Search Results: Authors starting with Y from Dan Wyman Books

Vilna: Depus Ha-Almanah Ve-Ha-Ahim Ram, 1907. Paperback. 1st edition. Original paper wrappers in protective cardboard binder. 8vo. 16 pages, 21 cm. In Yiddish with some Russian on title page. Title translates to "A Little Chrestomathy." Chrestomathy refers to the selection of literary passages from a foreign language assembled for studying the language. Features passages by Y.L. Perets, Mendele Mokher Sefarim, and Avrom Reizen. SUBJECTS: Yiddish language study. OCLC: 233376695/58407193. OCLC lists three copies worldwide (NLI, YIVO, Harvard). Pages browning. Very good condition. Scarce. (YID-33-4-'+).

Yerushalayim: [Publisher Unknown], 1899. Hardcover. First edition. Period boards. 8vo. 144 pages, 22 cm. In Hebrew. Title translates to "Torat Hesed: On Interpretation, Ethics, and New Elements of the Torah. " A collection of discourses by R. Jacob ben Judah Ben-Judah (1837-1900) . The discourses explore topics ranging from faith and mitzvoth to different parshot. The volume concludes with errata. SUBJECTS: Jewish sermons, Hebrew. OCLC lists 10 copies worldwide. CD- 000113367. Features period handwriting in beautiful cursive. Ex-library with usual markings. Some text is more faded than others. Overall Very Good Condition. (HEB-50-32).

Berlin, 1775. Paperback. (FT) Later wrappers, 12mo, 56 pages, 17 cm. In Hebrew. SUBJECT(S) : Descriptor: CHR 1775 or 1776. CHR 1776. Title Subject: Bible. O. T. Pentateuch -- Commentaries. With: Sefer poel tsedek. Shabbetai ben Meir, ha-Kohen. Amsterdam: be-vet uvi-defus ha-meshutafim Hirts Levi Rofe va-hatano Kashman, 516 [1755 or 1756]. OCLC lists one copy worldwide (University of Pennsylvania) . Chipped corners and edges. Yellowing of pages. Light staining to pages. (Spec-27-8).

Bergen-Belsen: Nissan Laizer Me-Brigal, 1946. Hardcover. 1st Bergen-Belsen edition. Original boards with gilt lettering. 8vo. 160 pages. 21 cm. In Hebrew. Title translates to "Teachings of the School of Elijah. " This edition was reprinted from the Warsaw, 1874 edition printed by Yitzhak Goldman. Bergen-Belsen was the largest displaced persons (DP) camp in Germany and was the center of Jewish DP political and social activity in the British zone of occupation. The camp was established in July 1945 near the concentration camp after the British burned the camp barracks during liberation. In 1946, the DP camp housed over 11, 000 Jews. Survivors of the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp organized political, cultural, and religious activities just weeks after liberation. The DPs of Bergen-Belsen also created and maintained a lively cultural life and published Unzer Shtimme (Our Voice) , the main Jewish newspaper of the British zone. By the middle of 1950, the camp was nearly empty; the last DPs left in… Read More

Yerushalayim; Bet Ha-Sefarim, 1928. Pamphlet. Original Wraps. 8vo. 36 pages. 25 cm. First edition. In Hebrew. Hadpasah meyuhedet min ha-riv? On "Kiryat sefer" shanah 6 hoveret 1 u-2. Bibliography of 282 items of Hebrew Belles Lettres. Reprinted from Kiryat Sefer. Subjects: Hebrew literature, Modern - Bibliography. Hebrew literature, Modern. Bibliography. OCLC lists 3 copies (Harvard, OSU, Florida) . Wraps worn, pages uncut, never before read; internally clean and fresh. Very good condition. (BIBLIOG-36-1).

Yerushalayim: Ha-Mahlakah Le-Inyene Ha-Noar Vehe-Haluts Shel Ha-Histadrut Ha-Tsiyonit, 1956. (FT) Hardcover, 187 pages, portraits, facsims, 8vo, 23 cm. In Hebrew. SUBJECT(S) : Hebrew drama -- Bibliography. Hebrew drama -- Translations -- Bibliography. Bibliography of Jewish plays. Wear to edges of dust jacket. Otherwise is very good condition. (BIB-13-4).

