RUTHROSEN, HISTORICAL EDITOR; SUE DAVIDSON, TEXUAL EDITOR

The Maimie Papers

Feminist Press, 1977. Softcover. ISBN: 0912670487. Clean text, cover creases. Correspondence between Bostonia, Fanny Quincy Howe, and Maimie Pizer, a Jewish prostitute in Philadlphia, who was recovering from morphine addiction.. Good .

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Book number: 21603

Catalogue: Biography

Keywords: 0912670487 Biography Women Prostitutes Philadelphia History United State Moral Conditions Fanny Howe Morphine Addiction Correspondence Montreal Mission for Friendless Girls Social Sciences

SAMUEL, MAURICE

The Worlds of Maurice Samuel: Selected Writings

Jewish Publication Society of America, 1977. Hardcover. ISBN: 0827600917. Clean text, former owner's name inside, DJ has mild edge wear. 445 pages. Foreword by Cynthia Ozick. Milton Hindus, edited and with an Introduction by. This book contains 31 selections taken from 12 books written. Non-Fiction such as The World of Sholom Aleichem, In Praise of Yiddish; Fiction such as Beyond Woman, Web of Lucifer; Translations such as The Brothers Ashenazi by I. J. Singer; Youth in Revolt by Shmarya Levin; The Apostle by Sholem Asch, etc ;. Good in Good dust jacket .

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Book number: 25481

Catalogue: Biography

Keywords: 0827600917 Samuel, Maurice -- 1895-1972 Zionists -- United States -- Biography Jews -- United States -- Biography Sholem Aleichem Marcel Proust Cynthia Ozick Milton Hindus Sholem Asch Chaim Nachman Bialik Literature

SAVAGE, MICHAEL

God, Faith, and Reason

Center Street, 2017. Hardcover. ISBN: 1478976713. 243 page. Clean, very good binding. The talk show radio host shares his lifelong stories and his "Glimpses of God";. Very Good in Good dust jacket .

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Book number: 27130

Catalogue: Biography

Keywords: 1478976713 Does God Exist God and Nature Jerry Falwell Marrano Jews Brownsville Ny Jewish Gangsters Philosophy & Religion

SCHNITZER, LUDA & MARCEL MARTIN & JEAN SCHNITZER

Cinema in Revolution: The Heroic Era of the Soviet Film

Hill & Wang, 1973. Softcover. ISBN: 0809013703. 208 pages. Illustrated with photos. Includes 12 essays on Soviet film artists and Soviet film history, includes a photo of Yurkevitch and Picasso. Cover creased, brown age spots. Good .

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Book number: 16911

Catalogue: Biography

Keywords: 0809013703 Motion Pictures Soviet Union History Cinema Ussr Dovzhenko Golovnya Kozintsev Kino-Eye Sergei Eisenstein Yutkevitch and Picasso Movie Tie-in History Movie Tie-in

SEGHERS, PIERRE (EDITOR)

Jacques Rabemananjara

Seghers, 1964. Softcover. ISBN: 284280273X. Text in French. Choix de textes. Bibliographie, portraits, facsimiles. Black and white photos. Clean copy ; Poetes D'Aujourd'hui. Good .

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Book number: 15033

Catalogue: Biography

Keywords: 284280273x Jacques Rabemananjara 1913-2005 Performing Arts Theatre Rabemananjara Playwrighting Madagascar Negritude Poetry Black History Poètes D'aujourd'hui Jacques Rabemananjara Art and Music French Language

SHAIN, RUCHOMA

Dearest Children,. . .

Feldheim, 1992. Hardcover. ISBN: 0873066103. Clean text. 293 pages. Illustrated with photos. DJ has creases. Letters from Ruchoma Shain to her children, a personalized "historical document, chonicaling not only the Shains' personal lives in Israel..but the joys and sorrows of the Holy Land itself"--from the DJ ;. Good in Good dust jacket .

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Book number: 26631

Catalogue: Biography

Keywords: 0873066103 Shain, Ruchoma -- Correspondence Jews -- Jerusalem -- Biography Ruchoma Shain Judaism

SHAMASH, CYNTHIA KAPLAN

The Strangers We Became: Lessons in Exile from One of Iraq's Last Jews

Brandeis, 2015. Hardcover. ISBN: 1611688051. Very clean book, very good binding. Memoirs of Cynthia and the Shamash family escapades when fleeing Baghdad, Iraq during the 1960's ; HBI Series on Jewish Women;. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket .

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Book number: 23590

Catalogue: Biography

Keywords: 1611688051 Shamash, Cynthia Kaplan Jewish Women -- Biography Jews, Iraq Jewish Immigrants Emigration and Immigration Jewish History

SHANE, SYLVAN M

War Against Time: Eleven Essays

Lowry & Volz, 1988. Hardcover. ISBN: 0960174036. Very clean, very good binding. One page dog-earred. Includes: Traveling in : the Baja, driving across the US, the Northwest Pasage, Israel, Baja. Also essays on how Dr Shane built a house of glass, doctors make the worst patients, etc. Illustrated. Near Fine .

