[Rarebooks] New Catalog: Rare Judaica: Hagadot and American Jewish Imprints

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Catalog 211: Rare Hagadot,

Jewish-American Imprints, and

Related Titles
Dear Friends,

It feels like a strange time to be issuing a new catalog.

But I've been hard at work (yes, working alone!), acquiring and cataloging special material and, well, what better time to add to your collection than now, when you are stuck at home?

Admittedly, a week before Pesach is also a bit late to be offering Hagadot. What can I say, it's been a crazy period and everything got delayed. But as long as we can drop off packages at the post office, we will do our best to get your order to you before the holiday.

All items are 100% returnable for any reason. Need to ask a question, request additional photos, or delay shipment until your library or office reopens? Also not a problem.

Domestic US media mail shipping is free, but with the disruption from the corona virus we recommend priority mail, which is not expensive. International shipping is at cost, also generally not too pricey. New York residents please add sales tax.

We accept payment by paypal, credit card, wire, or check. We will happily invoice your institution.

Today's catalog is organized into five sections:
* Special Items  Nrs. 1-6
* Rare Hagadot and Related Imprints Nrs. 7-31
* Rare American Jewish Material Nrs. 32-48
* San Francisco Imprints Nrs. 49-51
* American Presidents and the Jews Nrs. 52-54

Please let us know what we can send you!

Wishing you a healthy, safe, and sane Passover and beyond,

Dan Wyman

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SPECIAL ITEMS
· 1. (Jodensavanne, Suriname) Texier, Bernard.  EN INGEZEETEN DEZER COLONIE SURINAMEN IN CAS VAN ALARM WEEGENS BUITENLANDSCHE VYANDEN ZIG STIPTELYK ZULLEN HEBBEN TE GEDRAGEN. Paramaribo, A. T. Bordas,, 1800. (ca 1800 reissue of 1781 ed. ) . Later marbled boards, 12mo, 15 pages. An unrecorded ca. 1800 edition of an extremely rare proclamation made by the Dutch governor of Surinam at Paramaribo in 1781. It gives instructions to be followed by reisdents, including specifically the “Joodsche-Natie op de Savana” (the “Jewish Nation on the Savanna, ” the famous Jodensavana Jewish settlement) , in case of attack by a foreign enemy, and must have originally been a response to England's declaration of war against the Netherlands in 1780. The 1800 issue, perhaps a response to English military action in the West Indies in 1800, probably appeared before the 1802 peace agreement. When an alarm is sounded from the fortress, each district captain is to sound his drum and all militias are to assemble
immediately, fully armed, at the locations specified. The proclamation explicitly mentions companies of free citizens, mulattos and negroes. It further provides instructions for the defense of the rivers and plantations, and specifies fines for those who fail to carry out their duties. Plantation owners may judge for themselves which of their white servants and skilled slaves may bear arms. The citizens' divisions include one from the Jewish community. The proclamation includes 24 articles and the texts, dated 8 to 14 March 1781 at the end Texier was governor from 1779 to 1783. There seem to be three editions of this proclamation, all published at Paramaribo and each known from a single surviving copy. What may be the first, at the University of Wageningen, apparently names no printer or publisher. Another, at Indiana University, cannot be much later than 1781, for it bears the imprint of the heirs of J. Brink, who were already active in 1777, but it and the present edition both say
herdrukt (reprinted) in the imprint. The present must be the last, for its printing types suggest a date no earlier than ca. 1800, OCLC records the printer A. T. Bordas in the years 1799 to 1820, and the watermark (D & C Blauw = horn on crowned shield above D & C Blauw, similar to Voorn, Noord-Holland 181, recorded in 1798) also suggests a date around 1800. B2191. NCC (1 copy of ed. Without publisher's name) ; OCLC WorldCat (1 copy of Brink ed. ) ; Suriname Catalogus 5586 (different proclamation with similar title, Amsterdam 1760) ; not in Church; Eberstadt; James Ford Bell Lib. ; JCB; Sabin; Streeter; Karlsruher Virt. Kat. ; STCN. With stamps of the Surinam colonial library and the national library in Paramaribo on the first and last two leaves. With the gutter fold torn and reinforced, not approaching the text, and some light waterstains, but still a good copy. (KH-7-2) (ID #36849) $5000.00.


· 2.  VEKHENTLIKHE LITERARISHE BEYLAGE TSUM "ARBEYTER-FRAYND." NRS 1-52 [COMPLETE, NO MORE ISSUED]. London: Arbeyter Fraynd, 1904-1905. 1st edition. Period boards. 8vo. 416 pages, 25 cm. In Yiddish. Issues 1-52. Title translates to “Literary Suppliment to the ‘Worker’s Friend.” Arbeter Fraynd was a London-based weekly Yiddish radical paper founded in 1885 by socialist Morris Winchevsky. After the emigration of Saul Yanovsky to the United States in 1894, Woolf Wess became the editor in 1895. In 1898, Rudolf Rocker, a German non-Jewish anarchist who had immersed himself into the Yiddish radical culture of London's East End, became the editor of the paper. The paper was suppressed at numerous times by the British government (Wikipedia, 2018). Prager p125. Also listed in John Patten’s Yiddish Anarchist Bibliography – Periodicals.” SUBJECTS: Yiddish literature - England - Periodicals. Boards are loose. OCLC lists 9 copies worldwide (OCLC: 174120785).  Binding repaired and spine rebacked. Paper
brown but solid, occational margin wear, Overall good condition. Important. (YID-40-97) (ID #40195) $3000.00.


Hebrew Dikduk by the Hebrew Teacher Of Mormon Leader Joseph Smith

· 3. Seixas, James. A MANUAL [OF] HEBREW GRAMMAR: WITH A VOCABULARY OF ROOTS, NOUNS, AND PARTICLES OF COMMON OCCURRENCE, FOR THE USE OF BEGINNERS. Philadelphia: Printed for the Author, 1853. Third edition. Carefully revised, corrected, and improved.” Original boards with paper label on front, as issued, 8vo, 83 pages ; 22 cm. In protective modern clamshell box. In English with Hebrew. Singerman 1263. Goldman (183), notes, “Joshua Seixas, the son of Gershom Mendes Seixas (the minister of New York's Shearith Israel congregation), was born in New York in 1802. Little is known about his life. He taught in Shearith Israel's Hebrew school in the mid-1820s and he established the congregation's first choir. Seixas moved to Charlestown, MA, in the early 1830s and gave lessons in Hebrew. Among his pupils were Harvard students. Seixas began referring to himself as James while in Charlestown and it is assumed that he converted to Unitarian Christianity while there. Seixas then settled in Hudson, OH. He
offered private Hebrew classes to students at Oberlin College, and later at Western Reserve University...He also taught groups of Mormons- the center of the movement at the time was in Kirtland, OH- and among his students were Joseph Smith, the founder of Mormonism, and Orson Hyde, another early leader of the movement. Seixas left Ohio in 1836 and he was living in Staten Island, NY, by 1838. It is not clear what his relationship to the Jewish community was in his later years. His death in 1874 is not mentioned in Shearith Israel's records, but the death of his wife is. (The two lived apart after returning to New York.) Also, a few of his many children remained within the community; others did not. Seixas was in regular contact with Christian Hebraists throughout his life. He corresponded with Moses Stuart on personal and scholarly matters and he proofread the grammars published by Stuart and George Bush. Seixas himself authored grammars for Hebrew, Aramaic, Syriac and Arabic….An expanded
second edition (119 pp.) was published in 1834 UA #590]; a third revised and corrected edition (83 pp.) was published in 1852 UA #1263]. Seixas's grammar was reviewed favorably in its time (Goldman, 'Joshua/James Seixas," 72), though Chomsky later criticized it (Chomsky [1958], 133-4).” Interesting assortment of period ownership inscriptions including Jackson Coffing; A.J. Sem, NY City Nov 21st 1853; and Geo Wilson Lemert (?), From his sister Josephine, Antioch Apr. 24th 1869. SUBJECT(S): Hebrew language -- Grammar. OCLC: 4821518. OCLC lists 17 copies worldwide. Lacks backstrip. Dampstains throughout, original boards show moisture damage as well, but book is solid. In fitted buckram clamshell box with library markings (book itself is unmarked). (AMR-65-31) (ID #40890) $3250.00.


ASSOCIATION COPY OF LAZARUS'  POEMS, BELONGING TO HER SISTER, BIOGRAPHER, AND EDITOR JOSEPHINE LAZARUS

· 4. Lazarus, Emma. POEMS AND TRANSLATIONS. New York, Hurd And Houghton, 1867. 1st Edition of Emma Lazarus’ first published book, expanded from a collection with the same title privately printed the year before. BAL 11484. Copy belonging to Emma Lazarus’ sister, biographer and editor, Josephine Lazarus, with Josephine’s ownership signature and address neatly penned on front fly leaf in period female cursive. Attractive Period style half leather and yellow endpapers, 8vo, viii, 297 pages 20 cm. This work includes Emma Lazarus’ own poems “Written between the ages of fourteen and seventeen,” as well as her "Translations from the German: Songs from Heinrich Heine. Song from Schiller. Translations from the French: Song from A. Dumas. From Victor Hugo.” Born in 1846, Josephine Lazarus’ first published piece was a memorial essay on Emma, followed by a series of literary biographies of contemporary women writers. With her sister Anne, Josephine edited and published “The Poems of Emma Lazarus” (B
oston: Houghton Mifflin, 1889). She became involved in the Zionist movement and “In 1893, she was one of the few Jewish women invited to speak at the Congress of Religions at the World Columbian Exposition in Chicago,"publishing an expansion of these essays in “The Spirit of Judaism,” in 1895. Between 1897 and 1902 Josephine Lazarus also wrote articles for, among other periodicals, The American Hebrew, The Jewish Messenger, The New World, Outlook, Scribners, and The Maccabaean (Jewish Women’s Archive, 2016; Wikipedia, 2016; Levinson, “Exiles on Main Street: Jewish American Writers and American Literary Culture,” 2008). Also includes stamp of prominent early 20th Century Zionist attorney on front fly. Very Good Condition. An extremely attractive Association Copy of this American Jewish Women’s High Point. (KH-8-4) (ID #38756) $4000.00.


· 4. Leeser, Isaac. THE CLAIMS OF THE JEWS TO AN EQUALITY OF RIGHTS: ILLUSTRATED IN A SERIES OF LETTERS TO THE EDITOR OF THE PHILADELPHIA GAZETTE [BOUND WITH AS ISSUED:] DISCOURSES ARGUMENTATIVE AND DEVOTIONAL ON THE SUBJECT OF THE JEWISH RELIGION. DELIVERED CHIEFLY AT THE SYNAGOGUE MIKVE ISRAEL, IN PHILADELPHIA, IN THE YEARS 5598-5601  Philadelphia: Printed By C. Sherman & Co. 5601, 1841. 1st edition. Quarter leather, 8vo, 268 (Discourses) + 99 (Claims),. Singerman 0745. Rosenbach 476. Leeser’s first major work. “It’s difficult to overestimate the impact of Leeser’s work on American Jewish communal life, religious education, and culture…. Leeser’s first major work was a rebuttal to an attack on Jews which was published initially in the London Quarterly Review and then re-circulated in American newspapers. Leeser’s piece appeared in 1828 in the Richmond Whig, and was re-printed in 1841 as a book entitled The Claims of the Jews to an Equality of Rights. This writing earned Leeser an
invitation to become Hazan of the Congregation Mikveh Israel in Philadelphia” (Penn Libraries, 2008). Chips to foot and crown of spine, otherwise Very Good Condition in beautiful original full butter leather binding with tooled spine, a Very Nice copy. (AMR-39-4A) (ID #39775) $3500.00.


