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- Author:
- Dunne, James E.
- Title:
- Heil Hebrew! A Gentile Salute
- Publisher:
- The Alliance Press, Louisville, 1938.
- Description:
- Louis Brandeis's copy, the presentation on the front blank--"To Hon. Louis D. Brandeis / with deepest / respect and esteem / James E. Dunne / December 1938", dated the same month as Brandeis noted "[t]he rising indignation over Hitler's atrocities"
- Condition:
- Original red felt wraps, the front wrap gilt-lettered, a small chip to the rear wrap, light wear, else a very good copy; 91 pages
- Book No.:
- W-77591
- Price:
- $ 1250.00
- Category:
- jewish law, Discrimination
- Author:
- Cardozo, Benjamin N.
- Title:
- Values
- Publisher:
- Jewish Institute of Religion, New York, 1944.
- Description:
- Justice Cardozo's poignant, inspiring address, delivered in 1931 at the Jewish Institute of Religion, the reform seminary established by Rabbi Stephen Wise, "who came as close as anyone to being Cardozo's spiritual advisor"
- Condition:
- Original light-green printed stapled wraps, somewhat faded and worn, lightly browned, else a good copy; 10 pages
- Book No.:
- W-71496
- Price:
- $ 350.00
- Category:
- jewish law, Religion, Supreme Court
- Author:
- Title:
- Catalogue of Continental and English Literature and History Hebraica and Judaica Including Property of Rabbi David Freilich
- Publisher:
- Bloomsbury Book Auctions, London, 1999.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Original printed stapled warps, a bit faded, 319 lots in 54 pages;with prices realized list laid in
- Book No.:
- W-91973
- Price:
- $ 35.00
- Category:
- Dealer & Auction Catalogues, jewish law
- Author:
- Harrington, James
- Title:
- The Art of Law-Giving: in III Books. The First Shewing the Foundations . . . of all the kinds of Government. The Second, Shewing the . . . Commonwealths of Israel and of the Jews. The Third, Shewing a Model fitted unto the present State [etc.]. Wing H806
- Publisher:
- Printed by J.C. for Henry Fletcher, at the three Gilt Cups [etc.], London, 1659.
- Description:
- The only early edition of the work which J.G.A. Pocock numbered among Harrington's "most ambitious", appearing soon after his 'Oceana' and in part its forceful abridgement, propelling Harrington into "the mainstream of national political argument"
- Condition:
- Early 3/4 calf, rubbed, front hinge strained but firm, imprint shaved and top and bottom margins cut close, the main text unaffected; a good copy
- Book No.:
- W-75410
- Price:
- $ 2500.00
- Category:
- jewish law, jurisdiction, political theory
- Author:
- Title:
- An Act for naturalizing such foreign Protestants, and others therein mentioned, as are settled, or shall settle in any of His Majesty's Colonies in America [13 Geo II c.7]. Folio
- Publisher:
- Printed by John Baskett, Printer to the King [etc.], London, 1739.
- Description:
- The landmark legislation permitting the naturalization of both Quakers and Jews in the American colonies, extending to them rights not yet secured in England, providing "[a] more liberal and enlightened policy" to encourage colonial settlement
- Condition:
- Title with woodcut Royal arms and three leaves, disbound, light browning, else well preserved; title + pages 167-171
- Book No.:
- W-79040
- Price:
- $ 1750.00
- Category:
- immigration, Religion, jewish law, Quakers and the Law
- Author:
- Title:
- Catalogue of Hebraica, Judaica, Music, and Continental Books Including Property of the Late Marcus Carr and Property of the late Robert Latham
- Publisher:
- Bloomsbury Book Auctions, London, 1997.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Original printed stapled wraps, 334 lots in 55 pages
- Book No.:
- W-91970
- Price:
- $ 35.00
- Category:
- Dealer & Auction Catalogues, jewish law
- Author:
- Burns, Robert I.
- Title:
- Jews in the Notarial Culture, Latinate Wills in Mediterranean Spain, 1250-1350
- Publisher:
- University of California Press, Berkeley, 1996.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Book No.:
- W-64021
- Price:
- $ 45.00
- Category:
- jewish law, notaries, SPAIN, MEDIEVAL, Wills
- Author:
- Caspi, Mishael Maswari (ed.)
- Title:
- Jewish Tradition in the Diaspora, Studies in Memory of Professor Walter J. Fischel
- Publisher:
- Judah L. Magnes Memorial Museum, Berkeley, 1981.
