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A Guide to Jewish Genealogical Research in Israel
by SACK, Sallyann Amdur
MD: Genealogical Publishing Co. Inc, 1987. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition. Very good plus+. Book is very slightly rubbed at spine ends and corners, beautiful gold stamping on front cover and spine, publisher's material laid in.
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$50.00
The Open Cage: an Anzia Yezierska Collection; selected and with an introd. by Alice Kessler-Harris ; afterword by Louise Levitas Henriksen
by Yezierska, Anzia, 1880?-1970. Kessler-Harris, Alice
New York: Persea Books, 1979. 1st ed. Paperback. new. xiii, 262 pages ; 22 cm. Contents: The miracle -- America and I -- Brothers -- Where lovers dream -- The fat of the land -- The lost "beautifulness" -- The Lord giveth -- Children of loneliness -- Hester Street -- Important people -- My last Hollywood script -- Bread and wine in the wilderness -- A chair in heaven -- A window full of sky -- Take up your bed and walk -- The open cage. Jewish fiction. Juifs -- Ãtats-Unis -- Romans, nouvelles, etc....
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$18.00
Big Little Book of Jewish Wit & Wisdom
by Berk, Sally Ann (edited by)
Black Dog & Leventhal. Very Good in Good dust jacket. 2000. Hardcover. 1579121462 . 360 pages. Very clean, very good binding. Illustrated with drawings. Includes quotes from Jewish scholars, entertainers, and classic and contemporary sources. Example: If you ever forget you're a Jew, a Gentile will remind you - Bernard Malamud. "I was the same kind of father as I was harpist - I played by ear" - Harpo Marx ; .
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$6.13
Raquela: a Woman of Israel
by Gruber, Ruth
Hadassah. Good in Fair dust jacket. 1979. Special Edition. Softcover. 0698108957 . Special Hadassah Ediion. 417 pages. Clean text, spine has mild creasing, True story of a Jewish midwife and her family, trying to survive among the Arabs in the Jewish State of Israel. Story begins in 1929. Illustrated with photos; .
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$12.00
Clouds of Glory: the Heartwarming, Touching and Humorous Adventures of Two Bais Yaakov Girls Who Spanned the Bridge between New York and Kiev
by Rosenberg, Goldy; Miriam Greenwald (edited by)
Mesorah. Good. 1999. Softcover. 1578192919 . 181 pages. Illustrated with photos. Good binding, cover has some scratches, mild aging. Adventures of a New York teacher going to Russia to teach young girls in Kiev ; .
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$12.00
The Final Journey
by Pausewang, Gudrun (translated by Patricia Crampton)
Scholastic. Very Good. 1999. Paperback. 0439056438 . Never read copy. Light cver scratches, light edgewear. ; The story of a young girl, Alice, who has led a very sheltered life in Nazi Germany. Alice and her grandfather are on a death train to a concentration camp. This story is about Alice's relationships with fellow passengers and her forcing to face the facts of life. Clean, 153 pages, endpapers browned .
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$6.00
Past Perfect
by Shabtai, Yaakov
NY: Viking, 1987. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. 8vo. 291pp. Grey boards with blue cloth backing and red spine titles. Fine in a near fine unclipped jacket, with minor rubbing, and some crumpling along top edge. The final novel by the inventive & experimental Israeli writer. Translated by Dalya Bilu, with an afterword by Edna Shabtai.
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$40.00
The Red Thread
by Pace, Rebekah & Tracy Lawson
Level 4 Press, Inc.. Very Good. 2021. Paperback. 1646300300 . 256 pages. Clean, very good binding. A Holocaust survivor's dull life in America suddenly awakens after 70 years when thoughts and actions of his soulmate overtake him ; ; .
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$7.50
Forest Dark: a Novel
by Krauss, Nicole
Harper. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 2017. First Edition. Hardcover. 0062430998 . 290 pages. Clean, very good binding. 68 year old Jules Epstein, retired and divorced, travels to Israel where he embarks on a special journey; .
