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Greensboro, North Carolina, U.S.A.: University of North Carolina at Greensboro, Weatherspoon Art Gallery. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1996. Soft Cover. 096275417X . Signed by Pinchas Cohen Gan on ffep, which is translucent vellum. Owner's name on half title. No other writing or marks. Book displays no reading wear. 115 pp. Wraps have minor edge rubbing. Illustrations of Gan's works included in the exhibit, in black & white, color. Contents: Ruth K. Beesch, "Preface and Acknowledgments"; Kristine Stile, "Foreword"; Beesch, "Biography, Nature, Mystery"; Stiles, "Rampman against a Portable Field," Peter Selz, "Influences on the Art of Pinchas Cohen Gan"; Pinchas Cohen Gan, "Works, 1968-1996"; checklist; artist's biography; Gan, "Biography of Creation." Gan's work is mixed media, conceptual, and often political in its message with focus on the modern Israeli state.; 10" (25.4 cm) Tall; Signed by Artist . more information

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South Fallsburg, NY, U.S.A.: Alfred Brotter. Near Fine with no dust jacket. 2001. Soft Cover. 0971416508 . Clean copy, square with tight binding and bright pages. No writing or marks. Minor edge rubbing to wraps. Book offers relief from "Klooogs" - uninvited pain resulting from thoughts about the past entering one's mind when one is least prepared. Book is an anthology of stories about "Klooogs" with purpose of inspiring readers to be released from their own "Klooogs."; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall . more information

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New York: Scribner. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 2001. Coded First Edition. Hard Cover. 068485757X . Light exlibrary markings from private retirement home library. Previous owner's bookplate on front pastedown. Pages clean, bright. Paper over boards has light edge rubbing. DJ has light shelf wear. 347 pp. Personal account of Jewish American family history in the post-WWII era.; Ex-Library (Private); 9.5" (23.5 cm) Tall . more information

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New York: Crown Publishers. Very Good in Good dust jacket. 1967. Hard Cover. Square, tight binding and hinges. Clean, slightly age-darkened pages. Signed by author on ffep with inscription to Joe Hanchrow, a fellow B'nai B'rith participant. Cloth over boards is edge rubbed with bumped corners. DJ edgeworn, with tears and creases at lower edge. 279 pp. Memoir by the executive vice-president of B'nai B'rith for 27 years, during its period of momentous growth in the early and mid-20th century.; 8.5" (21.5 cm) Tall; Signed by Author . more information

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Zaragoza: Editorial Ebro, S.L.. Good with no dust jacket. 1938. Soft Cover. Later edition. Book is in the Spanish language. Square, tight binding. Clean, age-darkened pages. Wraps have general shelf wear. 255 pp. Anthology of poetry by 19th century Spanish Jewish authors.; 6.75" (17 cm) Tall . more information

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New York: Bloch Publishing Company. Good with no dust jacket. 1925. Hard Cover. Square, tight binding and hinges. Clean but age-darkened pages. Cloth over boards is soiled with shelf wear and edge wear. 208 pp. Poetry by Memphis (Tennessee) born author with wide-ranging themes drawn from Jewish history, faith and tradition.; 7.5" (19 cm) High . more information

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New York: W. W. Norton. Good in Good dust jacket. 1964. Hard Cover. Exlibrary markings. Square with tight binding and hinges, slightly age-darkened pages. Some light edge rubbing to cloth over boards. DJ shelfworn, small tape stains on flaps and clipped corners, in new mylar sleeve. 222 pp. Personal account of life in occupied Poland starting in 1939. Author was 9 years old when the war began, the only child of a middle class Jewish family. She and her family moved to Warsaw, where they survived life in the WWII ghetto. Young Janina escaped just before the tragic ghetto rising, thus making her the only survivor of her family.; Ex-Library; 8.5" (21.5 cm) Tall . more information

