Hillel, Signed (14 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Good copy showing some wear with wonderful woodcuts by Ilya Schor. Inscribed by Polish-born prominent New Jersey rabbi to Columbia University academic and scientist Teddy Zucker, 127pps. Both met in New York's bohemian quarter in the 1920s when Pilchik first arrived to USA. Inscribed by Author(s).

Soft cover. Condition: As New. No Jacket. signed by Nathan Kravetz. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Very hard to find book and signature of Rochester NY rabbi. Inscribed. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Ilya Schor (illustrator). Signed by the author. No inscription or other markings. Fictionalized biography for young readers. COLLECT SIGNED BOOKS. Signed by Author(s).

Cloth. Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. Quarter green linen over blue boards (hardcover), gilt embossed title on spine and front board, housed in publisher's slipcase with original glassine jacket, (10.5 x 7 inches). First Edition/First Printing. 459 pages, plus list of contributors; frontis portrait. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by Abba Hillel Silver on half-title page in blue marker. Abba Hillel Silver was a famous Zionist leader who played a central role in the establishment of the state of Isreal. An exceptionally clean, tight copy in lightly worn slipcase, the fragile glassine wrapper is age toned and chipped. Signed by Author(s).

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Offprint. Stapled wrappers, 10 pp. (last page blank). Reprinted from: Essays presented to Chief Rabbi Israel Brodie on the occasion of his seventieth birthday (London, 1967). Laid in is a signed typewritten letter from David Mirsky, the author's son , on the letterhead of the Sura Institute, Yeshiva University, New York, presenting the offprint to Charles Slesinger on behalf of his late father. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. The Zionist Organization of America January 1949 Binding: Hardcover signed by the author with dust jacket, dj has several chips and tears.

First Edition. ABBA HILLEL SILVER, AN APPRECIATION, World Confederation of General Zionists, 1963, first edition, part of front cover tanned, else near fine in wraps. Inscribed by the author to the former premier Walt Whitman collector, bibliophile and philanthropist, Charles Feinberg.

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Judah L. Magnes Museum. Berkeley, CA. 1994. SIGNED First Edition Softbound in FINE Condition. SIGNED on dedication page: "All The Best-- Ida Frank," otherwise INTERIOR PRISTINE: clean, tight, bright. NOT inscribed or personalized. Suitable for gifting or collection. IDA FRANK (1916-1998), a retired social worker, wrote this book, a spinoff of her earlier book, "Vera Greenfeld: A Journey from Gadyach to Berkeley," a biography of the Ukrainian immigrant who founded the California Alliance of Jewish Women, a group instrumental in forming Berkeley Hillel. Book chronicles 66 years in the life of the college institution. ILLUSTRATED w/ black & white photos, Glossary & Index. Carefully shipped in secure parcel. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good +. 1st Edition. 8 vo, 232 pp. Red boards with gilt titles front and spine. Corners lightly worn, still sharp and square. Top and bottom spine worn more so. INSCRIBED by author to friends, signed and dated 6-27-49. Interior clean, lightly read, no other names, markings. DUST JACKET chips at all corners, worn on all edges, spine faded. Original price stated $2.50, not clipped. Photo of author on back panel (same as frontis). Signed by Author(s).

First edition signed by Abba Hillel Silver on half-title page" To Lottie May - in friendship, Abba Hillel Silver" with blue marker. Slipcase. 4to. Green cloth and boards stamped in copper. 459 pages. Abba Hillel Silver - famous Zionist leader - played a central role in the establishment of the state of Isreal. Photo frontispiece. A "Abba Hillel Silver Memorial Archives" card laid in. near fine condition.- spine sun faded a bit. Sharp and clean. Slipcase has a little wear near corners of opening in good condition.

No Binding. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. One of 100 copies, numbered and signed by the author, this copy inscribed to David Miller. Single sheet (43.2 x 27.9cm) printed on one side only. Very Good, folded up for mailing. Signed by Author(s).