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$6.50
A Child's Longing for Home
by Bach, Zellig
NY: Carlton, 1995. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. 8vo. viii+94pp. First edition. Inscribed by the author to former owners' on the front free end paper. Grey cloth boards. Near fine in a very good unclipped jacket that shows Light wear at the spine ends and a few short closed tears. A stirringly written memoir about the author's boyhood in a Lithuanian shtetl. Rear jacket blurbs by Isaac Bashevis Singer, Anna Freud, and others.
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$40.00
Rogue's Guide to the Jewish Kitchen - a Feast of Yiddish Foods for Thought and Eating
by Rogov, Daniel & David Gershon & David Louison
The Jersualem Post & Carta. Fair. 1984. Paperback. 0756779154 . 164 pages. Illustrated. Includes recipes, plus The Yiddish Language and the Jewish Kitchen, Herring Habits, Sigmund Freud the Knishe and other Atvisms, A Nickle a Pickle, The Jewish Big Bang Theory and other essays. Recipes are not necessarily kosher. Clean text, nook has creases, cover is dented at the corner, scuffed ; .
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$15.00
The Missing Jew: New and Selected Poems (SIGNED)
by Kamenetz, Rodger
Time Being Books. Good. 1992. Softcover. 1877770574 . Signed, inscribed on title page by Kamenetz. Front blank endpaper has name and address of previous owner crossed out. Very good spine; Signed by Author .
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$16.00
Yesterday's Child
by Benjamin, Ruth
CIS Publishers. Good. 1992. Softcover. 156062177X . 236 pages. Clean text, good binding, light creases. After his mother's death, a young Jewish boy is forced to move to South Africa with his father and stepfamily. The drama ensues when he reaches adulthood when his future is suddenly shattered by startling revelations about his past; .
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$9.75
A Purim Celebration and Other Purim Stories
by Fuchs, Menucha
Fair. 2001. Paperback. 1880582732 . Reading copy. 46 pages. Contents include: Meet the Cohen Family. Four stories: All Kinds of Hamataschen, Megillah Mystery; Mem for Mitzvah; A Purim Celebration. Heavy cover creases, tears at the spine, former owner's name crossed out .
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$4.00
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Three Novels [Signed & Inscribed]
by Fuchs, Daniel
NY: Basic Books, 1961. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Inscribed copy of this first collected edition of Fuchs' enduring novels about life in Depression-era Brooklyn, "Summer in Williamsburg," "Homage to Blenholt," and "Low Company," originally published in 1934, 1936, and 1937, respectively. Fuchs has lovingly inscribed this copy to Susan Foster, a long-time personal assistant to film and literary mega-agent Irving Paul Lazar, and later Frank Sinatra....
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$500.00
The Snow Hare - a Novel
by Lichtarowicz, Paula
Little, Brown & Company. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 2023. Hardcover. 0316461350 . 377 pages plus Reading Group Guide in the back. Historical fiction based on the true story of the author's grandmother during WWII and mainly taking place in the frigid work camps of Siberia, where families were exiled from Poland; ; .
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$10.00
The Emperor's Tomb
by Roth, Joseph
NY: The Overlook Press, 1984. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. First English language edition of the Austrian Jewish writer's final novel, originally published in 1938, a sequel of sorts to his earlier "Radetzky March." Translated by John Hoare. Octavo (8.25 x 5.75 in.); 157pp.; blue papered boards backed with dark blue cloth, in dust jacket. Light sunning along top edge of boards, former owner's seal blind-embossed on title page. Else fine in a near fine, unclipped jacket...
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$50.00
More Tales for the Soul: a Famous Novelist Retells Classic Stories with Passion and Spirit
by Weinshtok, Yair
Mesorah. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 2003. Hardcover. 1578195691 . 1st ed, 3rd impression, 2003. Clean, very good binding. 246 pages. Clean, good binding, no name inside. Short stories with messages. Some of the stories are: The Heavens in the Forest, Who Built the Church, A Flaming Whip, Wonders for a Gentile, The Boy From Holland, etc ; Artscroll Series; .
