Very beautiful exhibition catalog in lovely condition. A soft cover book is wrapped around completely with the treal colored "jacket" which may have had a ribbon tie given the two slots for one, but doesn't require it, as the jacket stays closed without it.The exhibition is an artistic interpretation of the only Biblical hymn to wome -- Aishet Hayil. As such 32 artists were igven a line of the poem of that name to interpret with their art. The collective works are a tribute to one woman -- Julia Kiener Forchheimer (1900-1991) who opened the handweaving department in the Bezalel School of A... View More...
Very nice, clean magazine published on England with a look back at East London history. The main stories here are: "Stepney" Jewish"; Hackney Waterworks; Memories of Spitalfields; Hops Picking in the Nineteenth Thirties; and Records of the Poplar Pension Fund. Illustrated with black and white photographs. Measures 6" x 8-1/4" and has 48 pages. View More...
This is a very interesting design and a very interesting exhibition catalog -- both are unique. The catalog is over sized at 9-1/4" tall and 12-1/4" wide with 37 pages on heavy card stock,the last of which is a fold-out. The white covers are covered with thick clear plastic for protection. There's also two laid-in cards showing the Jewish cemetery in Prague, the oldest in Europe, and a computer generated drawing of the installation of the exhibition. Therese items are in the built-in brown folder. There is also an essay written by Vicki Goldberg titled "ernestine ruben and the lasting experime... View More...
This lovely catalog accompanied the exhibition held from September 7 to November 4, 2000 at the Cleveland State University Art Gallery. It's oversized at 9" x 12" with 140 pages including a glossary and a selective bibliography. Every page is on quality coated paper and most photographs are in full color. The catalog of the exhibition is of course the gem, but there are three essays before it which are well done. They are: Chronicle of an Exhibition by John Hunter; The Study of Jewish Ritual Objects by Claudia Z. Fechter who also wrote Ritual Arts in Cleveland. Catalog is clean with no spine c... View More...
Very nice clean magazine which also served as a program for the city pilgrimage to the beautiful churches of Cleveland which opened with a reception on Friday, Sept 7 1990 and continued until October 14. The booklet is beautiful with many photos and diagrams and retains its advertising card. Articles include: The Forms of Cleveland's Sacred Structures, The Church of St. Stanislaus, Trinity Cathedral, Notable Stained Glass in Cleveland, Eric Mendelsohn's Park Synagogue and Old Buildings in New Environments. Other churches not mentioned above include Bethany English Lutheran Church, The Church... View More...
These are so beautiful and so clean. The prints themselves are ready for framing. All are printed on the white ground and the cut-out folds over to "frame" it. Descriptions are printed on the back of each. Each of the twelves prints was created by a different artist. The artists are: Morechai Levanon, Moshe Chauski, Jona Mach, Isaac Amitai, Pinhas Litvinovsky, Isidor Aschheim, Anna Ticho, Mordechai Ardon, Shemuel Katz, Jacob Pins, Jacob Steinhart and Reuven Rubin. All prints measure 9-1/2"x13". Cover art is tipped-on as you can see from the first picture. Only fault is a tiny abrasion to cover... View More...
Lots of reading with this one, as it's the size and thickness of the average quality paperback book -- 6"x9" with 217 pages. The articles include these: The United States and Palestine: Reagan's Legacy to Bush; History o the Concept of "transfer" in Zionism; The Political Transformation of the Palestinians in Israel: From Acquiescence to Challenge; Between Occupier and Occupied: UNRWA in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip; and U.S. Legal Involvement in Violation of Palestinian Rights." Magazine also contains older documents, book reviews, occupied territories reports and more. I have a few more ... View More...
Very handsome high quality magazine printed on coated paper. Many articles, but I bought it for the one about Andy Warhol and his Silver Elvises. The article is a very long one at 17 pages measuring 9"x11" and illustrated throughout with black and white photographs. The author, David McCarthy, titled the article "Andy Warhol's Silver Elvises; Meaning Though Context at the Ferus Gallery in 1963." Wonderful not only for Elvis and Andy fans, but those who like the movies of the period. Other articles include ancient art, 17th century art, Louis Kahn, and Judaic Threads in West African tapestries.... View More...
Booklet is not a program for a show, but rather an exhibition catalog prepared to accompany an exhibit about the Moscow Yiddish State Theater which was held at the The Nahum Goldmann Museum of the Jewish Diaspora in Tel Aviv. The catalog opens on one side to an English text, but turn it upside down and begin at the back and the text is in Hebrew. There are numerous wonderful photos and a concise history of the theater which began in 1918 and was destroyed in 1949. 12 pages. View More...
