Special issue of "Yungvarg" ["Youth"], published by the Arbeter ring (Workmen's Circle), Toronto. 1926. Yiddish. The issue covers the Camp Yungvelt summer colony run by the Toronto Workmen's circle, with features including a short story, poems, illustrations and photos taken at the camp. Back cover featuring several advertisements, including one inviting readers to join the Workmen's Circle. The Workmen's Circle, now known as the Workers Circle (Yiddish: Arbeter Ring) was founded in the United States of America in 1900 as a mutual help and workers' association of socialist tendencies, targeted at Jewish secular immigrants from Eastern Europe. Members were offered various insurance policies, unemployment benefits, and help in adjusting to life in America; the organization also took part in the political struggle for workers' rights. In addition, the Workers Circle promoted Yiddish culture in the United States, was involved with the Yiddish newspaper The Forward and ran summer schools and camps across the continent. At its heyday, the organization had over 70,000 members in hundreds of branches across North America. Nowadays, with 10,000 members, the Workers Circle continues to be active culturally and politically, teaching Yiddish, operating summer camps and summer schools, and more. 24 pp., approx. 24 cm. Good-fair condition. Some pages unopened at top edge. Stains, including minor dampstains.Creases. Minor tears to top edge of several pages. Blemishes and pinholes to title page, somewhat affecting text. Rare.

The Casale Pilgrim: A Sixteenth-Century Illustrated Guide to the Holy Places Reproduced in Facsimile, With Introduction, Translation, and Notes by Cecil Roth. London: Soncino Press, 1929. English. A high-quality facsimile of a Hebrew manuscript: an illustrated guide to holy places in Palestine and its vicinity, written in the 16th century by an anonymous author of Italian origin. English translation, introduction, and notes by Cecil Roth (1899-1970), British-Jewish historian who specialized in Jewish history and was renowned, among other things, for his collection of Jewish art and Judaica. This is copy no. 76 from a limited edition of 580 copies. Original, fine vellum binding, with gilt design to front. Top edges gilt. Heavy, high-quality paper. [1], 91 pp., 25.5 cm. Good condition. Stains. Minor worming to leaves and front board.

The Birds Head Haggada of the Bezalel National Art Museum in Jerusalem. Two volumes. Jerusalem: Tarshish Books (printed by Kunstanstalt Max Jaffe, Vienna, Austria), 1965-67. A color facsimile edition, printed on heavy, high-quality paper, of the illuminated Birds' Head Haggadah manuscript (Germany, ca. 1300). Two volumes: facsimile volume (printed in 1965), and an introductory volume edited by Dr. Moshe Spitzer (printed in 1967; English). The colophon of the facsimile volume reads (in English): "Printed in collotype by Kunstanstalt Max Jaffe in Vienna and published in 600 numbered copies as the first publication of the L. A. Mayer Library for Beth David Solomons by Tarshish Books Jerusalem, 1965." This is copy no. 333 in the series. The Birds' Head Haggadah is the earliest illuminated German Haggadah known to have survived as a separate codex, independent of the prayer book. It is distinguished by its extraordinarily unique illustrations of human figures with birds' heads – a most peculiar innovation likely devised by the illustrator as a means of abiding by the biblical prohibition against rendering a graven image: "Thou shalt not make for thyself any graven image, nor any manner of likeness…" (Exodus 20:4). Most of the figures are depicted wearing the so-called "Jewish Hat" (German: "Judenhut, ") the conical head covering Jews in Germany were legally required to wear. The illustrations present various biblical scenes alongside depictions of holiday customs and envisionings of the Redemption. Volume I: [48] ff., [1] colophon leaf. Volume II: 126 pp., [1] f., [31] plates (numbered 129-159), 28 cm. Top edges gilt. Both volumes with vellum spine, gilt. In original matching card slipcases. Good condition. Minor blemishes to bindings and slipcases. Bookplate (Hebrew) to facsimile volume.

"BaShomayim Uvo'Oretz, Oder Himlishe Gest" [In Heaven and on Earth] / Niebo i Ziemia. Lviv: J. Renzer; Rohatyn Press, 1893. Yiddish. Miniature booklet. A Tish'a B'Av story in Yiddish, published in as part of the series "2 Kreitzer Bilbliotek" ["The 2-Kreuzer Library"] of the J. Renzer Publishing House in Lviv. On August 3, 1893, the Hebrew-language newspaper HaMelitz reported that "the Zion Company of Lemberg [Lviv] has begun publishing small booklets in the spoken Jewish language [i.e. Yiddish] with the intention of distributing them among the Jewish populace. The price for such a booklet is two Kreuzer, less than two Russian kopeks. The first booklet, ‘BaShomayim Uvo'Oretz, Oder Himlishe Gest' by Jacob Sh. Renzer is written with profound emotion, and stirs up love of Zion and Jerusalem in one's heart, and contributes to the uplifting of the national spirit." 48 pp., 9 cm. Good condition. Minor damage to page numbering (at tops of several leaves) resulting from trimming of edges. Few stains. Creases and several minor tears. Rare. Not in OCLC.