Venice and Constantinople Hebrew Imprints

           These items are available only through direct sale and are not listed on our website (http://www.hollanderbooks.com) at this time. Orders can be placed by email at boychik@hollanderbooks.com or phone number 415-831-3228.

Gold case for a Venician manuscript Megillat Esther. Not ours.

           In the mind of the Jewish world Venice is a bold and bright jewel of memory served up by the preservation of the Venician Ghetto. The Ghetto brings a qualified comfort by the beauty of its remains despite the selfsame proof that it offers of the civil disability that created its distinctive communal character. In this light it is natural to expect that the first Hebrew printed books in Italy would have come from Venice, or if not from Venice from Rome whose ancient Jewish community lived beneath the windows of the rulers of the capital of the Papal states. But Italy is as a much a land of small towns with their own stubborn integrity as of beautiful independent cities. The first traces of the history of the Hebrew printed book in Italy (and all the world) appeared in Reggia de Calabria, Pieve de Sacco, Mantua, Ferrara, Bologna and Soncino.
           Israel Nathan Soncino established the first really successful venture in the printing of Hebrew books in Soncino (In Cremona between Brescia and Pavia) in 1483 with his editions of Masekhet Berakhot and Betsah. Though he passed through Venice he never engaged in printing there. As a consequence of many vicissitudes the family enterprise was ultimately transferred to Constantinople where they were the first printers of any book as well as the first printers of a Hebrew book in that locality. In honor of that association we include an imprint from Constantinople with our Venician imprints.

           The first recorded Hebrew imprint in Venice was in 1500. It was an alef-bet book with instructions in Latin printed by Aldus Mantius. Further Hebrew printing did not occur until 1511 and the first era of Venician Hebrew printing did not begin in earnest until Daniel Bomberg, a Christian printer with the support of the pope began printing in 1519. It was the competition of Bomberg that forced the Soncino's to leave Italy. Bomberg had among his printers apostate Jews with whom the Soncino's began a quarrel that cost them their patronage and in general drew unwanted attention to the role of Jews in printing. Bomberg completely dominated Hebrew printing into the 1540s when Cornelius B. Baruch Adelkind who had long worked for him began working with Giovvani de Gara, on his own and finally for Marc Antonio Giustiniani. Bomberg died in 1549 or 1550 and his last publication was in 1549. Giustiniani began publishing in 1546. The Bragadini family sought to enter the Hebrew printing market. Aloisio Bragadini's first publication was an edition of the Mishneh Torah of Maimonides which came out in 1550. A tremendous dispute began between the house of the Giustiniani and the Bragadini. They each employed several Jewish apostates to make their case for their own virtues before the papal courts in Rome. The rather horrid result of this advocacy was the resolution of the church to suppress the Talmud which lead to the destruction of perhaps hundreds of thousands of Hebrew books and manuscripts.

          Hebrew printing was almost completely disrupted between 1553 when the Papal Bull was issued and 1556 when Hebrew printing did begin to return. The subsequent output of the Venician presses is noticeably different. The emphasis on Talmudic Masekhtot gave way to the printing of bibles, prayer books and original works by contemporary authors. 

        Below we offer one Giustiniani and one Bragadini imprint as well as one other from a lesser publisher.

Gerasi, Daniel ben David ben Elijah. Sefer Odeh H.: ve-hu helek rishon mi-mah she-derashti ... Venice, Bragadin, 1681. Octavo, rebacked in nineteenth-century binding, black cloth spine with chipping at the head and gold lettering, marbled paper covered boards, lacking the later free endpapers, 52 leaves [104 pp.], water-staining. Hardbound. Good. Text is in Hebrew. This appears to be the only edition of the only work published by this Salonika preacher. The leader of the Bragadini enterprise during this period was probably Vicenzio II or Aloisio III. (83787)      $350.00

Front Board.

Title page.

Isaac Elimelekh ben Rafa'el Me'ir. Sefer hi" Sihati. Kostandina [Constantinople], Bi-defus Yitshak di Kastro, 1831/2. Octavo, remnants to the leather spine lacking the back-strip, patterned paper covered boards with edge-wear and soiling, front board off, vi, 38 leaves [xii, 72 pp.] Hardbound. Fair. Text is in Hebrew. A collection of sermons.di Kastro was active between 1808 and 1848 and published over a dozen titles in Constantinople. Yaari, Ha-Defus Ha-Ivri Ba-Kushtah, no. 514.  (83791)      $250.00

Pardo, David Samuel ben Jacob. Sefer Shoshanim le-David: ve-hu hibur nifla al shita sidre Mishnah ... Helek Sheni [of Two]. Venice, Bi-defus Me'ir Da Zara, 1751/2. Octavo, brown leather spine with raised banks, loss at the ends, paper label continues from board to board across the spine, marbled paper covered boards, lacking the free front endpaper, mild loss and repair to the title page, penned marginalia in the margin of the following leaf, 220 leaves [440 pp.], with significant loss and repair to the final four leaves. Hardbound. Poor. Text is in Hebrew. This work, the author's first published, appeared while the author was still in his thirties. He was born in Venice and held various Rabbinical positions in Adriatic Jewish communities before retiring to the Holy Land in his old Age. Da Zara was a minor figure who published a few books in Venice starting in 1842 and continuing into the 1850s. (83578)      $195.00

