Selections from Our German Language Holdings

There are quite a few books in my stock that no one knows I have. Here are a few of them.


Beer, B. Leben Abraham's nach Auffassung der jüdische Sage mit erläuternden Anmerkungen und Nachweisungen. Leipzig, Oskar Leiner, 1859. Octavo, brown cloth spine with fraying at the spine ends, marbled paper covers, xvi, 216 pp., index, errata. Hardbound. Very Good. In German (41389) Bernhard Beer was an auto-didact from Dresden He became a volunteer preacher and a respected scholar. This title is not one of the ones attributed to Beer in the entry that describes him in the Jewish Encyclopedia.   $35.00

Herzl, Theodor. Gesammelte Zionistische Werke In fünf Bänden. I. Band: Zionistische Shriften. Band II/ III/ IV: Herzls Tagebücher. Band V. Das Neue Ghetto/ Altneuland/ Aus Dem Nachlass. In Five Volumes. Berlin, Jüdischer Verlag, 1934, 1934, 1934, 1934, 1935. Mixed editions, third, second and firsts, but uniform. Octavos, paper covers in dust jacket pasted down to the spines and flaps, frontispiece photo, 542 pp. + frontispiece photo, 647 pp. + frontispiece photo, 620 pp. + frontispiece photo, 661 pp., index + frontispiece photo, 555 pp. Dust jacket of volume One is badly damaged. Rear panel is lost. Minor damage to the other dust jacket. Chip to the rear panel of the dust jacket of the fifth volume. Softbound. Good. In German (40730)      $95.00

Jellinek, Ad[olph]. Studien und Skizzen. Der jüdische Stamm. Ethnographishe Studien. Vienna, Herzfeld & Bauer, 1869. 16mo, dark green cloth spine frayed at the head and with a hand-written paper label, shelfworn paper covered boards, x, 224 pp. Hardbound. Good. In German (39601)  Jellinek was admired widely among German Jews in the nineteenth-century for his homieltics. He was also an expert on Kabbalah and Jewish Folklore. This is one of his collections of Jewish ethnography.    $35.00

Kopi. Joël Gern; der Werdegang eines jüdischen Mannes. Frankfurt a. Main, Verlag von J. Kauffmann, 1912. Duodecimo, black cloth with white lettering, 110 pp., yellowed lettering. Hardbound. Good. In German. Rare. Kopi is the Pseudonym of Jacob P. Kohn. (40629)     $40.00

Scherer, J.E. Beiträge zur Geschichte des Judenrechtes im Mittlealter mit besonderer Bedachtnahme auf die Länder der österreichisch-ungarischen Monarchie. Erster Band: Die Rechsverhältnisse der Juden in den deutsch-österreichischen Ländern. Mit einer Einleitung über die Principien der Judengesetzgebung in Europa während in Mittelalters. [Contributions to the history of Jewish law in the middle age with special consideration to the countries of the Austro-Hungarian monarchy. Volume 1: The legal relationships of the Jews in the German-Austrian countries. With an introduction about the principles of Jewish legislation in Europe during the Middle Ages]. Leipzig, Verlag von Duncker & Humblot, 1901. Octavo, black cloth with a hand-done label on the spine, xxii, 672 pp., errata. Hardbound. Very Good. In German (41433)     $75.00

Strack, Hermann L. Jüdisches Wörterbuch. Mit besonderer berücksichtigung der Gegenwärtig in Polen üblichen ausdrücke. Leipzig, J.C. Hinrichs'sche Buchhandlung, 1916. Octavo, paper covers, xvi, 204 pp., errata. Softbound. Good. In German (41560)     $25.00

Yago-Jung, Dr. Ilse (Judith). Die nationale Frage in der jüdische Arbeiterbewegung in Rußland, Polen und Palästina bis 1929. Inaugeraldissertation zur Erlangen des Grades eines Doktors des Philosophie im Fachbereich Institution und Soziale Bewegungen der Johann Wolfgang Goethe Universität. Frankfurt am Main, Johann Wolfgang Goethe Universität, 1976. Octavo, paper covers, 435 pp., notes, bibliography. Softbound. Very Good. Text is in German. (43171)     $50.00



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