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Terezin, 1941-1945

By: Ancerl, Karel; Berman, Karel; Bic, Milos; Bor, Josef; Diamant, Jiri; Ehrmann, Frantisek; Feder, Richard; Fleischmann, Karel; Flusser, Jindrich; Franke, Rudolf; Freyova-Ledererova, Anny; Fritta, Bedrich; Fryd, Norbert; Fuchs, Frantisek; Haas, Leo; Haas, P

Price: $35.00

Publisher: Prague, The Council of Jewish Communities in the Czech Lands: 1965

Seller ID: 2307692

Binding: Large Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

One inch tear along top edge of front jacket panel, jacket edges rubbed, jacket laminate peeling. Bookplate on half-title page. 1965 Large Hardcover. 327 pp. Color fold-outs, tipped in color frontispiece and plates, black-and-white plates from drawings. Includes 45 record in sleeve. On October 16, the first Jewish Transport left for Lodz. On October 19, the Terezin ghetto was established as a transit station on the road to death. On November 11, Hitler instructed Himmler to have the Jews exterminated. On November 25, the first transport left for Terezin. Here is the history.
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Incidents of Travel and Adventure in the Far West

By: Carvalho, Solomon Nunes; Korn, Bertram W.

Price: $30.00

Publisher: Philadelphia, The Jewish Publication Society of America: 1954

Seller ID: 2266166

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

1954 reissue of 1857 edition, with portraits and paintings by Carvalho added for this edition. Endpapers illustrated with the route of Fremont's fifth exploratory expedition. Jacket edges rubbed with a few minor chips, front jacket flap price-clipped. 328 pp. ...Solomon Nunes Carvalho was closely associated with Jewish life. He was able to pass on to the new communities of the Far West the benefit of his own Jewish experience and knowledge. Dr. Korn also traces Carvalho's artistic career, his political activities in behalf of Fremont when the latter was the first national candidate of the new ...
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The Bar Mitzvah Treasury and The Bar Mitzvah Companion [Boxed Set]

By: Eisenberg, Azriel; Greenberg, Sidney; Rothberg, Abraham

Price: $30.00

Publisher: ., Behrman House: 1959

Seller ID: 2205574

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

5th printing. Includes two volumes. Slipcase lightly rubbed. 1959 Hard Cover. A collection of writings that are both inspirational and informative for those about to celebrate Bar Mitzvah.
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Affirming the Covenant: A History of Temple B'rith Kodesh Rochester, New York, 1848-1998

By: Eisenstadt, Peter

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York, Syracuse University Press: 1999

Seller ID: 2172382

ISBN: 0815681283

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

First edition. Light edge wear to jacket. Very Good. 1999 Hard Cover. xvii, 281 pp. A 150-year history of the Jewish temple in Rochester, New York. The introduction describes 'The story of the oldest Jewish congregation in Rochester' as 'a microcosm of the Reform movement'.
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A Breath of Life: Feminism in the American Jewish Community

By: Fishman, Sylvia Barack

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York, The Free Press: 1993

Seller ID: 2200974

ISBN: 0029103428

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

1st printing. Faintly toned. Jacket spine edges lightly bumped, jacket lightly toned. 1993 Hard Cover. xii, 308 pp. Drawing on interviews with Jewish women from age 18 to 80, across the United States, as well on new demographic data, scholarship, literature and media, A Breath of Life explores contemporary options for Jewish women striving to combine community, family and individual needs. Fishman demonstrates the ways feminism has transformed both their secular andspiritual lives. Today's Jewish women, successfully availing themselves of the increased educational and occupational opportunitie...
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Philosophies of Judaism: The History of Jewish Philosophy from Biblical Times to Franz Rosenzweig

By: Guttmann, Julius; Silverman, David W. (Translator); Werblowski, R.J. Zwi (Introduction)

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York, Holt, Rinehart and Winston: 1964

Seller ID: 2305010

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

First edition. One inch tear along top edge of front jacket panel, half inch by one inch chip along top edge of rear jacket panel, other minor chips and minor tears to jacket edges. Bottom corners of some pages lightly bumped. 1964 Hard Cover. x, 464 pp. Philosophies of Judaism is a complete and authoritative history of Jewish philosophy, from biblical times through its period of great vitality in the Middle Ages to the turn of this century. Professor Guttmann is both historian and interpreter, setting forth with great clarity basic information about each important thinker and movement, analyz...
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Abraham and His Sons

By: Harpur, James

Price: $6.00

Publisher: Pleasantville, NY, Reader's Digest: 1997

Seller ID: 2269138

ISBN: 0895779595

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

An exceptional copy. 1997 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. Illustrated with 150 art reproductions and photographs, a retelling of the lives, trials, and triumphs of Abraham, his wife Sarah, and his descendants emphasizes the applicability of the biblical stories to readers' daily lives.
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The Sacred Mountains

By: Headley, J.T.

