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The Torah: A Modern Commentary: Leviticus

By: Bamberger, Bernard J.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York, Union of American Hebrew Congregations: 1979

Seller ID: 2304446

ISBN: 0807400114

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

No jacket. A few faint spots on top page ridge. 1979 Hard Cover. xxxi, 417 pp. Hebrew and English text. CONTENTS: Preface; Introducing Leviticus: The Character of the Book and the Commentary - The Name of the Book - The Contents of the Book - Priestly Writing and Holiness Writing - Interpreters of Leviticus - Some Suggestions to the Reader; Leviticus and Ancient Near Eastern Literature, by William W. Hallo; Part I. Laws of Sacrifice; Part II. The Dedication of the Tabernacle and the Ordination of the Priests; Part III. Permitted and Forbidden Foods; Part IV. Defilement and Purification; Part V...
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Incidents of Travel and Adventure in the Far West

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

Price: $30.00

Publisher: 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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Affirming the Covenant: A History of Temple B'rith Kodesh Rochester, New York, 1848-1998

By: Eisenstadt, Peter

Price: $10.00

Publisher: 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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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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The Sacred Mountains

By: Headley, J.T.

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Charles Scribner: 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: 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: 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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The Rise of Political Anti-Semitism in Germany and Austria

By: Pulzer, Peter G.J.

Price: $6.00

Publisher: 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: 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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Geschichte der Juden in Berlin und des Gebaudes Fasanenstrafse 79/80 (German Text)

By: Sellenthin, H.G.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: 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 us—which 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 Israel—and ...
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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: 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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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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