Search Results: Jewish Studies / Judaica from The Brooklyn Bookman

EGER, Dr. Edith Eva: The Choice: Embrace the Possible. New York, Scribner, 2017. Softcover, 288 pp. Subject: Nonfiction / Memoir & Autobiography / Holocaust Studies / Psychology. Condition: Very Good Minus. Former owner's name inscribed on the front cover's reverse. Pages clean and unmarked. Harrowing yet inspirational account of a survivor of the Auschwitz concentration camp during the Second World War. An important contribution to the literature, since Viktor Frankl's Man's Search for Meaning. A winner of the National Jewish Book Award. ISBN: 9781501130793

WIESEL, Elie: Dawn. New York, Bantam, 1982. Originally published in France in 1960. Paperback, 102 pp. Subject: Novel / Fiction and Literature. Condition: Very Good Plus. Small scuff to the upper fore-edge, some sunning to the pages but all clean. A powerful novel about the painful birth of modern Israel – the second in Wiesel's internationally-acclaimed
Night trilogy. ISBN: 0553225367

MATT, Daniel C.: The Essential Kabbalah: The Heart of Jewish Mysticism. Edison,NJ, Castle Books, 1997. Hardcover with dust jacket, 221 pp. Subject: Nonfiction/Religion & Philosophy-Judaism/Occult Esoterica & Mysticism-Judaism/Judaica. Book and jacket condition: Very Good Plus. Sticker pull evident on the jacket's reverse (at the bottom). Otherwise jacket is in first-rate condition. Book board are sturdy with all pages clean and not marked. Overall book copy is in near-fine condition. "The Essential Kabbalah offers insightful accounts of the primary aspects of Jewish mysticism...Selections of text are rendered with clarity and an eye for the magical. The Essential Kabbalah is a crucial and momentous contribution to the normally esoteric world of Jewish mysticism." A must read for the initiated and uninitiated alike. ISBN: 0785808701

DIMONT, Max I.: Jews, God and History. New York, Signet, 1962. Later printing. Paperback, 472 pp. Subject: Nonfiction / Judaism – Civilization and History / World History. Condition: Very Good Minus. Toning to the pages evident with pages clean and unmarked, however. Reading crease adjacent to the spine with small corner crease on the reverse. Still a very nice copy overall. "[The author's] spirited, fascinating book is unlike any other history of the Jews ever written...Philosophers and kings, warriors and merchants, poets and financiers, come alive as the story ranges across time and the globe. From ancient Palestine through Europe and the Orient, to America and the birth of Israel, Max Dimont shows how the saga of the Jews is interwoven with the history of virtually every nation on earth."

WIESEL, Elie: Legends of Our Time. New York, Schocken Books, 1982. Originally published in 1968. Reprinted 2004. Trade Paperback, 197 pp. Subject: Nonfiction / History / Memoirs / Jewish Studies. Condition: Very Good Plus. Gently used copy, but the book is in near-excellent condition with clean and crisp pages. "As a child in Sighet, as a young boy in Auschwitz, as a teenage displaced person...as a young man at the beginning of his career, Elie Wiesel had haunting, often surreal encounters with a wide range of people – sages, mystics, teachers, and dreamers. In Legends of Our Time, he shares with us some of their stories." A powerful, enduring all-too-human document of the last century. ISBN: 0805211756

GLUCKEL of Hameln: The Memoirs of Gluckel of Hameln. New York, Schocken Books, 1989. Originally published in 1932. First Schocken Books Edition published in 1977. Translated with notes by Marvin Lowenthal. Softcover, 295 pp. Subject: Nonfiction / History / Autobiography & Memoir / Women's Studies / Jewish Studies. Condition: Very Good. Very faint edge-wear to the lower extremities with light bumps to the lower corners. All pages unmarked and clean. "Begun in 1690, this diary...tells how she [Gluckel] guided the financial and personal destines of her children, how she engaged in trade...Her memoir, a rare account enlightens not just her children , for whom she wrote it, but all posterity about her life and community. Gluckel speaks to us with determination and humor from the seventeenth century. She tells of...all human events that befell her during her lifetime. She writes in a matter of fact way of the frightening and precarious situation under which the Jews of northern Germany lived....This memoir… Read More

BERG, Karen: To Be Continued: Reincarnation & The Purpose of Our Lives. New York, Kabbalah Publishing, 2012. First Edition, Second Printing, Nov. 2012. Hardcover with dust jacket, 207 pp. Subject: Nonfiction / Reincarnation / Religion and Spirituality / Jewish Mysticism. Condition: Very Good Minus. Signs of light wear evident; some page corners folded. Otherwise a book in above-average condition with clean pages. A fascinating and metaphysical excursion into the subject of reincarnation and past lives. ISBN: 9781571898623

MORSE, Arthur D.: While Six Million Died: A Chronicle of American Apathy. Woodstock & New York, The Overlook Press, 1998. Originally published: 1967. Softcover, 420 pp. Subject: Nonfiction / History-United States and the Holocaust / Second World War, 1939-1945. Condition: Very Good Minus. Corner bent/crease to the upper right hand corner of the front cover. Light wear to the pages evident but a copy in near first-rate condition. All pages clean and unmarked. Sober account of the American attitudes towards the horrific treatment of European Jewry by the Third Reich during World War Two. An classic contribution to the historical literature in general and to Holocaust Studies in particular. ISBN: 0879518367