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Book number: 12359

Catalogue: Biography

Keywords: 0960174036 Voyages and Travels Israel and Arabs Bedouins House of Glass Johns Hopkins University History Northwest Passage Eskimo Houses Baja California Canada's Northwest Territory Travel Medicine and Health

SIMON, MARIE JALOWICZ

Underground in Berlin: A Young Woman's Extraordinary Tale of Survival in the Heart of Nazi Germany

Back Bay Books, 2016. Softcover. ISBN: 0316382108. Illustrated by Bert Hardy, Cover Art. 368 pages. Very clean, very good spine. Translated by Antea Bell; Foreword and Afterword by Hermann Simon. Marie Jalociz, 1922-1998, hid underground during the War to hide from the Nazis. She became a full professor literary cultural history of classical antiquity after the war. This story is a documentation of her wartime experiences as recorded by her son;. Near Fine .

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Book number: 24406

Catalogue: Biography

Keywords: 0316382108 Simon, Marie 1922-1998 Holocaust, Jewish -- (1939-1945) -- Germany -- Berlin (Personal Narratives) Jewish Biographies Jewish History

SKELTON, GEOFFREY

Richard and Cosima Wagner: Biography of a Marriage

Houghton Mifflin Co, 1982. Hardcover. ISBN: 039531836X. 319 pages Clean text, no name inside, light brown spots on the outer edges. DJ has some edge wear. The story of Richard Wagner his relationship with Ludwig II of Bavaria and his intimate, illicit association to Franz Liszt's daughter, Cosima;. Good in Good dust jacket .

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Book number: 20358

Catalogue: Biography

Keywords: 039531836x Biography Richard Wagner King Ludwig Ii of Bavaria Religion and Art Heinrich Porges Franz Liszt Hermann Levi Illicit Love Affair Cosima Wagner

SNYDER, LOUIS L

A Treasury of Intimate Biographies

Greenberg, 1951. Hardcover. 384 pages. Clean with light wear, no name inside. As stated in the intro, each excerpt is introduced by an account of the background, the story behind the biography, placing the selection in historical perspective, and giving an overall picture of both the biographee and the biographer. Each is followed by an account completing the story". Examples include Xeonphon on Socrates, Gordon on Peter the Great, Trotsky on Stalin, Rauschning on Hitler, Sheean on Ghandi, etc. Good with no dust jacket .

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Book number: 21706

Catalogue: Biography

Keywords: Biographers and Biographies Hermann Rauschning Adolph Hitler Edward Dannreuther Richard Wagner Asser on Alfred the Great Brother Leo Little Brother Francis Boswell on Johnson Carlyle on Sterling

STERN, AUGUST (EDITOR)

The Ussr Vs. Dr. Mikhail Stern

Urizen Books, 1977. Hardcover. ISBN: 091635461x. SIGNED, Inscribed in Russian by Victor Stern. Victor Stern and August Stern were the sons of Dr. August Stern. A Jewish Soviet physician, Dr. Mikhail Stern was sentenced to hard labor by the Ukranians after applying for aslyum for his two sons to go to Israel. The Only Tape Recording of a Trial Smuggled out of the Soviet Union. Light pencil marks on a few pages. A few pages turned up at the end. Binding is black boards with bright gilt writing. DJ has edge tears ; Signed by Notable Personage, Related. Good in Fair dust jacket .

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Book number: 5610

Catalogue: Biography

Keywords: 091635461x Shtern, Mikhail, 1918- Trials (Extortion) -- Ukraine Russian Jews Trials (Bribery) -- Ukraine Shtern, Mikhail, 1918- History of the Soviet Union Un Procès "Ordinaire" En U.R. S.S. Human Rights Joseph Stalin Signed By Author Rare

STEVENS, AUDREY D

America's Pioneers in Abdominal Surgery

American Society of Abdominal Surgeons, 1968. Softcover. Clean book, cover has mild edge creases. Very good spine. 180 pages. Illustrated with 28 figures (black and white drawings and photographs). Very Good .

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Book number: 17707

Catalogue: Biography

Keywords: Abdomen -- Surgery -- History Medicine -- United States Surgeons -- United States -- Biography Phillip Syng Physick Confederate Surgeons Joseph Herman Romig Robert Spache Sutton Caesarian Sections -- History James Leonard Corning Medicine and Health

SULZBERGER, C. L

A Long Row of Candles: Memoirs & Diaries 1934-1945

MacMillan, 1969. Hardcover. 1,061 pages. Two toned boards in green and blue. DJ has creases, black marks in the back. Sulzberger was a well-known journalist, with columns published in newspapers throughout the world;. Very Good in Good dust jacket .

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Book number: 19467

Catalogue: Biography

Keywords: Biographies & Memoirs Journalists Cyrus Leo Sulzberger New York Times Foreign Correspondents World War Ii History

SYRKIN, MARIE

Golda Meir - Israel's Leader (Plus Ephemera)

G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1969. Hardcover. ISBN: 0399103465. Presentation Letter from Israel Bonds enclosed. This is a separate, original signed letter dated September 25,1969, from Joseph J. Schwartz, Vice President, State of Israel Bonds Development Corporation for Israel, New York. ALSO enclosed a clipped newspaper article from the Washington Post Sept 1969 written by Judith Martin entitled "5,000 Hear Golda Meir". 366 pages. Clean, good binding;. Good in Fair dust jacket .

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Book number: 27294

Catalogue: Biography

Keywords: 0399103465 Middle East Politics Golda Meir (1898 - 1978) Presidents and Heads of State Zionism Levi Eshkol Terrorists and Terrorism Egypt and Egyptians Soviet Russia Jewish History