Michman Aptroot (8 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good/Very Good. 1st Edition. Cinicinnati, OH: Hebrew Union College Press. Very Good/Very Good. 2002. 1st Edition. Hardcover. In English and Hebrew. Book is in Very Good Plus condition with a small dent at the edge of the rear cover. Contents clean and tight. Appears unread. The dust jacket is slightly worn at the extremities with an old price sticker abrasion on the rear cover. A nice solid copy of a scarce book. .…

Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. 527pp. In original shrinkwrap.

hardcover. Condition: New. 1st.

Hardcover. Condition: New in publisher's shrink wrap. Dust Jacket Condition: new. First edition. Quarto. VII, [1], 527, [1]pp. Original pictorial wrappers over cloth with gold lettering on spine. Frontispiece. Written in Amsterdam Yiddish and full of colorful invective, these weekly dialogues in the satirical tradition of the English Spectator and similar periodicals allowed the breakaway community (the naye kille) to expose the inequalities and foibles of the establishment community (alte kille), which was heretofore supported by the government. In the wake of the reforms of the French Revolution, a Dutch Decree of Emancipation in 1796 meant that city governments could no longer intervene in internal affairs of the Jewish communities, and the newer community sought not only fuller civic rights for all Jews, but less community power and privileges for the corrupt rich men who dominated the affairs of the old community. Not content to ignore the upstarts, the old community fought back with its own weekly dialogues, using the same format and even the same characters. The resulting thirty-three eighteenth-century Diskursn, selections of which are translated and edited here for the first time, constitute a unique phenomenon in Jewish history and Jewish journalism. Wrappers, binding and interior as new in publishers shrinkwrap.…

Condition: New. This text presents satirical dialogues written in Amsterdam Yiddish between members of the established and the breakaway Jewish communities in 18th-century Amsterdam. These dialogues allowed the breakaway community to expose the inequalities and foibles of the establishment community. Editor(s): Michman, Jozeph; Aptroot, Marion. Num Pages: 325 pages. BIC Classification: 1DDN; 2ACY; 3JH; DNF; JFSR1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 46. . . 2002. Bilingual. Hardcover. . . . .…

Condition: New. This text presents satirical dialogues written in Amsterdam Yiddish between members of the established and the breakaway Jewish communities in 18th-century Amsterdam. These dialogues allowed the breakaway community to expose the inequalities and foibles of the establishment community. Editor(s): Michman, Jozeph; Aptroot, Marion. Num Pages: 325 pages. BIC Classification: 1DDN; 2ACY; 3JH; DNF; JFSR1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 46. . . 2002. Bilingual. Hardcover. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.…

Hardback. Condition: New. New copy - Usually dispatched within 7-11 working days.

Cincinnati, Hebrew Union College Press, 2002. 527 pp. New. Orig. cloth with dustjacket. Yiddish text and English translation on facing pages.