- Description:
- Twenty-nine contributions, including that of David Daube, 'Johanan Ben Beroqua and Women's Rights'
- Condition:
- Original blue cloth, gilt, a very good copy
- Book No.:
- W-74867
- Price:
- $ 35.00
- Category:
- jewish law, women's law
- Author:
- Kramer, William M.
- Title:
- Jewish-Activist Lawyers of Pioneer American California, Solomon Heydenfeldt, Henry Jacob Labatt, Joseph R[odriguez] Brandon
- Publisher:
- The University of Judaism, Los Angeles, 1990.
- Description:
- Rabbi Kramer's inaugural Kenneth C. Zwerin Lecture, delivered in August, 1989, devoted principally to the three Sephardic Jews who practised as lawyers and, in Heydenfeldt's case, as California Supreme Court justice during the state's first decade
- Condition:
- Original printed pictorial oversized stapled wraps, a very good copy; 25 pages
- Book No.:
- W-73918
- Price:
- $ 65.00
- Category:
- California, jewish law, 19TH CENTURY, Bench and Bar
- Author:
- Title:
- Disraeli, the Jew, Essays by Benjamin Cardozo & Emma Lazarus
- Publisher:
- Selzer & Selzer, Great Barrington, 1944.
- Description:
- The first publication of Cardozo's essay on Disraeli, written a century ago but only recently discovered, paired with the reissue of the essay written by Cardozo's cousin, Emma Lazarus, both focusing on the issue of Disraeli's (and their) Jewishness
- Condition:
- Original printed wraps, a bit snagged, else good; 73 pages
- Book No.:
- W-66560
- Price:
- $ 85.00
- Category:
- Supreme Court, jewish law, 19TH CENTURY
- Author:
- Hoffman, Robert L.
- Title:
- More Than a Trial The Struggle Over Captain Dreyfus
- Publisher:
- Free Press, New York, 1980.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Book No.:
- W-40804
- Price:
- $ 45.00
- Category:
- 19TH CENTURY, California, reports of cases, trials, jewish law, Radicals, 19TH CENTURY
- Author:
- Robinson, Jacob
- Title:
- And the Crooked Shall Be Made Straight, The Eichmann Trial, the Jewish Catastrophe, and Hannah Arendt's Narrative
- Publisher:
- The Macmillan Company [stated first printing], New York, 1965.
- Description:
- The work written by the founder of the Institute of Jewish Affairs and special consultant on Jewish matters to Robert H. Jackson at Nuremberg, represented as "a definitive, devastating criticism of" Hannah Arendt's 'Eichmann in Jerusalem'
- Condition:
- Presentation copy-- "To Will Maslow [the noted civil rights lawyer] / in thankful recognition for your generous / help / From the Author / 10/8/65"
- Book No.:
- W-80226
- Price:
- $ 250.00
- Category:
- trials, jewish law, criminal law, Inscribed or Presentation Copy
- Author:
- Hsia, R. P-Chia
- Title:
- Trent 1475, Stories of a Ritual Murder Trial
- Publisher:
- Yale University Press, New Haven, 1992.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Book No.:
- W-43121
- Price:
- $ 25.00
- Category:
- ITALY, 15TH CENTURY, trials, criminal law, jewish law
- Author:
- Margolius, Ivan
- Title:
- Reflections of Prague, Journeys through the 20th Century
- Publisher:
- John Wiley & Sons, Inc., New York, 2006.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Original cloth, a very good copy in the dustjacket; with the publisher's release flyer and the Times Literary Supplement review laid in
- Book No.:
- W-74092
- Price:
- $ 45.00
- Category:
- CZECHOSLOVAKIA, jewish law, trials
- Author:
- Maccoby, Hyam (ed.)
- Title:
- Judaism on Trial, Jewish-Christian Disputations in the Middle Ages
- Publisher:
- Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, Rutherford, 1982.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Book No.:
- W-46236
- Price:
- $ 19.95
- Category:
- jewish law, trials, MEDIEVAL
- Author:
- Butler, Pierce
- Title:
- Judah P. Benjamin
- Publisher:
- George W. Jacobs, Philadelphia, 1907.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Worn, the front joint cracked, but usable
- Book No.:
- W-54264
- Price:
- $ 75.00
- Category:
- biography, jewish law
- Author:
- Rubenstein, Joshua and Vladimir P. Naumov (eds.)