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Waltham, MA: Brandeis University. Good with no dust jacket. 1957. Softcover. Square, sound binding. Clean but age-darkened pages. Wraps have light shelf wear, overall soiling and age-darkening, wear to top of spine. ; <br><br>Contents: Diamond, "Kibbutz and Shtetl"; Spiro, "The Sabras and Zionism"; Rosenfeld, "Institutional Change in the Kibbutz"; Schwartz, "Democracy and Collectivism"; book reviews; news, reports and announcements.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall . more information

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London: Carmel College. Good in Good dust jacket. 1970. Hard Cover. 0950137200 . Square, tight binidng and hinges. Boards are slightly bowed. Pages clean and bright. Purple cloth over boards is clean with slight edge rubbing. DJ has minor edge wear, general shelf wear. 267 pp. Posthumous tribute to British Rabbi Kopul Rosen, founder of Carmel College. Contributors: Lord Sieff of Brimpton, Cyril Domb, Henry Shaw, Rabbi Theodore Lewis, Norman Jacobs, Chaim Bermant, Aaron Wright, Rabbi Louis Rabinowitz, Judge Trevor Rapke, David Stamler, Norman Cohen, Norman Feltz, Alan Gold, Rabbi Dr. Jacob Newman, Jeffrey M. Fisher.; 10" (25.4 cm) Tall . more information

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Philadelphia: The Jewish Publication Society of America. Very Good in Good dust jacket. 1976. First English-language Edition. Hard Cover. 0827600836 . Square, tight binding and hinges. Clean, slightly age-darkened pages. Paper over boards is edge rubbed. DJ has edge wear, small area torn on back of book, general shelf wear. 331 pp. Illustrated with black and white photographs. Memoir by Jewish representative who participated in the founding conference of the United Nations in San Francisco in 1945.; 8.5" (21.5 cm) Tall . more information

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New York: Atheneum. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1973. First Edition. Hardcover. 068910541X . Square, tight binding and hinges. Clean and bright pages. Owner's name and small amount of other writing on ffep. Cloth over boards is clean with light edge rubbing. DJ is age-darkened with edge rubbing and light shelf wear. ; <br><br>Told from the perspective of the author's own experience and his family history, the book examines the history and experience of Americans of Jewish faith and ethnicity in the Southeastern United States from colonial times to the 20th century. ; 1.6 x 9.4 x 6 Inches; 369 pages . more information

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New York: Rabbi Aaron Felder. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1976. Hard Cover. Book is in Hebrew and English languages. Square, tight binding and hinges. Owner's name on front paste-down, along with additional marking. Text pages clean, off-white. 162 pp. <br><br>Jewish laws concerning death and mourning along with interpretation of their application.; 8.5" (21.5 cm) Tall . more information

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Jerusalem: The Joint Authority for Jewish-Zionist Education. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1994. Soft Cover. Square, tight binding. Clean and bright pages. Wraps have light edge rubbing and light shelf wear. 126 pp. Contents: "Avar ve'Atid"; "The Confused State of Jewish Education"; "Judaism's Dialogue with America's First Lady"; "Individualism and Pluralism Limited"; "Eliezer Schweid, Recipient of Israel's Highest Award, Defines Today's Jewish Problem"; Bar-Asher, "The Renewal of Spoken Hebrew"; Greenberg, "Hebraism Is More than a Language"; Barak, "Israel's High Court: Freedom of Spech and Language Takes Precedence over the National Value of Hebrew"; Frost, "Camps Massad"; Bloom, "Reminiscences"; Bialik, "Halakhah and Aggadah" and "Should Thou Wish to Know"; Hammer, review essay, "The Book of Legends"; Frost, "Politics and the Ethics of Judaism"; Fishman, "Moral Behavior under Conditions of Warfare"; Cohen, "Beyond Philanthropy and Politics"; conferences and symposia.; 9.5" (24 cm) Tall . more information

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New York: Henry Schuman. Good with no dust jacket. 1950. Hard Cover. Exlibrary markings. Square book with sound binding and hinges, clean but slightly off-white pages, flap from DJ glued on ffep. CLoth over boards is faded at spine and around edges. 134 pp. History, meaning and observance traditions of Jewish holidays Purim and Hanukkah.; Ex-Library; 9.0" (23 cm) Tall . more information

