Roth cecil ed (27 Ergebnisse)
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In den WarenkorbHardcover. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. Missing dust jacket; May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.
Verlag: Keter Publishing
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Great Ages and Ideas of the Jewish People
Baron, Salo W.; Cohen, Gerson D.; Halkin, abraham S.; Kaufmann, Yehezkel; Marcus, Ralph; Roth, Cecil; Schwarz, Leo W. (ed.)
Verlag: Random House, 1956
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In den WarenkorbHardcover. Zustand: Fair. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Poor. 515 pages. Moderate wear; pages yellowed, a little staining to the outer edges; a reading copy of an old book. The dust jacket is present but heavily torn, chipped and worn. Sections are The Biblical Age; The Hellenistic Age; The Talmudic Age; The Judeo-Islamic Age; The European Age; The Modern Age. Illustrator: . Quantity Available: 1. Category: Philosophy; Inventory No: 199067.…
Verlag: Keter Publishing House, 1974
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Zustand: Good. 8vo. 561 pp., Very Good, Trade Paperback with slight yellowing throughout, shelf wear.

Verlag: Soncino Press, 1938
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In den WarenkorbZustand: Good. 1938. First Edition. 333 pages. Brown jacket over black cloth with gilt lettering to spine and decoration to front. Pages are lightly tanned at the edges, with light foxing. Binding has remained firm. Inscription in pen to front endpaper. Boards have slight shelf wear with bumping to corners. Spine ends are a little crushed with light tanning. Book has a slight forward lean. The clipped dust jacket has moderate edge wear, tears and chips to edges and spine ends. Heavy tanning all over. Minor loss to spine ends. Water marks to spine and front panel.…

Verlag: The Jewish Historical Society of England, 1937
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In den WarenkorbNew edition, revised and enlarged, 1937. Short tear to lower edge of front free endpaper and half-title page; otherwise internally VG. Green cloth with gilt lettering to front board and spine; wear to cloth at board edges, spine foot, and short repaired split at upper front joint. Corners bumped. Used - Good. Good hardback in green cloth. …

Verlag: "Massadah" and "Alumoth"
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In den WarenkorbHardcover. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. part English, part Hebrew text. shelf wear on the boards. contents are clean and neat. soundly bound. good copy. undated. [SK]. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.
Weitere BilderGreat Ages and Ideas of the Jewish People
Baron, Salo W., Gerson D. Cohen, Abraham S. Halkin, Yehezkel Kaufmann, Ralph Marcus, Cecil Roth; ed. w. intro. by Leo W. Schwarz
Verlag: NY: Random House, 1956
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In den WarenkorbHardcover. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Tan. cl., gilt lettering on brown field on backstr. Tears to backstri. corners. Timelines on endapers. Owner name on t.p. Xxvii, 515pp. incl. bibliogr., index. STATED FIRST PRINTING.
Verlag: The Soncino Press, London, 1938
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In den WarenkorbHardcover. First edition. Quarto. XIX, [1], 332, [2]pp. Original printed dust-jacket over black cloth with gold lettering on spine and printer's device in gilt on front cover. Compilation of 147 letters written by English Jews between 1158 and 1917 throwing some interesting sidelights on English history. Many of the letters are published here for the first time. With them, the reader is introduced to saints, heroes, beggars, philanthropists, financial geniuses, pseudo-Messiahs, and rank impostors, all speaking in their own language. Dust-jacket sunned on spine and along edges. Minor offsetting on endpapers. DJ in overall fair to good-, binding and interior in good+ to very good condition.…
Verlag: Massada-Press and Alumoth: Jerusalem nd
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In den WarenkorbHardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Color illus. by Arthur Szyk, 11 x 8.75", gilt-dec blue "velvet", unpaginated, covers rubbed, bottom of spine torn, hinges loose, textblock cracked else a nice copy in a worn and creased, pictorial slipcase.
