Judaica Books
As one of the few booksellers specialising in important and rare books on Jewish history, literature, philosophy, religion and culture from the West End of London, Shapero Rare Books offers a diverse range of Judaica and Hebraica spanning the centuries, from early printed books and manuscripts in Hebrew through to modern illustrated Haggadot and books on food & drink.
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Set of Festival Prayers.
[PRAYER BOOK]. LEVI, David (translator).Original price £450.00 - Original price £450.00Original price £0.00£450.00£450.00 - £450.00Current price £450.00| /A beautiful Hebrew-English machzor of Festival Prayers, published in Vienna and based on David Levi's original translation.The set was gifted as a...
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About Zionism.
EINSTEIN, Albert; SIMON, Leon (translator).Original price £950.00 - Original price £950.00Original price £0.00£950.00£950.00 - £950.00Current price £950.00| /First edition to appear in America, comprising three opinion essays by Einstein, an introduction by the translator and a selected bibliography.'Pr...
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Seder Selichoth Mi'kol HaShanah.
[PRAYER BOOK].Original price £1,950.00 - Original price £1,950.00Original price £0.00£1,950.00£1,950.00 - £1,950.00Current price £1,950.00| /Scarce Ashkenazic rite Selichot prayer book, not listed in the Vinograd bibliography.The Proops family were a dynasty of well known Hebrew printer...
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Seder HaKinot LeTish'ah BeAv.
STERN, Max Emanuel (Mendel Stern, translator).Original price £650.00 - Original price £650.00Original price £0.00£650.00£650.00 - £650.00Current price £650.00| /Prayer book for Tish'ah BeAv with Yiddish translation by Max Emanuel Stern.Max Emanuel Stern (known by Hebrew name Menakhem Mendel ben Isaac Stern...
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Iton Rishmi.
ISRAEL, The Provisional Government of.Original price £5,000.00 - Original price £5,000.00Original price £0.00£5,000.00£5,000.00 - £5,000.00Current price £5,000.00| /The first publication of the declaration of the State of Israel. The first 25 issues of 'Iton Rishmi' containing the official publication of the Is...
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In Hyde Park.
SHTENBERG, Irina.Original price £2,500.00 - Original price £2,500.00Original price £0.00£2,500.00£2,500.00 - £2,500.00Current price £2,500.00| /An atmospheric original drawing by Irina Valerianova Stenberg (1905-1985) Soviet-Jewish artist, who lived and worked in Tbilisi, Georgia and known...
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Chupat Chatanim.
MELDOLA, Raphael.Original price £1,150.00 - Original price £1,150.00Original price £0.00£1,150.00£1,150.00 - £1,150.00Current price £1,150.00| /First Edition of Rabbi Meldola's most famous work - an instruction manual for grooms discussing matchmaking, marriage, mikveh, the sacred act of c...
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Minhagim.
TYRNAU, Isaac.Original price £385.00 - Original price £385.00Original price £0.00£385.00£385.00 - £385.00Current price £385.00| /Comprehensive book written by Tyrnau in the 14th century, describing the Jewish customs of different communities and their codes of conduct for Sh...
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Hilkhot De'ot sive Canones Ethici
MAIMONIDES (Moses Ben Maimon); GENTIUS, Georgius (translator).Original price £2,250.00 - Original price £2,250.00Original price £0.00£2,250.00£2,250.00 - £2,250.00Current price £2,250.00| /First edition of Gentius's Latin translation of 'Hilkhot De'ot', from the first book of Maimonides's 'Mishneh Torah', with a commentary. This is G...
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Yom HaMedinah (The Day of The State).
ISRAEL, State of.Original price £2,400.00 - Original price £2,400.00Original price £0.00£2,400.00£2,400.00 - £2,400.00Current price £2,400.00| /A joint one-off publication of Israel's newspapers on the day of the proclamation of the state of Israel. On May 14, 1948, 'the last day of foreig...
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Tempting Kosher Dishes.
GAHR, F.O. et al.Original price £250.00 - Original price £250.00Original price £0.00£250.00£250.00 - £250.00Current price £250.00| /Famous Jewish Passover cookbook. An extremely clean copy of this famous Jewish Passover cookbook.Includes a Jewish holidays calendar for the years ...
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Catalogue of the Anglo-Jewish Historical Exhibition
JACOBS, Joseph; WOLF, Lucien.Original price £3,250.00 - Original price £3,250.00Original price £0.00£3,250.00£3,250.00 - £3,250.00Current price £3,250.00| /Edition De Luxe. De Luxe numbered edition of the Anglo-Jewish Historical Exhibition catalogue.The Anglo-Jewish Historical Exhibition was held at th...
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The Lisbon Massacre of 1506 and the Royal Image in the Shebet Yehudah.
YERUSHALMI, Yosef Hayim.Original price £35.00 - Original price £35.00Original price £0.00£35.00£35.00 - £35.00Current price £35.00| /A landmark study by Yerushalmi in which he presents the Lisbon Massacre and uncovers the history of alliances between the Jews and their Portugues...
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Pseudonymen-Lexikon der Hebräischen und Jiddischen Literatur.
CHAJES, Saul (Shaul Chayut).Original price £575.00 - Original price £575.00Original price £0.00£575.00£575.00 - £575.00Current price £575.00| /Index of pen-names in Hebrew and Yiddish literature; an unnumbered copy out of a limited edition of 250.First edition. Small 4to, publisher's vell...
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The Festival Prayers,
[PRAYER BOOK]. DE SOLA, D.A (translator).Original price £2,800.00 - Original price £2,800.00Original price £0.00£2,800.00£2,800.00 - £2,800.00Current price £2,800.00| /Magnificent six volumes Ashkenazic Machzor of Festival Prayers, translated by Rev. David Aaron De Sola, minister of the Spanish and Portuguese Jew...
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Faith of Israel,
GOODMAN, Rabbi Tobias.Original price £1,250.00 - Original price £1,250.00Original price £0.00£1,250.00£1,250.00 - £1,250.00Current price £1,250.00| /One of the earliest preachers in English of the London Jewish community' The Jewish Encyclopedia. First and only edition of this work by Rabbi Tobi...
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The Form of Prayers...
[PRAYER BOOK]. LEVI, David (translator).Original price £4,500.00 - Original price £4,500.00Original price £0.00£4,500.00£4,500.00 - £4,500.00Current price £4,500.00| /Set of Festival Prayers (Machzor) by one of the pioneers of Hebrew printing in London with incredible provenance of the de Rothschild family.The F...
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