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Cleveland, Ohio: The World Publishing Company. Good in Good dust jacket. 1958. Stated First Edition. Hard Cover. Square, sound binding and hinges. Clean, off-white pages. Cloth over boards is edge rubbed. Exterior edges of pages soiled. DHJ has edge wear, tear at bottom of spine, general soiling and shelf wear. 317 pp. Columns and other writings by New York-born editor of the Carolina Israelite, a newspaper for Jewish readers publsihed in Charlotte, North Carolina.; 8.75" (21 cm) Tall . more information

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Jerusalem: Cultural Relations Department, Ministry for Foreign Affairs. Good with no dust jacket. 1965. Soft Cover. Square, tight binding. Wraps have small tear at top of spine, overall light soiling and shelf wear, faint spine crease. Pages clean, slightly age-darkened. Illustrated with color, black and white photographs. 75 pp. Contents: Sandberg, "The Message of Human Creativity"; Mansfeld, "Unity in Diversity"; Kiesler and Bartos, "The Shrine of the Book"; Yadin, "The Scrolls in the Shrine"; Kahane, "The Biblical and Archaeological Museum"; Amiran, "Science in the Serivce of Archaeology"; Noguchi, "A Sculpture Garden in Jerusalem"; Ardon, "Whither Israel Art?"; Katz, "A Tabernacle in the Wilderness"; Roth, "Jewish Ceremonial Art": Gordon, "The Museum's Junior Wing"; Frankfurter, "Art Based on the Old Testament."; 9.0" (23 cm) Tall . more information

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Amherst, MA, U.S.A.: National Yiddish Book Center. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1999. Facsimile Reprint. Soft Cover. 0657071080 . Facsimile reprint edition of 1902 original. Square, tight binding. Clean and bright pages. Wraps have light edge rubbing. 315 pp. Also titled "Harkavy's American Letter Writer with Useful Information and a Treatise on Book Keeping, English and Yiddish." Examples of business and other correspondence with translations in Yiddish and English on opposite pages.; 9.0" (23 cm) Tall . more information

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New York: Frederick Ungar Publishing Co.. Good in Good dust jacket. 1989. Hard Cover. 0804423776 . Square with sharp corners, tight binding/hinges, bright pages. exlib marks (ffep, title page, contents, last page of text). Library pocket on rear endpaper, tape marks on exterior of cover and on endpapers. Occasional pencilled mark in book. Some light edge rubbing to cloth over boards. 165 pp. DJ well preserved with fading at spine, in new mylar sleeve. Literary criticism of Malamud's works, with a chapter devoted to each of the following: The Natural, The Assistant, A New Life, The Fixer, Pictures of Fidelman, The Tenants, Dubin's Lives, and Malamud's short stories.; Ex-Library; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall . more information

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Jerusalem: Koren Publishers. Very Good in Good dust jacket. 1979. Hard Cover. Square, tight binding and hinges. Clean, slightly off-white pages. Paper over boards is edge rubbed. DJ has general shelf wear, edge wear with scuffing and rubbing. 377 pp. Autobiography of Herman Hollander, who was involved in the founding of the nation-state of Israel after World War II.; 8.25" (21 cm) Tall . more information

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Philadelphia: The Jewish Publication Society of America. Good with no dust jacket. 1928. Hard Cover. Square, tight binding and hinges. Front hingepaper cracked. Clean, age-darkened pages. Cloth over boards is edge rubbed, with light overall shelf wear. Spine a little faded. 162 pp. Memoirs of Abram S. Isaacs (1853 or 1854-1920), New York Rabbi and editor of the Jewish Messenger as well as a professor at New York University.; 7.75" (20 cm) Tall . more information

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New York: The Citadel Press. Good in Good dust jacket. 1969. Hard Cover. Square, tight binding. Clean and bright pages. Small scraped areas on ffep. Paper over boards is edge rubbed. DJ has general shelf wear, light edge wear. 133 pp. <br><br>Yiddish translation of English-language poetry. ; 8.75" (21 cm) Tall . more information