Verlag: Massadah and Alumoth: Jerusalem, 1962
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In den WarenkorbHardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Color illus. by Arthur Szyk, 11 x 9", gilt-lettered and gilt-dec blue felt, unpaginated, covers a little rubbed but still a nice, clean copy in the worn leatherette backed blue-cloth clamshell case. Decorative cloth binding. Text in English with some Hebrew in illustrations.…
Verlag: Mossad Harav Kook, Jerusalem, 1956
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In den WarenkorbHardcover. 4to. 42pp. 167pp. vi. Original half brown cloth over pink cloth with gold lettering on spine in original printed dust jacket. Hebrew and English title-pages. Scholarly edition of the work of the 13th century English Tosafist Rabbi Elijah of London. Includes a lengthy biographical introduction by Cecil Roth. Includes b/w photographs of a lineage document for R. Elijah of London and the seal of his brother Rabbi Jacob of Oxford. This work is an example of English Jewry's cultural productivity before it was expelled in 1290. Text in Hebrew with a short preface by Cecil Roth. Dj sunned. Top edge creased. Book top edge bumped. Bottom edge and corners rubbed. Edges sunned. Front endpaper creased. Dj and book in overall good condition.…
Verlag: The Jewish Historical Society of England, London, 1947
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In den WarenkorbSoftcover. Zustand: g to vg. First edition. Quarto. 16, 171pp. Original gray printed wraps. Introduction by Cecil Roth. The Sepher haShoham or "Onyx Book" is one of the very few surviving literary relics of medieval Anglo-Jewry. The work has been described as "first in time (ca. 1200) and probably in value" of the grammatical works of the period. Part I was to be completed with two additional volumes which were never published. Introduction by Cecil Roth in English, text in Hebrew. Light sunning along edges of wraps, spine sunned with light wear. Block is unopened. Starting after the introduction. Wraps in overall good, interior in very good condition.…

Catalogue of the Permanent and Loan Collections of the Jewish Museum London.
Barnett, R.D (ed.), Cecil Roth, Natalie Rothstein and Arthur Grimwade
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414 pages, with 19 colour and 207 black and white plates. Hardback 23 x 30.5cms. ISBN: 856020109.

Encyclopedia Judaica. Corrected edition (complete in 17 volumes). Volume1: Index; Volume 17: Supplement.
Roth, Cecil (Ed.), Geoffrey Wigoder (Ed.) Louis I. Rabinowitz (Ed.) a. o.:
Sprache: Englisch
Verlag: Jerusalem: Keter Publishing House 1978-1986., 1978
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In den Warenkorb4th printing. Mit zahlreichen, zum Teil farbigen Abbildungen und einer großen farbigen Faltkarte von Israel. Large format. Original cloth covers. Books in good condition. In volumes 13 and 14, there are underlinings in red colored pencil on three pages of one article in each volume. Otherwise, the text is clean. Books from a non smoking environment. Includes numerous illustrations - some in color - and a large, color fold-out map of Israel. Due to the heavy weight of 43 kilograms - which requires shipping in three to four cartons - higher shipping costs apply. Sprache: Englisch Großformat, Original-Leinenbände.…
Sprache: Englisch
Verlag: Jerusalem, Keter Publishing House, 1971 / 1972., 1971
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Verlag: Jerusalem: Massadah & Magen, [1957]., 1957
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In den WarenkorbZustand: Good. PROSPECTUS. 8vo. 4 pp., Folded Page, Very Good with some creasing, minor edge wear, minor stains. Illustrations, color plates.
Verlag: Jerusalem, Tel-Aviv, Massadah and Alumoth, (1962)., 1962
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In den Warenkorb4to. (56 double-paged leaves). With numerous illustrations in colour by Arthur Szyk. Orig. blue velvet in orig. half cloth clamshell. Text in English and Hebrew. - Very good copy.
Verlag: Massada-Press / Alumoth, 1967
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In den WarenkorbHardcover. Zustand: Fine. This is an absolutely beautiful copy, with silver metal boards inlayed with turquoise jewels and embossed illustrations. Pages profusely illustrated in color. Fine, in original box.
