Results for: Judaism & the Jews
The Jews of North Africa during the Second World War.
Abitbol, Michel. Translated by Catherine Tihanyi Zentelis.
Detroit, MI: Wayne State University Press, 1989.
Originally published in 1983 in French. Light wear to edges of boards with bumping to heel of spine. Dj has light wear along edges and minor scuffing to covers. Back inner flap of dj is creased. Some pencil marks in text and margins. 212 pages with endnotes, bibliography, and index. A study of the Vichy government's treatment of the Jews in North Africa during World War II.
Price: $20.00
The Vale of Cedars & Other Tales.
Aguilar, Grace. Illustrated by T. H. Robinson.
London and Philadelphia: J. M. Dent/Jewish Publication Society, 1902..
First edition thus. Good octavo hardcover with illustrated front board and spine bound in light brown cloth without dust jacket. Some wear and light rubbing to the edges of the boards with bumping to the head and heel of the spine and on the corners of the panels. Some light scuffing to the covers. Gilt upper page edges. Pages are slightly browned and a little stiff, but not brittle. Rear endpapers have marks where there might have ben tape on them at one time. Page 221 has a large chip missing from the fore-edge. 428 pages with 11 black and white illustrations and a color frontispiece. the stories collected inthis work are: The Vale of Cedars; or, The Martyr, The Perez Family, Amete and Yafeh, The Fugitive, The Edict, The Escape, Helon, The Spirit's Entreaty, The Spirit of Night, and The Triumph of Love. The Vale of Cedars first appeared in 1850 and the other stories dealing with Jewish life came from Home Scenes and Heart Studies from 1852.
Price: $50.00
The Partisan : From the Valley of Death to Mount Zion.
Arad, Yitzhak.
New York, NY: Holocaust Library, 1979.
Octavo. Light wear to edges of boards. Dj has light wear along edges with some minor scuffing to covers and two stickers on back cover's lower edge. 241 pages with illustrations and errata. The memoirs of Isaac Rudnicki/Yatzhak Arad, a former general-brigadier in the Israel Defense Forces, about his actions in Eastern Europe and Palestine during World War II and the Arab-Israeli wars.
Price: $35.00
Mature Christianity: The Recognition and Repudiation of the Anti-Jewish Polemic of the New Testament.
Beck, Norman A.
Selinsgrove: Susquehanna University Press, 1985..
First edition. Very good hardcover in very good dust jacket. Wear and rubbing along edges of boards with bumping to the head and heel of the spine and bumping to the lower corners of the panels. Slight tear in binding near the head of the spine. Dj is heavily worn and rubbed along edges with many minor tears and scuffed on covers. Dj has slight browning along the edges. 327 pages with notes at the end of each chapter, 2 appendices (1. an illustrated diagram of the history of the Synoptic traditions and of the relationships and interrelationships of the Synoptic and Johannine traditions as perceived in this study, 2. a diagram of our access to God through various major religious systems operative today), bibliography, index of scripture passages, and inde of authors and subjects. A study of the anti-Jewish/Judaism polemic found in the writings of the New Testament.
Price: $15.00
The Shaping of Jewish Identity in Nineteenth-Century France.
Berkovitz, Jay R.
Detroit, MI: Wayne State University Press, 1989.
Very good octavo hardcover in very good dust jacket. Light wear to edges of boards. Dj has light wear to edges and minor scuffing to covers. 308 pages with endnotes, glossary, selected bibliography, and index. A study of how the French Jews dealt with the changes in society following the French Revolution.
Price: $25.00
Brooklyn Doesn't Rhyme.
Blos, Joan W.
NY: CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS, 1994..
1st edition. Fine in very good dust jacket. SIGNED and dated by the Author on title page. A young girl, first generation American of immigrant Jewish parents, learns more about her family and home through an unwanted school assignment in pre-WWI Brooklyn. Michigan Author.
Price: $35.00
Jewish Wry: Essays on Jewish Humor.
Cohen, Sarah Blacher, editor.
Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1987.
Very good octavo hardcover in good dust jacket. Light wear and rubbing to edges of boards with bumping to head and heel of spine. Dj has wear and rubbing to edges with many small tears and some scuffing to covers with fading along spine. 244 pages with notes after each essay and selected checklist of Jewish humor. A collection of essays on Jewish comedians and humor.
Price: $15.00
Seers, Sibyls and Sages in Hellenistic-Roman Judaism.
Collins, John J.
Boston/Leiden: Brill Academic Publishers, 2001.
Very good trade paperback. Light wear to edges of covers with minor scuffing but creasing on lower corner of front cover. Tight binding. Clean, unmarked text. 438 pages with footnotes and indices.
Price: $30.00
The Jewish Holidays: A Journey Through History.
Domnitch, Larry.
Northvale: Jason Aronson, 2000.
