Identity card of the National Hungarian Israelite Public Culture Association for Béla Zsolt
Budapest. 1 p. Bela Zsolt (1895-1949) , Hungarian Jewish author of one of the earliest Holocaust memoirs, Nine Suitcases (Kilenc koffer). More
Budapest. 1 p. Bela Zsolt (1895-1949) , Hungarian Jewish author of one of the earliest Holocaust memoirs, Nine Suitcases (Kilenc koffer). More
Nagyvarad: Grafika, 1942. First edition. In original wrappers. 197 p. Signed. Bela Zsolt (1895-1949) , Hungarian Jewish author of one of the earliest Holocaust memoirs, Nine Suitcases (Kilenc koffer). More
Tot Amsterdam: By Johan ten Hoorn, Boekverkooper tegen over het Oude Heeren Logement, inde Historischryver, 1695. First edition. In modern calf. Engraved frontispiece and two folding engraved plates. Woodcut initials and tailpieces. 4º: [𝜋]4 A–S4; engraved frontispiece and 3 preliminary leaves, [6] 139 [5] p., and [2] folded engraved plates..... More
Warsaw: Lebns Fragen, 1921. First edition. In original paper. 286, [10] pp. Almanac for the Jewish worker for the year 1921. The almanac contains historical-social articles from a socialistic perspective, various reviews of the Jewish society in Poland and Jewish community institutions, with tables and statistical data and biographies of..... More
Budapest: Világirodalom, 1925. First Hungarian edition. In original illustrated paper. 156+(4) p. Maximilian Hugo Bettauer was a prolific Austrian writer and journalist, who was murdered by a Nazi Party follower on account of his opposition to antisemitism. Die Stadt ohne Juden (The City Without Jews, directed by Hans Karl Breslauer..... More
(Budapest): Kintzig János tanácsjegyző (Budapest székesfőváros házinyomdája), (1944). Original printed poster. With the coat of arms of Budapest. Signed in print by the Deputy Mayor of Capital City of Budapest. 315 × 475 mm. Order of the Deputy Mayor regarding the compulsory report of the stocks and other properties in..... More
Budapest: [Privately printed at “Fejér és Glatter”], [1923]. Photographically illustrated throughout. First edition. In publishers printed wrappers. 31, (1) p. First edition of this architectural album, the oeuvre of the firm of the two Hungarian architects Géza Bogdánfy and Gedeon Gerlóczy. The most part of the book, the forward..... More
Around the first half of the fifteen century. Manuscript in Latin. Large margins. Paper with unidentified watermark. Text in black ink, headings, initials and rubrications in red. With a note by later hand on title page, about Alfonsus: “Parisis per manum fratris Alfonciis”. In modern half vellum binding. 20 leaves..... More
Munich: Oficyna Warszawska, 1945. First editon. In original boards. One of the 25 special copies. Signed by the poet Tadeusz Borowski, Anatol Girs, , and one illegible autograph. The first post-war publication of Oficyna Warszawska, founded in 1938 by Anatol Girs and Boleslaw Barcz in Warsaw. The book was published..... More
Munich: Oficyna Warszawska, 1945. First editon. In original boards. 36 p. In the very rare red paper binding. Inscribed by Malgorzata Borowska, daughter of Tadeusz Borowski. The book was published after the liberation of the Dachau concentration camp, where Borowski and Girs were imprisoned. More
Warszawa [Warsaw]: Wiedza, 1948. In original illustrated cover, designed by Maria Hiszpanska(-Neumann). 178, (2) p. A collection of short stories by Tadeusz Borowski (1922–1951) the Polish writer and journalist. Borowski was involved in underground organizations during WWII in the occupied Poland and in 1943 he was deported to Auschwitz. After..... More
Berlin: Yidisher liṭerarisher farlag, 1923. Design and illustrations: Avraham Minchin. Second Edition. In original paper. 158 p. Second edition of the "Anthology of Revolutionary Poetry" (the first edition was published in Kiev in 1920). The anthology mostly contains works by young Soviet Jewish poets (David Hofstein, Peretz Markish, Ezra Feininberg..... More
