Resultados de búsqueda: Judaica / Jewish Studies from About Books

Washington, D.C.:: Georgetown University Press, 1999. As New condition. Bright, shiny, clean, square, tight, unmarked copy. Flat spine. No creases. Fresh and crisp, obviously never read. 6" wide by 9" tall. Trade paperback. No store stamp, owner's name or bookplate. No underlining. No highlighting. No margin notes. First printing, with complete number row (10 987654321) on the copyright page. Appendices. Chapter notes. Bibliography. Glossary. Subject Index. Source Index. Publisher's printed wraps. Keywords: Holocaust. WWII. WW2. Judaica. Judaism. Jewish Ethics. . First Printing of the First Edition. Soft Cover. As New condition. viii, 326pp..

Boston, Massachusetts: South End Press, 1983. 5.5" wide by 8.5" tall. Appears unread -- shiny and bright. Clean, tight, square, unmarked copy. No creases. Not price clipped (6.50). No remainder mark. No store stamp, owner's name or bookplate. No underlining. No highlighting. No margin notes. Photo illustrated. Maps. From the rear cover: "The Battle of Beirut is an indictment of what Israel has done in Lebanon: it explodes the myth that this was a 'limited' operation, that Israel did not intend to harm civilians, that casualties were minimal, and that the PLO was holding Beirut hostage. The book analyses the war from June 1982, when Israel launched the invasion, to the massacre at Sabra and Chatila in September." Chronology. Keywords: Palestinian Liberation Organization, Secretary of State, Alexander Haig . First Printing of the First US Edition. Softcover. As New condition. (xiv), 142pp. Great Packaging, Fast Shipping.

Boston, Massachusetts: South End Press , 1983. 5.5" wide by 8.5" tall. Appears unread. Bright, clean, tight, square, unmarked copy. No creases. Not price clipped (6.50). No remainder mark. No store stamp, owner's name or bookplate. No underlining. No highlighting. No margin notes. Photo illustrated. Maps. From the rear cover: "The Battle of Beirut is an indictment of what Israel has done in Lebanon: it explodes the myth that this was a 'limited' operation, that Israel did not intend to harm civilians, that casualties were minimal, and that the PLO was holding Beirut hostage. The book analyses the war from June 1982, when Israel launched the invasion, to the massacre at Sabra and Chatila in September." Chronology. Keywords: Palestinian Liberation Organization, Secretary of State, Alexander Haig . First Printing of the First US Edition. Trade Paperback. Fine condition. (xiv), 142pp . Great Packaging, Fast Shipping.

Los Angeles, California:: Kabbalah Publishing, 2004. Bright, shiny, clean, square, tight, unmarked copy. Dust Jacket is NOT price clipped (21.95). No chips. No tears. No creases. No owner's name or bookplate. Bound in the original black boards, with lavender title on the spine. From the publisher: "In his continuing work to demystify and teach the ancient, esoteric texts of Kabbalah, Michael Berg suggests that the time is right for people to break free of 'ego nature' and achieve total joy and immortality: in other words, to 'become like God.' Advising ruthless honesty about human life -- its pain, suffering, and death -- and then providing an escape plan based on those truths, Berg uses the tools of Kabbalah -- such as the Zohar, the key text of the discipline -- as well as the collective energy of all the individuals sharing this path to help form that critical mass that will allow everyone to realize their true, joyous nature. BECOMING LIKE GOD gives readers the… Leer más

New York: Crown Publishers, Inc, 1980. Clean, square, tight, unmarked copy. Sharp corners. Not a book club edition. Not price clipped (9.95). No owner's name or bookplate. No remainder mark. From the Dust Jacket: "In a literature rife with unforgettable Jewish mothers, no reader has ever met the likes of Dora Sloan." . First Printing of the First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine condition/Very Good dust jacket. 8vo. 218pp. Great Packaging, Fast Shipping.

New York: Jewish Heritage, 1997. A bright, clean, square, tight copy. Sharp corners. No owner's name or bookplate. No remainder mark. Not a book club edition. The Dust Jacket is NOT price clipped (24.95). No chips. No tears. Bound in the original maroon cloth, lettered in shiny gold on the spine and front cover. Pages are fresh, crisp, and unmarked. No underlining. No highlighting. No margin notes. Illustrated with numerous photographs from the Jacob Riis Collection of the Museum of the City of New York, and from the Brooklyn Collection of the Brooklyn Public Library. First printing with complete number row (13579108642) on the copyright page. From the Dust Jacket (and David Silver's introduction): "Fannie Silver was born on October 6, 1905 in Brooklyn, New York and died on December 6, 1989 at St. Vincent's hospital in Manhattan. While her eighty-four-year journey was short geographically, it crossed vast cultural divides, encountered two world wars, the Holocaust,… Leer más

