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The Gifts Of the Jews
by Thomas Cahill
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;...
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Survival In Auschwitz
by Primo Levi
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.
A History Of God
by Karen Armstrong
"Originally published in Great Britain by William Heinemann Ltd., London"--T.p. verso.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [427]-436) and index.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [427]-436) and index.
Constantine's Sword
by James Carroll
“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...
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My Grandfather's Blessings
by Rachel Naomi Remen
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.
Six Days Of War
by Michael B Oren
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.
Judaica Books & Ephemera
People's Road, No. 1, Feb. 1972
by Butterfly Collective
[Brooklyn]: Butterfly Collective, 1972. Five corner-stapled leaves, 10 pp, illus. Some offsetting to front cover, else Near Fine. No record for this publication in OCLC. An independent publication by a collective at Brooklyn College. Articles critical of the Jewish Defense League, on women's lib issues, the establishment of the "liberation library," the United Fruit Co. and South American imperialism, co-ops as political initiatives, etc. We could find nothing on this publication or the...
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$50.00
RIMON- ZEITSCHRIFT FÜR KUNST UND LITERATUR. HEBREW TEXT. 6 PARTS IN 1 VOLUME ( COMPLETE)
by Wischnitzer- Bernstein, Rahel and Others (editors)
Berlin: Rimon Publ. House, 1922. 1922-1924. SOME 250pp .FOR THE 6 PARTS OF THIS IMPORTANT PERIODICAL OF JEWISH ART, published in Hebrew language in Berlin. PROFUSELY ILLUSTRATED WITH MANY PLATES IN COLOUR. EACH PART WITH THE ORIGINAL VERY DECORATIVE WRAPPERS PRESERVED. ARTICLES BY CHAGALL. LISSSITZKY, BIALIK AND OTHERS. PUBLISHER'S ORIGINAL HALF CLOTH BINDING. Some truly insignificant outside markings. A VERY CLEAN AND FRESH COPY .. First Edition. Original Half Cloth. 4to.
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$800.00
INSTITUTIONAL HANDBOOK OF JEWISH PRACTICES AND PROCEDURES With Practice Pointers and Implementation Guides
by Aleph Institute
Aleph Institute. Good. 1998. First Edition. Softcover. Pages printed on one side only. Scattered underlining throughout. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .
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$14.00
Goodbye Shanghai: A Memoir
by Moshinsky, Sam
Mind Film and Publishing, Armadale, Victoria, 2009. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Condition/Good. Illustrator: Photographic. Signed by Author. Letter to the Grandchildren, and notes, resources and author's acknowledgements. Map illustrated endpapers, both different, front end paper: – showing Shanghai in 1940, rear endpaper: – showing China in 1937. The text is illustrated with black and white photographs and the occasional reproduction of documents. Black coloured boards with...
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AU$400.40
If You Can't Say Anything Nice, Say It in Yiddish : The Book of Yiddish Insults and Curses
by Epstein, Lita
Citadel Press, New York, 2006. First Edition. Softcover. Very Good Condition. Clean second-hand copy that does show some signs of having been read but there is no damage. The perfect glossary of the edition insults and curses, from the short and sweet, along with hundreds of the most creative insults so that when it comes to cursing someone who sorely needs it, may you never be at a loss of her words again Full number line. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Please...
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AU$11.38
Jewish as a Second Language
by Katz, Molly
NY: Workman Publishing Company. Very Good-. 1991. Fifteenth Printing. Softcover. Almost like new condition. Very lightly handled. Unmarked. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 125 pages .
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$5.79
Genesis
by Robert Alter; Arion Press; Michael Mazur
San Francisco: Arion Press, 1996. Very Good. Signed. Autographed by etcher, Michael Mazur. Limited edition, no. 121 of 200. [102] pages : color illustrations ; 43 cm. Purple cloth slip case and cover. Slip case lightly sunned at edge. Title in fuschia and black. Printed by letterpress from photopolymer plates. With English text facing Hebrew text from Biblia Hebraica Stuttgartensia. Hand made paper. This is an oversized or heavy book, that requires additional postage for international delivery...
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$735.00
THE SONG OF SONGS COOKBOOK: Passover Manna gathererd for you by Miriam Field
by Field, Miriam
New York: Standard Brands. Very Good with no dust jacket. (1966). Softcover. Top stapled, orange wraps, text on orange paper includes recipes using Planter's Oil, interspersed with reproductions of woodcuts from early Haggadah's on "rice" paper. ; 6-1/2" x 9-1/2"; Mild creasing to covers and page corners. .
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$25.00
THE JEWS OF MEDIEVAL FRANCE: THE COMMUNITY OF CHAMPAGNE
by TAITZ, Emily
Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 1994. First Edition, first printing. Uncommon signed presentation from Taitz on a front blank page: To Les & Gloria with my love & best wishes, Emily Taitz." This book studies the Jewish community of Champagne from the fifth century to the expulsion of 1306. It documents the growth and decline of the community, examines its interrelationships with the larger Christian culture, and presents a model for the study of other communities. The economic and political...
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$150.00
Mishneh Torah
by Moses Maimonides
New York, Shulsinger, 1947. Very Good. Five folio volumes, complete. Original red cloth, marbled page ends. Shelfwear. Bookplate. Hinges weak to largest volume. This is an oversized or heavy book, that requires additional postage for international delivery outside the US.
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$196.00
PIRKE ABOTH: Sayings of the Fathers
by Saul Raskin
New York: Academy Photo Offset, 1940. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Saul Raskin. 136p. A very good hardcover book in a good dustjacket. Jacket chipped on edges, jacket dirtied, otherwise pages clean and tight. Oversize. Scarce. With Yiddish and English, read from back to front. Many full-page b/w etchings by Saul Raskin.