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Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Company. Fair with no dust jacket. 1921. Hardcover. Square, sound hinges. Binding generally sound, but frontispiece has come loose (present in book). Pages clean but age-darkened. Cloth over boards is edge worn, shelf worn, faded at spine, with soiling and wear to back. ; <br><br>English translation of the Song of Solomon along with analysis of the text. ; 8.5" tall; 246 pages . more information

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New York: Bloch Publishing Company. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1931. Hard Cover. Square, tight binding. Clean, age-darkened pages. Cloth over boards is edge rubbed with gilt lettering at spine. Square, tight binding and hinges. Clean but age-darkened pages. 235 pp. plus 23-page appendix. Exposition of Judaism in the form of talks suitable for children of Bar-Mitzvah age. Addresses based upon texts of the Haphtora and illustrated with quotations from the Talmud and Midrash.; 8.25" (21 cm) Tall . more information

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New York: Bloch Publishing. Very Good in Fair dust jacket. 1931. Hard Cover. Square, tight binding and hinges. Clean but age-darkened pages. Signed by author with inscription to James A. Hamilton, "a true public servant," dated 1932, on ffep. Cloth over boards is edge rubbed with bumped corners. DJ chipped, torn, age-darkened, worn. 235 pp. plus 23-page appendix. Exposition of Judaism in the form of talks suitable for children of Bar-Mitzvah age. Addresses based upon texts of the Haphtora and illustrated with quotations from the Talmud and Midrash.; 8.25" (21 cm) Tall; Signed by Author . more information

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Philadelphia: Fortress Press. Good in Good dust jacket. 1972. Hard Cover. 0800604083 . Exlibrary markings. Square book with tight binding and hinges, bright pages. Some light edge rubbing to cloth over boards. DJ has light edge rubbing and shelf wear, in new mylar sleeve. 149 pp. Examination of the confessional fiction of William Styron (Confessions of Nat Turner), Bernard Malamud (The Fixer), John Updike (The Centaur), Peter De Vries (The Blood of the Lamb), and J. F. Powers (Morte d'Urban).; Ex-Library; 8.25" (21 cm) Tall; 149 pages . more information

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New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. Very Good in Good dust jacket. 1969. Hard Cover. Square, tight binding and hinges, clean and bright pages. Gift message on ffep; no other writing or marks. Book displays no reading wear. Illus. black and white photographic plates following p. 148. 307 pp. Historical study of Jerusalem , sacred city of Jews, Christians and Muslims, from 2900 B.C.E. to the mid-20th century.; 9.25" (23.5 cm) Tall . more information

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New York: Julian Messner. Good with no dust jacket. 1970. Hard Cover. 067132313X . Square exlib with tight binding and hinges, bright pages. Exlib markings, library pocket on rear endpaper. Cloth over boards. 95 pp. Illustrated with black and white photographs. Children's history of Jewish Americans.; Ex-Library; 8.5" (21.5 cm) Tall . more information

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Bratislava: Koloman Kertész Bagala. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 2003. Hard Cover. Book is in the Slovakian language. Square, tight binding and hinges. Clean and bright pages. Paper over boards is edge rubbed with bumped corners. DJ has shelf wear, edge rubbing. 157 pp. Memoir of life in the mid to late 20th century by Slovakian Jewish author who migrated to Israel in 1949.; 7.75" (20 cm) Tall . more information

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Washington, DC: Jewish Study Center Press, Inc.. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1995. Soft Cover. Square, tight binding. Clean and bright pages. Wraps have light edge rubbing and shelf wear. 122 pp. Contents include, among other things, Mark Mirsky, "Memory Candle"; William Novak, "A Conversation with Arthur Green"; Kathryn Hellerstein, "Lighting the Sabbath Candles: Women's Prayers and Poems"; Fran R. Robins Liben, "The Grandson of Laban Makes Everything Right"; Norbert Samuelson, "Shabbat in Hamburg"; Lary Magarik, "Hallel: Songs of Human Joy."; 9.0" (23 cm) Tall . more information

