our copy is similar to the English-Hebrew copy, with the same illustrations. Very scarce. Subjects: Haggada shel Pesah. Haggadot - Texts. Yiddish, Hebrew – Haggadah – London – 1939.Passover - Liturgy. Seder - Liturgy – Texts. None of this edition on OCLC. Wraps loose, pages lightly soiled, brittle, with wine stains. Fair condition. (HAG-13-41)
Stock number:33896.
$US 300.00
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Imprint: London; Mizrachi Federation And Bachad Fellowship, 1942
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardback
Original Wraps. 8vo. 16 pages. 21 cm. First edition. In English with three pages of Hebrew at rear. Torah v'Avodah Library. Contains discussion of the significance and laws of the Feast, the Kindling of the Lights, and contains Hebrew passages from Talmud, Midrash, and Maimonides. With discussion of the celebration of the feast in Eretz Israel. Bachad was a religious Zionist youth movement in pre-war Germany called Brit Chalutzim Datiim which shortened its name “to its initial letters Bachad. Its members prepared themselves for Aliya. A group of them came over to England among the refugees who were permitted to enter this country in the years immediately before the war. They were accommodated in a castle in Wales [Gwrych Castle] and set up Hachshara centres in Bromsgrove and other places, as well as a Merkaz Limmud in Manchester to which members came from the Hachsharah centres for periods of three or six months for intensive Jewish studies. Later on a farm was bought at Thaxted in Essex which became not only a model Hachsharah centre but very quickly a successful agricultural venture which at one time won first prize for having the best milk yielding cow in Essex! ” (Bauk, 2013) . Subjects: Hannukah. OCLC lists one copy (Natl Libr Israel) . Ex-libris stamp of Aron Owen (author of a short biography on Rashi) . Light soiling to wraps, otherwise fresh. Good + condition. Quite scarce. (SPEC-40-17)
Stock number:33541.
$US 300.00
Imprint: New York City; Publishers Printing Company, 1940
Single sided flyer. [1] page. 56 x 41 cm. Large announcement for the draft of all males over 21 and under 36, declaring the need to register and the ability to do so at any local public school in the Assembly district, from 7am to 9pm on October 16th. Includes 11 points of information that will be needed to fill out the draft register. An interesting period piece, with tape still clinging to edges, ostensibly from when this document was torn down; Subjects: Draft registration – New York City. United States. Army - Recruiting, enlistment, etc. - World War, 1939-1945. Slightly torn upper left corner and tear at tape line on right portion. Upper edges lightly chipped and bumped. Previously folded in a poor fashion, leaving various crease lines. Otherwise, clean and fresh. Good condition. (LB-5-26)
Stock number:30756.
$US 300.00
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Imprint: Wroclaw [Poland]; Farlag Niders?lezje, 1948
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Paperback
(FT) Original Wrappers. 8vo. 55 pages. 23 cm. First edition. Title page verso: The Old Man of Lompaduni and other Stories. This beautifully illustrated book of childrens stories is printed in seven colors of ink. The author of these seven stories in Yiddish was Yuri Suhl, who emigrated from Poland to the United States in the 1920’s, and became well known as a Yiddish poet and childrens writer. His other works included the popular "They Fought Back: The Story of Jewish Resistance in Nazi Europe. " That work was praised as a landmark contribution to Holocaust literature and Suhl spent more than five years documenting it before it was published in 1967. His other works included "Eloquent Crusader: Ernestine Rose, " a biography of the Polish-born feminist, and two autobiographical novels: "One Foot in America" and "Cowboy on a Wooden Horse. " He was also a trustee of the fund set up for the sons of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg. The illustrator, William Gropper (1897–1977) , a cartoonist, painter, lithographer, and muralist; he grew up in the lower east side, and an aunt of his died in the triangle shirtwaist factory fire. He was a dedicated left wing political cartoonist for both English and Yiddish papers. During the second half of the 1930s, Gropper dedicated his art to the efforts to raise popular opposition to fascism in Europe. Following World War II, Gropper traveled to Poland to attend the inaugural convention of the World Congress of Intellectuals for Peace of 1948 in Wroclaw. This Yiddish childrens book was printed there, both for an audience of international anti-fascist partisans and survivors gathering to found the World Peace Council, as well as for those survivors living in Wroclaw, one of the largest post-war Jewish communities in Poland for a few years. Rare, OCLC lists 12 copies. Subjects: Children's stories, Yiddish. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) . Front cover repaired with tape, edges chipped. All pages lightly aged, but clean and fresh. Good condition. Scarce and important (HOLO2-97-42)
Stock number:29522.
$US 300.00
Imprint: New York, Friends Of Democracy, 1946
Binding: Paperback
Paper Wrappers. 4to. Each issue is 4 pages. 18 issues. Anti-Fascist periodical commonly touching on racist and anti-Semitic topics. Issue 7 has typo on date and issue number, corrected by hand. Contents Include: “A Report on German Sympathizers, ” “Terminiello Tours North: Berates ‘Jews and Reds, ’” “A Report on Gerald B. Winrod, ” “Thanks Anti-Semites, ” “‘White Gentiles, ’ Franco, and Seditionists Defended, ” “‘Gentile’ Sheets Started in Wisconsin, Missouri, ” “A Report on Eugene Talmadge, ” “A Report on Eugene Flitcraft, ” “Letter to Henry Ford II, ” “A Report on the German American Press, ” “A Report on Ralph W. Gwinn, ” “Kansas City Bigots Named, ” “Who Is Marilyn R. Allen? ” OCLC lists 15 copies worldwide. Most issues have checkmarks next to headlines, are darkened, fragile and chipping at edges but all text is clear. Otherwise Good condition. Important anti-Nazi periodical from US. (HOLO2-41-27), OK 06/12
Stock number:26682.
$US 300.00
Imprint: Prague, Orbis, 1946
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardback
Original Wrappers. 8vo. 91 [1] pages. 19 cm. First Edition. Early reports on medical crimes at concentration camps, including Buchenwald, Dachau, and Aushwitz, from Czech Medical Doctors and one Journalist. Reports include descriptions of unhygienic conditions in the concentration camp facilities, surgical practices, vaccinations, and treatment of the sick, elderly, and those with contagious disease. Subjects: Concentration Camps -- Germany. Medicine -- Germany. Prisons -- Germany. World War, 1939-1945 -- Atrocities. World War, 1939-1945 -- Medical care. Concentration camps -- Germany. Some edge wear and light age toning. Previous owner’s name on title page. Some damp staining, otherwise good condition. (HOLO-114-2a)
Stock number:33357.
$US 275.00
Imprint: Los Angeles: New Age Press, 1940
Binding: Paperback
Original stiff paper wrappers. 8vo, 48 pages. Interesting "ambiguous" defense of Nazi Germany from just prior to US entry into WWII. The author discusses the history of Germany, the Nazi party, and other groups with similar ideas, with a special examination of Nazi philosophy, all from an explicitly Christian perspective, with many references to Jesus Christ. While not supportive of Nazism, the book is also not very critical either. "We cannot condone the crimes of the Nazi regime. Yet, we can have forgivness in our hearts for those who have committed them even as we have for the Inquisitors of the Medieval Church who in their zeal for God's kingdom subjected literally millions to torture and death in the name of a religion born of love and mercy. " (page 47-48) OCLC: 34904249, OCLC lists 4 copies worldwide (NYPL, Stanford, UIllinois, Harvard) . Corners slightly bumped, else Very Good Condition. Scarce. (HOLO2-145-8)
Stock number:40881.
$US 275.00
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Imprint: Berlin-Boston; Musikverlag Hatikwah, 1936
Binding: Hardcover
Original Cloth. 4to. (Various paginations) . 27 cm. In German, with lyrics in Hebrew and Yiddish. Nazi-era imprint. Two volumes in one. Both volumes of the Judische Volks-Lieder contain original elaborately designed title pages, both bound together with new wraps, in English, titled 45 Jeiwsh Folk Songs, Berlin-Boston, Hatikwah. Some individual scores contain original title pages as well. 45 songs, chiefly for voice and piano (though some for cello and violin accompaniment as well) . At the time of publication, Janot S. Roskin was actively involved as a composer for the Jüdischen Kulturbünde. He founded the Hatikvah music company in 1921, and refounded the company in the United States in 1941, after his emigration. Band 1 contains: Der Fuhrmann: Volkslied - Abram, Abram: Gebetlied - A Heem, A Heem: Refrain eines litauischen Volksliedes - Licht-Bentschen: Gebetlied - Der Schikkur: humoristisches Volkslied - A Brivele der Mamen: Familienlied / Text von B. W. Ehrenkranz - Hamawdil: Gebetlied / Text und Melodie v. A. Goldfaden - Roszinkes mit Mandlen: Wiegenl. - Jankele gejt in Schul: Goluslied - Der Alef-Bees: Chederlied / Text und Melodie v. M. Warschawski - Kinder mir hoben Ssimches-Torje / Text und Melodie v. M. Warschawski - Dem Milners-Treren: Goluslied - Dos Tojrele: a. D. Operette Di jiddische Neschome / v. Feinmann - Dos Pekele: Goluslied / Melodie von S. Russota - Ein schönes Lied hab ich gesungen / Melodie von Janot S. Roskin - Klip-klap, effen mir! : Liebeslied. I. / Melodie von Janot S. Roskin - Sehnsucht nach Jeruscholajim: Goluslied - Di Zimbel: Goluslied / Text und Melodie von Eljakim Zunser - Der Seeger Die Uhr - Der Parom Die Fähre - Dos heelige Rikud'l: Chassidisches Tanzlied - L'chajim Rebbe: Chassidisches Lied - Unser Rebbenju: Chassidisches Lied - Jismach Mojsche: Chassidisches Lied - Omar Adojschem Lejankojw: Chassidisches Lied. Band 2 contains: Nationale Volkslieder. Htikwah "Die Hoffnung" ; Dort wo die Zeder "Bimkom Haeres" ; Al tal s'a matar ; Ja chay lili ha, amali ; do Lid fun Jeruscholajim - Humoristischer Volkslieder. Dire-Gelt ; Balebuste Leben ; A Geneeweh ; Der Rebbe hot gehessen Freelich sajn ; Wus wet sajn m'kejech Burikes - Schlof, schlof, schlof ; Schlof sche majn Feegele ; Dos Kind ligt in Wigele ; Schlof, majn Kind ; Kumt der liber Sumer - Mädchen- und Liebeslieder. Di Bajke ; Do solst nit geen mit kajn andere Meedelech ; Kezele jajns! Klip-klap, effen mir! - Hochzeits- und Familienlieder. A Muters-Freed ; Chazkele, chazkele ; Ich bin sech mir a Kale ; Ale Mentschen Tanzendik ; Lejg ich mayn Kepele ; Frajtog ojf der Nacht. Subjects: Songs with piano. Songs with instrumental ensemble. Folk songs, Yiddish - Germany. Jews - Germany – Music. OCLC lists 13 copies. Spine rebacked with old tape stains at spine. First few leaves aged; otherwise fresh and clean. Good condition. (GER-44-10)
Stock number:33743.
$US 275.00
Imprint: Warszawa, Wydawnictwo Prawnicze, 1946
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Cloth
1st edition. Original printed paper wrappers. 8vo; 314 pages; In Polish. Robinson & Friedman # 2054. Bulletin of the Central Commission for the Investigation of German Crimes in Poland. Includes 2 fold-out plates. SUBJECT(S): World War, 1939-1945 -- Atrocities -- Periodicals. Nazi concentration camps -- Poland -- War criminals. International criminal law. OCLC: 2788580. Some wear and toning to wrappers, with silver dollar sized piece missing at top of spine and rear wrapper, internally very clean text and images and bright white paper, Very Good Condition thus. (-ECC
Stock number:42051.
$US 250.00
Imprint: Nyu York: Yidisher Arbeter-Komitet, 1942
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
1st edition. Original boards. 8vo. 80 pages, includes maps, 22 cm. In Yiddish. Title translates to “Jews after the War: Report from the First Conference of the Jewish Labor Committee. ” The Jewish Labor Committee was founded in 1934 in response to the rise of Nazism in Europe. Today, it works to maintain and strengthen the historically strong relationship between the American Jewish community and the trade union movement, and to promote what they see as the shared social justice agenda of both communities (Wikipedia, 2018). OCLC 937355974.SUBJECTS: Holocaust — Reconstruction (1939-1951) -- Jews. Very Good Condition. (YID-40-84), was 50 12/2020
Stock number:40169.
$US 250.00
Imprint: Fernvald [Föhrenwald]: Yisrael Shmuel Broin, 1948
Binding: Hardcover
Original boards with gilt lettering. 8vo. 276 pages, 21 cm. In Hebrew. Title translates to Arve Nahal: A Wonderful Composition on the Torah. ” Printed in the Fohrenwald DP camp , one of the largest in post-war Germany, to rebuild observant Judaism among Jewish survivors after the war. The original author, Rabbi David Shlomo Eibschitz [1755-1814] was a well-known 18th century Rabbi and one of the disciples of the Maggid from Zaltshov. He moved to Palestine in 1804. SUBJECTS: Holocaust. DP Camps. OCLC lists 2 copies worldwide (Bayerische Bibli. And NLI) , none in the US. Pages browning. Binding starting. Very good condition. Rare (HOLO2-142-15)
Stock number:40694.
