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When Shlemiel Went to Warsaw & Other Stories
by Singer, Isaac Bashevis
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- Used - Very good
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- Very good
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- First Edition
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- 1968
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- Hardcover
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Portland, Oregon, USA
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New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1968. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. A collection of short stories suitable for children, illustrated by Margot Zemach. With an introduction by Singer, who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1978. This book was a Newbery Honor title.
Translated from the Yiddish by the author and Elizabeth Shuh. 116… Read more about this item Item Price
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[On the Temple of Solomon] Libellus effigiei templi Salomonis, in qvo fabricae templi & omnium ejus vasorum instrumentorumque, quibus olim administrabatur structura, ac forma, breviter describitur... [Second title page in Hebrew: Sefer tavnit hekhal: Hibro bi-leshon la'az ve-gam ha'atiḳo li-leshon ha-kodesh]
by Jacob Judah Leon; Jacobi Leonitii Hebraei
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- Used - Good
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- First Edition
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- 1650
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- Leather bound
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Portland, Oregon, USA
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Amsterdam: Apud Levi Marcus, 1650. First Edition. Leather bound. Good. The first Hebrew edition of Leon's monograph on the temple of Solomon (it was first published in Middelburg, the Netherlands, in 1642). Leon (1603-1675) was a Spanish-Portuguese rabbi who built a model of the Temple of Solomon that was exhibited in many cities in Europe. This book is… Read more about this item Item Price
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[On the 1929 Western Wall Riots] Sefer ha-mishpatim: din ve-heshbon mi-kol mishpete ha-meʼoraʻot be-Erets Yisraʼel be-Avgust 1929 (Av 689) [The Book of Justice: An Account of All the Laws of the Events in the Land of Israel in August 1929 (Av 689)]
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- Used - Very good
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- First Edition
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- 1930
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Tel Aviv, Palestine: Hotsa'at Sefarim Tel Aviv, 1930. First Edition. Very good. In the summer of 1929 a dispute between Muslims and Jews over access to the Western Wall in Jerusalem escalated and erupted into a series of violent demonstrations and riots in late August. The violence spread throughout British-controlled Palestine (now Israel), ending in massacres in Hebron.… Read more about this item Item Price
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