- Title:
- Stalin's Secret Pogrom, The Postwar Inquisition of the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee. Translated by Laura Esther Wolfson
- Publisher:
- Yale University Press, New Haven, 2001.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Original cloth, a very good copy in the dustjacket; published in association with the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- Book No.:
- W-72172
- Price:
- $ 85.00
- Category:
- SOVIET UNION, jewish law, trials
- Author:
- Brandeis, Louis D.
- Title:
- Business a Profession
- Publisher:
- Hale, Cushman & Flint, Boston, 1933.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Book No.:
- W-41085
- Price:
- $ 85.00
- Category:
- biography, jewish law, Supreme Court
- Author:
- Robinson, Jacob
- Title:
- And the Crooked Shall Be Made Straight, The Eichmann Trial, the Jewish Catastrophe, and Hannah Arendt's Narrative
- Publisher:
- Jewish Publication Society of America, Philadelphia, 1965.
- Description:
- Condition:
- A good copy, in a worn dustjacket
- Book No.:
- W-61256
- Price:
- $ 85.00
- Category:
- trials, jewish law, criminal law
- Author:
- Bernstein, M., F. Garcia Martinez and J. Kampen
- Title:
- Legal Texts & Legal Issues, Proceedings of the Second Meeting of the International Organization of Qumran Studies, Published in Honour of Joseph M. Baumgarten
- Publisher:
- E.J. Brill, Leiden, 1997.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Book No.:
- W-64269
- Price:
- $ 184.00
- Category:
- ancient law, jewish law
- Author:
- Rabinowitz, Ezekiel
- Title:
- Justice Louis D. Brandeis, The Zionist Chapter of His Life
- Publisher:
- Philosophical Library, New York, 1968.
- Description:
- Condition:
- A very good copy, in the dustjacket
- Book No.:
- W-58634
- Price:
- $ 85.00
- Category:
- biography, Supreme Court, jewish law
- Author:
- Raschhofer, Hermann
- Title:
- Political Assassination, The Legal Background of the Oberlander and Stashinsky Cases
- Publisher:
- Fritz Schlichtenmayer, Tubingen, 1964.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Printed sewn wraps, worn and embrowned, but usable; 231 pages
- Book No.:
- W-48537
- Price:
- $ 75.00
- Category:
- SOVIET UNION, trials, jewish law
- Author:
- Cook, Stanley A.
- Title:
- The Laws of Moses and the Code of Hammurabi
- Publisher:
- Adam & Charles Black, London, 1903.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Original green cloth, quite worn, some underlining; usable only
- Book No.:
- W-62566
- Price:
- $ 125.00
- Category:
- ancient law, jewish law
- Author:
- Carmichael, Calum M. (ed.)
- Title:
- Essays on Law and Religion, The Berkeley and Oxford Symposia in Honour of David Daube
- Publisher:
- The Robbins Religious and Civil Law Collection, Berkeley, 1993.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Original printed green boards, a very good copy
- Book No.:
- W-72849
- Price:
- $ 85.00
- Category:
- ancient law, roman law, jewish law, Religion
- Author:
- Daube, David
- Title:
- Collaboration with Tyranny in Rabbinic Law
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press, London, 1965.
- Description:
- Professor Daube's Riddell Memorial Lectures, in which he "leaves it to the reader to draw parallels with the modern world", and with great insight examines a number of exquisitely difficult and real moral dilemmas historically posed by Rabbinic law
- Condition:
- Presentation copy "To William Braude [the most scholarly of Reform Rabbis] / in admiration and affection / from David Daube / 12 May 1966 / All Souls"
- Book No.:
- W-73241
- Price:
- $ 150.00
- Category:
- jewish law, ancient law
- Author:
- Daube, David
- Title:
- Ancient Jewish Law, Three Inaugural Lectures
- Publisher:
- E.J. Brill, Leiden, 1981.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Original blue cloth, gilt, a very good copy
- Book No.:
- W-69251
- Price:
- $ 125.00
- Category:
- jewish law, ancient law
- Author:
- Tager, Alexander B.
- Title:
- The Decay of Czarism, The Beiliss Trial, A Contribution to the History of the Political Reaction During the Last Years of Russian Czarism [etc.]
- Publisher:
- Jewish Publication Society of America, Philadelphia, 1935.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Green cloth, rubbed, but a clean copy
- Book No.:
- W-47974
- Price:
- $ 125.00
- Category:
- RUSSIA, jewish law, trials
- Author:
- Daube, David
- Title:
- Ancient Hebrew Fables. The Inaugural Lecture of the Oxford Centre for Postgraduate Hebrew Studies, Delivered in Corpus Christi College 17 May 1973
- Publisher:
- At the University Press, Oxford, 1973.
