UNIQUE, SAM & EDGAR BRONFMAN"S PRAYER BOOKS. Read More

[N.p: n.d., ca. 1870s]. From the Bay of Algiers to the Wailing Wall. The photographs, many by the Zangaki brothers and Bonfils, include images of Algiers, Tunis, Carthage, Alexandria, Cairo, The Sphynx, portraits of locals (Dervishes, an Arab merchant, an Abyssinian, an Egyptian), the Suez Canal, the Wailing Wall, and... Read More

Leipzig: Weidmann; Hirzel [parts 2-6], 1851-1860. First Edition. Read More

Philadelphia: Printed by C. Sherman for the editor, [1845-1846]. First edition thus. THE FIRST JEWISH TRANSLATION OF THE PENTATEUCH INTO ENGLISH. Isaac Leeser (1806-1868) was named hazan (cantor) of Congregation Mikveh Israel in Philadelphia in 1829. Leeser‘s “contributions to every area of Jewish culture and religion made him a major... Read More

[Leiden]: Ex. Officina Plantiniana Raphelengii, 1611. Finely Bound Plantin Press Printing of 4 Books of the Hebrew Bible. The first four books of the Prophets — Joshua, Judges, Samuel, Kings — of the Hebrew Bible, printed by the heirs of Franciscus Raphelengius, who ran the Leiden branch of the press... Read More

July 17th, 1956. Jewish Lord Mayor of Dublin. Read More

Hall in Tirol (Austria) and Berlin: August 1-October 25, 1909. A group of letters by the Jewish writer and philosopher Martin Buber (1878-1965), then serving as Editor in Chief for the Berlin publisher Rütten & Loening, to a literary agent who had submitted manuscripts of several different writers, mainly to... Read More

Charleston: James S. Burges, 1827. First and only edition. A rare pamphlet issued by the first Jewish Reform movement in the United States, the Sephardic Reformed Society of Israelites in Charleston, South Carolina, recording an address by one of the movement’s leaders, who was also patriarch of an important southern... Read More

London: Abelard-Schuman, [1961]. Read More

New York: February 11, 1930. ‘It Can Be Done’. An encouraging letter by one of the founders of Universal Studios. Reading in part: “When I reached America in 1884, I was probably about your age. I was the proud possessor of $50.00 - - A world of adventure lay ahead... Read More

New York: Published by David Longworth, 1808. Published in the same year as the first English edition. Read More

London: Andrew Melrose Ltd. 3 York St. Covent Gardens, n.d. [ca. 1928?]. Inscribed to David Sarnoff. A novel set in ancient Israel, during the time of the invasion of the Assyrians. Inscribed to the radio and television pioneer, David Sarnoff:"To David Sarnoff"The man who not only possesses the rare human... Read More

Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1876. This copy reads a "New Edition in Four Volumes" on the title page. Contents leaves in all 4 volumes. 3Eliot's novel is notable in that its eponymous hero is revealed to be a Jew who is devoted to the Zionist cause. Read More