$US 250.00
Imprint: Paris, Consistoire Central Des Israelites De France Et D’algerie., 1946
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardback
1st edition. Original printed boards. 8vo, 62 pages. Commemorating prominent French-speaking rabbis and ministers who were murdered in the Holocaust. Introductions by Chief Rabbi Yeshayahu Schwartz and Leon Meiss, chairman of the Consistoire Central of the Jews of France. Very Good Condition. An Outstanding copy. (KH-5-53)
Stock number:36450.
$US 250.00
Imprint: New York; United Palestine Appeal, 1936
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Pamphlet
Inscription: Signed, Inscribed Or Annotated
Original Wraps. 4to. [13] pages. 28 cm. First edition. Nazi-era booklet containing ten illustrated color charts, graphs, and maps. Charts demonstrate economic and demographic statistics, including chart detailing distribution of refugees from Germany worldwide. Subjects: Jews in Palestine – History. Jews. Jews - Restoration. Middle East - Palestine. OCLC lists 6 copies. Previous owners signature on front wrap. Lightly soiled wraps, otherwise clean. Good + condition. (ZION-7-44) xx
Stock number:35622.
$US 250.00
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Imprint: New York, N. Y. ; American Jewish Congress, 1936
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Paperback
1st edition. Original Wraps. 8vo. 31 pages. 22 cm. First edition. "Reprinted by courtesy of The Conference on Jewish relations. " Cover title reads April, 1936, reprinted by courtesy of The Conference on Jewish Relations. An important mid-1930’s report from Abraham G Duker on the oppression of Polish Jews in the interwar period (following Hitler’s rise to power but before the German invasion of Poland) , with detailed sociological and statistical materials on educational, economic and political facets to the Jewish community, and the changes undergone in an increasingly anti-semitic Polish state; with introductory statement from Salo W. Baron and Morris R. Cohen concerning pogroms in Poland and comparison of the viciousness of Polish Antisemitic parties to that of Nazi Germany. The author of the report Abraham Gordon Duker (1907–1987) , “was born in Rypin, Poland, went to the U. S. In 1923. He served on the library staff at the Jewish Theological Seminary (1927–33) and was research librarian at the Graduate School of Jewish Social Work (1934–38) . From 1938 to 1943 he was on the staff of the American Jewish Committee, serving inter alia as the editor of the Contemporary Jewish Record (1938–41) . He was also an editor of the Universal Jewish Encyclopedia (1939–43) , Reconstructionist, and Jewish Social Studies, a quarterly. Duker was president of the Chicago Spertus College of Judaica (1956–62) and from 1963 director of libraries and professor of history and social institutions at Yeshiva University. His works include education surveys, books, and articles in his main fields of interest, Polish-Jewish relations and American Jewish sociology. ” (EJ 2007) Subjects: Jews - Persecutions - Poland. Jews - Poland - Social conditions. Joden. Poland - Ethnic relations. "Distributed by... Jewish Nat'l Workers' Alliance" on cover, light sunning, Very Good condition. (HOLO2-104-12A), harvard 2014
Stock number:35473.
$US 250.00
Imprint: New York; Labor Zionist Committee For Relief And Rehabilitation, Inc,, [1946-1950]
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Softcover
Original illustrated wraps. 8vo. [16] pages. 23 cm. First edition. Front lithography by Kathe Kollwitz, 'They were the first' stanza by Yitshak Katzenelson; rear wrap list of 'recent foster parents' including numerous local branches of Fraternal Organizations, various Landsmanschaften branches, Arthur Syzk, etc. Illustrated throughout with photographs of Jewish orphans, with abridged descriptions of how they survived; includes a list of over 100 children currently being helped by foster parents through the Labor Zionist Committee for Relief and Rehabilitation; it appears that all of the children reside at the Labor Zionist Home for Orphaned Children in France; the brochure asks for payments of $300 per year, or 85 cents a day. Printed in red, black, and grey ink throughout. Very scarce. Subjects: Labor Zionist Committee for Relief and Rehabilitation, Inc. , Foster Parents Division. Jewish War Orphans – Holocaust. Does not appear to be held by any library, none on OCLC. Pages previous cut at edge, previously glued back together by former owner, text in gutter affected on two pages; institutional stamp, otherwise clean and fresh. Good + condition. (HOLO2-121-2)
Stock number:34947.
$US 250.00
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Imprint: Karlsbad, Czechoslovakia, Graphia, 1934
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Paper Wrappers
8vo; 76 pages; 23 cm. Probleme des Sozialismus # 5. Weiner Library (Wolff) # I: 1801. First printing of the world's first eyewitness account of Hitler's concentration camps. Early memoir & expose of Oranienburg Concentration Camp from which Seger escaped, fleeing to the US where he became editor of the NEUE VOLKS-ZEITUNG, the American voice of the SPD in exile (and of German-American Socialism in general) . He had earlier been the Secretary General of the German Peace Society and in 1933 had been elected to the Resichstag. In 1933 Seger was one of the first to be imprisoned by the Nazis. (HOLO2-119-3), Available
Stock number:34346.
$US 250.00
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Imprint: Budapest; Balassi Kiadó, 2001-2011
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardback
Original Wraps. 8vo. 225; 311; 301; 307; 408 pages. 24 cm. First edition. In Hungarian. Edited by Randolph L. Braham. Studies on the Holocaust. Five volumes of assorted essays, edited by Randolph Braham. Volume 1. Bevezeto / Randolph L. Braham - Magyarország keresztény egyházai és a holokauszt / Randolph L. Braham - A holokauszt a magyar sajtóban / Róbert Péter - A holokauszt a magyar (próza) irodalom tükrében / Földes Anna - Uj magyar egyetemi és középiskolai tankönyvek a holokausztról / Karsai László - A holokauszt és a rendszerváltás Magyarországon / Varga László – Függelék. Volumes one, two, three, five bound in yellow wraps; volume four bound in black wraps. Subjects: Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) - Hungary. Jews - Persecutions - Hungary. Jews - Legal status, laws, etc. - Hungary. Jews - Hungary - History. Antisemitism - Hungary – History. Judenvernichtung. Antisemitism. Jews. Jews - Legal status, laws, etc. Jews - Persecutions. Light wear to wraps, light soiling to outer edges, otherwise clean and fresh. Very good condition. (BRAHAM-1-49) xx
Stock number:33994.
$US 250.00
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Imprint: Budapest; Park Ko¨nyvkiado´, 2006
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardback
Hardback. 4to. 563 pages. 29 cm. First edition. In Hungarian. Geographical Encyclopedia of the Holocaust in Northern Transylvania. Subjects: Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) - Romania - Transylvania - Encyclopedias. Jews - Persecutions - Romania - Transylvania - Encyclopedias. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) - Romania - Transylvania - Maps - Encyclopedias. Transylvania (Romania) - Ethnic relations – Encyclopedias. OCLC lists 1 copy (Yeshiva U) . Light shelf wear. Very good condition. (BRAHAM-1-46) xxx
Stock number:33991.
$US 250.00
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Imprint: New York; Jewish Occupational Council, 1940
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Paperback
Original Wrappers. 8vo. Pages. 26 cm. First edition. Four reports printed for public circulation. Reports are titled, “Some Aspects of the Jewish Economic Problem, ” “A Bibliography for Jewish Vocational Agencies, ” “A Guide to General Vocational Services, ” and “Patterns of Jewish Occupational Distribution in the United States and Canada. ” Note laid in to Report No. 2 reading, “This printed edition of ‘Some Aspects of the Jewish Economic Problem’ differs slightly from the mimeographed edition issued in 1939. Aside from minor revisions, there is new material in the section headed “Conclusion” on page 10. Most of the changes are based on reaction by readers of the earlier edition. Additional copies are available upon request. ” The Jewish Occupational Council “established in 1939 in New York as a national advisory and coordinating agency for Jewish organizations and communities in the U. S. And Canada engaged in educational and vocational programs and job placement. ” (yivoarchives.org) The organization is now called the International Association of Jewish Vocational Services. Subjects: Occupations -- Choice -- Jews. Jews -- United States -- Charities. Employment agencies, bureaus, etc. -- Jews. Spines rebacked. Some shelf wear. Light library markings. Very good condition. (HOLO2-109-21)
Stock number:32247.
$US 250.00
Imprint: New York, Polish Labor Group, 1941-1944
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Paper Wrappers
1941-1944. 1st edition. Very Good Condition; 8vo; 5 issues from the first 3 years of this fascinating bi-weekly support newsletter/magazine started prior to US entry into WWII. Membership and leadership of the Polish Labor Group (later the American Friends of Polish Democracy) was heavily Jewish, and included various American antifascists, Socialists & labor leaders. The masthead includes such names as Robert MacIver (Chairman) , Louis Adamic, David Dubinsky, Algernon Lee, Louis Bromfield, Morris R. Cohen, Fiorello La Guardia, Arthur Garfield Hays, Louis Hollander, Sidney Hook, Max Lerner, Gunnar Myrdal, etc. Some of the articles in this run include: The Underground Struggle; Polish-Jewish Underground Collaboration; German Invaders and Polish Intellectuals; Working people of Poland fights [sic] anti-semitism; Partial destruction of the Ghetto wall; Discussion of Polish Antisemitism; Polish Slavery under Hitler's "New Order"; News from the Ghetto; The Undergroudn Jewish paper against Nazi orders; In a Nazi Concentration Camp [survivor tells about Mauthausen & Dachau]; Jewish Ghetto; The professors of Cracow University in a Concentration Camp; New Criminal Code for Poles & Jews; The Fate of the Polish Intelligensia; The Attitude of the American Jewish Workers; Humor in Occupied Warsaw; The Hell of the Concentration Camp in Oswiecim; Treblinka A Ghetto for Women; Two Jewish Ghettos in One Town; etc. Issues for 1941 are published by American Friends of Polish Democracy. The periodical began June 5, 1941, and ceased publication with vol. 6 no. 87 in June/July of 1946. Vols. 1-2 lack volume numbering, using only the issue number; Volumes 3-6 include volume numbers but continue the issue numbersing scheme from Volumes 1 & 2. (HOLO2-34-74A), ok 2020/4
Stock number:27499.
$US 250.00
Imprint: Prague, Sozialdemokratischen Partei Deutschlands, 1937
Binding: Hardback
Paper Wraps. 8vo. 40 pages, xi. Published in exile by the heavily Jewish SPD, these monthly reports covered sociopolitical and economic conditions in Germany, and were harshly critical of the Nazi regime. CONTENTS: “The Terror Against the Political Opposition in Germany, ” “Terrorization of the Jews. ” OCLC lists 5 copies worldwide (Staats & Universitatsbibliothek Hamburg, Univ m Hannnover & TIB, Universitatsbibliothek Oldenburg Ibit, Bibliothek Des Herder-Instituts, Universitatsbibliothek Passau) . Internal pages are lightweight, tissue-like paper. Some chipping at edges and tears on corners of covers, but all text is clear. Good condition. Includes summary of issue laid in. (HOLO2-33-6)
Stock number:26176.
$US 250.00
Imprint: Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1953
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardback
1st edition in stated "2d impression" unclipped dustjacket. 8vo, ix, 327 pages. By the widely influential political philosopher Leo Strauss. Strauss (1899-1973) , an exile from Nazism “originally trained in the neo-Kantian tradition with Ernst Cassirer and immersed in the work of the phenomenologists Edmund Husserl and Martin Heidegger, Strauss later focused his research on the Greek texts of Plato and Aristotle, retracing their interpretation through medieval Islamic and Jewish philosophy and encouraging the application of those ideas to contemporary political theory... He spent most of his career as a professor of political science at the University of Chicago, where he taught several generations of students and published fifteen books. (His) works were read and admired by thinkers as diverse as Gershom Scholem, Walter Benjamin, Jacques Lacan, Hans-Georg Gadamer, and Alexandre Kojève” (Wikipedia, 2016). SUBJECT(S) : Political science -- Philosophy. Despotism. Very Good Condition in Very Good Jacket. Gorgeous unmarked copy (AC-6-7)
Stock number:42128.
$US 245.00
Imprint: New York: .F.F. Publishers, 1945
Binding: Hardback
Used Very Good Condition; Paper Wrappers, 8vo, 79 pages, chiefly illustrations. 31 cm. "Photo-record of Axis crime" Very Early (1945) publication of photos of the Holocaust and abuse of civilians-Concentration camps, destroyed villages, public executions, death, destruction, and mayhem. Particularly interesting because of its target population: the lay-out mimics a supermarket tabloid, suggesting an attempt to reach a more unsophisticated audience in its documentation of Nazi & Japanese Terror. Forewards by Prof. James Sheldon and former Ambassador to Germany James W. Gerard. SUBJECT(S): World War, 1939-1945 -- Atrocities -- Pictorial works. World War, 1939-1945 -- Pictorial works. OCLC lists 12 copies worldwide. Very Good+ Condition. An outstanding copy (holo2-139-21A)
Stock number:39691.