Very nice hard cover booklet published for the centennial of the founding of the Temple of Congregation Tifereth Israel. Book is clean as a whistle inside and out with only one fault -- a small bit of wear to top and bottom of spine. Booklet measures 8-3/4" x 11-1/4 and has 62 pages. Back cover shows the temple on the map. Inside there is much historical information as well as photographs of the building, its rabbis and its people. Very useful for genealogical research. View More...
This interesting art catalog comes with extra goodies, including a price list for 37 works ranging in cost from $2500 to $100,000, and an envelope from the Bernstein House Foundation of Sugar Land, Texas seeking donations to have a book of the artist's work published. The goal was $100,000. Theresa Bernstein was born in Poland in 1890 and died in NYC in 2002, just two years after this exhibition. She was considered an important Jewish painter, but not all of her works focuses on a Jewish theme. She also had a love of music which also worked its way into her canvases. There's a lengthy essay at... View More...
This booklet is not seen too often. I got it from a private collection, but it's stamped on the front #13 Collinwood High School Library 1946. This one is not about Cleveland history only insofar as it discusses its residents and their origins. The thrust of the 66 page text is to showcase and provide information on the various ethnic groups, their religions, and the problem of prejudice. What's odd is it left out the Irish who came in droves and settled on the west side. All told though it's a topic not covered too often. Measures 6" x 8-3/4". Only fault is the stamp mentioned above. View More...
I had one of these the first year I became a seller of books and ephemera, but I never saw another one until now -- eighteen years! It's not that it's rare, it's just that somehow I didn't. Anyway, this is a beautiful, expensively designed booklet which originally in 1946 was published to designate the synagogue as a national historic site. It is also the oldest synagogue building in the United States. There are several large photographs and much information in 65 pages. The booklet measures 9-1/4" x 12-1/2". The only fault is some toning to spine area. Otherwise it's pristine inside and out. View More...
This is the 40th volume of the quarterly magazine Michigan Jewish History. The booklet measures 6" x 9" and has 82 pages with many black and white photos. Among thestories are these: WWII Russian oral histories; Sinai Hospital retrospective; Detroit's Jewish brewers; a salesman in Japan; and Michigan Jews in Cuba. View More...
Beautiful booklet covering the Jewish religion, the architechural synagogues, and Prague located in the Czech Republic and is the capital of Bohemia.The length of the text is quite helpful and the maps and photographs do likewise.The only defect is a few spots of wear at the spine, but mostly it's good. The pages are not numbered, so I counted them and found there were 69. View More...
I've had this since 1995 when it was new. Several times I took it out with the idea of listing it, but I never did. Now, twelve years later, it's moment has come. The front and back of the cover has writing, black on black, from the preamble to the Charter of the United Nations. Inside there is one sentence penned by Kahlil Gibran from his book Sand and Foam, 1926. The quote is this: "We shall never understand one another until we reduce the language to seven words." And that is how many there are here -- seven -- compassion, pathos, perception, temperance, balance, truth and possibility. Eac... View More...
Crisp,clean magazines. All are pristine inside and out with no names or writing. They measure 6"x9" and run between 54 and 66 pages each. Among the many topics are these: Intellectual and contemporary Jewish life; The Kosher Dybuk; travel on the Sabbath; Hasideanism and the modern world; naturalism and supernaturalism; and God, atomic war,and the prelude to prayer. We have many of these magazines, so if you are looking for other issues please let us know and we'll see if we have them. WE ALSO HAVE MANY OTHER FULL YEARS STARTING IN 1947AND OTHER PARTIAL YEARS OVER 80 ISSUES TOTAL TAKE ALL FOR... View More...
I bought this book thinking that it was a story -- which it is, but a musical story, based on the humorous Passover song, Had Gadya, The Only Kid. The text is in both English and Hebrew. You can hear it sung on Google, epecially peformd by young men with myrth and wine.The book measures 9-3/4" x 11" and is clean and attractive. (Music Box 1) View More...
Very nice, clean booklet, oversized at 8-1/2"x11" published for the 10th annual Rabbi Louis Feinberg Memorial Lecture given March 3, 1987. Only fault is small crease to lower corner. The author at this time was the Ludwig Rosenberger Professor of Jewish History and Civilization at the University of Chicago. An interesting look at the conversion of Christians to Judaism during this period. The author did extensive research in old Hebrew texts and documents, especially from the Cairo Genezah Includes a discussion of rabbinic Judaism implanted in Khazaria. 49 pages. Not often seen. View More...
This is not just a coloring book, though crayons will be used a lot. It's a Hanukkah activity book with mazes, masks, rebus stories, puzzles, playing cards,crafts, and connect the dots. The book is geared to pre-schoolers and slightly older children learning to read.There is no crayoning or scribbling and no pages used. The book measures 8-1/2" x 11". Check out the colorful cards whcih are still intact View More...
