Search Results: Judaica from Cat's Cradle Books

Northvale, New Jersey: Jason Aronson, Inc, 1993. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine in Fine dust jacket. First Edition. Binding and hinges tight and crisp. Pages clean, bright. Cloth over boards clean with bright gilt on spine. DJ displays no wear. ; Exploration of the evolution of education for Jewish women from biblical times through the twentieth century. ; 9.25" tall; 339 pages.

Cincinnati: The Jacob Rader Marcus Center of the American Jewish Archives, 2009. Soft Cover. Fine with no dust jacket. Sound binding. Clean and bright pages. Very minor edge rubbing to wraps. ; Contents: Seltzer et al., Naomi w. Cohen as Teacher and Scholar: An Appreciation. Smollett, Writings of Naomi W. Cohen. Brumberg, The Education of Jewish, Protestant, and Catholic Children in Mid-Nineteenth-Century New York City. Libo, "Not Quite 'Our Crowd'": The Trajectory of the Obermayer Family, 1618-2009. Seltzer, Jewish Life in the United States 1878-1881, According to Ha-Zefirah. Nakhimovsky and Newman, "Free America": Glimpses of Jewish Immigrant Life in the Pages of American Brivnshtelers. Cohen, Commissioner Williams and the Jews. Schwartz, The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Hebraist: the Life and Dreams of Aron Shimon Shpall. Gurock, The Depth of Ethnicity: Jewish Identity and Ideology in Interwar New York City. Bayme, American Jewish Leadership Confronts the Holocaust: Revisiting Naomi Cohen's… Read More

Cincinnati: American Jewish Archives, 1983. Softcover. Good with no dust jacket. Square, sound binding. Clean but age-darkened pages. Wrappers have fading at spine, light edge wear, general shelf wear. ; Contents: Sarna, "Introduction"; Gurock, "Resisters and Accommodators: Varieties of Orthodox Rabbis in America, 1886-1983"; Karp, "The Conservative Rabbi - 'Dissatisfied but Not Unhappy'"; Polish, "The Changing and the Constant in the Reform Rabbinate"; book reviews; brief notices; necrology; index to Volume XXXV. ; 9.0" tall; 287 pages.

Cincinnati: The Jacob Rader Marcus Center of the American Jewish Archives, 2003. Soft Cover. Very Good with no dust jacket. Cover states Volume LIV, 2 (2002) but title page and copyright state the year as 2003. Square, tight binding. Clean and bright pages. Wrappers have light handling wear. ; Contents: Brumberg, "The Cincinnati Bible War (1869-1873) and its Impact on the Education of the City's Protestants, Catholics and Jews"; Fine, "Arnold Brunner's Henry S. Frank Memorial Synagogue and the Emergence of 'Jewish Art' in Early Twentieth-Century America"; Krome, "The Wartime Letters of Rabbi Morris Frank, 1944-1945"; Medoff, "Reassessing American Jewry's Response to Hitler: The Pitfalls of Revisionist History"; Ariel, "America and Israel: Decline of the Special Relationship"; book reviews; news from the Jacob Rader Marcus Center of the Jewish American Archives; recent acquisitions; Stanley F. Chyet obituary. 9.0" (23 cm) tall; 158 pages.

Cincinnati: The Jacob Rader Marcus Center of the American Jewish Archives, 2003. Soft Cover. Very Good with No dust jacket as issued. Square, tight binding. Clean and bright pages. Edge rubbing to wrappers. Contents: Contents: Greene, "'Israel! What a Wonderful People!': Elliot Cohen's Critique of Modern American Jewry 1924-1927"; Abrams, "A Significant Journal of Jewish Opinion?: The Jewishness of Commentary Magazine"; Belzer, "New Light on the Murder of Professor Israel Friedlaender and Rabbi Bernard Cantor: The Truth Rediscovered"; Westheider, "Racism in the United States"; Whitfield, "The Paper Chase"; book reviews; museum review; obituary of Fannie Zelcer (1923-2003); 9.0" (23 cm) tall; 151 pages.

