Hirsch Max Menko (5 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. First edition. Wrappers. Large 4to. Printing of 1000 copies. Very near fine copy, about as new except for a couple of scratches on rear wrapper. The last publication of the Soncino-Gesellschaft. Original wrappers with this German-Jewish bibliophile society's emblem, a tower, on the front wrapper. Collection of responsa from the rabbinical academy Ets Haim in Amsterdam, originally collected and published in Hebrew as the Peri Ez Chajim, and here translated into German. The academy followed the Portuguese (Sephardic) tradition. The printing was begun in 1932 and completed in 1937 (title page is dated 1936). Beautifully designed and printed on fine watermarked paper. We purchased this copy long ago from the Erasmus Boekahndel, whose proprietor was Abraham Horodisch, a founding member of the Soncino Gesellschaft. He told us then that not all copies had the tower on the front wrapper, and further, that the printing was done by the Officina Serpentis of Berlin. The printer could not be acknowledged because of Nazi regulations that forbade "Aryan" firms from printing Jewish materials.

Paper Back. Condition: Good. 4to in plain wraps. Triangular chip from the lower corner of the front cover, shallow chipping else where, cellophane tape reinforcement at the top and bottom of the spine, paper split elsewhere along the joints, text block unmarked and generally fresh.

Softcover. Condition: g. Limited Edition. 1/1000 copies printed for the members of the "Soncino Gesellschaft der Freunde des Jüdischen Buches" [Soncino-Society of the Friends of the Jewish Book]. 4to. 365pp. Original brown wrappers with black illustration to cover and black lettering ["Responsen des Ez Chajim"] to spine. Fore- and bottom page edges untrimmed. German abstracts of 953 extant responsa ["she'elot u-teshuvoth in Hebrew, abbreviated shu"t]. Originally published in "Peri Eitz Chaim/ Peri Ez Hayyim" [Fruits of the Tree of Life] , the Hebrew periodical of Amsterdam's renowned Sephardic Yeshiva [Talmud Academy] "Ets Hayim", founded in 1616 as a center for all of Sephardic Jewry. The periodical was published between 1691-1807 and gives a detailed view on Jewish life in Amsterdam of the time. With a Hebrew and a German index. Some staining, scuffing to wrappers. In German, with some Hebrew references. In overall good+ condition.

Softcover. Condition: g. Limited Edition. 1/1000 copies printed for the members of the "Soncino Gesellschaft der Freunde des Jüdischen Buches" [Soncino-Society of the Friends of the Jewish Book]. 4to. 365pp. Original brown wrappers with black illustration to cover and black lettering ["Responsen des Ez Chajim"] to spine. Fore- and bottom page edges untrimmed. German abstracts of 953 extant responsa ["she'elot u-teshuvoth in Hebrew, abbreviated shu"t]. Originally published in "Peri Eitz Chaim/ Peri Ez Hayyim" [Fruits of the Tree of Life] , the Hebrew periodical of Amsterdam's renowned Sephardic Yeshiva [Talmud Academy] "Ets Hayim", founded in 1616 as a center for all of Sephardic Jewry. The periodical was published between 1691-1807 and gives a detailed view on Jewish life in Amsterdam of the time. With a Hebrew and a German index. Some staining, scuffing to wrappers. In German, with some Hebrew references. In overall good condition.

Hardcover. Condition: vg. Limited Edition. This copy is inscribed by the author's son at free front endpaper (in Hebrew): "Le-Shoshana Grayb. Le-Maskeret me-Avi Menakhem Menko Hirsch z"l. She-mimeno lamadnu yahad Torah ve-Kabbalah. Avraham. 11th Menakhem-Av 5711. New York." [To Shoshana Grayb. In memory of my father Menakhem Menko Hirsch, of blessed memory. From him we learned Bible and Kabbalah. August 13th, 1951. New York.' 1/1000 copies printed for the members of the "Soncino Gesellschaft der Freunde des Jüdischen Buches" [Soncino-Society of the Friends of the Jewish Book]. 4to. 365pp. Half cloth over gray paper covered boards with black lettering ["Responsen des Ez Chajim"] to spine. Fore- and bottom page edges untrimmed. German abstracts of 953 extant responsa ["she'elot u-teshuvoth in Hebrew, abbreviated shu"t]. Originally published in "Peri Eitz Chaim/ Peri Ez Hayyim" [Fruits of the Tree of Life] , the Hebrew periodical of Amsterdam's renowned Sephardic Yeshiva [Talmud Academy] "Ets Hayim", founded in 1616 as a center for all of Sephardic Jewry. The periodical was published between 1691-1807 and gives a detailed view on Jewish life in Amsterdam of the time. With a Hebrew and a German index. Some staining, scuffing to boards, with foxing to spine. In German, with some Hebrew references. In very good condition.