Hamishah Humshe Torah: Hebraicus Pentateuchus latinus plane´que nouus post omnes hactenus aeditiones euulgatus ac hebraice veritati quoad ejus fieri potuit, conformatus : adjectis insuper e rabinorum commentariis annotationibus [by S. Munster]. Item Cantica Canticorum, Ruth, Threni, Ecclesiastes, Esther. Venice, Ex Officina Justiniana [Marco Antonio Giustiniani], 1551. Octavo, modern rebacking in olive cloth with a brown leather label with gold lettering, ccviii, 209-376 leaves [752 pp.], repairs at the margins of the title page and  the first xxxvi leaves, many pages have Latin notes in the margins and there is a great deal of worming in the margins effecting these notes. However, the repairs and notes rarely enter into the area of the type block. With a full page printers device of the Bet Ha-Mikdash on the final page. An article on the printer's mark, "The Printer’s Mark Of Marco Antonio Giustiniani And The Printing Houses That Utilized It," by M.J. Heller, appears in "Studies in the Making of the Early Hebrew Book, Volume 15," Leiden, Brill, 2007. With head pieces at the beginning of Bereshit, Vayikra, Bamidbar, Devarim, and Shir Ha-Shirim.

Spine and rear board.

Early page with marginalia and damage.

Typical clean later pages.

Colophon page illustration.

Hardbound. Fair. Text is in Hebrew and Latin in parallel columns with notes in Latin. "An edition of the Pentateuch and the Megilloth in Hebrew and Latin, with Latin notes drawn from Rabbinical sources." Darlow & Moule, v. 2, pt. 2, 5094. Type for the Giustiniani was created by the French type-cuter Giullame le Be mentioned in our previous post. This is the only title that Giustiniani published in a bi-lingual format. The choice of subject matter and the bi-lingual text may have been an effort to appeal to a broader market as well as en effort to make the inoffensive nature of the text more explicit. Regardless, the Giustiniani firm was on the rocks. Two original Hebrew works were published in 1551 by Giustiniani. In the following year the nearly moribund firm published a few bibles and prayer books including one Yiddish prayer book for women before closing shop. (83566)     $750.00

Sources

Amram, David. The Makers of Hebrew Books in Italy. New York, Holland Press, 1963 [1988]. 

The Jewish Encyclopedia.  

Popper, William. The Censorship of Hebrew Books. New York, Ktav Publishing House, Inc., 1969.

Vinograd, Yeshayahu. Otsar Ha-Sefer Ha-Ivri. Jerusalem, Ha-Makhon La-Bibliografyah Me-Muhshevet, 1994.

Yaari, Abraham. Ha-Defus ha-Ivri be-Ḳushṭa: ... me-reshito ad perots milḥemet ha-olam ha-sheniyah, u-reshimat ha-sefarim she-nidpesu bah. Jerusalem, The Magnes Press, The Hebrew University, 1967. Supplement to Kiryat Sefer, vol. XLII.

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Hebrew Yiddish Miscellany

Another miscellany. The kinds of things that interest me, please me and keep me interested in the trade as I stumble through my third decade in the book trade.

Aaron, of Pesaro. [Minkowsky, Aaron?]. Zeh Sefer Toledet Aharon" Asher Sipur mi-yeme hayav maym holado ad moto ve-nidfas al"yad benav ve-hotanu Yakh" ve-hovah le-bet ha-dafus den Iten Yuni 1903. Shanat 763. Cincinnati, Ohio, Press of Samuels Printing Co., 1903. Octavo, paper covers, 20 pp. Softbound. Very Good. Text is in Hebrew. #518 in Yosef Goldman's Hebrew Printing in America V. 1, P. 458. A short account of the author's take in America which he took to task in a humorous but highly educated way. (78151)     $35.00 

Effron, Louis, edited by. Der Bezim: Humoristisher Zshurnal mit Ernste Khonos/ The Bezim, a Journal for Humor and Satire, Vol. 1, No. 1, September, 1945. Philadelphia, PA., Louis Effron, 1945. Duodecimo, stapled paper covers, 20 pp., political cartoons by Zagat. Softbound. Very Good. Text is in Yiddish. OCLC Number: 33347842. Political humor with strong comic images. Uncommon. (78449)      $30.00

Freud, Sigmund. Ha-Psikhologyah shel ha-hamon veha-analizah shel ha-ani. Jerusalem, Hed Ha-Hinukh, 1927/8. First Hebrew Language Edition. Small octavo, paper covers, 86 pp. Softbound. Very Good. Translated from the German into Hebrew by Y. Dvosis. Sifriyat "Hed Ha-Hinukh," Sefer Rishon.Appears to be a translation of Massenpsychologie und Ich-Analyse: Die Zukunft einer Illusion, first published in German in Leipzig in 1921. One of the earliest translations of Freud into Hebrew. (78311)      $75.00

Glicenstein, Simon.  Admor Yoman rishme bikure mi-Lyubavitsh be-Erets Yisra'el. Jerusalem, Menahem-Av, 789 [1929]. Duodecimo, stapled paper covers, 24 pp. Softbound. Very Good. Text is in Hebrew. A short biographical work about the Sixth Lubavitsh Rebbe Yosef Yitshak Schneerson. Glicenstein wrote about Rabbinical history in a way that must have been acceptable to Orthodox community. (78244)      $50.00

