Search Results: Authors starting with U from Dan Wyman Books

Paperback. New York: Union of American Hebrew Congregations, 1971? Wrappers; 8vo. 32, V pages. Illustrated. Catalog of educational materials. OCLC lists no copies worldwide. Very good condition. (CT-8).

Paperback. No Place (Cincinnati? ) , Union of American Hebrew Congregations, 1940. Paper Wrappers, 8vo, 15 pages. History of the UAHC. Address delivered at a banquet of the Friends of the Union, New York City, Apr. 2, 1940. OCLC lists only 2 copies worldwide (HUC, Wisconsin-Milwaukee) , none outside the Midwest. Very good condition. (P-2-55).

Belgrade, Rusky Archiv, Revue Periodique, Zemgor, 1929. Paperback. FT) Original Paper Wrappers. 8vo. Aprox 125 pages. 23cm. In Serbian (Cyrillic script) . Title translates to English as, "Russian Archives: Journal of Politics, Culture and Economy of Russia. " SUBJECTS: Russian literature -- History and criticism -- Periodicals. Soviet Union -- Periodicals. Russians -- Serbia -- Intellectual life -- Periodicals. CONTENTS: Mozhe li Sud o Savremenoj Rusiji Biti Objektivan [Can the Court of Contemporary Russia be Objective? ] --- Zakon I Zakonitost u SSSR [Law and Legality in the USSR] --- Konstrukcija Sovjetskog Plana [The Soviet Design Plan] --- Strane Koncesije u SSSR [Foreign Concessions to the USSR] --- Kriza Nove Ekonomske Politike [Crisis of the New Economic Policy]. OCLC lists 19 copies. Covers chipping slightly at edges with minor staining. Internal pages clean and uncut. Good+ Condition. (RUS-11-27).

New York; Aroysgegebn Fun M., 1948. Hardback. (FT) Publishers cloth. 8vo. 306, [7]pages. 24 cm. First edition. In Yiddish. Added title page in English: Cities and towns in the history of the Jews in Russia and the Ukraine. This excellent bibliography and history was compiled by Mendel Osherowitch (1888-1965) , "the Yiddish journalist, novelist and historian, was born in Trostyanetz-Podolsk, Ukraine, which was then part of Galicia, in January 1888. He came to New York City in 1910 after a short stay in Palestine and immediately began writing for various Yiddish periodicals, including Yidisher Kemfer, Zukunft and Freie Arbeiter Stimme. He joined the staff of the Jewish Daily Forward in 1914 as a feature writer and later worked as the city editor for ten years, as the Sunday editor, and as a staff writer on Russian affairs, a position which he held until his retirement from the Forward in January of 1965. ... Osherowitch was the Chairman of the Committee to Protect the Jews in the Ukraine, which was… Read More

New York; Aroysgegebn Fun M., 1948. Hardback. (FT) Publishers cloth. 8vo. 306, [7]pages. 24 cm. First edition. In Yiddish. Added title page in English: Cities and towns in the history of the Jews in Russia and the Ukraine. This excellent bibliography and history was compiled by Mendel Osherowitch (1888-1965) , "the Yiddish journalist, novelist and historian, was born in Trostyanetz-Podolsk, Ukraine, which was then part of Galicia, in January 1888. He came to New York City in 1910 after a short stay in Palestine and immediately began writing for various Yiddish periodicals, including Yidisher Kemfer, Zukunft and Freie Arbeiter Stimme. He joined the staff of the Jewish Daily Forward in 1914 as a feature writer and later worked as the city editor for ten years, as the Sunday editor, and as a staff writer on Russian affairs, a position which he held until his retirement from the Forward in January of 1965. ... Osherowitch was the Chairman of the Committee to Protect the Jews in the Ukraine, which was… Read More

New York: Gezelshaft Tsu Faraybikn.., 1967. Cloth. 1st edition. Original publisher's cloth, 4to; 342 pages; In Yiddish. With lots of illustrations and detailed index. Light wear, Overall Very Good Condition. (YIZ-5-8)xx.