$US 245.00
Imprint: New York, Polish Government Information Center, 1944-1945
Binding: Hardback
Paper Wraps. 8vo. Issues are mostly 30-40 pages each. Ill. 22 cm. Published by the Polish Government Information Center, this work “seeks to interpret Polish political and social problems for the American public and give to a true presentation of the struggle which Poland, the charter member of the United Nations, has carried on since September 1, 1939.” Issue titles are: “The Polish-Russian Controversy, ” “Polish Children Under German Rule, ” “Public Education in Poland, ” “Jews in Poland, ” “Poland’s Fighting Record, ” “It Started in Poland, ” “Poland at Work, ” “Battle of Warsaw 1944, ” “Polish-German Frontier, ” “Poland’s Social Progress, ” “Province of Lwow, ” “Government of the Polish Republic, ” “Soviet Puppet Government in Poland, ” “USA and Poland, 1939-1945, ” “Polish Views on International Organization. ” SUBJECT (S) : Poland -- History -- Occupation, 1939-1945. Covers of first three issues are slightly soiled in bottom corner. Issue no. 13 has unobtrusive stamp on cover. Internal pages are clean and binding is tight. Very good condition. (HOLO2-51-13) ., OK 06/12
Stock number:26633.
$US 235.00
Imprint: New York: Newstand Publications, 1959
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Paperback
1st edition of the periodical, and first appearance of this popularized version of the Lengyel’s memoir, originally titled “Five Chimneys: The Story of Auschwitz." Original illustrated paper wrappers, 4to, 82 pages. Lengyel’s memoir here is 4 pages, is heavily illustrated with provocative, sexualized popular-type images, and is the 1st appearance of this “readers digest” version of her famous Holocaust memoir, “Five Chimneys: The Story of Auschwitz” (1947) . In its original form, it is held up as a defining Holocaust memoir, in the same league as Wiesel’s “Night” or Levi’s “If This is a Man – Survival in Auschwitz. ” In her recent scholarly paper, “’Camp of Captive Women’: Sensationalized Holocaust Narratives in US Popular Culture, 1957–65” (and citing this very example in the title) , Dr. Pascale Rachel Bos (U Texas-Austin) takes issue with the dominant view that “high-level” holocaust memoirs, such as Wiesel’s Night or Anne Frank’s Diary, were what shaped mass cultural understanding of the Holocaust in America. She argues instead that these abridged versions of Holocaust memoirs, appearing in literally hundreds of thousands of individual issues of men’s war-story magazines, were what reached the masses of American readers and surely had a far greater effect in shaping mass understandings of the Holocaust in American culture. She cites the astronomically higher distribution numbers of men’s war-story magazines to show how it was these easily-read versions of Holocaust memoirs that reached the American public in large enough numbers to impact the cultural understanding of the Shoah. She points out that, although the images accompanying the short memoirs are absolutely salacious, with scantily clad buxom camp guards or inmates, the stories stay true to the originals and are not the sensationalized exaggerations that one might expect. Was it relevant that the vast majority of the editors of these magazines were themselves Jews? She is not sure, suggesting that the reprinting of abridged stories of war and violence of every genre, abridged from those appearing in the high brow press and accompanies by highly sexualized images, was simply the monthly fare of all these magazines. SUBJECT(S): Adventure stories, American -- Periodicals. Pulp literature, American -- Specimens -- Periodicals. Men -- Periodicals. Men's magazines. Litte´rature de gare ame´ricaine -- Spe´cimens -- Pe´riodiques. Hommes -- Pe´riodiques. Presse masculine. OCLC: 868141350. Very Good Condition. Important. (HOLO2-133-13-E)
Stock number:38468.
$US 225.00
Imprint: Munich: Central Historical Commission, 1946
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardback
Small 8vo; First Edition. Paper Wrappers, 4to (Large), 36 pages. One of 8000 issued. In Yiddish with English Cover, table of contents, & photo captions. Important journal lasting 10 issues which written & published by Jewish DPs themselves to document crimes and survival in the Holocaust. The publisher's decision to include the English table of contents, probably in part to insure the journal's use in future war crimes trials, makes these first hand accounts especially user-friendly today, almost 60 years later. Robinson & Friedman #1247: "The Historical Commission [was] established in 1945 under the auspices of the Central Committee of Liberated Jews in the U. S. Zone. [It] Ceased operations early in 1949. Details of the activities of the Munich center can be found in No. 1247 [Fun Letsten Churbn]..." Hagit Lavsky notes in the Encyclopedia of the Holocaust (Gutman, ed., 1990, p. 383) that, "Commemoration and documentation projects [by Jewish DPs] included the work of the Tsentraler Historisher Komisiye (Central Historical Commission), established in December 1945 by the Central Committee in Munich, to assist in bringing Nazi criminals to trial. A network of regional committees was set up under the commission's auspices whose task it was to take evidence and collect documentary material, including material on DPs. In August 1946, the commission published the first issue of the monthly FUN LETZTEN HURBAN." Published under DP-Publications License US-E-3 OMGB, Information Control Division. This first issue is the only large magazine-size issue published, and remains the scarcest of the set. This copy fragile, with original blue detached edgeworn wrappers mounted on attached later paper for stabilization. Paper is somewhat fragile, but complete and usable. Fair condition, complete. (HOLO2-122-51G)
Stock number:41928.
$US 225.00
Imprint: Warszawa, Pan´stwowe Wydawn. Literatury Politycznej, 1945
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardback
1st edition. Original printed paper wrappers, small 8vo, 50 pages, 21 cm. In Polish. An early (1945!) post-war assortment of eye-witness reportsand documentation of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising of 1943, 2 years earlier. Table of contents on the last leaf, listing out all 22 essays, some of which are reprinted here for the first time from diaries and newspapers. Also reproduces to flyers honoring the ghetto and a photo of yizkor services to those who perished there. "Between July 22 and September 12, 1942, the German authorities deported or murdered around 300,000 Jews in the Warsaw ghetto. SS and police units deported 265,000 Jews to the Treblinka killing center and 11,580 to forced-labor camps. The Germans and their auxiliaries murdered more than 10,000 Jews in the Warsaw ghetto during the deportation operations. The German authorities granted only 35,000 Jews permission to remain in the ghetto, while more than 20,000 Jews remained in the ghetto in hiding. For the at least 55,000-60,000 Jews remaining in the Warsaw ghetto, deportation seemed inevitable. In response to the deportations, on July 28, 1942, several Jewish underground organizations created an armed self-defense unit known as the Jewish Combat Organization (Zydowska Organizacja Bojowa; ZOB). Rough estimates put the size of the ZOB at its formation at around 200 members. The Revisionist Party (right-wing Zionists known as the Betar) formed another resistance organization, the Jewish Military Union (Zydowski Zwiazek Wojskowy; ZZW). Although initially there was tension between the ZOB and the ZZW, both groups decided to work together to oppose German attempts to destroy the ghetto. At the time of the uprising, the ZOB had about 500 fighters in its ranks and the ZZW had about 250. While efforts to establish contact with the Polish military underground movement (Armia Krajowa, or Home Army) did not succeed during the summer of 1942, the ZOB established contact with the Home Army in October, and obtained a small number of weapons, mostly pistols and explosives, from Home Army contacts. In October 1942, SS chief Heinrich Himmler ordered the liquidation of the Warsaw ghetto and deportation of its able-bodied residents to forced labor camps in the Lublin District of the Generalgouvernement. In accordance with this order, German SS and police units tried to resume mass deportations of Jews from Warsaw on January 18, 1943. A group of Jewish fighters, armed with pistols, infiltrated a column of Jews being forced to the Umschlagplatz (transfer point) and, at a prearranged signal, broke ranks and fought their German escorts. Most of these Jewish fighters died in the battle, but the attack sufficiently disoriented the Germans to allow the Jews arranged in columns at the Umschlagplatz a chance to disperse. After seizing 5,000-6,500 ghetto residents to be deported, the Germans suspended further deportations on January 21. Encouraged by the apparent success of the resistance, which they believed may have halted deportations, members of the ghetto population began to construct subterranean bunkers and shelters in preparation for an uprising should the Germans attempt a final deportation of all remaining Jews in the reduced ghetto. The German forces intended to begin the operation to liquidate the Warsaw ghetto on April 19, 1943, the eve of Passover. When SS and police units entered the ghetto that morning, the streets were deserted. Nearly all of the residents of the ghetto had gone into hiding places or bunkers. The renewal of deportations was the signal for an armed uprising within the ghetto. ZOB commander Mordecai Anielewicz commanded the Jewish fighters in the Warsaw ghetto uprising. Armed with pistols, grenades (many of them homemade), and a few automatic weapons and rifles, the ZOB fighters stunned the Germans and their auxiliaries on the first day of fighting, forcing the German forces to retreat outside the ghetto wall....Though German forces broke the organized military resistance within days of the beginning of the uprising, individuals and small groups hid or fought the Germans for almost a month....The Warsaw ghetto uprising was the largest, symbolically most important Jewish uprising, and the first urban uprising, in German-occupied Europe. The resistance in Warsaw inspired other uprisings in ghettos (e.g., Bialystok and Minsk) and killing centers (Treblinka and Sobibor)" (USHMM 2018).Subjects: Warsaw (Poland) --History--Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, 1943. Beautiful Polish commemorative bookplate from the early post-war years, touch of wear to crown of spine, some toning, Very Good condition, a very nice copy. (H-13-1-EU)
Stock number:41775.
$US 225.00
Imprint: Rio-de-Zshaneyro [Rio De Janeiro] : Z. Turkov-Komitet fun Brazil un Meksike, 1971
Edition: First Edition
Binding: paperback
1st Yiddish Edition. Original illustrated photographic paper wrappers. 8vo. 46 pages, 22 cm. In Yiddish. Holocaust stageplay. Title translates to “The Medem Sanitorium.” Translated into Yiddish by Mosheh Lokiec. Zygmunt Turkow (1896–1970) was a Polish actor, director, playwright and director of Jewish origin from Warsaw, who became famous for roles in the pre-war Jewish films and stage plays in Yiddish. His brother, Jonas Turkow, was also a noted actor and stage manager. Shortly after German invasion of Poland in 1939 he left Poland together with his second wife. In 1940 he settled in Brazil. In 1952 he moved to Israel (Wikipedia, 2019). SUBJECTS: Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Drama. OCLC 122833421, OCLC lists 6 copies worldwide (NYPL, YIVO, UIllinois, NYBC, Toronto, McGill). Crease through enter of pamphlet. Otherwise very good condition. Scarce. (YID-33-55-'elx)
Stock number:41760.
$US 225.00
Imprint: London; No Publisher Listed, 1946
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Pamphlet
Original Wraps. 12mo. 16 pages. 18 cm. First edition. Critical pamphlet contemporary to the Nuremberg Trials on their historic significance, with a summary of their content and purpose, and a critique; argues that the atrocities committed in Poland against the Polish population (7 million murdered) has been slighted in their exposure in favor of atrocities committed on the soil of the USSR and its satellites. The author gives numerous examples of specific atrocities committed in Poland which should have been included in the trial proceedings, lambasts the trial for not mentioning the liquidation of the Warsaw Ghetto; ends with the argument that 'totalitarianism' was not utilized as a category in the trial proceedings as this would immediately point to the continuing existence of other totalitarian states, namely, the USSR. Subjects: World war, 1939-1945 - Trials - Germany. World war, 1939-1945 - Atrocities - Poland. OCLC lists 3 copies worldwide (U of Toronto, Bayerische Staatsbib. , Ntl Lib Poland) , none in the US. Light soiling and foxing to wraps, otherwise clean and fresh. Good + condition. Scarce. (HOLO2-121-39) xx
Stock number:35265.
$US 225.00
Imprint: [The Hague, Netherlands]: [Second International Conference To The International Bar Association], 1948
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Paperback
1st edition. Original paper wrappers. 4to, 44 pages. "For presentation to the Second International Conference of the International Bar Association, The Hague, Netherlands, August 16-21, 1948, as part of the Symposium: ‘Restoration of the Law and Property Rights After World War II. '" (from cover) "The actions and policies of the United States Government with respect to the restoration of property rights of foreign nationals after World War II must be considered in the light of the unprecedented and all embracing freezing controls over foreign-owned property imposed by the United States long prior to its entry into the war. " (from introduction) . Alk testified before congress as part of debate over War Claims and Enemy Property Legislation. Not listed on OCLC. Sunning and light wear to cover, and very slight staining of a few pages, else clean copy. Very Good Condition Overall. Appears to be exceedingly rare. (HOLO2-159-15)
Stock number:41180.
$US 225.00
Imprint: Jerusalem: The Zionist Organization - Youth Department, 1940s
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Paperback
1st edition. 4to. 59 pages, 32 cm. In English. Mimeographed publication that details the establishment of the Naame Kfar Blum by the Labor Zionist Habonim (now Habonim Dror) youth movement. The founding members of the kibbutz were primarily from the United Kingdom, South Africa, the United States and the Baltic countries (Wikipedia) and included many Holocaust refugees. The kibbutz was named in honor of Léon Blum, the Jewish socialist former Prime Minister of France who was the focus of a widely publicized, and ultimately unsuccessful, show trial in 1942 mounted by the collaborationist Vichy regime. SUBJECTS: Land settlement -- Palestine. No copies on OCLC. Pages are browning. Stamp of National Young Judaea on front. Pages are creased in the margins. All contents good. Very Rare. (ZION2-2-20)
Stock number:40986.
