"A Vanished World", Roman Vishniac with a foreword by Elie Wiesel. New-York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1983. English.
Photographs from the Shtetl and from Jewish ghettoes in Romania, Russia and Hungary, between the years 1935-1938. With a foreword by the author Eli Wiesel. A short dedication, handwritten by Roman Vishniac in 1983, appears on the first page.
Roman Vishniac (1897-1990), a Jewish American photographer, born in Russia. Best known for his photographs capturing Jewish culture in central and eastern Europe before the Holocaust. The Joint financed his work as part of a fundraising drive, but Vishniac was personally attracted to the Shtetl and Jewish ghettoes and continued traveling throughout Europe years after the Joint discontinued their financial support. During those years he was often arrested by the police and was even suspected of being a spy since he was caught photographing. His book "A Vanished World", one of the first books which documented in photographs the culture of Eastern European Jews before the Holocaust.
[12], 180 pp, 30.5 cm. Good condition.

Gedichte [poems], by Franz Werfel. Berlin-Vienna-Leipzig: Paul Zsolnay, 1927. German.
A poetry book by Franz Werfel (1890-1945), a Jewish poet, Austrian, one of the prominent artists in the Expressionist movement in German literature. A dedication to Martin Buber, handwritten and signed by Werfel, appears on front endpaper.
467, [1] pp + [1] leaf (author's portrait), 20 cm. Good condition. Some stains. Red cloth-covered binding, damaged. Detached spine.

1. Al Kapot HaManul, love stories by S.Y. Agnon. Berlin: Jüdischer Verlag, [1923]. Dedication: "to the exceptional scholar Rabbi David Yellin, with great honor and greetings, S.Y. Agnon, Pesach 1923" (Hebrew).
2. MiDira LeDira, a story. Jerusalem: Schocken, 1940. Dedication: for G. Talphir, "with friendship S.Y. Agnon". (Hebrew). Stains and worming.
3. Sipur Pashut (fifth volume of "All of S.Y. Agnon's Stories"), Berlin: Schocken, 1935. Dedication: "To Mrs. Hildi Oppenheimer for her second birthday, from me the author, a good present". (Hebrew).
4. Sipur Pashut (fifth volume of "All of S.Y. Agnon's Stories"). Berlin: Schocken, 1935. A family dedication: "to my dear brother in law R' Yosef Marx, S.Y. Agnon".
5. Elu veElu (eighth volume of the edition "All of S.Y. Agnon's Stories"). Jerusalem: Schocken, 1942. Dedication: "LeSar HaChamishim, to Heintz Hermann, sincerely, S.Y. Agnon". Dr. Heintz Herman was the director of the first Jewish psychiatric hospital "Ezrat Nashim" and was the first psychiatrist who described the "Jerusalem Syndrom".
6. Elu veElu (eighth volume of "All of S.Y. Agnon's Stories"). Jerusalem: Schocken, 1942. Dedication: "to my friends Lola and Eliyahu Herman, with a 'good greeting', S.Y. Agnon".
7. MiShmanei HaAretz [reprint from the book Hanoch Yelon], Jerusalem, 1963. Dedication: "for Ephraim Broide, a greeting, S.Y. Agnon".
8. Ma'oz U-Machase [reprint]. Dedication:" to Alexander Broide, S.Y. Agnon".
9. Yosef Haim Brenner in his Life and Death [reprint from "Molad"]. Dedication: "to Mrs. Sivan, with Shanah Tovah greetings, S.Y. Agnon".
10. Last chapter [reprint]. Dedication on the first page.
11. Shriftn in dray teyln, S.Y. Agnon. Yiddish: Eliezer Rubinstein. Tel-Aviv: "HaMenorah" publishing, 1969. Writings of S.Y. Agnon in "Three Parts", in one heavy volume. Illustrations by Yosl Bergner, graphics by Eli Gross, essay about Agnon by Dov Sadan. Numbered copy 18/50, signed by Agnon (on first title page), with a nice dedication by the author.
12. S.Y. Agnon, by A.M. Lifschitz, Jerusalem. Berlin, 1926. Essay about Agnon and his works, by Elazar Meir Lifschitz. Printed on heavy paper with wide margins, in two hundred copies. Written on the colophon: "This essay was first published in HaShilo'ach, volume 45, booklets 3-4, Jerusalem,1926. The author added to, and commented on, and published a second edition in two hundred copies, Moshe ben Shimshon Marx in Berlin for the Bar Mitzva of his son Yosef Avraham Marx…"
13. Shmuel Yosef Agnon, Reprinted from Jewish Book Annual. Published by Jewish Book Council of America, sponsored by National Jewish Welfare Board, New-York, [1968?]. A small anthology of essays about Agnon and translations of passages of his composition "Sefer Sofer VeSipur".
Size and condition vary.

Photographic portrait of David Ben-Gurion, with a short dedication, signed by him. Dedication is dated: 2.11.1967.
24X18 cm. Good condition. Framed.