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The author of the runaway bestseller How the Irish Saved Civilization has done it again. In The Gifts of the Jews Thomas Cahill takes us on another enchanting journey into history, once again recreating a time when the actions of a small band of people had repercussions that are still felt today.The Gifts of the Jews reveals the critical change that made western civilization possible. Within the matrix of ancient religions and philosophies, life was seen as part of an endless cycle of birth and death; time was like a wheel, spinning ceaselessly. Yet somehow, the ancient Jews began to see time differently. For them, time had a beginning and an end; it was a narrative, whose triumphant conclusion would come in the future. From this insight came a new conception of men and women as individuals with unique destinies--a conception that would inform the Declaration of Independence--and our hopeful belief in progress and the sense that tomorrow can be better than today. As Thomas Cahill narrates this momentous shift, he also explains the real significance of such Biblical figures as Abraham and Sarah, Moses and the Pharaoh, Joshua, Isaiah, and Jeremiah.Full of compelling stories, insights and humor, The Gifts of the Jews is an irresistible exploration of history as fascinating and fun as How the Irish Saved Civilization.From the Trade Paperback edition.
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If This Is a Man is a work of witness by the Italian author Primo Levi. It was influenced by his experiences in the concentration camp at Auschwitz during the Second World War. It can be described as a memoir or a personal narrative, but it goes beyond mere recollection by seeking to consider the human condition in all its extremes through the narrative form.
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"Originally published in Great Britain by William Heinemann Ltd., London"--T.p. verso.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [427]-436) and index.
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“A rare book that combines searing passion with a subject that has affected all of our lives.”— Chicago Tribune Novelist, cultural critic, and former priest James Carroll marries history with memoir as he maps the two-thousand-year course of the Church’s battle against Judaism and faces the crisis of faith it has sparked in his own life. “Fascinating, brave, and sometimes infuriating” ( Time ), this dark history is more than a chronicle of religion. It is the central tragedy of Western civilization, its fault lines reaching deep into our culture to create “a deeply felt work” ( San Francisco Chronicle ) as Carroll wrangles with centuries of strife and tragedy to reach a courageous and affecting reckoning with difficult truths.
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Rachel Naomi Remen, M.D. has been counseling those with chronic and terminal illness for more than twenty years. She is cofounder and medical director of the Commonweal Cancer Help Program in Bolinas, California, and is currently clinical professor of family and community medicine at the University of California at San Francisco School of Medicine.
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Six Days of War: June 1967 and the Making of the Modern Middle East is a 2002 non-fiction book by American-Israeli historian Michael Oren, chronicling the events of the Six-Day War fought between Israel and its Arab neighbors. Widely praised by critics, the book won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for history and spent seven weeks on the New York Times Best Seller list.
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New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1975. Book Club. 8vo., 480pp.; VG/VG; spine blue with white and gold lettering; dust jacket protected with a mylar covering, bumping and minor cracking to head and tail of spine, minor white marks along spine; text block clean; SIGNED by Meir on half-title page; shelved case 5. Dupont.
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Paperback. New.
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Paperback. New. A striking memoir of religious and cultural tolerance being made available again in the year of the author's 100th anniversary.
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Paperback. New. One of our most eminent historians presents a powerful look at the buildup to and aftermath of one of the most decisive moments of World War II - Kristallnacht - not only for the Jewish population suddenly identified as a group to be destroyed, but also in terms of the international response it inspired and its larger implications.
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Paris: AZ Repro, 1984. First edition. Paperback. Very Good. 1984, First Edition. French text. Softcover. 128 pp. Illustrated throughout in b&w. Very Good. Creasing to the wraps; spine ends bumped. Text is clean and unmarked.
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New York: Doubleday. Hardcover. 1994. 9th Printing. Thick 8vo 1118pp . Fine in Fine DJ. Anchor Bible Reference Library .
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Targum, 1994. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. The boards are a bit rubbed and marked. Internally clean and soundly bound.
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2005. Stavans, Ilan (ed). THE SCHOCKEN BOOK OF MODERN SEPHARDIC LITERATURE. New York: Schocken Books, 2005. 439p, boards, dust jacket, some highlighting, o/w very good. 1st ed. Anthology of stories from the Sephardim.