$US 225.00
Imprint: London: Zionist Federation Of Great Britain And Ireland, 1943
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Paperback
1st edition. Original paper wrappers. 12mo. 32 pages, 17 cm. Holocaust-era imprint. Features a letter from David Ben-Gurion, at the time the Chairman of the Jewish Agency, to the General Commanding Officer in Palestine. The Jerusalem Arms Trial concerned the illegal possession of vast quantities of guns by British soldiers. The British Mandate charged the officers with attempting to smuggle guns to Jewish Palmach fighters. SUBJECTS: Trials (illegal arms transfers) - Jerusalem. OCLC: 36849152OCLC lists 6 copies worldwide (Princeton, HUC, UT-Austin, Tel Aviv U, Izhak Ben Zvi, USouthampton) , only 3 in the US. Very good condition. (ZION2-1-38)
Stock number:40924.
$US 225.00
Imprint: No Place, No Publisher, N.D.
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Paperback
1993? 1st edition. Original blue stiff paper wrappers. 8vo, 378-391, [20], 412-419 pages [42 pages total]. The 20 unnumbered pages are illustrations, which show 10 Rolf Zimmermann paintings, in color, each also with a black and white photograph of the scene and a black and white sketch. Includes essays Rolf Zimmermann's Poland Paintings: A German Inheritance by Peter Chametsky, In Poland by Rolf Zimmermman, and The Soldier in the War to Conquer Eastern Europe by Manfred Messerschmidt. Likely reprinted from the Massachusetts Review. In Zimmermann's essay he says, "My cycle IN POLAND preoccupied me for a long time. Much of the impetus came from some old photographs left behind by my uncle, who was in Russia during World War II and who disappeared after 1944." Subjects: Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) , in art. World War, 1939-1945 -- Art and the war. Poland. Zimmermann, Rolf. OCLC: 51324670, OCLC lists 3 copies worldwide (Stanford, UFlorida, UChicago) , none in the Northeast. Very Good Condition+, near perfect. Scarce (HOLO2-145-30) xx
Stock number:40840.
$US 225.00
Imprint: New York: Hebrew Pub. Co., 1936
Binding: Hardcover
Later boards, original wrappers bound in. 12mo 275, 32 pages, 12 cm. In Hebrew, Yiddish, and English. Includes vocalized Hebrew and Yiddish lyrics to popular Hebrew folk songs and Zionist anthems, while also including patriotic American songs in English. Holocaust-era publication. SUBJECTS: Hebrew poetry - Yiddish poetry - songs, zionist - folk songs, Hebrew, yiddish. OCLC: 123019203. Lacks about 1/3 of original Rear/English wrapper (replaced with paper and bound into later boards), some other repairs. Contents and outer binding are good. Overall about good condition. (ZION2-1-15-E)
Stock number:40552.
$US 225.00
Imprint: New York, Matones, 1925.
Binding: Paperback
Original illustrated cover wrappers with distinctive modernist typeface and design. Chidlren’s literature. Printed on quality glossy paper. Includes 6 illustrations by Gudelman and photo of author. Aron Gudelman (1890 - 1978) “was a sculptor, illustrator, etcher, lecturer, and teacher. Born in Russia, he immigrated to New York in 1905 at the time of pogroms in Russia. After attending the Cooper Union and the National Academy of Design, in 1914 he studied with Jean-Antoine Injalbert at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris. Supporting himself as a machinist in the 1920s, Goodelman became a communist. His concerns about social and economic conditions were expressed in his art. He participated in exhibitions at the John Reed Club in the early 1930s. After World War II, Goodelman created artworks related to the Holocaust. He taught at City College of New York in the 1960s” (National Museum of American Art, 1996) . Blue cover Variant. Shul Pinkas Chcago Nr. 203 . Light wear to cover, Very Good Condition, (Yid-24-7)
Stock number:40524.
$US 225.00
Imprint: Quito [Equador]: Imprenta Del Clero, 1946
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Paperback
1st edition. Original paper wrappers. 8vo. 20 pages, 21 cm. In Spanish. Title translates to “The Jewish Problem and the Catholic Point of View. ” Written in the wake of the Holocaust, this essay on the plight of the Jewish people and calls on the world to help the Jews. SUBJECTS: Jews - Catholic Church. OCLC lists 4 copies worldwide (AJHS, YIVO, HUC, UTX) . Cover wrapper is edge worn and brittle. No back wrapper. Contents are very good. (HOLO2-142-5)
Stock number:40489.
$US 225.00
Imprint: Würzburg: Triltsch, 1938
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Paperback
1st edition. Original wrappers. 8vo. 120 pages, 20 cm. In German. Title translates to “Marriage Nullification Due to Error about Racial Affiliation. ” A university dissertation on intermarriages from the University of Jena. In Nazi Germany, “Marriage defined the Volksgemeinschaft, or ‘community of people, ’ of Germany because it was the basis relationship that connected the small world of the household to the larger German community. Also, marriage made it rightfully possible to produce ‘pure blood’ German children with the genetically correct German parents. Marriage was so vital to the Nazis because it was the true basis of their socio-political perspectives. In effect....In order to define Volksgemeinschaft, the Nazis constructed marriage by associating the relationship with modeled public male and private female roles, and with the assumption of procreating ‘pure blood’ Aryan children. The Nazis used marriage to define their Volksgemeinschaftbecause it enforced the vertical relationship in marriage into the Nazi based society and it would help increase the capacity and population of the Aryan race” (UCL, 2018) .
Stock number:40283.
$US 225.00
Imprint: Warsaw: Main Commission For The Investigation Of Nazi Crimes In Poland, Council For The Protection Of Monuments Of Combat And Martyrdom,, 1979
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Paperback
1st edition, original wrappers, 8vo. 31+[1] pages. “The International Scientific Session under the heading ‘The Child In the Years of The Second World War’ was held in Warsaw on 26th-28th of April 1979. It was organized on the occasion of the International Year of the Child by the Main Commission for the Investigation of Nazi Crimes in Poland and by the Council for the Protection of Monuments of Combat and Martyrdom. The subject of the session were Nazi crimes committed on children and youth, the struggle of nations to save children and youth from their biological extermination, demoralization, denationalization and depravation by the Nazi occupant and also the participation of youth in the combat against Nazism in the years of the Second World War, 1939-1945…. The session coincided with the 40th anniversary of the Third Reich’s aggression on Poland which initiated the Second World War, and with the 34th anniversary of the victory over Nazi Germany. It was, therefore, an occasion to reflect on what was fascizm and where it led to. ” (from introduction) SUBJECT(S) : World War, 1939-1945 -- Children -- Poland. Atrocities. Corp Author(s) : Rada Ochrony Pomników Walki I Meczenstwa (Poland) ; Glówna Komisja Badania Zbrodni Niemieckich w Polsce. OCLC: 34502040, OCLC lists 4 copies worldwide: (National Library of Poland, Bib Narodowa, US Holocaust Memorial Museum, University of S Florida Library, and Niod Instituut Voor Oorlogs) . Upper right corner of cover and pages is slightly bent, light wear on cover, else Very Good Condition. Scarce. (HOLO2-140-4-U)
Stock number:39972.
$US 225.00
Imprint: Amsterdam, Het Verbond Van Midden- En Oost-Europese Joden In Nederland, 1960
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Spiral bound
First edition. Original illustrated laminated cover wrappers with green and gold tree. 4to. 60 pages; 27.5 cm. In Dutch. Jubilee book for this organization of Jewish survivors who settled in the Netherlands after the war and built new lives there. Title translates to “1945-1960: Association of Central and Eastern European Jews. ” Filled with dozens of full-page, high quality, black-and-white photos of people participating in Association events. SUBJECT (S) : Jews, East European-Netherlands, Netherlands Social conditions. OCLC lists 2 holdings worldwide (Harvard, Bibliotheek Universiteit Van Amsterdam) . Slight toning. Very minimal staining. Price sticker on one copy. Very good + condition. Scarce. (HOLO2-134-53) xx
Stock number:38438.
$US 225.00
Imprint: [London], 1957
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Paperback
1st Edition. Original Paper Wrappers 4to. 92 pages ; 28 cm. In German. Title translates into English as, “Biographies and Bibliographies. ” Published by the “PEN Center for German-speaking Authors Abroad, ” this work gives a list of the biographies and bibliographies of exiled German authors living in the UK during and after World War II. The first author on the list (in alphabetical order) is Walter Benjamin. SUBJECT(S) : Authors, German -- Biography. German literature -- Exiled authors. OCLC lists 16 copies worldwide. Ex-library with Jewish Institutional Stamp. Original hole-punched binding. Some toning/discoloration on wrappers. Otherwise very good condition. (GER-58-77)
Stock number:38314.
$US 225.00
Imprint: México City, Ideas, 1944
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardback
1st edition. Later Cloth binding with original illustrated paper wrappers bound in, Large 8vo, 126 pages. Includes illustrations. 25 cm. In Spanish. Somewhat Antisemitic novel, in rich period melodramatic Spanish, of European refugees in Mexico, including those fleeing Spain as well as Nazism. For example from page 15: “Asfixiante penetraba hasta los ultimos escondrijos del vapor…Pero aquella noche tambien como en las travesias de placer se agruparon por castas y fortunas: los hebreos fugitives de los ghettos de Alemania, de Polonia, de los Balkanes bajaron a su comedor instalado en las bodegas. Las rudas bancas de Madera, las mesas desnudas de mantel, los trastos que algunos cargaban consigo—en acatamiento a su ley reigiosa--, eran una novedad para ellos: solo taltaban los fuetes implacable de los guardians de los campos de concentracion…” [ roughly translates as: "Suffocation filled their every last breath... But tonight, indulging in pleasure also, they were grouped by caste and wealth: the fugitive Jews from the ghettos of Germany, Poland, the Balkans, all down below in their dining room installed in the basement. The rough wooden benches, bare tables denuded of tablecloths and some loaded with them-in deference to their religious law—this was all new to them: All they lacked now were the implacable whips of the concentration camp guards ... "]. SUBJECT (S) : World War, 1939-1945 -- Refugees -- Fiction. OCLC lists 16 copies worldwide. Unobtrusive institutional stamp on upper corner of front end paper, paper toning as expected, Very Good Condition. (Holo2-126-5)
Stock number:36121.
$US 225.00
Imprint: Geneva: IRO,, 1949
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Paperback
1st edition. Original photographic paper wrappers, 8vo, 87 pages. Includes many photos and graphs. Cover title is “International Refugee Organization, 1948-1949.” “The International Refugee Organization (IRO) was founded on 20 April 1946, and took over the functions of the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration, which was shut down in 1947. While the handover was originally planned to take place at the beginning of 1947, it did not occur until July 1947. The International Refugee Organization was a temporary organization of the United Nations (UN) , which itself had been founded in 1945, with a mandate to largely finish the UNRRA's work of repatriating or resettling European refugees. It was dissolved in 1952 after resettling about one million refugees. The definition of a refugee at this time was an individual with either a Nansen passport or a ‘Certificate of identity’ issued by the International Refugee Organization. The Constitution of the International Refugee Organization, adopted by the United Nations General Assembly on 15 December 1946, specified the agency's field of operations. Controversially, this defined "persons of German ethnic origin" who had been expelled, or were to be expelled from their countries of birth into the postwar Germany, as individuals who would "not be the concern of the Organization. " This excluded from its purview a group that exceeded in number all the other European displaced persons put together. Also, because of disagreements between the Western allies and the Soviet Union, the IRO only worked in areas controlled by Western armies of occupation” (Wikipedia 2016) . SUBJECT(S) : Political refugees. World War, 1939-1945 -- Refugees. No copies listed on OCLC Worldcat. Light Wear Very Good Condition. Rare. (holo2-132-6)
Stock number:37902.
$US 225.00
Imprint: Montreux, Switzerland, NO Publisher (the Yeshivah)., N.D.
Binding: Paperback
No Date (ca 1942-43) 8vo. 62 pages.   In German. "Enthält u. A. Einen Rückblick ‘15 Jahre Jeschiwoh Montreux’ sowie einen Festgruß von Rabbi Chajim Oser Grodensky. " Interesting Holocaust-era Swiss Jewish title about the refuge being given in Montreux to Jews from Germany and elsewhere in Europe. “Ganz Europa ist ein “Emek Habocho, ” ein fürchterliches Tal des Jammers geworden. ” Etc. SUBJECT(S): Jews -- Switzerland. Jewish religious education -- Switzerland. Yeshivas -- Switzerland -- Montreux. World War, 1939-1945 -- Jews -- Switzerland. Jewish religious education. Jews. OCLC lists 5 copies worldwide (USHMM, Harvard, Biblio Geneve, Bayer. Staatsbib., Swiss Ntl Lib.). Some stains on cover, paper starting to brown slightly, Good condition. (GER-14-11A)  
Stock number:18759.
