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N.p.: N.p., 1963. Treatment script for an unproduced film, based on screenwriter P.E. Lapide's 1963 novel. Laid in with the treatment script is a letter addressed to casting agent Paul Kohner, as well as a typed synopsis from screenwriter P.E. Lapide discussing the success of the Portuguese, Brazilian, and German editions of his book. After being freed… Read more about this item

N.p.: N.p., 1970. Treatment script for an unproduced film. A successful doctor suffers a mental breakdown due to her survivor's guilt after being the only member of her family to survive the Holocaust. She becomes obsessed with a man four years older than her, whom she met previously in a refugee camp in France. Set… Read more about this item

Munich: N.p., 1980. Draft script for an unproduced film. Single manuscript ink annotation on the front wrapper, noting copy No. 101. A power-hungry emperor demands the much-maligned Jewish people of his kingdom give him the Schem, a mystical philosopher's stone, leading a rabbi to create a golem for defense-a giant, anthropomorphic creature made from mud and clay.… Read more about this item

Tel Aviv: Bar Kochba, 1968. Treatment script for the 1975 Polish film. Text in English. The true story of Janusz Korczak, an educator, doctor, children's book author, and caretaker of an orphanage for Jewish children in Warsaw. During World War II, Korczak refused to leave the city, instead choosing to stay at the orphanage to protect the… Read more about this item

N.p.: N.p., 1987. Original script for an unproduced play. Laid in with the script is a Typed Letter Signed by screenwriter Basil Reichman, addressed to casting agent Paul Kohner, introducing the play and seeking representation by Kohner. A long-widowed Jewish immigrant falls in love again, but soon realizes he must choose between the support of his children and… Read more about this item

N.p.: N.p., 1967. First Draft script for an unproduced film adaptation of Bruce Jay Friedman's 1962 novel. Friedman's debut novel, about a Jewish family facing culture shock and bigotry after moving from New York City to the suburbs. Contemporary sources note actor Alan Arkin and director Richard Lester as having been attached to the project at one time,… Read more about this item

N.p.: N.p., 1970. Draft script for an unproduced film. A bus carrying children on a school trip crashes in the Sinai Desert, leaving the driver and chaperone dead. The only adult survivors are a mentally disabled Auschwitz survivor and a former stripper who has moved to Israel. The unlikely pair must work together to guide the children… Read more about this item

New York: Midwest Film Productions, 1987. Draft script for the 1988 film. Noted as copy No. 13 in manuscript ink on the title page. Internally reproduced during production, with photocopied punch holes on the left margin. Based on Susan Sandler's 1985 play, about a young bookstore clerk's attempts to conceal her lower-class Jewish upbringing in order to… Read more about this item

Munich: Roxy, 1970. Draft script for an unproduced film. Based on the 1971 novel "Don't Ask Me if I Love" by Israeli film director and writer Amos Kollek. The son of a wealthy military arms manufacturer intends to pursue a life as a writer after serving in the Israeli Army, in spite of his father's wishes that… Read more about this item

Munich: Roxy, 1971. First Draft script for an unproduced film. Text in German. Based on the 1971 novel "Don't Ask Me if I Love" by Israeli director and writer Amos Kollek. The son of a wealthy military arms manufacturer intends to pursue a life as a writer after serving in the Israeli Army, in spite of his… Read more about this item

Hollywood: Willow Tree / Paramount Pictures, 1968. Final Draft script for the 1969 film. Annotations in manuscript pencil on two pages regarding dialogue changes. Based on the 1959 novella by Philip Roth. Ali McGraw's film debut. Arnold Schulman received an Academy Award nomination for his screenplay. Blue Paramount wrappers with die cut title window. Title… Read more about this item

Paris: Films sans Frontieres, 1960. Four vintage studio still photographs from the 1960 film. Three black and white, and one in color. Loosely based on the biblical story of Esther, a Jewish woman who helps the king of Persia combat the suppression of Jews promoted by the nefarious minister Haman. Set in Persia. 8 x… Read more about this item

N.p.: American Broadcasting Company [ABC] / The Komack Company Inc, 1975. One vintage promotional photograph of an illustration and three color separation photographs by artist Tom Crabtree from the 1975-1979 television series. The photograph with mimeo snipe on the bottom of the recto dated "the week of September 21, 1975," advertising the series' weekly broadcast on Tuesdays on ABC-TV… Read more about this item

London: Dominion Theatre, 1957. Vintage program for a variety show starring Judy Garland and comedian Alan King, hosted at the Dominion Theatre in London in October and November of 1957. The show usually played four times a week, and was Garland's first return to London since early 1951, when she performed at the Palladium. Garland's act at… Read more about this item

N.p.: Filmove studio Barrandov, 1965. Vintage studio still photograph of actress Ida Kami ska from the 1965 film. Based on the 1962 short story "The Trap" by screenwriter Ladislav Grosman. A Slovak man is given a sewing notions shop owned by an elderly Jewish woman as part of the government's Aryanization program. He doesn't have the heart… Read more about this item

New York: Simon and Schuster, 1940. First Edition. First Edition. A nontechnical book on mathematics that became a bestseller for its accessibility without compromising the complexity of its concepts, and the first book to introduce the terms "googol" and "googolplex." Very Good plus in a strong Very Good plus dust jacket. Small bumps on the top edge and… Read more about this item

London: Privately printed, 1926. Limited Edition, one of 100 hand-numbered copies (this being No. 46) SIGNED by the author. A Queen's Quorum title, initially intended for inclusion in "The Doomington Wanderer" in 1934, but ultimately suppressed before the collection's release. As with much of Louis Golding's work, the story deals with themes of Judaism and integration into… Read more about this item

N.p.: Astral Films, 1974. Vintage reference photograph from the 1974 film, showing author Mordecai Richler on the set. Printed mimeo snipe affixed to the verso. From the archive of film historian and author Joel Finler. Based on Richler's 1959 novel, about a young, working-class Jewish man who embarks on a series of get-rich-quick schemes in an… Read more about this item

N.p.: N.p., 1976. Vintage borderless reference photograph from the 1976 film, showing actress Faye Dunaway. A dramatization of the tragic 1939 voyage of the ocean liner St. Louis, a ship carrying hundreds of German Jewish refugees from Nazi Germany that seemingly no European nation is willing to save from certain doom. Shot on location in… Read more about this item

Beverly Hills, CA: Collier, 1947. First Edition. First Edition. Basis for the 1948 Poverty Row film noir "The Vicious Circle," starring Conrad Nagel. Near Fine in a Very Good plus dust jacket. Spine toned as usually found, with a few tiny nicks along the top edge, else quite a nice copy. Scarce. The Dark Page I:… Read more about this item