Chronicle Books, June 1996. Hardcover. All the color, vibrancy, and humor of Yiddish is captured in this delightfully illustrated treasury of over 100 folk sayings in both English and Yiddish. From the sublime (Man thinks and God laughs/A mentsh tracht un Got lacht) to the practical (When you look to..... More
Shanti Sadan, January 1971. Reprint. Hardcover. 2nd edition. Octavo in tattered, scarred DJ with foxing/darkening to verso. Front flap clipped. Blue faux leather with stamped gold foil lettering along spine and centered on front panel. Scattered through text, underlining and side notes, mostly in pencil. An uncommon title. [269 pages]..... More
Jason Aronson Inc., 1988. First Edition. Cloth. First/first, American. Complete number line. Octavo. Dustjacket is missing. Caramel colored cloth covered boards with gold lettering. Boards much soiling/dust stains. Lettering on spine starting to fade. Brown marble patterned end pages. Underlining, doodles and side notes in pen and pencil scattered here..... More
Verso, November 2012. First Edition. Hardcover. What is a homeland and when does it become a national territory? Why have so many people been willing to die for such places throughout the twentieth century? What is the essence of the Promised Land? Following the acclaimed and controversial The Invention of..... More
Pantheon Books / Random House, January 1954. Cloth. {6 & 1/2' x 11'} Dustjacket missing. Beige cloth covered boards with gold lettering & illustrations on rectangular red fields spine and front panel. Foxing, dust staining & marginal darkening. 'H' stamp on front free end page. Text 'adapted from The Jewish..... More
Free Press, 1967. Trade Paperback. Previous owner's name on front free endpaper; spine sunned; small scar on front cover. More
Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, September 2008. Hardcover. In a remote corner of the world, forgotten for nearly three thousand years, lived an enclave of Kurdish Jews so isolated that they still spoke Aramaic, the language of Jesus. Mostly illiterate, they were self-made mystics and gifted storytellers and humble peddlers..... More
Beacon Press, January 1971. Reprint. Paper Back. Octavo. with ink & pencil underlining. [246 pages]. More
Harper Paperbacks, August 2003. Trade Paperback. Funny, raw, dark, sometimes outrageous, the twenty-five contributors to Lost Tribe explore themes such as conflicted identities, sexual fetishes, religious intolerance, and even the troubled legacy of the Holocaust to create a stirring picture of contemporary Jewish life. Lost Tribe features stories and commentary..... More
Harmony, February 2000. Hardcover. Rabbi Joseph Telushkin combed the Bible, the Talmud, and the whole spectrum of Judaism's sacred writings to give us a manual on how to lead a decent, kind, and honest life in a morally complicated world. An absolutely superb book: the most practical, most comprehensive guide..... More
The Littman Library of Jewish Civilization in association with Liverpool University Press, September 1992. Hardcover. Published in the year of the fiftieth anniversary of the Warsaw ghetto uprising, this volume has a special section with memoirs and other material dealing with aspects of Jewish life in Nazi-occupied Warsaw. Topics covered..... More
The Littman Library of Jewish Civilization in association with Liverpool University Press, January 1991. Hardcover. Now in its sixth year of publication, Polin is rapidly emerging as a leading forum for authoritative historical and cultural material on Polish and east European Jewry. Each volume contains articles representing original research, often..... More
Blackwell Pub, March 1987. Hardcover. More
Blackwell Publishers, March 1991. Hardcover. More
The Littman Library of Jewish Civilization in association with Liverpool University Press, September 1989. Hardcover. Polin' is a leading forum for authoritative historical and cultural material on Polish and East European Jewry. Each volume contains articles representing original research, often including previously unpublished documents. Each issue also features an extensive..... More
Basil Blackwell, January 1987. Hardcover. More
The Littman Library of Jewish Civilization in association with Liverpool University Press, September 1990. Hardcover. Polin' is a leading forum for authoritative historical and cultural material on Polish and East European Jewry. Each volume contains articles representing original research, often including previously unpublished documents. Each issue also features an extensive..... More
Princeton University Press, May 2022. Hardcover. The controversial Jewish thinker whose tortured path led him into the heart of twentieth-century intellectual life Scion of a distinguished line of Talmudic scholars, Jacob Taubes (1923-1987) was an intellectual impresario whose inner restlessness led him from prewar Vienna to Zurich, Israel, and Cold..... More
Oxford Univ Pr, April 2000. Trade Paperback. Norman Solomon's succinct book is an ideal introduction to Judaism as a religion and way of life. In addition to surveying the nature and development of Judaism, this Very Short Introduction outlines the basics of practical Judaism -- its festivals, prayers, customs, and..... More
Goldberg Press / Rabbi Kalman Pinski, January 1975. First Edition. Hardcover. {7 & 3/4' x 9 & 1/2'} In heavily edgeworn (chipped/torn) dustjacket with rubbing.& marginal sunning. Blue cloth covered boards with gold lettering. Tanned end pages. Slightly darkened textblock top edge and fore-edge. Sound binding. Darkening of margins throughout..... More
Touchstone Books, October 1990. Trade Paperback. As is. Remainder mark and light staining on the edges of the print block. More
Anchor, November 2009. Trade Paperback. In this lively debut work of history, Edward Kritzler tells the tale of an unlikely group of swashbuckling Jews who ransacked the high seas in the aftermath of the Spanish Inquisition. At the end of the fifteenth century, many Jews had to flee Spain and..... More
Schocken, 1978. Trade Paperback. More
Tyndale House Publishers, March 2010. Trade Paperback. Nonna Bannister carried a secret almost to her Tennessee grave: the diaries she had kept as a young girl experiencing the horrors of the Holocaust. This book reveals that story. Nonna's childhood writings, revisited in her late adulthood, tell the remarkable tale of..... More
Jason Aronson, Inc., June 1993. First Edition. Cloth. Very minor shelf wear on the jacket. More