THE FIRST PUBLICATION OF THE KORAN IN AMERICA

· 5. Ross, Alexander (Tras. From The French by Sieur Du Ryer). THE KORAN, COMMONLY CALLED THE ALCORAN OF MAHOMET. Springfield, Mass; Printed By Henry Brewer For Isaiah Thomas Jr., 1806. 1st edition. Publisher’s original boards, 8vo, 504 pages. 1st American printing of the Koran. Title page reads in full: “Translated from the Original Arabick into French by the Sieur de Ryer, The Whole Now Faithfully Translated Into English.” Cursive inscription by a previous owner on the front flap. A first American edition of the Qur’an, reprinted from the 1649 Alexander Ross translation (itself from the French of 1647). Ross’s translation was made for an era in which English merchant ships were coming into increasing conflict with those of the Ottomans or Arabo-Berbers. Because Ross was a staunch loyalist to the English crown and suspicious of revolutionary religious movements, including those of the England of his day, scholars have suggested that Ross’s condemning Qur’an was meant to expose for the
Christian reader the vanity and “absurdities” of the contemporary Puritan movement of Oliver Cromwell and the Muhammadean movement of Islam several centuries earlier. Nevertheless, Ross’ Qur’an was still in use well into the 19th century, as this new American edition attests, even as an original English translation by George Sale was published in 1734. (The latter edition is the one Thomas Jefferson, who famously held a Ramadan iftar dinner in his White House in 1805, bought from a bookseller in Maryland as a law student at the College of William and Mary). Ironically enough, the Ross’ Qur’an was used by both the Puritans and Muslims his translation aimed to expose and defame, including American Purian leaders like the minister Cotton Mather, a supporter of the Salem witch trials who reportedly drew from the Ross text in his sermons, and the first American Muslims—African slaves who, while officially forbidden from practicing Islam until the Civil War, still managed to find their way to
copies of this first American Qur’an, this very edition.  A copy sold at auction in 2017 for almost $1400.00. Worn original American leather boards, with the title visible in gold lettering on spine. Good Condition. (AC-4-7). (ID #40403) $1200.00. [Admitedly, not a Jewish item!]


· 6. Peringer, Gustav; 1651-1710.מסכתות עבודה זרה ותמיד. MASEKHTOT AVODAH ZARAH VE-TAMID = ID EST DUO CODICES TALMUDICI, AVODA SARA ET TAMID : QUORUM PRIMUS AGIT DE IDOLOLATRIA: ALTER, DE SACRIFICIO JUGI, QUOD OLIM IN TEMPLO HIEROSOLYMITANO QUOTIDIE OFFEREBATUR. AltdorfI Noricorum [Altdorf]: Excudit Johannes Henricus Schönnerstædt, 1680. 1st edition. Period marbled paper wrappers, Square 8vo, [8], 78 pages; 20 cm. Text in Hebrew and Latin in parallel columns. Title translates roughly as: “Two books of the Talmud, Avodah Zara and Tamid. The first deals with idolatry. The later with Sacrifice which was once offered daily at the Temple in Jerusalem.” Talmud translation by a leading period scholar on the Karaites who greatly influenced their positive status in Christian thought:  “It was the Swedish King, Charles XI (ruled 1660-1697) who led to the 'invention; of the Karaims [i.e. Karaites] as a separate ethnic group. Wishing to learn more on the Karaims in 1690, he sent Gustav Pering
er (1651–1710), an orientalist from the University of Uppsala, on a fact-finding mission to the Grand DUchy of Lithanian. Peringer's information on the Karaims contributed to the graudal perception and treatment of them as an ethnoreligious group in its own right, separate from Jews. As a result, while the netavie image of the Jew prevailed in the Polith-Lithuanian territories, the Karaims were seen as the positive opposite of the Jews" (Kamusella, “The Politics of Language and Nationalism in Modern Central Europe, 2009, p 272).  “Paraphrasi Latina redditi a Gustavo Peringero …” SUBJECT(S): Mishnah. Avodah zarah -- Commentaries. OCLC: 13592841. Bound in period attractive marbled wrappers. Period neat inscription on margin of title page. Very clean bright white paper and clear type. Nice copy. (KH-10-1) (ID #41138) $400.00.


RARE HAGADOT

THE FIRST AMERICAN REFORM HAGGADAH

• 7. Jastrow, Marcus. HIGAYON LEV ISRAELITISCHES GEBETBUCH FÜR DIE HÄUSLICHE ANDACHT [INCLUDING THE FIRST AMERICAN REFORM HAGGADAH] [BOUND WITH] GEBETE FÜR KINDER [AS ISSUED] Philadelphia, 1875.  1st edition thus. Period-style half leather, 8vo, [4], 164, 20 pages (188 pages total) Text in Hebrew and German. Goldman 63; This edition unrecorded and apparently unknown to Ya'ari or Yudlov. Higayon Lev (Logic of the Heart) was a liturgical volume for private devotion which was published to supplement the popular Avodat Yisrael prayerbook that Jastrow had created, based on the earlier work of Benjamin Szold. Jastrow’s revisions “creatively modified the classical contours of the Siddur preserved in Szold’s version and added many new prayers.” Among its contents are: selections from Pirkei Avot (Ethics of the Fathers); daily prayers for women, children (and adults who lack the time to complete the regular liturgy), all accompanied by a non-literal German translation. There is also a fascinating
appendix of children’s prayers which includes, in addition to the more standard basic prayers, special prayers to be recited on one’s birthday as well as on a parent’s birthday. The most important component of the new edition however is Jastrow's Haggadah, (pages 35-54), the first printed in America that demonstrates the influence of Reform. Here, the Hebrew elements are reduced to a minimum and incorporate many emendations, even to such quintessential texts as Ha Lahma Anya, Vehi She’amdah and the Four Questions (here reduced to a single query). When Jastrow reprinted the text with an English translation three years later, he wrote, "this plain narrative is well adapted to suggest many a thought as to what duties are incumbent on the Israelites of our own days, and especially in countries like ours where the morn of religious liberty has already dawned and is shedding its roseate light over all inhabitants alike.” SUBJECT(S) : Judaism -- Prayers and devotions. Reform Judaism -- Liturgy --
Texts. Siddurim. OCLC lists 8 copies worldwide. A copy sold at auction in 2015 for over $9,000 with premium. Unobtrusive blind stamp on title page, no other marks, Very Good Condition, a beautiful copy (kh-6-1C) $5000.00


· 8. Heller, Yechiel. סדר הגדה לליל שמורים : ונלוה אליו באור חדש אור ישרים SEDER HA-HAGGADAH LE-LEL SHIMURIM : U-NILVAH ELAV BE-OR HADASH OR YESHARIM. Königsberg: Tuvia Hacohen Efrati, 1857. Later Paper Wrappers. 8vo, 30 pages. 18cm. In Hebrew. Yaari, 778. Haggadah with commentary Ohr Yesharim by Rabbi Yechiel Heller. Rabbi Heller (1814-1862) was already known in his youth as one of the leading Torah scholars of his days. Born in Koidanov, he studied in yeshivot in Minsk and was renowned as the "Ilui of Koidanov". At the age of 21, he was appointed Rabbi in Hlusk and in 1843 as Rabbi of Vawkavysk, succeeding Rabbi Yitzchak Isaac Chaver. In 1854, he began serving in the Suwalki rabbinate and at that time printed his commentary on the Passover Haggadah (Kedem, 2016). Subjects: Liturgy and ritual. Hagadah. Yiddish. Judaism - Liturgy - Texts. OCLC only lists two copies worldwide (Harvard and Ets Haim/UVA). Ex-library with usual markings. Pages are heavily soiled, thoug
h all text is legible. Small tears to margins of last page. Good- Condition. Rare. (Hag-18-9) (ID #36660) $1000.00.


· 9. [Ferenvald DP Hagadah]. HAGADAH SHEL PESACH. Ferenwald [Ferenvald, Fernvald, Fernwald, Föhrenwald ] [Germany], Yaffa, 1946. 1946.1st edition thus. Original illustrated paper wrappers, small 8vo, 34 pages. Haggadah in Hebrew with Yiddish translation.  Published by Holocaust survivors for survivor use in the Ferenwald Displaced Persons Camp. Yudlov 4018, Yaari 2636. Paper browning but solid, light wear to wrappers, much cleaner than generally found, Very Good- Condition. (hag-23-1) (ID #40324) $200.00.


· 10. Beriah Ben Yisrael, Mosheh Elyakim. HAGADAH SHEL PESAH. Lublin: Bi-Defus Mosheh Shnaydmeser U Nehamah Hershenhorn, 1904. First edition. Original paper wrappers. 8vo. 56 pages, 21 cm. In Hebrew. Title translates to “Passover Haggadah.” Includes Kohelet Moshe commentary. Rabbi Moshe Elyakim Beriah of Koznitz, was a hasidic rabbi and son of the great chassidic leader Rabbi Yisrael of Koznitz (1740-1814). SUBJECTS: Haggadah - Passover. OCLC lists 3 copies worldwide (Harvard, JTS, NLI). Very good condition. (HAG-22-4) (ID #40474) $225.00.


· 11. Geis, Robert Raphael. PESSACH-HAGGADAH. [Bonn] Allgemeine Wochenzeitung Der Juden In Deutschland, 1954. Original blue boards with gold lettering. 8vo. 76 pages; 23 cm. In German with some Hebrew. Title translates to “Passover Haggadah.” One of the first German language Haggadahs published on German soil after the war, printed just as the DP-era was ending for the newly blossoming community rebuilding Jewish life on German soil a decade after the Holocaust. Includes illustrations and facsimiles of art. Robert Raphael Geis “was a rabbi, educator, and Jewish theologian. He identified strongly with German liberal Judaism, but his keen interest in Jewish studies brought him close to leaders of conservative Judaism as well. Before the Second World War Robert Raphael Geis worked as a rabbi for the youth and Religion teacher in Munich and Mannheim, and as a rabbi in Kassel, Germany. After the war he served as a rabbi in Switzerland, the Netherlands, and Germany. (Archieve.org 2017).
SUBJECT(S) : Haggadah, Jewish liturgy, Passover. Slight toning. Very minimal markings. Very good + condition. Very Rare. (HAG-19-2) (ID #38483) $225.00.


