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An Original Address of Albert Einstein Claiming the Moral High Ground in the Battle Against the Nazis

An Original Address of Albert Einstein Claiming the Moral High Ground in the Battle Against the Nazis by Albert Einstein

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An Original Address of Albert Einstein Claiming the Moral High Ground in the Battle Against the Nazis
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Albert Einstein
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The Raab Collection (United States)
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23/05/1935. He prophesizes, however, that the road ahead for the Jews will be “arduous and very painful”The Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey, was founded in 1930 by educator Abraham Flexner, with funding from department store magnate Louis Bamberger. Flexner first recruited noted mathematicians from Princeton University to join the Institute, then broadened its scope by including established scholars in economics, politics, and humanistic studies. In 1932 Flexner offered Einstein a faculty position at the Institute. Einstein’s decision was effected by historical events, as in January 1933, Adolf Hitler became Chancellor of Germany. Soon after Einstein made the decision to resign from his Berlin position, give up his German citizenship, and accept the position in Princeton. The ocean liner Westmoreland, which carried Einstein, at age 54, to what would become his new home country, arrived in New York Harbor on October 17, 1933.Einstein found the Institute, and life in the United States, congenial, so in April 1934, just six months after his arrival, Einstein announced that he was staying in Princeton indefinitely and assuming a permanent, full-time status at the Institute. He would remain in the United States the rest of his life.  Meanwhile, he was very much a celebrity, and was invited to the White House to meet with the Roosevelts. He politely declined, saying he did not want to call attention to himself, a position that German Jews had become accustomed to adopting during the rise of Naziism. However, the First Lady, Eleanor Roosevelt, intervened, writing Einstein directly, requesting his presence. So Einstein and his wife Elsa arrived at the White House on January 24, 1934, had dinner, and spent the night. President Roosevelt was able to converse with them in passable German. Among other things, they discussed Roosevelt’s marine prints and Einstein’s love for sailing. On learning that the Einsteins had decided to stay in the United States, Roosevelt suggested that the Einsteins should accept the offer of some Congressmen to have a special bill passed on their behalf, that he would sign, granting them citizenship, so that they would not have to endure the five year waiting period. The Einsteins declined the President’s generous suggestion, saying they wanted to be treated like any other applicant for American citizenship. Because the Einsteins had not been sure of their ultimate destination, and declared themselves as visitors instead of immigrants when they arrived in October 1933, this meant that they would need to leave the U.S. and return again to declare intention to seek citizenship.The United Jewish Appeal (UJA) planned a fund-raising dinner in Einstein’s honor for May 28, 1935. This was exactly the time the Einsteins had set aside to leave the country to perfect their citizenship, so he was forced to decline the invitation. He did, however, provide them with a statement, that was received by the UJA on May 25, the very day the Einsteins stepped onboard the Queen Mary to travel to British-owned Bermuda for a few days to satisfy the formalities. The royal governor was there to greet them when they arrived in Hamilton, and he recommended the island’s two best hotels. Einstein found them stuffy and pretentious. As they walked through town, he saw a modest guest cottage, and that is where they ended up.Typed statement signed, in German, Princeton, May 23, 1935, time stamped as received on May 25, to be read at the UJA dinner and issued to the press accordingly. It takes the moral high ground, but warns of great dangers ahead. ”Unfortunately, because of non-deferrable obligations, I can only express in writing my recognition and gratitude for the assistance provided to the many unfortunate people by the dinner on the 28th of May. We can gain consolation in this critical time if we compare the moral standard of our friends and our enemies with each other.  The result of such a comparison shows us that our way for world history can be considered the better one, even if at times it is arduous and very painful.” Our research indicates that this important statement is unpublished, as the dinner was postponed and it was never released to the press.But even this moving and forceful statement was not enough for the event organizers. Learning that Einstein could not attend, they postponed the dinner. Instead, the $50-a-plate dinner for the benefit of the UJA, arranged by that organization and the Council of Jewish Organizations, was held in New York City on June 26, with Einstein in attendance. About 1,000 people attended the banquet, at which Einstein spoke. In his speech, Einstein returned to the same theme of morality as in the above statement, saying that the ""moral disintegration and intensified national egoism"" of the times requires all Jews to strengthen their ranks to preserve Jewry. Of foremost importance, he said, was the upbuilding of the settlement in Palestine. On June 28, the UJA announced it was using the proceeds from the dinner to aid German refugees in New York City by allocating funds to local agencies equipped to care for the refugees.Einstein reentered the U.S. from Bermuda on June 3, 1935. On January 15, 1936, the Einsteins submitted their declaration of intention to become citizens of the United States.
[Excerpted and Recorded Manchu Phrases]. Containing Ch.: Ya shu ming mu 衙署名目, Ma.: Jurgan yamun-i gebu [Titles of Government Offices]; Ch.: Gong wen cheng yu 公文成語, Ma.: Siden-i bithe icihiyara de baitalara toktoho gisun [Fixed Expressions for Use When Preparing Official Documents]; Ch.: Guan xian ming mu 官銜名目, Ma.: Hafan hergen-i gebu [Titles of Official Ranks]; & Ch.: Zhe zou cheng yu 摺奏成語, Ma.: Wesimbure bithe icihiyara de baitalara toktoho gisun [Fixed Expressions for Use When Preparing Memorials]

