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San Francisco:: Jossey Bass - Wiley,, (2001.). First edition -. SIGNED on the title page by the editor, Michael Lerner and also SIGNED by Robert Pinsky at his poem "The Night Game." Fine in stiff illustrated wrappers with self-flaps.. First printing, a trade paperback, issued simultaneously with hardcover. A collection of the greatest Jewish writing of the 1990s in this first volume of a projected new series. It features pieces on Jewish culture, identity, and spirituality by contributors as diverse as Adrienne Rich, Norman Podhoretz, Philip Roth, Marge Piercy, William Safire, C. K. Williams, Senator Joseph Lieberman, and many others. 436 pp.

University, AL:: University of Alabama Press,, 1986.. Hardcover first edition -. Near fine in a near fine dustjacket . First printing. A title in the Judaic Studies series. 220 pgs, including notes, bibliography and index. Illustrated with photographs

New York:: Alfred A. Knopf,, 1953.. Hardcover first edition -. Very good in a good dust jacket. (bookplate, dj is price-clipped with a new publisher's price printed, several short tears.). First printing. " Warm and deeply human, this book offers a picture of Jewish life in America as entertaining as it is richly informative." Includes contributions from Irving Howe, Morris Freedman, Ruth Glazer, Herbert J. Gans, Harry Gersh, Earl Raab, Milton Kaplan and more. Introduction by David Riesman, preface by Elliot Cohen. xxvi, 337 pp.

San Francisco:: HarperSanFrancisco,, 1999.. SIGNED hardcover first edition -. Fine in fine dust jacket (as new.). First printing. An exploration of the current Jewish dilemna faced by the 'assimilated generation' of post-Holocaust American born Jews. SIGNED by the author on the title page, and dated in the year of publication.

Chicago:: University of Chicago Press,, (1960). Good overall - rather severe toning to the pages, but a tight copy, no writing. . Trade paperback. A classic sociological study originally published in 1928, which "traces back Jewish immigrant colonies now disappearing from our modern cities to the medieval ghettos." A Phoenix Book. Illustrated with woodcuts by Todros Geller. Index of authors and subjects. 298 pp.

New York:: Alfred A. Knopf,, 1990.. Hardcover first edition -. Very near fine in like dustjacket.. First trade edition. The story of a devout Ladover Hasid who, against powerful odds, had become an internationally known painter. After 20 years of living in Paris, he returns to the Brooklyn of his childhood when a beloved uncle dies. 370 pp.

New York:: Ticknor & Fields,, (1993.). Hardcover first edition -. Fine in near fine dust jacket.. First printing. First person accounts from 13 of the thousands of young Jewish children who were sent away from their families to live with others - often strangers who risked their own lives to take them in - to avoid the Nazis and escape the Holocaust. Illustrated with many photographs. Written for older children or young adults. Suggestions for further reading, index. 118 pp

New York:: Alfred A. Knopf,, 1996.. Hardcover first edition -. NF/NF (rem dot.). First American edition. Assassinated Israeli leader Rabin's granddaughter writes about her grandfather, her country and the quest for peace.

New York:: Harper Collins,, (1991.). Hardcover first edition -. Near fine in very good dust jacket (tear to front cover of dj.). First printing. The author, then a 56 year old engineer, was among the Romanian Jews deported to the German-occupied Soviet territory of Moghilev. He set up a small task force to repair the city's iron-works (The Foundry), and then continued to devise new projects to keep the spared workers alive - eventually saving 15,000 lives. Written by Jagendorf before his death in the United States in 1970, but never published, this account is interspersed with commentaries with Hirt-Manheimer that expand and document this account. Photographs, sources, index. 209 pp.

New York:: Vintage Books,, 1982.. Very good+.. First paperback printing. Chilean born writer, who adopted Israel as his home, attempts to come to terms with the impact on his life (his son went to the front in the Lebanon war) and on the country of Israel as the aggressor.