· 12. Heidenheim, Wolf. SEDER HA-HAGADAH LE-LEL SHIMURIM. Rodelheim : Druck U. Verlag Von J. Lehrberger &. Comp., 1852. Contemporary boards. 8vo. 32 pages. 12cm. In Hebrew and Judeo-German.  Yaari, 715. Wolf Heidenheim (1757–1832) is among the most recognizable Jewish publishers and exegetes of the 19th century. In 1798 he received a license to establish a German and Hebrew press in partnership with Baruch Baschwitz. In 1800 Heidenheim began the publication of his most famous work, the nine-volume edition of the mahzor, Sefer Kerovot (Roedelheim, 1800–02), which went through numerous printings. The work included the first pure German translation (in Hebrew characters) of the liturgical poems for the festivals, a Hebrew commentary and a literary historical introduction. Heidenheim devoted great care to typographical setup as well as to the restoration of the correct text of the prayers. SUBJECTS: Haggadot -- Texts. Seder -- Liturgy -- Texts. Judaism -- Liturgy -- Texts. Haggadot.  Pages are
very slightly wrinkled. Boards are worn. Overall Very Good Condition. (HAG-20-6) (ID #38545) $200.00.


· 13. Russotto, H. (Music Arranger); Yeshivah Rabbi Israel Salanter. SEDER HAGADAH LE-LEL SHIMURIM: MEDUYAK HETEV, MESUDAR YAFEH U-METURGAM ANGLIT.  SERVICE FOR THE FIRST TWO NIGHTS OF PASSOVER. New York, Hebrew Publishing Co., 1912. Original red boards with brown lettering. 12mo. 62, 5 pages; 18 cm. Variant of Yaari 1811 with cover for Yeshivah Rabbi Israel Salanter. In Hebrew and English. Title translates to “Service for the First Two Nights of Passover: New Edition, Thoroughly Revised with Music.” Added pages in Yiddish and English asking for donations for the Yeshivah Rabbi Israel Salanter of the Bronx. Includes several black-and-white illustrations and sheet music for several songs including “Chad Gadyo.” Yeshivah Rabbi Israel Salanter was named after Rabbi Yisrael Salanter, “father of the Musar movement in Orthodox Judaism and a famed Rosh yeshiva and Talmudist…. Rabbi Salanter set an example for the Lithuanian Jewish community during the cholera epidemic of 1848. He ensured that any
necessary relief work on Shabbat for Jews was done by Jews. Although some wanted such work to be done on Shabbat by non-Jews, Rabbi Salanter held that both Jewish ethics and law mandated that the laws of the Torah must be put aside in order to save lives. During Yom Kippur (the Day of Atonement), Rabbi Salanter ordered that Jews that year must not abide by the traditional fast, but instead must eat in order to maintain their health, again for emergency health reasons” (Wikipedia 2017). In 1968, the school merged with two other high schools to form SAR in Riverdale. Yeshivot and other organizations and business often had hagadot printed up with their own distinctive covers to distribute in the community; this is one such example. SUBJECT(S) : Haggadot, Seder, Liturgy. Ex-library markings. Browning to pages. Very minimal staining. Minimal rubbing. Very good condition. (HAG-19-22) (ID #38574) $200.00.


· 14. DIE PESACH-HAGADA, ODER ERZÄHLUNG VON ISRAEL'S AUSZUG AUS EGYPTEN, ZUM GEBRAUCHE DER BEIDEN ERSTEN ABENDE DES MAZOT-FESTES. Leipzig: In Commission Bei C. L. Fritzsche, 1843. Original boards. 8vo. 78 pages, 19 cm. In German and Hebrew. Title translates as “Passover Hagada: Or the Story of the Hebrew’s Exodus from Egypt: For the First Two Evenings of the Matzo Festival.” SUBJECTS: Seder -- Liturgy -- Texts. OCLC lists 9 copies worldwide (OCLC: 65644552). Ex-library Jewish Institutional stamp on title page. Foxing to some pages. Normal wear to boards. Internally very good condition. (HAG-22-2) (ID #40422) $200.00.


· 15. Feuer, Abraham. ZLUTA D’ABRAHAM. Lemberg, Kübler, 1908. Later brown marbled boards. 8vo. 80, 24 pages; 20 cm. In Hebrew. Yaari 1743. Title translates to “Book Tzlota D’Abraham: Commentaries and Nice Interpretations on the Passover Haggadah and the Seder Prayer.” Chasidic. SUBJECT (S) : Haggadot, Hasidic Haggadah, Seder. OCLC lists 1 holding worldwide (Staats & Universitatsbibliothek Hamburg). Includes commentary by many prominent Hasidic rabbis. Significant dampstaining. Browning to pages. Moderate staining, some repairs. Some edgewear. Good- condition. Rare. (HAG-19-15) (ID #38567) $225.00.


· 16. Frumkin, Aryeh Leib; 1845-1916. HAGADAH LE-LEL SHIMURIM.... Yerushalayim, Bi-Defus Shmuel Ha-Levi Zukerman, 1913. First edition. Later red boards. 8vo. 92 pages; 23 cm. In Hebrew. Yaari 1825. Yudlov 2580. Title roughly translates to “Haggadah for Vigilance: with Commentary from Gie Hizzayon; Based on the Root Promise of the Future of the Time of the Coming of the Messiah.” Aryeh Leib Frumkin “was a rabbi, Zionist, [and] a founder and pioneer of Petah Tikva, the first yishuv created in pre-state Land of Israel. He also was an author of halachic texts, a teacher, and operator of a wine shop, L. Frumkin and Company…. He was the great-grandfather of Rabbi Jonathan Sacks, the previous Chief Rabbi of the United Kingdom” (Wikipedia 2017). The “Gei Hizzayon” - written by Abraham Jagel (16th century) - is “a narrative and ethical work written in 1587, the first part of which was printed in Alexandria in 1880. Copies of Gei Hizzayon, either in manuscript or in printed form, are very rare; the
complete work exists in manuscript form in the British Museum. The form and structure of Gei Hizzayon was influenced by the tradition started by Dante and followed by a number of Italian Hebrew writers. The author describes a visit to the heavenly regions guided by the spirit of his dead father. The main theme of the work is ethical: Jagel uses various literary forms to try to guide his reader toward the right moral way of life. His philosophy, deeply influenced by Renaissance concepts including a belief in astrology and predestination, at the same time posits the premise that man's actions can be motivated by ethical and religious choice, and are not only determined by fate.” (2007 Encyclopedia Judaica). SUBJECT(S) : Haggadot, Commentaries, Liturgy. OCLC lists 6 holdings worldwide. Ex-library markings. Browning to pages. Minimal edgewear and staining. Minimal dampstaining. Good condition. (HAG-9-50A) (ID #38536) $200.00.


· 17. Nahman; Of Bratslav; Bazshilianski, Moses Joshua. SEDER HAGADAH SHEL PESAH “OR ZOREAH”. Yerushalayim (Jerusalem), Defus Braslav, 1927. Later boards. 4to. 53, 3 pages; 23 cm. In Hebrew. Yaari 2058. Title translates to “Passover Haggadah Light Luminescent.” Reb Nachman of Bratslav “was the founder of the Breslov Hasidic movement. Rebbe Nachman, a great-grandson of the Baal Shem Tov, breathed new life into the Hasidic movement by combining the esoteric secrets of Judaism (the Kabbalah) with in-depth Torah scholarship. He attracted thousands of followers during his lifetime and his influence continues until today through many Hasidic movements such as Breslov Hasidism” (Wikipedia 2017). SUBJECT(S) : Haggadot, Liturgy, Prayers. OCLC lists no holdings worldwide. Moderate edgewear. Browning to pages. Ex-library markings. Moderate staining to cover boards, paper somewhat fragile. Good condition. (HAG-19-33) (ID #38535) $300.00.



· 18. Abravanel, Isaac; 1437-1508; Zevah Pesah. Modena, Leone; 1571-1648 Tseli Esh. SEDER HAGADAH SHEL PESAH: BE-LASHON HA-KADOSH U-PITRONU BE-LASHON ASHKENAZIM... VE-ELEH MOSIF AL HA-RISHONIM PERUSH TSELI ESH VE-HU KITSUR ZEVAH PESAH [FACSIMILE OF 1629]. Bene Berak: Shemu'el Mor, 1975. 1st edition thus. Publisher’s Boards, Folio (Large), 52 unnumbered double pages. Includes illustrations; 40 cm In Hebrew. Facsimile of Venice Hagadah of 1629. Limited edition of 350 copies. Printed on double leaves. SUBJECT(S) : Haggadot -- Texts. Seder -- Liturgy -- Judaism Other Titles: Haggadah.; Hagadah shel Pesah; Hagadat Venetsyah, 1629; Hagadat Venetsyah; Venice 1629; Perush Tseli esh; Tseli esh. OCLC: 29783898. OCLC lists only 4 copies worldwide of this facsimile (Spertus, UScranton, Brown, UCL) and 5 copies of the original (British Lib, Cambridge, Harvard, JTS, Brandeis). Very slight bowing to boards, Very Good Condition. An attractive copy. (hag-21-3) (ID #39714) $250.00.


· 19. Blum, Loeb; Lazare Wogue. LA HAGGADA, OU CÉRÉMONIES DES DEUX PREMIÈRES SOIRÉES DE PÂQUE, À L'USAGE DES ISRAÉLITES DES RITES ALLEMAND ET PORTUGAIS L'SUAGE DES ISRAELITES DES RITES ALLEMAND ET PORTUGAIS. Paris; L. Blum, 1865. Period boards.16mo. 148, [4] pages. 16 cm. 1st edition. In Hebrew and French. Rebound in later brown cloth with fine decorative gilt lettering on cover and on backstrip. Last 4 pages contain sheet music. Title translates as: “Haggadah, or Ceremonies for the First Two Nights of Passover, according to the Rites of the German and Portuguese Israelites.” Written by L. Blum, revised and corrected by Lazare Wogue (1817–1897) : a “French rabbi, scholar, and journalist, born in Fontainebleau, was ordained in 1843 at the École Centrale Rabbinique in Metz. In 1851 he began to teach German and theology there (in 1859 it became the Séminaire Israélite de France and was transferred to Paris), retaining his two chairs until his retirement in 1894. From 1868 Wogue was also direc
tor of the talmud torah of the Séminaire Israélite. The most important of his many scholarly works is a translation of the Pentateuch with commentaries (1860–69), which is the one used in the Bible du Rabbinat edited by Z. Kahn. Among his other publications are Le Rabbinat Français au XIXe siècle (1843), Le Guide du Croyant Israélite (1857, 18982), Histoire de la Bible et de l'Exégèse biblique jusqu'à nos jours (1881), a French translation (1882) of the first two volumes of Geschichte der Juden by H. Graetz, Esquisse d'une théologie juive (1887), and La Prédication Israélite en France (1890). He also translated various Hebrew works. Among the manuscripts he left is a tract on theology. A prolific writer, Wogue wrote many articles which were published in such Jewish periodicals as La Paix and l'Union Israélite. He was editor in chief of l'Univers Israélite during 1879–95.” (2007 Encyclopedia Judaica). Yudlov 1263; Yaari 936. Subjects: Haggadot - Texts. Seder - Liturgy - Texts. Judaism - Lit
urgy - Texts. OCLC lists 3 copies worldwide (Biblio Natl France, Staatsbiblio Berlin, JTSA), only one in the US. Spine rebacked, lacks bank endpapers. Good + condition. (HAG-9-7) (ID #39647) $325.00.


