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Jewish Book Council, 2020. 8vo size trade paperback; 272 pages with some color and black and white illustrations and photographs Contents include: Features Excerpts Poetry Art & Photography Fiction Translation Map Interviews Contributors include: Edward Berenson LaNitra M. Berger Sarah Blake Emily Burack Keith Christiansen Rivka Galchen Alexis Landau Courtney Maum Diane Mehta Katherine Messenger Jean Nagger… Read more about this item

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… Read more about this item

Syracuse University Press, 1951. Foreword by Alvin Johnson 8vo size black clothbound hardcover with dust jacket; 380 pages including index From dust jacket: "(This book) penetrates the Iron Curtain of propaganda, silence and falsification behind which the Communists of Soviet Russia have hidden the treatment of the Jewish population of the USSR... Communist propagandists have long… Read more about this item

Copenhagen: Drud Von G. Trier, 1863. Translation: Textbook of the Israelite Religion Drud von G Trier, publisher; Kopenhagen; 1863 This appears to be only existing copy published in this year and by this publisher. First published under this title in 1825, this is the German language edition of Torat Yisrael, a Jewish school textbook. It… Read more about this item

Boston: Little Brown, 1991. Signed and inscribed on title page Stated First Edition, 5th printing 8vo size hardcover with dust jacket; 378 pages including index From dust jacket: "A Bold Call for a New Attitude by and toward American Jews Chutzpah, says (prominent law professor Alan Dershowitz) is 'boldness, assertiveness, a willingness to demand what… Read more about this item

Israel: Eretz Ha-Tzvi, Inc., 2015. ISSN: 0793-1514 4to size traditional magazine binding; 82 glossy pages illustrated with color photographs throughout Contents include: Will the Honeybee Survive? Local Heroines The Future of the Past Desert Dreams A New Perspective on Nahal Ammud From Mount Meron to the Bar Yohai Picnic Site Chocolate in the Granary, Cookies in the… Read more about this item

Minneapolis: Minneapolis Jewish Day School, 2006. 8vo size pictorial hardcover; 96 heavyweight glossy pages with some color illustrations This edition was updated in 2006 with Hallel and Counting of the Omer Contents include: Morning Blessings Verses of Song Shema and its Blessings Amidah Torah Service Hallel Counting the Omer Covers have light wear and bumped heel of… Read more about this item

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… Read more about this item

Philadelphia: Jewish Publication Society of America, 1959. 4to size hardcover, brown boards under blue cloth spine, silver foil titles on spine, black titles on front cover; 161 pages with two color illustrations and decorations throughout including many two-page spreads. Illustrated endpapers. From page 27: " 'It is David,' Samuel's voice boomed out. 'It is David who… Read more about this item

Dallas: Rossel Books, 1984. Edited by David Altshuler 8vo size trade paperback; 214 pages in English with some Hebrew. Contents include: How Torah Comes to Us What Torah Teaches Us Wisdom in the Age of Reconstruction Light wear to covers, presentation bookplate inside front cover. Appears unread. . Trade Paperback. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾"… Read more about this item

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2009. 8vo size trade paperback; 295 pages Covers are unique to proof. Front cover states Advance Reading Copy. Back cover states Uncorrected Proof, The back cover also provides an overview of the book, a brief biography and small photograph of the author and details on the marketing campaign and final book. From… Read more about this item

New York: Macmillan, 1946. 4to size gray clothbound hardcover with blue titles on spine and front cover; 160 pages including index. Profusely illustrated with black and white maps throughout. Illustrated endpapers are maps. Contents include: The Jewish Scriptures A Chronology of Bible History Summary of the Books of the Jewish Scriptures The Christian… Read more about this item

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… Read more about this item

Kansas City: Bekay Publishing Company, 1961. Author Betty Kalikow, who died in 2021, ran a Kansas City, MO catering business for many decades. This was her second book. 8vo size plastic spiral comb binding; 96 pages with some black and white decorations Although it looks like a community cookbook, recipes do not include the names of the… Read more about this item

Chestnut Hill, MA: Boston College Press, 1961. 8vo size clothbound hardcover; 209 pages with two full page black and white maps Nihil Obstat: Rt. Rev. Matthew P. Stapleton, Diocesan Censor Imprimi Potest: James E. Coleran, S.J., Praep. Prov. Novae Angliae Imprimatur: Richard Cardinal Cushing, Archbishop of Boston Book is divided into three parts.… Read more about this item

London: Free Association Books, 1999. Foreword by Janine Chasseguet-Smirgel 8vo size trade paperback; 178 pages From back cover: "(The author's) vivid description of the psychological fate of children of the survivors of Auschwitz and other Nazi death camps alerts us to the long-lasting effects of severe trauma and its transmission from one generation to the next. … Read more about this item

New York: Bloch Publishing Company, 1960. Signed and inscribed on inside front cover with an additional quote on fep. 8vo size red clothbound hardcover; 232 pages including index. There was an earlier version of this book in the 1930s; this would be the second (2nd) edition. Contents include: Amos Hosea Isaiah Michah The Boiling Cauldron Jeremiah "By the… Read more about this item

New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1972. one of the Yale Judaica Series, Volume XIX; translated from the Hebrew by Isaac Klein; Leon Nemoy, editor; Saul Lieberman and Harry A. Wolfson, associate editors. 8vo size red clothbound hardcover with dust jacket, bright gilt titles on book spine From jacket: The Book of Women...consists of five treatises dealing… Read more about this item

New York: Harper Perennial, 2002. Signed by author on half title page 8vo size trade paperback; 451 pages From back: "Both a heart-racing adventure and an uplifting quest, Walking the Bible describes one man's epic odyssey - by foot, jeep, rowboat and camel - through the greatest stories ever told. From crossing the Red Sea to… Read more about this item

New York: Hebrew Publishing Company, 1960. 8vo size blue clothbound hardcover with dust jacket; 270 pages in English with a few lines in Hebrew From jacket: "Teaching laws and customs in itself is a difficult task for it necessitates a thorough knowledge of Jewish Law in all its facets and ramifications. To compound the difficulty the teacher's… Read more about this item