[Excerpted and Recorded Manchu Phrases]. Containing Ch.: Ya shu ming mu 衙署名目, Ma.: Jurgan yamun-i gebu [Titles of Government Offices]; Ch.: Gong wen cheng yu 公文成語, Ma.: Siden-i bithe icihiyara de baitalara toktoho gisun [Fixed Expressions for Use When Preparing Official Documents]; Ch.: Guan xian ming mu 官銜名目, Ma.: Hafan hergen-i gebu [Titles of Official Ranks]; & Ch.: Zhe zou cheng yu 摺奏成語, Ma.: Wesimbure bithe icihiyara de baitalara toktoho gisun [Fixed Expressions for Use When Preparing Memorials] by QING YU ZHAI CHAO 清語摘鈔

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[Excerpted and Recorded Manchu Phrases]. Containing Ch.: Ya shu ming mu 衙署名目, Ma.: Jurgan yamun-i gebu [Titles of Government Offices]; Ch.: Gong wen cheng yu 公文成語, Ma.: Siden-i bithe icihiyara de baitalara toktoho gisun [Fixed Expressions for Use When Preparing Official Documents]; Ch.: Guan xian ming mu 官銜名目, Ma.: Hafan hergen-i gebu [Titles of Official Ranks]; & Ch.: Zhe zou cheng yu 摺奏成語, Ma.: Wesimbure bithe icihiyara de baitalara toktoho gisun [Fixed Expressions for Use When Preparing Memorials]
Author
QING YU ZHAI CHAO 清語摘鈔
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Jonathan A. Hill, Bookseller, Inc. (United States)
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Four vols. 8vo, orig. wrappers, orig. stitching, orig. title slips on wrappers (some a little torn). Beijing: San huai tang 三槐堂, 1889-90. First or early edition of this collection of Manchu-Chinese vocabularies with official terms. Manchu was one of the official languages of the Qing empire, and down to the fall of the Manchu dynasty in 1911, certain kinds of government records were kept either in Manchu or in bilingual Manchu-Chinese form. The government recruited bannermen as clerks, largely selected through examinations in Manchu-Chinese translation, who prepared most of these documents. Our collection targeted these clerks and candidates for the examinations, but also bannermen officials holding other posts who would have to compose documents in Manchu. By the scholar Chunhua’s count, Ya shu ming mu contains 416 Manchu-Chinese phrases, including the names of the boards and their subordinate offices, place names in Beijing, the names of palaces, halls, and counties. Gong wen cheng yu contains 1266 phrases used in official prose, whereas Guan xian ming mu contains 780 bilingual titles including reign titles, titles of civil and military officials, and titles of the nobility. Zhe zou cheng yu, finally, contains 573 bilingual phrases useful for writing memorials. Together, the books provide much of the base vocabulary needed by civil servants. Sometimes, the Manchu version of a phrase is more literal than the corresponding Chinese, making these books useful for interpreting occasionally obtuse turns of phrase. For example, qian li ma 千里馬, “a thousand-li horse,” is glossed in Manchu as bithe benere niyalma, “a person delivering a document.” The books were printed between the 3rd and the 12th month of Guangxu 15 (1889-90). Three Beijing commercial publishers issued the set in that year: Juzhen tang 聚珍堂, Mingde tang 名德堂, and Sanhuai tang, our publisher. It is well known that woodblocks moved around among the commercial publishers of Beijing, so probably copies with these different imprints are to be considered the same edition. We do not know which of the publishers printed the book first. The title Qing yu zhai chao does not appear in our collection, but the four titles included here were marketed under this title, hence our inference. The box, which is new, has an original title slip with the title Ch.: Ya shu ming mu 衙署名目, Ma.: Jurgan yamun-i gebu, which is one of the four works included. Yet this is not the title of the collection as a whole. Fine set, some marginal worming, not touching characters, and some minor dampstaining. Preserved in a hantao. ❧ Chunhua 春花, Qingdai Man-Mengwen cidian yanjiu 清代滿蒙文詞典研究, 486-88.
A Frasconi Family Travelogue," SIGNED with date,"64" under the color woodcut of the first double page, Adlib Press of Pratt Institute, New York, February 1964

