Tipsy on Books: Dispatches from the Tavern

We have a copy of Jonah Spiwak's Yiddish play about R. Nahman of Bratslav. Published in 1932, this work predates Arthur Green's bet...

At Kline Books we just made a major sale of $25,000 to the Library of Congress for the 58 volume court transcript of the trial of Marinus v...

The Jewish publishing company Artscroll has become infamous in certain circles for its creative adaptation of Song of Songs that avoids the...

Jacob R. Marcus was a leading twentieth century Jewish historian best known for his source book Jew in the Medieval World . He was also one...

Peter Charles Remondino (1846-1926) was an Italian-American physician, who served on the San Diego Board of Health. Despite not being Jewis...

History remembers Louis XVI as the husband of Marie Antoinette and king of France during the French Revolution, which stripped him of powe...

Kline Books had booth at this weekend's book fair in San Francisco. (Come see us this coming weekend at the 45th California Internation...

We recently came across a letter from Pope Clement XII (r. 1730-40) pasted inside a fifteenth century incunabulum. Eric has agreed to ...

One of the fascinating things about the Republican Party today is the growing fracture over our military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan....

 Julius Streicher was the editor of Der Sturmer , a Nazi tabloid that most Nazis apparently were embarrassed by. Streicher's hate fill...

I have an affinity for playing games with children that they tend to appreciate. I take the basic chase children around and to keep things...

To continue a little with Hermann Baar and his sermons to orphans , he does confront the issue of racism in strong terms: My children, a ...

When I started at Ohio State a few years ago, for my first quarter, instead of teaching, I was assigned to do research for one of the profe...

Rabbi Isaac Schwab (1840-1907) was a student of Rabbi Abraham Samuel Benjamin Sofer (Ktav Sofer) at the Yeshiva of Pressburg in Hungry befo...

Rabbi Judah Loew, the Mahral, was one of the leading thinkers of the early modern period. His integration of Kabbalah with the medieval phi...

I finally got around to seeing Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part II, having missed it in theaters when it was out this past sum...

Judah David Eisenstein was an unheralded pioneer in the field of American Judaica publishing. Working in the early twentieth century, he ed...

Every once in awhile one comes across a truly unexpected treasure. At Kline Books we recently came into possession of the complete work...

We have here a Yiddish translation, done by Y. A. Merison, of Charles Darwin's 1871 follow up to Origin of Species , The Desc...

In regards to my previous post on Rabbi David Frankel's sermon of thanksgiving after the Prussian victory at Leuthen, S . kindly pointe...