$US 225.00
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Imprint: Tel Aviv, 1941
Binding: Postcard
Postcard from Hadassah Reinhard in Tel Aviv to Gerhard Reinhard in Gurs Concentration Camp, dated June 14, 1941. Over 163 words, in period-script German, in ink. Beginning “Dear Grandfather, ” and wishing the recipient a happy 75th birthday, Hadassah writes, “I pray to God that you can soon come to me in good health…. From Granny and everyone in Poland and Siberia we hear absolutely nothing…. The picture is not good…. Your youngest grandchild, Hadassah. ” Gurs was a major internment camp in France, near Oloron-Sainte-Marie and 80 kilometers from the Spanish border. Established in 1939 to absorb Republican refugees from Spain, Gurs served later as a concentration camp for Jews from France and refugees from other countries. While under the administration of Vichy France (1940-1942) most non-Jewish prisoners were released and approximately 2000 Jews were permitted to emigrate. In 1941 Gurs held some 15, 000 prisoners. The camp was controlled by the Germans from 1942 to 1944, during which time several thousand inmates were deported to extermination camps in Poland. An unknown number succeeded in escaping and reaching Spain or hiding in Southern France. Gurs was liberated in the summer of 1944. No stamp or postmark, presume originally delivered in envelope. Few incoming postcards into Gurs survived. Usual stains and wear, 4 faint slices into paper, Good- Condition. (holo2-131-38)
Stock number:37604.
$US 225.00
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Imprint: New York: Hadassah, 1941
Binding: Paperback
Paper Wrappers, 4to, 37, 49, 29, 51, 34, 79, 86, 88, 101, 88 pages (642 pages total). 26 cm. Comprised of 2 related sets: Hadassah Education Series & Hadssah Education Series Sourcebook. Series: Hadassah education series. Includes bibliographical references. Interesting set of program booklets for adult education of American Jews during the Holocaust. Lays out recent history and period (1941) understandings of what was happening to the Jews of Europe. "Thoughtful Jews are beginning to question how the Jewish people will emerge from the present crisis, for the problem is not merely one that arises from the conflict of abstract ideas but one of the right and opportunity to survive" (from Vol I, p. 2). SUBJECT(S): Jews -- Politics and government. Jews -- Social conditions. Jewish question. Jews -- History -- 70- -- Sources. Light wear, Very Good Condition. (H-41-15), ok 2020/4
Stock number:14016.
$US 225.00
Imprint: New York, N.D.
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Paperback
1st Edition. Original Wrappers. 8vo. Tri-Fold Holocaust-era Pamphlet with 5 pages ; 24 cm. The Undersigned Rabbis Are: Philip S. Bernstein, Barnett R. Brickner, Israel Goldstein, James G. Heller, Mordecai M. Kaplan, B. L. Levinthal, Israel H. Levinthal, Louis M. Levitsky, Joshua Loth Liebman, Joseph H. Lookstein, Jacob R. Marcus, Abraham A. Neuman, Louis I. Newman, David de Sola Pool, Abba Hillel Silver, Milton Steinberg, and Stephen S. Wise. “We, the undersigned Rabbis, ” they write, “of all elements of American Jewish religious life, have noted with concern a statement by ninety of our colleagues in which they repudiate Zionism on the ground that it is inconsistent with Jewish religious and moral doctrine. This statement misrepresents Zionism and misinterprets historic Jewish religious teaching…” OCLC lists no holdings worldwide. Front wrapper is mostly loose. 4th and 5th page are torn with a few words affected. Otherwise in good condition. Very rare. (zion-10-57)
Stock number:37895.
$US 225.00
Imprint: New York: Hill And Wang, 1967
Binding: Hardcover
Inscription: Signed, Inscribed Or Annotated
Original boards with dust jacket. 8vo. 89 pages. 21 cm. In English. This is the second part of the Night trilogy written and signed by the nobel prize laureate and leading voice of the Holocaust survivor generation. SUBJECTS: Holocaust. Very Good Condition in Very Good Jacket. (HOLO2-18-11A)
Stock number:37492.
$US 225.00
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Imprint: New York: Aaron Flohr, 1941
Binding: Hardback
Later boards, 12mo, 63 Pages, 18 cm. In Hebrew and English. Title translates to, “A Souvenir of The Rabbi Solomon Kluger School. ” The wartime plea for donations includes a reference to the over a hundred “refugee boys” that the Yeshiva felt responsible for. This is a Holocaust-era reprint of Haggadah Shel Pesach The Seder Service For The First Two Nights Of Passover (1915) for the Yeshivat Rabbeinu Shlomo Kluger. It contains illustrations and a musical arrangement for Hodu Ladonoj by Henry Russotto, a popular Yiddish music arranger of the early 20th century. This edition served as a form of solicitation for donations to Yeshivat Shlomo Kluger, as well as a form of community outreach or “Kiruv”. Yeshivat Shlomo Kluger, named after the famous Galician Rabbi, stood on Houston Street and served the Lower East Side. SUBJECT(S) Haggadot -- Commentaries Slight yellowing. Loose end papers. Ex-library with minimal markings. Otherwise very good condition. (Hag-18-25)
Stock number:37456.
$US 225.00
Imprint: New York; American Financial And Development Corporation For Israel., 1951
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Pamphlet
Original Wraps. 8vo. 46 pages. 23 cm. First edition. First brochure for the first Israel Bond Issuance, announcing the amount and bond types available, etc. Contains several charts and graphs discussing Israel's import/export amounts, public debt, government expenditures, military expenditures, etc. With one map of Israel. “The idea to float bonds issued by Israel's government was conceived by Israel's first prime minister,  David Ben-Gurion, in the aftermath of Israel's War of Independence. The war had taken a terrible toll in casualties (more than 1% of the country's population was killed) , and the nation's fledgling economy was devastated. Compounding the dire situation was the fact that Israel faced economic demands unique to the new state, most especially the arrival of hundreds of thousands of immigrants. In Israel's early years, immigrants generally fell into two categories:  Holocaust survivors and Jewish refugees from Arab countries, ” who poured in as the British Blockade ended and Middle Eastern Jews fled or were expelled from their home countries. “Short on money, the country suffered food shortages and rationing, and the new arrivals had to be housed in primitive conditions. With his country financially overwhelmed, Ben-Gurion turned to the Diaspora community for help. In September 1950, he convened a meeting of American Jewish leaders at Jerusalem's King David Hotel, where he proposed issuing bonds to help provide Israel with a more secure economic foundation. Ben-Gurion's goals were two-fold: to obtain millions of dollars in funding for immigrant absorption and the construction of national infrastructure, and to engage Diaspora Jewry as active partners in building the new Jewish state. The American Jewish leaders supported Ben-Gurion's plan and, the following spring, the prime minister traveled to New York to help launch the inaugural Independence Issue at a gala Madison Square Garden ceremony…. Final results for 1951 more than doubled projections, exceeding $52 million” (Wikipedia, 2015) . Subjects: Finance - Israel. Bonds, Government - Israel (State) Economic history - Israel (State) Economic history. Finance. Israel - Economic conditions. American Financial and Development Corporation for Israel. OCLC lists 5 copies (Wayne State, NYPL, US Dept of State, Penn, Harvard) , none in Israel and none west of Detroit. Soiled wraps, folded in half, institutional marks faintly visible on wraps, otherwise clean and fresh. Good condition. Important. (ZION-6-49) xx
Stock number:35576.
$US 225.00
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Imprint: Jerusalem; Kupath Rabbi Meir Baal Haness, [1945-1950s?]
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Paperback
Single-sided leaf. 4to. [1] page. 28 cm. First Edition. In Hebrew. A call for donations to the Kupath Rabbi Meir Baal Haness, by Polish Rabbis who had settled in Jerusalem after the Holocaust. “Kupath Rabbi Meir Baal Haness was founded over 215 years ago [1796] by the great Torah leaders of European Jewry. With great insight, they realized that the fledgling settlements in the Holy Land would need the material support of European Jewry in order to survive. The fund would be the channel by which they could provide assistance to their struggling brothers and sisters in Eretz Yisroel. Over the years, Kupath Rabbi Meir Baal Haness has served as a lifeline for countless needy families: a trustworthy and reliable friend that has helped them through both good times and bad times. From Torah scholars to simple artisans, from the Jerusalem scribe to the farmer in Tiberias the shopkeeper in Beersheba, all have found a helping hand and an open heart in Kupath Rabbi Meir Baal Haness. ” (kramban) Subjects: Jerusalem – Charities. Zionism – Settlement. Hassidism. Light age toning with some small tears on bottom and right edges. Very Good condition. (HOLO-114-21A)
Stock number:34216.
$US 225.00
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Imprint: Nyu-York, N. Y. ; Tsiko, 1943
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Inscription: Signed, Inscribed Or Annotated
Original Cloth. 8vo. 311 pages. 21 cm. First edition. In Yiddish. Title page verso: When Poland fell; Ven Poiln is gefaln. Inscribed by Joseph Opatoshu on title page in Yiddish, dated Junet 1943. “In the light of the destruction of practically all the great centers of Jewish life in Eastern Europe, the desire to record what can be remembered of a life that may never return, before memory of the past and recent past is completely blotted out, can be readily understood. In this category can be placed Opatoshu's 'When Poland Fell, ' a collection of stories of the years 1939-40 when Poland fell and with it Polish Jewry” - American Jewish Year Book, 5704, pg 115. Subjects: Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) - Fiction. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) . Light soiling to cloth and outer edges, otherwise very fresh. Very good + condition. An important early Holocaust novel, here inscribed. (HOLO2-117-44)
Stock number:34130.
$US 225.00
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Imprint: New York; Paramount Printing And Publishing Co., 1946
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardback
Original Wraps. 8vo. 12 pages. 24 cm. First edition. Lecture originally delivered May 1st, 1945, three weeks after the news of Hitler's death. This lecture discusses the rise of Nazism, Jewish persecution, the holocaust; with emphasis on the redeeming features of German philosophy (Novalis, Marx, Hegel, Lessing) . Subjects: Jews - Persecutions – Germany. National socialism – Germany. None on OCLC; Light ageing to wraps and outer margins, otherwise clean and fresh. Scarce. Very good condition. (HOLO2-115-32)
Stock number:34048.
$US 225.00
Imprint: Katowice; Zarzad Wojewódzki Polskiego Zwiazku B. Wiezniów Politycznych, 1947
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Paperback
Original Wrappers. 4to. 39 pages. 30 cm. First Edition. In Polish. Title translates as, “There Were More Deaths, Than Bread: Jednodniowka Released On the Occasion of the Exhibition ‘Oswiecim accuses. ’" Jednodniowka publications are typically journals or pamphlets issued by organizations with no regular publications, but may also be published quarterly or on a semi-regular basis. Contains period advertisements. Journal containing poetry, prose and articles related to the conditions of Polish concentration camps. The Polski Zwiazek Bylych Wiezniów Politycznych Hitlerowskich Wiezien I Obozów Koncentracyjnych, (translates to “Polish Association of Former Political Prisoners of Nazi Concentration Camps and Prisons”) was formed in 1946, and existed until 1949. Later reformed in the 1990’s the organization focuses on youth outreach and Holocaust education. Subjects: Holocaust. Concentration camps. Auschwitz-Birkenau. OCLC lists 2 copies worldwide. (Natl. Libr. Of Poland, Central Connecticut State University) Light soiling and age toning. Dramatic color cover illustration. Very good + condition. (HOLO-114-15)
Stock number:33370.
$US 225.00
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Imprint: New York; World ORT Union, [1941]
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardback
Original wraps. 4to. 11 pages. 28 cm. First edition. Typewritten Report, by Engineer M. M. Belogousky, Collaborator of the Training Section, Secretary to the Technical Council of the Central Board of World ORT Union. Report on the ORT Schools and Training Courses in France, from the period 1933-39 (training German Jewish Refugees after the advent of Hitler) , with details of the type of courses, those involved, and a schematic outline of the courses given in this period; from the period 1939-1940, when France entered the war, the demand for skilled workers in the 'national defense' industries, the change in situation of refugees and foreign workers, cooperation with MAT-FORD Manufactory (the French Ford) and an exchange of training materials for graduates, inauguration of courses in Lyons at the time of the German invasion, the evacuation of Paris; the period 1940-1941, from the period of the 'French National Revolution' after the armistice with Germany and the imposition of strict requirements on ORT schools, the need for new facilities outside Paris, etc. , the work accomplished since October 1940, with new facilities opened in various towns and cities, the courses offered are listed; immediate difficulties of movement between towns is noted in detail, the granting of three 'circulating cards' permitting unrestricted movement across towns between facitlities for three engineers (Frenkel, Belogousky, Melamed) ; the establishment of ORT courses for people interned in concentration camps (camp Gurs, Argeles, Brens) , the difficulties ensuing, ORT's accomplished release of 150 boys from the camps who are learning a trade at the ORT boarding school in the Pyrenees; last sections of report titled: Constructive Help to Single Refugees, The Management and the Financing of Schools, The Kinds of Program of Studies, Study-Plan, the Pupil's Staff. Subjects: World ORT Union. Jewish refugees - Employment – France. Refugees – France – 1933-1941. OCLC lists one copy (NYPL) . Light wear to edges, lightly aged, otherwise clean and fresh. Very good condition. (HOLO2-113-28)
Stock number:33135.