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Pittsburgh: Jewish National Fund of America, 1943. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 1943. First edition. Hardcover, 8vo. in blue cloth, without dust jacket. 288pp. with frontis folding map of Israel, illustrated with photographs. Very good. Sunning to spine, faint foxing to boards. Ownership label to front flyleaf. Internally clean and unmarked. An illustrated history of Jewish and Zionist achievement and activity in Pittsburgh and the Tri-State area. Digital images available upon request.
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Jewish Publication Society of America`, Philadelphia, 1/1/1949. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Signed. Clipped signature of Chaim Weizmann pasted to front flyleaf. 2 volume set. Hardcover and dust jacket. Good binding and cover. Clean, unmarked pages. Wear, with loss to dust jacket spine. Book plate of Israel Bernstein, (Harvard Law, 1915). Weizmann was the first President of Israel, a noted biochemist and important and influential Zionist. This is an oversized or heavy book, that requires additional postage for international delivery outside the US.
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Montevideo, Uruguay: Confraternidad Judeo-Cristiana, 1962. Paperback. Near Fine. 1962. Softcover. Spanish text. 54 pp. Near Fine. Fading to wraps. Compliments card from the Israeli Committee of Uruguay laid-in.
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Columbia University Press, 1958. Hardcover. Near fine. New. Remainder mark. Near fine in publisher's cloth. Available in our UK premises for prompt dispatch worldwide.
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1939. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. The boards are a bit edgeworn. A little damp marking. Mild tanning. The ffep is a bit chipped. Soundly bound.
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Thomas Ballard, London, 1705. 4th Edition. Hardcover. Fair Condition/No Dust Jacket. Leather bound, covers probably original, rebound with new spine probably 19th century, front cover detached, corners well worn, edges are rubbed, text block sound, pages are darkened but otherwise unmarked. No frontis present. 572 pages. Full Title: The Travels of the Holy Patriarchs, Prophets, Judges, Kings, Our Saviour Christ and his Apostles, as they are related in the Old and New Testaments. With a Description of the Towns and Places to which They Travelled, and how many English Miles they stood from Jerusalem. Also a short Treatise of the Weights, Monys, and Measures mentioned in the Scriptures, reduced to our English Valuations, Quantity and Weight. No dust jacket, as published. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 1-2kg. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 70116121021.. This book is heavier than 1kg, and may incur additional delivery charges on some delivery services to some locations..
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Goldston, 1938. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. signed. Inscribed by Author(s)The boards are a bit rubbed, marked and edgeworn. Internally clean and soundly bound.
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NY: Fireside/Simon & Schuster. Very Good. 1986. Twelfth Printing. Softcover. Mild shelfwear at open corner tips. Unmarked. ; 8.5 x 0.75 x 5.5 Inches; 268 pages; , .
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New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, 1982. Limited ed. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. Number 237 of 450 copies signed by Singer and Shulevitz. 1982, deluxe edition. Hardcover. Fine in the Near Fine slipcase which shows light shelfwear.
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NY: John Wiley & Sons. Good in Good dust jacket. 2000. Third Printing. Hardcover. Good used copy with mild wear at binding edges - unmarked. DJ improved with new, clear mylar cover. ; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 346 pages .
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New York: Ktav Publishing House, 1971. First printing. Hardcover. Near Fine. First edition, 1971. Cloth hardcover, 590 pp., illustrated, clean unmarked text, Near Fine copy, owner's signature in ink on the titlepage, light rubbing to the tips of the covers, no dust jacket.
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New York: Pantheon, 1998. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. Square 8vo. Paper-covered boards in original paper sleeve. Minor edgewear and bumping to corners. One scuffed patch to back cover. Pages clean and unmarked. Historical epic in graphic novel form by "the most poetic, deeply layered artist ever to draw a comic strip" (New York Times).
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Tel-Aviv: Nahar / Stavit / Am Oved, 1987. Hardcover. Near Fine. First edition thus, 1987. Quarto, hardcover, unpaginated, illustrated, clean unmarked text, Near Fine copy, minor rubbing and edgewear to the covers, no dust jacket. Text in Hebrew and French with intro. in French, Hebrew, and English.
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Kayor, 1982. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. The jacket has one small closed tear.
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New York: Fleming H. Revell, 1942. First American edition. Hardcover. Very Good/no jacket. 1942. First American edition. Hardcover, 8vo. in red cloth with spine title, top edge stained, without dust jacket. 253pp. Very good. Lacks dust jacket. Blunting to spine ends, corners, rubbing and wear to spine. Internally bright and unmarked. Stein's account of his imprisonment with anti-Nazi theologian Martin Niemöller.