Hakohen, Shoshan. Pil'e ha-tsadikim: sipurim u-ma'asiyot meha-tsadikim u-kedoshe elyon  ... Djerba, Tunisia, Ya'akov Hadad, 1935. Duodecimo, black cloth spine, marbled paper covers, 36 pp., yellowed paper. Softbound. Very Good. Text is in Hebrew. (78270) A book of Sephardi legends. One of Hakohen's works published in his lifetime.     $50.00

Komplas de Purim: por rekontar el nes de Purim ... Vienna, H.S.L. Vortman, 1891/2. Octavo, sewn paper covers, 23 pp. Softbound. Good. Text is in Ladino (78330) First published in 1851/2. A Ladino Purim anthology of humorous songs.    $150.00

Rapoport, Abraham. Neki kapayim u-var mitsvah: derush she-darash ... Avraham Kats Rapaport Shrentsil be-yom she-na'aseh bar mitsvah. Frankfurt am Main, Bet ha-defus "Defus", 1925. Small octavo, paper covers, 40 pp. with a facsimile of the original title page. Softbound. Very Good. Text is in Hebrew. Reprints the original title-page from the Krakow edition of 1598. A facsimile reprint of an early collection of Bar Mitsvah drashes, (78333)     $45.00
 
Shirim la-milu'im: yom hukam al kise ha-rabanut be-kehilah kedoshah Levorden ... Avraham ben.. Shabtai Levisson .../Feestzangen bij de installatie van den Weleerw. heer A.S. Levisson als Opperrabbijn van het Synagogaal Ressort Friesland. Amsterdam, Typ. Van Crefeld & Co., 1924. Octavo, stapled paper covers, 8  pp. Softbound. Very Good. Text is in Hebrew and Dutch. A special prayer service on the installation of Avraham Shabatai Levisson as rabbi at the Friesland synagogue. (78260)      $35.00

Todah ve-kol zimrah: be-vate kenesiyot bi-medinat Britanya li-melot 25 shanah le-memshelet ha-melekh 'Gorg' ... al kise malkhuto, yom 1. 9 Iyar 5695/ Prayer and thanksgiving : for the semi-jubilee of His Majesty's accession to the throne, Sunday 12th May 5695-1935. London, Office of the Chief Rabbi, 1935. Octavo, stapled paper covers with mild wear, 12 pp. Softbound. Very Good-. Text is in Hebrew and English on facing pages. (78258)      $80.00

Yaari, Abraham. Ha-Defus ha-Ivri bi-Shklov. Jerusalem, 1946. Octavo, stapled paper covers, 50 pp.  Softbound. Very Good. Text is in Hebrew. Shklov was a small town but at its height between 1780 and 1850 it was a center for Jewish printing in Eastern Europe and for the Lubavitch movement. (78326)      $30.00

Yidisher almanakh Pariz, 1931/ Almanach Juif 1931, Paris. Paris, Farlag der nayer dor, 1931. Octavo, paper covers with rough wear to the spine, 120, 168 pp., calendar, b/w photos. Softbound. Good-. Text is in Yiddish and French. An important resource on the Jews of France in the interwar years. An uncommon title. (77193)     $75.00

Zekher Tsadik Livrakhah: Memorial Exercises in Memory of Solomon Schechter Kaf"Het Tevet 676, Aeolina Hall, New York. New York, 1916. Octavo, string-bound paper covers mildly soiled and lightly creased 19 pp., Hebrew and English text on facing pages. Softbound. Good. Text is in Hebrew and English. Contents are "Psalm XVI," "Shokene Botte Homer, A Dirge," Solomon ibn Gabirol, Introductory address by Jacob H. Schiff, Addresses by Louis Marshall, Louis Ginzberg, Charles Isaiah Hoffman, Herman Lissauer, "Psalm XLIX," "Hazkarah," concluding with Alenu and Karddish. The Psalms and prayers were chanted by all and led by Reverend S. Jacobson. Uncommon. (78225)      $50.00

Jewish Music, Musicians and the Jewish musical milieu: A selection

A selection from our rather extensive collection of items of and about Jewish music.

Akiva, Daniel. Ciclos: Music of the Sephardic Jews for Classic Guitar. Pacific, MO, Mel Bay Publications, Inc., 2003. ISBN: 0-7866-5089-3. Quarto, glossy paper covers, metal spiral binding, 120 pp., CD in pocket on the inside rear cover. Softbound. Very Good.  (66979)      $10.95

Classified Palestine Songs, Number Five: Shabat, Pesah, Sukot. Jerusalem, Overseas Youth Department, Jewish National Fund, 1946. Octavo, stapled paper covers with a slight chip to the front cover, 52 pp. Softbound. Very Good. Text in Hebrew and transliterated Hebrew. (73597)  Popular folk-songs from the immediate era of Israeli Independence.   $75.00