$US 225.00
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Imprint: Jerusalem : Yad Washem-Remembrance Authority For The Disaster And The Heroism, 1957-1961
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Original Boards. 4to. Pages. 28 cm. First edition. A single volume containing numbers 1 through 10 of this newsletter, published from April, 1957 through to April, 1961. In April, 1957 “another publication appeared from the authority, the Yad Vashem Bulletin, which in addition to relating information about victims, survivors, and rescuers, it also mentioned forthcoming Yad Vashem publications and documents such as the Shavli Ghetto Diary by Dr. A. Yerusalmi, and also listed publications received by the Yad Vashem library. The authority began disseminating research on the Shoah, documentation, conference anthologies, and scores of diaries and memoirs. ” (yadvashem.org) Subjects: World War, 1939-1945 -- Jews. Some rubbing and light shelfwear, otherwise very good condition. (HOLO2-107-25), Ideal 1-12
Stock number:32013.
$US 225.00
Imprint: New York, N. Y. : Jewish Pictorial Review Assn. ,, 1948
Binding: Paperback
Original Illustrated wrappers, 4to. 28 cm. Ceased in 1951. In Yiddish with English Rear Cover. Title from masthead. Includes music, poetry, fiction, journalism and, of course, many photos, photo-mantages, and artwork. SUBJECT (S) : Jews -- Periodicals. OCLC lists 6 holdings that potentially include these issues. Light wear, Very Good Condition. (period-1-6), Lev 2013
Stock number:31892.
$US 225.00
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Imprint: Tallin, Estonskoe Gosudarstvennoe Isdatel’stvo [Estonian State Publishing], 1962
Binding: Hardcover
(FT) Original Publisher’s Cloth. 292, [4] pages. Illlus. Facsims. Ports. 21 cm. In Russian. Title translates to English as, “Servants of the Swastika. ” CONTENTS: Lakei [Footmen] --- “Poslanets” Gimmlera I Rozenberga ["Ambassador" Himmler and Rosenberg] --- Kannibal Mikson I ego Zaschitniki [Cannibal Mixon and his Defenders] --- Tallinskaya Tsentral’naya Tyurma v Period Okkupatsiya [Tallinn Central Prison during the Occupation] --- Myae, Angelus, Mere I Viks: Organizatory Ubiystva pisatelya Iokhannesa Rubena [Myae, Angelus, Mere and Vicks: Organizers of the Murder of the Writer Johannes Ruben] --- Odin iz dvenadtsati s lishnim tysyach [One of the more than Twelve Thousand] --- Mezhdunarodnyye Shpiony [International Spies] --- Slugi Svastiki Snova Podnimayut Golovy [Servants of Swastika again Rearing their Heads]. Boards lightly bumped at edges but still nice. Very Good Condition. (HOLO2-93-32)
Stock number:30261.
$US 225.00
Imprint: Prague, Sozialdemokratischen Partei Deutschlands, 1939
Binding: Hardback
Paper Wraps. 8vo. 34 pages, 18 pages. Published in exile by the heavily Jewish SPD, these monthly reports covered sociopolitical and economic conditions in Germany, and were harshly critical of the Nazi regime. CONTENTS: “The Encirclement of Poland, ” “Poland in the Event of a Conflict in the West. ” OCLC lists 5 copies worldwide (Staats & Universitatsbibliothek Hamburg, Univ m Hannnover & TIB, Universitatsbibliothek Oldenburg Ibit, Bibliothek Des Herder-Instituts, Universitatsbibliothek Passau) . Internal pages are lightweight, tissue-like paper. Some chipping at edges of covers. Pages darkened at edges but all text is clear. Very good condition. (HOLO2-33-11)
Stock number:26181.
$US 225.00
Imprint: Prague, Sozialdemokratischen Partei Deutschlands, 1938
Binding: Hardback
Paper Wraps. 8vo. 51 pages. Published in exile by the heavily Jewish SPD, these monthly reports covered sociopolitical and economic conditions in Germany, and were harshly critical of the Nazi regime. CONTENTS: “The Sudeten German Tragedy, ” “Terror in the Workshops. ” OCLC lists 5 copies worldwide (Staats & Universitatsbibliothek Hamburg, Univ m Hannnover & TIB, Universitatsbibliothek Oldenburg Ibit, Bibliothek Des Herder-Instituts, Universitatsbibliothek Passau) . Internal pages are lightweight, tissue-like paper. Some chipping at edges of covers and small tears on backstrip. Pages are darkened at edges but all text is clear. Very good condition. (HOLO2-33-10)
Stock number:26180.
$US 225.00
Imprint: Jerusalem, Published For Yad Washem Remembrance Authority By The Pub. Dept. Of The Jewish Agency, 1957-960
Binding: Paperback
Paper Wrappers. 8vo. 183; 334; 320; 340 pages. Ill. 22 cm. In English. Yad Vashem, Israel's official memorial to the Jewish victims of the Holocaust, compiles essays on various aspects of the holocaust. ISSN: 0792-3333. SUBJECT (S) : Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Periodicals. Jews -- Historiography -- Periodicals. Geographic: Europe -- History -- 20th century -- Periodicals. Light wear, bent corners on covers. Nice clean copies. Good condition. These early volumes in English are the most difficult to obtain. (HOLO2-28-11), OK 06/12
Stock number:25939.
$US 225.00
Imprint: London: The Organization, 1925
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Paper Wrappers
1st edition thus, 8vo, 45 pages, 23 cm. In German. The World Zionist Organization was “Founded as the Zionist Organization, or ZO, in 1897 at the First Zionist Congress, held from August 29 to August 31 in Basel, Switzerland. The ZO's newspaper Die Welt was founded in the same year. It changed its name to World Zionist Organization in January 1960.The ZO served as an umbrella organization for the Zionist movement, whose objective was the creation of a Jewish homeland in Eretz Yisrael – at that time under the Ottoman Empire and following the First World War, the British Mandate of Palestine. When the State of Israel was declared 51 years later on May 14, 1948, many of its new administrative institutions were already in place, having evolved during the regular Zionist Congresses of the previous decades. Some of these institutions remain to this day” (Wikipedia). OCLC: 8606563. OCLC lists 8 copies worldwide, but only one in North America (HUC). Paper browning, some edgewear and toning to covers, Good+ Condition (BR-12-24)
Stock number:42352.
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Imprint: London: Office of the Jewish Agency for Palestine, 1929
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Paper Wrappers
1st edition. Original printed blue paper wrappers in later stiff pamphlet protector, 8vo, [16] pages ; 22 cm. “The Jewish Agency for Israel, formerly known as the Jewish Agency for Palestine, is the largest Jewish non-profit organization in the world. It was established in 1929 as the operative branch of the World Zionist Organization (WZO)....In 1929, the Palestine Zionist Executive was renamed, restructured and officially inaugurated as The Jewish Agency for Palestine by the 16th Zionist Congress, held in Zurich, Switzerland. The new body was larger and included a number of Jewish non-Zionist individuals and organizations, who were interested in Jewish settlement in Palestine. They were philanthropic rather than political, and many opposed talk of a Jewish State. With this broader Jewish representation, the Jewish Agency for Palestine was recognized by the British in 1930, in lieu of the Zionist Organization, as the appropriate Jewish agency under the terms of the Mandate. The 16th Zionist Congress determined that in the event of the future dissolution of the agency, the World Zionist Organization would replace it as representative of the Jews for the purpose of the Mandate” (Wikipedia). SUBJECT(S): Zionism. OCLC: 8313476. Very Good Condition (BR-12-23-BPR)
Stock number:42351.
$US 200.00
Imprint: New York, Jewish Socialist Youth Club "Zukunft.", 1942
Binding: Paper Wrappers
Original Paper Wrappers, 8vo, 15 pages. Early (1942) report by the American branch of the Bund on Jewish resistance by young people in Eastern Europe. "Hand in hand with the underground organizations of the General Jewish Labor Union and in contact with the organization of the Polish socialists, the Youth Union 'Zukunfst' conducts an untiring and ramified activity which is preparing the ground for the open struggle of tomorrow against Hitlerism" (p. 13). SUBJECT(S): Jewish youth -- Poland. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Jewish resistance. World War, 1939-1945 -- Atrocities. Covers toning with tiny chip to upper left corner, otherwise Very Good Condition (Holo2-139-22). Illustr: Illustrated by 2 Facimilie Illustrations
Stock number:42332.
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Imprint: Melborn [Melbourne]: Yidishn Kultur-Tsenter un natsionale bibliotek "Kadimah", 1967
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardback
1st edition. Original illustrated publisher’s cloth, 8vo, 456 pages. 22 cm. Includes many photos. In Yiddish. Title translates as, “Third Australian-Yiddish Almanac.” "Published by Jewish Cultural Centre & National Library "Kadimah" to mark its 55th Anniversary December 1911 - December 1966" (on title page verso). “ In the 2016 census, there were 21,175 Australians who identified as Jewish by ancestry, a decrease from 25,716 in the 2011 census, and 91,016 Australians who identified as adherents of Judaism, which is a 6% decrease on 97,355 adherents of Judaism in the 2011 census. The actual number is almost certainly higher, because an answer to the religion question on the census was optional and because Holocaust survivors, Haredi Jews or many non-practising Jews are believed to prefer not to disclose religion in the census. By comparison, the Israeli newspaper Haaretz estimated a Jewish-Australian population of 120,000-150,000 (not limited to adherents of Judaism), while other estimates based on the death rate in the community estimate the size of the community as 250,000. Based on the census data, Jewish citizens make up about 0.4% of the Australian population. The Jewish community of Australia is composed mostly of Ashkenazi Jews, though there are Jews in Australia from many other traditions and levels of religious observance and participation in the Jewish community…..The first Jews to come to Australia were at least eight English convicts transported to Botany Bay in 1788 aboard the First Fleet. About 15,100 convicts were transported by the time transportation ceased in 1840 in New South Wales and 1853 in Tasmania. It is estimated that of those who arrived by 1845 about 800 were Jewish. Most of them came from London, were of working-class background and were male. Only 7% of Jewish convicts were female, compared with 15% for non-Jewish convicts. The average age of the Jewish convicts was 25, but ranged from 8 to elderly….The first move toward organisation in the community was the formation of a Chevra Kadisha (a Jewish burial society) in Sydney in 1817, but the allocation of land for a Jewish cemetery was not approved until 1832. In 1830 the first Jewish wedding in Australia was celebrated, the contracting parties being Moses Joseph and Rosetta Nathan. Jewish immigration in the interwar period came at a time of antisemitism and the White Australia policy. The Returned Services League and other groups publicised cartoons to encourage the government and the immigration Minister Arthur A. Calwell to stem the flow of Jewish immigrants. Sephardi Jews first immigrated to Australia in the mid-to-late 19th century, and the community thrived for some twenty years, there was a Sephardic congregation, and some Sephardi families occupied important communal positions. Gradually, however, the Sephardi population declined, and the congregation was disbanded in 1873. A new Sephardic community also emerged in the post-war period. Previously, Mizrahi Jews were generally not permitted to enter due to Australia's White Australia policy. However, following the Suez Crisis in 1956, a number of Egyptian Jews were allowed to enter. Over the following years, overtures from Jewish communities led the government to drop its previous stance on entry of Mizrahi Jews. By 1969, when Iraqi Jews were being persecuted, the government granted refugee status to Iraqi Jews who managed to reach Australia….Hitler's ascent to power and the horrors of World War II also brought large numbers of refugees from central Europe. From the mid-1930s, Temple Beth Israel in Melbourne became the basis of a Reform community because of its newly arrived German members. The Temple's German-born rabbi played an integral role in promoting the movement and, in 1938, when visiting Sydney, he established Temple Emanuel. It also attracted many Jews from Germany and other parts of Central Europe, who arrived in Sydney prior to the outbreak of the war. The 1940s and 1950s saw the emergence of ultra-Orthodox Haredi and Hasidic communities in Sydney and Melbourne. The first Sephardic synagogue in Australia was founded in 1962. There had been at least two short-lived efforts to establish Reform congregations, the first as early as the 1890s. However, in 1930, under the leadership of Ada Phillips, a Liberal or Progressive congregation, Temple Beth Israel, was permanently established in Melbourne. In 1938 the long-serving senior rabbi, Rabbi Dr Herman Sanger, was instrumental in establishing another synagogue, Temple Emanuel in Sydney. He also played a part in founding a number of other Liberal synagogues in other cities in both Australia and New Zealand. The first Australian-born rabbi, Rabbi Dr John Levi, served the Australian Liberal movement. In 2012, the first Humanistic Jewish congregation, known as Kehilat Kolenu, was established in Melbourne, with links to the cultural Jewish youth movement Habonim Dror. Later in 2012, a similar congregation was established in Sydney, known as Ayelet HaShachar” (Wikipedia). SUBJECT(S): Jews -- Australia. Juifs -- Australie. Almanacs, Yiddish -- Juifs -- Almanachs OCLC: 122732918. OCLC lists 9 copies outside Australia. Some spotting to cover, some toning to paper, Very Good Condition. YID-43-10-LE-’x)
Stock number:42160.
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Imprint: Nyu York, Vilner Albom Komitet, 1974
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Cloth
4to; 540 pages; 29-37 cm. An outstanidng photgraphic memorial to the Jewish Vilna, "The Jerusalem of Lithuania. " with well over 1000 photos and facsimiles PER VOLUME. Includes the folded map in pocket in Vol I, which is often missing. Title and all text and captions in Russian, English, Hebrew, and Yiddish. Includes indexes. An excellent resource, even lacking the third volume. OCLC 970933020. Ex-library with usual marks, otherwise Very Good Condition. (YIZ-12-15A), MP
Stock number:42110xt.
