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By: N/A
Price: $75.00
Publisher: The American Hebrew Publishing Co.: 1926
Seller ID: 2264588
Magazine rebound in violet cloth, with original color printed wrappers bound in, and new marbled endpapers. 1926 Large Hardcover. 465-592 pp. An issue of the weekly magazine which was originally founded in 1879, and continues to exist today, though it is now published under the title Washington Jewish Week. It was responsible for launching the careers of several notable Jewish authors, including the poet Emma Lazarus. View more info
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
By: Barnes, Ian; Bacon, Josephine
Price: $50.00
Publisher: Chartwell Books, Inc. / The Easton Press: 2009
Seller ID: 2265241
Rebound in full leather by Easton Press, with gilt titles and decorations, all edges gilt, silk moire endpapers, gold ribbon marker bound in. An exceptional copy. 2009 Full-Leather. 400, [2] pp. The Historical Atlas of Judaism is a fascinating account of the four thousand year old history of the Jewish faith, divided into six comprehensive sections surveying in detail the emergence of the Jews in Ancient Palestine right up to the modern Israeli state. Over 100 specially ... View more info
Price: $10.00
Publisher: Simon and Schuster: 1965
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2198636
First edition. Includes slipcase. Slipcase shows wear, book spines lightly rubbed. 1965 Hard Cover. Volume One: The Son of a Star A history of the Jews from the destruction of Jerusalem in AD70 to HAdrian's suppression of Simeon's insurrection in AD135. Volume Two: The Three Rings A history of the golden age of Jewish culture in Spain Volume Three: Behind the Wall The story of the ghetto. Volume Four: The Chains are Broken The story of Jewish emancipation. Volume... 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: 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
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By: Eisenberg, Azriel; Greenberg, Sidney; Rothberg, Abraham
Price: $40.00
Publisher: Behrman House: 1959
Edition: 5th Printing
Seller ID: 2205574
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. 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
By: Epstein, Perle
Price: $6.00
Publisher: Barnes & Noble: 1978
Seller ID: 2279271
Lightly rubbed. 1978 Hard Cover. An overview of Jewish mysticism from medieval times to the present. View more info
By: Feldman, Deborah
Price: $5.00
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Paperbacks: 2012
Edition: Reprint
Seller ID: 2201247
Very light shelf wear. 2012 Trade Paperback. 254 pp. As a member of the strictly religious Satmar sect of Hasidic Judaism, Deborah Feldman grew up under a code of relentlessly enforced customs governing everything from what she could wear and to whom she could speak to what she was allowed to read. It was stolen moments spent with the empowered literary characters of Jane Austen and Louisa May Alcott that helped her to imagine an alternative way of life. Trapped as a tee... View more info
Price: $12.50
Publisher: The Free Press: 1993
Edition: 1st Printing
Seller ID: 2200974
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 and spir... View more info
By: Friedman, Saul S.; Fackenheim, Emil (Foreword)
Price: $15.00
Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press: 1984
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by author
Seller ID: 2197861
First edition. Inscribed and signed by author on front endpaper ('For Rabbi Kolko - with heartfelt greetings and respect, Saul Friedman, 8-14-00'). Jacket rubbed, 1 inch jacket tear. 1984 Hard Cover. xxvii, 270 pp. People of Oberammergau have received highest praise for their fidelity through 350 years. But Friedman asks questions that must be addressed: Can the traditional text be reconciled with the Gospels? Does the play generate harmful, stereotypic images of Jews? I... View more info
By: Harpur, James
Price: $6.00
Publisher: Reader's Digest: 1997
Seller ID: 2269138
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. 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
Price: $6.00
Publisher: Eagle Editions: 2006
Seller ID: 2279273
An exceptional copy. 2006 Trade Paperback. The Essence of Kabbalah explains the mysticism of the Torah and the other books in the Hebrew Bible, and presents an overview of the historical trends that have shaped Kabbalah as it is known today. It examines the interpretative methods that are viewed as unlocking the secrets of the Torah - those teachings that point to the inner fabric of creation. 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: Maimonides
Price: $8.00
Publisher: Jewish Publication Society: 2009
Edition: 1st Printing
Seller ID: 2208037
1st printing. Faintly rubbed. 2009 Trade Paperback. These letters represent Maimonide’s response to three issues critical to Jews in his day and ours; religious persecution, the claims of Christianity and Islam and rational philosophy’s challenge to faith. View more info
By: Pappe, Ilan
Price: $12.00
Publisher: Verso Books: 2016
Edition: 1st Printing
Seller ID: 2271336
1st printing. An exceptional copy. 2016 Trade Paperback. Since its foundation in 1948, Israel has drawn on Zionism, the movement behind its creation, to provide a sense of self and political direction. In this groundbreaking new work, Ilan Pappe looks at the continued role of Zionist ideology. The Idea of Israel considers the way Zionism operates outside of the government and military in areas such as the country’s education system, media, and cinema, and the uses that... View more info
By: Potok, Chaim; Cohen, David
Price: $12.00
Publisher: Collins Publishers: 1989
Seller ID: 2203786
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, ma... View more info
By: Sabar, Shalom
Price: $20.00
Publisher: JPS: 1990
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2064680
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 ... 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
By: Sarna, Nahum M.
Price: $7.00
Publisher: Shocken Books: 1970
Edition: 1st Printing
Seller ID: 2195813
Sticker remains on front cover. 1970 Trade Paperback. xxx, 267 pp. This book...is designed to make the Bible of Israel intelligible, relevant, and hopefully, inspiring to a sophisticated generation, possessed of intellectual curiosity and ethical sensitivity...It is based on the belief that the study of the Book of Books must constitute a mature intellectual challenge, an exposure to the expanding universe of scientific biblical scholarship...Far from presenting a threa... 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
By: Sellenthin, H.G.
Price: $10.00
Publisher: Judische Gemeinde zu Berlin: 1959
Seller ID: 2280980
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
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
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