New York & Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998. Appears unread. Fine condition in a Fine dust jacket. NO chips. NO tears. NO creases. Bright, shiny, clean, square and tight. Sharp corners. NOT a library discard. NO owner's name or bookplate. NO remainder mark. Fresh and crisp -- apparently never read. NO underlining. NO highlighting. NO margin notes. Photo illustrated. List of chapter notes. Bibliography. Index. Bound in the original white boards with black cloth spine lettered in bright red. From the dust jacket: "BETWEEN DIGNITY AND DESPAIR draws on the extraordinary memoirs, diaries, interviews, and letters of Jewish women and men to give us the first intimate portrait of Jewish life in Nazi Germany. Kaplan tells the story of Jews in Germany not from the hindsight of the Holocaust, nor by focusing on the persecutors, but from the bewildered and ambiguous perspective of Jews trying to navigate their daily lives in a world that was becoming more and more insane.… Leer más

New York: Harper & Row, 1990. Bright, clean, square, tight, unmarked copy. Sharp corners. No owner's name or bookplate. No remainder mark. Not a Book Club edition. Not price clipped (21.95). From the Dust Jacket: "Ellis challenges militant Zionism with a radical moral vision of the Jewish people acting in solidarity with justice-seeking Palestinians. Chapter notes. Index. First Printing of the First Edition. Hardcover. Fine condition/Near Fine dust jacket. 8vo. xvi, 214pp .

New York: Columbia University Press, 1951. INSCRIBED "To Cantor Harry Horwitz! In friendship and sincere admiration! Brandeis Camp, August 1951" (SIGNED) Alfred Sendrey. Very Good condition in a Good+ dust jacket (price clipped). The jacket is protected by a removable Brodart clear-plastic sleeve. Harry Horwitz was cantor for 14 years at Westwood Temple, and later served as cantor at other Southern California temples. Throughout his career, Horwitz also appeared on radio, stage and screen, sometimes under the name "Hal Horton." Bound in the original bluish-gray cloth, stamped in black. Complete with dust jacket.. INSCRIBED/ SIGNED by the AUTHOR. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good condition/Good+ dust jacket. Illus. by NOT a library discard. xli, 404pp. Great Packaging, Fast Shipping.

Jerusalem:: University Press, 1936. 7" wide by 10" tall. Rebound in tan cloth, with the cloth backstrip from the original tan binding laid-down over the spine. Clean, square, and tight. No owner's name or bookplate. No underlining. No highlighting. No margin notes. Describes 2,078 entries, including the supplementary additions & corrections bound-in at the end. Index of Names and Subjects. Index of Hebrew Titles. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good condition./No Dust Jacket.. xi, 408pp..

Jerusalem: The Magnes Press, The Hebrew University, 1969. Fine condition in a mildly frayed Good+ dust jacket. Sharp corners. Square and tight. NOT a remainder. Previous owner's name on one page. All other pages are unmarked -- clean and crisp. NO underlining. NO highlighting. NO margin notes. 1969. Corrected reprint of the 1965 "Second Edition Enlarged." This 1969 printing adds nearly 150 corrections (that fill four pages) to the 1965 edition. It lists 4,727 books in all languages, with descriptions, annotations, and preface in both English and Hebrew. This is the 1969 basic volume only [xxi, 997pp.+ 23 pages] and does not include the 464 page supplement published in 1975. Oversize Hardcover. 7.25" wide by 9.75" tall by 2.5" thick. This large, heavy book will require extra postage for Priority and International shipments, but only the standard charge for media mail. "The indispensable handbook today is S. Shunami's Bibliography of Jewish… Leer más

Pittsburgh, Pennslyvania: Temple University Press, 1998. Fine condition in Near Fine Dust Jacket. No chips. No tears. No owner's name or bookplate. No remainder marks. No underlining. No highlighting. No margin notes. Bright, clean, square, tight, and unmarked. Illustrated with many photos. Chapter notes. Bibliography. Index. From the Dust Jacket: "Every year between 1920 and 1970, almost one million of New York City's Jewish population summered in the Catskills... While much has been written about grand hotels like Grossinger's and the Concord, little has appeared about the modest bungalow colonies and kuchaleins ('cook for yourself' places) where more than 80 percent of Catskill visitors stayed... Richman's narrative, anecdotes, and photos capture everything from the traffic jams leaving the city to the strategies for sneaking into the casinos... The trials and tribulations of the small-time entertainers are here, too.". First Printing of the First… Leer más

Minneapolis, Minnesota: Coffee House Press, 1998. Corner of front free endpaper clipped. Bright, clean, square, tight, unmarked copy. Original black cloth. Not a book club edition. No chips. No tears. Not price clipped (22.95). Sharp corners. No owner's name or bookplate. No remainder mark. Author's first novel. Vivid portrayal of the life of a 92-year-old woman, a Holocaust survivor from rural Poland, who immigrates to New York. Now in a nursing home, her narrative alternates between her memories of the past and her feelings of abandonment in the present. From the Dust Jacket: "Always a fighter, she persevered in a troubled marriage, survived the Holocaust by hiding in a root cellar, and met the daunting challenge of starting over again in America." . First Printing of the First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine condition/Very Good dust jacket. 8vo. 224pp.

Littleton, Colorado: Libraries Unlimited, Inc., 1983. Appears unread. Fine condition. NOT a library discard. Bright, shiny, clean, square and tight. Sharp corners. NO owner's name or bookplate. NO remainder mark. Pages are fresh and crisp, probably never read. NO underlining. NO highlighting. NO margin notes. Index. Bound in the original pale yellow boards, stamped in brown and gold.. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine condition/No jacket, as issued. 8vo. 185pp.

