Toby Press, September 2007. Trade Paperback. Written around the time of the Dead Sea Scrolls and New Testament, these texts reveal the ambiguities and conflicts encountered by Jews of that period. More
Jewish Lights Publishing, October 2001. Trade Paperback. Discover how to make virtually any moment in your day a significant part of a meaningful Jewish life. As we have discovered, and as our sages have long known, there is no experience in the life of a Jew that cannot be marked..... More
Kerber Verlag. Paper Back. More
Urj Press, September 1995. Trade Paperback. This compilation of essays from some of today's most prominent thinkers pays tribute to one of North America's great Jewish leaders. Reflecting the issues and concerns that marked Rabbi Schindler's career as a preeminent educator and leader, this volume is ideal for adult study..... More
Random House Inc, February 1998. Hardcover. How does one live after surviving injustice? What satisfaction comes from revenge? Can the past ever be left behind? Masterfully composed and imbued with extraordinary feeling and understanding, "The Iron Tracks" is a riveting tale of survival and revenge by the writer whom Irving..... More
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
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
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
Harper Perennial, November 2000. Trade Paperback. Edith Hahn was an outspoken young woman in Vienna when the Gestapo forced her into a ghetto and then into a slave labor camp. When she returned home months later, she knew she would become a hunted woman and went underground. With the help..... More
Barnes & Noble Books, January 2003. Cloth. Very good all round. More
Ktav Publishing House, May 1999. Hardcover. Speaking to her daughters as they will be in ten years or so, Sally Berkovic writes that "the moment that Avigayil, my first born, was delivered, I had a profound religious experience. I realized that feminist theologians who claim God is a woman are..... More
Counterpoint LLC, January 1998. First Edition. Hardcover. The Invisible Wall is one man's quest to understand the failure of the German-Jewish relationship and to explain the character and attitudes of Germany's assimilated Jews over a three-hundred-year period. Juxtaposing the broad picture of history and politics in Germany against the stories..... More
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
Schocken Books, January 1947. First Edition. Cloth. No dustjacket. Octavo. Black cloth with gold lettering. Spine is browned from sunning. Previous owner's name inked in red, blue & purple ballpoint front freee end page top corner. Topstained black but faded & dust stained with age. Previous dealer's stamp rear pastedown..... More
Charles Scribner's Sons, June 1970. Trade Paperback. Martin Buber's I and Thou has long been acclaimed as a classic. Many prominent writers have acknowledged its influence on their work; students of intellectual history consider it a landmark; and the generation born since World War II considers Buber as one of..... More
State University of New York Press, September 2001. First Edition. Hardcover. By creating a dialogue between Israeli and American Jewish authors, scholars, and intellectuals, this book examines how these two literatures, which traditionally do not address one another directly, nevertheless share some commonalities and affinities. The disinclination of Israeli and..... More
Dover Publications, June 1979. Trade Paperback. "No American fiction of the year merits recognition more than this Russian's stories of Yiddish life. ... [Mr. Cahan] is a humorist, and his humor does not spare the sordid and uncouth aspects of the character whose pathos he so tenderly reveals." -- William..... More
Scribner, August 1986. Trade Paperback. Describes the celebrations and rituals of a traditional Jewish wedding, offers advice on planning a wedding and reception, and discusses married life and divorce. More
Johns Hopkins University Press, May 1995. Trade Paperback. Volume II: A Time for Gathering. Between 1820 and 1880, European Jews arrived in the United States in ever greater numbers. While later Jewish immigrants would criticize their "rush" to assimilation, the Jews of this period created the institutions that continue to..... More
Bantam, April 1982. Mass Market PaperBack. "Night" -- A terrifying account of the Nazi death camp horror that turns a young Jewish boy into an agonized witness to the death of his family...the death of his innocence...and the death of his God. Penetrating and powerful, as personal as "The Diary..... More
Grand Central Publishing, October 2007. Hardcover. A riveting scientific detective story crossed with a provocative and controversial re-examination of the meaning of race, ethnicity, and religion. Could our sense of who we are really turn on a sliver of DNA? In our multiethnic world, questions of individual identity are becoming..... More
Thames & Hudson, March 2016. Hardcover. Commissioned by wealthy patrons in the Middle Ages, the Haggadot are among the most beautifully decorated Hebrew manuscripts. The Brother Haggadah--so-called because of its close, fraternal relationship to the Rylands Haggadah in the collection of the John Rylands Library, Manchester--is one of the finest..... More
Johns Hopkins University Press, May 1995. Trade Paperback. Volume I: A Time for Planting: The First Migration, 1654-1820 In the autumn of 1654, twenty-three Jews aboard the bark Sainte Catherine landed at the town of New Amsterdam to establish the first permanent Jewish settlement in North America. In A Time..... More
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