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$12.00
In the Thicket
by Simon, Solomon
Philadelphia: The Jewish Publication Society of America, 1963. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. First edition of this autobiographical novel (his second, following My Jewish Roots) by the Jewish author of The Wise Men of Helm and others. Translated from the Yiddish by Moshe Spiegel. Octavo, 8 1/2 x 5 7/8 in. 273pp. Black cloth boards, white spine lettering; in dust jacket. Some rubbing to spine lettering. Near fine, with a few spots of light soiling to textblock top and fore-edge. In an...
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$50.00
Rockinghorse
by Kaniuk, Yoram
Harper & Row. Good in Fair dust jacket. 1977. First Edition. Hardcover. 0060122455 . Clean text, large tear in the front of the DJ. A drama about an Israeli painter living in New York in the 1950's and the complexity of his life .
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$7.50
Letters from Rifka
by Hesse, Karen
Henry Holt. Good in Fair dust jacket. 1992. Hardcover. 0805019642 . 148 pages. Clean text, endpapers glued to the cover, library cards removed, several pages creased. Based on a true story. Fleeing Russia with her family in 1919, 12 year old Rikva contacts ringworm, is cured in Antwerp, and detained at Ellis Island because of her baldness. Aleksandr Pushkin's poetry book of poetry, used by Rivka to record her experiences, this young girl has a courageous attitude and spirit ; Ex-Library .
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$6.13
Melinda Takes a Hand
by Beatty, Patricia
William Morrow & Co. Good in Fair dust jacket. 1983. Hardcover. 068802422X . Clean book, DJ has edge tears, soiling. Two girls from Chicago and their adventures of frontier life in Chicago, 1893. Melinda and Sarah Jane get involved in some wild assortment of problems. They also become friends with a Jewish family and their religious customs, the Mittelman family ; .
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$6.50
Dangerous Luck
by David Makow
First Edition.
120 p.; ill. Scarce book with minor scrapes/shelfwear to dust jacket. Heel and tip of spine slightly bumped, otherwise Fine. From dust jacket:
In Dangerous Luck, David Makow brings into focus the profound questions as to whether a person's life unfolds by his own volition, circumstances, fate, or luck.
A teenager when the Nazi war machine rolled into his native Poland, he survived on his wits and his ability to make quick decisions that turned out to be the correct ones.
His first... Read more about this item
120 p.; ill. Scarce book with minor scrapes/shelfwear to dust jacket. Heel and tip of spine slightly bumped, otherwise Fine. From dust jacket:
In Dangerous Luck, David Makow brings into focus the profound questions as to whether a person's life unfolds by his own volition, circumstances, fate, or luck.
A teenager when the Nazi war machine rolled into his native Poland, he survived on his wits and his ability to make quick decisions that turned out to be the correct ones.
His first... Read more about this item
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$33.33
The World That We Knew: a Novel
by Hoffman, Alice
Simon & Schuster. Good. 2019. Softcover. 1501137581 . Clean, very good spine, light cover creases. Includes a Book Club Reader's Guide. A mother sends away her 12 year old daughter to escape the Nazi regime; a rabbi's daughter creates a golem to protect herself and other Jews from Nazi horrors ; .
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$6.00
Resisting the Storm: Romania, 1940-1947.
by Rabbi Alexandre Safran
Jerusalem, Israel Yad Vashem, 1987. Hardcover First Ed, unstated. SIGNED BY AUTHOR. First Ed, unstated. Very Good: shows very light wear to extremities; mild rubbing; slight spine lean and the binding is also somewhat cocked; a split at the bottom two inches of the frong hinge gutter has been carefully repaired by the previous owner and appears to hold perfectly. Binding secure; text clean. Despite noted flaws, remains clean, sturdy, and quite presentable. NOT a Remainder, Book-Club, or Ex-Library....
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$117.60