Eisenstein, Judith Kaplan. The Gateway to Jewish Song. New York, Behrman House, Inc., Publishers, 1939. Oblong royal octavo, blue cloth covered boards with paste-down illustration on the front board, previous owners penned name over the illustration, some toning to the end-paper, frontispiece drawing, x, 172 pp., b/w drawings by Temima Nimtzomwitz, translations of the Hebrew songs. Hardbound. Good.  (73582) Eisenstein is more than a famous daughter and a famous wife. This is only one of many books of Jewish music that she authored or contributed to. The copy illustrated above belonged to Florence Freehof, a prolific author of Jewish children's books and a member of a noted family of the Reform movement.     $20.00

Ganenu: Hovrot le-Hinukh ha-Pe'utot be-Gan-Yeladim ube-Vet-Am. Hoveret A. Jerusalem, Hotsaat Hitahdut Ha-Gananot be-Histadrut ha-Morim be-Arets Yisrael, 1919. Royal octavo, edgeworn paper covers, 115 pp., b/w drawings, music. Softbound. Good. In Hebrew. (34288)  A mix of articles on educational theory, craft projects and songs with music. An early Mandate era work.     $35.00


Kipnis, Levin. Music by M. Avidom. David ha-na'ar ve-Golyat ha-anak/ David the Boy and Goliath the Giant. Children's Opera. Tel Aviv, Education and Culture Centre of the General Federation of Labour - Histadrut, 1958. Oblong octavo, stapled paper covers, 16 pp., musical notation throughout. Softbound. Very Good. Text is in Hebrew and transliterated Hebrew. The Nissimov Music Library no. 106. (73721)  Kipnis was an outstanding author for children first in Yiddish and then in Hebrew. Here his work appears in Hebrew and in English translation. Kipnis composed many short plays for children. This is only one of several similar titles I have in stock. $25.00

The Musical Tradition of the Jewish Reform Congregation in Berlin/ Die Musiktradition der Jüdischen Reformgemeinde zu Berlin/ Ha-Masoret ha-musikalit shel ka-Kehilah ha-Reformit shel Berlin. Israel, Beth Hatefutsoth, The Feher Jewish Music Center, 1997. Tall narrow octavo, paper covers, 65, 31 pp., a few b/w photos. With two musical CDs in Jewel Boxes, all in a paper slip-case.  Softbound. Very Good. Text is in English, German and Hebrew. (70076)  This music, recorded between 1928-1930 represents a tradition that had evolved in Berlin over the previous century. Included in the booklet are the German texts and English translations of those texts. I doubt that there is any place where more that a stray one of these melodies is still in use.  $40.00

Pilchik, Ely E., libretto by. The Water-Drawing Festival: Simchat Beyt Hashoeyvah. An Oratorio For Cantor-Solo Voices-Choir and Piano. Chicago, Illinois, A Friends of Jewish Music Publication, 1970. Royal octavo, foxed stapled paper covers, 88 pp. Softbound. Very Good-. Music by Max Janowski. Inscribed by the librettist on the front cover. (48694) Simchat Beyt Ha-sho'evah was a festival occurring at the end of Sukkot in late Second Temple times. There has been some gestures towards revival lately. The Oratorio and Cantata were very popular forms particularly in the Reform Movement in the during the first two thirds of the last century. Both are pretty dead at the moment but it is hard to develop a full picture of what Reform judaism was like in America without any familiarity with these forms. Pilchik was a well known Reform rabbi and author of Torah commentary and creative writing. Janowski was a prolific composer of liturgical music for the Reform movement as well as a prominent Jewish Chicagoan.     $35.00

Re'uven Yuklson: zibetsikster geboyrntog. Yuvilei-Zshurnal, Yuni, 1955./ Rubin Youkelson on his 70th Birthday, June 25, 1955. New York, Jewish Music Alliance, 1955. Octavo, stapled paper covers, 32 pp., b/w photos. Softbound. Very Good. In Yiddish and English. Joseph Rumshinsky and Isaac Leib Peretz were both involved in the founding of secular Yiddish Folk Choirs in 1899. The tradition of liturgical choirs extends back to the period of the the First Temple but secular Jewish choirs were a new innovation. By the 1930s there were nearly two hundred Yiddish folk choirs in the US alone. The Jewish Musical Alliance was an co-ordinating agency that distributed musical arrangements for choirs. Jacob Shaefer is one of the best known figures of that organization. Youkelson was more involved in the organizational aspect of the Alliance. (66588)     $30.00

70e Anniversaire de Darius Milhaud. Synagogue de la Rue de la Victoire Mardi 22 Mai a 21 heures. Festival Darius Milhaud a l'occasion du soixante-dixieme anniversaire du compositeur et pur l'inaugeration de l'orgue restaure de la Synagogue avec le concours de Marko Rothmüller du Metropolitan Opera de New York, Shalom Berlinski 1et Ministre-Officiant de la Synagogue, Jean Bonfils, Organiste. Paris, L'Orchesttre de la Societe des Concerts du Conservatore le Chorale Elisabeth Brasseur, 1962. Quarto, paper covers, 36 pp., b/w portrait, advertisements. Softbound. Very Good. In French (41028)  A program for this special commemorative event.    $40.00

Antique and illustrated Haggadot

There is plenty more to be said about some of these Haggadot but the hour is late. Most of these items are just in.