- Description:
- Professor Daube's insightful discussion of the three fables found in the Old Testament and six others from Rabbinic sources with no known precursors in other literatures, noting their manifold relations to freedom and civil disobedience
- Condition:
- Presentation copy ("Warm regards, David") on the inside front wrap, to Philip Rieff, the noted psychologist, with his ownership signature on the title
- Book No.:
- W-70711
- Price:
- $ 150.00
- Category:
- ancient law, jewish law, Law and Literature, Inscribed or Presentation Copy
- Author:
- Daube, David and Calum Carmichael
- Title:
- The Return of the Divorcee
- Publisher:
- Oxford Centre for Postgraduate Hebrew Studies, Oxford, 1993.
- Description:
- The lecture given by Professor Daube (with that of Professor Carmichael) upon the establishment of a Fellowship of Jewish Law at Oxford, examining with the lightest touch the Dueteronomic prohibition of a divorcee returning to her first husband
- Condition:
- Original light-blue stapled printed wraps, well-preserved; 28 pages
- Book No.:
- W-71985
- Price:
- $ 65.00
- Category:
- ancient law, jewish law, divorce
- Author:
- Daube, David
- Title:
- Appeasement or Resistance, And Other Essays on New Testament Judaism
- Publisher:
- University of California Press, Berkeley, 1987.
- Description:
- Four of Professor Daube's always scintillating essays, the last of which (the title's essay) may be viewed as complementing his 'Collaboration with Tyranny'; with a second essay on 'Temple Tax', and another on the 'Old Testament in the New'
- Condition:
- Presented "To Charlie Moche / in profound gratitude / for encouragement and help / in good and difficult times / February 1988 / from David"
- Book No.:
- W-71504
- Price:
- $ 150.00
- Category:
- ancient law, jewish law, Inscribed or Presentation Copy
- Author:
- Muffs, Yochanan
- Title:
- Studies in the Aramaic Legal Papyri from Elephantine
- Publisher:
- E. J. Brill, Leiden, 1969.
- Description:
- Studia et Documenta ad Iura Orientis Antiqui Pertinentia (Auspiciis Societatis Leidensis cui Nomen 'Stichting voor Niet-Westers Recht') Volumen VIII
- Condition:
- Original printed gray wraps, the spine a bit faded, else a very good, largely uncut copy; 311 pages
- Book No.:
- W-75921
- Price:
- $ 125.00
- Category:
- jewish law, ancient law
- Author:
- Neufeld, E[phraim]
- Title:
- Ancient Hebrew Marriage Laws, With Special References to General Semitic Laws and Customs
- Publisher:
- Longmans, Green and Co., London, 1944.
- Description:
- An impressive work, seeking to provide a "comprehensive survey" of Hebrew marriage, treating also of parents and children and of slavery when appropriate; with comparisons drawn to other ancient laws and customs, including Babylonian, Hindu, and Arab
- Condition:
- Black cloth, quite marked and rubbed and a bit strained, but a usable copy
- Book No.:
- W-69590
- Price:
- $ 250.00
- Category:
- ancient law, jewish law, marriage, law of slavery
- Author:
- Daube, David
- Title:
- Witnesses in Bible and Talmud [with] Calum Carmichael, Biblical Laws of Talon [Oxford Centre Papers]
- Publisher:
- Oxford Centre for Postgraduate Hebrew Studies, Oxford, 1986.
- Description:
- Professor Daube's illuminating essay upon bearing false witness (and its punishment), the two-witness requirement, women's incapacity as witnesses, and the reform in the Book of Susannah (requiring separate examination of witnesses), inter alia
- Condition:
- Original printed stapled wraps, a bit worn, but a good copy; 39 pages
- Book No.:
- W-71079
- Price:
- $ 75.00
- Category:
- ancient law, Religion, jewish law
- Author:
- Daube, David
- Title:
- Suddenness and Awe in Scripture [with introductory remarks by the Earl of Perth] [The Tenth Robert Waley Cohen Memorial Lecture]
- Publisher:
- The Council of Christians and Jews, London, 1963.
- Description:
- A fine exploration of "sudden" instances in the Bible and their typical association with unanticipated, unwanted consequences, with miracles, and (even if wanted or desirable) with events of an awesome nature or cast
- Condition:
- Original printed stapled green wraps, slightly worn and faded, a presentation copy ("Kindest regards / David"); 20 pages
- Book No.:
- W-74073
- Price:
- $ 125.00
- Category:
- Religion, jewish law, ancient law
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