THE LAST ILLUSTRATED HAGADAH PUBLISHED IN OCCUPIED EUROPE

· 20. Geismar, Otto, Illustrator. Hen, E. S., translator. GEBEDEN EN GEZANGEN VOOR DE SEIDERAVONDEN VOORZIEN VAN EEN NIEUWE NEDERLANDSCHE.DOOR E. S. HEN. Amsterdam, E. Mozes Azn., 1941. Original orange boards, Square 8vo, V, 90 [1] pages. 21 cm. Hebrew and Dutch on facing pages, with Geismar's unique stick figure illustrations. Passover Hagada With Dutch Translation. The last illustrated Hagadah printed in occupied Europe. Yudlov 3845; CD-EPI 0187487. The first title page is a reproduction of the Berlin edition, and its reverse features a copyright from 1928. The second title page notes Amsterdam, 1941. The front cover has the text "Mah Nishtana" and one of Geismar’s distinctive illustrations. Very Good Condition (Hag-19-35A) (ID #38539) $550.00.


· 21. Gutman, Nahum. HAGADAH SHEL PESAH: MIZUYERET AL YADEI NAHUM GUTMAN. [Tel-Aviv] : Hots. "Omanut" Erets-Yisrael, 1930. First edition. Rebound in beautiful, illustrated wooden boards. 8vo. 63 pages : illustrations, 17 cm. In Hebrew. Title translates to "Passover Hagadah Illustrated by Nahum Goldman." Yaari, 2155. Beautifully illustrated throughout by one of Israel's most famous artists. The cover is an illustrated of Kever Rahel. Gutman's (1898-1980) art is well-entrenched in the Israeli canon. He is best known for his work illustrating children's books and famously, the work of H. N. Bialik. He also painted murals in the Shalom Tower and the Chief Rabbinate building and is responsible for a variety of mosaics around the country. He was awarded the Dizengoff Prize, Lamdan Prize, and Israel Prize. SUBJECTS: Haggadot -- Texts. Seder -- Liturgy -- Texts. Judaism -- Liturgy -- Texts. Haggadot. OCLC lists 13 copies worldwide. Pages are browning. Some repair work has been done. Overall Very
Good Condition. (HAG-20-1) (ID #38541) $200.00.


• 22. Miller, Yisra'el David Ben Y.  HAGADAH SHEL PESAH: IM ME'AH VA-HAMISHAH ASAR PERUSHIM HA-NIKRA'AH BA-SHEM MIGDAL EDER ... : VE-HOSAFTI ... HIDUSHIM NEHUTSIM U-KETSARIM BA-SHEM HEMDAT YISRA'EL [DISPLACED PERSONS HAGADAH SHEL PESAH]. Germanyah; Defus Shemu'el Friedman, [1947]. Original Boards. 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. Hemdat Yisra'el. Haggadot - Texts. Seder - Liturgy - Texts. Judaism - Liturgy - Texts.
Haggadah -- Commentaries. Haggadah - Commentaries, Collections. No library holdings on OCLC.. Scarce. Wraps aged, worn. Good + condition. (HAG-14-12) $475.00.


· 23. Moses Ben Kaleb Zeev Luntz, Rabbi Elijah. HAGGADAH SHEL PESAH IM BI’UR MELHAMAH H. Jerusalem, 1929. First edition. Original black boards with gold font. 8vo. 102 pages; 22 cm. In Hebrew. Yudlov 3183; Yaari 2127. Title translates to “Passover Haggadah with Notes from War Heh.” Rabbi Elijah Moses ben Kaleb Zeev Luntz, who was born in Siauliai, Lithuania, officiated as rabbi in Paterson, New Jersey, going up to Erez Israel in c. 1903. Among his other works is Pirhe Eliyah (Jerusalem 1909) and Eben Moshe (Jerusalem 1914) on the Talmud. The Haggadah was published by his widow Rivkah Reizel in his memory. Includes a small illustration. SUBJECT(S) : Haggadot, Commentaries, Liturgy. Ex-library markings. Slight toning. Some dampstaining and staining. Good condition. Rare. (HAG-19-34) (ID #38537) $200.00.


· 24. Rabinowitz, Owshey (Yehoshua Heshil). HAGADAH SHEL PESAH IM TODAT YEHOSHUA: BEURIM AL DEREKH HA-DERUSH..... New York : Posy-Shoulson, 1935. Original black boards with gold lettering. 8vo. 140 pages; 24 cm. In Hebrew. Yaari 2210. Title translates to “Haggadah with Thanks from Yehoshua: Notes on the Required Path by Yehoshua Heschel Rabinowitz.” Rabbi Yehoshua Heschel Rabinowitz was “widely known as the Monastrisher Rebbe and [was] president of the United Grand Rabbis of the United States and Canada, a Chassidic organization” (JTS, 1938). SUBJECT(S) : Haggadot, Seder, Jewish Liturgy. OCLC lists 3 holdings worldwide (Emory, Harvard, Univ of Maryland). Minimal edgewear and staining. Ex-library markings. Slight toning. Very good condition. (HEB-17-1B)  (ID #38482) $200.00.


· 25. Shnatikh, Elhanan. HELEK RISHON MI-SEFER ARBA’ YESODOT. Amsterdam: Yohanan Levi Rofe, 1783. First edition. Later boards. 4to. 102 pages; 24.5 cm. In Hebrew. Yaari 203. Title translates to “First Part Four Foundations.” Includes incorrect facsimile of the title page from a previous owner as well as correct facsimile of the missing title page laid in. Passover Haggadah with commentaries and digest of laws for Passover. The text is laid out in Talmudic fashion with the main text in large print in the center surrounded by commentaries in Rashi cursive script. First volume of a larger work with sections on the Yesods of Yirah and Ahavah (foundations of love and fear), but stands on its own as a hagadah. Includes the commentaries of Isaac Abarbanel and R. Moses Alshikh. Text in Hebrew with instructions and of the songs translated into Judeo-German. SUBJECT(S) : Haggadah. OCLC lists 13 holdings worldwide. Lacks title page, some incorrect info on boards. Significant staining and moderate
dampstaining. Some toning. Very minimal edgewear. Good condition thus. Yaari 203. (HAG-19-1) (ID #38480) $50.00.


· 26. Waskow, Arthur I. THE FREEDOM SEDER: A NEW HAGGADAH FOR PASSOVER. New York/Washington; Holt Rinehart/Micah Press, 1970. First trade edition. Original boards with dramatic dust jacket present. 16mo. 56 pages. 13 cm. With distinctive illustrations by Lloyd Mcneill, an influential musican and artist. This text originally appeared in Ramparts Magazine, February 1969. An attractively designed, civil rights era Freedom Seder; this edition has influenced countless similar pieces and interfaith Passover celebrations from college campuses to the contemporary White House. Originally published by The Micah Press, this is essentially the first commercial edition. Arthur Waskow, founding member of the Institute for Policy Studies, was active in progressive Washington D. C. Politics throughout the 1960’s. “In 1969, Waskow's life took a new turn, toward leadership in the renewal of Jewish life in America. This work first began when Waskow wrote The Freedom Seder, a Passover Haggadah that wove
together the traditional text with passages from leaders of social justice movements, such as Martin Luther King.” (EJ 2007) From the preface to the first edition: "One of my earliest and warmest memories is that of my father reciting the Dayenu, the chant of rebellion, liberation, travail, and the creation of a new law that is the story of Passover. One of my latest and warmest memories is that of working with my wife and children to make of our own Passover Seder something that would speak to our deep concerns about our selves and our world. Our efforts became sharper and more urgent in 1968, when the Passover came one bare week after the murder of Martin Luther King, the April uprising of black Washington against the blank-eyed pyramid-builders of our own time, and the military occupation of our city. Who in those days could forget that the prophet King had remembered Moses? -- had spoken of how he had been to the mountain-top, had seen e promised land, but might never enter.... And then
we realized that in 1969, the third night of Passover, April 4, would be the first anniversary of King's death. Facing those dates, we found our deepest feelings best expressed in a fusion of the traditional Seder with a new song of freedom—both the freedom of men in relation to each other and the freedom of men in relation to God..." SUBJECTS: Passover - Prayers and devotions. Haggadah. Civil Rights Movement – Passover. Very Good Condition in Very Good- Jacket with a bit of edgewear. (HAG-12-1D) (ID #39643) $300.00.


· 27. Yehudah, Yekotiel. ...הגדה של פסח : עם פירוש הלל נרצה מכ"ק הרב HAGADAH SHEL PESAH ‘IM PIRUSH HALLEL NIRTZA. Brooklyn, Yeshivah And Mesifta Arugath Habosem, 1922. Original black boards with gold lettering. 4to. 256 pages; 23.5 cm. In Hebrew. Yaari 1934. Title translates to “Passover Haggadah with Commentary Hallel Nirtzah.” SUBJECT (S) : Haggadot, Seder, Hallel. OCLC lists no holdings worldwide. Minimal staining. Slight toning. Ex-library markings. Very good condition. Rare. (HAG-19-18) (ID #38570) $225.00.


• 28. Miller, David Israel, ; Hemdat Yisrael. HAGADAH SHEL PESAH: ‘IM MEAH VA-HAMISHAH ‘ASAR PERUSHIM HA-NIKRAAH BE-SHEM MIGDAL ‘EDER...VE-HOSAFTI...HIDUSHIM...BE-SHEM HEMDAT YISRAEL....Vilna: Bi-Defus Ve-Hotsaot Ha-Almanah Veha-Ahim Rom, 1911.  Original printed boards, 8vo. 112 pages; 23 cm. In Hebrew. Title translates to “Haggada With One Hundred and Fifteen Commentaries Were Named Migdal Eder. ” Yaari 1805. Haggadah with 115 commentaries, from Maimonides, Rashi; many Hasidic commentaries, including one from the Ba’al ha-Tanya, founder of Chabad, Dubno Maggid, Gaon of Vilna, and many others. SUBJECT (S) : Haggadah, Commentaries. OCLC lists one holding worldwide (Harvard). Paper fragile with some edgewear, but no text loss. Binding repaired, About Good- condition. (HAG-19-3A) (ID# 39712) $125.00.