A Frasconi Family Travelogue," SIGNED with date,"64" under the color woodcut of the first double page, Adlib Press of Pratt Institute, New York, February 1964 by FRASCONI, ANTONIO

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A Frasconi Family Travelogue," SIGNED with date,"64" under the color woodcut of the first double page, Adlib Press of Pratt Institute, New York, February 1964
Author
FRASCONI, ANTONIO
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Schulson Autographs (United States)
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The beautiful graphic travelogue depicts the Frasconi family trip to Europe in 1962 in words written by the family members and most woodcuts drawn by Frasconi. The soft cover book is explained on the first page. "A graphic collection of a trip to Europe by Antonio and Leona Frasconi and their sons Pablo and Miguel. This special keepsake edition of 400 copies was reprinted from Artist's Proof...The signed color woodcut by Antonio Frasconi on its page was printed directly from the original woodblocks, by James Lanier...." The soft cover book contains six printed woodcuts in addition to the first page original color graphic. In fine condition with slight bend to lower right corner of back cover.
The Complete Navigator: or, An Easy and Familiar Guide to the Theory and Practice of Navigation. With all the Requisite Tables, &c. &c. Illustrated with engravings. To which is added, A Concise System of Calculations for Finding the Longitude at Seas, by the Lunar Observations by P. Delmar

The Complete Navigator: or, An Easy and Familiar Guide to the Theory and Practice of Navigation. With all the Requisite Tables, &c. &c. Illustrated with engravings. To which is added, A Concise System of Calculations for Finding the Longitude at Seas, by the Lunar Observations by P. Delmar by MACKAY, Andrew. P. DELMAR

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The Complete Navigator: or, An Easy and Familiar Guide to the Theory and Practice of Navigation. With all the Requisite Tables, &c. &c. Illustrated with engravings. To which is added, A Concise System of Calculations for Finding the Longitude at Seas, by the Lunar Observations by P. Delmar
Author
MACKAY, Andrew. P. DELMAR
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Sandra L Hoekstra Bookseller, ABAA, ILAB, IOBA (United States)
Condition
Very good
Description
Philadelphia: B.B. Hopkins & Co, 1807. First Edition. Leather bound. Very good. Map: A Chart Extending from 25 degrees to 60 degrees N. Lat. and from 5 degrees E. to 25 degrees W. Lon. Laid down according to Mercator's Projection. First edition. 8vo, xxiii [i], 275 [1], 40 + 220pp of Tables, [2 Directions to the Binder and an Advertisment]; full brown calf over board with gilt stamped red leather label to spine; 7 full page engravings bound in including a map; wear t covers with scuffing and bumping, front and rear hinges cracked but holding, some diffuse foxing, half-title and rear free endpaper partially separated; very good minus.
MY THREE SONS - "Hawaiian Cruise" (Sep 30, 1964) Revised TV script

