Roth cecil introduction (18 Ergebnisse)

Soft cover. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. Clean text. Minimal shelf wear. Faint sun discoloration on cover.

Soft cover. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. In Hebrew. 40 pages. 210 x 135 mm. With a two page English language introduction. Stapled wrapper. This is not the original 1753 manuscript. This is a copy of it made in 1963. Cecil Roth (1899-1970) , editor in chief of the Encyclopaedia Judaica, was born in London and went to Merton College, Oxford, where he showed an interest in Jewish history and liturgy as early as his undergraduate years. He was a reader in Jewish studies at Oxford for two and a half decades, until 1964, when he moved to Jerusalem, as a visiting professor at Bar-Ilan University. After a heart attack and being falsely accused of unorthodoxy, he left Bar-Ilan, and spent the rest of his life editing the Encyclopaedia Judaica and teaching at Queens College and Stern College in New York. Roth wrote and published profusely, with O. K. Rabinowitz's 1966 bibliography listing 572 items, though the actual number is over 600, including translations and editing of Haggadot. (Lipman, EJ)This is a modern reproduction of the original Haggadah.…

Soft cover. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. In Hebrew. 40 pages. 210 x 135 mm. With a two page English language introduction. Stapled wrapper. This is not the original 1753 manuscript. This is a copy of it made in 1963. Cecil Roth (1899-1970) , editor in chief of the Encyclopaedia Judaica, was born in London and went to Merton College, Oxford, where he showed an interest in Jewish history and liturgy as early as his undergraduate years. He was a reader in Jewish studies at Oxford for two and a half decades, until 1964, when he moved to Jerusalem, as a visiting professor at Bar-Ilan University. After a heart attack and being falsely accused of unorthodoxy, he left Bar-Ilan, and spent the rest of his life editing the Encyclopaedia Judaica and teaching at Queens College and Stern College in New York. Roth wrote and published profusely, with O. K. Rabinowitz's 1966 bibliography listing 572 items, though the actual number is over 600, including translations and editing of Haggadot. (Lipman, EJ). This is a modern reproduction of the original Haggadah.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Near Fine. 1st Edition. 143 Pp. Cloth, Gilt. First Printing, Hardcover. Illustrations Of Medals, With Concise And Informative Biographies Of Each Individual. Very Near Fine, No Marks. Dust Jacket With Slight Usage, Price Clipped.

Paperback. 143p., profusely illustrated with b&w rondels & squares, perhaps 3 to 7 on every page adjacent to extensive annotations, really important guys (yes, mostly males) accorded fullpage reproductions, the collection broken down into professions, quite a collection of faces mostly unknown to this cataloguer, softbound in 11x8 inch decorated wraps. Item is mildly edgeworn with a couple of scratches to front cover, an else good copy: sound, clean within, and except for a neat small ownership inside cover, entirely unmarked.…

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. Pages crisp with no markings, light rubbing to wraps, creasing to edges, fade to spine.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. In Hebrew, with a second title page in English and a short Preface in English. 23 x 16 cm. 42, 167, VI pages. Original half brown cloth over pink cloth with gold lettering on spine in original printed dust jacket. Hebrew and English title-pages. Scholarly edition of the work of the 13th century English Tosafist Rabbi Elijah of London. Includes a lengthy biographical introduction by Cecil Roth. Includes b/w photographs of a lineage document for R. Elijah of London and the seal of his brother Rabbi Jacob of Oxford. This volume contains his extant writings: I. Halakhic Decisions relating to the first Order of the Mishnah (Zeraim); II. Commentary on the Mishnah of Tractate Brakhot; III. Collection of Scattered Explanatory Notes to the first Order of the Mishnah (Zeraim); IV. Collection of scattered Response and Decisions; V. Commentary on the Haggadah for Passover Eve. This work is an example of English Jewry's cultural productivity before it was expelled in 1290. Text in Hebrew with a short preface by Cecil Roth.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. Tight binding, solid blue boards with sun-faded strips, age-toned spine strip with bright blue lettering and ruffled ends, frontispiece of "Jerusalem Jew" loose, lacks title page, otherwise unmarked pages throughout. Inscribed by author on half title page to previous owners. A Selection of Two Hundred and Ten Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings and Etchings by Lionel S. Reiss (illustrator). Inscribed by Author(s).…

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fair. Unclipped pictorial dust jacket edge chipped with moisture stain to rear. In mylar cover. Tight binding, solid blue boards with sharp corners, moisture spot to rear, white spine strip with bright blue lettering, clean, unmarked pages throughout. Inscribed on front end paper by Reiss: "To John, With deep appreciation, Lionel S. Reiss, 1971". A Selection of Two Hundred and Ten Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings and Etchings by Lionel S. Reiss (illustrator). Inscribed by Author(s).…