· 29. Langermann, Meir Judah Loeb. Friedman, Abraham Jacob Ben Israel. BET HA-YAYIN 'AL HAGADAH SHEL PESAH: 'IM...AMAROT. Brooklyn, Keneset Mordekhai De-Haside Sadigora, 1960. Original black boards with red font. 8vo. 104 pages; 23.5 cm. In Hebrew. Reprint of Przemysl, 1898 ed. Title translates to “The House of Wine Book on the Passover Hagadah.” Rabbi Avrohom Yaakov Friedman "was the first Rebbe of the Sadigura Hasidic dynasty. He lived in the palatial home constructed by his father, Rabbi Israel Friedman of Ruzhyn, who fled to the Austrian town of Sadhora due to persecution by the Russian Tsar. He maintained his father's extravagant lifestyle while immersing himself in Torah study and mysticism. He was considered the greatest Rebbe of his era, attracting hundreds of thousands of Jews as well as prominent Christian leaders to his court" (Wikipedia 2017). SUBJECT(S) : Haggadot, Liturgy, Passover. OCLC lists 3 holdings worldwide (Harvard, UCLA, Boston Univ). Browning to pages. Ex-library
markings. Very good + condition. (HAG-19-30) (ID #38531) $100.00.


· 30. Rakkah, Yaakov. SEFER PIRSUME NISA: AL HAGADAH SHEL PESAH. Livorno: Eliyahu Ben Amuzag Va-Haverav, 1860. 1st edition. Later boards. 8vo, 292 pages, 19 cm. In Hebrew. Title is a biblical reference that translates loosely to “Publicizing the Miracle: On the Passover Haggadah.” Yaakov Rakkah (1800-1891) is considered one of the great Torah Hakhams. He lived and worked an impoverished life in Tripoli, where he studied and wrote commentary on Jewish law and the Torah. His work is still cited today in siddurim. Vinograd, Leghorn 1206 and Yaari, 822. SUBJECTS: Luturgy and ritual. Hagadah -- Commentaries. Judaism -- Liturgy -- Texts. OCLC lists 4 copies worldwide, with two in Israel. Loss of text to bottom sixth of last four leaves. Some period commentary in pencil on margins. Pages are clean with light foxing in some places, paper tape repair to inside front hinge. Overall Good Condition. An excellent copy of this rare piece. (RAB-64-5) (ID #39753) $600.00.


· 31. Schatzkes, M. A. DER YUDISHER FAR-PEYSE, ODER MINHAG YISRA'EL. Varsha: Aleksander Ginz, 1881. 1st edition. Original boards. 8vo. 180 pages, 22 cm. In Hebrew with Russian on title page. Title translates to “The Jewish Passover: Order of the Customs of Israel.” Moses Aaron Shatzkes (1825–1899) was a prominent Hebrew writer and participant in the Haskalah movement. He wrote this text anonymously, in order to attack what he saw as Orthodox superstitions surrounding Passover. SUBJECTS: Jews -- Lithuania -- Social life and customs. OCLC lists 8 copies worldwide (OCLC: 19316494). Wear to boards. Pages browning. Otherwise Good Condition. (YID-41-13) (ID #40211) $200.00.


RARE JEWISH AMERICAN IMPRINTS

· 32. GRAND CONCERT IN AID OF THE RUSSIAN JEWISH REFUGEES, MONDAY EVE'G, MARCH 27, '82, BY THE HANDEL AND HAYDN SOCIETY, IN CONJUNCTION WITH SALEM ORATORIO SOCIETY, LYNN CHORAL UNION, TAUNTON BEETHOVEN SOCIETY, A GRAND ORCHESTRA…. Boston, Printed By Jewish Watchman Print [Ers], 1892. 1st edition. Original printed single-fold pamphlet, 12mo, 4 pages. Singerman 3064, listing only 1 copy (AJHS). Announcement/Program for this major event held at Mechanics Hall in Boston in 1882. Featured are “Messrs. Carl Zerrahn and Geo. Henschel, Conductors.” Henschel had become the first conductor of the Boston Symphony Orchestra a year earlier, so this clearly represents his using is new status to support Jewish Refugees. “Beginning in the 1880s, a much larger wave of Jewish immigrants arrived [in Boston] from the Pale of Settlement in Russia and Eastern Europe. During the nineteenth century, the Russian czars had confined Jews to this region and subjected them to religious persecution, expulsions, and
forced military conscription. Passage of the May Laws in the 1880s made matters worse by forbidding Jews from owning or renting land outside of towns or cities and limiting their access to education. From 1881-1883 and again in the early twentieth century, Jews were also targeted in violent riots or “pogroms” that left thousand dead and caused many more to flee” (Boston College, 2018). The director featured in this program, Sir Isidor George Henschel (1850 –1934) “was a German-born British baritone, pianist, conductor, and composer. …He was a close friend of Johannes Brahms…. He became the first conductor of the Boston Symphony Orchestra in 1881 (he used the name "Georg Henschel"); on his appointment, he sent his ideas for an innovative seating chart to Brahms, who replied and commented in an approving letter of mid-November 1881…. And in 1893 became the conductor of the Royal Scottish National Orchestra…..He was knighted in 1914 and…. Taught at the Institute of Musical Art (now the Juill
iard School) in New York” (Wikipedia, 2018). We could locate only the 1 AJHS copy listed by Singerman; OCLC lists no copies anywhere and we could not locate others. Exceedingly Rare. Faint fold marks, Very Good Condition, an outstanding copy. (KH-8-39) (ID #40463) $1200.00.


· 33. JOHANNA & KAUFMANN KOHLER. AUGUST THE TWENTY-EIGTH 1870-1920. CATSKILL MOUNTAIN HOUSE. No Place (New York?), No Publisher (The Family?), 1920. 1st edition, Original single-fold, [4] pages. Delighful brochure for the 50th wedding anniversary of Kaufmann and Johanna Einhorn Kohler. The fron cover bears a black and white photo and Logo of the Catskill Mountain House as well as the name of the couple and anniversary date. Gold bunting has been hand-painted at the top and bottom. Inside are acrostic poems for J-O-H-A-N-N-A, K-A-U-F-M-A-N-N, and K-O-H-L-E-R, as well as a re-writing of “Twas the Night Before Christmas” as “’Twas in August 1870.” The final poem inside, titled, “The Golden Wedding,” which contains the lines: “On the Kohler-Einhorn wedding day. /From overseas the groom had come/To preach and fight for Israel/To lead the way of true Reform; /Meet, that an angel with him dwell…” The Catskill Mountain House was a “famous hotel near Palenville, New York and in the Catskill Mou
ntainsoverlooking the Hudson River Valley, built in 1824. In its prime, from the 1850s to the turn of the century, it was visited by three U. S. Presidents (U. S. Grant,  Chester A. Arthur and Theodore Roosevelt) and the power elite of the day” (Wikipedia, 2015). We could find no copy in OCLC nor in any archive in the US, including HUC. Perhaps a unique surviving copy; important for its depiction of the private life of this leader of the American Reform. Light wear, Very Good Condition. (KH-3-3) (ID #35978) $1000.00.


· 34. MAHAZOR/MACHZOR] FORM OF … WITH ENGLISH TRANSLATION. COMPLETE IN 5 VOLUMES: ROSH HASHANAH, YOM KIPUR, SUKKOT, PESACH, SHAVUOS, AND (NEW YEAR, ATONEMENT, TABERNACLES, PASSOVER, AND PENTECOST). New York : L. H. Frank, 1866. Beautiful original tooled red publisher’s morocco leather, all edges gilt. 20 cm. Dual Hebrew-English. SUBJECT (S) : Liturgy -- Texts. Mahzorim -- Judaism – Liturgy. OCLC lists the volumes individually, with at most 5 sets listed. Front hinge of New Year volume feels a little weak, but seems to be good. Some rubbing to leather, some wear to crowns and feet of spine, but an attractive complete set in gorgeous original tooled leather bindings. (kh-9-12) (ID #40813) $2000.00.

· 35. (Lyons, Jacob Juda; Jacques Judah). JACQUES J. LYONS' FOURTEEN PRINTED AND MANUSCRIPT RECEIPTS FOR CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE SURINAMME JEWISH CHARITY FUND, FROM HIS LAST 2 YEARS AS A CANTOR THERE, 1836-1837. Paramaribo, The Nederlandsche Israelitische Gemeente, 1836-37. Original heavy rag paper. Collection consists of  a 5"x 12" strip of 12 attached printed monthly coupons for the 12 months of 1837, each with what is presumably Lyons account nr (46) and with his name (Jacob Juda Lyons) and amount of contribution filled in, and a signature of of the treasurer at the bottom. Along the long edge of the strip of 12 coupons (clipped, perhaps removed from an accounts ledger as receipts)  is printed in large font: "Bijdrage Ten Behoeve van het Armwezen der Nederlandsche Israelitische Gemeente" [Contribution to the Almsfund of the Dutch Jewish Community]. Also present is a separate coupon for February 1836, larger in size (8"x3") but with the same basic content, as well as a larger (7.5"x6")
certificate dated 5597 (1837) from the AARME-KAS der Nederlandsche Israelitische Hoofd-Sijnagoge, [Charity Bureau of the Dutch Jewish Main Synagogue] in Suriname, documenting Lyons' contribution of 32.50 Guilders for what appears to be his membership (?) in the Synagogue as well as his offering. Lyons [his name more commonly written as Jacques Judah Lyons] (1813–1877) "was born in Surinam, Dutch Guiana on Menahem 25, 5573 (August 25, 1813). His parents, Judah Eleazar and Mary Asser Lyons, had emigrated to Surinam from Philadelphia in the early 1800s....Jacques began his career as a hazan in Surinam in Congregation Nevie Shalom, a synagogue founded by Spanish-Portuguese Jews. In 1836 he left for Philadelphia, his parents' home state, and was hired within a few months by Congregation Beth Shalome of Richmond, Virginia. He served Beth Shalome for two years, winning the high esteem of the congregation. In 1839, following the death of Rev. Isaac B. Mendez Seixas, he was elected Seixas' successor
as minister of Congregation Shearith Israel of New York City. He married Grace Nathan, daughter of Seixas Nathan and Sarah Mendes Seixas in 1842. Jacques and Grace were blessed with three children: Julius J., Sarah, and Alfred. During his thirty-eight years of ministry, he became highly active in Jewish welfare and advocating Orthodox Judaism. He served as superintendent of the Shearith Israel's school, Polonies Talmud Torah; president of its benevolent society, Hebra Hased va-Emet; director of the Sampson Simson Jewish Seminary and Scientific Institute; and one of the founders of Jews Hospital, later renamed The Mount Sinai Hospital.....In 1854, Jacques and Rabbi Abraham de Sola of Montreal collaborated in writing A Jewish Calendar for Fifty Years, a book that contained a comprehensive Jewish calendar, an essay on the Jewish calendar system, as well as historical information concerning Jewish communities in the United States, Canada, and the West Indies. Prior to 1861, and continuing to
the end of his life, Jacques painstakingly gathered sources and information on United States Jewish history in the hopes of publishing his findings....Jacques died at the age of sixty-three on Elul 4, 5638, shortly before Rosh Hashanah (August 15, 1877). His funeral services were held on August 15, 1877 in Shearith Israel, and were conducted by his successor Rev. Dr. Henry Pereira Mendes, Rev. Dr. Abraham De Sola of Montreal, Rev. Samuel M. Isaacs of Congregations Shaarai Tefilla of New York, and Rev. Sabato Morais of Congregation Mikve Israel of Philadelphia. His niece through marriage, Emma Lazarus, wrote the poem "Rosh Hashanah, 5638" in his memory" (SocialArchive, 2015). From the collection of Rabbi David de Sola Pool, who, like Lyons, was also (later) a Rabbi at Shearith Israel and who authored the congregation's history, "An Old Faith in the New World: Portrait of Shearith Israel 1654-1954," which contains much about Lyons. Very Good Condition (KH-3-24) (ID# 36078) (ID #36078)
$1400.00.


