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Jeffrey Maynard (Jewish Miscellanies)
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Yerushalayim (Jerusalem) by Avrom Nochum Stencl, Yiddish, London 1948
A. N. Stencl (pronounced Shtentsel) was known in his later years as the Yiddish poet of Whitechapel.  He was born in Czelad, in Poland, in 1897, and had a traditional orthodox education, learning a…
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March 17, 2025 at 1:46 AM
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Tercentenary Almanac – Loshen un Leben, in Yiddish, edited by A. N. Stencl, London 1956.
This anthology, a book of 232 pages, printed by the Narod Press in Whitechapel, was edited by Avrum Nochem Stencl, the Yiddish poet and writer, to commemorate the 30th anniversary of the modern set…
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March 17, 2025 at 1:45 AM
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Volkns Ibern Dach (Clouds over the roof), Itzig Manger, London, 1942.
Itzig Manger was a Yiddish poet, playwright, prose writer and essayist.  He was born Isidor Helfer in Czernowitz (then in Rumania, now known as Chernivtsi in the Ukraine), the son of a Jewish tailo…
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March 16, 2025 at 6:32 PM
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Loshen un Leben (Language and Life), edited by A. N. Stencl, January 1947.
Avrom Nochem Stencl came to London in 1936.  He was born in Poland, into a rabbinical family, and had lived in Germany for some years, where he was a published author.  His first volume of poetry i…
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March 16, 2025 at 6:27 PM
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London Lyrics by A. N. Stencl, London, 1940 (Yiddish).
Avrom Nochem Stencl came to London in 1936.  He was born in Czeladz, near Sosnoviec, Poland, in 1897.  His family was rabbinical, and he had lived in Germany for some years, where he was a publishe…
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March 16, 2025 at 6:27 PM
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Koheles Shlomo by Rabbi Shlomo Stencl, Peterkov, 1932.
This book contains the writings of Rabbi Shlomo Stencl, who was the elder brother of Avrum Nochum Stencl.  A. N. Stencel was the writer and poet, who arrived in London in about 1936 and published a…
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March 16, 2025 at 6:25 PM
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Arbeiter Freynd – The Workers Friend, Anarchist newspaper in Yiddish, London 1905
I have about six months of issues of this famous and classic newspaper, printed in 1905. The paper is brown and disintegrating and we have done our best to produce some photographs – it is fa…
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March 16, 2025 at 6:17 PM
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Your post has motivated me to go through my shelves and make an inventory of which volumes and editions I have. A project.
January 29, 2025 at 1:47 PM
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Almost all do. There is a Warsaw edition with non standard pagination.
January 29, 2025 at 1:44 PM
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This is Amsterdam, 1647. I only have Zevachim:
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Talmud – Masseches Zevachim,Amsterdam, Imanuel Benveniste, 1647
This is in my Antique Sforim collection, to make a change from the Anglo Judaica collection that I usually write about. This volume, Tractate Zevachim, was printed by Emanuel Benveniste, who is bel…
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January 29, 2025 at 4:40 AM
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I learn from volumes printed in Vienna in 1861. Nice clear print. Slightly different spacing to Romm, but easy to use and the right size. A few less features, perhaps.
January 29, 2025 at 4:39 AM
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Frankfurt on Main, 1720:
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Talmud: Moed Katan, Frankfurt Am Main, 1720.
This is not the Anglo-Judaica that I usually write about, but a book from my  antique Judaica collection. It is a copy of a small tractate (massechet in Hebrew) of the Talmud, called Moed Katan (Li…
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January 29, 2025 at 4:30 AM
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Saltzbach, Dyrenfurth, Vienna...
January 29, 2025 at 4:29 AM
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Here is my copy:
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The British Jewry Book of Honour, Rev. Michael Adler, London, 1922
I found my copy of this remarkable book in a Tel Aviv second-hand book shop about 40 years ago – one of my first acquisitions of Anglo-Judaica.  There is another copy in a glass case in …
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November 24, 2024 at 4:42 AM