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Philadelphia: Jewish Publication Society of America, 1939. Translated from the original Hebrew by I.M. Lask 8vo size blue clothbound hardcover with dust jacket; 216 pages. From jacket: "(This volume) offers examples of the literary genius of the man who led the renaissance of Hebrew culture... Bialik was the Poet Laureate of the Jewish people for more than a quarter of a century... Of the five short stories which Bialik wrote in prose, this volume presents three... Aftergrowth proves Bialik's profound insight into the mental and emotional experiences of a child... In The Shamed Trumpet is related a story of a family whose life was ruined by the stupidity and corruption of the Czarist government... The Short Friday is a highly entertaining story about a pious and naive rabbi who, on the shortest Friday of the year, unwittingly wandered away from the straight path." Jacket is rubbed, sunned on spine and has wear and minor chipping. There is evidence of water damage to the… Read More

Roseland, New Jersey: Listen & Live Audio Inc. Read by Suzanne Toren Unabridged on three cassettes, 4 hours From back cover: "It's the turn of the 20th century in New York's Lower East Side and a sense of adventure and excitement abounds for five young sisters - Ella, Henny, Sarah, Charlotte and Gertie... The five girls enjoy doing everything together, especially when it involves holidays and surprises." Ex-library with typical treatments to case and cassettes which have been crossed out. The original cardstock case has been sloppily cut and placed in a large plastic clamshell. The clamshell has quite a bit of wear including edgewear and chipped spine and corners. The cassette have some rubbing to the titles. We test our cassettes and enjoyed listening to this entire recording! . Audio Cassette. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ex-Library.

Cincinnati: American Jewish Archives , 1965. 100+ pages. Contents include: Ludwig Lewisohn; A Colony in Kansas (Charles Davis' diary Beersheba venture); The Image of America in Two East European Hebrew Periodicals; more. Name inked on cover; name underlined on contents page. We have two copies of this periodical. Thanks for shopping with us! 100% of your purchase benefits charity and supports literacy and lifelong learning.. Soft Cover. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Cincinnati: American Jewish Archives , 1965. 100+ pages. Contents include: Ludwig Lewisohn; A Colony in Kansas (Charles Davis' diary Beersheba venture); The Image of America in Two East European Hebrew Periodicals; more. Name inked on cover; a couple of markings on contents page; small tears to top and bottom of spine; and name and address on back cover. We have two copies of this periodical. Thanks for shopping with us! 100% of your purchase benefits charity and supports literacy and lifelong learning.. Soft Cover. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Philadelphia: Jewish Publication Society of America, 1948. Probable first edition. Name and price on flyleaf. Dust jacket is worn and badly chipped. Gilt titles under dust jacket are bright. Stain to green cloth boards at front top left. 270 clean pages. From dust jacket: "...Neither Somerset Maugham nor Jacques de Lacretelle nor John Galsworthy nor Thomas Mann wrote to prove anything. They wrote to record truth. The Jews in these pages are living suffering human beings: they are not the puppets and the men of straw of the polemical novel. Whoever would know certain concrete Jews and their problems will find their answer to his question in thse thrilling and illuminating pages." Quotes are for illustrative purposes only and remain the property of their copyright holders. 100% of your purchase price benefits charity.. Hard Cover. Good/Fair. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York: McGraw Hill, 1965. Two (2) 8vo size trade paperbacks Social Institutions: Volume 1: 267 pages plus bibliography, indexes and a map. Contents include: Family Institutions Civil Institutions Military Institutions Religious Institutions Name inside front cover; toned pages; inked underlining on at least 52 pages in the beginning of the book. A few numbers are circled in the contents page. Moderate wear to covers. Tanned spine. Religious Institutions: Volume 2: pagination continues from volume 1 and concludes with 574 total pages including bibliography, indexes and a map. Contents include: Semitic Sanctuaries The First Israelite Sanctuaries The Temple at Jerusalem The Centralization of the Cult The Priestly Office The Levites The Priesthood in Jerusalem Under the Monarchy The Priesthood After the Exile Alters The Ritual of Sacrifice THe History of Sacrifice in Israel The Origin of Israelite Ritual The Religious Significance of Sacrifice Secondary Acts of the Cult The Liturgical… Read More

