Abella, Irving

A Coat of Many Colours: Two Centuries of Jewish Life in Canada [Signed]

Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Lester & Orpen Dennys Publishers, 1990. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. pp. 248. Square 4to. Publisher's black boards, gilt lettering to the spine. Rich with many black-and-white photographs, portraits, illustrations, facsimiles, etc. Bright, clean, and unmarked and housed in fine, unclipped, dustjacket; as new. SIGNED by the author to the title page. Association copy beloning to Harold Buchwald, prominent Jewish-Canadian lawyer, and member of the Order of Canada.

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Book number: 6065

Catalogue: Judaica

Keywords: manitoba history; jews; jewish canadian history; local history; judaica

Alpern, Joil; Alan Adelson (Intro.); Heather Coleman (Intro.)

No One Awaiting Me: Two Brothers Defy Death During the Holocaust in Romania

Calgary, Jewish Heritage Project, Inc. | The University of Calgary Press, 2001. Softcover. pp. xiii, 246. 8vo. Illustrated covers. Black-and-white maps, photographs, portraits, illustrations. Bright, clean, and unmarked; near fine. .

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Book number: 5588

Catalogue: Judaica

Keywords: 9781552380611; biography; holocaust; shoah; third reich; second world war; nazi germany

Beckerman, Gal

When They Come for Us, We'LL Be Gone: The Epic Struggle to Save Soviet Jewry

New York, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2010. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. pp. 598. 8vo. Appears unread; as new and housed in fine dustjacket. AT THE END OF WORLD WAR II, NEARLY THREE MILLION JEWS WERE TRAPPED INSIDE THE SOVIET UNION. They lived a paradox, unwanted by a repressive Stalinist state, yet forbidden to leave. When They Come for Us, We'll Be Gone is the astonishing and inspiring story of their rescue. Drawing on newly released Soviet government documents and hundreds of interviews, Beckerman shows how the movement led to a mass exodus in 1989 and forced human rights into the center of American foreign policy. In cinematic detail, this multigenerational saga, filled with suspense and revelations, provides an essential missing piece of Cold War and Jewish history.

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Book number: 4896

Catalogue: Judaica

Keywords: soviet union; jewish history; holocaust; third reich; world war two; great war; military history

Borans, Andrew S.; Alpha Epsilon Pi

Alpha Epsilon Pi: Commitment for a Lifetime

Indianapolis, Indiana, Alpha Epsilon Pi Fraternity, Inc. 2001. Sixth Edition. Hardcover. pp. 128. Slim 8vo. Navy-blue leatherette over boards, gilt lettering and crest to the spine and front board. Replete with black-and-white photographs, portraits, illustrations, facsimiles, et al. Light bump to the head of spine, contents remain bright, clean, and unmarked with tight, sound binding; near fine. .

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Book number: 3076

Catalogue: Judaica

Keywords: fraternity; fraternal organizations; history; jewish fraternity

Silver-Brody, Vivienne

Documentors of the Dream: Pioneer Jewish Photographers in the Land of Israel, 1890-1933

Jerusalem & Philadelphia, The Magnes Press & Jewish Publication Society of America, 1999. First Edition. Hardcover. pp. 263. 4to. Bright red cloth over boards with gilt lettering to the spine. Beautifully and profusely illustrated with dozens of black-and-white period photographs, portraits, illustrations, etc. Lighest edgewear to the cloth extremities, contents entirely without blemish with bright, clean, and unmarked pages and firm, sound binding; very good+ and housed in its original, unclipped, lightly rubbed dustjacket. Overall, very good+. .

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Book number: 7118

Catalogue: Judaica

Keywords: photography; palestine; israel; occupied palestine; jewish history; arab history; visual history; visual works

[Multiplte Contributors]

The Beginning of the Jewish Community in Manitoba

Winnipeg, Manitoba, Government of Manitoba, Department of Culture, Heritage and Recreation | Historic Resources Branch, [1992]. First Edition, First Printing. Stapled Wraps. pp. 17. 8vo. measuring 9" x 6". Illustrated, twice-stapled, card covers. Black-and-white photographs, portraits, illustrations, one map. Bright, clean, and unmarked; fine. .