Kiev; Farlag Radianski Pismenik, 1948. Paperback. Original Wraps. 8vo. 316; 120; 125 pages. 22 cm. First edition. In Yiddish. Contents also in Ukrainian. First three issues (complete run? ) of Der Shtern (The Star) , published Kiev 1947-1948; literary almanac (poetry, short stories, criticism, music) of the Yiddish section of the Soviet Writers Union of the Ukraine; contains contributions from Itsik Fefer, David Hofshteyn, Avrom Kahan, Arn Kushnirov, Hershl Polianker and many others. Subjects: Yiddish literature - Ukraine - Periodicals. Jews - Ukraine - Literary collections. Jews. Yiddish literature. Literary collections. Periodicals. OCLC lists 11 copies. Scarce. Wraps aged, worn, and bumped. Pages aged but not brittle. Good - condition. (YID-22-44).

Nyu York: Unzer Tsayt Farlag, 1949. First Edition. Hardcover. Rear board scuffed, otherwise Very Good Condition; 8vo; 262 pages; 24 cm. Includes added title page in English: "The Jews in the Ukraine, from the earliest times through 1648-1649." 1 of only 2000 copies printed. Good condition. (EE-3-35).

Nyu York: Unzer Tsayt Farlag, 1949. First Edition. Cloth. 8vo; 262 pages; 1st edition. Original publisher's cloth. 8vo, 262 pages. 24 cm. Includes added title page in English: "The Jews in the Ukraine, from the earliest times through 1648-1649." Only 2000 copies printed. Very Good Condition. (YIZ-6-7).

Nyu York: M. Osherovitsh Yubiley-Komitet, 1948. Hardcover. 1st edition. Original Cloth, 8vo. 2 volumes. Vol. 1 - 306 pages; Vol. 2 - 305 pages. In Yiddish. SUBJECT(S) : Jews -- Soviet Union -- History. Jews -- Ukraine -- History. Title on added title page: Cities and towns in the history of the Jews in Russia and the Ukraine. Responsibility: fun M. Osherovitsh. OCLC: 38718164. OCLC lists 15 copies worldwide. Ex-library with bookplate, marking on spine, and stamp on title page. Light wear to cover and spine. Text in very good condition. (YIZ-6-5).

Kiev: Kooperativer Farlag "kultur Lige, 1926. Presume 1st Yiddish edition [Title page indicates "II uflage" (2nd edition), but we could locate no earlier Yiddish edition, so we presume this to indicate that the first edition was in Russian and this Yiddish edition is the 2nd edition]. Original modernist color illustrated paper wrappers bound into protective folder, 8vo, 25 pages. Includes photo illustration of author with her little brother, V.I. Lenin. 21 cm. In Yiddish. Title translates as, "Ilich's Childhood Years." Nr. 10 in the serices, "Shul-un pyonern-bibliyotek." SUBJECT(S):Lenin, Vladimir Il'ich, 1870-1924 -- Childhood and youth. OCLC: 998762705. OCLC lists only 2 copies worldwide (LOC and Harvard). Paper browning, stamps to cover, institutional stamp on copyright page, Good Condition Thus. Very Rare (Yid-42-5A).

New Haven: Edward W. Hazen Foundation. Paperback. Paper wrappers; 8vo. 32 pages. OCLC lists nineteen copies worldwide. Universities and colleges-Religion. Ins cribed. Excellent condition. (W-62).