Price: $15.00

Publisher: New York, Charles Scribner's Sons: 1864

Seller ID: 2266163

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Civil War era reprint. Light stain along page-base, book plate on front paste-down endpaper. 1864 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. x, 175 pp. A study of the sacred mountains of the Bible. CONTENTS: Mount Ararat; Mount Moriah; Mount Hor; Mount Pisgah; Mount Horeb; Mount Carmel; Mount Lebanon; Mount Zion; Mount Tabor; Mount of Olives; Mount Calvary; The Mount of God.
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New York Jew

By: Kazin, Alfred

Price: $7.00

Publisher: New York, Alfred A. Knopf: 1978

Seller ID: 2275756

ISBN: 0394495675

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. Jacket edges lightly bumped, jacket faintly toned, small sticker on front jacket flap. 1978 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 307 pp. The distinguished literary critic picks up the story of his life in 1940 and chronicles the significant events, people, and places of his life thereafter and comments on the literary doings of the forties, fifties, and sixties.
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A Walker in the City: The Classic Reminiscence of a Brooklyn Childhood

By: Kazin, Alfred

Price: $5.00

Publisher: New York, MFJ Books: 1974

Seller ID: 2289119

ISBN: 1567312128

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

Minor tear along top edge of rear jacket panel, front jacket flap creased. 1974 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 176 pp. Kazin's memorable description of his life as a young man as he makes the journey from Brooklyn to Americanca-the larger world that begins at the other end of the subway in Manhattan. A classic portrayal of the Jewish immigrant culture of the 1930s. Drawings by Marvin Bileck.
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Service for the First Nights of Passover [HEBREW AND ENGLISH]

By: Loewy, Joesph; Guens, Joseph

Price: $75.00

Publisher: Tl Aviv, Sinai: 1967

Seller ID: 2307803

Binding: Large Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Ink note and one inch tear along bottom edge of title page. 1967 Large Hardcover. Hebrew and English text. Raised front board with floral decor and depiction of Moses with the 10 Commandments tablets. With a revised English translation and copious explanatory notes. Color illustrations from engravings by Gustave Dore.
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The Jews in America

By: Potok, Chaim; Cohen, David

Price: $10.00

Publisher: San Francisco, Collins Publishers: 1989

Seller ID: 2203786

ISBN: 0002153238

Binding: Large Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

Boards lightly bowed. Jacket bumped. 1989 Large Hardcover. 223 pp. A glossy, predictable paean to American Jewry by the producers of the Day in the Life series, this oversize collection of photographs traverses the country, capturing cowboys and Soviet Jewry activists, magicians and roving rabbis. The belabored point here is that Jews have special customs--circumcision, bar mitzvah, Passover seder--that set them apart, but Jews are also as American as apple pie. Hence, many of the 197 pictures, most of them color, reiterate that Jews are just regular folk: there are cozy multigenerational shot...
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The Rise of Political Anti-Semitism in Germany and Austria

By: Pulzer, Peter G.J.

Price: $6.00

Publisher: New York, John Wiley & Sons: 1964

Seller ID: 2292557

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Fair

Ink underlining to first few dozen pages, wrapper stained. 1964 Trade Paperback. Examines the foundations of German and Austrian anti-semitism dating back to the late 19th century.
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Rochester Hadassah Cookbook [Cook Book]

By: Rochester Chapter of Hadassah

Price: $50.00

Publisher: Rochester, Great Lakes Press Corp.: 1963

Seller ID: 2266855

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

2nd printing. Boards a bit soiled, interior in excellent condition. 1963 Hard Cover. 336 pp. 8vo. A collection of traditional Jewish recipes published in Rochester. Includes handy reference tables on endpapers. CONTENTS: Holidays; Passover Recipes; Party Hints; Children's Recipes; Cantonese Foods; Appetizers and Canapes; Soups and Soup Fillers; Vegetables; Fish; Kugel, Pudding and Pancakes; Meats; Poultry; Meat Side Dishes; Salads; Molds; Desserts; Preserves, Marmalades and Jams; Breads and Coffee Cakes; Cookies; Cakes; Pies; Candies and Frostings.
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Ketubbah: Jewish Marriage Contracts of Hebrew Union College, Skirball Museum, and Klau Library