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Book number: 5003

Catalogue: Judaica

Keywords: manitoba history; local history; jewish history; jewish studies

[Multiplte Contributors]

The Beginning of the Jewish Community in Manitoba

Winnipeg, Manitoba, Government of Manitoba, Department of Culture, Heritage and Recreation | Historic Resources Branch, [1992]. First Edition, First Printing. Stapled Wraps. pp. 17. 8vo. measuring 9" x 6". Illustrated, twice-stapled, card covers. Black-and-white photographs, portraits, illustrations, one map. Bright, clean, and unmarked; fine. .

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Book number: 6080

Catalogue: Judaica

Keywords: manitoba history; local history; jewish history; jewish studies

International Information Office for the Former Concentration Camp Dachau, An Installation of UNRRA Team 306, &c.

Concentration Camp Dachau Album

Dachau, Germany, International Information Office For The Former Concentration Camp Dachau [1945-1948], N.D. [ca 1946]. First edition. Wrappers. pp. 78. Oblong 16mo. 40 leaves. Black and white photographs. Covers a bit creased with some minor chipping to edges and a very small burn mark, a few pages show creases or short closed tears; very good. Post-liberation album; a gut wrenching photographic record of the camp, including images of the grounds, prisoners, bodies and the trials. Captions in English, French, Polish and German. .

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Book number: 249

Catalogue: Judaica

Keywords: military history; nazi germany; third reich; war crimes; prisoners; jewish history; jew; law and crime; crimes against humanity; the holocaust; human rights; liberation; documentary; wwii; second world war; concentration camps; ss officers;

Geise, Nancy Sprowell; John T. Forssman (Foreword)

Auschwitz #34207: The Joe Rubinstein Story

Castle Rock, CO, Merry Dissonance Press, 2015. First Edition, First Printing. Softcover. pp. 330. 8vo. Replete with black and white maps, photographs, portraits, illustrations, etc. No detectable flaws. Appears unread; fine. Signed and inscribed by the author to the title page. .

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Book number: 1502

Catalogue: Judaica

Keywords: world war two; manitoba history; local history; canadian history; canadiana; jewish history; holocaust; nazi history; german history;

Goldman, Joseph

Judaism and Its Traditions; the Conversion of a Hebrew Rabbi ; by Ex-Rabbi Joseph Goldman

Seattle, Washington, Stiepan & Johnson, 1930. First Edition, First Printing. Stapled Wraps. pp. 79. 16mo. measuring 12.5 x 18 cm. Light green, thrice-stapled, textured card covers. Black-and-white photograph frontispiece of the author. The remarkable testimony of a Rabbi who felt compelled "to preach the Gospel of Christ", wherein, he recounts details of his early life, his conversion of the "16th day of December" in 1913, subsequent "persecution", and much discussion, and criticism of his Jewish faith. Light sunning to spine, and rear covers else, no other flaws to extremities, contents remain bright, clean, and unmarked. Overall, quite well-preserved; near fine. Rare in commerce. Corresponds to OCLC #48191317. Can you imagine a man, a Rabbi over the Synagogue, Beit Jacove (The House of Jacob), a four-thousand-member congregation of Jews, a large income monthly, a law-writer and law-giver to the Orthodox Jewish community, a Father, a Brother, a King over his congregation, honoured by all, from the youngest to the oldest, crowned by all, Rabbi, with the greatest title of the Hebrew nation, respected by Jew and Gentile, who would change his belief and religion and follow Jesus Christ and become a curse to his nation, persecuted and condemned by his wife and children, driven out from his home, and compelled to lose all?".

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Book number: 3005

Catalogue: Judaica

Keywords: religion; theology; christianity; jewish history; memoir; biography; autobiography

Golub, Jacob S.; Emanual Gamoran (Ed. & Intro.)

Israel in Canaan

Cincinnati, Department of Synagogue and School Extension of the Union of American Hebrew Congregations, 1930. Fifth Edition. Hardcover. pp. xxvi, 356. 8vo. Terracotta cloth over boards with black-and-gold lettering and illustration to the spine, and front board. Map frontispiece titled "Canan: The Promised Land". Richly illustrated with many full-page and in-text black-and-white time-lines, maps, and illustrations depicting the history of Israel. Light edgewear, rubbing to the cloth extremiteis, neat ink name to the corner of the ffep, text-block overwhelmingly bright, clean, and unmarked with firm, sound binding; very good. Uncommon. Presented by the authors as "a new Jewish history based on sound pedagogic theory and deeply rooted in experience with children".

