{"title":"Judaica Books","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAs one of the few booksellers specialising in important and rare books on \u003c\/span\u003eJewish history\u003cspan\u003e, literature, \u003c\/span\u003ephilosophy\u003cspan\u003e, religion \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eand culture from the West End of London, Shapero Rare Books offers a diverse range of \u003cem\u003eJudaica and Hebraica\u003c\/em\u003e spanning the centuries, from early printed books and manuscripts in Hebrew through to modern illustrated Haggadot and books on food \u0026amp; drink.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e► Browse our latest\u003cem\u003e \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/shapero.com\/collections\/judaica-2025\"\u003eJudaica \u0026amp; Hebraica Catalogue 2025\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"dizenoff-meir-promissori-note-signed-jaffa-1914-86266","title":"Signed Promissory Note.","description":"\u003ch4 class=\"srb-faux-head\"\u003e\u003c\/h4\u003eMeir Dizengoff (1861-1937) was the first Mayor of Tel Aviv, an early supporter of Herzl, and attendee at several Zionist congresses. J. L. [Leib] Goldberg, the recipient of this cheque, had served as Herzl's escort during his only trip to Palestine, showing him the living conditions. He was later opposed to Herzl at the Sixth Zionist Congress because of Herzl's temporary acceptance of the Uganda Plan.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSigned 'M. Dizengoff to J. L. Goldberg. Jaffa, Palestine. 6 July 1914'; notarised stamp and seal; dimensions of note: 11.2 x 18.2 cm; mounted.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e","brand":"DIZENGOFF, Meir.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45546938827057,"sku":"86266","price":500.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0733\/4694\/1233\/files\/86266.jpg?v=1780725895"},{"product_id":"china-israels-messenger-shanghai-1906-88760","title":"Israel's Messenger. 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The Jüdischer Verlag, founded on demand of Martin Buber 1901, was probably the most important publishing house and cultural institution, inspiring the Jewish cultural Renaissance in Germany in the first half of the 20th century and the most significant outlet for Zionist publications.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLarge 8vo (23 x 16 cm); original wrappers printed in red and black, a little chipped and slightly browned; text in German; 77, [3] pp.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e","brand":"SAMMELSCHRIFT, Eine (editor).","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45546992632113,"sku":"89022","price":350.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0733\/4694\/1233\/files\/89022_026d9f3e-b9db-4a1c-9535-a004941bf512.jpg?v=1780725880"},{"product_id":"das-werk-des-zionismus-palastina-1926-89024","title":"Das Werk Des Zionismus in Palästina. 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He built the Schocken Library in Jerusalem and bought the local newspaper 'Haaretz' in 1937. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe speeches included are as follows: First Congress Address, delivered in Basel, August 29th, 1897; Second Congress Address, delivered in Basel, August 28th, 1898; Third Congress Address, delivered in Basel, August 15th, 1899; Fourth Congress Address, delivered in London, August 13th, 1900; Fifth Congress Address, delivered in Basel, December 26th, 1901; Sixth Congress Address, delivered in Basel, August 23th, 1903.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFirst edition, number 253 of an edition limited to 400; large 4to (27 x 21 cm); bibliophile printing on very fine paper imitating vellum, wide margins; original gilt-stamped boards, extremities a little worn, light spotting; text in German; 81, [2] pp. (the initial 2 blank).\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e","brand":"HERZL, Theodor.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45546992927025,"sku":"89030","price":500.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0733\/4694\/1233\/files\/89030.jpg?v=1780727697"},{"product_id":"kirchner-judisches-ceremoniel-nurnberg-1726-90504","title":"Jüdisches Ceremoniel, oder Beschreibung derjenigen Gebräuche,","description":"\u003ch4 class=\"srb-faux-head\"\u003e\u003c\/h4\u003eFundamental and richly illustrated work describing Jewish customs, rituals and costumes.