Glencoe, Illinois: The Free Press, 1952. Red cloth cover with gilt titles. Faded spine. 484 clean, unmarked pages including index. Contents include: The Social Structure and its Setting; The Gerim and the Ethic of the Patriarchs; The Social Laws of the Israelite Legal Collections; Warfare and War Prophecy; Social Significance of the War God of the Confederacy; Cultic Peculiarities of Yahwism; Priests and the Cult Monopoly of Jerusalem; The Ethic and Theodicy of the Prophets; The Pariah Community and more. Thanks for shopping with us. 100% of your purchase benefits charity and supports literacy and life-long learning.. Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York: Schocken Books, 1950. 178 heavy weight glossy pages. Black and white photographs and map of archeological interest. Brown cloth with bright gilt titles on cover, slightly faded on spine. Pencilled price on fep. Thanks for shopping with us! 100% of your purchase benefits charity and supports literacy and lifelong learning.. Cloth. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York: Rutledge Press, 1981. Historical introduction by Henry Friedlander Preface by Irving Howe First Edition Folio size hardcover (coffee table book) with dust jacket; 272 pages with more than 350 illustrations. From jacket: "Throughout the twelve years of the Third Reich, an indomitable group of artists risked their lives to record the crimes of the Nazi regime and the agony of its victims. Working in ghettos, transit camps, in hiding and in concentration camps, they have left behind a body of material that documents their hope, humanity and creative spirit as well as their suffering... More than 350 of these works are reproduced, over 60 in full color. In addition, the book record the story behind each work, stories of ingenuity, refinance, courage. Though it records suffering, (this) is not a book about art of humanity. Most important it is a book about art. For these artist managed to distill from their surroundings the very essence of life itself - to express and affirm their… Read More

8vo size clothbound hardcover with dust jacket; 287 pages From jacket: "In this selection of his essays, Professor Hertzberg examines t he issues that are confronting Jews today and evaluates his own experience as an important participant in contemporary life and scholarship. This book is divided into three parts: 1. "takes up the specific challengers to Jewish life and belief posed by the modern age" 2. "takes its departure from Dr. Hertzberg's personal experiences in an article in which he celebrates Jewish New York; it goes on to examine the many aspects of the culture and politics of American Jewry" 3. "The final part of the book deals with Zionism and Israel." Pages 28-31 and 44-45 have penciled lines or brackets in the margin; page 71 has red inkmarks on margin and two annotations within text; pages 90-94 have penciled checkmarks in the margin. Jacket has light wear; bumped head and heel of spine. . Cloth. Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" -… Read More

Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company Inc., 1959. 8vo size clothbound hardcover; 336 deckle edged pages From page 16: "In Plonsk ... in 1886 Sheindal Green... presented her young husband Avigdor with their sixth child. In Pinsk at this time, a 12-year-old boy named Chaim was enrolled at one of the local schools. The sixth child of Sheindal and Avigdor Green became David Bun-Gurion, first Prime Minister of Israel. The boy named Chaim was Chaim Weizmann, who became the first President of Israel." Edgewear, bumped head and heel of spine, small area of shelf soil at bottom fore-edge. Dealer Direct Payment Only. . Cloth. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass, 2001. Stated First Edition with full numberline 8vo size trade paperback with French flaps; 436 pages This anthology is divided into sections: The Many Identities of a Jew Reclaiming the Spirit in Judaism Rereading the Sacred Texts of Our Tradition Living in the Shadows of the Holocaust Israel in Conflict The Pleasure of Jewish Culture Authors include: Rachel Adler Anita Diamant Nomi Eve Mordechai Gafni Martin Jay Irena Kepfisz Ilana Pardes Robert Pinsky Sarah Polster Adrienne Rich Jonathan Rosen Philip Roth William Safire Jerome Slater Joseph Telushkin David Wolpe Edgewear. Front cover has ink transfer in an area of the title, a publisher's blemish. . First. Trade Paperback. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York: McGraw Hill, 1957. Signed and inscribed by author in German on fep and dated 1959. Book has an interesting provenance. It is inscribed to Dr. Wolfgang Hochheimer, a German gestalt psychologist and Freudian psychiatrist who wrote a 1969 book on Carl Jung. The author, Dr. Martin Grotjahn was himself an eminent psychiatrist. 284 pages including index. Green cloth cover has some soil and wear to top and bottom of spine, corners and edges. Bumped lower corners. There are creases to the front cover at lower corner. Spot of soil to bottom of book. Small spot inside crease on contents page. Contents include: Sigmund Freud and the Psychoanalysis of Jokes; The Technique of Jokes; The Unconscious Tendancies of Jokes; Pleasure Mechanism and Psychogenesis; Different Forms of the Comic; On Humor; Freud's Later Contribution to the Psychoanalytic Problem of Humor; About the Jewish Joke; The Laughter of the Homeric Gods and the Absence of Laughter in the Bible. Thanks for shopping with us. 100%… Read More