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$125.00
The Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million
by Mendelsohn, Daniel
HarperCollins 2006. First edition. 8vo. hardcover. 513pp. b/w illus. Very good. / Very good d/w with small tear and crease on bottom corner. .
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AU$16.80
Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland
by Browning, Christopher R
An unmarked copy-" A remarkable and singularly chilling glimpse of human behavior. . .This meticulously researched book represents a major contribution to the literature of the Holocaust."Newsweek Christopher R. Browning's shocking account of how a unit of average middle-aged Germans became the cold-blooded murderers of tens of thousands of Jews now with a new afterword and additional photographs. Ordinary Men is the true story of Reserve Police Battalion 101 of the German Order Police, which was...
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$19.95
The Burning Bush; Antisemitism and World History
by Litvinoff, Barnet
Fontana Press, London, 1989. Edition Unstated. Softcover. Good Condition. Periodically throughout history anti-semitism has exploded to create a constant tension between Jews and the people among whom they to well. Having lost their statehood in Roman times they became dependent upon the hospitality and goodwill of foreign rulers, sometimes generously offered blow frequently snatched away. In our own day the persecution of the Jews has reached its most tragic climax in a holocaust of millions of...
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AU$10.01
JEWS, JUSTICE AND JUDAISM: A Narrative of the Role Played by the Bible People in Shaping American History
by Robert St. John
Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc, 1969. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 390p. A grey cloth hardcover book in very good condition, lacking the dustjacket. The front hinge was starting to crack, but has been repaired. Private library stamps on endpapers and title page; otherwise clean and tight.
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$10.00
THE ARABIC COMMENTARY OF YEFET BEN 'ALI THE KARAITE ON THE BOOK OF HOSEA: Edited from Eight Manuscripts and Provided with Critical Notes and an Introduction
by Birnbaum, Philip
Philadelphia: The Dropsie College for Hebrew and Cognate Learning. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1942. Softcover. A Thesis Submitted in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy in the Dropsie College for Hebrew and Cognate Learning. Text starting at front primarily in English, text starting from rear primarily in Judeo Arabic and Hebrew. Publishers green wraps, perfect bound, black lettering front, two b&w illustrations. This copy with a presentation...
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$50.00
ESSAYS IN JEWISH INTELLECTUAL HISTORY
by ALTMANN, Alexander
Hanover: Brandeis University / University Press of New England, 1981. Hardcover. Near fine/No Jacket. x+324 pages. Hardcover. Notes. Indices. Near Fine. Name to front endpaper. JUDAISM.
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$35.00
History of God, A: The 4,000-Year Quest of Judaism, Christianity and Islam
by Armstrong, Karen
In this stunningly intelligent book, one of Britain's foremost religious scholars distills the intellectual history of monotheism into one superbly readable volume, destined to take its place as a classic. (Theology)
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$18.00
THREE YEARS IN AMERICA: 1859-1862. Volume 2 only
by BENJAMIN, I. J
Philadelphia: The Jewish Publication Society of America, 1956. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good/No Jacket. 290 pages. First edition. Hardcover. Translated by Charles Reznikoff. Very Good - light scratches to blue cloth covers, corners lightly bumped. No Dustjacket. Judaica.
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$25.00
CONCERN FOR THE LIVING
by Press, Chaim
Feldheim Publishers. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1990. First Edition. Hardcover. 0944070604 .
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$26.65
Reading the Holocaust
by Clendinnen, Inga
Text Publishing Company, Melbourne, 2001. Reprint. Softcover. Very Good. Illustrator: Photograph again Illustrations. Acknowledgements, notes, select bibliography and index. Between pages 142 and 143 there are four pages of back and white photography. Photographic paperback binding white, red, light blue and gray coloured titles to the front panel and black, red and gray coloured titles to the backstrip. In this book the author casts an anthropologist's precise gaze on one of the...
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AU$12.74
NIGHT TALES FROM LONG AGO
by Michael Jay Katz
Northvale, NJ: Jason Aronson Inc, 1993. Hardcover. 562p. A red gilt cloth hardcover book in very good condition. No dustjacket. Former owner's private library stamps on endpapers and title page. Otherwise clean and tight. The third book in a trilogy of Jewish folktales.
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$15.00
The Talmud and the Internet. A Journey between Worlds.
by ROSEN, JONATHAN
New York.: Farrar, Straus & Giroux.. 2nd printing.. 2000.. 132pp, dustjacket. An impressive and unusual work in which the author draws from his Jewish family background to comment on its curious parallels with the modern world of the Internet. He presents his thoughts against many literary references which add to the charm of the volume. .
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AU$26.00
Jewels and Ashes
by Zable, Arnold
Scribe Publications, Newham, Victoria, 1995. Reprint. Softcover. Very Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. 200 g; VI, 210 pages, in original colour illustrated softcover binding The page edges are slightly browned, otherwise, the book is in very good order. Size: Trade Paperback. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Quantity Available: 1. Category: Biography & Autobiography; Judaica; ISBN: 0908011202. ISBN/EAN: 9780908011209. Inventory No: 0281284. . 9780908011209
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AU$9.10
Arnarf Good F'r a Dalston Boy; An East London Childhood
by Barnett, Mel
Makor Jewish Community Library, Caulfield South, 2004. First Edition. Softcover. Very Good Condition. Illustrator: drawings & photographs. Signed by Author on first page. a clean and undamaged copy with a neat inscription at the top signed with best wishes and then the author's 1st name Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. [6], 90 pages with appendix. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Illustrator: drawings & photographs. Quantity Available: 1. Category:...
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AU$15.02