MY THREE SONS - "Hawaiian Cruise" (Sep 30, 1964) Revised TV script by George Tibbles, Steve McNeil

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MY THREE SONS - "Hawaiian Cruise" (Sep 30, 1964) Revised TV script
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George Tibbles, Steve McNeil
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Walterfilm, Inc. (United States)
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Near Fine
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Don Fedderson Prod.. Softcover/Paperback. Near Fine. Hollywood: Don Fedderson Productions, 1964. Vintage original television script. Mimeograph, stapled at top, 36 pp. Designated as "REV[ISED]" dated 9/30/64. Teleplay by George Tibbles, story by Steve McNeil. Near fine. Actress Coleen Gray's script. She has circled her dialogue in the role of Miss Lovett. This was episode 23 of season 5 of the television sitcom My Three Sons and aired on Thu, Feb 18, 1965. (IMDb)
The Militant" Covering Anti-Vietnam War Undercurrent in US Army 1969

The Militant" Covering Anti-Vietnam War Undercurrent in US Army 1969 by Anti War; The Militant

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The Militant" Covering Anti-Vietnam War Undercurrent in US Army 1969
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Anti War; The Militant
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Max Rambod Inc. (United States)
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1969. [Anti-War Counterculture] The Militant. Vol. 33 No. 18. New York, 2 May 1969. Newspaper Published by the Socialists' Party of America. 12 pages, 17" x 11." Contains articles, announcements, photos, illustrations, and political cartoons. Its slogan, "Published in the interests of the Working People," is printed on the masthead. The cover article is about the Fort Jackson 8, in which eight soldiers were arrested after an anti-Vietnam War meeting. Photograph depicts the soldiers descending down the steps of the federal courthouse, while supporters surround them with signs demanding their freedom. Other articles of interest include segments on growing pacifist sentiment among GIs, "The Kremlin's ouster of Alexander Dubcek," "Black unity solid in Detroit defense," and "Lethal grenade is hurled at SWP headquarters." Very good condition.
Store owners Label. Sold By John Kehew, at His Navigation Store, No. 69 North Water Street, New Bedford

Store owners Label. Sold By John Kehew, at His Navigation Store, No. 69 North Water Street, New Bedford by Kehew, John

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Store owners Label. Sold By John Kehew, at His Navigation Store, No. 69 North Water Street, New Bedford
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Kehew, John
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De Wolfe and Wood (United States)
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[New Bedford?], 1850. 8 1/4" x 5" Good condition. A large label laid down on what is likely a book flyleaf. Kehew supplied equipment, books, charts and periodicals to ships sailing in and out of New Bedford.
John Lautner (Big Series)

John Lautner (Big Series) by Campbell-Lange, Barbara-Ann

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John Lautner (Big Series)
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Campbell-Lange, Barbara-Ann
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Crooked House Books & Paper (United States)
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9783822866214
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Fine
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TASCHEN, 1999-11-01. hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. 9x1x12. Bronze paper-covered boards with white lettering under photographic dust jacket, blueprint endpapers, 4to, 180 pp., color photos throughout. A retrospective of Lautner's work. Possibly the case that his houses turn up in more movies than any other architect, what do you think? Extra postage required for international or expedited shipping.
The Jews of Kaifeng, China: History, Culture, and Religion [SIGNED]
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The Jews of Kaifeng, China: History, Culture, and Religion [SIGNED] by Xu, Xin