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis detailed description of Jewish ceremonial customs by Paul Christian Kirchner, a Jewish convert to Christianity, was first published in 1717 and then re-edited by the Christian Hebraist Sebastian Jacob Jugendres, who added his own commentary to the work, in 1724. The new edition included twenty-eight copperplate engravings (nine signed by Johann Georg Puschner) depicting a variety of Jewish rituals, including events marking the life cycle within the synagogue community, such as: circumcision, presentation of the first born, prayer at the synagogue, wedding, purification of the bride, the washing of the brother-in-law's feet, divorce, the feast of reconciliation, death rites, burials, the Sabbath, and various holiday ceremonies. The illustrations are accompanied by four pages of legends that clarify them in detail.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe book was intended for a German audience. 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Unlike Levi and Alexander this group printed books exclusively in Hebrew and Yiddish. Their first publication is said to have been the Toledoth Jacob, a work written by an immigrant Polish scholar named Jacob Eisenstadt. It was followed by a portly liturgy book with Yiddish translation published in 1770\/1 in three quarto volumes. All three publications are considered to be very rare, with only a small number of surviving copies. We could not locate any copies in the ESTC.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFirst edition; 4to (20.5 x 13.5 cm); 114 leaves; pagination in Hebrew; leaves browned, wear and occasional small tears to margins of leaves. 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A fervent Zionist and admirer of Herzl's, Struck made his preparatory sketches for the portrait when he visited the political activist's house in Vienna. During the sixth Zionist Congress in Basel in August 1903, the two met again and on this occasion Herzl asked Struck to allow him to sign a few of the first copies of the etching.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eStruck depicted Herzl's visionary side by giving us the impression that he is looking towards the future. Although Struck made two additional etchings of this portrait after Herzl's death, it is the 1903 version that has remained the most famous, and the most iconic of all the portraits of Theodor Herzl. Indeed, the image came to be one of the emblems of Zionism and has been used on various posters, products and catalogues ever since: 'Within a short period of time the etching became so well known that it emerged as a symbol of Zionism, especially after the death of the charismatic leader in 1904. It was then that the portrait won the respect of all the Zionist circles. By the time the State of Israel was founded, this portrait of Theodor Herzl was considered the epitome of Zionism itself. It decorated the walls of every Zionist event, anywhere' (Hermann Struck, Printmaking Artist. Tefen Open Museum, 2007, p.38).\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHermann Struck was a German-Israeli artist who gained fame for his etchings. He published a leading work on the subject, Die Kunst des Radierens, in 1908. He was commissioned to etch portraits of many leading figures of his time, including Einstein and Herzl. Struck acquired a reputation as a teacher of graphic art, and began to teach the techniques of the art print while still in Germany. Among his many students were Max Liebermann, Lovis Corinth, Marc Chagall, Jacob Steinhardt, and Joseph Budko. He moved to Haifa in 1922. 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The Province of Massa and Carrara [or Massa-Carrara] is in the Italian region of Tuscany. It is named after the two main towns in its territory: Carrara and the capital, Massa; there is evidence that Jews have lived in Tuscany since the Early Middle Ages. Although Florence and Pisa had the largest Jewish populations, many of the smaller towns were also home to significant Jewish communities. The province of Massa-Carrara is located not far from the city of Livorno, which saw an influx of Jewish settlers at the turn of the sixteenth century because of the 'Livornina Law', which granted them freedom of worship.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Ketubah is a nuptial agreement signed by the groom and presented to the bride as part of the traditional Jewish wedding ceremony. It formalises the duties and responsibilities of the groom towards the bride, including some basic obligations such as sustenance (food and clothing), marital relations and compensation in the event of divorce. 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The decoration is composed of colourful ornamental borders on an ochre-yellow background: upper border with intertwining green branches, lower border with a white vine-stem and crowns, large flowers and medallions depicting the zodiac signs in the columns that separate the compartments.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Book of Esther is part of the Ketuvim (The Writings), the third section of the Hebrew Bible. It tells the story of a Jewish girl named Esther who became queen of Persia and thwarted a plan by Haman to commit genocide against her people. Also called The Megillah, the book is the basis and an integral part of the Jewish celebration of Purim. Its full text is read aloud twice during the celebration, in the evening and again the following morning. 