· 36. Huebsch, Adolph. DEIN LICHT UND DEINE WAHRHEIT: SIEBEN PREDIGTEN. ORKHA VE-AMITEKHA. New York, No Publisher (The Author), 1868. 1st edition. Later Cloth, 8vo, viii, 130 pages; 22 cm. In German with some Hebrew. Not in Goldman. Singerman (2076) notes that the NYPL copy is "defective." SUBJECT(S) : Jewish sermons, German. "Huebsch was a Talmudic and Semitic scholar of high attainments, a preacher of rare power, with a personality that charmed old and young. He was peculiarly successful in his ministry" (Wikipedia). OCLC lists 7 copies worldwide. Old dampstains, Ex-library with usual marks, otherwise Very Good Condition. (KH-6-18) (ID #36554) $750.00.


· 37. Jewish Theological Seminary Of America. THE JEWISH THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY OF AMERICA REGISTER 1903-16, 1916-24, 1920-26 [24 ANNUAL VOLUMES, COMPLETE FOR 1903-1926]. New York, The Seminary, 1916, 1924, 1926. 1st edition. Later boards with original wrappers bound in, in three large volumes. Large 8vo, About 30 pages per volume; 23 cm. The first 24 annual volumes of this yearly schedule of courses, academic calendars, and information on professors, tracing the year-to-year development of the Seminary from its beginnings to its place as one of the very centers of Jewish scholarship in America. Some annuals include photographs, facsimiles, and essays. The Jewish Theological Seminary “is one of the academic and spiritual centers of Conservative Judaism, and a major center for academic scholarship in Jewish studies” (Wikipedia 2017). SUBJECT(S) : Rabbinical seminaries, Directories, JTS. Ex-library markings. Very minimal edgewear. Slight toning. Very minimal markings. Very good condition.
(AMR-53-15) (ID #38766) $750.00.


· 38. Aguilar, Grace. Introduction by Isaac Leeser. THE JEWISH FAITH; ITS SPIRITUAL CONSOLATION, MORAL GUIDANCE, AND IMMORTAL HOPE; WITH A BRIEF NOTICE OF THE REASONS FOR MANY OF ITS ORDINANCES AND PROHIBITIONS; A SERIES OF LETTERS ANSWERING THE INQUIRIES OF YOUTH. Philadelphia, 1864. 1st American Edition and 1st edition with Leeser introduction. Period boards. 8vo. 446 pages; 21 cm. Singerman 1812. Civil War-era imprint. “Grace Aguilar (1816 – 1847) was an English novelist, poet and writer on Jewish history and religion… Aguilar was the eldest child of Sephardic Jewish refugees from Portugal who settled in the London Borough of Hackney. An early illness resulted in her being educated by her parents, especially her mother, who taught her the tenets of Judaism… In the 1840s her novels began to attract regular readers… ‘The Jewish Faith: Its Spiritual Consolation, Moral Guidance, and Immortal Hope…’ (is) addressed to a Jewess under the spell of Christian influence… (and) is devoted to immort
ality in the Old Testament.” (Wikipedia, 2016) This edition was edited by Isaac Leeser, “pioneer of the Jewish pulpit in the United States, founder of the Jewish press of America… (and) one of the most important American Jewish personalities of the nineteenth century America.” (Wikipedia, 2016) Contains a preface written by Leeser in which he writes, “The editor has discharged to simple duty to send forth a new addition of the least known, though the best, works of Miss Aguilar, (which) she valued more than her tails and novels…” Cover and spine are torn with heavy wear, could easily be reound. Inside pages in about very good condition. (AMR-47-3) (ID #36861) $1500.00.


Listing Many Of New York Jewry’s Founding Families

· 39. Barrett, Walter . THE OLD MERCHANTS OF NEW YORK CITY.  COMPLETE IN 5 VOLUMES. New York : Carleton, 1870. Early Uniform Edition. Original Publisher’s cloth with gilt spines, 12mo, 5 volumes: 472 + 406 + 351 + 255 + 304 pages. Each volume also contains an 8-page publisher’s catalog bound in at rear. Sabin, 78464; Howe’s USiana, 245. Includes indexes. Originally published serially between 1863-1866, present here is an early edition of all 5 volumes together, in uniform publisher’s cloth as issued. Includes biographies and stories of early Jewish merchants (and their families) in New York, including: Gershom Cohen; Jacob I Cohen of Charleston; Alexander Dias; Abraham Gomez; Benjamin Gomez; Isaac Harris; Benjamin Hart; Bernard Hart; Daniel Hart; David Hart; E. B. Hart; Emanuel Hart; Joseph Hart; Rebecca Hart; Jacob Hay [aka Hays]; Jacob Hayes; Benjamin Hendricks; Uriah Hendricks; Dr. Henschel; Bernard Hart Isaac; Moses Isaac; Isaac Iselin; Benjamin S. Judah; Bernard S. Judah; Moses Judah;
David Leavitt; Hayman Levi; Aaron Levy; “Beau” Levy; Gabriel Levy; Hayman Levy; Jacob Levy; Solomon Levy; Ziporah Levy; Asher Marx; David Moses; Isaac Moses; Joseph Nathan; Simon Nathan; Seixas Nathan; M. M. Noah; D. M. L Peixotto; Moses Phelps; Napthali Phillips; Benjamin Phillips; B. J. Raphael; Morris Tobias; Sarah Wisner; Benjamin Wolfe; Joel Wolfe; Nathaniel Wolfe; Samuel Wolfe; Udolpho Wolfe; And from the Seixas family: Rev. Gershom Mendez, Hester, Hayman L., Isaac, Leah, Madison, Miriam, Moses, Rachel, Rebecca, Sarah, Solomon, T & M, Benjamin, Aaron, Abraham, Abigail, Daniel, & Grace. Pages 124-127 in Vol 2 discuss at length several interrelated Jewish families and their activities, emphasizing the great beauty of the daughters. SUBJECT(S) : Merchants -- New York (State) -- New York -- History -- 19th century -- Biography. Businessmen Commerce. Publishers' catalogues -- New York (State) -- New York -- 1864-1866. Light wear, occasional pencil notes, very good condition. A Very
Attractive set (AMR-51-16) (ID #37603) $1300.00.


The First Hebrew book published in Texas

· 40. Cohen, Benj. [Benjamin]. SIDUR RINAH U-TEFILAH. PRAYERBOOK AND HYMNAL: FOR THE AMERICAN ORTHODOX JEWISH YOUTH. El Paso, Tex: B. Cohen [The Author], 1920. 1st edition. Original illustrated paper wrappers. 8vo. 75 pages, 19 cm. The First Hebrew book published in Texas. Unknown to Goldman. In English and Hebrew. Front wrapper displays the American, British, and Zionist flags. Rabbi Benjamin Cohen was an American rabbi of the early twentieth century. While Rabbi of the El Paso, Texas community, he published this peculiar prayerbook which, though ostensibly closer to the Reform liturgy, is proclaimed as Orthodox. The Yiddish preface, addressed to the author's "fellow Orthodox," he describes the sunken condition of the members of his far-flung American congregation, where the youth do not attend services, or, if they do, it is only to chat. The author’s solution is to translate the traditional prayers into English. SUBJECTS: Siddurim - texts. A damaged copy sold at auction in 2011 for over
$600 with commissions. OCLC lists 2 copies worldwide (HUC, NLI). Spine is lightly chipped, but otherwise very good condition. Rare and important. (AMR-65-10) (ID #40433) $750.00.


· 41. De Sola Mendes, Frederic [Rabbi]. DEFENCE NOT DEFIANCE: A HEBREW'S REPLY TO THE MISSIONARIES. FAITH CONFIRMED. SELECTIONS FROM THE WORK "CHIZUK EMUNAH" OF ISAAC TROKI, THE KARAITE. BIBLICAL AND RABBINICAL PARALLELS TO NEW TESTAMENT PRINCIPLES. New York: Office Of The Independent Hebrew, 1876. 1st edition. Original printed boards, 8vo, 50 pages. Singerman 2574. American Centennial-year publication giving Jews ammunition to respond to Christian missionaries. Includes errata slip at rear, 19 x12 cm. Includes bibliographical references. Frederic de Sola Mendes was an American rabbi, author, and editor, born at Montego Bay, Jamaica, West Indies, July 8, 1850. He was the son of Rabbi Abraham Pereira Mendes. He was licensed to preach as rabbi by Haham Benjamin Artom, in London, 1873; in the same year he was appointed preacher of the Great St. Helen's Synagogue of that city, but in December moved to New York, where he had accepted a call to the rabbinate of Shaaray Tefillah congregation (now
the West End Synagogue); for Jan. 1, 1874. Mendes was one of the founders of the American Hebrew. In 1888 he took part in the Field-Ingersoll controversy, writing for the "North American Review" an article entitled "In Defense of Jehovah." In 1900 Mendes joined the staff of The Jewish Encyclopedia as revising editor and chief of the translation bureau. Associated with Dr. Marcus Jastrow and Dr. Kaufmann Kohler, he was one of the revisers of the "New Bible Translation" by the Jewish Publication Society. He has also translated "Jewish Family Papers: Letters of a Missionary," by Gustav Meinhardt (Dr. William Herzberg). In 1903 he became for a time editor of "The Menorah," a monthly magazine. OCLC lists 6 copies worldwide (NYPL, Columbia, YU, Yale, HUC, NLI), none south or west of Cincinnati. Spine rebacked. Stains and wear to boards. Overall Good+ Condition. (AMR-51-1A) (ID #38176) $550.00.


· 42. Federation Of American Zionists. REPORT OF THE PROCEEDINGS OF THE SECOND ANNUAL CONFERENCE [OF THE FEDERATION OF AMERICAN ZIONISTS]. New York, Federation of American Zionists, 1899. 1st Edition. Original Paper Wrappers. 8vo, 32 pages. Singerman S097, though he knows of no actual copies of this title; his listing is based solely on a citation in a 1932 bibliography. “Publications of the Federation of American Zionists No. 4” (A total of 9 publications were issued). The ‘Publications’ from 1899 were the 1st separate publications in America with the word ‘Zionist’ in the title. This report details the proceedings of the 2nd Zionist conference in America which was organized and presided over by many of the FAZ’s early leaders including Richard Fottheil, and Rabbi Stephen S. Wise. Includes List of local societies with addresses at rear. OCLC lists only 1 library with complete holdings of the series (Harvard); and only one of the few libraries with partial holdings may include this
particular title (Wisconsin Historical Soc.) though even that is unclear. Spine rebaked. Lacks original rear cover, but otherwise very good condition. Very Scarce and important. (AMR-52-17) (ID #38894) $2000.00.