By: Sabar, Shalom

Price: $10.00

Publisher: ., JPS: 1990

Seller ID: 2064680

ISBN: 0827603614

Binding: Large Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. Jacket spine faded. Near Fine. 1990 Large Hardcover. The illustrated Ketubbah is a unique artifact of Judaica. It is, first of all, a legal document virtually unchanged since talmudic times, but it is also an artistic expression of aesthetic tastes and social mores from centuries of Jewish wandering and just as much a part of today's Jewish wedding ceremonies as it was hundreds of years ago. This gorgeous collection of kettubim includes 48 color plates and 124 black and white photographs.
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The Holocaust, the Church, and the Law of Unintended Consequences: How Christian Anti-Judaism Spawned Nazi Anti-Semitism

By: Sciolino, Anthony J.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Bloomington, iUniverse, Inc.: 2012

Seller ID: 2306817

ISBN: 147596286X

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Very Good

Rear wrapper corners faintly creased, light spot on fore edge of last few pages. 2012 Trade Paperback. xxiv, 245 pp. The image of Jews as God-killers and their refusal to convert to Christianity has fueled a long tradition of Christian intolerance, hatred, and violence. It is no surprise, then, that when Adolf Hitler advocated the elimination of Jews, he found willing allies within the Catholic Church and Christianity itself. In this study, author Anthony J. Sciolino, himself a Catholic, cuts into the heart of why the Catholic Church and Christianity as a whole failed to stop the Holocaust. He...
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Geschichte der Juden in Berlin und des Gebaudes Fasanenstrafse 79/80 (German Text)

By: Sellenthin, H.G.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Berlin, Judische Gemeinde zu Berlin: 1959

Seller ID: 2280980

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Jacket edges rubbed with a few minor chips, quarter-inch chip to jacket spine head, half-inch chip to jacket spine base, small chip to jacket. 1959 Hard Cover. German text. History of the Jews in Berlin and the building Fasanenstrafse 79/80.
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Fear No Evil

By: Sharansky, Natan; Hoffman, Stefani

Price: $20.00

Publisher: New York, Random House: 1988

Seller ID: 2304390

ISBN: 0394558782

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. Signed by author without inscription. A few small tears to jacket edges, jacket edges lightly rubbed. 1988 Hard Cover. xxii, 437 pp. Temperamentally and intellectually, Natan Sharansky is a man very much like many of uswhich makes this account of his arrest on political grounds, his trial, and ten years' imprisonment in the Orwellian universe of the Soviet gulag particularly vivid and resonant. Since Fear No Evil was originally published in 1988, the Soviet government that imprisoned Sharansky has collapsed. Sharansky has become an important national leader in Israeland serves...
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Gimpel the Fool and Other Stories

By: Singer, Isaac Bashevis; Bellow, Saul; Rosenfeld, Isaac; Guterman, Norbert; Glicklich, Martha; Gottleib, Elaine; Katz, Shlomo; Gross, Nancy;

Price: $30.00

Publisher: New York, Farrar, Straus & Giroux: 1957

Seller ID: 2173041

ISBN: 0374162441

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

1979 13th printing (the year Singer won the Pulitzer Prize). Signed I B Singer without inscription on front endpaper - he sometimes signed in this manner, sometimes with his first name and middle initial, and sometimes with his full name. Crease to bottom edge of jacket, faint crease down front jacket flap, jacket lightly toned. Very good. 1957 Hard Cover. 205 pp. When Isaac Bashevis Singer won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1979, the Swedish Academy praised his impassioned narrative art which, with roots in a Polish-Jewish cultural tradition, brings universal human conditions to life. But ...
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Temple B'rith Kodesh, 1848-1948

By: Temple B'rith Kodesh

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Rochester, New York, Temple B'rith Kodesh: 1948

Seller ID: 2307695

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

Title on spine rubbed, tape on one page. 1948 Hard Cover. 43 pp. History of B'rith Kodesh, young founders, pageant, women of the congregation, Jewish congregation . Address by Rabbi Abba Hillel Silver and rabbi James G. Heller. Annual meeting, religious school, sisterhood, The Temple club and last: members of Temple B'rith Kodesh.
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Night

By: Wiesel, Elie; Wiesel, Marion (Translator)

Price: $7.00

Publisher: New York, Hill and Wang / Farrar, Straus and Giroux: 2006

Seller ID: 2306564

ISBN: 0374500010

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Near Fine

First printing thus. 2006 Trade Paperback. xxi, 120 pp. Newly translated from the French by Marion Wiesel, with a new preface by the author, a foreword by Francois Mauriac, and Wiesel's Nobel Peace Price Acceptance Speech following text. A terrifying account of the Nazi death camp horror that turns a young Jewish boy into an agonized witness to the death of his family... the death of his innocence... and the death of his God. Penetrating and powerful, as personal as The Diary of Anne Frank, Night awakens the shocking memory of evil at its absolute and carries with it the unforgettable message ...
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