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By: N/A
Price: $15.00
Publisher: Haldeman-Julius Publications: 1928
Seller ID: 2266824
Condition: Good
Stain along edges of wrappers, a few very small holes in front wrapper, quarter-inch chip to rear wrapper edge, pages lightly toned. 1928 Stapled Binding. 125 pp. CONTENTS include: Catholic Fathers Consider Evolution, by Maynard Shipley; Snyder-Gray Echoes, by Robert T. Griebling; The Jewish Church, by Herman Jacobsohn; The Bigotry Trust, by Linn A.E. Gale; The Sinless Cinema, by Hal G. Vermes; The Vanishing Yankee, by Harold D. Carew; Your Dream Has a Real Meaning, by Frederic Damrau. View more info
By: Carvalho, Solomon Nunes; Korn, Bertram W.
Price: $30.00
Publisher: The Jewish Publication Society of America: 1954
Edition: Reissue
Seller ID: 2266166
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 ... View more info
Price: $10.00
Publisher: Syracuse University Press: 1999
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2172382
ISBN: 0815681283
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'. View more info
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By: Fishbane, Michael; Leiber, Laura Suzanne
Price: $60.00
Publisher: The Jewish Publication Society: 2002
Seller ID: 2300435
ISBN: 0827606915
Condition: Near Fine
Near fine. 2002 Large Hardcover. Includes Study Guide. Text in Hebrew and English. The haftarot are an ancient part of Hebrew liturgy. These supplemental readings are excerpted from the Prophets (Nevi'im) and accompany each weekly Sabbath reading from the Torah as well as readings for special Sabbaths and festivals. Noted Bible scholar Michael Fishbane introduces each haftarah with an outline and discussion of how that passage conveys its meaning, and he follows it with observations on how it relates to the Torah portion or special occasion. Individual comments, citing classical rabbinic as we... View more info
By: Frank, Anne; Mooyaart-Doubleday, B. M.; Roosevelt, Eleanor
Price: $30.00
Publisher: Doubleday & Company, Inc.: 1952
Edition: Reprint
Seller ID: 2302835
Condition: Good
Early reprint. Lacks jacket. Spine faded, pages toned. 1952 Hard Cover. 285 pp. Anne Frank lived in hiding with seven other people in a secret nest of rooms in Amsterdam. Her diary reveals the life of this group of Jews waiting in fear of being discovered by the Nazis. View more info
Price: $5.00
Publisher: BIC Publishing: 2000
Seller ID: 2200013
ISBN: 0967942845
Condition: Very Good
Lightly rubbed, pages lightly toned. 2000 Trade Paperback. 352 pp. Wanderlust is an anthology complied from 20 brilliant and passionate travel writers of Jewish origin. These are first hand accounts by men who abandoned the comforts of home and family and paid a high personal price for their Wanderlust. They struggle with discomfort, deprivation and perhaps worst of all, uncertainty – which is the essence of the exploration process. North Pole, mountain climbing, volcano exploration, dinosaur fossil and Big Game hunting, African, and Asian explorations are documented. Richly illustrated with... View more info
By: Headley, J.T.
Price: $20.00
Publisher: Charles Scribner: 1864
Edition: Reprint
Seller ID: 2266163
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. View more info
By: Kazin, Alfred
Price: $7.00
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf: 1978
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2275756
ISBN: 0394495675
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. View more info
By: Kazin, Alfred
Price: $5.00
Publisher: MFJ Books: 1974
Edition: Reissue
Seller ID: 2289119
ISBN: 1567312128
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. View more info
By: Levin, Meyer
Price: $7.00
Publisher: Behrman House, Inc.: 1951
Seller ID: 2269970
Condition: Very Good
No jacket, bookplate on half-title page. 1951 Hard Cover. xviii, 357 pp. This is a collection of tales of the Eastern European Hassidic Jews, centering on the holy men Baal Shem Tov and Rabbi Nachman of Bratzlaw. The territory and narrative elements belong to the familiar world of folk tales. However, these magical realist stories of the Hassidic rabbis are encoded with deeper levels of meaning similar to Buddhist, Sufi, Celtic, and other spiritual traditions. Lovingly recounted by master story-teller Meyer Levin, this glimpse of a now long-gone world is a wonderful anthology which can be enjo... View more info
Price: $6.00
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons: 1964
Seller ID: 2292557
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. View more info
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By: Rochester Chapter of Hadassah
Price: $50.00
Publisher: Great Lakes Press Corp.: 1963
Edition: 2nd Printing
Seller ID: 2266855
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. View more info
By: Sellenthin, H.G.
Price: $10.00
Publisher: Judische Gemeinde zu Berlin: 1959
Seller ID: 2280980
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. View more info
By: Shneidman, N. N.
Price: $10.00
Publisher: Mosaic Press: 2002
Seller ID: 2302571
ISBN: 0889627851
Condition: Near Fine
Faint smudges to wrappers. 2002 Trade Paperback. xi, 173 pp. Vilnius (Vilna, Wilno), the capital of Lithuania, is almost 700 years old. Since the Middle Ages it has been one of the main centers of Jewish cultural, religious, social, and political activity of the Diaspora. At one time, one half of the city inhabitants were Jewish. Everything changed during the Holocaust. The Jewish community was destroyed by the Nazis and their collaborators. But there were those who refused to surrender without a fight. Witenberg and Sheinbaum were the leaders of the Jewish underground resistance organizations... View more info
Price: $30.00 $24.00
Publisher: Farrar, Straus & Giroux: 1957
Edition: Reprint
Inscription: Signed by author
Seller ID: 2173041
ISBN: 0374162441
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 ... View more info
Price: $8.00
Publisher: Brandeis University Press: 1995
Edition: 1st Printing
Seller ID: 2202011
ISBN: 0874517095
Condition: Near Fine
First paperback printing. Single page dog-eared. 1995 Trade Paperback. xix, 433 pp. Leading historians of modern Jewry offer the first comprehensive account of American synagogue history. View more info
By: Wiesel, Elie; Wiesel, Marion (Translator)
Price: $5.00
Publisher: Hill and Wang / Farrar, Straus and Giroux: 2006
Edition: 1st Printing
Seller ID: 2261315
ISBN: 0374500010
Condition: Good
1st printing. Stain to rear wrapper. 2006 Trade Paperback. xxi, 120 pp. 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 that this horror must never be allowed to happen again. View more info