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Garden City: Doubleday & Company. Good in Fair dust jacket. 1977. Hard Cover. 0385114265 . Square, tight binding and hignes. Clean and bright pages. Owner's name on ffep. Paper over boards is edge rubbed with wear and bumping at corners. DJ heavily edge worn with creasing, tears and chipping. 143 pp. Recipes, craft ideas, decorations toys, games to celebrate the holidays of the Jewish calendar.; 8.5" (21.5 cm) Tall . more information

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New York: Schocken Books. Good in Good dust jacket. 1971. Hard Cover. 0710070330 . Square with sharp corners, tight binding and hinges, bright pages. Exlibrary markings. Some light edge rubbing to cloth over boards. DJ has light shelf wear with some fading at spine and very minor edgewear, in new mylar sleeve. 185 pp. Analyzes Israel's international relations in the Middle East as rooted in the nature of Judaism.; Ex-Library; 8.75" (21 cm) Tall . more information

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Ann Arbor: Ardis. Good with no dust jacket. 1978. Hard Cover. 0882333569 . Exlibrary markings. Square, tight binding and hinges. Clean and bright text pages. Exterior has general shelf wear. 72 pp. English-language translations (by various translators) of the poetry of Soviet Jewish Ukrainian dissident poet Lev Mak (1937- ).; Ex-Library; 8.5" (21.5 cm) Tall . more information

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Cincinnati: American Jewish Archives. Good with no dust jacket. 1983. Softcover. Square, sound binding. Clean but age-darkened pages. Wraps have fading at spine, light edge wear, general shelf wear. ; Contents: Sarna, "Introduction"; Gurock, "Resisters and Accommodators: Varieties of Orthodox Rabbis in America, 1886-1983"; Karp, "The Conservative Rabbi - 'Dissatisfied but Not Unhappy'"; Polish, "The Changing and the Constant in the Reform Rabbinate"; book reviews; brief notices; necrology; index to Volume XXXV. ; 9.0" tall; 287 pages . more information

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New York: Zeek Media. Fine with no dust jacket. 2007. Soft Cover. 1932400109 . Square, tight binding. Clean and bright pages. CD of Jewish music (Zeek's Best Jewish Music Volume 1) still sealed in clear plastic sleeve. Wraps clean. 96 pp. Contents: Schechter, "The Music of Sacred and Profane"; Sapir, "When Music is Art"; Friedman, "Coffee with Little Satan"; Cohen, "Recently Played on Sacha's iPod"; Oz, "Push the Button"; Gringras Trouble in Eurovisionland"; Zisquit, "Between"; Beeber, "Oy to Oi: Is Hardcore Punk Suddenly Kosher?"; Gottschalk, "My Life as a Jewish Hare Krishna Skinhead"; Gallo, "On Sound"; Arnott, "The Piyyut is Jewish Soul Music"; Kaufman, "Late Love Poem"; Kanluk, "Killers: Excerpted from I Did It My Way"; Michaelson, "The Redemptive Music of Sadness."; 9.0" (23 cm) Tall . more information

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Burlington, Vt.: The Center for Holocaust Studies, University of Vermont. Fine with no dust jacket. 2004. Soft Cover. 0970723768 . Square, tight binding. Clean and bright pages. Minor edge rubbing to wraps. 145 pp. Contents: Mieder, "In lingua veritas: Proverbial Rhetoric in Victor Klemperer's Diaries of the Nazi Years (1933-1945)"; Lorenze, "Separate Realities: Jewish and Gentile Representations of the Holocaust"; Kahn, "Torn Between Love, Hate and Guilt: 'I hate this language which I love'"; Doerr, "The Thread of Language through History: From the Third Reich to the Present"; Zipes, "Recuperating Unheard Voices: German Jewish Poetry after Auschwitz."; 8.5" (21.5 cm) Tall . more information

