Search Results: Titles starting with B from Dan Wyman Books

Jefferson City, Mo. : The Hugh Stephens Printing Co, 1916. Full Morocco Leather, 4to, 386 pages, Includes bibliographical references and index, selected and edited by William Vincent Byars, Lacks backstrip (spine covering) otherwise Very Good Condition. (AMR-38-5).

Stuttgart : J. Scheible, 1841. Hardcover. 12mo. 284 pages. In German. SUBJECT (S) : German language; Philosophy. OCLC lists 24 copies worldwide. Auerbach (1812-1882) was a German author and a leader of Jewish emancipation. Born at Nordstetten in Wuerttemberg, he, after some initial training for the rabbinate at Karlsruhe (1827-29) , became interested in law and philosophy and continued his studies at the universities of Tuebingen, Munich, and Heidelberg. Auerbach's interest in Spinoza prompted his first novel, Spinoza, Ein Denkerleben (1837) , and his five-volume translation of the philosopher's works (1841) . (EJ) Ex-library, Lacks backstrip (spine covering) , Good Condition (GER-15-17).

Paperback. Nyu York: No Publisher, 1958. Paper Wrappers, 8vo, xxv pages, 23 cm. Primarily in Yiddish, with non-Yiddish titles listed in their language of publication. Subject: Bialostotzky, Benjamin Jacob, 1892-1962 -- Bibliography. Other Titles: B. J. Bialostotzky bibliography. Very Good Condition. (CT-12).

Sinér-Varahl : Yaákov Vidér, 1943. Hardcover. Original boards. 8vo. 278 pages. 25 cm. In Hebrew. Rabbi Yisroel ben Eliezer, often called Baal Shem Tov or Besht, was a Jewish mystical rabbi. He is considered to be the founder of Hasidic Judaism. SUBJECTS: Hasidism. OCLC lists 3 copies worldwide (JTS, HUC, Minnesota) . Spine repaired. Pages browning. Otherwise Good Condition. (YID-27-9).

Yerushalayim; Hotsaat Sefarim A. Sh. Y. L. Magnes, Ha-Universitah Ha-Ivrit, 1982. Hardcover. Publishers cloth. 8vo. 249, [9] pages. 23 cm. First edition. Published by the Magnes Press, under the auspices of the Center for research on Roumanian Jewry (Je´rusalem) . With fold out demographic Map of Moldavia from 1845. History of Jewish craft occupations and artisan guilds in Moldavia; throughout the 19th century the number and diversity of Jewish skilled craftsmen increased by the decade. Subjects: Jews - Romania - Moldavia - Economic conditions. Jewish artisans - Romania - Moldavia. Moldavia - Ethnic relations. Light wear to wraps, otherwise fresh and clean. Very good condition. (EE-5-14).

None, 2000. Paper Wrappers. 8vo. 189 pages. In English. SUBJECT (S) : Book commemorating the anniversary of the Babylonian Jewish Center, depicts advertisements and notes from center members. (MX13-6).

Philadelphia: Allen Lane & Scott's Printing House, 1894. Paperback. 8vo. 32 pages. Singerman 4639. SUBJECT (S) : Speeches, addressed, etc; Jews -- civilization. OCLC lists holdings in 1 institution (Penn). Original cover is creased, taped, faded and has previous owner's name on it, text is intact but heavily spotted, ex library with usual marking, fair condition. (AMR-19-6) . Scarce, especially in the original wrappers.

Jerusalem: Information Division, Ministry for Foreign Affairs. Paperback. Paper wrappers; 8vo. 32 pages. Illustrated copiously with photographs. OC LC lists five copies worldwide. Israel-Arab War, 1967--Occupied territories Excellent condition. (W-62).

New York : [Publisher Not Identified], 1923. Hardback. 1st English Edition. Original Boards. 8vo. 186 pages ; 19 cm. "Bassen was (b) orn in Vasilkov, Ukraine. In July 1905 he emigrated to the United States and became a furrier. He published a drama, ‘Tsurik tsu zikh, drame fun idishn lebn in nyu york (New York, 1923) , ' 186 pp. , which was translated into English as "Back to God: A Play of Jewish Life in New York. " (Yiddish Leksikon, 2016) OCLC lists 15 copies worldwide. Small piece of spine missing. Hinges starting. Otherwise Very Good condition. (AMR-48-16A).

