What does this say?

[king ubu]

Is this Hebrew? And what does it say?

[Jazzmoose]

Ex Libris Ed Koch.

[papsrus]

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[Son-of-a-Weizen]

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[seeline]

Is this Hebrew? And what does it say?

It's in Hebrew letters, but it might - possibly - be in Yiddish rather than Hebrew. (At one time, Hebrew letters were used in Yiddish-language publications.) I hope someone is able to help you out with it.

How old is the book?

Edited to add: link to place that might be able to help you.

Edited April 29, 2009 by seeline

[AllenLowe]

pretty sure it's Hebrew not Yiddish - reading through a little bit I don't see any Yiddish words (and actually the hebrew lettering is standard use for Yiddish; anything else is alliteration) -

[Jazzmoose]

(and actually the hebrew lettering is standard use for Yiddish; anything else is alliteration) -

Is that supposed to make sense?

[king ubu]

Ok, thanks for all the smartass replies, I enjoyed them!

Allen, thanks! And also thanks to seeline.

It's not really of any importance that I find out, I was just curious, really...

The book is from 1985, it's a paperback I got used recently, a great book if you've got any interest in the subject: George L. Mosse: German Jews beyond Judaism. Indiana University Press, Bloomington / Hebrew Union College Press, Cincinnati, 1985 (Midland Books MB 355).

Any of the Israeli members can tell me what that stamp says - Barak, Bentsy?

[B. Goren.]

Is this Hebrew? And what does it say?

This is definitely Hebrew:

The Hebrew University in Jerusalem, The Franz Rosenzweig Center and the tel. number.

Edited April 29, 2009 by B. Goren.

[Niko]

reading rosenzweig's bible translation was the best thing we ever did in religious instructions class in school...

[king ubu]

Thanks, Bentsy!

Now do I have to feel bad about owning this book? I bought it from a US amazon marketplace seller...

[B. Goren.]

Thanks, Bentsy!

Now do I have to feel bad about owning this book? I bought it from a US amazon marketplace seller...

No reason to feel bad but you should ask the seller how did he get this book...

[Dan Gould]

Almost 25 years old, if the book isn't a classic or in high-demand, there's a pretty good chance it gets put out for sale here in the states.

Actually, they'll put things out for sale a lot sooner than that.

[king ubu]

Yeah, but how did it get there from Jerusalem?

And also, there's not stamp or anything that shows it's been sorted out... ah hell, it's just a paperback of 80 or 90 pages, nothing big, still, I just got curious and wanted to find out about that stamp!

[seeline]

(and actually the hebrew lettering is standard use for Yiddish; anything else is alliteration) -

Is that supposed to make sense?

"transliteration" is (I think) what Allen meant - he's right about this.

[seeline]

Yeah, but how did it get there from Jerusalem?

And also, there's not stamp or anything that shows it's been sorted out... ah hell, it's just a paperback of 80 or 90 pages, nothing big, still, I just got curious and wanted to find out about that stamp!

As Dan said, libraries take books out of circulation and sell them as "discards." Usually, the books are extra copies, or else the library sees that nobody has checked an item out for a long time - they put the discarded books on sale to the public for a very low price (in the US, usually .25 for paperbacks and .50-1.00 per hardback) and the money is used for buying new books.

I would imagine that someone bought the book and brought it to the US.

Edited April 29, 2009 by seeline

[king ubu]

Yeah, but how did it get there from Jerusalem?

And also, there's not stamp or anything that shows it's been sorted out... ah hell, it's just a paperback of 80 or 90 pages, nothing big, still, I just got curious and wanted to find out about that stamp!

As Dan said, libraries take books out of circulation and sell them as "discards." Usually, the books are extra copies, or else the library sees that nobody has checked an item out for a long time - they put the discarded books on sale to the public for a very low price (in the US, usually .25 for paperbacks and .50-1.00 per hardback) and the money is used for buying new books.

I would imagine that someone bought the book and brought it to the US.

Yeah, probably that's what happened. I can't remember where I bought it from, doesn't seem to have been amazon.com, it's not listed there, but it's no big deal anyway!

[Niko]

at least three copies left at hebrew university

http://aleph518.huji.ac.il/F/KGNK1XFKNHSPD...amp;jump=000021

coincidentally, two hours ago i just gave a book i bought from a library here to a friend who will probably take it with him to switzerland at some time in the future...

Edited April 29, 2009 by Niko

[Jazzmoose]

(and actually the hebrew lettering is standard use for Yiddish; anything else is alliteration) -

Is that supposed to make sense?

"transliteration" is (I think) what Allen meant - he's right about this.

Ah. That would make sense.

[Chuck Nessa]

(and actually the hebrew lettering is standard use for Yiddish; anything else is alliteration) -

Is that supposed to make sense?

"transliteration" is (I think) what Allen meant - he's right about this.

Ah. That would make sense.

I hope we don't have many more posts or threads translating what Allen meant.

[king ubu]

at least three copies left at hebrew university

http://aleph518.huji.ac.il/F/KGNK1XFKNHSPD...amp;jump=000021

coincidentally, two hours ago i just gave a book i bought from a library here to a friend who will probably take it with him to switzerland at some time in the future...

Didn't catch this till now... why would they have multiple copies? I've never seen that in local libraries... they're struggling to buy single copies already, it seems (often they're sort of complement each other... or they just have either an original or a German translation...)

[Niko]

at least three copies left at hebrew university

http://aleph518.huji.ac.il/F/KGNK1XFKNHSPD...amp;jump=000021

coincidentally, two hours ago i just gave a book i bought from a library here to a friend who will probably take it with him to switzerland at some time in the future...

Didn't catch this till now... why would they have multiple copies? I've never seen that in local libraries... they're struggling to buy single copies already, it seems (often they're sort of complement each other... or they just have either an original or a German translation...)

as far as i can see they have five copies, one in the overseas studies department, one in the education department and three in the mount scopus library which is where the rosenzweig center is

"The Franz Rosenzweig Research Center seeks to honour the cultural legacy of German Jewry from the Middle Ages through the Shoah, and its subsequent reconstruction. The centre was named after the German-Jewish philosopher Franz Rosenzweig (1886-1929), whose life and work are deemed emblematic of the German-Jewish cultural legacy."

so i guess they have multiple copies for several researchers working on the subject (at least that's how it's done here, we often have three or four copies of important books even if they are rather specialized... books which are used in classes are often there in much larger quantities, say 30-50)