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The Jews of Kaifeng, China: History, Culture, and Religion [SIGNED]
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Xu, Xin
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Eric Chaim Kline - Bookseller (United States)
ISBN
9780881257915
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near fine
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Jersey City, NJ: Ktav Publishing House, 2003. First edition. Hardcover. near fine. Quarto. (xii) 197pp. Illustrated multicolored glossy dust jacket with white lettering over black on the front cover and spine. Glossy black buckram boards with gilt lettering on the spine. Signed by the author in English, Chinese and Hebrew on the front free endpaper. The most comprehensive study of the historic Jewish community of Kaifeng China, by Chinese professor and scholar Xu Xin, considered the foremost authority on the subject. The final chapter details the history of Jews living in other areas of China as well. Dust jacket, binding, and interior all in near fine condition.
The New Awareness: Religion Through Science Fiction

The New Awareness: Religion Through Science Fiction by Warrick, Patricia, and Martin Harry Greenberg, eds.

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The New Awareness: Religion Through Science Fiction
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Warrick, Patricia, and Martin Harry Greenberg, eds.
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ReadInk (United States)
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New York: Delacorte Press. (c.1975). First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine in Very Good dj. [light shelfwear to bottom edges, faint soiling to top of text block, bookseller's label on front pastedown; jacket mildly edgeworn, a few tiny nicks along top edge, short puncture/pull-tear at left edge of front panel]. An anthology of 15 science-fiction stories, each chosen to illustrate some basic question about the nature of God, man, and the universe. The stories "provide a new way of looking at religion, and outline its task as redefining man and his universe in terms of the new awareness and complexities inherent in the twentieth century space age." Each story in accompanied by an introductory commentary on the relevant topic: "The Power of the Religious Vision," "The Need to Believe," "The Apocalyptic Vision of the End," etc. The authors and their stories are: William Sambrot ("Night of the Leopard"); Michael Moorcock ("Behold the Man"); Walter M. Miller Jr. ("A Canticle for Leibowitz"); Robert Silverberg ("Good News from the Vatican"); Harry Harrison ("The Streets of Ashkelon"); Wesley Ford Davis ("Ask and It May Be Given"); Tom Godwin ("The Cold Equations"); Theodore Sturgeon ("Dazed" and "The Man Who Learned Loving"); Edward Bryant ("Eyes of Onyx"); Arthur C. Clarke ("The Nine Billion Names of God"); Roger Zelazny ("A Rose for Ecclesiastes"); Robert Arthur ("Evolution's End"); Ray Bradbury ("The Fire Balloons"); James Tiptree Jr. ("And I Have Come Upon This Place by Lost Ways"). .
Arménsko múzeum pod šírym nebom [Armenia: Museum on the Open Air]

Arménsko múzeum pod šírym nebom [Armenia: Museum on the Open Air] by [ARMENIA] VSKOČIL, Kamil (photographs); Ludmila Motalová and Milan Piovarči, text

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Arménsko múzeum pod šírym nebom [Armenia: Museum on the Open Air]
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[ARMENIA] VSKOČIL, Kamil (photographs); Ludmila Motalová and Milan Piovarči, text
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Lorne Bair Rare Books (United States)
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Yerevan: Pallas, 1976. First Edition. Quarto. Tan cloth hardcover; dustjacket; 131,(2)pp; chiefly illus. Prospectus laid in. Fine copy in slightly edgeworn jacket, still Very Good or better. Photographic survey of the smallest Soviet republic. Text entirely in Armenian, though the Prospectus includes an introduction in four languages including English.
Mother Nature

Mother Nature by Andrews, Sarah

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Mother Nature
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Andrews, Sarah
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James & Mary Laurie Booksellers (A.B.A.A.) (United States)
ISBN
9780312155919
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Fine
Description
New York: St. Martin's Press, 1997. 1st. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Signed and dated by author on title page. "An Em Hansen Mystery." Bound in publisher's original black boards with spine stamped in silver. 5 1/2 x 8 1/4 inches. 342 pages.
How Much of These Hills Is Gold
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How Much of These Hills Is Gold by Zhang, C. Pam

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How Much of These Hills Is Gold
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Zhang, C. Pam
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9780525537212
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