Verlag: Massadah and "Alumoth", Jerusalem / Tel Aviv, 1962
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In den WarenkorbHardcover. Zustand: vg. Later printing. Quarto. Unpaginated (56 double-leaved pages). Blue faux velvet binding in gold-lined three-quarter black cloth over blue cloth clamshell box with blue faux velvet lining. Beveled edges. Front and rear of book as well as front of clamshell box decorated with gold-stamped Kiddush Goblet motif, gold-embossed decoration on spine of box. Inside of front and back board illustrated with b/w reproduction of a drawing by Szyk. Color frontispiece. English & Hebrew title-pages. "It has been left to a contemporary, Arthur Szyk, to rediscover the secret and to revive the art - not in terms of Jewish books alone, for his reputation is co-extensive with the book-loving world. To call him the greatest illuminator since the sixteenth-century is no flattery. It is the simple truth which becomes manifest to any person who studies his work with the care it deserves. Alone perhaps among modern artists (for he is an artist above all) Szyk considers his art in the terms of books, and books in the terms of his art. He does not illuminate a page, as many before him have attempted to do, considering it to be a unit in itself. He thinks of each page in its relation to the text and to the volume, integrating calligraphy, illumination, illustration and narrative into one harmonious whole. It is in this, even more than in the exquisite perfection of his work, that he inherits the spirit of his medieval precursors.Szyk sees the Haggadah as a unity. He worked upon it between 1932 and 1938, when the greatest perhaps of all the tragedies in its millennial history overwhelmed the Jewish people. It was natural therefore for him to be absorbed in that wonderful passage, the keynote of the whole ritual: It is this Devine pledge that hath stood by our fathers and by us also. Not only one man hath risen against us to destroy us, but in every generation have men risen against us to destroy us. But the Holy One (Blessed be He!) delivereth us always from their hand." Profusely illustrated with reproductions of exquisite illuminations and drawings by Szyk in brilliant rich colors. Text in English and Hebrew. Clamshell box in very good, binding in near fine, interior in fine condition.…

Verlag: Jerusalem, Encyclopaedia Judaica (second printing)/Maxwell-Macmillan-Keter Ltd. 1973-1981, 1981
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In den Warenkorb17 volumes, Bound in the publisher's decorated blue cloth with gilt title spines (In good condition, a firm set with clean and unmarked interiors.).
Weitere BilderVerlag: "Massadah" and "Alumoth" No date, Jerusalem / Tel Aviv
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In den WarenkorbHardcover. Zustand: Good to near fine. Later printing. Quarto. Unpaginated (56 double-leaved pages). Blue faux velvet binding in gold-lined three-quarter black cloth over blue cloth clamshell box with blue faux velvet lining. Beveled edges. Front and rear of book as well as front of clamshell box decorated with gold-stamped Kiddush Goblet motif, gold-embossed decoration on spine of box. Inside of front and back board illustrated with b/w reproduction of a drawing by Szyk. Color frontispiece. English & Hebrew title-pages. "It has been left to a contemporary, Arthur Szyk, to rediscover the secret and to revive the art - not in terms of Jewish books alone, for his reputation is co-extensive with the book-loving world. To call him the greatest illuminator since the sixteenth-century is no flattery. It is the simple truth which becomes manifest to any person who studies his work with the care it deserves. Alone perhaps among modern artists (for he is an artist above all) Szyk considers his art in the terms of books, and books in the terms of his art. He does not illuminate a page, as many before him have attempted to do, considering it to be a unit in itself. He thinks of each page in its relation to the text and to the volume, integrating calligraphy, illumination, illustration and narrative into one harmonious whole. It is in this, even more than in the exquisite perfection of his work, that he inherits the spirit of his medieval precursors.Szyk sees the Haggadah as a unity. He worked upon it between 1932 and 1938, when the greatest perhaps of all the tragedies in its millennial history overwhelmed the Jewish people. It was natural therefore for him to be absorbed in that wonderful passage, the keynote of the whole ritual: It is this Devine pledge that hath stood by our fathers and by us also. Not only one man hath risen against us to destroy us, but in every generation have men risen against us to destroy us. But the Holy One (Blessed be He!) delivereth us always from their hand." Profusely illustrated with reproductions of exquisite illuminations and drawings by Szyk in brilliant rich colors. Text in English and Hebrew. Clamshell box with very light rubbing and scuffing, small light water stain on cover, overall in good, binding with minor chips, interior in near fine condition.…
Weitere BilderVerlag: Beaconsfield Press, London, 1940
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In den WarenkorbHardcover. Zustand: Near fine condition. 40/125 on vellum. Large quarto. 59 Japan accordion-folded leaves: xxvi, [92] pp. Full blue levant morocco binding with gilt design, by Sangorski and Sutcliffe. Housed in three-quarter morocco, velvet lined box. One of 125 copies (no. 40) printed for sale in the United States. Signed by Arthur Szyk and the editor Cecil Roth on limitation page. Profusely illustrated with illuminations and drawings by Arthur Szyk, 48 of which are in color. Considered to be Szyk's magnus opus juxtaposing Passover narrative and Anti-Semitism during Nazi Germany. "While the miniature paintings depict historical scenes, in the text illuminations Szyk has combined figures in historical costume, characters from the east European ghetto, and young Jewish pioneers in Palestine. These figures illustrate a continuum, making the point that the struggle for freedom cannot be relegated to the past but is very much a current and contemporary concern" (Joseph P. Ansell, p. 93). Text in Hebrew and English, typefaces designed by Szyk. B. Box with light sunning at top of blue linen and lightly rubbed. Back cover linen with light water staining along gilt ruling near leather of spine. Arthur Szyk (illustrator).…
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In den Warenkorb"Massadah" and "Alumoth", Jerusalem & Tel-Aviv 1961. (46) pp. text in english+ (48) pp with text in hebrew and illustrations. Full blue velvet boards, text and decoration in gilt. 22,5x118 cm. Very good condition.