New York : [Publisher Not Identified], 1923. Hardback. 1st English Edition. Original Boards. 8vo. 186 pages ; 19 cm. "Bassen was (b) orn in Vasilkov, Ukraine. In July 1905 he emigrated to the United States and became a furrier. He published a drama, ‘Tsurik tsu zikh, drame fun idishn lebn in nyu york (New York, 1923) , ' 186 pp. , which was translated into English as "Back to God: A Play of Jewish Life in New York. " (Yiddish Leksikon, 2016) OCLC lists 15 copies worldwide. Ex-library with Jewish Institutional Stamp and Usual Markings. Very good condition. (AMR-48-16).

Jewish Publication Society of America, 1964. Paperback. 8vo. 25 Pages. In English. In very good condition. (Comhist6-26).

Tel-Aviv: Masadah, 1954. Hardcover. (FT) 8vo. 333 pages. In Hebrew. Shimoni, (1886-1956) , was a Hebrew poet. He was born in Bobruisk, district of Minsk, Russia, the son of a learned maskil. Shimoni studied with private tutors and read avidly, especially in the impressive library belonging to the father of his childhood friend, Berl Katznelson. He soon began to write, publishing his first poem, a free translation from the Russian of Simon Frug, in Gan Sha'ashu'im. His first original poem, "Sihat Resisim" (1902) , appeared in the children's paper Olam Katan, but his career is considered to have begun with the poem "Bein ha-Shemashot" (1902) , published with Bialik's encouragement in Lu'ah Ahi'asaf (no. 12, 1904) . (EJ, Staff) In very good condition (Heblit1-10).

Jerusalem; Israel Museum, 1994. Softcover. Original Illustrated Wraps. 4to. 156, XX pages. 31 cm. First edition. Articles in Hebrew with abstracts in English. Added English title page: Back to the shtetl: An-Sky and the Jewish ethnographic expedition, 1912-1914: from the collections of the State Ethnographic Museum in St. Petersburg: exhibition catalogue. Profusely illustrated, some in color, with articles on the history of the An-Sky expedition. "From 1912 to 1914, S. An-ski (Shloyme Zaynvl Rapoport) headed ethnographic expeditions to the Pale of Jewish Settlement. After a limited display of the expeditionary collection in 1914, it was exhibited at the Jewish Museum in Saint Petersburg, which opened briefly in 1917, and then again in 1923, only to be closed in 1929. In 2000, most of the remaining artifacts were located at the Russian Museum of Ethnography in Saint Petersburg, while most of the manuscripts and audio recordings were held in Kiev, at the Vernadskii National Library of Ukraine. ... In… Read More

New York: Aberbach Fine Art, 1974. Hardcover. 1st edition. Original boards and illustrated dust jacket. 4to. 156 pages, 29 cm. In English. Samuel Bak is an American surrealist painter and writer who survived the Holocaust and immigrated to Israel in 1948. Since 1993, he has lived in the United States (Wikipedia, 2018) . SUBJECTS: Painters -- Israel -- Interviews. OCLC lists 16 copies worldwide (OCLC: 4897379) . Dustjacket is worn. Includes plate. Very good condition. (YID-32-18).

Cleveland: No Publishing Information, 1967. Paperback. 8vo. 24 pages. In Czech. SUBJECT (S) : Fiction; Chodsko (Czech Republic) - in literature. OCLC lists 6 copies worldwide. CONTENTS: 1. C. Balada ceského lesa -- 2. C. Z písemnictví o Chodsku. Inscribed by author. Covers very lightly discolored in spots, internally clean, good+ condition. (Czech-5-39).

München: "logos, 1969. Paperback. 8vo. 6 pages. In Czech. OCLC lists 3 copies worldwide (Univ of Toronto, Harvard, SUNY Binghamtom) . Very good condition. (Czech-5-41).