Couverture souple. Condition: bon. RO20205350: 1977. In-8. Broché. Bon état, Couv. convenable, Dos satisfaisant, Intérieur frais. 256 pages - ENVOI DE MARC HILLEL + 1 DEDICACE DE CLARISSA HENRY. . . . Classification Dewey : 97.2-Dédicace, envoi.

Non-Book. Condition: Fair. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. On offer is a six-piece archive that captures, in microcosm, the layered fabric of Jewish civic and cultural life in Havana across four decadesfrom the practical obligations of membership and mutual aid in the 1930s, through the festive public expression of faith and identity in the 1940 Hanukkah Matinee of the Instituto Hebreo "Yavne, " to the educational and ideological renewal of the next generation in Jerusalem. Together these documents trace how a small immigrant community built an enduring civic world: founding aid societies and medical dispensaries, organizing Yiddish-language assemblies, celebrating communal holidays in rented Havana salons, and ultimately sending its youth to study and serve in Israel. The grouping provides an unusually complete portrait of how Havana's Jews organized, celebrated, and educated themselves, leaving behind a vivid trilingual record in Spanish, Yiddish, and Hebrew. For scholars and curators, the ensemble illustrates the continuum between local organization and transnational identity showing how welfare, worship, and education sustained a Caribbean diaspora through decades of transformation. The earliest document, dated September 4, 1935, is a Centro Israelita de Cuba receipt acknowledging "cheque No. 1146 for the amount of $30, for your work in obtaining a permit for Chaim Rachman," signed by what appears to read Chain Safol. Its dual-language layout and official seal exemplify the Centro's role as both civic intermediary and moral guarantor within Havana's immigrant quarter, a hub where legal, religious, and welfare needs converged under one roof. Complementing it is a form of the Colonia Hebrea de Cuba, Protectora de Tuberculosos y Enfermos Mentales, bearing the Star-of-David crest of the Dispensario Hebreo Antituberculoso. Printed in Spanish, it attests to the community's early adoption of organized medical relief, a field in which Jewish benevolent societies in Havana achieved national recognition. The presence of this form within the same file situates the material network of carehospitals, dispensaries, and public-health drivesat the center of communal self-help in the pre-Revolutionary era. A third item, the Centro Israelita de Cuba declaration form (ca. Late 1930s) , records Kiva Shulman, born in Russia, 47 years old, occupation: commerce, residing at Calle Cuba 101. He writes that he is married and arrived in Cuba on the S. S. Orduña on July 5, 1928. He signs his name to the following pledge: "I agree that as soon as my financial situation allows it, I will become an active member of this center. I will help with all my power for the well-being of this society. " This declaration embodies the aspirational ethos of Havana's mutual-aid culture: belonging carried both moral weight and civic pride. The Centro Popular Hebreo de Cuba circular, dated November 20, 1945 (27 Heshvan 5706) , introduces a rarer linguistic and ideological layer to the Havana Jewish record. Printed in Yiddish with a Spanish heading, it announces a resolution passed at the Second World Congress of Jewish Organizations concerning the distribution of prospectuses for a National-People's Fund (Natzional-Folks-Fonds) among the Center's members and calls a general meeting to implement the measure by December 10, 1945. The letter, signed in Hebrew script by the President and Secretary, and bearing the violet oval stamp "Centro Popular Hebreo Zulueta No. 660, Habana, "reflects how global Zionist-labor currents reverberated through Cuba's Yiddish-speaking institutions even in the immediate postwar years. As a product of the Folks-tsentert (People's Center) , it documents both Havana's participation in transnational Jewish reconstruction efforts and the persistence of Yiddish civic language within a Spanish-dominant republica rare and valuable convergence of linguistic, ideological, and diasporic history. Equally evocative is an admission ticket to the Hanukkah Matinee organized by the Instituto Hebreo "Yavne, ".