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  • Ań archive of publications and artworks on Polish-Australian Jewish artist Felix Tuszynski

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    TUSZYNSKI, Felix (1922 - 2016)

    Ań archive of publications and artworks on Polish-Australian Jewish artist Felix Tuszynski

    The Australian artist Felix Tuszynski (1922 – 2016) was a Polish holocaust survivor and brother to French miniature artist Devi Tuszynski. His fantastic and surrealist images are forged from memories of his family as well as time spend in the Auschwitz concentration camp. ZAREMBA, Tadeusz. The art of Felix Tuszynski. Płock : The Mazovian Museum, …

  • The Jews in China :

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    FINN, James (1806 - 1872)

    The Jews in China :

    their synagogue, their scriptures, their history, &c. London : B. Wertheim, 1843. Octavo, green cloth lettered in gilt with Chinese characters, hinges expertly repaired, pp. viii; 86, a very good copy. A rare study of the Kaifeng Jewish community in China by the British diplomat Finn, who published a number of books on Jewish history …

  • Persian Gulf Command.

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    [Compiler unknown].

    Persian Gulf Command.

    [Teheran : Headquarters, Persian Gulf. Command, United States Army, c.1945]. Folio photograph album (320 x 255 mm), original brown textured cloth over boards with embossed silver lettering ‘Persian Gulf Command / Iran’ and embossed insignia of the Persian Gulf Command to upper board, original silk ties; [19] leaves with 268 corner-mounted gelatin silver photographs, most …

  • The Great Pyramid : its divine message. An original co-ordination of historical documents and archaeological evidences.

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    DAVIDSON, D. and ALDERSMITH, H.

    The Great Pyramid : its divine message. An original co-ordination of historical documents and archaeological evidences.

    Vol. I – Pyramid Records. A narrative of new discoveries concerning civilisations and origins. London : Williams and Norgate, 1946. Sixth revised edition. Quarto, gilt-lettered black cloth (a little worn at head and foot of spine) in defective but rare dustjacket (splits and tears with loss to spine, old tape marks), pp. xxviii; 568, numerous …

  • Yosl Bergner : art as a meeting of cultures

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    KLEPNER, Frank

    Yosl Bergner : art as a meeting of cultures

    With a preface by Bernard Smith. Melbourne, Vic. : Macmillan, 2004. Octavo, boards in dustjacket, pp. 160, illustrated. A fine copy, as new. ‘The painter Yosl Bergner was born in Vienna in 1920, arrived in Australia in 1937 and migrated to Israel in 1950. Melbourne scholar, Frank Klepner, provides a richly-detailed history of Bergner’s Australian …

  • The art of Felix Tuszynski

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    ZAREMBA, Tadeusz

    The art of Felix Tuszynski

    Płock : The Mazovian Museum, 2000. Quarto, gilt-lettered leather with pictorial onlay, pp. 207, illustrated. Limited to 400 numbered copies (this copy out of series). Paintings and drawings from the Australian artist Felix Tuszynski (1922 – 2016), a Polish holocaust survivor and brother to French miniature artist Devi Tuszynski.

  • [HOLOCAUST; MELBOURNE] Likwidacja getta Wileńskiego

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    BALBERYSZSKI, M. (Mendel) (1894-1966)

    [HOLOCAUST; MELBOURNE] Likwidacja getta Wileńskiego

    [=Liquidation of the Vilna Ghetto]. Warsawa ; Łodz ; Krakow : [Centralna Żydowska Komisja Historyczna], 1946. Octavo (205 x 145 mm), original grey wrappers lettered in black (sunned at edges); pp. 40; printed on cheap paper which has browned, but in all other respects an excellent copy. A scarce eyewitness account of the liquidation of …

  • Committee Reporter. Vol. 1, nos. 1-9, March-December 1944. (Complete run) [PLUS] Vol. 2, nos. 1-12, January-December 1945. (Complete run)

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    THE AMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE

    Committee Reporter. Vol. 1, nos. 1-9, March-December 1944. (Complete run) [PLUS] Vol. 2, nos. 1-12, January-December 1945. (Complete run)

    New York, NY : The American Jewish Committee, March 1944 to December 1945. Twenty-one individual issues (i.e. not bound), uniform quarto (280 x 220 mm), self-wrappers, 8-page format; occasional illustrations; very good condition throughout. ‘The American Jewish Committee (AJC) is a civil rights group and Jewish advocacy group established on November 11, 1906. It is one of the oldest …

  • InterChange: a monthly review of issues facing Israel and the diaspora. (Complete run)

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    BREIRA (New York)

    InterChange: a monthly review of issues facing Israel and the diaspora. (Complete run)

    New York : Breira, 1975-1977. Vol. 1, no. 1 (September 1975) – no. 10 (June 1976); Vol. 2, no. 1 (September 1976) – no. 10 (June 1977); Vol. 3, no. 1 (September 1977); twenty-one issues (all issued). Uniform quarto newsprint (280 x 215 mm), pagination varies, illustrated; extremely good condition throughout; [WITH] Breira Report – …

  • Declaration of Human Rights. Submitted by The American Jewish Committee, 386 Fourth Avenue, New York City.