Ben Meir, Samuel; Yom-Tob ben Abraham Ishbili; Judah Loeb ben Bezalel; Ephraim Solomon ben Aaron of Lenczycza; Moses Sofer and Isaac Abravanel. Seder Hagadah shel Pesah: mevu'arah im asarah be'urim mi-ge'one olam ha-nod'im le-shem ule-tehilah: ... a) P. Rashi: b) Rashbam: g) Ritva: d) Gevurot H. (meha-gaon Maharal mi-Prag): h) Olelot Efrayim ... Vilna, Be-Defus Ha-Almanah veha-Ahim Rom, 1873. Octavo, brown leather spine with minor wear at the spine ends, edgeworn marbled paper covers, front endpaper cracked at the hinges, 76 pp. Hardbound. Good. Text is in Hebrew. Yudlov 1410. (71813)     $65.00

Boussidan, Ya'akov. Haggadah. Tel Aviv, 1967. Royal octavo, stapled paper covers, 20 pp., b/w and color plates. Softbound. Very Good. Introduction by Benjamin Tammuz. "The Art of Ya'akov Boussidan," Robert Payne. Biography also by Payne. Boussidan was an Egyptian Jew from an Eastern European and Moroccan family. It is unclear whether there is an entire Boussidan Haggadah, but the images here are all images that would serve that interest well, including a suite of images on the Ten Plagues. (71820)      $15.00

Cassel, David, translation and notes by. Lel hitkadesh hag: ve-hu Seder Hagadah le-lel shimurim... / Die Pesach-Hagada: mit vollständigem, sorgfältig durchgelesenem Texte. Berlin, Eigentum und Verlag von M. Poppelauer's Buchhandlung, 1905 (5665). Small octavo, soiled printed paper covered boards, spine reinforced with paper worn at the ends (a fairly old repair), 33, 33 pp., yellowed paper. Hardbound. Good. Text is in Hebrew and German on facing pages. (71803)  Yudlov 2289.    $50.00

Cowen, Mrs. Philip, arranged by. Hagadah shel Pesah: The Seder Service For Passover in the Home. A Completely Revised English Translation with New Notes, Music and Illustrations. New York, Philip Cowen, Publisher, 1907. Sixth Edition - 60th Thousand. 16mo, black cloth with minor wear at the spine ends, soiled printed paper covered boards, 142 pp., b/w drawings, with music in notation. Hardbound. Good. Text is in Hebrew with English language translation (71812)  Yudlov 2384.    $20.00

De Sola Pool, Rabbi David and Tamar, text edited by. The Haggadah of Passover. Illustrations by Parenzo. South Brunswick, New Jersey, Thomas Yoseloff, 1975. Oblong quarto in dust jacket, iv, 140 pp., duotone illustrations throughout.  Hardbound. Very Good. Text is in Hebrew and English translation by the De Sola Pools. The work was originally created for the Jewish Welfare Board to be used in a Haggadah for the troops in the mid 1940s and published in 1951. This edition is printed directly from the artist's original plates and was the first edition printed in that manner. (71824)      $35.00

Dym, Aaron, translation by. Hagadah shel Pesah: The Hagadah. Service for the First Two Nights of Passover. With a New Translation. New York, Ziegelheim, 1963. Fourth Edition. Quarto, blue cloth spine, illustrated paper covered boards, 64 pp., 12 pp. color illustrations. Hardbound. Very Good. Text is in Hebrew and English. The first edition was published in Vienna in 1928. Later New York editions were in 1945 and 1955. The early printings have less sturdy boards which are often damaged. Color in the earlier editions is more vibrant. All editions are uncommon. Dym is not credited as the illustrator in all of the printing. This Haggadah (in all of the editions) has one of the most readable texts in both Hebrew and English. Dym illustrated five other liturgical works including a prayer for divine intercession against the Nazi and Japanese foes in 1945. See Yudlov 4441 for the third edition. (71822)      $75.00

Freedman, Jacob. Polychrome Historical Haggadah for Passover. With a Commentary, Interpretive Translation, Introduction, Notes, References and Bibliography and Illustrations in color from Rare Medieval Haggadah Manuscripts. Springfield, Mass., Jacob Freedman Liturgy Research Foundation, 1974. Quarto in dust jacket with slight edgewear and a very minor chip, xxvi, 134 pp., text printed in seven colors to indicate different periods of composition, b/w and color illustrations, bibliography, index to passages. Hardbound. Very Good.  

The author promises a Polychrome Bible but was never able to get beyond the prospectus stage. Kickstarter might have worked for him. (71821) $200.00

Fürstenthal, R.J., translation into German by. Hagadah shel Pesah: Die beiden Pessachabende. Mit neun Illustrationen. Prague, Eigenthem u. Verlag d. Buchhandlung v. Wolf Pascheles, 1879. 16mo, soiled illustrated printed paper covered boards, black cloth spine, 64 pp., nine b/w drawings. Hardbound. Good. Text is in Hebrew with translation into German with the Hebrew text in parallel columns. Illustrations are in-text. (71806)  Yudlov 1532.    $95.00

Hagadah le-Lel Shimurim oder, Erzählungen von Jisraels Auszuge aus Mizrajim. Uebersetzt von einem jüdischen Gelehrten. Brilon, Germany, Druck und Verlag der M. Friedländer'schen Offizin, 1849. Zweite Auflage. Duodecimo, black cloth with major loss to the back-strip and with minor edgewear, 64 pp., foxing. Hardbound. Good. Text is in Hebrew with translation into German below the Hebrew text. Instructions in Judeo-German in the Hebrew text. Yudlov 923. (71805)    $125.00

