BOOKS FOR SALE
The below-listed items are a sample of printed material offered for sale from my book collection of Judaica and Jewish Canadiana. The numbers at the end of each description reference my sale catalog no. 1.2. Please contact me by email (gerald.stone@mail.mcgill.ca) to inquire about price, shipping, and terms of sale and/or to request a copy of my sale catalog.
LITERATURE
The below-listed items are a sample of printed material offered for sale from my book collection of Judaica and Jewish Canadiana. The numbers at the end of each description reference my sale catalog no. 1.2. Please contact me by email (gerald.stone@mail.mcgill.ca) to inquire about price, shipping, and terms of sale and/or to request a copy of my sale catalog.
LITERATURE
- Ascher, Isidore G. Collected poems. — London : Elliot Stock, 1929. — xii, 300 p. ; 19 cm. — First Jewish Canadian poet. — #146.
- Bentley's miscellany. Vol. 56 (1864). — London : Chapman and Hall, 1864. — 655 p. — Partial contents: In the fields [poem] / by Isidore G. Ascher. P. 635-636. — Bound copy. — #209.
- Dewart, Edward Hartley. Selections from Canadian poets. — Montreal : John Lovell, 1864. — 304 p. ; 21 cm. — Includes five poems by Isidore G. Ascher from his Voices of the hearth, published in 1863. — #212.
- Layton, Irving. Nazi airman. [S.l.] : Colophon Books, 1990 (New Westminster, B.C. : Pie Tree Press & Type Foundry). — 1 sheet : 1 ill. ; 30 cm x 47 cm. — [No.] 19 in an edition limited to 50 numbered and 25 lettered copies, all signed by the poet. — #161.
- Cataract. — No. 3 (July 1962). — Montreal : Cataract., 1962. — [45] leaves ; 29 cm. — Editors: Leonard Angel, K. V. Hertz, Seymour Mayne ; contributing editor: Henry Moscovitch. — Poetry. Includes "An open letter to Irving Layton," by George Ellenbogen and Layton's reply. — Forty-five 8½x11-inch mimeographed sheets printed one side only and stapled in yellow cover with green titles painted on. — #211.
- Korn, Rachel H. Di gnod fun wort. — Tel-Aviv : HaMenorah, 1968. — 94, [6] p. ; 23 cm. — Inscribed and annotated with numerous emendations by the author, Montreal, 1968. — #186.
- Grafstein, Melech. Meah shanah Y. L. Perets. — London, Ont. : M. Grafstein, [1952]. — 53, 55 p. : ill., ports., music ; 21 cm. — Hebrew, Yiddish or English. — Title on back book jacket: Isaac Leibush Peretz : published in commemoration of his 100th birthday. — #191.
- Trunk, Isaiah. Antologye fun der Yidisher proze in Poyln : tsvishn beyde velt milhomes (1914-1939). — New York : Cyco Bicher Farlag, 1946. — 637 p. ; 24 cm. — On verso of t.p.: An anthology of Yiddish prose in Poland between two world wars (1914-1939) / compiled by Aaron Zeitlin and J. J. Trunk. — #219.
- Kowarsky, Paul. Synagogue music for cantor and choir / composed by Paul Kowarsky. — Toronto Council of Hazzanim, 1990. — [v], 134 p. ; 28 cm. — Between 1980 and 2001, Paul Kowarsky served as Senior Cantor of Beth Tzedec Congregation in Toronto. — #60.
- Yacobovitz, Eliahu. Havah naaleh. — New York : Bagolah, 1947. — 31 p., piano-vocal score (46 p.) : ill. ; 24 cm. (hardcover). — Added t.p. title: Neginot l’Havah naaleh = Music to ‘Havah naaleh’ / Joseph Rumshinsky. — Illustrated by Nota Koslowsky, with a full page drawing of the horah dance by Saul Raskin. — "In a moving pageant, consisting of a prologue and six scenes, Havah Naaleh depicts the spiritual yearning and eternal aspirations of the Jewish people for the peace and fulfillment which can come only thru a return to the Land of Israel." — Two inserts. -- Edition of 1,000 copies. — Copy inscribed by the author. — #61.
- Diamond, Avi. מקדשי תיראו — Toronto, 2016. — 62 p. ; 24 cm. — English with frequent words or phrases in Hebrew. — The author, a congregant of Toronto's Orthodox Toras Emes Congregation, compiled various teachings with the aim of adopting a zero talking policy during services. — OCLC lists National Library of Israel as only location. HC. — #13a.
- Rosenberg, Stuart E. “The inter-faith dialogue now : what’s right, what’s wrong, what’s new?” — [Toronto?] : Published privately, [1969]. — 13 p. ; 22 cm. — “An address to the annual inter-faith dinner, Beth Tzedec Men’s Club, February 19, 1969, Toronto, Canada.” — Toronto bookseller's blind stamp on last page. — #22.
- Shtern, Yekhiel. Kheder un beys-medresh. — New York : Bibliotek fun YIVO, 1950. — 128 p. : ill., music ; 24 cm. — On verso of t.p.: Kheyder and beys-medresh : a study in traditional Jewish education. — #36.