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    THE AMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE

    Declaration of Human Rights. Submitted by The American Jewish Committee, 386 Fourth Avenue, New York City.

    [New York, NY : The American Jewish Committee, 1944]. Broadsheet, 280 x 215 mm, printed recto only; used as a form for individuals to register their name and address as willing signatories to the Declaration; in very good condition. ‘With the inevitable end of Hitler, the struggle begins, not of tank and plane, but of …

  • De Medico Hebraeo Enarratio Apologica ... ...

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    POMIS, David ben Isaac de (1524 - ca.1594)

    De Medico Hebraeo Enarratio Apologica … …

    Venice : Apud Ioannem Variscum [Giovanni Varisco], 1588. First (and only) edition. Octavo (190 x 140 mm), modern brown cloth over boards; faint trace of stamp tp front free endpaper, original first blank with early ownership signature to verso (browned, clipped at upper corner), title-page with vignette woodcut printer’s device, and with coat of arms …

  • Tractatus zelus Christi contra Iudaeos, Sarracenos, & infideles,

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    Pedro de la Cavallería; Martin Alfonso Vivaldo; Samuel Marochitanus

    Tractatus zelus Christi contra Iudaeos, Sarracenos, & infideles,

    ab illust. doct. Petro de la Cavalleria, Hispano ex civitate Caesaraugusta, anno 1450 … … Venice : apud Baretium de Baretijs, 1592. Two works in one volume, quarto (225 x 160 mm), contemporary panelled vellum stamped with the initials L V M; [68], 156; [8], 19 leaves; second work has separate title page: Aureus Rabbi Samuelis tractatus …

  • Deed of conveyance between Selig Alexander and Charles Williams, relating to a land allotment in Sandridge (Port Melbourne), November 1857.

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    [ALEXANDER, Selig]

    Deed of conveyance between Selig Alexander and Charles Williams, relating to a land allotment in Sandridge (Port Melbourne), November 1857.

    Manuscript on parchment, folio bifolium (470 x 320 mm), [3] pages, written in a fine clerical hand, dated 18 November 1857 and recording the conveyance of part of Allotment 3, Section 9 in the Parish of South Melbourne at Sandridge (on Stoke Street in what is now Port Melbourne), from Selig Alexander, merchant, of the …

  • Land Reborn

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    American Christian Palestine Committee

    Land Reborn

    New York : American Christian Palestine Committee, 1951 – 1954. Quarto, eleven issues, quarto, illustrated self wrappers, each approx. 16 pp., illustrated. An early American Christian Zionist publication active in the years following the creation of the state of Israel. Includes articles on Arab refugees, kibbutzes, the United Nations, etc. Contributors include B. Burgoyne Chapman …

  • Yosl Bergner. Paintings : 1955-1975

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    BERGNER, Yosl (1920 - 2017)

    Yosl Bergner. Paintings : 1955-1975

    Tel Aviv : The Tel Aviv Museum, 1975. Square octavo, illustrated wrappers, light handling marks, text in English and Hebrew. Illustrated in colour and black and white; a very good copy.

  • Missilia sacra sive de mutua Christianorum unione comparanda, promovenda atq[ue] fraterne conservanda cum iis qui sectantur pacem et charitatem. Item de Judaeorum conversione ad Jesum Christum ... ...

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    BOREEL, Abraham (1605-1664)

    Missilia sacra sive de mutua Christianorum unione comparanda, promovenda atq[ue] fraterne conservanda cum iis qui sectantur pacem et charitatem. Item de Judaeorum conversione ad Jesum Christum … …

    Trajecti ad Rhenum [Utrecht] : typis G. Zylii et T. Ackersdijckii [Zylius & Ackersdijckius], 1659. First and only edition. Duodecimo, contemporary calf (a few scuff marks, corners worn, joints expertly repaired); front free-endpaper with early ownership inscription, pp. [2], 194, [1 errata]; text in Latin; top-edges trimmed close, resulting in partial loss of letters in …