Periodic Table
Schocken, March 1986. Trade Paperback. More
Schocken, March 1986. Trade Paperback. More
Vintage Canada, October 2016. Trade Paperback. Shortlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize and nominated for the Governor-General's Award for Literature, a hilarious, swashbuckling yet powerful tale of pirates, buried treasure and a search for the Fountain of Youth, told in the ribald, philosophical voice of a 500-year-old Jewish parrot. Set..... More
Hebrew Union College Press, March 2021. Hardcover. Although Kant considered him the greatest critic of his work, and Fichte thought him the most impressive mind of the generation, Salomon Maimon (1753-1800) has fallen into relative obscurity. Apiqoros: The Last Essays of Salomon Maimon draws attention to works written during the..... More
Dover Publications, May 2000. Trade Paperback. This is the full, unabridged text of one of the greatest philosophic works of all time. Written by a 12th- century thinker who was equally active as an original philosopher and as a Biblical and Talmudic scholar, it is both a classic of great..... More
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, August 1996. Trade Paperback. In 1939 the Polish town of Konin vanished in the wake of Nazi occupation. Twenty-five years later, Theo Richmond set out to find what he could about that vanished world. He traveled across the United States, Europe, and Israel, tracing survivors and..... More
Judaica Pr, April 1984. Paper Back. More
Charles Scribner's Sons, June, 1959. Reprint. Cloth. {5' x 7 & 1/2'} 12mo. In black cloth with fading gold lettering along spine and upper left of front board. Rubbing and grey worn spots. Dust stains & foxing textblock edges. A previous owner's name & address inked on ffep. [137 pages]..... More
DOUBLEDAY & COMPANY, INC., 1971. Cloth. {5 & 3/4' x 8 & 1/2'} In jacket with heavily edgeworn/chipped jacket. Black cloth covered boards with gold lettering along spine. Olive green end papers. Non-authorial gift inscription on front pastedown. More
Scholastic, October 1997. First Edition. Hardcover. Hannah Goslar relates her memories of Anne Frank to author Alison Leslie Goldand complete the story of Anne's life, taking the reader one step beyond 'TheDiary of Anne Frank'. Photos. First/first. {5 & 3/4 x 8 &3/4'} Burnt Umber paper covered boards with gold..... More
W. W. Norton & Company, October 2023. Hardcover. For numerous centuries, the Talmud--an extraordinary work of Jewish ethics, law, and tradition--has compelled readers to grapple with how to live a good life. Full of folk legends, bawdy tales, and rabbinical repartee, it is inspiring, demanding, confounding, and thousands of pages..... More
University of California Press, April 1997. First Edition. Hardcover. To date, remarkably little research attention has been paid to the development of Jewish beliefs and rituals about illness and death. Crossing the Jabbok presents an illuminating study of such views and practices among Ashkenazi Jews (1500s-1800s) and is one of..... More
Simon & Schuster, September 2008. Trade Paperback. Now a TV series Living Biblically streaming on CBS All Access! From the New York Times bestselling author of The Know-It-All comes a fascinating and timely exploration of religion and the Bible. A.J. Jacobs chronicles his hilarious and thoughtful year spent obeying?as literally..... 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
Three Rivers Press, August 2003. Oversize Softcover. Enjoy the most comprehensive and hilariously entertaining lexicon of the colorful and deeply expressive language of Yiddish. With the recent renaissance of interest in Yiddish, and in keeping with a language that embodies the variety and vibrancy of life itself, The New Joys..... More
Princeton University Press, July 2006. Trade Paperback. Through moving interviews with five ordinary people who rescued Jews during the Holocaust, Kristen Monroe casts new light on a question at the heart of ethics: Why do people risk their lives for strangers and what drives such moral choice? Monroe's analysis points..... More
Bantam, March 1997. Reprint. Mass Market PaperBack. Anne Frank's "The Diary of a Young Girl" is among the most enduring documents of the twentieth century. Since its publication in 1947, it has been read by tens of millions of people all over the world. It remains a beloved and deeply..... More
Weidenfeld & Nicolson, January 1991. Hardcover. Tight binding; Clean, sturdy boards; Text free of markings; Un-clipped dust jacket Very Good w/ no significant flaws to disclose; An excellent copy. More
Penguin Books, October 1962. Mass Market PaperBack. More
Massadah and Alumoth, January 1967. Hardcover. Solid binding; Clean, sturdy boards w/ gilt at front and spine; Previous owner inscription present at front free-end page, pages otherwise free of markings; Dust jacket is moderately edge-worn and faded but over-all in great shape; Jacket housed in protective mylar to ensure further..... More
Other Press, April 2017. Hardcover. Taking his lead from his subject, Gershom Scholem--the 20th century thinker who cracked open Jewish theology and history with a radical reading of Kabbalah--Prochnik combines biography and memoir to counter our contemporary political crisis with an original and urgent reimagining of the future of Israel..... More
Cambridge University Press, October 2014. Paper Back. Few books in the English language seem to demand a companion more insistently than James Joyce's Ulysses, a work that at once entices and terrifies readers with its interwoven promises of pleasure, scandal, difficulty, and mastery. This volume offers fourteen concise and accessible..... More
Everyman's Library / Dent, 1966. Reprint. Cloth. 12mo. In well worn dustjacket. Spine is slightly leaning. Green cloth covered boards with gold lettering along spine. Considerable ink underlining. Dust stains & foxing textblock fore-edge. Textblock topstained light pink. [337 [pages]. More
Brandeis University Press, March 2001. Hardcover. Some half a million Jews lived in Germany when Hitler came to power in 1933. Over the next decade, thousands would flee. Among these refugees, teens and young adults formed a remarkable generation. Born between 1914 and 1928 (approximately), they were old enough 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
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