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Book number: 7057

Catalogue: Judaica

Keywords: jewish history; israel; palestine; occupied territories; nakba; holocaust; zionism; theodor herzl; religion; judaism; islam; arab history; semites

Greenberg, Betty Davis; Althea O. Silverman; Dora R. Spiegel (Preface); Selma Rapaport (Foreword)

The Jewish Home Beautiful

New York, The National Women's League of the United Synagogue of America, 1972. Twelfth Printing. Hardcover. pp. 136. 8vo. measuring 6.25" x 9.25". Publisher's blue cloth over boards, gilt lettering to the spine and front board. Black-and-white photographs, illustrations. Bright, clean, and unmarked with firm, sound binding; near fine. Text chielfy in English with some Hebrew. .

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Book number: 5441

Catalogue: Judaica

Keywords: jewish studies; jewish american history

Joseph, Micha; Bin Gorion; I.M. Lask (Trans.); Dan Ben-Amos (Intro.)

Mimekor Yisrael: Classical Jewish Folktales (Complete Three Volumes in Slipcase) | Volume I: National Tales; Volume II: Religious Tales; Volume III: Folktales; Volume IV; Orient Tales

Bloomington & London, University of Indiana Press, 1976. Hardcover. pp. lxv, 537; xviii, 542-1031; xvi, 1036-1553. 8vo. Uniformly bound in 1/4 maroon cloth over white cloth boards, gilt rules and lettering to the spines. Extremities in near fine condition, small and quite faint blind-stamp to the front endpapers of each voumes otherwise the contents remain bright, clean, and unmarked with tight, sound binding; housed in very good lightly rubbed slipcase. Overall, very good+ to near fine. .

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Book number: 2262

Catalogue: Judaica

Keywords: jewish history; folklore; mythology;

Kleeblatt, Norman L. (Ed.); James E. Young (Foreword)

Mirroring Evil Nazi Imagery / Recent Art

New York, New Brunswick, New Jersey, and London, Rutgers University Press | The Jewish Musuem, 2002. First Edition, First Printing. Softcover. pp. xviii, 164. 4to. Richly illustrated with black-and-white, and colour photographs, portraits, illustrations, facsimiles, et al. Lightest rubbing to the covers, neat ink name to the corner of the ffep, else, very good+, to, near fine. Mirroring Evil: Nazi Imagery/Recent Art features the work by thirteen internationally recognized artists who use imagery from the Nazi era to explore the nature of evil. Their works are a radical departure from previous art about the Holocaust, which centered on tragic images of victims. Instead, these artists dare to invite the viewer into the world of the perpetrators. The viewer, therefore, faces an unsettling moral dilemma: How is one to react to these menacing and indicting images, drawn from a history that can never be forgotten? The artists represented in Mirroring Evil impel us to examine what these images of Nazism might mean in our lives today. Essays in the catalogue explore themes of moral ambiguity in makers and viewers of art, institutional responsibility in exhibiting controversial artworks, and the complicated issues of representing or even imagining the perpetrators. Entries about the individual artworks discuss in greater depth the artistic, ethical, and historical complexity of the images that the artists dare to engage.

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Book number: 5186

Catalogue: Judaica

Keywords: art; art criticism; history; jewish studies; military history; nazi; third reich; germany; world war two

Landau, Moses Israel

Gebete Für Das Schlussfest Und Das Darauf Folgende Fest Der Torafreude; Mit Deutscher Uebersetzung Und Erläuternden Anmerkungen; [Prayers for the Closing Festival and the Following Festival of Rejoicing with/of the Torah; with German Translation and Explanatory Notes. ]

Prag, bruchdruckerei und verlag des M.I. Landau, 1854. Leather Bound. pp. 221. 8vo. measuring 5.75" x 8.75". Bound in full dark brown leather, blind-stamped decoration, faded gilt lettering and foredge. Engraved frontispiece. Extremities quite rubbed, scuffed; binding remains complete, tight, and sound with no fraying, cracks or tears of any kind. Neat period ink name to the ffep, sporadic light foxing throughout, some age-toning to the pages - as is to be expected from a title of this age. The text-block remains free and clean of any markings. Overall, good+. Text is organized and printed in Hebrew (right to left) with parallel German translation. .

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Book number: 1262

Catalogue: Judaica

Keywords: religion; theology; german language; hebrew; israeli; jewish; torah; tanakh; Simchat Torah