Today we offer a couple of very attractive titles that illustrate the art of American Colonial Jewry. These titles are significantly discounted from the publishers prices. We ship and bill to librararies. Please supply POs or PO number as your library requires. Call 415-831-3228 or email to reserve.
The Books 1) Barquist, David L. "Myer Myers: Jewish Silversmith in Colonial New York." New Haven, Conn., Yale University Art Gallery in association with Yale University Press, 2001. First Edition. ISBN: 0-300-09057-9. Squarish quarto in dust jacket, color frontispiece, xvi, 303 pp., b/w drawings and color illustrations, marks, documents, bibliographical abbreviations, index. Hardbound. Very Good. Director's Foreword by Jock Reynolds. Preface by Patricia E. Kane. Acknowledgments by Barquist. In addition to Barquist's text there are chapters by Jon Butler, "The New York World of Meyer Myers," and by Jonathan D. Sarna, "Colonial Judaism." (22225) $35.00 2) Brilliant, Richard. "Facing the New World: Jewish Portraits in Colonial and Federal America." Munich New York, Prestel, 1997. ISBN: 3-7913-1863-2. Quarto in dust jacket, xvi, 112 pp., b/w and color illustrations throughout, Chronology: Highlights of Early American Jewish History, 1585-1830, Map: Jewish Communities in America at the Time of the Revolutionary War, Table: Estimated Jewish Population of the United States, 1654-1830, Genealogies: Levy-Franks Family; Etting/Gratz Families, Seected Bibliography: Early American Portraiture, Selected bibliography, Early American Jewish History, index of Portrait Subjects, index of Artists. Hardbound. Very Good. Foreword by Joan Rosenbaum, Acknowledgments by Kathryn Potts. Essays are "Portraits as Silent Claimants: Jewish Class Aspiraritions and Representational Strategies in Colonial and Federal America," Brilliant and "Portraits of a Community: The Image and Experience of Early American Jews," Ellen Smtih. (22360) $25.00 END Henry Hollander, Bookseller 843 Twenty-Fourth Avenue San Francisco, CA 94121 http://www.hollanderbooks.com 415-831-3228 fax 415-831-3226 Jewish books in all fields and languages. ========================================================================== HaSafran - The Electronic Forum of the Association of Jewish Libraries Submissions for HaSafran, send to: Hasafran at lists.acs.ohio-state.edu SUBscribing, SIGNOFF commands send to: Listserver at lists.acs.ohio-state.edu Questions, problems, complaints, compliments;-) send to: galron.1 at osu.edu AJL HomePage http://www.JewishLibraries.org/