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New York: Philosophical Library. Very Good in Good dust jacket. 1959. Hard Cover. Square book with sharp corners, tight binding and hinges, clean and bright pages. Owner's name on ffep. Light evidence of reading wear. Edge rubbing to paper over boards. DJ has minor edgewear, some light scuffing. Study of the role played by Israel's prophets in establishing monotheism as the standard of Western belief.; 9.0" (23 cm) Tall . more information

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Girard: Haldeman-Julius. Good with no dust jacket. 1926. Ephemera. Wraps are faded, tanned around edges. Wraps faded. Stapled binding very sound. No creases or tears. Interior pages age-darkened. 64pp. plus wraps. No writing or marks. Little Blue Books were a popular series of abridged literature and instructional material published by Emanuel Haldeman in the 1910s, 1920s, and 1930s (with some in the 1940s and 1950s, but the heyday had passed). The intent was to provide knowledge to the "common man" in a compact format for the purpose of self-education.; 4.25" (11 cm) Tall . more information

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Paris: Publications Nuit et Jour. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1984. Soft Cover. Text is in the French language. Square, tight binding. Clean and bright pages. Wraps have light handling wear, edge rubbing. 66 pp. Illustrated with many color plates, some black and white plates of Chagall's work exhibited at the Musée d'Art Moderne, Fondation Marguerite et Aimé Maeght, and Musée national Message biblique Marc Chagall, in 1984. Contents: Prat, "Chagall: Un Createur Infatigable"; Le Targat, "'Je suis un enfant d'un certain age' (Marc Chagall)"; Provoyeur, "Le Noir Est une Couleur" and "Entretien avec C. Sorlier et C. Marq"; Blaise Cendrars, "Portrait"; Forestier, "Le Haut du Monde Est Bleu"; Cadieu, "Du Cirque a l'Opera.; 11.25" (28.5 cm) Tall . more information

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New York: Tara Publications. Good with no dust jacket. 1974. Spiral Bound. 9994870890 . Spiral bound binding is sound. Pages clean, slightly off-white. Wraps have edge rubbing, some handling wear. 102 pp. Lyrics and music in Hebrew and English for over 90 folk songs.; 10.5" (26 cm) Tall . more information

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New York: The Jewish Museum. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1978. Soft Cover. Signed by the artist, Jack Levine, twice on title page. One signature is dated November 15, 1978; the other is dated March 19, 1996. 84 pp. Wraps have minor shelf wear. Several passages are underlined in the accompanying essay, but most pages are clean. Binding is tight. Contents: Kenneth W. Prescott, "Jack Levine: Social Commentator"; Illustrations; Catalog of the Exhibition; Chronology; One-Man Exhibitions; Group Exhibitions; Bibliography of writings by and about Levine; Title Index. Jack Levine, a native of the south end of Boston (b. 1915), studied at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts School. His work has been exhibited in many museums in the United States and abroad. An important American realist painter, he has created a body of work full of social satire in the modern genre.; 11.0" (28 cm) Tall; 84 pages; Signed by Artist . more information

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New York: Thomas Yoseloff. Good with no dust jacket. 1962. Hard Cover. Exlibrary markings. No dustjacket. Square with sound binding and hinges, pages just a bit off-white with age. Edge rubbing to cloth over boards. Illustrated with black and white plates. 166 pp. Survey of Jewish literary works in various libraries and other repositories in England and the United States.; Ex-Library; 10.25 . more information

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New York: Twayne Publishers. Good with no dust jacket. 1966. Hard Cover. 0805704728 . Exlibrary markings. Edge wear, light shelf wear to cloth over boards. 160 pp. Literary biography of Bernard Malamud (1914-1986), Jewish American novelist.; Ex-Library; 8.25" (21 cm) Tall . more information