Hagadah shel Pesah: Vortrag über Israels Auszug aus Egypten für die beiden ersten Abende des Pesach-Festes mit deutscher Uebersetzung und Illustrationen. Frankfurt a. M. , Verlag von J. Kaufmann, 1891. Duodecimo, black cloth spine, mildly soiled orange printed paper covered boards, 64 pp., ten b/w drawings based on old wood cuts, concludes with a sample contract for the sale of Hametz. Hardbound. Good. Text is in Hebrew with parallel German translation on each page. (71809)  Yudlov 1853.   $40.00

Hagadah shel Pesah: Vortrag über Israels Auszug aus Egypten für die beiden ersten Abende des Pesach-Festes mit deutscher Uebersetzung und Illustrationen. Frankfurt a. M. , Verlag von J. Kaufmann, 1893. Duodecimo, blue cloth spine, soiled  printed paper covered boards, 64 pp., ten b/w drawings based on old wood cuts, concludes with a sample contract for the sale of Hametz. Hardbound. Good. Text is in Hebrew with parallel German translation on each page. (71810)  Yudlov 1898.   $35.00

Hagadat Koyfman: Hotsa'ah Faksimilit shel K"Y 422 Me-Osef Koyfman Ba-Sifriyah Orientalit shel Ha-Akademiyah Ha-Hungarit Le-Mada'im/ The Kaufmann Haggadah: Facsimile Edition of MS 422 of the Kaufmann Collection in the Oriental Library of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. Publication of the Oriental Library of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences I. Budapest, Publishing House of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, 1957. Small quarto, vellum spine with raised bands and gold lettering, tan paper covered boards, with a color illustration drawn from the manuscript at the center of the Hebrew opening front board, 108 pp. reproducing the original manuscript flaws and all. With water-staining at the edge of the English opening endpaper and at the edge a few pages further in not effecting the facsimile images. Hardbound. Good.
Text is in Hebrew.

 
A lengthy description of the Kaufmann Haggadah can be found on the website of the Kaufmann Collection at http://kaufmann.mtak.hu/en/study10.htm. (71823)  Yudlov 4500.    $50.00

Heidenheim, W. Seder ha-Hagadah le-lel shimurim/  Erzählung von dem Auszuge aus Ägypten: für die beiden ersten Pessachabende. Frankfurt a. M. (Rödelheim), M. Lehrberger & Co., 1926. Small octavo, patterned paper covered boards with mild wear at the spine ends, 64 pp., ten b/w drawings based on old wood cuts by Stanislaus Bender. Hardbound. Good. Text is in Hebrew with parallel translation into German by Selig Bamberger. (71804)  Yudlov 3049.    $30.00

Heidenheim, W. Seder ha-Hagadah le-lel shimurim/  Erzählung von dem Auszuge aus Ägypten: für die beiden ersten Pessach=Abenden. Frankfurt a. M. (Rödelheim), M. Lehrberger & Co., c. 1920. Neue illustrierte verbesserte Auflage. Small octavo, blue cloth, 64 pp., ten b/w drawings based on old wood cuts by Stanislaus Bender [?], yellowed paper with a few short tears. Hardbound. Good. Text is in Hebrew with parallel translation into German by Selig Bamberger. (71807) $40.00

Heidenheim, W., translated into German by. Seder ha-Hagadah le-lel shimurim/  Erzählung von dem Auszuge aus Ägypten: für die beiden ersten Pessachabenden. Frankfurt a. M. (Rödelheim), M. Lehrberger & Co., 1914. Neue illustrierte verbesserte Auflage. Small octavo, black paper covers with wear to the spine, 65 pp., ten b/w drawings based on old wood cuts by Stanislaus Bender [?], yellowed paper with a few short tears. Hardbound. Good. Text is in Hebrew with parallel German translation on each page (71808)  Yudlov 2617.    $30.00

Heidenheim, W., translated into German by. Seder ha-Hagadah le-lel shimurim: meduyak hetev u-mesudar yafeh. Wien [Vienna], Druck und Verlag des Franz Edlen von Schmid und J.J. Busch, 1840. Neue illustrierte verbesserte Auflage. 16mo, brown cloth spine, black paper covered boards with mild edgewear, 24 dapim (48 pp.), foxing. Hardbound. Good. Text is in Hebrew with notes and instructions in Ivri-Taytsh (71829)   Yudlov 820.   $150.00

Israel, Abraham, illustrated by. Hagada shel Pesah/ Passover Haggadah. New York, Hebrew Publishing Company, 1959. Quarto in dust jacket torn along the spine, 160 pp., color illustrations throughout, many full page. With a non-authorial inscription over the free front endpaper. Hardbound. Good. A scarcely known illustrated Haggadah, but quite nice. In Hebrew and with an English translation on the facing pages by Sidney Hoenig (46283)      $40.00