· 43. Translated into English by Isaac Leeser [Originally written in Germany by Joseph Johlson]. INSTRUCTION IN THE MOSAIC RELIGION. Philadelphia, Adam Waldie, 1830. 1st edition. Original Cloth, 8vo, viii, 139 pages. In English with some Hebrew. The first book by Isaac Leeser printed in America.as well as the First Religious Manual For The Jews of America. It is the English translation by Isaac Leeser of a composition in German by a teacher in a Jewish school in Frankfurt am Main, instructing Jewish youth as to the principles of religion. Included is an appendix at the end, and a short account of the Jewish ceremonial laws and customs. Leeser (1806-1868), was the leader of American Traditional Jewry in America as well as a philosopher, literary editor, translator of the Bible into English and composer of numerous essays and sermons. Leeser dedicated the book to his uncle, Zalma Rehine of Richmond, Virginia, who was Leeser’s sponsor and benefactor in this country, having brought him over
from Germany.  The title describes Johlson a “teacher of an Israelitish School at Frankford on the Maine.” Somewhat ironically, Johlson (1777-1851), the son of the rabbi of Fulda, was closely associated with the emerging Reform movement in Germany. While Leeser, here his translator, became the great defender of Orthodoxy AGAINST the reform movement in 19th Century America. See Lance J. Sussman, "Isaac Leeser and the Making of American Judaism" (1995), pp. 67-70. Heavy Foxing, some old staining, Call it good condition. Important. (KH-8-55) (ID #40861) $600.00.


· 44. Menken, Adah Isaacs. INFELICIA. Philadelphia; New York; Boston, 1868. 1st edition, first printing, of Author’s only book. Original Publisher’s Cloth, Brown cloth cover stamped in gold, 16mo, 7-124 pages; 15 cm. Singerman 2085 (for the 126 page edition). Singerman notes as well that he, the "compiler saw the [this] rarer 124 page edition without the publisher's statement [about Dickens]." Poems. The true first edition, first printing, dedicated to Charles Dickens but without his warm letter thanking her reproduced, as appeared in later printings.  The success of this book meant that later editions appeared the same year in London as well as in the US (published by Lippincott) but with more pages (141 & 126, respectively) and the Dickens letter reproduced. Includes some poems with Jewish themes, such as “Judith (‘Oh forget not that I am Judith! /And I know where sleeps Holofernes’),” “Hear, O Israel (‘The God of Jacob is our Shield’),” etc. Menken (1835-1868) was “Internationally f
amous for her starring role in the equestrian melodrama Mazeppa, in which she was stripped on stage to a flesh-colored body stocking, lashed to the back of the ‘wild horse of Tartary, ’ and sent flying on a narrow ramp above the theater, Adah Isaacs Menken consistently defied social mores. She cropped her black hair and smoked cigarettes, and publicly disparaged conventional married life. Menken represented an early example of the cult of personality, blurring her private life with her public persona. … She married four times in the course of seven years. Her second marriage, in 1859, was to the heavyweight boxing champion of the world, John C. Heenan…. One of the most glamorous celebrities of the 1860s, Menken also cultivated a literary following. She wrote poetry and developed relationships with the likes of Walt Whitman, Charles Dickens, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Alexandre Dumas, and Algernon Swinburne. George Sand was a close friend to the actor and was godmother to Menken’s second
child…. A major bone of contention to this day is the authenticity of her Jewishness. Though scholars have some evidence that Menken was raised a Catholic and converted to Judaism only after marrying her first husband, Menken herself once publicly rebuked a journalist who labeled her a convert by announcing that she was ‘born in that faith [Judaism], and have adhered to it through all my erratic career. Through that pure and simple religion I have found greatest comfort and blessing. ’ Whatever her origins, it is clear that Menken was fervently Jewish in her adult life. After moving to Cincinnati with her first and only Jewish husband, Alexander Isaacs Menken, Adah learned Hebrew fluently, studied classical Jewish texts, and contributed many poems and essays to The Israelite, a weekly founded by Rabbi Isaac M. Wise. Her poems indicate a passionate temperament, deeply committed to a kind of proto-Zionism and even messianism. Many are collected in the posthumously published volume Infelicia
[this volume]. Menken viewed herself as a modern Deborah, calling on Jews to rise up against persecution in Turkey and protesting the kidnapping of a six-year-old Jewish boy in Bologna by representatives of the Catholic Church. She was one of the few Jews in America to protest when Lionel Nathan was denied the seat in the English Parliament to which he had been elected. And, at the height of her acting career, she refused to perform on Jewish High Holidays. On her deathbed at age thirty-three, suffering from what may have been peritonitis or tuberculosis (or both), and treated by the personal doctor of Napoleon III, Menken was visited by a rabbi. Adah Isaacs Menken died on August 10, 1868, in Paris. She is buried in the Jewish section of Montparnasse Cemetery” (Ackerman, 2014). The book is also cited in Podeschi, J. B. Dickens & Dickensiana; B295(2); Wolff, R. L. 19th cent. Fiction; 4738. Light wear to cloth, stains to title and half title, otherwise a nice clean book, about Very Good-
Condition. (AMR-45-45) (ID #34572) $750.00.


· 45. Morais, Sabato, Rabbi. REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE OF ARRANGEMENT FOR LAYING THE CORNER STONE OF THE NEW SYNAGOGUE OF THE PORTUGUESE CONGREGATION "MICKVE ISRAEL," MADE TO THE BUILDING COMMITTEE. TOGETHER WITH THE ADDRESS DELIVERED ON THAT OCCASION, BY THE REV. S. MORAIS. MINISTER OF THE CONGREGATION. REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE OF ARRANGEMENT FOR LAYING THE CORNER STONE OF THE NEW SYNAGOGUE OF THE PORTUGUESE CONGREGATION "MICKVE ISRAEL," MADE TO THE BUILDING COMMITTEE. TOGETHER WITH THE ADDRESS DELIVERED ON THAT OCCASION. Philadelphia: Collins, Printer, 705 Jayne Street, 1859. 1st edition. 5619. Original printed wrappers, 8vo 15, [1 blank] pages. Singerman 1593. Mickve Israel [Hope of Israel], one of the oldest Philadelphia synagogues, was founded in the 1740s by Sephardic Jews. Known as the 'Synagogue of the American Revolution, ' its early members included Haym Solomon and the Gratz family. Benjamin Franklin contributed to its first building fund. This was its third building, constructed on
7th Street, north of Arch. Isaac Leeser presided over the congregation from 1829 to 1850; Sabato Morais succeeded him. Morais was its Rabbi for 46 years. The list of corner-stone and door- post purchasers included A. S. Wolf, who purchased the North door-post of the north door for fifteen dollars, in honor of H. Polock. Other luminaries of Philadelphia Jewry participated in the ceremonies. Wolf was treasurer and Gabay of the Congregation. Articles deposited in the cornerstone are listed, including newspapers, coins and tokens dated 1859, "A gold quarter dollar of California mintage, being deposited by Clarence A. Hart, aged 9 years." The Committee of Arrangement consisted of Edwd. S. Mawson, Joseph L. Moss, and Isaac J. Phillips. Rabbi Morais's discourse is printed. Morais, an abolitionist and founder of the Jewish Theological Seminary of New York, counsels, "If there be pride in us, if the vanity of exhibiting a more sightly structure than others possess, impelled us to designate this
place as our future Synagogue...let us then bury first such unholy feelings in the bosom of the earth." Also printed is a prayer in Hebrew, composed by Morais. OCLC lists 5 copies worldwide (Penn, JTS, YU, NYPL, HUC) Light wear, Very Good Condition (KH-6-63) (ID #36452) $2500.00.


· 46. (Slavery) Benjamin, Judah P.  EXTRACTS FROM THE SPEECH OF HON. MR. BENJAMIN, OF LOUISIANA, ON THE KANSAS QUESTION: SHOWING THE TRUE MEANING OF THE KANSAS LAW, AND HIS REASONS FOR JOINING THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY. DELIVERED IN THE SENATE, MAY 2, 1856. Washington: Printed At The Union Office, 1856. 1st edition. Original Paper Wrappers, 8vo, 8 pages. The first Jew to serve in the U. S. Senate who did not renounce his Judaism, and future secretary of State for the Confederacy, Louisiana Senator Benjamin's fear that the South was becoming a beleaguered minority caused him to abandon his Whig roots. "On May 2, 1856, he made a speech in the Senate on the Kansas Bill [concerning the extension of Slavery into Kansas] and confessed himself a Democrat. He became an ardent partisan of Buchanan, that year, and on the expiration of his term in the Senate was returned for a new term by his new friends." (Dictionary of American Biography). Sabin 4707. Not in LCP, Light toning to covers, Tiny notches in
spine from earlier binding, otherwise Very Good Condition. (kh-5-60) (ID #36439) $2500.00.


A University president Demands admission of Jews into American Universities

· 47. Wayland, Francis. [THE DEPENDENCE OF SCIENCE UPON RELIGION] A DISCOURSE: DELIVERED AT THE DEDICATION OF MANNING HALL, THE CHAPEL AND LIBRARY OF BROWN UNIVERSITY, FEB. 4, 1835. Providence: Marshall, Brown, 1835. 1st Edition. Original Wrappers. 8vo. 40 pages; 22 cm. A very early American example of a University president discussing the admission of Jews into American Universities and making a case for religious tolerance. Francis Wayland Brown, who was president of Brown University for 28 years (from 1827 until 1849), ends his address by stating, “The Founders of (Brown University) were animated with the most liberal and catholic spirit… ‘Young gentlemen of the Hebrew persuasion’ were formally exempted from the law which commanded, on penalty of expulsion, that no student should deny the divine authority of the Old and New Testaments. Furthermore, at their annual meting in 1770, the Corporation passed a resolution appointing the President and the Chancellor to inform a distinguished Jew
in the city of Charleston (S. C.) that ‘the children of Jews may be admitted into this Institution, and entirely enjoy the freedom of their own religion, without any constraint or imposition whatever! ’ These are curious and valuable memorials of by-gone times. They indicate, on the part of the founders of the College, a delicate regard to the rights of conscience… (and) to religious toleration, for, which it is believed, no parallels can be found in the history of similar Institutions.” An excellent primary source on American Jewish-Christian relations in the early 19th century. Additional information: “Manning Hall, opened in 1834, was the third major building constructed on Brown University's campus. Designed as a double-sized replica of the Doric-order temple of Diana-Propylea in Eleusis, Manning Hall originally housed the university's first free-standing library and its chapel. Later, the building served as a museum of classical antiquities, an architectural drawing studio, and an
undergraduate lecture space. In 1959, the upper floor was returned to its original role as the University's chapel, after a hiatus of 65 years. Currently, Manning Hall houses the Haffenreffer Museum of Anthropology's exhibitions and Manning Chapel.” (brown.edu, 2017) Pages are creased in vertically across the middle. Small tear to final page with no text effected. Overall about very good condition. (AMR-52-13) (ID #38609) $1200.00.

