Asher Scharfstein (15 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Forst, Seigmund (Asher Forst) (illustrator). In Hebrew, vowelized (with nikud). 125 pages. 203 x 131 mm. Illustrated. Hinges reinforced with tape. Closed tear on title page. Zevi Scharfstein was a prolific Hebrew-language educator, writer, and publishing entrepreneur who authored 423 works in 698 publications. He was one of the leading Jewish educators in the U.S. and his Hebrew instructional materials were in very wide use. His c. 100 Hebrew textbooks for children were still deemed classics in Hebrew schools half a century after they were first published. Scharfstein was educated as a child by private tutors. He was born in the Podolia region of the Russian Empire, in present-day Ukraine. During his childhood, he was strongly influenced by the Haskalah movement, and the movement's emphasis on childhood education and the development of a contemporary Hebrew press shaped his life and career. After witnessing the violence of pogroms, followed by the World War I, he immigrated to the United States, where he soon founded a monthly magazine for children, Shaharut (Youth), published by the Bureau of Jewish Education in New York City, Shaharut's original mission was to teach Jewish topics and Hebrew language. After the 1917 Balfour Declaration, the periodical shifted to short stories and articles about Jewish life in Eretz Israel. Scharfstein also joined the Bureau of Jewish Education, founded by noted American Hebraist Samson Benderly. In th early 1920s he founded Shilo Publishing House with the help of his brother, Asher. Controlling his own press and going to market with his own materials freed Scharfstein from the limitations of working within the existing philosophical, pedagogical, and financial power structures of the Hebraist movement. He became, in effect, a teacher of teachers. One of his first books was emblematic of his mission: Sipurei ha-Torah li-yeladim (Torah Stories for Children). Together with his son, Ben-Ami Scharfstein, he authored the first Hebrew textbook for blind English-speaking readers with The Jewish Braille Institute.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Forst, Asher [aka Siegmund] (illustrator). In vowelized Hebrew. Printed on high quality paper. 104, 27 pages. 195 x 140 mm. Illustrated. Large font. Zevi Scharfstein was a prolific Hebrew-language educator, writer, and publishing entrepreneur who authored 423 works in 698 publications. He was one of the leading Jewish educators in the U.S. and his Hebrew instructional materials were in very wide use. His c. 100 Hebrew textbooks for children were still deemed classics in Hebrew schools half a century after they were first published. Scharfstein was educated as a child by private tutors. He was born in the Podolia region of the Russian Empire, in present-day Ukraine. During his childhood, he was strongly influenced by the Haskalah movement, and the movement's emphasis on childhood education and the development of a contemporary Hebrew press shaped his life and career. After witnessing the violence of pogroms, followed by the World War I, he immigrated to the United States, where he soon founded a monthly magazine for children, Shaharut (Youth), published by the Bureau of Jewish Education in New York City, Shaharut's original mission was to teach Jewish topics and Hebrew language. After the 1917 Balfour Declaration, the periodical shifted to short stories and articles about Jewish life in Eretz Israel. Scharfstein also joined the Bureau of Jewish Education, founded by noted American Hebraist Samson Benderly. In th early 1920s he founded Shilo Publishing House with the help of his brother, Asher. Controlling his own press and going to market with his own materials freed Scharfstein from the limitations of working within the existing philosophical, pedagogical, and financial power structures of the Hebraist movement. He became, in effect, a teacher of teachers. One of his first books was emblematic of his mission: Sipurei ha-Torah li-yeladim (Torah Stories for Children). Together with his son, Ben-Ami Scharfstein, he authored the first Hebrew textbook for blind English-speaking readers with The Jewish Braille Institute.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Forst, Asher [aka Siegmund] (illustrator). In vowelized Hebrew. Printed on high quality paper. 131, 22 pages. 204 x 144 mm. Illustrated. Large font. Zevi Scharfstein was a prolific Hebrew-language educator, writer, and publishing entrepreneur who authored 423 works in 698 publications. He was one of the leading Jewish educators in the U.S. and his Hebrew instructional materials were in very wide use. His c. 100 Hebrew textbooks for children were still deemed classics in Hebrew schools half a century after they were first published. Scharfstein was educated as a child by private tutors. He was born in the Podolia region of the Russian Empire, in present-day Ukraine. During his childhood, he was strongly influenced by the Haskalah movement, and the movement's emphasis on childhood education and the development of a contemporary Hebrew press shaped his life and career. After witnessing the violence of pogroms, followed by the World War I, he immigrated to the United States, where he soon founded a monthly magazine for children, Shaharut (Youth), published by the Bureau of Jewish Education in New York City, Shaharut's original mission was to teach Jewish topics and Hebrew language. After the 1917 Balfour Declaration, the periodical shifted to short stories and articles about Jewish life in Eretz Israel. Scharfstein also joined the Bureau of Jewish Education, founded by noted American Hebraist Samson Benderly. In th early 1920s he founded Shilo Publishing House with the help of his brother, Asher. Controlling his own press and going to market with his own materials freed Scharfstein from the limitations of working within the existing philosophical, pedagogical, and financial power structures of the Hebraist movement. He became, in effect, a teacher of teachers. One of his first books was emblematic of his mission: Sipurei ha-Torah li-yeladim (Torah Stories for Children). Together with his son, Ben-Ami Scharfstein, he authored the first Hebrew textbook for blind English-speaking readers with The Jewish Braille Institute.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 378 pp.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Missing dust jacket; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Former library book; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Missing dust jacket; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Missing dust jacket; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Condition: acceptable. The item is very worn but is perfectly usable. Signs of wear can include aesthetic issues such as scratches, dents, worn and creased covers, folded page corners and minor liquid stains. All pages and the cover are intact, but the dust cover may be missing. Pages may include moderate to heavy amount of notes and highlighting, but the text is not obscured or unreadable. Page edges may have foxing age related spots and browning . May NOT include discs, access code or other supplemental materials.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dj. Octavo, hardcover, VG in black boards, reading from back to front. Almost all in Hebrew. A few lines here and there in English, like read this part standing, etc. Has Memorial Service for the Dead at back (in English and Hebrew). No English date, appears to be 1960 or so by Asher Scharfstein, NY. Very clean and unmarked. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 378pp.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Good+. Illustrated by Siegmund Forst (illustrator). Tight clean unmarked book in burgundy faux leather; slight toning to rear endpaper; bright dj with piece missing to top of spine and various edgetears. Bilingual - Hebrew and English. 139 pp; 9.5" X12.5".

