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
Oxford University Press, USA, April 2003. Reprint. Paper Back. In this classic reference book the Fowler brothers illustrate by example all the commonly-made blunders of English usage and guide the reader to improved expression and style. If Dickens had owned a copy of The King's English for example, he would..... More
Olive Branch Press, May 2019. Paper Back. Today Jews face a choice. We can be loyal to the ethical imperatives at the heart of Judaism--love the stranger, pursue justice, and repair the world. Or we can give our unconditional support to the state of Israel. It is a choice between..... More
Schocken, October 2018. Hardcover. ***2019 NATIONAL JEWISH BOOK AWARD WINNER--Jewish Education and Identity Award*** The award-winning author of The Eichmann Trial and Denial: Holocaust History on Trial gives us a penetrating and provocative analysis of the hate that will not die, focusing on its current, virulent incarnations on both the..... 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
Charles Scribner's Sons, June 1970. Trade Paperback. 100 years after its original publication, Martin Buber's landmark work of philosophy and theology I and Thou remains one of the most important books of Western thought and a seminal work of 20th-century intellectual history. Considered to be one of the most influential..... More
HarperOne, December 1987. Paper Back. An authoritative look at Judaism's historical sweep and distinctive religious dimensions, showing how it developed out of the Hebrew Bible and has diversified throughout history and throughout the world. Previous owner's name. Remainder mark. More
International Publishers, January 1973. First Thus. Paper Back. Octavo. Sound, without internal markings. Stains back cover. [272 pages]. More
St Martins Pr, August 2005. Hardcover. As the main spoken language of the Jews for more than a thousand years, Yiddish has had plenty to lament, plenty to conceal. Its phrases, idioms, and expressions paint a comprehensive picture of the mind-set that enabled the Jews of Europe to survive a...... 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
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
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
Random House, January 2017. Hardcover. From world-renowned public intellectual Bernard-Henri Lévy comes an incisive and provocative look at the heart of Judaism. "A smart, revealing, and essential book for our times."--The Washington Post For more than four decades, Bernard-Henri Lévy has been a singular figure on the world stage--one of..... 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
Cambridge University Press, July 1996. Paper Back. What are the effects of growing up in the shadow of the Holocaust? Drawing on interviews and survey materials, Aaron Hass provides a vibrant account of the experiences of survivors' children. Now in their thirties and forties, these men and women describe their..... More
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
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
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
