Stone jonathan editor (7 Ergebnisse)

Paperback. Zustand: Brand New. 290 pages. 7.00x0.61x10.00 inches. In Stock.

Paperback. Zustand: Brand New. 206 pages. 9.00x6.00x0.57 inches. In Stock.

First edition, 4to, 159, (1) pp. Photographic illustrations, mostly in colour. Cloth, d.w., a fine copy.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good. Hamlyn, London, September 1965; folio, 143 x 323mm; pp [xvi, being adverts], 92, [xvi, being more adverts]; profusely illustrated throughout, a few images in colour; pictorial boards, lower front corner a little rubbed, dust wrapper repating Feliks Topolski's image from the cover, top and bottom edges of the wrapper somewhat frayed and with the lower front corner torn and missing - despite these faults with the cover, the item is still a good or better instance of the first issue of the magazine. . . . . This was published by Paul Hamlyn for the New London Synagogue but very little seems to be known about it. The opening comments 'Quest has come into being because of the need for a publication in the English-speaking Jewish world of high all-round literary and artistic content.' Contributors to this issue include Isiah Berlin, Chaim Bermant, Ruth Fainlight, Arnold Wesker, Michael Hamburger, Alan Montefiore, Dannie Abse, Josef Herman and several others. Evidence about the progress of the magazine in scant, this issue alone being shown through COPAC as held by various academic libraries. One entry suggest quarterly publication and another posits the last issue in 1977 although no copy of anything later than this one is to be found. Topolski, Feliks (cover) (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Zustand: Brand New. sew edition. 206 pages. 9.00x6.00x0.82 inches. In Stock.

Hardcover. Zustand: Brand New. 1st edition. 315 pages. 9.75x7.00x0.75 inches. In Stock.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: good. First Edition. 92, [16] pages. Illustrated. Plate from Haggadah by Ben Shahn tipped in at page 53. Notes on Contributors. DJ has wear, soiling, edge tears and chips. Corners bumped and rubbed. Quest was intended to be the annual literary and arts publication of Rabbi Louis Jacobs' New London Synagogue. It came into being because of the need for a publicaiton in the English-spoeaking Jewish world of high all-around literary and artistic content. Its publication emphasises the important creative role which the New London Synagogue has to play in the cultural and intellectual life of Anglo-Jewry in particular -a responsible and important role.New London Synagogue was founded in 1964 by Rabbi Dr. Louis Jacobs, as a Congregation devoted to traditional Judaism with an ideology which interprets the Torah and Jewish teachings in the light of contemporary knowledge and scholarship. It has been a pioneering congregation, leading the way to an enlightened Judaism and representing a rare combination of intellectual integrity together with loyalty to the finest traditions of the Jewish way of life.Now the New London Synagogue's The Quest committee organises two lectures a year, one in the winter and one in the summer to mark the anniversary of the death of Rabbi Dr. Louis Jacobs. Feliks Topolski did cover illustration from his pa (illustrator).…