Very good octavo hardcover in very good dust jacket. Light wear to edges of boards with bumping to head and heel of spine. Dj has light wear along edges and minor scuffing to covers. Black remainder spray on upper edges of pages. 243 pages with footnotes, selected bibliography, and index. A nice work on Jewish holidays and their place in history.
Price: $15.00
Radical Assimilation in English Jewish History, 1656 - 1945.
Endelman, Todd M.
Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1990.
Octavo. Light wear and slight rubbing to edges of boards. Dj has some wear and rubbing to edges mainly on head and heel of spine and some light scuffing to covers. Two light smudges on fore-edges of pages. Pencil notes and marks in margins and text mainly in introduction and conclusion. 246 pages with illustrations, endnotes, and index. A study of why Jews in Britain chose to assimilate more into British culture than in other European nations.
Price: $20.00
Catholics and Jews in Twentieth-Century America.
Feldman, Egal.
Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2001.
Very good octavo hardcover in very good dust jacket. Light wear to edges of boards with slight bumping to heel of spine. Dj has light wear and rubbing along edges with minor scuffing to covers. Very few penciled in notes and marks in text, mainly in the opening chapters. 323 pages with endnotes, selected bibliography, and index. A study of the changing nature of Catholic-Jewish relations with the turning point coming with Vatican II's Nostra Aetate, no. 4.
Price: $18.00
Exodus, 1947. Revised Edition.
Holly, David C.
Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 1995..
Revised edition, originally published in 1969. Very good octavo hardcover in very good dust jacket. Some wear and rubbing to the edges of the boards with a bit bumping to the head and heel of the spine. Dj has minor wear to edges and light scuffing to the covers. Stamp of previous owner on the front free endpaper. 239 pages with illustrations, postscript, appendix, bibliography, and index. An account of the ship, the Exodus, with 4,500 survivors of the Holocaust to Palestine, 1947.
Price: $15.00
From Dreyfus to Vichy: The Remaking of French Jewry, 1906-1939.
Hyman, Paula.
New York, NY: Columbia University Press, 1979.
Very good octavo hardcover in good dust jacket. Light wear and rubbing to edges with bumping to head and heel of spine. Dj has wear and rubbing along edges with some small nicks and some creasing along upper edge of front cover near head of spine. Dj's inner flaps are both creased as well. 338 pages with illustrations, appendices, endnotes, bibliography, and index. A study of the changes in the Jewish communities of France prior to World War II.
Price: $30.00
Nothing Is Too Late: The Hunt for a Holocaust Swindler.
Kalmansohn, Mark E.
Dulles: Brassey's Inc., 2004..
First edition. Very good octavo hardcover in very good dust jacket. Light wear along the edges with bumping to the head and heel of the spine and slight bumps to the upper corners of the panels. The dj has light wear along the edges with some scuffing to the covers. Review copy with slip laid in. 285 pages with illustrations, bibliography, and index. A detailed study of the crimes of Lucian Kozminski against his fellow Holocaust survivors and the author's efforts to uncover Kozminski's location and assets.
Price: $20.00
The Jews in the Soviet Union since 1917: Paradox of Survival. 2 Volumes.
Levin, Nora.
New York University Press, 1990..
First paperback edition. Good trade paperbacks. Wear and rubbing along the edges with a small tear on the upper edge of the front cover of the volume 1. Volume 2 has a slight crease on the front cover and a couple of tiny tears on the upper edge of the front cover. Both volumes have some light scuffing to the covers. Pages are slightly yellowed. Clean, unmarked text in both volumes. 1013 pages total with illustrations, tables, endnotes, glossary, and index. A detailed accpunt of Jewish History in the Soviet Union from the Russian Revolution to the Refuseniks of the late twentieth century.
Price: $25.00
Nesim all around Me: The Life of David Mitzner as Told to Konstanty Gebert.
Mitzner, David, and Konstanty Gebert.
Krakow/Cracow: 2004.
Very good octavo hardcover in glossy illustrated binding with very good dust jacket. Light wear to edges of boards. Dj has light wear along edges and minor scuffing to covers. 162 pages with illustrations. The life story of the noted businessman, David Mitzner.
Price: $20.00
The Talmud of Babylonia: An American Translation. Volume XXVIII.B: Tractate Zebahim, Chapters 4-8.
Neusner, Jacob, translator.
Atlanta, Georgia: Scholars Press, 1991..
1st edition. Very good hardcover without dust jacket. Light wear to edges of boards with bumping to heel and head of the spine and slight tear in binding on back cover's lower corner. Name of former owner on front free endpaper along with what appears to have been a stampmark. 210 pages with index. Part of the Brown Judaic Studies series volume 233. A translation in English (American) of the Tractate Zebahim from the Talmud of Babylonia.
Price: $15.00
The Ecology of Religion: From Writing to Religion in the Study of Judaism.
Neusner, Jacob.
Nashville: Abingdon Press, 1989.