Yerushalayim; Hotsa?at Bet Ha-Sefarim Ha-Le?umi Veha-Universita?i, 1927. Paperback. Original Wraps. 4to. VIII, 330 pages. 26 cm. First edition. Includes Abraham Yaari's Milu? Im la-bibliyografyah. Subjects: Hebrew literature, Modern - Bibliography. Hebrew literature, Modern. Bibliography. OCLC lists 29 copies. Wraps soiled, bumped, torn at edges; internally very clean and fresh. Pages uncut, never before read. Very good + condition. (BIBLIOG-36-2).

Jerusalem: Yad Vashem, Martyrs' And Heroes' Remembrance Authority, 1975. Softcover, 4to, 79 pages, illustrated, 27 cm. SUBJECT (S) : Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Pictorial works. OCLC lists 11 copies worldwide. Very good condition. (Holo2-73-23).

Jerusalem; Yad Vashem, Holocaust Martyrs' And Heroes' Rememberance Authority, 1988. Paperback. Original Wrappers. 8vo. [34] pages. 20 x 23 cm. First edition. In English and Hebrew. Booklet for an exhibition of photographs by Heinz Jost, a hotel-keeper serving in the German Army. Contains 38 of the 129 photographs taken by Jost during an unofficial tour through the Warsaw ghetto on his birthday, April 19th, 1941. The poignant photographs are accompanied by passages from personal diaries and accounts of daily life in the ghetto. Jost kept the photographs private until the early 1980's, shortly before his death. They weren't published or shown publicly until this exhibition by Yad Vashem and the Smithsonian Institute in 1988. Although Jost's intention in documenting the horrors of ghetto life were never made explicit, his sentiments are related in the beginning of the booklet. "I had invited some comrades to a birthday supper me [sic] that evening. I don't want to say how I felt during the meal. I lost… Read More

Jerusalem; Yad Washem-Remembrance Authority For Disaster And Heroism, 1962. Paperback. Original Wraps. 8vo. 103, [2] pages. 24 cm. First edition. With 7 illustrations. Contains the following: All Who Harm Israel - Nathan Eck; Eichmann Trial throws new light on history - Nahman Blumenthal; The effect of the Eichmann Trial on Israel Youth - Arjeh Bauminger; The Eichmann Trial in the Neo-Nazi Press - Joseph Ariel; International Aspects of the Eichmann Trial - M. Muszkat; Some International Conclusions of the Eichmann Trial - Robert Levy; Books around the Eichmann Trial - Arieh Segal; Hans Frank's Diary in the Eichmann Trial - Israel Carmel; Yad Vashem Archives' Contribution to Preparation of the Eichmann Trial - Joseph Kemish. Subjects: World War, 1939-1945—Jews- Periodicals. Light wear to wraps, otherwise clean and fresh. Very good condition. (HOLO2-118-21).

Jerusalem : Yad Washem-Remembrance Authority For The Disaster And The Heroism, 1961. Hardcover. Original Boards. 4to. Pages. 28 cm. First edition. A single volume containing numbers 1 through 10 of this newsletter, published from April, 1957 through to April, 1961. In April, 1957 "another publication appeared from the authority, the Yad Vashem Bulletin, which in addition to relating information about victims, survivors, and rescuers, it also mentioned forthcoming Yad Vashem publications and documents such as the Shavli Ghetto Diary by Dr. A. Yerusalmi, and also listed publications received by the Yad Vashem library. The authority began disseminating research on the Shoah, documentation, conference anthologies, and scores of diaries and memoirs. " (yadvashem.org) Subjects: World War, 1939-1945 -- Jews. Some rubbing and light shelfwear, otherwise very good condition. (HOLO2-107-25).

Jerusalem, Israel Exploration Society, 1958. Hardcover. (FT) Original Publisher's Cloth. 4to. 259, 26, 97 pages. Ill. 30 cm. In Hebrew with summaries in English.  Series: Eretz-Israel, v. 5. Publications of the Israel Exploration Society. SUBJECT(S) : Mazar, Benjamin, 1906-1995.  Israel -- Antiquities.  Very good condition in good jacket. (FEST-1-14) . Xx.

Jerusalem, Israel Exploration Society, 1958. Hardcover. (FT) Original Publisher's Cloth. 4to. 259, 26, 97 pages. Ill. 30 cm. In Hebrew with summaries in English.  Series: Eretz-Israel, v. 5. Publications of the Israel Exploration Society. SUBJECT(S) : Mazar, Benjamin, 1906-1995.  Israel -- Antiquities.  Very good condition in good jacket. (FEST1-14) . Xx.