Lodz; Biblioteka "tygla Kultury, 1998. Softbound. 8vo. 181 pages. 25 cm. First edition. In Polish. "Arnold Mostowicz was born in 1914, the only son of a middle-class Jewish family. He grew up in Lodz which, before the German invasion, had a population of at least a quarter of a million Jews and was a prominent and prosperous centre. At the age of 19, and because ‘as a Jew I did not have a chance of studying medicine at a Polish university, ' he travelled to France and enrolled as a medical student. Upon completing his studies he returned to Poland in July 1939, and when, in September, all young men were called to defend Poland against the Nazi invasion, he packed up two shirts, a jar of home-made jam and a volume of poems and walked to Warsaw to join the war. During the siege of Warsaw, Mostowicz worked as a physician in the Child Jesu Hospital where he treated victims of the German air raids. When Warsaw capitulated, Mostowicz returned to Lodz and the ghetto. There he worked in the isolation… Read More

Lochem (Netherlands) ; N. V. Uitgeversmaatschappij "de Tijdstroom, 1947. Hardcover. Cloth. 8vo. 138 pages. 21 cm. First edition. In Dutch. Beige cloth over boards, with ten black and white illustrations by Henk Hulshof. Title translates as: "Exile, six months hostage in Haaren. " Hans Leenderts was the alias of the hostage J. Th. B. Hoff, a teacher from Ruurlo. The municipality of Haaren was used from 1941 through 1941 as a prison camp for eliminating political prisoners and members of the resistance, as well as a camp for hostages of the general Dutch population being held by the SS to supposedly curb resistance and opposition. Among the hostages were 150 leaders from business, 133 people from the professions, 60 professors and teachers, 103 officers, 60 chaplains, three trade union leaders and five students. Twice, on 15 August 1942 and October 16, 1942, (a total of 85) Haaren hostages were shot. In 1944, 3, 500 of those held in the camps were deported to Saxenhausen or Ravensbruck. Subjects: World… Read More

Moskve [Moscow]: Farlag "Emes, 1932. Cloth. 1st edition. Original Cloth Boards, 8vo, 574 pages [this volume], 20 cm. In Yiddish. Title translates as, "By the Dnieper." Cover title for this volume [Vol I.] is "Bam Dnyeper (Penek)". By the time David Bergelson arrived in Berlin in 1921, he was highly regarded as a Yiddish modernist innovator. In Berlin, Bergelson was the coeditor of a short-lived Yiddish and Hebrew modern art journal: in Yiddish, Milgroym (The Pomegranate). He wrote for the New York Yiddish newspaper Forverts (The Forward) and authored dozens of short works, some set in Berlin and others set in the shtetlekh of Ukraine....In 1926, Bergelson publicly shifted his allegiance toward the Soviet Union. To signal this new commitment, he cut ties with Forverts and became a regular staff writer for Morgen-frayhayt, a communist daily; he also visited Moscow, wrote a penitential letter to the Moscow Yiddish newspaper Der emes (The Truth), and penned his critical essay 'Dray tsentrn'('Three… Read More

Jerusalem; Hug Habimah, 1964. (FT) Ilustrated wraps. 8vo. 102, [2] pages. 24 cm. Serial publication. In Hebrew with English title and synopses page. Includes 17 plates of photographs from productions by the Habimah theatre company, an essay on Pushkin's "The Stone Guest", an analysis of "Stringberg's ‘Miss Julia' now playing at Habimah", an essay on dialogue in early Hebrew drama, an excerpt from a play about Giordano Bruno by Zvi Hermann, and a discussion on the experience of Israel Gour's repertoire during its recent travels abroad to the United States. "Bamah" continues an earlier publication with the same title, issued 1933-48. Issued by the Habimah Theatre; as of 1958 the national theatre of Israel. Subjects: Theater - Periodicals. Theater - Israel. Drama. Covers light soiled and lightly foxed, outer edges lightly soiled; internally clean and fresh. Good + condition. (ART-20-8).