![EDEN CINEMA IN PALESTINE] Advertising poster. 1) Eclair’s Chronicle. 2) The Fire: a Monumental...](/pictures/thumb/1204.jpg?v=1617184201)
Tel-Aviv: Cinema ‘Eden’, 1930. 62,7x47,5 cm. In a very good condition, tears restored, creases, pale water stains and few pencil marks. Extremely rare survival of the time. In English and Arabic. This poster relates to both one of the earliest cinemas in Jaffa and the outstanding German actress Olga Chekhova..... More
![VILNIUS, 1595] Evangelie Uchitelnoe [i.e. Gospel Homiliary](/pictures/thumb/1221.jpg?v=1617189641)
Vilna: Mamoniči, [1595]. [399] leaves. 31x18 cm. Full leather 19th century binding with later spine and later leather bands for the clasps. The clasps are present and contemporary to the binding. New endpapers. Several leaves are framed and occasionally the missing bits of text supplied in manuscript. The last page..... More
![WHAT WAS PUBLISHED FOR JEWISH PEOPLE DURING NEP] Katalag #5 [i.e. Catalogue #5](/pictures/thumb/555.jpg?v=1547033195)
Moscow: Aktsyen gezelshaft ‘Shul un bukh’, 1927. 40 pp.: ill., [8] ads. 19x13,5 cm. In original covers. Restored, glue traces on the inner margin of first and last pages, otherwise very good. First and only edition. Scarce. One of 15000 copies. Constructivist cover is printed in Yiddish and..... More
![LISSITZKY’S EXPERIMENTS WITH HEBREW ALPHABET] המלך שלמה [i.e. King Solomon. The Poem]...](/pictures/thumb/1224.jpg?v=1617190686)
Moscow: Omonus, 1917. Pp. 1-15. The single issue of the children’s periodical in Yiddish. Original illustrated wrapper is preserved under a modern binding. Pre-1941 stamps of zionistic society. Small holes throughout the block have been carefully restored. Extremely rare issue of the important Yiddish periodical, printed two days before..... More
![THE SOCIALIST ZIONISM] Di ḳlasen-inṭeresen un di natsionale frage [i.e. Class Interests and...](/pictures/thumb/1226.jpg?v=1617191890)
Kiev: Der hamer, 1917. 38, [2] pp. 21x14 cm. No covers. In a good condition, the lower inner corner chipped. Second edition of the major work by a leading member of the Labor Zionist movement, Dov Ber Borochov (1881-1917). The first edition was published in Vilna in 1906. In..... More
![DESIGN BY NATHAN ALTMAN] Lik voiny [i.e. The Face of the War]. I. Ehrenburg](/pictures/thumb/469.jpg?v=1528806617)
Berlin: Gelikon, 1923. 2nd edition. 187, [1] pp. 19x14 pp. Illustrated wrappers. Very good, wrappers are slightly rubbed. Cover design by Nathan Altman. The first book of prose by Ilya Erenburg (1891-1967), poet, journalist and translator. The book contains his memories of the WWI. Gelikon was one of the..... More
![ENCYCLOPEDIA OF CONSTRUCTIVIST HOUSE] Zhilishche. Opyt piatiletnei raboty nad problemoy...](/pictures/thumb/1228.jpg?v=1617192530)
Moscow: Gosstroyizdat, 1934. 192 p.: ill. 29,5x21,5 cm. 1 of 4000 copies. Original cloth binding. No dust-jacket. Some soiling, but otherwise very good. Contemporary owner’s inscription on the title page (A. Molokin, 1931). Provenance: the book belonged to the well-known Kharkiv-based architect professor Alexander Molokin (1880-1951), the contributor..... More
![ANALYSIS OF SOLOMON MIKHOELS’ CREATIVE PATH] Mikhoels: Tvorcheskiy put’ nar. artista RSFSR...](/pictures/thumb/1205.jpg?v=1617184613)