Jerusalem, Israel Exploration Society, 1958. Hardcover. (FT) Original Publisher's Cloth. 4to. 259, 26, 97 pages. Ill. 30 cm. In Hebrew with summaries in English. Series: Eretz-Israel, v. 5; Publications of the Israel Exploration Society. SUBJECT(S): Mazar, Benjamin, 1906-1995. Israel -- Antiquities. Very good condition. (FEST1-14).

New York: Random House, 1968. Hardcover. 8vo. 338 pages. In English. In very good condition. In a very good jacket. (AMR-30-10).

Philadelphia, Jewish Publication Society of America, 1969. Hardcover. 1st Edition. Cloth, 8vo, xx, 536 pages, 22 cm. Translation of Hatsalat ha-Yehudim be-Denyah. Bibliography on pages 521-530.World War, 1939-1945--Jews--Rescue--Denmark.World War, 1939-1945--Denmark. Jews--Denmark. [Hatsalat ha-Yehudim be-Denyah. English]. Translated from the Hebrew by Morris Gradel. Includes colored end papers. Jacket torn. Good condition. (Holo2-77-54).

Paperback. Berlin: No Publisher (Königlich Preussischen Akademie der Wissenschaften? ) , 1908. Wrappers; large 8vo. 887-914 pages. In German; occasional Arabic, Hebrew and Samaritan Aramaic. Offprint of the Sitzungsberichte der Königlich Preussischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, 1908, vol. 39./ Includes bibliographical references. SUBJECT(S) : Samaritan literature -- History and criticism. Samaritans -- Doctrines -- Controversial literature. Manuscripts, Samaritan. Bible. O. T. Joshua -- Criticism, interpretation, etc. OCLC lists six copies worldwide. Some soil and darkening to covers. Spine chipping, with some creases; otherwise, good condition. (LB-3).

Kharkov [Kharkiv]: Tsentraler Farlag far di Felker fun F.S.S.R., 1929. Paper Wrappers. 1st edition. Original printed paper wrappers, 8vo, 403 pages. 23cm. In Yiddish. Title translates as, "Socio-Economic Status of the Jews In Russia: The Socioeconomic Status of the Jews in Russia in the 19th Century: A Sourcebook of Memoirs and Artistic Literature." Yakhinson headed the Pedagogy-Pedology section of the Institute of Jewish Culture of the All-Ukrainian Academy of Sciences (Instytut Ievreiskoi Kultury pry VUAN), "An institution founded in Kyiv in November 1926 to co-ordinate and promote Yiddish pedagogy and scholarship and Jewish studies in the Ukrainian SSR....Its first director was the philologist and Jewish civic figure N. Shtif. In 1919 a Hebraist Historical-Archeographic Commission had been established at the All-Ukrainian Academy of Sciences (VUAN) under Ahatanhel Krymsky; its real leader, however, was I. Galant. The commission published articles in Ukrainian learned journals and collections and… Read More

Yerushalayim: Kiryat Sefer, 1963. Hardcover, 8vo, 369 pages, 25 cm. In Hebrew. SUBJECT (S) : Hebrew philology. Hebrew language. Yalon, Henoch, 1886-1970. "Kovets ma'amarim bi-melot lo shiv'im v? E-hamesh shanim" on jacket. Includes bibliographical references. Other Titles: Hanokh Yalon; Henoch Yalon jubilee volume. Yalon (1886-1970) was a "Hebrew linguist. Born in Trutky, near Lopatin in Galicia, Yalon was influenced by his older brothers who had become maskilim, and became well versed in the Hebrew literature of the Haskalah. At the age of 22 he went to Lemberg where he taught Hebrew. He studied Akkadian at Lemberg University and during World War I moved to Vienna where he studied Semitic languages at the university. Yalon was invited in 1921 to teach at the Mizrachi Teachers' Seminary in Jerusalem, where he was employed until 1946. He then devoted his life solely to research. In 1962 he received the Israel prize for Jewish scholarship. In 1963 a jubilee volume was published in his honor. Yalon's… Read More

New York, National Council Of Young Israel, 1943. Hardcover. Original Publisher's Cloth. 12mo. Viii, 150 pages. 16 cm. Based on the book, Machneh Yisrael by R. Israel Meir HaCohen (The Chofetz Chaim) . SUBJECT(S) : Judaism. Soldiers -- Religious life. Front hinge cracked, but binding is still solid. Very good condition. (HOLO2-70-4) xx.