New York: The Heritage Press, 1947. Cream pictorial cloth cover over white boards in very good condition, some soil beneath illustration on cover. 42 pages double thickness. Incredible full page color illustrations by Arthur Szyk. A lovely book. We also have slipcase copies of The Book of Ruth and The Book of Job. Thanks for shopping with us. 100% of your purchase benefits charity and supports literacy and life-long learning.. Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. Illus. by Szyk, Arthur. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

New York: Bloch, 1935. Includes ephemera: pasted onto the blank fep is a label from Temple Ohabei Shalom, Brookline, Mass. Religious School Award of Merit awarded to a young lady "For Attendance - Grade 7 May, 31, 1936" Booksellers stamp on fep. Cover is blue probably silk jacquard with black titles. Some spotting on the spine and a couple spots to back cover. Dusty top. Corners have sight wear. 334 tanned pages. Thanks for shopping with us. 100% of your purchase benefits charity and supports literacy and life-long learning.. Cloth. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York: Scribner, 2014. Flat Signed by author on title page First Edition with full numberline 8vo size hardcover with dust jacket; 322 pages From jacket: "Addie Baum is a Boston Girl, more in 1900 to immigrant parents who were unprepared for and suspicious of America and its effect on their three daughters. Addie's intelligence and curiosity take her to a world her parents can't imagine - a world of short skirts, movies, celebrity culture, and new opportunities for women; a world were women finish high school, go to college, have a career and find true love on their own... Addie starts her story in 1915 - the year she joined the library group for girls at a neighborhood settlement house, where she found her voice and made friends who would help shape her course of her life..." Light wear and soil to dust jacket with edgewear, bumped head and heel of spine and teeny tear at bottom front corner. . Signed by Author. First. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾"… Read More

New York: Pantheon Books, 1963. Ex-school library with one stamp on title page and inked out stamps on endpapers. Several very small spots on lower spine. Wear to corner tips and edges of spine. Black and white illustrations and illustrated end papers. End papers are a reproduction of 16th century map of Prague. 90 pages in very good condition. Larger type. Thanks for shopping with us. 100% of your purchase benefits charity and supports literacy and life-long learning. . Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. Illus. by Shahn, Ben. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ex-Library.

Philadelphia: Jewish Publication Society of America, 1937. 211 pages on cream laid stock. Pencilled price crossed out on fep. Wear to tips and top and bottom of spine. Light soil to front cover. Full page black and white illustrations. Thanks for shopping with us. 100% of your purchase benefits charity and supports literacy and life-long learning.. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York: Mesorah Publications Ltd., 1990. 159 pages in English with some Hebrew. Some wear and light soil to dust jacket, very tight binding, crisp, clean, bright white pages, slight musty aroma. From dust jacket: "No other book on Chanukah has ever succeeded so well in weaving together so many of the festival's threads to form a tapestry of beauty, richness and profundity...this is the book for anyone who wants the answer to the ancient question, "What Is Chanukah?" Quotes are for illustrative purposes only and remain the property of their copyright holders. Thanks for shopping with us. 100% of your purchase benefits charity and supports literacy and life-long learning.. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

1985. Private Press; 1985 8vo size spiral bound softcover with bound clear plastic spatter shield covers. The spatter shields wrap around the covers and can be opened to cover and protect your page! (This is the first time we seen this in a community cookbook and it's a wonderful feature.) 224 pages with some black and white decorations or illustrations. Green cardstock section dividers are also illustrations. Recipes are signed with the name of the contributor, but there is no Index of Contributors. There is a recipe index - in the front of the book. Table of Contents includes: Appetizers Bagels - Breads - Muffins Soups - Salads -Relishes Vegetables Eggs - Cheese - Fish Noodles - Rice Poultry Meat Desserts - Pies - Cakes - Cookies Beverages Passover Recipes include: Chopped Liver; Silverman's Challah; Barley Soup with Mushrooms; Split Pea, Barley and Bean Soup; Kosher Dill Pickles in a Crock; Gedempte String Beans; Halke Stuffing; Parve Carrot, Sweet Potato and Prune Tzimmes;… Read More