- Canadian Jewish Congress. A victory for democracy : the crucial decision rendered by Mr. Justice Mackay in the Supreme Court of Ontario declaring void a restrictive land covenant in the case jointly conducted by the Workers' Educational Association and the Canadian Jewish Congress. — Toronto : Canadian Jewish Congress, [1945 or 1946]. — [16] p. ; 24 cm. — Includes full text of motion re Drummond Wren (Ontario reports, 1945, pp. 778-787) to have declared invalid a restrictive covenant, namely " Land not to be sold to Jews or persons of objectionable nationality." — Small tear on front cover, corners chipped, bumped. — #43.
- Cohon, Samuel S. Why do the heathen rage? : exposing the deliberate falsifications and distortions of the Bible, Talmud and other sacred Jewish literature. — Chicago : Distributed by Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith, [1938 or 1939]. — 47 p. ; 23 cm. — Response to a tract by the Montreal Women's Anti-Communist League, "The Key to the Mystery." Cites examples of antisemitic misrepresentations of the Talmud, etc., and counters them with factual information. — #44.
- Lask, Israel Meir. The Kalish book. — Tel-Aviv : Issued by the Societies of Former Residents of Kalish and the Vicinity in Israel and U.S.A., 1968. — 327, [5] p., [76] p. of plates : ill., facsims., map, ports. — A condensed English version of Sefer Kalish,, published in Tel-Aviv in two volumes in 1964 and 1968. — #77.
- Shinar, Mordehai. Sefer zikaron li-kehilat Pints’ev. — Tel-Aviv : Published by the Union of the Remnants of the Jewish Community of Pinczów (Poland), 1970. — 480 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. — A book of memory of the Jewish community of Pinczów (Poland). — #88.
- Hart, Moses. Power of attorney by Moses Hart to Alexander Hart. — Montreal, Jan. 12, 1832. — 1 leaf folio ; 18.4 x 30.5 cm. — Paper seal present, remains of red wax seal. Signed by Hart, witnessed by H. K. Major and E[zekiel] M. Hart. — A larger-than-life figure in his day, Moses Hart (1768-1852), the eldest son of Aaron Hart, dealt in land, banking, beer, steamboat navigation, as well as philosophy, politics, and law. — #97.
- Freshman, Charles. The autobiography of the Rev. Charles Freshman : late Rabbi of the Jewish synagogue at Quebec, and graduate of the Jewish Theological Seminary at Prague; at present German Wesleyan Minister at Preston, Ontario. — Toronto : Samuel Rose, Wesleyan Book Room, 1868. — xvi, 316 p., [1] leaf of plates : port. ; 19 cm. — Provenance: Private library of George Scales, Belleville, Ont., 1876. — Bookseller's stamp. — #119.
- B'nai Israel Congregation (London, Ont.). Dedication : B'nai Israel Congregation, London, Canada, September 11th, 1960, 19 Elul, 5720. — [London, Ont. : The Congregation, 1960]. — [92] p. : ill., ports. ; 31 cm. — Cover title: Congregation B'nai Israel, 1885-1960. — Provenance: Signed on t.p. by Rabbi Morris D. Margolis, first rabbi (1944-48) of the Conservative-affiliated synagogue. — #109.
- Jewish Historical Society of Southern Alberta. Land of promise : the Jewish experience in southern Alberta. — Calgary : The Society, 1996. — viii, 270 p. : ill., ports. ; 25 x 27 cm. — “1889-1945.” — Inspired by an exhibit of the same name which made its debut at the Calgary Jewish Centre in Nov. 1992 in honor of Canada’s 125th anniversary year. — Book coordinator: Jay Joffe. — Copy no. 717 of original edition of 1,000 copies. — Presentation copy to John Loftus, author, former Army intelligence officer, and former prosecutor with the U.S. Justice Department's Nazi-hunting unit. — #111.
- Jewish Public Library (Montreal). Yoyvl shrift fun der Yidisher Folksbibliotek, 1914-1964. — Montreal : Jewish Public Library, 1964. 82, 13 p. : ill., ports., facsims. ; 23 cm. — Chiefly Yiddish, with some text in English. — English cover title: Fiftieth jubilee, 1914-1964. — Library stamp of the Bund Archives, N.Y., on front cover. — #138.
- Shapira's Studio (Winnipeg). [Studio portraits]. — Winnipeg, [1920s-1930s]. — 13 photographs : b&w postcards ; 14 x 9 cm. — Eleven photo postcards are blind-stamped Shapira's Photo, Winnipeg (one varies slightly). Two are overstamped with a Rosh Hashanah greeting in Hebrew. — One portrait is by S. Klein, 324 Selkirk, W[innipeg]; two postcards are by unidentified photographer(s). — These photo postcards, most of which were sent as Jewish New Year's greetings to family and friends, portray members of Winnipeg's Jewish community during the interwar years. — #114.
Hora dance. Drawing by Saul Raskin in Havah naaleh by Eliahu Yacobovitz.