New York: Schocken Books, 1962. 5.5" wide by 8" tall. Tight, square, unmarked copy. Light finger soil. Not price clipped (1.75). No remainder mark. Illustrated. From the front wrap: "A unique double portrait of the warm world of Russian Jewry in a text by Bella Chagall and thirty-six drawings by Marc Chagall." . 1st printing of First Softcover Edition. Trade Paperback. Very Good condition. Illus. by Chagall, Marc . 268pp. Great Packaging, Fast Shipping.

New York: Stein and Day, 1970. Square, tight, unmarked copy. Dust Jacket has light wear to corners, and a bit of finger soil. Not price clipped (7.95). Not a book club edition. No owner's name or bookplate. No remainder mark. Illustrated with 16 photos. A study of Jews and entrepreneurship in Britain in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, with emphasis on the banking, food, and clothing empires they built. Has chapters on: The Coming of the Immigrants; The Englishmen of Jewish Extraction; The Survivors; The Escape from the Ghetto; Sir Isaac Wolfson; Sir John Cohen; The Family in Business; The Property Game; The Business of Charity, Conclusion. Looks at the influence and business acumen of the Rothschilds, Goldsmids, Montagus, Wolfsons, Burtons, etc. Bibliography. Index. First Printing of the First US Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine condition/Near Very Good dust jacket. 8vo. 255pp. Great Packaging, Fast Shipping.

New York: The Viking Press, 1967. INSCRIBED / SIGNED by the AUTHOR, directly on the front free endpaper. SIGNED copies are SCARCE. Fine condition in a bright and shiny Very Good dust jacket (price-clipped). NO chips or fading. NOT a library discard. NOT a remainder. Pages are clean and unmarked. Foreword by Abba Eban, Foreign Minister of Israel. Subtitle: "The authoritative, fully documented revelation of the events that plunged Israel into three wars with the Arabs and of her search for peace in the Middle East." With bibliography, 5 maps, 15 appendices (including several original documents in facsimile). Index. Bound in the original blue cloth, stamped in bright white over a dark blue panel on the spine. Complete with dust jacket.. INSCRIBED / SIGNED by the AUTHOR. First Printing of the First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good condition/Very Good dust jacket. Illus. by NOT a library discard. 8vo. xxvii, 258pp. Great Packaging, Fast Shipping.

Jerusalem: The Israel Government Coins and Medals Corporation, Ltd., 1988. Near Fine. Condition would be Fine but for a small mark on the front pastedown endpaper. A bright, shiny, clean, square, tight copy. Sharp corners. NO owner's name or bookplate. NO remainder mark. 17cm wide by 25 cm tall. Illustrated with hundreds of photos, a number in full color. From the foreword: "This catalogue gives full details of all the Corporation's issues from the beginning of 1983 to the end of 1987 and is the direct continuation of the 1958-1982 Catalogue." A photo of each coin and medal is presented along with background information, complete description of obverse, reverse and edge, serialization, designer, engraver, mint, year of issue, composition, measurements, weight, quantity, issue price, etc. Bound in the original red leatherette. Gilt lettering and decorations on the cover and spine are bright and shiny.. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine condition/No jacket, probably as… Leer más

Jerusalem: The Israel Government Coins and Medals Corporation, Ltd., 1982. Near Fine. Condition would be Fine but for a few tiny marks on the front pastedown endpaper. A bright, shiny, clean, square, tight copy. Sharp corners. NO owner's name or bookplate. NOT a remainder. 17cm wide by 25 cm tall. Illustrated with hundreds of photos, a number in full color. From the foreword: "The new catalogue of Israeli coins and medals encompasses all the commemorative coins that were issued by the Bank of Israel, the series of coins issued for commerce, and medals that were issued by the Israel Government Coins and Medals Corporation from 1958- 5718 to 1982-5743. The catalogue provides, for the first time, full details of the coins distributed by the Corporation since its formation." A photo of each coin and medal is presented along with background information, complete description of obverse, reverse and edge, serialization, designer, engraver, mint, year of issue, composition,… Leer más

New York: Thomas Dunne Books / St. Martin's Minotaur, 2001. A bright, square, tight copy. Sharp corners. NOT a book club edition. Dust Jacket is NOT price clipped (23.95). No chips. No tears. No creases. No remainder mark. Pages are crisp. The author's first novel, an engaging historical mystery. Bound in the original black boards, lettered in shiny metallic green on the spine. From the Dust Jacket: "On a pleasant summer evening in Chicken Corners, three men with rifles -- two in their twenties, another in his midthirties -- take firing positions on a wooded hillside overlooking a dilapidated farmhouse. The building is packed with immigrant Jewish families -- refugees from Eastern Europe who have been given a weekend in the country as a respite from the city's heat and teeming streets. As the sun begins to set, the men begin firing carefully into the farmhouse, aiming harmlessly high to frighten the unwanted visitors away. They do not aim to kill, but before the evening… Leer más