1

FISHBURN BOOKS | JUDAICA LIST | June 2016 www.fishburnbooks.com | fishburnbooks@yahoo.co.uk PH: 44 208 4559139 | FAX: 44 208 922 5008

20 Eclectic Books and Pamphlets

1. The Eternal Heritage. New York, Humanity Guild, 1939. Original illustrated wrappers, 18 cm, 29 pp, text in English. An apologetic booklet presenting the Jewish contribution to philosophy, sciences and arts in an attempt to refute Nazi anti-Semitic propaganda. Published by the Humanity Guild, “an organization devoted to the immediate rescue and rehabilitation of the oppressed and persecuted minorities of all nationalities.” Income from the sale of the booklet was to be used to provide refugees with support. Tearing to spine, staining to wrappers.[ref: 15831 ] £75 2. Kvutzat Lavee. A Bachad Settlement in Israel. Jerusalem

Bachad, [1949?]. Original wrappers, 17 cm, [12] pp, text in English, illustrated. An account of the first months of Kevutzat Lavi [Lavee] in Galilee, a settlement established by members of a Religious Zionist youth movement “Berit Halutsim Dati’im” from the UK, who received training in agriculture at farms in Essex and Bromsgrove. Worldcat lists one copy (NLI). Photos of kibbutz Lavi [Lavee]. Some rust to staples, otherwise very good. [ref: 15961 ] £75

2

3. The Kieff Ritual Murder

Accusation. Protests from leading Christians in Europe with A Repudiation from Cardinal Bourne, and Letters from the Chief Rabbi and Rabbi Dr. B. Salomon (Manchester). London , The Jewish Chronicle and The Jewish World [1913]

Original wrappers, 21cm, 20pp, text in English, covers and corners of some pages soiled, yellowing to pages, some wear to spine. Includes lists of signatories to protests in England, Germany, France and Russia against accusing Beilis of ritual murder. Among the signatories: G. B. Shaw, T. Mann, A. Tolstoy, M. Gorki, A. Blok, N. Lossky . [ref: 11718 ] £150 4. Machzor Kiddush HaShem Le Rash Hashana V'Yom

Hakkipurim. Sweden, Shearet HaPletah . Original wrappers, 16.5 cm, 336 pp Text in Hebrew. The front printed wrapper has the image of a flame referring to the Akedat Yitzchak, symbolic of the sacrifice s of the Holocaust. Inside there is a dedication to the Victims of the Holocaust. Some damp staining near spine, a few pages corners folded. [ref: 17163 ] £175

3

5. Report of the Commission of Enquiry Into Disturbances

In Aden In December 1947. London, HMSO, 1948. First edition. Original wrappers, 30 pp plus fold out map. Arab Riots broke out in Aden after the UN vote for the Partition of Palestine on the 29th of November 1947. The Jewish community in Aden was attacked and this British Government report was issued. Age toning to pages, slight damp mark at the top edge. Colonial No 233. [ref: 17023 ] £200

4

6. The Resistance. Der Vidershtand. Anti-Axis Nayes Buletin, Yor 3, Spets. Oysg. Free Greece and the Jews. Heroes and Martyrs. Heldn un Martirn. Heroes and Martirs. New York 1942. Original illustrated wrappers, 20cm, 23pp, text in Yiddish with a little English, very good condition Special edition of the magazine, containing articles reprinted from the press on anti-Nazi resistance in occupied Greece and on Greek-Jewish solidarity. [ref: 11720 ] £175 7. AAJFT Los Pasaros Sefaradis an

authentic Judeo-Espanol Concert February 11, 1990 New York The French Institute/Alliance Francaise 1990

Original wrappers, 22cm, 12pp (unpaginated), text in English and Ladino (in Latin letters), photo of the ensemble on front cover, very good condition. Contains programme with songs in Ladino and English translation. [ref: 11690 ] £25

5

8. Abrahams, Professor Rabbi Israel. Memorandum on the WAR, the PEACE, and the POST-WAR PROBLEMS of SOUTH AFRICA. Prepared for submission by the United Nations Information Office, New York, for inclusion in a Pamphlet of Statement on the War by Religious Leaders of the United Nations. Cape Town, Mercantile Atlas Printing Company, 1944.

Original wrappers, 8vo., (4) + 27 pp some age tanning, one corner is slightly chipped but a very good copy. [ref: 8713 ] £85 9. Bellin, Mildred. Modern Kosher

Meals Recipes and Menus Arranged for Each Month of the Year Based on Current Food Supplies. New York, Bloch Publishing Company 1934.

