Roth Cecil Editor (52 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No dust jacket. Blue felt boards have some general shelf wear. Pages of text are clean, bright and free of markings. Binding is tight and secure. ***Shipped within 24 hours from the beautiful Baltimore inner harbor area. First class service; accurate descriptions. Most items packed in boxes, not envelopes.***.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 5th.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Very good w/o dust wrapper.Out of print. Publication date not posted in book, best guess on date. Green cloth boards w bright gilt font on spine, 76 numbered pps + illustrated. Cover bright and very tight and straight spine. Corners lightly bumped. Interior pages without writing, loose FEP has 3 small stains, otherwise pages are without marks, writing, etc. A lovely copy interspersed with photos and illustrations of actual landscapes, art, architecture, sculpture of the times and objects used in seder ceremonies historically, all making the connection from the present to the past most meaningful. In Hebrew and Rnglish.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. dj w/lite chipping, unclipped price, 515 clean, unmarked pages/index; 1970's edition.

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. Blue velvet gilt illustrated binding.With Szyk striking color illustrations. First part in English and second part in Hebrew. From a Temple library, no marks on binding. donation bookplate and Temple stamp on flyleaf. Small stain along lower edge of first few pages and top edge of pages.

hardcover. Condition: Good. lh.

Condition: Good. Location:404 75 pp. bookplate and sfep 404.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 305 x 215 mm. 66 pages. Cross Section from the Encyclopaedia Judaica. Illustrated with black and white and some color photos. 33 leaves. With a printed letter and form laid in. Roth (1899-1970) , editor in chief of the Encyclopaedia Judaica, was born in London and went to Merton College, Oxford, where he showed an interest in Jewish history and liturgy as early as his undergraduate years. He was a reader in Jewish studies at Oxford for two and a half decades, until 1964, when he moved to Jerusalem, as a visiting professor at Bar-Ilan University. After a heart attack and being falsely accused of unorthodoxy, he left Bar-Ilan, and spent the rest of his life editing the Encyclopaedia Judaica and teaching at Queens College and Stern College in New York. Roth wrote and published profusely, with O. K. Rabinowitz's 1966 bibliography listing 572 items, though the actual number is over 600, including translations and editing of Haggadot. (Lipman, EJ).

Condition: good. Selected plaques and medals from the Samuel Friedenberg Collection at the Jewish Museum Location:251 852 143 pp. 251 852.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. 143 Pp. Cloth, Gilt. First Printing, Hardcover. Illustrations Of Medals, With Concise And Informative Biographies Of Each Individual. Very Near Fine, No Marks. Dust Jacket With Slight Usage, Price Clipped.

Paperback. 143p., profusely illustrated with b&w rondels & squares, perhaps 3 to 7 on every page adjacent to extensive annotations, really important guys (yes, mostly males) accorded fullpage reproductions, the collection broken down into professions, quite a collection of faces mostly unknown to this cataloguer, softbound in 11x8 inch decorated wraps. Item is mildly edgeworn with a couple of scratches to front cover, an else good copy: sound, clean within, and except for a neat small ownership inside cover, entirely unmarked.

hardcover. Condition: As New. A very nice copy. Text in mint/unmarked condition. Velvet cover has minor wear. Binding is tight. Your Satisfaction Guaranteed. We ship daily.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. xxvii, [1], 515, [1] pages. Illustrated endpapers. Front board has some weakness. Cover worn. Underlining and ink marks. Some highlighting. Page 22/23 separated but present. Includes Foreword, Introduction: Historians to the Reader, Suggestions for Further Reading, and Index. Includes chapters on The Biblical Age; The Hellenistic Age; The Talmudic Age; The Judeo-Islamic Age; The European Age; and the Modern Age. This is an exploration of the history of the Jewish people and an interpretation of the major ideas and values that have grown out of that unique historical experience. It is a human story that combines an inventory of the past with an assessment of the present. Salo Wittmayer Baron (May 26, 1895 - November 25, 1989) was a Polish-born American historian, described as "the greatest Jewish historian of the 20th century". Baron taught at Columbia University from 1930 until his retirement in 1963. After World War Two, Baron ran the Jewish Cultural Reconstruction, Inc., an organization established in 1947 to collect and distribute heirless Jewish property in the American occupied zones of Europe. Hundreds of thousands of books, archives, and ceremonial objects were distributed to libraries and museums, primarily in Israel and the United States. On April 24, 1961, Professor Baron testified at the trial of Adolf Eichmann in Jerusalem. Baron explained the historical context of the Nazi genocide against the Jews. He further explained that in his birthplace, Tarnow, there had been 20,000 Jews before the war but, after Hitler, there were no more than 20. His parents and a sister were killed there. Derived from a Kirkus review: Intending to select from the accumulated knowledge the data relevant to survival, adaptation and expression of the Jewish people, six historians with formidable and suitable career backgrounds for the task at hand offer an interpretation of Jewish culture and experience. Sections and authors are as follows: Biblical Age, Yehezkel Kaufmann; Hellenistic Age, Ralph Marcus; Talmudic Age, Gerson D. Cohen; Judeo-Islamic Age, Abraham S. Halkin; European Age, Cecil Roth; Modern and Contemporary Age, Salo W. Baron. There is always an interest in the impress and influence of out-groups on the Jews whether this is in terms of reaction for survival or emergence in literature. The people as a historical entity, as a religious group, as a nation are encompassed. Factually full-bodied, word-packed, offered as a guide to self-aware and intelligent Jewry. Presumed First Edition, First printing thus.

hardcover. Condition: Acceptable. Vol 2 Only, ex-library hardcover with usual stamps and markings Oversized.

hardcover. Condition: Good.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Shelf and handling wear to cover and binding, with general signs of previous use. Illustrated by Arthur Szyk. Moderate wear to the boards. Sound binding. Clean interior pages. Secure packaging for safe delivery.