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. In Hebrew, with a 48 page section in English on Laws and Customs. With signed inscription by the author of the second work here. 1,267 pages. 21 x 13.5 x 5 cm. In vowelized and unvowelzied Hebrewh. Dark blue cloth with gold lettering on spine, 43, 161/161, 350/350, 61/61-137/137, 138-173, 48 pages. SIgned inscription in Hebrew by Karl Applbaum, the author of the 48 page English language section, dedicated to Rabbi Asher Kirshblum. With silk bookmark ribbon. Rabbi I. Usher Kirshblum was the spiritual leader of the Jewish Center of Kew Gardens Hills in Queens, and a civic leader. He died in 1983 at the age of 70. He was membership chairman of the Zionist Organization of America and was a member of the Rabbinical Assembly of America. Born in Biaylstok, Poland, he came to this country as a child, attended New Utrecht High School and was a graduate of Brooklyn College. He studied at the Jewish Institute of Religion and was ordained a rabbi in 1944. He had been associated with the Jewish Center of Kew Gardens Hills since 1946. In 1971, he received an honorary degree of Doctor of Divinity from the Jewish Theological Seminary of America. He was a member of the board of directors of the Queens Legion of the National Conference of Christians and Jews and president of the Queens Interfaith Clergy Council. Rabbi Kirshblum had been a member of the American Bicentennial Committee, and was a member of the New York State Advisory Committee for the Aging. Inscribed by Author(s).

Ktav Publishing House. 969. Hard Cover. l The essential book for Torah Readers. Text with vowels, Nekudos and text from the Sefer Torah.

hardcover. Condition: New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title!