Judaica/Jewish Interest

NY: United Synagogue of America, 1966 NEAR-FINE First Edition HC. Brand new condition but for slight binding stretch at title page. No wear to boards or pages. Clean, unmarked, appears unhandled. 5.75" x 8.75", 121 pages. This handbook was first conveived by Dr. Morton Siegel, the first Director of the United Synagogue Department of Youth Activities. Provides a superb model for any youth organization, and includes highly detailed appendices.. Hard Cover. more information

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Winnipeg, MB, Canada, 1979 FINE 8.5" x 11" yearbook, 64 pages, many b&w photos. Yearbook from the Ramah Hebrew School in Winnipeg, Manitoba, 1978-1979. Since 1958, Ramah Hebrew School has played an important and unique role in both the Jewish community and the Winnipeg community as a whole. The school belongs to the Shaarey Zedek Synagogue and is a part of the Jewish school board. The school teaches approximately 200 students in both preschool and elementary programs ranging in age from three-year-olds to Grade 6. Half the school day is used for teaching the provincial curriculum and the other half is reserved for Hebrew language schooling. The school now operates out of the Asper Community Campus in Tuxedo together with a number of Jewish educational and cultural organizations.. Soft Cover. more information

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NY: Union of American Hebrew Congregations, 1970 VERY GOOD First Edition trade paperback. Clean, tight, unmarked, creases on back cover, all 228 pages Fine. - Highly detailed, well-written and scholarly essays on the relationship of science and technology to ethical and religious values in Judaism. Essay contributors are: Charles H. Townes, Albert Einstein, William Etkin, Bertrand Russell, Jack Bemporad, A. Weinberg, W.H. Ferry, Karl H. Hertz, W. Heitler, John Haybrittle, John W. Campbell, Loren Eiseley, LaMont C. Cole, Roland B. Gittlesohn, Harry Posner, H.G. MacPherson.. Large Softcover. more information

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NY: Kanrom, Inc., 1965 VERY GOOD First Edition Hardcover, 6.25" by 10.25", no DJ as issued. Lower corners bumped, slight soiling of boards Interiors clean and tight. Previous owner's inscription on endpaper, b&w illustrations, bound right to left in the Hebrew tradition. - - - A collection of Yiddish jokes and stories in the English language. From the preface: "The Jewish people wandered through many lands and suffered many hardships. Sometimes the only precious possession they carried with them was a sense of humor. They told stories, some with philosophical saltiness; some subtle; some reached a ridiculous height, or a pathetic low. But they laughed. Perhaps this ability to laugh, mainly at themselves, helped them to endure.". more information

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Random House, 1995 AS-NEW/FINE First Edition, 1st Printing. Pristine unread copy in an prime unclipped DJ. A man's search across the U.S. for the one man who can reveal his grandfather's true identity. The subject of the search is awaiting trial for war crimes. This Canadian author's powerful second novel.. Hard Cover. more information

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NY: Random House, 1945 NEAR-FINE/no DJ. Third Printing HC. A very well preserved book in blue cloth with black and gold decorations. Nearly perfect boards, as-new spine, binding and interiors. Previous owner's bookplate on front endpaper only. Very nice. 6.25" x 9.25", 748 pages, index. . Hard Cover. more information

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Toronto: Lester & Orpen Dennys, 1990 AS-NEW/FINE First Edition (stated). Pristine condition for collectors. Unclipped DJ. 6.25" by 9.25", 201 pages. Canadian author's novel about an American women who spent her childhood in the 'Drancy' Nazi concentration camp in Paris, a way-station to Auschwitz. Years later she meets up with two other internees who were crucial to her survival, and a new story unfolds. Passionate, powerful, unforgettable.. Hard Cover. more information

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Bruxelles: Comite International De Dauchau, 1972 NEAR-FINE First Edition softcover, 5.5" by 7.75", 28 pages. Front cover illustrated with image of the unknown concentration camp prisoner. 5 graphic full-page photographs of Dachau prisoners. A detailed and moving account of the workings of the Dachau camp. Includes life in the concentration camp, medical experiments conducted, transports, executions, the liberation of the surviving prisoners.. more information

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Philadelphia: Jewish Publication Society, 1987 NEAR-FINE 1st printing of this re-issue of Epstein's 1962 classic. Clean, tight, unmarked, no spine creases, nearly perfect covers. 5.25" by 8", 246 pages, introduction by Grace Paley. - - - Winner of the 1964 'Edward Lewis Wallant Book Award', Fruchter's 1st novel is a lyrical and compassionate portrait of a bitter old Jewish man on the Lower East Side. . Trade Paperback. more information

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NY: S.P.I. Books / Shapolsky Publishers, 1992 AS-NEW/FINE First Edition, 1st Printing. No Markings, no wear, gift quality, unclipped DJ. 8.75" by 11.25", 210 pages. - - - Originally published in Hebrew, this classic gourmet cookbook includes 300 traditional Jewish recipes - all carefully adapted to conform with Kosher practices.. Hard Cover. more information

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Jerusalem: The Israel Museum, 1983 FINE First Edition, 7" x 7", 174 pages, b&w and color photos. A guide to the history of Israel, its art, culture and antiquities. The Israel Museum integrates 5 separate entities: The Bezalel National Museum for the fine arts, Judaica and ethnography, the Samuel Bronfman Biblical and Archaelogical Museum, The Billy Rose Sculpture Garden, The Ruth Youth Wing, and the Shrine of the Book, the home of the rarest biblical manuscripts. . Soft Cover. more information