Japhet, J.M. Ha-Hagada Le-Lel Shmorim. Haggadah für Pesach. Mit Übersetzung, deutschem Kommentar und musikalischen Beilagen. Frankfurt am Main, Verlag von J. Kauffmann, after 1903. Vierte Auflage. Small octavo, red cloth, printed paper covered boards, viii, 114, vi pp., with the music for Hodu, Ana, Ki Lo Na'eh, and Hasal Sidur Pesah. Yellowed paper. Hardbound. Very Good. Text is in Hebrew and Japhet's translation into German. Durchgesehen und verbessert von H. Schwab. (71811)

Lehmann, Marcus. Hagadah schel Pessach mit Erläuterungen von Dr. M Lehmann. Frankfurt am Main, Verlag von J. Kauffmann, 1918. Dritte, durchgesehene und aus dem Nachlasse des Verfassers erweiterte Auflage. Royal octavo, off-white cloth with black lettering (worn a little on the spine), b/w frontispiece photo, 211 pp., b/w illustrations.  Hardbound. Very Good. With the complete Hebrew text of the Haggadah, a German translation and extensive notes by Lehmann in German. (71816)  Yudlov 2691.   $50.00

Leone Modena; Isaac Abravanel. Seder Hagadah le-Fesah: ve-nitosaf ba-zeh kamah ma'alot tovot la-makom dinim ha-shayakhim le-hilkhot bedikat hamets u-vi'uro ve-hanhagot erev Pesah ... ve-gam ... perush Tseli esh ... ve-hu kitsur Zevah Pesah meha-rav Don Yitshak Abravanel ... asher yarad le-gano ve-liket ... Yehuda Ariyeh mi-Modena ... Amsterdam, Be-vet uvi-defus ha-meshutafim ... Hirts Levi Rofe ve-hatano Kosman, 1764/5. Octavo, later marbled covered boards cracked along the spine edges, ii, 32 dafim (64 pp.), decorative capitals, in-text illustrations, with the "sefokh" in large print from a wood-cut, plates are sharply and boldly printed though a few are cut off along the bottom edge.
   Hardbound. Good-. Text is in Hebrew and Ivri-Taytsh with commentary in Hebrew printed in Rashi script. (71827)  Yudlov 244.    $950.00

Leone Modena; Isaac Abravanel. Seder Hagadah shel Pesah: oder Fartrag oyf di beyden ershten abende fon Pesah oyf naye ins rayne Daytshe iberzetst und mit nittslikhe anmerkungen ferzehen ve-gam hidpasnu be-tokhah rov dinim ha-shayakhim le-halakhot bedikat hamets u-biuro, ve-hanhagat erev Pesah be-khulo yomav, ve-seder korban Pesah be-hikrivo, ve-halakhot le-seder shel Pesah ke-ra'ui oyf rize zind reyne Deytshe Iberzetst und mit Gute Anmerkungen ferzehen Od tematse bah ta'am li-sheboah perush Tseli Esh, ve-hu kitsur Zevah Pesah, meha-rav Don Yitshak Abravanel, asher yarad le-gano ve-lakat be-maspik leha-din be-ferusho ... ha-gaon ... Yehudah Ariyeh me-Modina ... ve-hosafnu bah kamah devarim melukat'im mi-Sefer Akedah umi-ferush Ba'al Olelot Efrayim ve-gam perush al Had Gadya meha-mehaber Mateh Aharon .z"l. Fyorda [Feurth], Ba-bayit uva-defus ha-torani ... Itsek ben David Tsirendorf, 1803/4. Octavo, worn quarter leather with loss to the leather of the open corners, shelfworn dull green marbled paper covered boards, ii, 25 dafim (50 pp.), daf heh (5) worn with minor loss at the heel. Hardbound. Good-. Text is in Hebrew and Ivri-Taytsh. (71825)   Yudlov 471.   $195.00

Narkiss, Bezalel, introduced by. The Golden Haggadah: a fourteenth-century illuminated Hebrew manuscript in the British Museum. Facsimile and Companion volume.

 London, Eugrammia Press Limited & the Trustees of The British Museum, 1970. Facsimile: Royal octavo, tooled brown leather on boards and spine, gold lettering on black cartouches on the spine, 2-101 double sided pp. reproducing the entirety of the original manuscript, colophon pasted-down to the rear pastedown endpaper. Housed in a blue cloth covered slip-case. Companion volume: Royal octavo, red cloth with gold lettering, x, 86 pp., b/w photos, List of names for Haggadoth mentioned, list of abbreviations, general index, index of manuscripts. Hardbound. Very Good.  

Colophon reads "This facsimile is published in Great Britain by The Eugrammia Press, 20 Albert Embankment London SE1 and the Trustees of THE BRITISH MUSEUM, London WC1. * It has been printed by LOUIS VAN LEER AND CO LTD of Amsterdam Holland on paper specially made by TULLIS RUSSELL AND CO LTD of Markinch FIFE and Supplied by LEPARD AND SMITHS LTD. * Colour transparencies were made by PETER PARKINSON AIBP. * The gold blocking in the work of ACE DISPLAY BLOCKING from brasses made by T. MACKRELL AND CO using gold supplied by GEORGE M. WHILEY LTD. * The binding is by ZAEHNSDORF LTD. * The edition is limited to 520 copies of which 20 unnumbered copies are not for sale* This is copy number ...." The haggadah is Brit. Mus. Additional 27, 2I0. The contents can be divided into three sections: first miniatures, then the actual Haggadah and finally, in the largest section, a collection of piyyutim. The piyyutim appear in a section between the miniatures and the Haggadah and then from the 56th daf to the end. The piyyutim and the other material appears to be the work of the same scriptorium but not of the same scribe. The presence of this large collection of piyyutim supports a theory that the work was created for a cantor.