London: Bund (Rosyjska Soc-demokratyczna Partja Robotnicza [Russian Social Democratic Workers Party]; Abraham Nathanson.), 1903. In original paper. Text in Polish. 22, [2] p. The publisher of this scarce booklet is the “Bund”, the General Union of Jewish Workers in Lithuania, Poland and Russia (Algemeyner Yidisher Arbeter Bund in Lite, Poyln..... More
(Warsaw): (S.n.) (P. Szwede), (1921). First edition. In original, illustrated wrappers, printed in red. 32 p. Chmielowski’s antisemitic pamphlet. On the cover an antisemitic image, a caricature of a Jew trying to grab, apparently with bad intentions, a white bird with a crown. The bird could be the White Eagle..... More
[Madrid]: [Se hallara à Imprenta de Don Pedro Joseph Alonso de Padilla, Impressor, y Mercader de Libros; vive en la Calle de Santo Thomàs, junto al Contraste], [around 1740]. In 20th century leather. Panels blind tooled, spine gilt with red title vignette. Marbled endpapers. 8º; (16) p. Extremely scarce edition..... More
Moscow: Der Shtrom, The Moscow School for Yiddish Printers, 1922. Cover design by Marc Chagall. First edition. In publisher’s illustrated wrappers. 80 p. The second number of the first Soviet Yiddish literary-cultural periodical, featuring a cover designed by Marc Chagall. Shtorm was founded and edited by a literary and..... More
[Paris]: [I. Grodzensky], [1927]. First edition. Text in French and Yiddish. In publisher’s wrappers, bound by string. Cover design by Marc Chagall. [4] text plates, and [19] album card plates with mounted photographic reproductions. Scarce book with Chagall’s cover design. With Marc Chagall’s image on the front cover. Before..... More
Nakladem Komitetu Centralnego, 1946. First polish edition. In original paper. 31 p. More
Berlin: 1923. In original half cloth. [2] ff., 7-48 pp. + [8] plates (illustrations), Lasar Segall (1891–1957) the Lithuanian born, Brazilian Jewish painter. He studied in Vilna and Berlin where he joined the “Freie Sezession” group, the precursor movement of the German Expressionism. In the mid 1910s he exhibited in..... More
Kiev: Kiev: Melukhe-farlag (on title page: Kultur-lige, Kiev, Kleyne Bibliotek 'Lirik'), 1921. Illustration by Joseph Chaikov. In original paper. 16 p. David Hofstein (1889-1952), Jewish-Ukranian poet and author; leading member of the "Kiev Group" during the golden age of Yiddish literature in Soviet Russia, and one of thirteen Jewish intellectuals..... More
Lemberg (Lviv): Friedman Press, In original wrappers. Issue 1: [2], 64, [2] pp. + [2] plates, Issue 2: [2], 62 pp. + [4] plates, Two issues of the quarterly for literature, art and culture – "Tsushteyer" (a literary anthology of Galician Yiddish writers, published in Lemberg during the years 1929-1931)..... More
Budapest: Zilahy Samuel, 1882. first edition. In original paper. 38 p. Extremely scarce contemporary edition of medical report of the Tiszaeszlár Affair. The Tiszaeszlár Blood Libel (1882) is history’s first formal prosecution for blood libel and the first ritual murder trial in which forensic medicine and scientific procedures featured..... More
Cluj: Kadima, 1927. Cover by János Török. Contemporary half-canvas binding, with the original cover. 53 p. One of the 200 copy. Signed by the translator. Dymov sought to improve the artistic quality of Yiddish theater, collaborating with Maurice Schwartz and Rudolf Schildkraut. From 1927 to 1932, Dymov worked..... More
Budapest: Periszkóp, 1939. First edition. In original paper. 82 p. The Second Jewish Law, here referred to as "The New Hungarian Jewish Bill", is divided into 21 provisions, and for the first time strictly defined who was considered a "Jew". After this first section, defining Jews according to the law..... More
Vitembergae (Wittenberg): Literis Schrödterianis, Acad. Typ (Schrödter), 1695. First edition. Papered spine. (4º) A1–B4.; (16) p. Sebastian Edzardi (1673–1736) was a German philosopher, theologian and Lutheran missionary. Studied philosophy and theology at the Wittenberg University and became a professor of logic and metaphysics at the Academic Gymnasium of Hamburg. He..... More