Vilna, Romm, 1905. Hardback. 1st edition. Period boards, 4to, xii pages + 81 leaves [i. E. 162] pages ; 31 cm. Responsa. Edited with notes by the author's twin grandsons. Wide margins. Pencil inscription on title stating the volume was received directly from the publisher, the author's grandson. The author (1793-1863) , the Rabbi of Makawa, was the son-in-law of Rabbi Bunem Eger, brother of Rabbi Akiva Eger. Close to the Chasam Sofer, he was acknowledged as one the most prominent rabbis of Hungary. When Rabbi Chaim Halberstam of Sanz saw Rabbi Shlomo Zalman's first published work, he exclaimed "Hungary does not realize what they possess. " SUBJECT(S) : Responsa -- 1800. OCLC lists 6 copies worldwide, Paper browning, Very Good Condition (KH-6-5).

Westmead, Gregg International Publ, 1969. Hardcover. Original blue cloth boards with gold lettering on the spine. 8vo. 504 pages; 24.5 cm. In German in Gothic script. Reprint from the 1922 edition, "Sammlung juedisher Geschichten in der Schweiz. " Includes stately frontispiece, a variety of intricate illustrations throughout, and a fold-out black-and-white illustration of a funeral. Ulrich was a Swiss Protestant theologian and historian. After his ordination in 1727 he studied Hebrew and the Talmud in Bremen under the Jewish apostate Gottlieb Fromann, and in Lengnau with Jacob Guggenheim. His missionary activities in Surbtal brought him into contact with the Jews of Endingen and Lengnau. In Sammlung Juedischer Geschichten... (Basle, 1768; repr. 1922) , the first comprehensive history of the Jews of Switzerland, he exonerates the Jews from complicity in causing the Black Death and from similar allegations, and urges the Swiss to treat them as equals. (EJ, Staff) OCLC lists two copies worldwide (Unisa:… Read More

Filadelfye [i. E. Philadelphia]: Dzsh. L. Gros, 1959. First Edition. Hardcover. Orignal Cloth. 8vo; 180 pages; 23 cm. Poetic reminiscences for this Moldovan Jewish community SUBJECT(S): Travel. Joodse literatuur. Yiddish poetry. Ungheni (Moldova) -- Description and travel -- Poetry. Moldova. Very Good Condition; (ee-1-1).

New York, The Shoulson Press, 1950. Hardcover. (FT) Cloth, 4to, 112 pages, illustrated, in Yiddish. SUBJECT(S) : Yiddish --- fasts, feasts, festival ---- juvenile. OCLC lists 31 copies worldwide. Edgewear to covers, pages slightly tanned, personal writing on first page, overall very good condition (YIDCHI-5-29A).

New York; Shulsinger, 1967. hardcover. (FT) Publishers cloth . 8vo. XI, 444 pages. 24 cm. First edition. In Yiddish. Title page verso: Sefer Kedoshim. Yizkor for Chassidim and the martyred Rabbis of Poland; written by a long time correspondent of YIVO and historian of Polish Chassidism. Bound in blue cloth, gilt lettering, and decorative outer edges. Subjects: Rabbis - Biography. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) - Biography. World War, 1939-1945 - Jews. Light wear to cloth. Very good + condition. (YIZ-12-5).

New York, Farlag "khasidut, 1955. Original cover, 8vo, 351 pages, 24 cm. In Yiddish. SUBJECT (S) : Hasidism -- History. Added title page: The Chassidic world. Transliterated title supplied; appears on title page in Hebrew characters (Yiddish) . Bibliography on pages 325-334. OCLC lists 27 copies worldwide. Wear to binding. Bumped cover corners. Otherwise, very good condition. (Hasid-4-2A).

New York: Farlag "khasides, 1955. Hardcover, 8vo, 351 pages. In Yiddish. Romanized record. OCLC lists 4 copies worldwide. Wear to cover binding. Chipped and tear to cover spine. Water stain to front cover. Otherwise, very good condition. (Hasid-10-4).

New York, The Shoulson Press, 1950. Hardcover. (FT) Cloth, 4to, 112 pages, illustrated, in Yiddish. SUBJECT(S) : Yiddish --- fasts, feasts, festival ---- juvenile. OCLC lists 31 copies worldwide. Edgewear to covers, pages slightly tanned, overall very good condition (YIDCHI-5-29).