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Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.: Jewish Publication Society. Very Good in Good dust jacket. 1987. Stated First Edition. Hard Cover. 0827602790 . Square, tight binding and hinges. Clean and bright pages. Cloth over boards is slightly edge rubbed. DJ has edge wear and overal shelf wear. 309 pp. Discussion of the challenges inherent in teaching Judaism in today's secular society. Author draws from sources in Reform, Conservative, Orthodox and Reconstructionist movements from Israel and the Diaspora, from the Jewish community and the Gentile world. Author also incorporates academic theories of education in general.; 9.25" (23.5 cm) Tall . more information

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New York: Twayne Publishers. Good with no dust jacket. 1982. Hard Cover. 0805773355 . Square with sharp corners, tight binding and hinges, bright pages. Exlibrary markings. Light edge rubbing to cloth over boards. 165 pp. Literary biography of Meyer Levin, American Jewish novelist, filmmaker, dramatist, critic and historian.; Ex-Library; 7.75" (20 cm) Tall . more information

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Jackson, MS, U.S.A.: University Press of Mississippi. Very Good in Fine dust jacket. 1998. Coded First Edition. Hard Cover. 1578060907 . Book is very clean with no evidence of reading wear. Owner's name and address stamped on front and rear endpapers, and on title page. No other marks. DJ clean and well kept with minor edge rubbing only. 295 pp. Historical fiction about a Jewish tailor in the late Soviet era who preserves Jewish tradition in his work and joins a glassblower in a cross-country journey culminating in Moscow on a fateful day in 1991.; 8.75" (21 cm) Tall . more information

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New York: Bigelow, Brown and Co. , Inc.. Good with no dust jacket. N.D.. Hard Cover. Volume 2 only. Early 20th century. Square, sound binding and hinges. Clean but age-darkened pages. Cloth over boards is edge rubbed with light wear to corner tips and overall shelf wear. Lettering on spine is faded. ; <br><br>19th century French novel based on the medieval legend of the Wandering Jew. Book is in English. ; 8.5" tall; 373 pages . more information

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Washington, D. C.: Biblical Archaeology Review. Good with no dust jacket. 1978. Softcover. Stapled binding is tight. Pages age-darkened, clean. Wraps have handling wear, edge rubbing. ; <br><br>Contents: Gottwald, "Were the Early Israelites Pastoral Nomads?"; "The Mystery of the Horses of the Sun at the Temple Entrance"; Broshi, "Estimating the Population of Ancient Jerusalem"; Singer, "'From These Hills...' " (Midianite excavations in the Negev) ; Gordon, "The Double Paternity of Jesus"; "'Your Journal Is Not to My Taste'" (Israeli archaeologist blasts BAR) ; "Is Withholding Pictures of Archaeological Finds Justifiable?"; Meyers and Meyers, "Digging the Talmud in Ancient Meiron"; BAR preservation honor roll; queries and comments. ; 11.0" tall; 52 pages . more information

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New York: Undzer Weg. Good with no dust jacket. 1948. Hard Cover. Book is in the Yiddish language using Hebrew alphabet. Exlibrary markings. Square, tight binding and hinges. Clean but age-darkened text pages. Cloth over boards is edge worn and generally shelf worn. 424 pp. Historical study of ethnic minorities in American history, with primary emphasis on American Jews, published in the immediate aftermath of the Holocaust and in the year of the founding of Israel. Yiddish-English bibliography.; Ex-Library; 9.25" (23.5 cm) Tall . more information

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Spring Valley, NY: The Town House Press. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1984. Soft Cover. Square, tight binding. Clean and bright pages. Wraps have light edge rubbing. 67 pp. Second volume in a series comprising an anthology of Midrash and Halachah. Selections from Rabbinic literature taken from major works of Jewish tradition. Designed for use in adult and teen-age seminars, classes, retreats, and study groups. (From author's introduction); 10" (25.4 cm) Tall . more information

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Spring Valley, NY: The Town House Press. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1983. Soft Cover. Square, tight binding. Clean and bright pages. Wraps have light edge rubbing. 52 pp. Insightful and moving Midrashic and Halachic passages designed for study by Jewish youth and adult study groups.; 10" (25.4 cm) Tall . more information

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