Grand Rapids, MI:: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., 1998.. SIGNED hardcover first edition -. Fine in fine dust jacket (a new copy.). First printing. Historical novel for young adults, based on the seige of Masada by the Roman Legions in the year 72 C.E. SIGNED on the title page by the author. Map front endpapers.

Chapel Hill, NC:: Algonquin Books,, 2008.. SIGNED hardcover first edition -. Fine in fine dust jacket (a new copy.). First printing. Winner of the National Book Critics Award for Autobiography: � "When Ariel Sabar was growing up in California during the 1980s, the generational divide between he and his immigrant father was strained to the breaking point. . . . his teen-age self could find no sympathy for a dad who had Òsublimated homesickness into a career.Ó [but] after his own son was born in 2002, his perspective about his own heritage changed, and he began the quest to understand his fatherÕs life and the culture Yona Sabar was struggling to preserve. The upshot is an book that operates on several levels: as the story of the relationship between father and son, as testimony to a man with a mission, and as the portrait of a nearly forgotten people. . . an alternate view of Iraq and its history." INSCRIBED on the title page - "For . . . with many… Read More

Chapel Hill, NC:: Algonquin Books,, 2008.. SIGNED hardcover first edition -. Fine in fine dust jacket (a new copy.). First printing. Winner of the National Book Critics Award for Autobiography: �"When Ariel Sabar was growing up in California during the 1980s, the generational divide between he and his immigrant father was strained to the breaking point. . . . his teen-age self could find no sympathy for a dad who had Òsublimated homesickness into a career.Ó [but] after his own son was born in 2002, his perspective about his own heritage changed, and he began the quest to understand his fatherÕs life and the culture Yona Sabar was struggling to preserve. The upshot is an book that operates on several levels: as the story of the relationship between father and son, as testimony to a man with a mission, and as the portrait of a nearly forgotten people. . . an alternate view of Iraq and its history." SIGNED on the title page. Bibliography. 332 pp,

New York:: Schocken,, 1971.. Very good (prev owner's name, a few marginal brackets.). Trade paperback. The first full length biography of this Yiddish writer. Photographs.

New York:: Alfred A. Knopf,, 1976.. Hardcover -. F/NF (some rubbing to dj.). BOMC edition

New York:: St Martin's,, 1995.. Hardcover first edition -. Fine in fine dust jacket.. First printing. A beautiful and moving novella, in which a young girl who is helping her grandmother prepare the Passover meal learns the significance of each dish, and the history of her own family. Illustrated with woodcuts by McMurdy.

Jackson:: University Press of Mississippi,, 1999.. SIGNED hardcover first edition -. Fine in fine dust jacket (a new copy.). First printing. Author's first book, SIGNED on the title page. Illustrated with photographs. 194 pp.

Milwaukie, OR:: M Press,, (2004.). Fine in printed white wrappers . Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format) for the 2nd edition (originally published in 2002.) In 1939, when she was just 11 years old, Ursula and her parents were among the last Jewish families to be able to get out of Germany - and at the time, when of the few places open to Jews was the city of Shanghai, the 'armpit' of the world as one sailor described it. Twenty-thousand Jews found refuge in this city already teeming with people; this is an account of the hardships they encountered, but also the friendships and the helpfulness, and also an account of coming to age in a world torn by war. A fascinating account. Photographs. 267 pp.

New York:: Pantheon,, 1985. Hardcover first edition -. Near fine in near fine dust jacket.. First American edition. transcription of English subtitles to the 1985 French film. Photographs. 200 pages.

New York:: Farrar, Straus & Giroux,, (2000.). Hardcover first edition -. Fine in fine dust jacket (a new copy.). First printing. A brief but eloquent book, which blends religious history, memoir and literary reflection, as he compares the fortunate life of his American-born grandmother with that of his father's mother, killed by the Nazis in a concentration camp. 132 pp