W. W. Norton & Company, September 2021. Hardcover. Renowned and beloved as a prizewinning novelist, Dara Horn has also been publishing penetrating essays since she was a teenager. Often asked by major publications to write on subjects related to Jewish culture--and increasingly in response to a recent wave of deadly..... More
Collier Books, August 1987. Reprint. Mass Market PaperBack. Underlining and marginally markings. [157 pages]. 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
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
Schocken, March 1986. Trade Paperback. More
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
Ecco, October 2016. Hardcover. Winner of the Jewish Book of the Year Award The first comprehensive yet accessible history of the state of Israel from its inception to present day, from Daniel Gordis, one of the most respected Israel analysts (The Forward) living and writing in Jerusalem. Israel is a...... More
Hill and Wang, January 2006. Trade Paperback. A New Translation From The French By Marion Wiesel Night is Elie Wiesel's masterpiece, a candid, horrific, and deeply poignant autobiographical account of his survival as a teenager in the Nazi death camps. This new translation by Marion Wiesel, Elie's wife and frequent..... More
Holmes & Meier Pub, January 1986. First American. Hardcover. Octavo. In edgeworn with some scuff marks, slight staining & sticker removal scars. Black covered boards with stamped gold lettering along spine. Scattered through text is plenty of pencil underlining and side notes. Good reading copy for those not distracted by..... More
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
Bantam Dell Pub Group, October 2000. Trade Paperback. In today's world, with its relentless emphasis on success and productivity, we have lost the necessary rhythm of life, the balance between work and rest. Constantly striving, we feel exhausted and deprived in the midst of great abundance. We long for time..... More
Hill and Wang, January 2006. Trade Paperback. A New Translation From The French By Marion Wiesel Night is Elie Wiesel's masterpiece, a candid, horrific, and deeply poignant autobiographical account of his survival as a teenager in the Nazi death camps. This new translation by Marion Wiesel, Elie's wife and frequent..... More
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
W. W. Norton & Company, November 2003. Trade Paperback. In 1900, in a small Prussian town, a young boy was found murdered, his body dismembered, the blood drained from his limbs. The Christians of the town quickly rose up in violent riots to accuse the Jews of ritual murder--the infamous..... More
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
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 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
Other Press, September 2021. Hardcover. From an award-winning journalist, a perceptive study of how Israel's actions, which run counter to the traditional historical values of Judaism, are putting Jewish people worldwide in an increasingly untenable position. More than a decade ago, the historian Tony Judt considered whether the behavior of..... More
Kerber Verlag. Paper Back. More
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
Plume, March 1989. Trade Paperback. More
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
Indiana Univ Pr, April 1980. Hardcover. 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
Summit Books, July 1990. Trade Paperback. More
