Rabbi Stephen S Wise (7 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. Gray boards with gilt lettering. There is fading along bottom edge. Top and bottom of spine are puckered and the lower front corner has worn cloth. Dust jacket has sun fading on spine with a few chips missing from the top spine edge; now covered in protective mylar sleeve.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Flat and clean with a tight binding.Sharp corners, mildly bumped spines. Owners name and notations on front end paper. There are some small erased marginal marks inside. DJ is edge worn and spine tanned, but is intact.

Condition: Very Good. Hardcover. 285 pages+ portrait frontis. Original full cloth binding, edges browned. Original dust jacket, chipped, tanning. First Edition. Stephen S. Wise (1874-1949) was born in Budapest and as a child emigrated to New York, where he received his Jewish and secular education. He was ordained as a rabbi in the New Jewish Theological Seminary and went on to become a Reform rabbi and ardent zionist and anti-fascist. This book was published to markRrabbi Wise's 70th birthday. his comments on zionism, hitlerism, the fate of the jews - as WW2 was drawing to a close - were enormously influential. Record # 375153. …

Condition: Very Good. Hardcover, original publisher's blue cloth, lettered silver on spine and on front cover. Signed presentation from Stephen Wise on front fly leaf. 294 pages. A critique of the White Paper of Lord Passfield and the charges of betrayal hurled at the British Labor Government by Jews regarding British-Zionist relations. Mild shelf wear, clean copy. Remnants of dj laid in. Record # 375019.…

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. No Dust Jacket. First Edition. The Stephen Wise Free Synagogue, which he founded in 1907 and served as Rabbi until his death, is named after him, as is Stephen S.Wise Temple in Los Angeles, which was founded by Rabbi Isaiah Zeldin in 1964. A street is named after him in Jerusalem next to the Israel Museum. This book is the scarce First Edition of one of his early works. It is in near Very Good condition. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.…

Condition: Backed at top edge. 1 page, with autograph corrections. 8vo. In part: "Yes, I am to take the 12:25, bringing me to your town at 5:50. Do by all means be good enough to purchase a ticket and make a resveration for me on the train leaving your city." An American Reform rabbi and Zionist leader, Wise (1847-1949) founded the Free Synagogue in New York in 1907, conducting his services from Carnegie Hall for forty years. 1 page, with autograph corrections. 8vo.…

Letter. Condition: Very Good +. A prophetic, full-page 1937 TLS from Rabbi Stephen Wise warning of the increasingly "precarious status of Jewish life throughout the world". Citing the swirling winds of war in Europe and the rising signs of anti-semitism in America, the letter (which accompanies a separate signed letter of the Yiddish translation) urges the strengthening of AJC and "planned, consistent action". Also included is important ephemera on this matter, a "Resolution of Affiliation" application, a "Procedure of Affiliation with the American Jewish Congress" form letter and attending envelopes and an index card ("We will welcome your speaker on."). Rabbi Wise's tone in the letter is firm and unmistakable: "We write to invite you to unite in our program of action at this time by affiliating yourself with the American Jewish Congress as a supporting member organization. We shall be glad to make the purposes of our organization clear to your membership by sending a speaker to any metting which you may designate". All letters and other ephemera are very well-preserved and are in crisp, bright, VG+ to Near Fine condition.…