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. First edition 1954. first printing, no additional printi9ngs listed. Hardcover in blue and gray cloth no DJ. Condition fine, square and tight book, no edgewear, small address label on ffep, small blue smudge on ffep, no underlinings no highlights , no bent page corners, Not a reminder. Folio, 160 pages, illustrated throughout. Large book will require additional postage for international orders. ASIN: B014BT7N14. …

Paperback. Edited by Daniel M. Friedenberg. Small 4to. Stiff black pictorial wrappers. 143pp. Numerous illustrations. Very good. Tight, attractive first edition of this useful reference, "an illustrated encyclopedia of Jewish men of achievement and a vivid history of Jewish medals. two hundred fifty medals, plaques and coins -- dating from antiquity to our own day." From the library of noted Chicago photographer ARCHIE LIEBERMAN (1926-2008) of "Farm Boy" fame. Rather uncommon.…

Stapled. Zustand: Very Good. Very good copy. 40pp. Facsimile in Hebrew with an introduction in English & Hebrew. Book.

Hardcover. Zustand: vg- to vg+. First edition. Quarto. XXVI, 414pp. Blue buckram boards with gilt lettering on spine, blind-stamped motif on front cover. Cream endpapers. Color and b/w photographic frontispieces, the first of which is protected by a tissue guard. Museum device on title page. The Jewish Museum, London, contains a remarkable collection of over a thousand works of art and craftsmanship illuminating the Jewish past and its spirit. The large number of illustrations in both monochrome and color form a visual accompaniment to this fascinating record of Jewish life and history. Text in English and Hebrew throughout. Light rubbing and scratches to the binding. Some light smudges to the covers as well. Light smudges to the foredge of the book block. Interior back cover with some notes in pencil from a previous owner, but otherwise the interior is completely clean. Book block tight. Binding in very good-, interior in very good+ condition overall.…

Hardcover. Zustand: near fine. First edition. Quarto. XXVI, 414pp. Original decorative dustjecket, blue lettering on spine, over blue cloth with blind-stamped museum logo on coverm gilt lettering and ruling on spine. Cream endpapers. Color and b/w photographic frontispieces. Museum device on title page. The Jewish Museum, London, contains a remarkable collection of over a thousand works of art and craftmanship illuminating the Jewish past and its spirit. The large number of illustrations in both monochrome and color form a visual accompaniment to this fascinating record of Jewish life and history. Text in English and Hebrew. Minir wear of cover. Overall in near fine condition.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. No Jacket. Vellum-bound book has bowed covers, light discoloration to front and back, minor shelf-wear, tight, bright, and unmarked. Number 207 of 500. A gorgeous volume, with facsimile illustrated Hebrew manuscript pages each on a separate page with English translation underneath.…

xii, in three parts , 211p., + 186p., + 228p., second edition, 7x10 inch boards in dustjacket, about 2.5 inches thick; color frontis., b&w photo-illustrations throughout, minor shelfwear on dustjacket, faint hint of foxing on fore-edge, else in very good condition. On the "orphan colony" of Chinese Jews in K'ai-fêng Fu.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. Near Fine. Introduction is in English, primary text is in Hebrew. First edition thus. Near fine in a near fine glassine dust cover and housed in a very good blue cloth covered slipcase, illustrated on one side.

Softcover. Zustand: Very good to fine condition. Limited First edition. 171/228 hand-numbered on both limitation pages with lithographic signature in English and Hebrew part. Elephant Folio (17 3/16 x 13 5/8 x 2 3/8"). XXIII [I], 135pp. in 4-leaf signatures, as issued. Uncut. Original glassine over gilt-lettered, stiff parchment wrappers. The book is housed in its original gilt-lettered vellum clamshell box with protective foam cushion, silver gilt clasp and protective foam cushion. Contains lithographed, illumonated title page and frontispiece. Frontispiece with Ben Shahn signature in plate. The illuminated pages were reproduced by collotype and hand-stenciled in the workshop of MM. Hourdebaigt and Crampe under the direction of Trianon Press. Striking edition of the Haggadah, splendidly illustrated throughout with twelve full-page color colotype plates after Shahn's original watercolors, ten plates rendered in brown after Shawn drawings, two lithographs, one with gold leaf and pochoir additions (frontispiece), and the title page. The illuminated pages were reproduced in colotype and hand-stencil in the workshop of M.M. Hourdebaigt and Crampe, and masterfully calligraphed by Ben Shahn. The Haggadah tells the story of the Hebrew people during the scriptural time of their captivity in Egypt and their exodus to freedom. According to Ben Shahn, this Haggadah is the reflect of his own memories of the Passover Seder. 1/228 copies on watermarked pure rag Arches Verge paper of which this is No. 171. A total of 292 copies were printed. Text in English and Hebrew. Clamshell box lightly discolored along edges with minor chipping on back cover. Silver clasp tarnished. Box in overall very good, wrappers and interior in very good+ to fine condition.…