Weitere BilderVerlag: London: Beaconsfield Press, 1940, 1940
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In den WarenkorbFirst Szyk edition, number 59 of 125 copies printed on vellum, signed by both illustrator and editor, and released for sale in the United States. The most lavishly produced modern edition of the Haggadah, this was Szyk's magnum opus, drawing a striking visual parallel between the Passover narrative of oppression in ancient Egypt and the alarming development of anti-Jewish activities in Nazi Germany. The Polish-born Jewish artist Artur Szyk (1894-1951) was known in the 1930s for his political cartoons, the most famous of which depicted Hitler as an ancient Egyptian pharaoh; his art had become more politically engaged after Hitler took power in Germany in 1933. Szyk's choice of the Haggadah as a new subject, other than the artistic possibilities that it offered, was motivated by the thematic significance of the text as a reminder of past Jewish triumphs over persecution. "While the miniature paintings depict historical scenes, in the text illuminations Szyk has combined figures in historical costume, characters from the east European ghetto, and young Jewish pioneers in Palestine. These figures illustrate a continuum, making the point that the struggle for freedom cannot be relegated to the past but is very much a current and contemporary concern" (Ansell, p. 93). The monumental collection of illustrations took Szyk several years to complete. When he presented the work to potential publishers around 1937, many rejected it; this was partly due to the challenge of reproducing the artist's fine detail and vibrant colours, and partly due to the explicitly anti-Nazi subject matter, as the illustrations depicted the Egyptians, snakes, and other vicious animals decorated with swastikas. However, the Beaconsfield Press was founded by several prominent members of the Jewish community in England with the express purpose of publishing Szyk's project; the corporation was named in honour of Benjamin Disraeli, earl of Beaconsfield. In the final version, the swastikas were removed, but Szyk's message was remarked in the introduction, in which the editor and translator Cecil Roth, renowned historian of Judaism, emphasizes the parallels drawn by the artist between the historical tale and present-day political issues. The book was printed in 1939, then bound and published in 1940. It enjoyed a great success and was hailed by The Times as "worthy to be placed among the most beautiful of books that the hand of man has produced". A further 125 copies, also printed on vellum and signed, were issued for distribution in England. Joseph P. Ansell, Arthur Szyk: Artist, Jew, Pole, 2004; "The Haggadah - A Sumptuous Illustrated Edition", The Times Literary Supplement, 22 Feb. 1941. Large quarto, comprising 118 french-fold leaves. Text in Hebrew and English. Printed in black, purple, blue, red, and green on vellum. With 14 full-page plates and numerous vignettes and border decorations printed in colour, all by Szyk. Original blue morocco by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, spine with raised bands, compartments framed in gilt enclosing gilt lettering and crown tools, triple gilt fillet border to covers, large illustration of high priest holding the matzoh and Passover wine as centrepiece, board edges and turn-ins tooled in gilt, doublures of cream silk satin illustrated with Moses supporting the Ten Commandments. Housed in the original velvet-lined blue half morocco solander box, blue morocco label with lion's head design in gilt to front board. The box with couple of spots of wear at extremities, some marks and toning to cloth, couple of scratches, still presenting well. A fine copy in the handsome original binding.…
Anbieter: Antiquariaat Spinoza, Amsterdam, NiederlandeAntiquariaat Spinoza
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In den WarenkorbMelzer Verlag, no date. 550 pp. Large 4to 31cm. Illustrated. Apart from the wrappers in fine condition. Wrappers, slightly damaged. New German translation of HaOmanut HaYehudit, proofcopy, not published, no ISBN. Heavy item. For shipment outside Europe, extra postage required. 26 contributions by experts on different aspects of Jewish Art.…