· 48. Weinberg, Morris. ZE HA-SEFER TEHILIM KETIVAT YAD. [Chicago]: [No Publisher], 1912. 1st edition. Original boards. 8vo. 108 pages, 27 cm. In Hebrew. Title translates to “The Book of Psalms Written by Hand.” Original facsimile of Moshe Weinberg’s famous illustrated manuscript book of Psalms, this being the first published edition. The illustrations line up with particularly illustrative portions of the texts. The second title page features an illustration of the 46 starred flag of the United States. SUBJECTS: Psalms. OCLC lists 4 copies worldwide (NLI, JTS, YU, Spertus). A copy recently sold at auction for over $1800 with commissions. Repair to binding. Boards are mildly edge worn. Text is very good. Overall good condition. (AMR-54-1) (ID #40404) $1500.00.
SAN FRANCISCO IMPRINTS

· 49. (San Francisco) Stanly, Edward and T. W. Park. ARGUMENTS OF THE HON. EDWARD STANLY, OF COUNSEL FOR THE RECEIVER, AND T.W. PARK, ESQ., OF COUNSEL FOR ALVIN ADAMS, WITH THE CHARGE OF THE COURT, AT THE TRIAL OF ALFRED A. COHEN ON A CHARGE OF EMBEZZLEMENT, IN THE CASE OF ADAMS & CO., BY H.M. NAGLEE, RECEIVER, VERSUS ALFRED A. COHEN, IN THE DISTRICT COURT OF THE FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA, HON. JOHN S. HAGER, PRESIDING, MARCH, 1856. San Francisco: Whitten, Towne & Co., 1856. 1st edition. Original peach colored printed wrappers, stitched, 88 pages. Singerman 1461. Cohen, prominent San Francisco lawyer, book collector, and leader of the Jewish community, was unjustly accused of embezzling funds which belonged to creditors of the firm of Adams & Co., a banking house which had recently defaulted. The case involved transactions with the California Steam Navigation Company. In 1862 the case was dismissed and Cohen, who became chief counsel to the Central Pacific
Railroad, was vindicated. His lawyer, Trenor W. Park, had moved from his native Vermont to California in 1852, where he was counsel to the Vigilance Committee and became involved with Fremont in the Mariposa Mine; Stanly was a North Carolina Congressman who had moved to San Francisco in the 1850's. II Harv. Law Cat. 644. Cowan 133. Greenwood 769. Rocq 8030. Cohen 13950. OCLC lists 16 copies worldwide. Wrappers and title page lightly foxed, Very Good Condition. (kh-5-61) (ID #36440) $1500.00.


· 50. [Hibernia Savings and Loan Society]. 19 JEWISH-RELATED BANK ACCOUNT DOCUMENTS FROM THE HIBERNIA SAVINGS AND LOAN SOCIETY. San Francisco, [1893-1895]. 1st Edition. All Original Documents. 4to. 19 printed documents, dated 1893-1895, with names and other information in manuscript, plus 2 related manuscript notes; 38 cm. These historic withdrawal notices and communications between the Hibernia Savings and Loan Society and several early Jewish Institutions of San Francisco provide a glimpse into the exchange between San Francisco’s Irish and Jewish communities in the late 19th century. “With the Gold Rush, San Francisco’s Irish population grew to 4,200 in 1852; by 1880 this number had reached more than 30,000, thirty-seven percent of San Francisco’s population. They formed cultural organizations like the Hibernia Association (1852), The Irish Festival (1863), and The Knights of the Red Branch (in the Mission)... The Irish were... prominent in business. Samuel Brannan printed San
Francisco’s first newspaper in 1846. John Sullivan founded Hibernia Savings and Loan and the Hibernia Housing Society, which helped immigrants with loans to buy land and homes.” (sfcityguides.org, 2016). Each document deals with the account of a 19th Century San Francisco Jewish institution, some of which include: Chebra B’Rith Shalom, Chebra Shaare Refooah Society, Congregation Ohabi Shalome, Congregation Tiferes Izrael, the California Lodge, and the Society Sons of Jacob. One document also deals with the Polish Ladies Society and Mutual Aid. Signatures included on these documents are those of: Theodor Blodes, Sigmund Fischer, Soloman Meyer, Leiser Zier, Samuel Cohn, David Block, Morris Whitehead, David Cohn, Julius Oraelsky, Adolf Morris, Charles Danziger, Magdalena Kropaniewicz, Paulina Fijalkowky, Isaac Silverman, George Rosenberg, Harris Rubin, Louis Friedlander, Abraham Colman, and many, many others. Some edgewear, and a few have small tears but overall the documents are in Good+
condition. (AMR-49-43) (ID #37673) $1900.00.


· 51. Henry, Rev. H. A. A SYNOPSIS OF JEWISH HISTORY FROM THE RETURN OF THE JEWS FROM THE BABYLONISH CAPTIVITY, TO THE DAYS OF HEROD THE GREAT; GIVING AN ACCOUNT OF THE DIFFERENT SECTS OF THOSE DAYS, THE INTRODUCTION AND USE OF SYNAGOGUES AND SCHOOLS, THE ORIGIN AND INTRODUCTION. OF PRAYER AMONG THE JEWS, THE UREEM AND THUMEEN, THE MISHNA OR ORAL LAW, THE GEMARA-COMPLETION, USUALLY STYLED THE TALMUD. San Francisco: Towne & Bacon, 1859. 1st edition. Original gilt-stamped publisher’s cloth, 12mo, 187 pages. Rare early San Francisco imprint for use in Synagogues and Jewish schools, appearing just following the California Gold Rush. The author was the "Rabbi Preacher of Congregation Sherith Israel, San Francisco; Author of Class Book of Discourses on the principles of the belief of Israel, &c., &c." Scarce. Congregation Sherith Israel was the first Jewish Congregation in San Francisco, and the author, Henry A. Henry was Congregation Sherith Israel's first rabbi. Wear to base of  spine,
otherwise Very Good Condition. (KH-9-7) (ID #40801) $1500.00.


AMERICAN PRESIDENTS AND THE JEWS

· 52. (Slavery, Lincoln Critique) Benjamin, Judah P. DEFENCE [SIC] OF THE NATIONAL DEMOCRACY AGAINST THE ATTACK OF JUDGE DOUGLAS- CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS OF THE STATES. SPEECH...OF LOUISIANA. DELIVERED IN THE UNITED STATES SENATE, MAY 22, 1860. No Place (Washington?), 1860. No Date (1860) 1st edition. No cover, as issued, with simple caption title at top, 8vo, 32 pages. The first Jew to serve in the U. S. Senate who did not renounce his Judaism, and future secretary of State for the Confederacy, Louisiana Senator Benjamin levels both barrels at Senator Stephen A. Douglas and his Popular Sovereignty doctrine. An important marker in the dismantling of the National Democratic Party. Signaling Southern repudiation of the Illinois Senator as the Democratic Party's presidential candidate, Benjamin argues that the South will be satisfied only by guarantees for the protection of slavery-- regardless of popular feeling-- in the Territories. In the course of arraigning Douglas, Benjamin discusses in
some detail the former's debates with Abraham Lincoln in the Illinois senatorial contest two years earlier (the famous “Lincoln-Douglas Debates”). Sabin; 4701. SUBJECT(S) : Campaign literature -- United States. Slavery -- United States -- Extension to the territories. Presidents -- United States -- Election -- 1860. Campaign literature. Politics and government Presidents -- Election. Slavery -- Extension to the territories. Though several editions of the speech were published, this is the longest (32 pages) and scarcest edition, with only 15 copies listed in OCLC/Worldcat. Tiny notches in spine from earlier binding, Good+ Condition. (kh-5-59) (ID #36438) $3000.00.


· 53. [President Chester Arthur]. CONDITION OF ISRAELITES IN RUSSIA. A MESSAGE FROM THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES IN RESPONSE TO A RESOLUTION OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, TRANSMITTING A COMMUNICATION FROM THE FROM THE SECRETARY OF STATE RESPECTING THE CONDITION OF ISRAELITES IN RUSSIA.Washington D.C., GPO, 1883. 1st edition thus. Original paper wrappers, 12mo, 72 pages. Singerman 3105. An extensive collection of correspondence and discussions regarding the status and persecution of the Jews of Russia and the attempts by American Government Officials to intervene in specific cases of persecution of the Jews. President Arthur's support for the Jews of Russia, was even related to the founding of the Red Cross. As Denis Brian notes in "The Elected and the Chosen: Why American Presidents Have Supported Jews and Israel" (Jerusalem, 2012)   "on May 2, 1882, President Arthur sent this special message to Congress: 'In answer to the resolution of the House of Representatives...calling for
correspondence respecting the condition of Israeites in Russia' [ie. this publication]....Soon after, Arthur had a new secretary of state, Frederick Frelinghuysen, who stepped up the diplomatic pressure on Russia. He wrote to the American representative there, 'The prejudice of race and creed have in our days given way to the claims of our common humanity. The people of the United States have heard with great respect the suffering of the Jewish Russians....It can scarcely be doubted that much has been done which a humane person must condemn....' Mean while, in America, a group of volunteers led by Cara Barton met in the Washington, DC, home of Adolphus Solomon, a Jewish American printer and philanthropist with special concern for Russian Jews....In Solomon's home the group drew up the constitution for a new organization called the American Red Cross. They elected Barton president, and Solomon vice president, a position he held for seven years.  When in 1884 President Arthur was asked to
appoint the first American delegates to the International Congress of the Red Cross in Geneva, he chose Barton and Solomon....Adolpus Solomon also helped to create the American Jewish Historical Society" (pp. 133-134). Primary source material connecting President Chester Arthur and Jews is especially scarce. OCLC lists 7 copies worldwide. Removed from later binding, Light Wear Very Good Condition. Important. (KH-8-38) (ID #40094) $1000.00.


· 54. Coolidge, Calvin, President. ADDRESS BY PRESIDENT CALVIN COOLIDGE AT LAYING OF CORNERSTONE OF THE JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER BUILDING, WASHINGTON, D.C., SUNDAY, MAY 3, 1925. New York : Jewish Welfare Board,1925. 1^st edition. Original Paper Wrappers. 12mo, 14 pages. Includes illustrations ; 20 cm. Nice photo of the President addressing the crowd at the celebration. This is one of the two events connecting Pres. Coolidge to Jewish concerns cited in the Washington Post article “Presidential outreach to American Jews: A brief history” (Juliet Eilperin, May 22, 2015). Few pre-war presidential imprints have as direct a connection actual Jewish life, with real American Jews in their own institutions, as this example of an American President present and giving a speech at the laying of a cornerstone at an American Jewish community center--with a photo of the event included. SUBJECT(S): Jews -- United States. OCLC: 27294476. OCLC lists only 4 copies worldwide (AJHS, YU, Penn, HUC). Light wear,
about Very Good Condition. Rare and important. (Amr-55-1-EGMX) $750.00.


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