$US 200.00
Imprint: Lodzsh [Lodz]: Farlag "Dos Naye Lebn", 1947
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Paperback
1st postwar Yiddish edition (issued the same year in Moscow) of Ber Mark's centrally important work on the Warsaw Ghetto uprising of 1943, published originally in Russian in 1944. Original multicolor illustrated wrappers, 8vo, 391 pages. Title translates into English as, “The book of Valor: 1. Volume. Uprising of the Warsaw Ghetto.” Includes dramatic portrait etching inside front cover. Written by a participant, the Polish historian, journalist and anti-Fascist activist, Bernard Mark (1908-1966) . “Mark narrates the events immediately preceding and during the 1943 armed uprising of Warsaw's Jews, and presents Jewish, Polish, and German documents pertaining to the Warsaw and other ghetto and camp rebellions. ” (Google Books, 2017) Copyright page lists title in Polish: "Ksiega Bohaterstwa. Tom pierwszy: Powstanie w ghetcie warszawskim." SUBJECT(S) : Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Poland -- Warsaw. Jews -- Poland -- Warsaw. Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. World War, 1939-1945 -- Jewish resistance. Guerre mondiale, 1939-1945 -- Mouvements de re´sistance juifs. Holocauste, 1939-1945 -- Varsovie (Pologne) -- Histoire -- 1943 (Insurrection du ghetto) OCLC: 12010937. Spine rebacked, corner chip to front cover, other corner repaired, paper toning as expected. Still attractive overall, a very nice copy. Our colleague offers a comparable copy for over $850.00. (Holo2-148-4A-BAXEL-+)
Stock number:42058.
$US 200.00
Imprint: Kiev, Academy Of Science Of The URSR [Akademiya Nauk URSR], 1963
Original Softcover with repaired spine. 8vo. 190, [2] pages. 21 cm. In Ukrainian. Title translates to English as, “Judaism Without Decoration. ” Anti-semitic work including numerous political cartoons. Contents includes: Mif pro “Bogoobraniy Narod” I yogo Nebesnogo Pokrovitelya Yagve [Myth of "God's Chosen People" and its Heavenly Patron of Yahweh] -- Tora-Khumesh I Talmud – Pavutinnya Mrakobissya [Torah and Talmud-Humesh - Web of Obscurity] -- Ni, Ne z Rebra “Ishsha” [No, Not From the Ribs "Ishsha"]. Includes bibliographical references. SUBJECT(S) : Judaism -- Controversial literature. OCLC: 7370047. Spine repair, small piece of clear tape at base of spine, Some staining to a few outer margins, underlining on 6 pages, all images, including the dramatic Antisemitic front cover are clear and vibrant. Good+ Condition. (HOLO2-93-2-DCC)
Stock number:42044.
$US 200.00
Imprint: New York, Yiddish Scientific Institute--Yivo,, 1942
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Paperback
Very Good Condition.; 1st edition. Original paper wrappers. 8vo, 30 Pages, many illustrated. ; 23 cm. Also issued in Yiddish as " Vi Azoy Lebn Poylishe Yidn In Di Getos" Photo cover, printed on glossy paper. "This Paper Was Read Before The Sixteenth Annual Conference Of The Yiddish Scientific Institute On January 11, 1942 ... The Paper Was In Yiddish And, Simultaneously With This Translation, Is Being Published In The Yivo Bleter, Journal Of The Yiddish Scientific Institute, XIX, 1 (January-February, 1942) . " Subject: Jews -- Poland. World War, 1939-1945 -- Jews. Subject: Poland -- History -- Occupation, 1939-1945. Publisher's stamp and date inked onto margins of front cover and on blank front end paper, toning to cover as usually found, about Very Good Condition (Holo2-89-29)
Stock number:34792.
$US 200.00
Imprint: Bussuem, Netherlands, C. A. J. Van Dishoeck, 1945
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Cloth
Small 8vo; 80 pages; 1st edition. In Dutch/Flemmish. Includes the errata slip for page 27, tipped into the appropriate spot. Memoir & history of the deportation of Dutch Jews & others to these camps by the SS, helped by Dutch fascists. SUBJECT(S): World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Dutch. -- Jews. Nazi concentration camps -- Europe. Guerre mondiale, 1939-1945 -- Juifs. Camps de concentration nazis -- Europe. Nazi concentration camps. Concentratiekampen. Memoires. OCLC: 781171783. Cover slightly tanned. Very good condition. (HOLO2-53-6)
Stock number:26131.
$US 200.00
Imprint: Warszawa: Dom Spotkan z Historia, 2011
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Paperback
1st edition. Original slipcase and stiff paper wrappers. 63, 42, 27, 43, 31, 55 pages [261 pages total] 21 x 30 cm. In Polish. Title translates to “Looking at the Warsaw Ghetto.” Six separate volumes entitled Krochmalna, Leszno, Karmelicka, Nowolipie, Mila, and Stawki. “Jacek Leociak (1957-) is a Polish literary historian and author. He is professor of humanities and an employee of the Institute of Literary Research at the Polish Academy of Sciences and the Polish Center for Holocaust Research in Warsaw” (Wikipedia, 2018). SUBJECTS: Jewish ghettos -- Poland -- Warsaw -- History -- 20th century. Jews -- Persecutions -- Poland -- Warsaw. OCLC:729248710. Very good condition. (HOLO2-142-12-ADFX)
Stock number:41866.
$US 200.00
Imprint: Buenos Aires: Bené Berith, 1936
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Paperback
1st edition, original wrappers, 8vo. 31 pages, charts throughout. In Spanish. Title translates to “The Jewish Population in the Argentine Republic.” Holocaust-era lecture delivered on October 23, 1935 by Simon Weill. Pages 25-31 are charts “Resumen General de la Poblacion Israelita en la Republica Argentina Ano 1934.” The US Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington notes of Argentina during the war, "Argentina, which had admitted 79,000 Jewish immigrants between 1918 and 1933, officially admitted 24,000 between 1933 and 1943. Another 20,000 Jews entered Argentina illegally, crossing the border from neighboring countries." SUBJECT(S): Jews -- Argentina -- Statistics. Population. OCLC: 33237945, OCLC lists 8 copies worldwide. Spine repair, some pencil marks on cover. Internally very good, Good Condition Overall. (HOLO2-141-15-ABBCCIII-'+).
Stock number:41857.
$US 200.00
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Imprint: Nyu-York; Pyonern Froyen Organizatsye, 1946
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Original Cloth. 8vo. XVII, 184, [1] pages. 23 cm. First edition. In Yiddish. 'Women in the Ghettos'. Contents: In di getos un untererd - Partizanen in kamf - Geshtaltn - Portretn - Parashutistn - Tsu di bregn fun heymland. Emphasizes women partisans and the ghetto resistance, entire section devoted to Hannah Senesh. Illustrated throughout. Compiled by Leib Spizman (1903-1963) , Yiddish writer, member of the Farband-Labor Zionist Order’s national executive committee and of the secretariat of the World Congress for Jewish Culture, he came to the United States via Japan in 1940. Subjects: Jewish women in the Holocaust. World War, 1939-1945 - Jewish resistance. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Senesh, Hannah, 1921-1944. OCLC: 18995782. Pen notations in Yiddish on 5 pages, otherwise Very good condition. (HOLO2-115-49-AELX)
Stock number:41812.
$US 200.00
Imprint: New York: Aroysgegebn fun der Shrayber-Sektsye baym Ikuf, 1945
Edition: First Edition
Binding: hardback
Inscription: Signed, Inscribed Or Annotated
1st edition. Original modernist illustrated cloth cover, 8vo, 159, [1] pages ; 22 cm. In Yiddish. Title translates as, "Lamentations of our Time." Holocaust-era Poetry. Inscribed by the author on front end paper. Features construtivist cover by Aron Gudelman, who is featured in Hillel Kozovsky’s “C’Etait l’Epoque ou l’On a Commence a Illustrer les Livres Juifs, ” [appearing in French Translation in ‘Futur antérieur: l'Avant-garde et le livre yiddish (1914-1939) , ’ p. 47]. Aron Gudelman (Ataki, Bessarabia, 1890 - New York, 1978) “was a sculptor, illustrator, etcher, lecturer, and teacher. Born in Russia, he immigrated to New York in 1905 at the time of pogroms in Russia. After attending the Cooper Union and the National Academy of Design, in 1914 he studied with Jean-Antoine Injalbert at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris. Supporting himself as a machinist in the 1920s, Goodelman became a communist. His concerns about social and economic conditions were expressed in his art. He participated in exhibitions at the John Reed Club in the early 1930s. After World War II, Goodelman created artworks related to the Holocaust. He taught at City College of New York in the 1960s” (National Museum of American Art, 1996). Malka Lee (1904- 1976) "was an American poet and author. She is the author of Durkh Kindershe Oygn (Through the Eyes of Childhood), published in 1955 and dedicated to her family, who were killed by the Nazis in the shtetl of Monastrishtsh (now Monastyryska, Ukraine) in 1941, as well as six volumes of poetry in Yiddish, her mother tongue, much of it about her experience of observing the Holocaust from the safety of the United States" (Wikipedia). OCLC 11430181. Wear to edges of cover, about Very Good- Condition, a beautiful inscribed copy (Yid-26-8D-AELX-'+) xx
Stock number:41785.
$US 200.00
Imprint: Shrayber-Sektsye baym Ikuf, 1945
Edition: First Edition
Binding: hardback
Inscription: Signed, Inscribed Or Annotated
1st edition. Original modernist illustrated cloth cover, 8vo, 159, [1] pages ; 22 cm. In Yiddish. Title translates as, "Lamentations of our Time." Holocaust-era Poetry. Inscribed by the author on front end paper. Features construtivist cover by Aron Gudelman, who is featured in Hillel Kozovsky’s “C’Etait l’Epoque ou l’On a Commence a Illustrer les Livres Juifs, ” [appearing in French Translation in ‘Futur antérieur: l'Avant-garde et le livre yiddish (1914-1939) , ’ p. 47]. Aron Gudelman (Ataki, Bessarabia, 1890 - New York, 1978) “was a sculptor, illustrator, etcher, lecturer, and teacher. Born in Russia, he immigrated to New York in 1905 at the time of pogroms in Russia. After attending the Cooper Union and the National Academy of Design, in 1914 he studied with Jean-Antoine Injalbert at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris. Supporting himself as a machinist in the 1920s, Goodelman became a communist. His concerns about social and economic conditions were expressed in his art. He participated in exhibitions at the John Reed Club in the early 1930s. After World War II, Goodelman created artworks related to the Holocaust. He taught at City College of New York in the 1960s” (National Museum of American Art, 1996). Malka Lee (1904- 1976) "was an American poet and author. She is the author of Durkh Kindershe Oygn (Through the Eyes of Childhood), published in 1955 and dedicated to her family, who were killed by the Nazis in the shtetl of Monastrishtsh (now Monastyryska, Ukraine) in 1941, as well as six volumes of poetry in Yiddish, her mother tongue, much of it about her experience of observing the Holocaust from the safety of the United States" (Wikipedia). OCLC 11430181. Touch of wear, Very Good Condition, a beautiful inscribed copy (Yid-26-8C-AELX-'+) xx
Stock number:41784.
$US 200.00
Imprint: Berlin: B. Levy, 1937
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Paperback
Inscription: Signed, Inscribed Or Annotated
1st edition. Original illustrated wrappers. 8vo. 57 pages, 22 cm. In German. Title translates to “The Jewish Runner.” Inscribed by the author on the inside front cover. Published in Berlin the year after the 1936 Olympics there. Felix Daniel Pinczower (1901-1993) was a German-Jewish sportsman and journalist who played for the Jewish "Hakoach" Berlin. While working as a sports journalist he covered the second Maccabiah, held in Tel-Aviv in 1935 and the 1936 Berlin Olympics. Pinczower immigrated to Eretz Israel in 1939 after being arrested on Kristallnacht for five weeks. SUBJECTS: Running in the Bible. OCLC lists 6 copies in the US (HUC, LBI, YIVO, Harvard, LOC, Spertus) (OCLC:9894449). Light edge wear to wrappers. Very good condition. (YID-41-47)
Stock number:41715.
$US 200.00
Imprint: Cincinnati; Hebrew Union College, 1941
Binding: Paperback
Original Wraps. 8vo. 31 pages. 21 cm. First separate edition. Founder's Day address, Hebrew Union College, March 29, 1941. Reprinted from "The Synagogue," Sept. and Oct. 1941. Essay on Wise's life and thought to serve as a comparison between the ideals and times of the nineteenth century (equalitarianism, freedom, the fight against anti-semitism) and the horrors in Germany today. With long reflections on the relationship of Wise to Zionism, Judaism, and America. The author, George Zepin, was born in Russia in 1878. In 1900 he was ordained as a rabbi at Hebrew Union College. From 1917-1941 Zepin was secretary of the Union of American Hebrew Congregations. Subjects: Reform Judaism - United States. Reform Judaism. Wise, Isaac Mayer, 1819-1900. OCLC Number: 5664579. OCLC lists 9 copies. Light soiling and wear to wraps, otherwise clean and fresh. Good + condition. (AMR-46-6)
Stock number:41684.