First edition. Original green cloth, 20cm, 114pp. Very good condition. [ref: 17005 ] £95

10. Cohn-Sherbok, Rabbi Dan. -

The Jews of Canterbury 1760-1931. Canterbury Yorick Books 1984 Original wrappers, 8vo, 58 pp. illustrations and charts. With a foreword by Peter Pilkington and five drawings by Hubert Pragnell. Very good condition. [ref: 17190 ] £30

6

11. Deinard, Ephraim. - Cherpat Brittania (Shame of

Britain). New York 1929. Original blue cloth, gilt title on spine, 24cm, 149 pp. Text in Hebrew with a few pages in English. A vigourous criticism of British policy in Palestine. Ex Library was the copy of Rabbi Yehuda Lieb Maimon, and has his bookplate. Rabbi Maimon (1875-1962) was a member of the first Israeli Knesset (Parliament) and one the drafters and signers of the Israeli

Declaration of Independence. It seems appropriate as in 1946, he was imprisoned by the British in Latrun during Operation Agatha. The British detained him on the Jewish Sabbath, and he objected to riding in a vehicle on the Sabbath, and offered instead to walk to a nearby police station. The British refused his offer and forcibly manhandled him into a

waiting car [Wikipedia source, Hoffman – Anonymous Soldiers]. [ref: 17165 ] £195 12. Grafton Theatre. The Jewish

Drama League's First Annual Competition London L. Narodiczky 1933

Original wrappers, 21cm, 3pp, text in English, horizontal crease, minor tears alongside the crease. [ref: 11727 ] £35

7

13. Grossmann, Kurt R. The Jewish DP

Problem. Its Origin, Scope, and Liquidation. New York Institute of Jewish Affairs 1951 Original wrappers, 23cm, 43pp, text in English, very good condition With an introduction by Abraham S. Hyman [ref: 11673 ] £75

14. Margolies Jaffe, Israel

David (David Sered) Sefer She'elot u-Teshuvot Meholath ha-Mahanayim. Pressburg M. Ellinger 1859.

More recent paper covered boards with cloth backstrip, 19cm, 79 folios, some uncut pages, text in Hebrew, repaired title page, some pages soiled, folding to some corners ex library. A classic work of responsa arguing against changes in the synagogue and wedding customs implemented by the Reform movement, by a student of the Chatam Sofer. Kuntras HaTeshuvot Hachadash 2160 List of subscribers at rear and also publisher’s advertisements. [ref: 11941 ] £175

8

15. [Moses Montefiore] Prayer

Offered Up in the Synagogues of the Spanish and Portuguese Jews (Shaar Hashamayim) On Adar 1, 5619 in Consequence of the Approaching Departure of Sir Moses and Lady Montefiore on Their Mission to Rome. London, 1859.

Self wrapps, 22cm, 4pp Text in English and Hebrew. Very good condition. Sir Moses Montefiore went to Rome to plead with the Pope in the Mortara Affair - Edgardo Levi Mortara was a Jewish boy who became the center of an international controversy when he was removed from his Jewish parents by authorities of the Papal States and raised as a Roman Catholic. Church authorities took custody of the boy after receiving a report that he had been given emergency baptism by a domestic servant during a serious infantile illness. In the Papal States it was against the law for non-Catholics to raise Catholic children. Mortara was adopted by Pope Pius IX and became a Roman Catholic priest. (Wikipedia) and Abigail Green - Moses Montefiore - Jewish Liberator, Imperial Hero. See Ruth Lehmann bibliography (first item on page 155). [ref: 16990 ] £150

16. Pool, Rev David de Sola. - George Washington and

Religious Liberty Sermon preached in the Spanish and Portuguese Synagogue Shearith Israel, Central Park West and Seventieth Street, New York City, on Sabbath Tetsavveh, Adar 13, 5692, Feb. 20, 1932. 1932

Original wrappers, 22cm, 7 pp, some soiling to wrappers otherwise good condition. [ref: 8681 ] £75

9

17. Rosenhead, Louis Professor

Selig Brodetsky. Scholar, Dreamer, Man of Action. Leeds, Leeds University Press 1963.

Original wrappers, 22 cm, 20 pp, sewn, text in English. Text of the fifth Selig Brodetsky Memorial Lecture delivered in the University of Leeds on 13 May 1963 Very good. [ref: 15834 ] £45 18. Salmonsohn, Dr. H. - Widerspricht der Zionismus

unserer Religion? Berlin der Berliner Ortsgruppen der Zionistischen Vereinigung für Deutschland. 1898

Original wrappers, 22cm, 16 pp, very good condition. [ref: 8715 ] £100

10

19. Triwaks, I. - War and Peace in Palestine. Memorial

Album. From the First Days of Zionism to the Present Time, with Special Consideration of Recent Events.

Tel Aviv, The Tel Aviv Publishing House Original blue gilt wrappers. 25cm, 278 + LIII pages. 159 pages of photographs, captions in Hebrew, Yiddish and English. Text in Hebrew, Yiddish and English. There is special emphasis on the Arab riots of 1929. Ex Library was the copy of Rabbi Yehuda Lieb Maimon, it has his bookplate. Rabbi Maimon (1875-1962) was member of the first Israeli Knesset (Parliament) and one the drafters and signers of the Israeli Declaration of Independence. [ref: 17164 ]

£195

11

20. Wischnitzer-Bernstein, Rahel (1885 - 1989)

Gestalten Und Symbole Der Judischen Kunst Mit 6 Farbigen Tafeln Und 81 Arbildungen. Berlin Verlag Siegfried Scholem 1935.

Original cloth, 24cm, 160 pp. 6 colour plates and 81 black and white illustrations in the text. Front inner hinge weakening, overall a very good copy. Rahel Wischnitzer was one of the most important historians of Jewish art in the 20th Century. [ref: 17081 ] £100

12

Rabbi Maimon’s bookplate in items 11 and 19