The companion volume includes a catalog of subject matter of the illustrated portions of the Haggadah.          

There are large capitals and smaller capitals along with illustrated devices throughout in addition to the narritive illustrations. (71819)      $1350.00


Offenbacher Haggadah. Offenbach, Germany, Verlag des herausgebers Doktor Guggenheim, 1927. Quarto, blue leather covered boards, 97 (i) pp., hand-colored illustrations by Kritz Kredel, music in notation printed in black and red. Hardbound. Very Good. Text is in German and Hebrew.
"The Offenbach Haggadah was commissioned by Dr. Siegfried Guggenheim (1873-1961) an attorney and avid collector of rare books in Offenbach, near Frankfurt. The type designer Rudolf Koch created new fonts and the painter Fritz Kredel, a student of Koch’s, illustrated the new Haggadah inspired by the first Offenbach Haggadah which was printed in 1772. The new version was published in 1927 by the brothers Klingspor in a bibliophile edition of 300 copies. Guggenheim translated the Hebrew text into German, provided the transliterations of the Hebrew blessings and also inserted a novelty into the service. Instead of ending with “next year in Jerusalem, the Offenbach Haggadah concludes with the words:'next year in Worms on the Rhine, our home.'" from the Leo Baeck website.

Colophon reads "Von dieser haggadah kommen dreihundert Stücke in den handel. Dieses Buch wurde gedruckt von der Buchdruckeri heinrich Cramer, Offenbach am Main in der von Professor Rudolf Koch geschnitten Bibelgotisch der Schriftgiesserei Gebr. Klingspor, Offenbach am Main. Die hand=ausgemalten Bilder schnitt Fritz Kredel nach seiner Zeichnung in holz. Den hebräischen Satz lieserte die firma J. Kauffmann in Frankfurt am Main. Den Druck gestaltete Max Dorn, Offenbach am Main." An un-numbered copy. (71815)  Yudlov 3054.    $600.00

Rashi; Samuel ben Meir; Isaac Abravanel; Moses Alshekh; Isaiah Horowitz; Joseph ben Abraham Gikatilla, et al. Seder Hagadah shel Pesah: im harbeh perushim yekarim... : perush Rashi, perush ha-Rashbam, perush Yitshak Abravanel, perush ha-Alshekh, perush ha-Shelah, perush Tsofnat paneah ... mi-Yosef Gikatilya ... [et al.]. Warsaw, Bi-defus P. Lebenzohn, 1877. Octavo, worn leather spine and worn corners with the loss of the rear open corner, marbled paper covered boards with a cut-out paper heart at the center of the front board, 72 pp., yellow staining at the edges. Hardbound. Good. Text is in Hebrew. Yudlov 1686 [?] (71828)      $75.00

Seder ha-Hagadah shel Pesah, im Kamah Ma'alot Tovot Le-Makom Dinim Ha-Shi'ikhim La-Pesah, Halakhot Hamets u-Bi'euran ve-hanhagut ereve Pesah be-Khulo Yamo, ve-Khol Halakhot Seder Pesah Le-Seder Ke-Re'ehu al pi Simano be-Inyan She-En Tsarikh Le-Hapesh: Fortrag oyf di beiden abende Pesah...: dinim ha-shayakhim le-Fesah. Hannover, Verlag und druck der Telgener'schen hofbuchdruckerei, 1860/1. Fierte Fermehrte und Ferbezzerte oyflage. Octavo, dark green cloth spine, edgeworn black cloth covered boards, 32 dapim (64 pp.), foxing throughout. Hardbound. Good. Text is in Hebrew with translation, instructions and notes in Ivri Taytsh (71830)      $180.00

Skulski, Shelomoh. Hagadah shel Pesah im mador me-yahad le-yeladim "ve-hagadat le-vinkha." Orekh al-yadai shas. Tel Aviv, Hotsa'at Yavneh, 1955. Small quarto, white plastic covers with gold lettering, 56 pp., color illustrations by Z. Livni.

Hardbound. Very Good. Text is in Hebrew. (71818)  Yudlov 4455.   $95.00

Steinhardt, Jacob, Woodcuts by. Hagadah shel Pesah. Berlin, Ferdinand Ostertag Verlag, 1923. Small quarto, black cloth spine, black paper covered boards with silver lettering and with soiling, ii, 48 pp., b/w woodcuts throughout, soiling at the edges of many of the later pages.  Hardbound. Very Good. Text is in Hebrew. Lettering by Franzisca Baruch. In an edition of 250 copies.
The original limited edition of 200 copies was immediately sold out and was so well received that this 1923 edition was published in a smaller, more popular version. “Jakob Steinhardt (1887 - 1968), a major figure in modern Jewish art, is best known for his expressive use of the woodcut.  He worked from 1912 on in the German Expressionist style he had begun to use in Berlin, refining it with technical innovations after settling in Jerusalem in 1934. (71817)   Yudlov 2888.  $250.00