Rome David Compiler (11 results)

Paperback. Condition: Good. First Edition. Pages 94-208. Index. "This early Jewish labor movement was a remarkable and unique phenomenon which loses much when its story is told only as part of labor history. What is on record is the effort of these generations of union men, of socialists, anarchists, and of Labor Zionists to wrest from their employers maximum salaries and optimum working conditions." - from page 94. Unmarked with moderate wear. Binding intact. A sound copy.

Paperback. Condition: Good. First Edition. viii + pages 224-325. Contents: Reactions to the Hart Election; In the Legislature; Petitions; Hart is Questioned; The Debate of Feb. 20, 1808; More Petitions and the Governor; Elected Again; Political Motivation. Unmarked with moderate wear. A sound copy.

Paperback. Condition: Fair. First Edition. iv + 126 pages. Index. Sections include: On Sunday Observance Legislation; The Quebec Problem; Quebec Feels Under Attack; Lord's Day Alliance; Jews in a Christian Country?; The Community and the Select Committee; A Select Committee of the Commons; In the House of Commons; In Quebec. Unmarked with moderate wear. Moisture marks to fore-edge. Binding intact. A worthy reference copy.

Paperback. Condition: Good. First Edition. 141 pages. Index. Errata. "A narrative and documented chapter out of the annals of Canadian Jewry. Outlines the story documented in the papers described in "Canadian Jewish Archives", new series, no. 2." - from Foreword. Unmarked with moderate wear. Moisture staining to fore-edge. Binding intact. A sound working copy.

Paperback. Condition: Good. First Edition. vi, 91 pages. Provides penetrating analysis of a particularly important and mormative moment in the biography of William Lyon Mackenzie King. "We have here side glimpses of the Jews in the shops, Jews in the managers' offices, Jews in Toronto politics, the Holy Blossom Temple, Toronto Jews in Sarafand, Abraham Rhinewine, Jewish immigration cases - the warp and woof of the day in the life of the Jew early in the century. King could never have dreamed of such a role in Jewish historiography." - from page vi. Sections include: The Student and His Assignment; Those Toronto Jews; Preparing for Harvard; "Foreigners Who Live in Toronto"; Foreigners - a Further Account; (Lous) Gurofsky and (Postmaster) Mulock; "Toronto and the Sweating System"; The Bond with Mulock. The Report on Clothing Contracts; Gurofsky Correspondence; In the "Globe"; The Fateful Year 1900; Arbitrating in Montreal Dispute. Unmarked with moderate wear. Binding intact. A sound copy.

Paperback. Condition: Good. First Edition. vi + pages 326-457. Extensive index. Contents: Against Panet; Again, House vs. Hart; A Quarter of a Century Before his Time; May 5, 1809; Bad Jew?; A Higher Authority; Craig Had Had Enough; London Reacts; Third Election; The Years After; The Family Sees Itself. Unmarked with moderate wear. Binding intact. A sound copy.

Paperback. Condition: Fair. First Edition. (8) + Pages 106-224. Sections include: The Times; Intergroup; Time - Napoleon, Place - Trois-Rivieres; Challenges to Equality; The First to Sit; Moses Hart; "You Will Be Opposed as a Jew"; Ezekiel; Elected in the Lower Canada Parliament. Minor evidence of moisture exposure to fore-edge. Unmarked with moderate wear. Binding intact. A sound copy.

Paperback. Condition: Good. First Edition. [3], v, 118 pages. Opens with one-page biographies for each of Michael Hirsch, Maxwell Goldstein, K.C., and Simon Belkin. Deals with a problem which arose in Montreal in the 1920's concerning the public schooling of the Jewish children. Lists the holdings of the National Archives of the Canadian Jewish Congress (CJC) on this subject. Intended as a tool for those interested in this chapter of our history; it is not a history or even an outline of these annals." - from Foreword. Unmarked with moderate wear. Moderate moisture staining to fore-edge. Binding intact. A sound copy.

Paperback. Condition: Fair. First Edition. iv + 110 Pages. Sections include: Henry Joseph; Judah Joseph; Abraham Joseph; Jesse Joseph; Jacob Henry Joseph; Gershom Joseph; Lazarus David; Phoebe David; David David; Samuel David; Eleazar David David; Aaron Hart David; Tucker and Robert Sullivan David; Moses ben Lazarus David; Moses Eleazar David; Moses Samuel ben Samuel David. Evidence of moisture exposure to fore-edge of all covers and pages. Unmarked with moderate wear. Binding intact. A worthy reference copy.

Paperback. Condition: Fair. First Edition. x +105 pages. Opens with a ten-page memorial of Saul Hayes, O.C., Q.C., LL.D., F.R.S.A. (including a 1.5 page partial bibliography of his publications) who passed away in the year this work was published. "We center our attention upon the pioneer of Trois-Rivieres, a formidable man, of almost mythic proportions." - from page 1. Unmarked with Moderate wear. Biege moisture marks visible to fore-edge of first few leaves, generally quite faint for remainder of textblock.

Paperback. Condition: Good. First Edition. vi +106 pages. Compiles the published documentation on (this Alsatian Jew) and gives it a continuity which cannot but be vivacious. Helbronner emerges as a fascinating and creative character. an honest man of great capacity; an altruistic public servant, especially to the numerous public of the poor; a man of probity who applied acerbic tests to situations often left unexamined; a spokesman for the inarticulate, he won such wide respect that even governments which disliked his views and programs entrusted him with missions of inquiry." - from Introduction. Sections include: Helbronner of "La Presse"; Knights of Labor; Royal Commission on Labor; The Lepine Election; The Paris Exposition; Civic Affairs and Politics; Mutual Aid; The Debate with "Les Debats"; Anti-Cosmopolites; Actuarian Dispute; "Jewry, that is the Enemy" - and other Frauds; The Bubble Bursts; Helbronner's Last Years. Unmarked with moderate wear. Binding intact. A sound copy.