New York: Oxford University Press, 1989. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Fine in Fine dust jacket. First Edition; First Printing. Signed by author with additional inscription on title page. Sound binding and hinges. Clean, bright pages. Cloth over boards is clean. DJ has only minor edge rubbing. ; Contents: Kingship and state religion in Egypt, Mesopotamia, and Canaan. Kingship and state religion in Judah and Israel. Amos' oracles against foreign nations and polemics against northern shrines. Social justice and the just king. Amos and the call for repentance. The destiny of the northern kingdom of Israel. Notes, works cited, Indexes. ; 8.5" tall ; 243 pages; Signed by Author.

Paris: Éditions Tirésias, 1995. Softcover. Very Good with No dust jacket as issued. Book is in the French language. Sound binding. Clean, bright pages. Wrappers have light shelf wear. ; Anthology of poems written in Buchenwald, the Nazi death camp, during WWII. ; 8.25" tall; 152 pages.

Jerusalem: Cultural Relations Department, Ministry for Foreign Affairs, 1965. Soft Cover. Good with no dust jacket. Square, tight binding. Wraps have small tear at top of spine, overall light soiling and shelf wear, faint spine crease. Pages clean, slightly age-darkened. Illustrated with color, black and white photographs. Contents: Sandberg, "The Message of Human Creativity"; Mansfeld, "Unity in Diversity"; Kiesler and Bartos, "The Shrine of the Book"; Yadin, "The Scrolls in the Shrine"; Kahane, "The Biblical and Archaeological Museum"; Amiran, "Science in the Serivce of Archaeology"; Noguchi, "A Sculpture Garden in Jerusalem"; Ardon, "Whither Israel Art?"; Katz, "A Tabernacle in the Wilderness"; Roth, "Jewish Ceremonial Art": Gordon, "The Museum's Junior Wing"; Frankfurter, "Art Based on the Old Testament."; 9.0" (23 cm) tall; 75 pages.

Jerusalem: Ariel Books Farrar Straus & Giroux, 1998. Soft Cover. Very Good with no dust jacket. Square, tight binding. Clean and bright pages. Wrappers have light shelf wear. Short stories, poetry, photography, graphic arts by various Israeli authors. 8.75" (21 cm) tall; 192 pages.

Paris: Publications Nuit et Jour, 1984. Soft Cover. Very Good with no dust jacket. Text is in the French language. Square, tight binding. Clean and bright pages. Wrappers have light handling wear, edge rubbing. Illustrated with many color plates, some black and white plates of Chagall's work exhibited at the Musée d'Art Moderne, Fondation Marguerite et Aimé Maeght, and Musée national Message biblique Marc Chagall, in 1984. Contents: Prat, "Chagall: Un Createur Infatigable"; Le Targat, "'Je suis un enfant d'un certain age' (Marc Chagall)"; Provoyeur, "Le Noir Est une Couleur" and "Entretien avec C. Sorlier et C. Marq"; Blaise Cendrars, "Portrait"; Forestier, "Le Haut du Monde Est Bleu"; Cadieu, "Du Cirque a l'Opera. 11.25" (28.5 cm) tall; 66 pages.

Collegeville, Minnesota: Michael Glazier, Liturgical Press, 1999. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Fine in Fine dust jacket. First Edition; First Printing. Sound binding and hinges. Clean, bright pages. Paper over boards is clean with gilt lettering on spine and front. DJ has light edge rubbing. ; Separate commentaries on Ruth by Linafelt and Esther by beal. ; 9.25" tall; 220 pages.

Leipzig: Ernst Bredt, 1891. Hardcover. Good with no dust jacket. Exlibrary marks. Ffep corner chipped. Pages clean, tanned. Leather over boards is heavily shelf worn with scrapes and scuffs especially on front. ; Hebrew language. Torah plus additional books comprising what Christians would call the Old Testament. Ex-Library; 6.75" tall; 1036 pages.

Chapel Hill: Algonquin Books, 2010. Softcover. Very Good with No dust jacket as issued. Sound binding. Clean, bright pages. Wrappers have light shelf wear. ; Novel that weaves a magical tale about the Holocaust, a fable inspired by fact. ; 8.25" tall; 272 pages.