Condition: Good. Good condition. Good dust jacket. New, revised edition. (Jews, encyclopedias) A copy that has been read but remains intact. May contain markings such as bookplates, stamps, limited notes and highlighting, or a few light stains. NOT AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT OUTSIDE OF THE UNITED STATES.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. unmarked copy; oversized book; please request shipping cost before ordering.

Hardcover. Octavo, unpaged. In Good condition with a Poor dust jacket. Spine is cream without print. Dust jacket is plain cream paper, with torn edges and spine, toning to spine, peripheral toning. Boards in plush blue cloth with gilt seder cup on front panel. Light wear to edges, light shelf wear. Text block Hebrew pages printed on one side of doubled leaves (pouch binding) followed by normally bound English pages; inscription in ink of front flyleaf. Illustrated: color pages. Illuminated text in Hebrew followed by plain text in English. NOTE: Shelved in Netdesk Column R. 1396579. FP New Rockville Stock.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Ed. A bilingual presentation in Yiddish & English of the Passover Haggadah, illustrated with drawings & color & B&W photographs of archeological places & objects related to Zionist history. Religion, Jewish Studies, Passover.

Condition: Very Good. Very Good condition. Very Good dust jacket. Hebrew and English. (judaism, jewish) A copy that may have a few cosmetic defects. May also contain light spine creasing or a few markings such as an owner's name, short gifter's inscription or light stamp.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Included. True 1st Ed. VG in Good+ dust jacket with some edge wear. History of Jewish art in antiquity, then from the Middle Ages to the Emancipation & then from the Emancipation to modern times. Illustrated with 457 color & B&W plates. Art, Jewish Art.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. covers have felt like cover cloth that attracts lots of dust, covers have heavy edge wear with a few tears, corners bumped and rubbed, binding tight, no writing, no page numbers, English and Hebrew text of the Haggadah with color illustrations by Arthur Szyk Size: 7 x 8.75.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Arthur Szyk (illustrator). Reprint. Reprint edition (1967.) Hardcover without dust jacket housed in matching clam shell case. 4to with 123 pages. Text in English and Hebrew. Illustrated by Arthur Szyk. The book is in very good condition. The clam shell case is in fair condition with some staining to back panel and wear to edges of spine. Interior is clean and tight. Black spine/gold text. #030702 Size: 4to. Hardcover.

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

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Unpaginated. Some foxing to fore-edge. Housed in cloth clamshell case. Wear to extremities. ; Color Plates; 4to.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine(-). Octavo in blue DJ, felt boards, gilt to spine, unpaginated, approx. 96 pages, chiefly color illustrations; 22 cm. Judaism -- Liturgy. DJ protected in archival mylar sleeve. Extremely mild rubbing to spine foot, extremely gentle rubbing to corners, extremely light soiling to corners, extremely faint soiling to two front endpapers, light soiling to DJ, edge-worn DJ, else Near Fine(-) in Very Good(+) DJ. First edition (presumed; no earlier dates stated).

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Hardcover of dark blue velveteen cloth with gilt on the spine and the cover. The surface appears slightly uneven in color, possible light fading at top. Things, particles, tend to adhere, and it needs to be lightly brushed to appear totally even in color. No slipcase. Squarish octavo of 9 3/4 inches by 8 inches. All pages are formed of a single bound sheet, folded at the fore edge. Beautiful illustrations, which are reproductions of the originals owned by Arthur Szyk, and which incorporate the Hebrew text. The English text is on the facing page. The front cover opens from the left, to the Hebrew Title page. The Right hand opening is the conclusion and also opens to the English title page. Thee is also a page here devoted to a description of the Seder Service and some of its folk origins and paralells in other languages, religions and cultures of the world.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. xi, 442 pages, 111 pages frontispieces (portraits) : 25 cm. English & Hebrew. Contents: The Chief Rabbi, by Ephraim Levine Talmud manuscripts and editions, by E.N. Adler Gnostic themes in rabbinic cosmology, by Alexander Altmann Joseph da Veiga and stock exchange operations in the seventeenth century, by M.B. Amzalak Jewish languages, by Salomo Birnbaum The ethics of the rabbis, by Abraham Cohen The chief rabbis of Vilna, by Israel Cohen The meaning of "sacrifices" in the Psalms, by Samuel Daiches Collatio 2.6.5., by David Daube The so-called "science" movements and their relation to Judaism, by Bernard Drachman The conception of the Commandments of the Torah in Aaron Halevi's Sefer ha-hinnuk, by Isidore Epstein Incunables about Jews and Judaism, by Aron Freimann Popular proverbs in the Jerusalem Talmud, by J.H. Greenstone Fasts and fasting, by A.W. Greenup Elisha ben Abujah, by R.T. Herford The fantastic career of Joshua Abraham Norton, by Louis Hermann. 9 articles in Hebrew by S.H. Bergmann, Simon Bernstein, Umberto Cassuto, Shemtob Gaguin, Julius Guttmann, Isaac Herzog, Samuel Krauss, I.D. Markon, and M.H. Segal.