Very good octavo hardcover in very good dust jacket. Light wear and slight rubbing to edges of boards with light bumping to head and heel of spine. Dj has light wear along edges and some scuffing to covers. Gift inscription by author to previous owner on front free endpaper. 315 pages with appendix, bibliography, and index.
Price: $20.00
An Outstreched Arm: A History of the Jewish Colonization Association.
Norman, Theodore.
London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1985.
Very good octavo hardcover in very good dust jacket. Light wear and rubbing to edges of boards with minor bumping to head and heel of spine. Dj has light wear and rubbing along edges with a few minor nicks on corners of covers and some scuffing to covers. Edges of dj are slightly browned. Name of previous owner written in pen on front free endpaper. 326 pages with illustrations, maps, 4 appendices, endnotes, and index.
Price: $20.00
In the Garden of the Torah: Insights of the Lubavitcher Rebbe Rabbi Menachem M. Schneerson on the Weekly Torah Readings. Volume I.
Rabbi Menachem M. Schneerson.
Brooklyn: Sichos in English, 1994.
Very good octavo hardcover in good dust jacket. Light wear to edges of boards with bumping to head and heel of spine. Dj has wear along edges with an half-an-inch tear on the lower corner of front cover and creasing to rear cover's inner flap. Light scuffing to dj's covers as well. 179 pages with footnotes, list of founders and leaders of Chassidism, and glossary.
Price: $20.00
The Case for Auschwitz : Evidence from the Irving Trial.
Robert Jan van Pelt.
Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 2002.
Very good quarto-sized hardcover in very good dust jacket. Light wear and rubbing to edges of boards with slight bumping to head and heel of spine. Dj has light wear to edges with minor scuffing to covers. Printer's stamp on title page. 570 pages with illustrations, endnotes, tables, bibliography, and index. A study of Auschwitz as a death camp during World War II by Robert Jan van Pelt, an architectural historian who worked for the defense in the trial David Irving vs Deborah Lipstadt in 2000 over the accusation that Irving was a Holocaust denier. Special shipping prices for thiss wwork due to its size.
Price: $20.00
Meilensteine Vom Wege des Kartells Judischer Verbindungen (K.J.V.) in der Zionistischen Bewgung.
Rothschild, Eli.
Tel Aviv: 1972..
First edition. Very good octavo hardcover in blue binding without dust jacket. Some wear and rubbing to the edges of the boards with bumping to the head and heel of the spine. Some scuffing to the covers and slight foxing to the page edges. 416 pages with index. The text of this work is in German.
Price: $45.00
Fields of Offerings: Studies in Honor of Raphael Patai.
Sanua, Victor D., editor.
Herzl Press, Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, Associated University Press, 1983..
First edition. Very good octavo hardcover in good dust jacket. Wear and rubbing to the edges fo the boards and bumping to the head nd heel of the spine. The dj has wear and rubbing along the edges with a few small tears and some scuffing and light browning to the covers. 327 pages plus Hebrew Section with notes and bibliography of the writings of Raphel Patai. The essays in this festschrift deal with topics like folklore, anthropology, Zionism, Israel, and the ancient Near East.
Price: $15.00
Gabriel's Palace: Jewish Mystical Tales.
Schwartz, Howard.
Oxford University Press, 1993..
First edition. Very good octavo hardcover in very good dust jacket. Light wear and rubbing along the edges of the boards with minor bumping to the head and heel of the spine. Dj has some light wear along the edges with some scuffing to the covers. 414 pages with appendix, glossary, bibliography, and index. An interesting anthology of folktales, legends, and lore from Jewish sources. There are Rabbinic tales, Kabbalistic tales, mystical folktales, and Hasidic tales.
Price: $15.00
Dictionary of Jewish Lore and Legend.
Unterman, Alan.
London: Thames and Hudson, 1991..
First edition. Very good octavo hardcover in very good dust jacket. Light weat to edges of boards with minor bumping to head of spine. Dj has light wear along edges and some minor scuffing to covers. 216 pages with illustrations amd list for further reading.
Price: $15.00
Ha-Yesod : Fundamentals of Hebrew.
Uveeler, Luba, and Norman M. Bronznick.
Jerusalem: Feldheim Publishers, 1998.
Good trade paperback. Light wear and slight rubbing to edges of covers with minor scuffing to covers. Slight curling of corners as well. Covers have been laminated by previous owner. Table of contents, title page and hafltitle page are starting to come loose at lower edges. Clean, unmarked text. 444 pages with tables, indices, and English to Hebrew dictionary.
Price: $30.00
Revision des Judischen Nationalismus.
Zollschan, Ignaz.
Vienna (Wien) : R. Lowit Verlag, 1919.
Fair octavo hardcover without dust jacket. Marbled boards with brown spine. Heavy wear and rubbing to lower edges of boards wear board is exposed. Bumping to head and heel of spine and corners of covers. Light scuffing to covers but title strip on spine is peeling in places. Pages are browned. 182 pages.
Price: $25.00
