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By: N/A
Price: $15.00
Publisher: Haldeman-Julius Publications: 1928
Seller ID: 2266824
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 F... View more info
By: Agus, Jacob B.
Price: $10.00
Publisher: Frederick Ungar: 1978
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 1993613
First edition. 1978 Hard Cover. A history of modern Jewish thought. View more info
Price: $3.00
Publisher: Knight Printing Corp.: 1970
Seller ID: 1500993
Minor cover edge wear, light page toning. 1970 Soft Cover. Stapled binding. CONTENTS: The Rabbinate (Essay) by Rabbi Abraham J. Karp; Poem by Israel Emiot; The Zelmenyaner (Story) by M. Kulbak; James Joyce's Jewish Ulysses by H. Greenstone. 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
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'... View more info
By: Depaola, Tomie
Price: $5.00
Publisher: G.P. Putnam's Sons: 1990
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2261936
First edition. Ink name on front board. 1990 Board Book. Unpaginated. Board book. Describes with illustrations and simple text the special parts of a Seder meal which celebrates the Jewish feast of Passover. View more info
By: Dimont, Max I.
Price: $2.00
Publisher: Signet / New American Library: 1962
Seller ID: 1520059
Edge wear, a few creases, minimal ink marks. 1962 Mass Market Paperback. 472 pp. Born to a Jewish family in Helsinki, Finland, Dimont came to the United States in August 1929 with his mother and siblings; they were briefly detained at Ellis Island while family name and father's name were reconciled. He taught himself the English language by reading Shakespeare, the Bible, and American plays. After serving with U.S. Army intelligence in World War II, he worked in public r... View more info
Price: $15.00
Publisher: Syracuse University Press: 1999
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2172382
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
Price: $5.00
Publisher: BIC Publishing: 2000
Seller ID: 2200013
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, volca... View more info
By: Headley, J.T.
Price: $20.00
Publisher: Charles Scribner: 1864
Edition: Reprint
Seller ID: 2266163
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: Ingraham, J.H.
Price: $15.00
Publisher: Pudney & Russell: 1856
Edition: Revised Edition
Seller ID: 2266159
Revised edition. Corners rubbed, ink name on front and rear paste-down endpapers and second page, pages lightly foxed. 1856 Hard Cover. xix, 454 pp. My Dear Father: My first duty, as it is my highest pleasure, is to comply with your command to write you as soon as I should arrive at Jerusalem, and this letter, while it conveys intelligence of my arrival, will confirm to you my filial obedience.My journey hither occupied many days. When we traveled in sight of the sea, wh... View more info
By: Jung, Leo
Price: $9.00
Publisher: Soncino Press Ltd.: 1968
Seller ID: 1990753
Light shelf wear. 1968 Hard Cover. Essays on Jewish people and culture. View more info
By: Kazin, Alfred
Price: $7.00
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf: 1978
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2275756
First edition. Jacket edges lightly bumped, jacket faintly toned, small sticker on front jacket flap. 1978 Hard Cover. 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: Levin, Meyer
Price: $7.00
Publisher: Behrman House, Inc.: 1951
Seller ID: 2269970
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 r... View more info
By: Rabeeya, David
Price: $8.00
Publisher: David Rabeeya: 1991
Inscription: Signed by author
Seller ID: 1296302
Signed by author. Letter by author laid in. Minor cover edge wear, light spine creasing. 1991 Trade Paperback. Describes the wanderings of a Jew from Baghdad to Jerusalem and from Jerusalem to Philadelphia, PA... the book describes the pain of separation from the Jewish culture of Iraq and the shock of meeting secular Israel of the 1950s with the accompanying disillusionment about the new Jewish state. View more info
Price: $3.00
Publisher: Puffin Books: 2000
Seller ID: 1303598
Cover edge wear & corner creasing, spine creased. 2000 Trade Paperback. 256 pp. Susie Weksler was only eight when Hitler's forces invaded her Lithuanian city of Vilnius. Over the next few years, Susie endured starvation, brutality, and forced labor in three concentration camps. With courage and ingenuity, Susie's mother helped her to survive -- by disguising her as an adult, finding food to add to their scarce rations, and giving her the will to endure. This harrowing me... View more info
Price: $10.00
Publisher: Thomas Yoseloff: 1960
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2201916
First edition. Faint foxing on top page ridge, bottom corner of front jacket flap clipped, jacket rubbed, owner blind stamp on front endpaper, ink stamps following text appear to indicate date of acquisition and collection volume # of previous owner. 1960 Hard Cover. 231 pp. 8 1/2 x 5 3/4. An examination of Winston Churchill's efforts on behalf of the Jewish people, and his dedication to the Zionist cause, beginning with his opposition to the 1905 Aliens Bill, and contin... 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
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 ... View more info
By: Samuel, Maurice
Price: $3.00
Publisher: Meridian Books: 1959
Seller ID: 1504019
1959 Trade Paperback. 294 pp. The author renders his own versions of Hasidic stories by Isaac Loeb Peretz. View more info
Price: $12.00
Publisher: iUniverse, Inc.: 2012
Seller ID: 2264683
A very nice copy. 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 Churc... View more info
Price: $4.00
Publisher: Prayer Book Press: 1941
Seller ID: 1539856
Binding repaired, ink name and address on front endpapers. 1941 Hard Cover. 350 pp. Dual language English-Hebrew prayer book for the major holidays. View more info
Price: $30.00
Publisher: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, New York: 1957
Edition: Reprint
Inscription: Signed by author
Seller ID: 2173041
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 impass... View more info
By: Teutsch, David A. (Editor)
Price: $10.00
Publisher: State University of New York: 1992
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 1529615
First edition. Lightly rubbed. 1992 Hard Cover. 290 pp. A collection of essays examining the role of Judaism in society. CONTENTS: Introduction; Section I. Religion and Theology - 1. God, Prayer and Religious Language; 2. Tradition and Religious Practice; Section II. Culture and Education - 3. Jewish Education: Crisis and Vision; 4. Creativity and Community: the Jewish Artist's Experience; 5. Jewish Literacy: Will More and More Be Known; Section III. Israel and World Jew... View more info
Price: $8.00
Publisher: Brandeis University Press: 1995
Edition: 1st Printing
Seller ID: 2202011
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
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... View more info
By: Wiesel, Elie; Wiesel, Marion (Translator)
Price: $5.00
Publisher: Hill and Wang / Farrar, Straus and Giroux: 2006
Seller ID: 2261859
Ink notes on front blanks. 2006 Trade Paperback. xxi, 120 pp. With a new preface by the author. 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 ... View more info
By: Wildavsky, Aaron
Price: $15.00
Publisher: The University of Alabama Press: 1984
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 1529532
First edition. No jacket. 1984 Hard Cover. 262 pp. 9 1/4 x 6 1/4. CONTENTS: Acknowledgments; Introduction: Why Me? Why Moses? Why Leadership?; I. Slavery: Passive People, Passive Leader; II. From Slavery to Anarchy: Learning from Pharaoh What Not To Do; III. From Anarchy to Equity: Leadership in the Golden Calf, the Spies, and the Akedah; IV. From Equity to Hierarchy: The Institutionalization of Leadership; V. The Leader Disappears into the Book: Why Moses Does Not Get t... View more info
Price: $25.00
Publisher: The Jewish Publication Society of America: 1975
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2277991
First edition. Very faint stain along bottom edge of front jacket panel. 1975 Large Hardcover. 494 pp. This book is much more than a history of the Passover Haggadah. It is also a mirror of the last five centuries in Jewish history-as reflected in the Haggadah itself. View more info