Moscow; Leningrad: Iskusstvo, 1938. 116 pp., 1 frontispiece: ill. 19,9x13,8 cm. In original cloth binding with lettering on the front board. The spine is slightly rubbed. Soviet bookshop’s stamp and pen markings on the rear endpaper. Otherwise near fine. Scarce. First edition. One of 4,000 copies. This monograph on one..... More
![YIDDISH PUBLISHING DURING THE WORLD WAR I] Tsum yohrtsayt [i.e. For the Anniversary]. I. Peretz](/pictures/thumb/1225.jpg?v=1617191768)
Vilnius: B.A. Kletskin, 1916. 47 pp. 22,5x16 cm. Original illustrated front cover preserved. Good. No back cover, front cover and spine repaired with paper, tears of edges and soiling, the early 1920s Soviet bookshop’s stamps on t.p. and front cover. Extremely rare and remarkable wartime edition of Vilna publisher..... More
![PUSHKIN IN YIDDISH] A mayse vegn dem Tsar Soltan = Skazka o tsare Saltane [i.e. The Tale of Tsar...](/pictures/thumb/772.jpg?v=1563927147)
Moscow: Der Emes, 1937. 52 pp.: ill. 21x14 cm. In original illustrated wrappers, Yiddish and Russian titled on the front and back covers. Very good. Small tears of the wrappers, pale stains on some margins, previous owner’s bookplate on the recto of the front cover. First edition. One of..... More
![WARTIME EDITION OF SONG OF THE SONGS] Pesn’ pesnei [i.e. The Song of the Songs] / with...](/pictures/thumb/1211.jpg?v=1617187110)
Moscow: Der Emes, 1944. 64 pp.: ill. 20x12 cm. Original publisher’s cardboard binding with the portrait of the author on the front cover. Covers rubbed, with small tears. Otherwise very good. The wartime edition of Sholem Aleichem’s (1859-1916) classical short stories. According to Russian National Library, ‘Der Emes’..... More
![THE LAST NOVEL BY SHOLEM ALEICHEM IN KULTUR-LIGE] Motl Peysi dem khazns (ksovim fun a yingl a...](/pictures/thumb/1230.jpg?v=1617193742)
Kiev: Kultur-Lige, 1922. 110, [2] pp. 21x14,5 cm. In original printed wrappers. Fragments of spine lost, pale contemporary stamps and ink marks of Ukrainian evening courses, a pencil note written on the front cover translates Yiddish lettering into Russian, the rear side of the cover features student’s pencil drawings, otherwise..... More
![MINSK GHETTO] Mstiteli getto [i.e. The Avengers of the Ghetto]. H. Smolar](/pictures/thumb/1208.jpg?v=1617186220)
Moscow: Der Emes, 1947. 128 pp: ill. 20,5x14 cm. In original illustrated wrappers. Some soiling of the spine, otherwise near fine. The Russian edition of wartime memoirs ‘Fun Minsker geto’ by Hersh Smolar who was one of the leading members of the resistance in the Minsk ghetto and a...... More
![THE GREATEST POET OF THE HOLOCAUST] Fun Vilner geto = Vilenskoe Getto [i.e. From Vilnius Ghetto]....](/pictures/thumb/1209.jpg?v=1617186630)
Moscow: Der Emes, 1946. 256 pp.: ill. 20x14 cm. In original cardboards. Good, covers rubbed and chipped, tear of the spine, stains occasionally. One of 10 000 copies. The laconic design of the book was created by Soviet artist Hersh Inger (1910-1995). In 1926-1930 he studied under Marc Epstein..... More
![JEWISH RENAISSANCE] Graviury na derive [i.e. The Woodcuts] / text by I. Ioffe and E. Gollerbakh....](/pictures/thumb/1229.jpg?v=1617192959)
Leningrad: printed by the author, typography of the Academy of Arts, 1928. 47, [1] p. 24,5x18 cm. Original illustrated wrappers. Few tears of the spine, otherwise in very good condition. First and only edition. One of 1200 copies. The book summarizes the works of Solomon Yudovin (1892-1954)..... More