New York: Hebrew Publishing Company. Hardcover. Very Good with no dust jacket. Sound binding and hinges. Bar mitzvah gift message dated 1938 on ffep with smudges on facing pastedown. Pages clean and tanned. Cloth over boards has bumped corners, edge rubbing, small bump at top, rubbed gilt lettering on spine. ; English translation with Hebrew on facing page. Contents include the book of Leviticus, Haftaroth for the book of Leviticus, and Sabbath morning prayers. ; The Pentateuch, Haftaroth and Prayers with English Translation; 7.00" (18 cm) tall.

Jerusalem: The Israel Museum, 1998. Softcover. Very Good with No dust jacket as issued. Sound binding. Clean, bright pages. Wrappers clean with light overall shelf wear. ; English language catalog accompanying exhibition of the same name at The Israel Museum. ; 10.5" tall; 136 pages.

New York: The American Jewish Committee, 1967. Softcover. Good with no dust jacket. Binding is sound. Pages age-darkened, clean. Wraps faded, soiled, moderately shelf worn. Wear to corner tips. ; Contents: Draper, "The American Crisis: Vietnam, Cuba & the Dominican Republic"; Isaac, "The Enigma of Circumcision"; Lekachman, "Death of a Slogan - The Great Society 1967"; Lichtheim, "Race Wars in the Making"; Alter, "Exhibiting the Lower East Side"; Davis, "Leslie Fielder's Fictions"; Cmopton, "A Farewell to TV"; reviews. 11.0" tall; 96 pages.

New York: The American Jewish Committee, 1962. Softcover. Good with no dust jacket. Binding is sound. Pages age-darkened with slight dampstaining. Wraps faded, soiled, moderately shelf worn. ; Contents: Morgenthau, "Vietnam - Another Korea?"; Dawidowicz, "Yiddish: Past, Present & Perfect"; van den Haag, "What to Do about Advertising"; Solotaroff, "Isaac Rosenfeld: The Human Use of Literature"; Jacobson, "An Apprenticeship - A Story"; Friedenberg, "The Gifted Student & His Enemies"; Fraiberg, "The Science of Thought Control"; Himmelfarb, "Algerian Jews & Other Matters"; Harris and Gass, "The New Frontier." Reviews. 10.0" tall; 92 pages.

New York: The American Jewish Committee, 1966. Softcover. Good with no dust jacket. Binding is sound. Pages age-darkened, clean. Wraps faded, soiled, moderately shelf worn. Wear to corner tips. ; Contents: Agnon, "Three Stories," with introduction by Wilson; Hochman, "Agnon's Quest"; Larrabee, "Saving the Humanities"; Bentley, "The Theater of Commitment"; Shapiro and Himmelfarb, "A Controversy on Church & State"; Richardson, "Auschwitz on Stage"; reviews. 11.0" tall; 104 pages.

New York: The American Jewish Committee, 1966. Softcover. Good with no dust jacket. Illustrated by Maurice Sendak. Binding is sound. Pages age-darkened, clean. Wraps faded, soiled, moderately shelf worn. Contents: Singer, "Three Stories for Children" (illustrated by Maurice Sendak); Kahn, "The Problem of the New Left"; Himmelfarb, "Church and State - How High a Wall?"; Lichtheim, "Public Affairs - The View from Europe"; Rosenberg, "Is There a Jewish Art?"; Elliott, "The Achievement of Noah Greenberg"; Dawidowicz, "When Reform Was Young"; Compton, "Pop Music on Camera"; reviews. 11.0" tall; 96 pages.

New York: The American Jewish Committee, 1966. Softcover. Good with no dust jacket. Binding is sound. Pages age-darkened, clean. Wraps faded, soiled, moderately shelf worn with closed tear at bottom front. ; Contents: "The State of Jewish Belief: A Symposium"; Morris, "A Texas Education"; Lewis, "I'm Proud to Be Poor"; Bazelon, "The New Class"; Coffey, "Types and Anti-types"; reviews. 11.0" tall; 160 pages.