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Minneapolis, MN: T.S. Denison & Co., 1957 FINE/GOOD+ First Edition, 1st Printing. A superb copy of this book: nearly perfect brown cloth, no bumps, as new binding and interiors, no markings, no wear, super clean, appears unread. Unclipped DJ has light chipping, several tears (now neatly closed with archival cloth tape). 5.5" x 8.5", 253 pages. Reminiscences about life and events in the old West Side of Saint Paul Minnesota, which was the focus of Jewish Community life in the Twin Cities. Hoffman was a regular columnist for the 'Saint Paul Jewish News' This book is filled with many of Hoffman's best columns. . Hard Cover. more information

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NY: Crown Publishers, 1966 Very Good/Very Good First Edition, 1st Printing. A nice ex-library copy with few markings. Excellent green cloth boards, tight binding, clean text. Clipped DJ has been protected in mylar since 1966, very nice. 6" x 8.5", 375 pages. A stirring account of a great sage of the Jewish people, Akiba ben Joseph. The story is told by Rufus Teneius, a Roman tribune, who watched with divided feelings as his friend Akiba helped Simeon Bar Cocheba lead a revolt against Rome that almost brought the Empire of Hadrian to its knees. "Peopled with a host of legionaries, proconsuls, slaves, insurrectionists, martyrs, and saints, this novel of that age of struggle and bloodshed carries the reader past war to the whispers of eternity and compassion to come, as the Jews reaffirmed their deathless faith in the one God.". Hard Cover. more information

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Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1996 VERY GOOD+/VERY GOOD+ First Edition, 1st Printing. Small mark at base of unclipped DJ, one tiny mark near spine of book. All pages clean & unmarked. 5.75" by 8.5", 227 pages, glossy b&w illustrations, two sets of family trees. - True story of Hilmar and Odette, both born illegitimately in Germany before WWII, both half Jewish, both brought up by "Aryan" familites. One seldom encounters a memoir that is more worthy, more admirable, more compelling, or more understanding.. Hard Cover. more information

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NY: Basic Books, 1981 VG/VG 2nd Printing HCDJ. Very nice ex-lib book with expected markings, only occasional underlining and margin notes. Nice boards, square and solid, clean. Excellent DJ in mylar. 6.5" x 9.5", 432 pages. - More than 300 persons mentioned by name in this book. "The definitive account of a dark chapter in recent French history, and a major contribution to the history of the Jewish tragedy in wartime Europe." .. "Here for the first time is a detailed and comprehensive account of Vichy's own antisemitic policies and practices."... " Vichy policy began by banning Jews from positions of public influence and from the military, then moved on to the confiscation of property and internment, and ended by cooperating in the deportation from France, and the death in German camps, of over 75,000 Jews.". Hard Cover. more information

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Trustees for the Monument of Atonement in the Concentration Camp at Dachau, 1973 NEAR-FINE 9th printing softcover, 5.75" by 8.25", 80 pristine pages. Only a hint of edge wear to covers, otherwise AS-NEW. Photographic covers, 8 photos inside. Includes staffing, operation, and daily life at the Dachau Concentration Camp. Includes 4-page map and guide to the site and museum. Author was the auxiliary Bishop of Munich & a prisoner in Dachau. Translated from German to English.. more information

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NY & London: Abelard-Schuman, 1965 VERY GOOD+/GOOD First Edition, 1st Printing. Interiors Fine: clean, tight, unmarked, no wear. Light shelf-wear and light marks on boards. Unclipped DJ has shelf-wear, chipping at spine tips, several tape repairs. 5.75" by 8.5", 253 pages. - - - 20 short stories from this famed Israeli author, public servant, and lecturer of political science at Hebrew University - humor, keen insight and wit, and sharp biting sarcasm. The stories include: Cucumber King, The Young China Hand, The Insult, Israel in the Year 2000 A.D., Take It Easy Ahmad, The Thirty-Three Cardinals, The Heart Hath no Rudder, The Warehouse, The Gold Watch, The Sailor Hat, Homesick, Goodbye to Nan, A Mug's Game, A Fine Pair, In My Place, The Honorable Delegate, Mishpachology, The Man Who was Too Late, Special Catering, A Tour of Connemara. . Hard Cover. more information

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NY: Thomas Yoseloff , 1963 FINE/VERY GOOD First Edition, 1st Printing, a superb copy of this collection, published 4 years after Shneour's death. Crisp, clean, solid, previous owner's name, nearly perfect boards. 6.25" by 9.25", 316 pages. Unclipped dust-jacket has light edge wear and a few tiny tears. - This collection of classic poems, short stories, and excerpts from Shneour's novels - translated to English by Moshe Spiegel - shows the full range of the author's talent. Zalman Shneour, a lineal descendant of the founder of Habad Hassidism (Rabbi Shneour Salman). He was born in Shklov, Russia in 1887, and died in New York in 1959. He lived in Czarist Russia, Poland, Switzerland, France, United States, and Israel. Along with Bialik and Tchernikhovsky, he brought Hebrew literature to full maturity, and during his lifetime was often referred to as the Jewish equivalent to Charles Dickens. He knew first-hand the sufferings of his people, and his works reflect their agonies and disappointments, as well as their happiness. His knowledge of Jewish traditions, rituals, and history had a profound effect on his writings. . Hard Cover. more information

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Winnipeg, MB: Hyman Sokolov, 1968 FINE/GOOD+ First Edition, 1st Printing. Royal blue boards with gold titles show no wear. Pristine interiors except for owner's name stamp on endpaper. 5.75" by 8.5", 95 pages. DJ has light marks, tanning, tiny edge tears & 2 small chips. - - - A superb collection of folksy wisdom and wit from this author who moved to Winnipeg from Russia in 1910. An award-winning member of the Hadassah-Wizo Organization, this collection of Sokolov's essays portrays the lives of Jewish Women in Canada in the mid-20th century - and is written with the infectious language of laughter, precious memories, and respect for all people.. Hardcover with Dust-Jacket. more information

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