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Imprint: Munich, Farband Fun Litvishe Yidn in Der Amerikaner Zone in Daytshlond, 1948
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Paper Wrappers
Inscription: Signed, Inscribed Or Annotated
8vo; 424 pages; 21 cm. . In Yiddish. Special issue to "Unser Weg". Errata slip inserted. "The extermination of the Jews of Kowno (Kaunas) " on copyright page. Includes index, portraits, music and 18 pages of photo plates. The US Holocaust Memorial Museum keeps their copy in their Rare Book Collection. Missing front cover. Small tears and pieces missing to back cover. Ex-library with label on spine and bookplate in back. Edgewar to title page, small tears to first 8 pages. Pages tanned. INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR. Backstrip missing pieces. Corner of back cover torn off, no text affected. Pages lightly tanned. Good condition. (YIZ-3-10), ok 2/2021
Stock number:10450.
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Imprint: Stavanger, Norway, Gyldendal Norsk Forlag, 1945
Edition: First Edition (?)
Binding: Cloth
Boards bowed as uusally found. Paper & internal binding Very Good. Lacks Jacket ; Oblong 4to; 60 pages; Unpaginated & undated. Magnificent illustrated documentaryon life in Grini Concentration Camp in Norway. THe book actually has very little text aparat from Bull's foreword; It is essentially a book of sketches with short blurbs about each detailed illustration--not only of prisoners working, and being abused, but also of them painting, making music, celebrating holidays, etc. Bound in mock-marbled boards with illustrated endpapers. A wonderful book.
Stock number:6421.
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Imprint: New York : Education Dept. of the Workmen's Circle, 1967
Edition: First Edition
Binding: paperback
1st edition. 4to, [2]+ 11+ [3] +7 pages, 23 pages total. Illustrations throughout. “This Ghetto-Memorial Program is issued by the Education Department of the Workmen’s Circle to assist the Workmen’s Cirlce branches. Parent’s organizations, as well as other Workmen’s Circle groups to present interesting and educational programs for their membership. The program may be given as a tribute to the memories of the martyrs of the ghettos in the month of April, or as a program in conjunction with ‘Jewish Music Month.’ The program was compiled by the well-known singer and author of ‘The Treasury of Yiddish Folksongs,’ Ruth Rubin, and is also available on tape.” (from book) Songs and sheet music throughout. SUBJECT(S): World War, 1939-1945 -- Jews. History. Songs and music. Warsaw (Poland) -- History -- Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. OCLC: 6757708, oclc lists 9 copies worldwide. Slight wear to cover, Very Good Condition. (HOLO2-159-46-ABZ)xx; 1st edition. Original stapled wrappers, 4to, [2] + 11 + [3] + 7 pages, 23 pages total. Illustrations throughout. “This Ghetto-Memorial Program is issued by the Education Department of the Workmen’s Circle to assist the Workmen’s Circle branches. Parent’s organizations, as well as other Workmen’s Circle groups to present interesting and educational programs for their membership. The program may be given as a tribute to the memories of the martyrs of the ghettos in the month of April, or as a program in conjunction with ‘Jewish Music Month.’ The program was compiled by the well-known singer and author of ‘The Treasury of Yiddish Folksongs,’ Ruth Rubin, and is also available on tape.” (from book) Songs and sheet music throughout. SUBJECT(S): World War, 1939-1945 -- Jews. History. Songs and music. Warsaw (Poland) -- History -- Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. OCLC: 6757708, oclc lists 9 copies worldwide. Slight wear to cover, Very Good Condition. (HOLO2-159-46-ABZ)xx
Stock number:41453.
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Imprint: No Place [San Francisco], No Publisher, 1946
Edition: First Edition
Binding: paperback
1st edition. Original paper wrappers. 8vo, 20 cm, 17 pages. An early post-Holocaustaddress delivered to the Commonwealth Club of California, at the Palace Hotel, San Francisco, April 5, 1946, by Rabbi Irving F. Reichert of Congregation Emanu-El, San Francisco, opposing Zionism on general principal but calling for Palestine to be an a democratic haven for Jewish Holocaust refugees. This address has been privately printed through the courtesy of a number of friends. He talks about the experience of the Jews in the Holocaust and particularly focuses on Zionism, and the issues that arise. He also clarifies that the Jews are not a nationality nor a nation, and he argues that with the predictions of the low percentage of Jews that would end up in a Jewish state, there won’t be a Jewish nationality even with a Jewish state. He says, “The American Jewish Community today presents a paradox as far as Palestine is concerned. We are hopelessly divided in our views regarding the political future of Palestine. Many of us are unalterably opposed for reasons of deep conviction, to the establishment of a Jewish state. We are, however, completely united in our conviction that as a democratic commonwealth Palestine can and should provide a home for our disinherited and downtrodden fellow Jews who seek its shelter.” SUBJECT(S): The Jewish question. OCLC: 20985084, OCLC lists 5 copies worldwide (California Hist Soc, Graduate Theol Union Libr, Stanford, HUC, NLI).Very Good Condition. Scarce. (HOLO2-159-47-X-’al)
Stock number:41443.
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Imprint: New York, Privately Printed, 1952-1954
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Cloth
pages; 1st edition. Original publisher's cloth, large 8vo 566 pages. In Yiddish. Yizkor book to murdered teachers in Poland. Very Good Condition. (yiz-20-13) xx, ok 2/2021. Illustr: Illustrated by 17 Photos,numerous Portraits
Stock number:3349.
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Imprint: Munich: Vaad Hatzala, 1948
Edition: First Edition
Binding: paperback
1st edition thus. Period blank paper wrappers, 8vo, 21 pages. Printed in Germany for the Holocaust survivors (She'erit HaPleita) in the displaced persons camps. Hagadah with several hasidic commentaries. Printed for the Holocaust refugees by the Va’ad Hatzalah, a group organized by Rabbi Eliezer Silver and the American Rabbinate to rescue survivors and provide sustenance until their resettlement. Rabbi Silver established the group when the refugee yeshiva pupils reached Vilna in 1939–40 following the Nazi invasion of Poland. During the ensuing years he applied the same body to rescuing European rabbis, scholars, and students. In 1946, Rabbi Silver visited Europe and Erez Israel as an official representative of the United States government to assist the war refugees. This Hagadah was, as shown in the title,given by the committee for the saving of the surviving remanent and printed by the committee in Munich. Reprints the Nehora Ha-Shalem sidur. Includes a commentary on Derech Chaim and Nash [and Nehora Shalem] by Rabbi Yaakov [Lorberbaum] from Lisa. The commentary "Nehora Hashalem" is by Rabbi Aharon Michal, son of Rabbi Yechiel Michal of Mikhailishak.Yudlov 4092; Yaari 2361. Period blank wrappers are heavily worn, title and text pages heavily stained but otherwise solid. Good condition thus (HAG-25-8)
Stock number:41362.
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Imprint: London; Bnei Akiveh, Bachad Fellowship, 1943
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardback
Original Wraps. 8vo. 19 pages. 22 cm. First edition. Some Hebrew throughout. Torah va'avodah library, no. 2. Dedicated to Moshe Zvi Weinstock. Contains a discussion of the holiday, with poems, selections from the Bible, Midrash, and Talmud detailing Chamishah Asar Bi'Shevat (Jewish arbor day celebrated on the fifteenth of Shevat) . “The mother of the Jew is Eretz Israel. The heart of every Jewish child is tied to his holy motherland […] And when this day comes, the fifteenth of Shevat, the day on which the yemot Ha'Geshamim, the period of heavy rainfall is over in Eretz Israel, and the sap begins to rise in its trees, awaking them to a new spring and new life” - pg 5. Bachad was a religious Zionist youth movement in pre-war Germany called Brit Chalutzim Datiim which shortened its name “to its initial letters Bachad. Its members prepared themselves for Aliya. A group of them came over to England among the refugees who were permitted to enter this country in the years immediately before the war. They were accommodated in a castle in Wales [Gwrych Castle] and set up Hachshara centres in Bromsgrove and other places, as well as a Merkaz Limmud in Manchester to which members came from the Hachsharah centres for periods of three or six months for intensive Jewish studies. Later on a farm was bought at Thaxted in Essex which became not only a model Hachsharah centre but very quickly a successful agricultural venture which at one time won first prize for having the best milk yielding cow in Essex! ” (bauk, 2013) . Subjects: Tu bi-Shevat. OCLC lists 8 copies. Wraps previously folded, light soiling to outer margins, internally clean and fresh. Very good condition. (SPEC-40-14)
Stock number:33532.
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Imprint: Berwin, Ill.: Ceské národní sdruzení v Americe, 1946
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Paperbackpaperback
1st edition. Original wrappers. 4to, 29 cm. each issue approx. 16 pages, Some illustrations In Czech with some English. Includes vol. III (no. 3, December 1941), vol. VIII (no. 10, July 1947), vol IX (no. 3, December 1947), vol. XVI (no. 1-11, October 1954- August 1955), and vol. XXVIII (no. 3, December 1966). Publication began October 1, 1939. The Czech-American National Alliance began as “the Bohemian (later Czech) National Alliance in America (‘Ceske narodni sdruzeni’) which led a victorious fight against Austro-Hungary in the US. Czech Chicago was in the center of this liberation movement, together with the help of various Alliance’s branches, e.g., New York, Detroit and Omaha. Under the leadership of Dr. Fisher, who became the chairman, and Josef Tvrzicky, the executive secretary, the number of these branches throughout the US eventually grew to 350.” SUBJECT(S): History. Periodicals. Czechoslovakia. OCLC: 5048975, OCLC lists 10 copies worldwide. Most have previous owner’s name and address on front, few have some tearing and chipping, some wear and sunning on most, Good Condition Overall. (HOLO2-159-30-LGG-’f)
Stock number:41264.
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Imprint: Cracow, Poland: Krajowa Agencja Wydawnicza W Krakowie, N.D.
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Unbound
No Date (ca 1980? ) 1st edition. 10 unbound leaves on photo paper, 28 cm, each with 3-4 photographs. In original envelope. Black and white. Text in English. Photographs from the Archives (collection of the Museum in Auschwitz-Birkenau) . Photographs and text detail the horrific conditions and death in Auschwitz and Birkenau. Includes photograph of corpses being taken away, a photograph of women going to a gas chamber and one of bodies being burned, both taken by a member of the camp resistance movement, a drawing by a prisoner, and many photographs of emaciated children and adults. SUBJECT(S) : World War, 1939-1945 -- Conscript labor -- Poland. Auschwitz (Concentration camp) OCLC: 21968799, OCLC lists 3 copies worldwide: Brigham Young Univ Idaho; Frostburg State Univ Libr; Univ of London, Goldsmiths' Col. Near Perfect Condition, Relatively Scarce, especially in this condition. (HOLO2-159-26-A-beflpii)
Stock number:41191.
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Light wear, Good condition; 4 pages; Dated Sept 28, 1943. Written in neat, legible German script. Includes Sachsenhausen barrelstamp on front, and cancelled 12 pfennig stamp (with Hitler's portrait) with a clear "Oranienburg" cancellation. (HOLO2-25-23), OK 06/12
Stock number:5829.
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Imprint: New York; Rosenthal Institute For Holocaust Studies, Graduate Center/The City University Of New York And Social Science Monographs, 1994
Binding: Hardcover
Original Cloth. 8vo. XLVI, 1486 pages. 24 cm. Revised and Enlarged edition. The Holocaust in Hungary, Two Volume set, Revised and Enlarged Edition. This work has been identified as a monumental, definitive account of the tragedy that befell Hungarian Jewry during the Nazi era. It is widely recognized as a major contribution to the understanding of the many complex factors that led to the Holocaust in Hungary. The Politics of Genocide explains in a rational context the historical, political, communal, and socioeconomic factors that contributed to the unfolding of this tragedy in both Jewish and world history. In the best tradition of political science, the Holocaust in Hungary is described and analyzed in the context of Hungarian and world history and international politics. Randolph Braham's two-volume The Politics of Genocide: The Holocaust in Hungary won the 1981 Jewish National Book Award (USA) , and earned him citations in the New York State Assembly (1981) and the Congressional Record (1981, 1994, 2004) . Black cloth in jacket. Subjects: Jews - Persecutions - Hungary. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) - Hungary. Judenvernichtung. Ethnic relations. Jews - Persecutions. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) . Hungary - Ethnic relations. Light shelf wear, otherwise clean and fresh. Very good + condition in vg jacket. (BRAHAM-1-15) xx
Stock number:33960.
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Imprint: The Hague/'s-gravenhage, Nederlandsche Roode Kruis, 1947
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Wrappers
1st edition. Original printed paper wrappers, 20 pages. 1st serially issued volume of the detailed Dutch Red Cross report on deportation of Dutch Jews to Auschwitz via Westerbork; special attention to when & what train. Wiener Library (Wolff) I: 1659. Includes errata Slip. An important and rare early document. Very light wear, pages starting to brown, Very Good Condition (Holo2-141-41)
Stock number:40860.
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