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The earliest extant illuminated examples emanate from 16th-century Italy,\u003cbr\u003ecommissioned by well-to-do Italian Jews' (Encyclopaedia Judaica).\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIlluminated scroll on parchment, 3 spliced sheets, 25.5 x 202.7 cm.; hand-coloured decorations (possibly later), some wear and loss of colour, small tears; repairs to the back of first sheet.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e","brand":"[ESTHER SCROLL].","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45547045617969,"sku":"91530","price":9500.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0733\/4694\/1233\/files\/91530_6c001928-0703-4c25-88c3-8417896c3b3d.jpg?v=1780726431"},{"product_id":"abraham-nathan-wolf-judischen-religion-1782-91842","title":"Grundsätze der Jüdischen Religion","description":"\u003ch4 class=\"srb-faux-head\"\u003e\u003c\/h4\u003eOne of the first instructive texts on Judaism to be published in Germany.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn his Foundations of the Jewish Religion, Rabbi Abraham Nathan Wolf lays out the basic principles and teachings of Judaism, written in simple and accessible language, but without reducing the moral and religious content of the Jewish law and faith.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe settlement of Jews in Dessau dates from 1621. 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According to Stieglitz, sometime after their third day of travel, he went for a walk around the ship and came upon a viewpoint that looked down toward the lower class passengers area, known on most ships as the steerage. The scene Stieglitz captured is in fact a cultural document of an important period when many immigrants were coming to America. But this photo was taken on a cruise going to Europe from America, and so the poor people captured in the photo were most likely those who were turned away by U.S. Immigration officials and were forced to go back to Europe. Although some of the passengers might have been rejected immigrants, turned back because of failure to meet financial or health requirements for entrance, it is also likely that many of them were various artisans who worked in the booming U.S. construction trade of the time. Workers who were highly skilled in crafts such as cabinetmaking, woodworking and marble laying were granted two-year temporary visas to complete their jobs and then returned to their homelands when the work was complete. A son of German Jewish immigrants, Stieglitz perhaps recognised himself in those people of the lower deck.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Steerage began its life as a masterpiece four years after its creation, with Stieglitz's publication of it in a 1911 issue of Camera Work devoted exclusively to his photographs in the 'new' style, together with a Cubist drawing by Picasso. Stieglitz loved to recount how the great painter had praised the collage-like dispersal of forms and shifting depths of The Steerage. Canonised retroactively, the photograph allowed Stieglitz to put his chosen medium on par with the experimental European painting and sculpture he imported and exhibited at his gallery.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAlfred Stieglitz (1864-1946), an American-Jewish photographer, was a major force in the promotion and elevation of photography as a fine art in America in the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries. The Steerage is considered Stieglitz's signature work, and was proclaimed by the artist and illustrated in histories of the medium as his first 'modernist' photograph. 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George Edward Arkell (1857-1926) was the cartographer responsible for the production of Charles Booth's famous poverty maps of London, which were used as the basis for the map offered here, originally produced in 1899. This map may be held up as an example of misleading statistical cartography: there is little doubt that the mapmaker made an effort to emphasise the 'problem' of recent Jewish immigrants from Russia and Eastern Europe.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFleeing the resurgence of pogroms in eastern Europe and the Tsarist persecution in Russia, many Jews had arrived in London in the second half of the 19th century. At that time Britain had no restrictions on immigration and estimates suggest that by 1900 the Jewish population of London's East End had risen to 135,000. In 1905 the Aliens Act was passed, designed specifically to halt Jewish immigration. 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