The Jewish Way in Love and Marriage
Harpercollins, May 1982. Trade Paperback. More
Judaica
The Broken and the Whole: Discovering Joy after Heartbreak
Scribner, March 2014. First Edition. Hardcover. A powerful, inspiring memoir in the vein of When Bad Things Happen to Good People about the wisdom a rabbi gained after his young son suffered a catastrophic brain stem stroke that left him quadriplegic and dependent on a ventilator for each breath. A...... More
The World of Our Mothers: Live
Schocken, March 1990. Trade Paperback. Through interviews, this book examines the lives of immigrant Jewish women and the transition they made from a traditional to a modern culture during the early twentieth century. More
Martin Buber: personalist & prophet,
Newman Press, January 1968. Reprint. Cloth. Octavo. In mildly edgeworn DJ with darkened spine and one inch tear top edge of rear jacket panel. Boysenberry cloth with gold lettering on spine. Stamped in red ink: 'Library Glenn Dorris' front and rear free end pages.Dust stained top edge. Mild darkening at..... More
Unorthodox: The Scandalous Rejection of My Hasidic Roots
Simon & Schuster, October 2012. Trade Paperback. Now a Netflix original series! Unorthodox is the bestselling memoir of a young Jewish woman's escape from a religious sect, in the tradition of Ayaan Hirsi Ali's Infidel and Carolyn Jessop's Escape, featuring a new epilogue by the author. As a member of..... More
Periodic Table
Schocken, March 1986. Trade Paperback. More
The People and the Books
W. W. Norton & Company, October 2016. Hardcover. Jews have long embraced their identity as "the people of the book." But outside of the Bible, much of the Jewish literary tradition remains little known to nonspecialist readers. The People and the Books shows how central questions and themes of our..... More
Hana's Suitcase: A True Story
Albert Whitman & Company, January 2003. Soft Cover. In 2000, a suitcase arrived at a children's Holocaust education center in Tokyo, Japan, marked 'Hana Brady, May 16, 1931.' The center's curator, searches for clues to young Hana and her family, whose happy life in a small Czech town was turned..... More
Anne Frank: The Biography
Metropolitan Books, October 1998. Hardcover. For people all over the world, Anne Frank, the vivacious, intelligent Jewish girl with a crooked smile and huge dark eyes, has become the "human face of the Holocaust." Her diary of twenty-five months in hiding, a precious record of her struggle to keep hope..... More
Film and the Holocaust: New Perspectives on Dramas, Documentaries, and Experimental Films
Continuum, May 2011. Trade Paperback. When representing the Holocaust, the slightest hint of narrative embellishment strikes contemporary audiences as somehow a violation against those who suffered under the Nazis. This anxiety is, at least in part, rooted in Theodor Adorno's dictum that "To write poetry after Auschwitz is barbaric." And..... More
I & Thou 2ND Edition
CHARLES SCRIBNERS SONS LTD, January 1958. Paper Back. Octavo. (Second Edition). Foxing & dust stained cover. Worn at edges and heavily top & bottom of spine. Scraps and rubbing. Heavy foxing and dark stains to textblock top, bottom and fore-edge. Foxing verso of cover, front and rear. 137 pages. More
Pharisees and Other Essays
Schocken Books, January 1966. Paper Back. Octavo. Heavy wear. Surfaces scratches, creasing and edgewear to cover. Spine is faded, slightly cocked and foxed. Darkened/foxed textblock edges. Damp staining lower corner of textblock. Decent reading copy. No underlining. No notes. Etc. 164 pages. More
Desintegration: Ein Kongress Zeitgenossischer Judischer Positionen (English and German Edition)
Kerber Verlag. Paper Back. More
A Chosen Few: The Resurrection Of European Jewry
Da Capo Press, August 1995. Trade Paperback. Despite the horrors of the Holocaust, decades of Soviet dominance, the rise of neo-Nazism, and a resurgence of anti-Semitism, Jewish communities have been recreated throughout postwar Europe. In A Chosen Few, Mark Kurlansky visits the homes and lives of those Jews who have..... More
The Death of Methuselah and Other Stories
Plume, March 1989. Trade Paperback. More
Number Our Days (Touchstone Book)
Touchstone, April 1980. Trade Paperback. When noted anthropologist Barbara Myerhoff received a grant to explore the process of aging, she decided to study some elderly Jews from Venice, California, rather than to report on a more exotic people. The story of the rituals and lives of these remarkable old people..... More
A Double Dying: Reflections on Holocaust Literature
Indiana Univ Pr, April 1980. Hardcover. More
Other People's Trades
Summit Books, July 1990. Trade Paperback. More
From the Kingdom of Memory: Reminiscences
Summit Books, August 1990. First Edition. Hardcover. Very minor shelf wear on the jacket. Price clipped. More
The Diary of a Young Girl
Anchor, March 1996. Trade Paperback. For almost fifty years, Anne Frank's diary has moved millions with its testament to the human spirit's indestructibility, but readers have never seen the full text of this beloved book--until now. This new translation, performed by Winona Ryder, restores nearly one third of Anne's entries..... More
Roots Schmoots: Journeys Among Jews
Harry N. Abrams, January 1994. Hardcover. More
Exodus: A Memoir
Blue Rider Press, March 2014. First Edition. Hardcover. In 2009, at the age of twenty-three, Deborah Feldman packed up her young son and their few possessions and walked away from her insular Hasidic roots. She was determined to forge a better life for herself, away from the rampant oppression, abuse..... More
Home Lands: Portrait of the New Jewish Diaspora
Henry Holt and Co., September 2001. Hardcover. The idea for this book came to Larry Tye as he traveled overseas as a reporter for the Boston Globe. In each city he visited he was intrigued by a reawakening of practice and spirit of the long repressed Jewish community. And the..... More
Destruction of the European Jews
Holmes & Meier Pub, September 1985. Trade Paperback. First published in 1961, Raul Hilberg's comprehensive account of how Germany annihilated the Jewish community of Europe spurred discussion, galvanised further research, and shaped the entire field of Holocaust studies. This revised and expanded edition of Hilberg's classic work extends the scope..... More
Periodic Table
Schocken, March 1986. Trade Paperback. More
