Warburton, Rev. Mr.

Julian. Or a Discourse Concerning the Earthquake and Fiery Eruption, Which Defeated That Emperor S Attempt to Rebuild the Temple at Jerusalem. In Which the Reality of a Divine Interposition Is Shewn; the Objections to It Are Answered; and the Nature of That Evidence Which Demands the Assent of Every Reasonable Man to a Miraculous Fact, Is Considered and Explained

London, England, Printed for J. and P. Knapton, 1750. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Still handsome exemplar, stands easily upright on the shelf. First Edition, bound in brown leather, five raised bands, sharply, distinct gilt lettering over burgundy leather label, a seeming accession label to spine head. Some chipping to spine head and foot, cracking to front joint, moderate rubbing to, scuffing of edges, extremities. Previous owner's bookplate inside front flap, light toning throughout, but clean and unmarked. Printed by William Bowyer for J. and P. Knapton, says the biography of the printer. The book in question considers the aborted project under Roman emperor Julian (361–363 C.E.) to rebuild the Temple at Jerusalem. Emperor Julian has been called "Julian the Apostate" for having reversed Emperor Constantine's Christianization campaign and by supporting the revival of "traditional" Roman religious practices. This fascinating account is of an Emperor Julian who thought he could have rebuilt at an extravagant expense, the proud Temple once at Jerusalem. The account covers also his relationship with the major contractor, Alypius of Antioch. xlii [1], 2-286 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Good

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Warshaw, Mal

Tradition: Orthodox Jewish Life in America

New York, Schocken Books, 1976. . Hardcover. Size: 4to 11" - 13" tall. 118 pp., a stirring homage to the life and religion of Orthodox Jews and with 208 black-and-white photographs. Sturdy, attractive, tightly bound, internally clean hardcover copy, with unbruised tips, neat and tidy paste-downs; not ex-library, with neither highlighting nor underlining. Bright and shiny dust jacket, illustrated, showing only very minor wear, some sunning to spine, mostly edge-wear, not price-clipped. Volume contains scholarly apparatus in the form of, e.g., notes, index, and bibliography. Birth to death, bat mitzvah to funeral and every sort of feast in-between.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Used: Very Good

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Arthur Waskow

Down-to-Earth Judaism: Food, Money, Sex, and the Rest of Life

New York, William Morrow & Co, 1995. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Food, money, sex and rest are the four areas of focus of this fine and accessible work of social history. Sturdy, attractive, tightly bound, internally clean hardcover copy, with lightly scuffed and bruised but not broken tips, neat and tidy paste-downs; not ex-library, with neither highlighting nor underlining. Bright and shiny dust jacket, illustrated, showing only very minor wear, not price-clipped. Volume contains scholarly apparatus in the form of, e.g., notes, index, and bibliography. ix, 1-402 [2] pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Very Good/Near Fine,

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Book number: 351255

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Wiesel, Elie

A Beggar in Jerusalem

New York, Random House, 1970. First English Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. A stated First Printing but of a variant edition, published by and printed in Japan (as is evident on the copyright page, and translated from the original Hebrew, with photograph copyright by Philipe Halsman and book jacket design by Paul Bacon. Bound simply in brown cloth, with gilt lettering to spine. Bright and shiny dust jacket, illustrated, showing only very minor wear, protected by a plastic coat, dust jacket not being price-clipped. Nick to bottom of front paste-down. Neither publisher nor place of publication are stated. 211 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Very Good/Good,

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Wiesel, Elie

A Beggar in Jerusalem

New York, Random House, 1970. Third Printing of the First Engl. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. A stated Third Printing of the First English Edition, having been translated from the French by the author and Lily Edelman, with photograph copyright by Philipe Halsman and book jacket design by Paul Bacon. Bound simply in black paper over boards, blind-stamped designs to front cover, blue cloth-backed, with gilt lettering to spine. Paper dust jacket, price-clipped, else showing less than moderate wear. Publisher pasted at first free endpaper a plate denoting that the material in the book "is courtesy of Fama Mor, a second-generation Holocaust survivor, lifelong scholar . . . " 211 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Very Good/Good,

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Book number: 351437

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Wolff, Martha; Zago, Manrique, ed.

Judios & Argentinos: Judios Argentinos

Buenos Aires, Manrique Zago ediciones, 1988. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: Oblong 4to 11" - 13" tall. Fine-looking, structurally sound hardcover bound handsomely in a tall, quarto oblong format, little discernible wear, bright interior, unmarked. Bright and shiny dust jacket, illustrated, little worn, protected by a plastic coat. Replete with black-and-white photographs, published on the centenary of the arrival of Jews to Argentina in 1889. Blue cloth over boards, white and blue lettering to cover and spine. Black and white photographic endpapers. Texts with two, three and four columns. Table of Contents: Argentines, Manrique Zago. First Jewish institution in Argentina. Mosesville a starting point. Agricultural cooperative. Beginnings of Zionism in Argentina. Sephardic Jews in the neighborhood of La Boca. Jewish publishers of Argentine books. Pioneers of Socialism in Argentina. My father, Jewish musician. Jewish workers in Argentine trade unionism. Against racism and antisemitism. Jewish theater in Argentina. Jews in show business. Psychoanalysis and the Jews in Argentina. Jews in medicine, social sciences, humanities, in music, in philosophy, in journalism, in humor, in economics, in culture, etc., Jewish cuisine, Seraradí oral memory. Pioneers of the Jewish press. 288 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Fine/Fine,

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Wunschmann, Kim

Before Auschwitz: Jewish Prisoners in the Prewar Concentration Camps

Cambridge, Massachusetts, Harvard University Press, 2015. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. A superior copy inside and out, being a sterling condition hardcover copy, with unbruised tips, tight binding, and clean internals, showing only very slight shelf- and edge-wear; not ex-library, with neither underlining nor highlighting anywhere. Bright and shiny dust jacket, paper-backed, illustrated, showing only very minor wear, protected by a plastic coat, dust jacket not being price-clipped. Gift-quality condition inside and out. Volume contains scholarly apparatus in the form of, e.g., notes, index, and bibliography. Frontis matter + 367 pp. and black-and-white photographs and illustrations and a map up front. From the publisher's blurb, "Auschwitz-the largest and most notorious of Hitler's concentration camps-was founded in 1940, but the Nazis had been detaining Jews in camps ever since they came to power in 1933. Before Auschwitz unearths the little-known origins of the concentration camp system in the years before World War II and reveals the instrumental role of these extralegal detention sites in the development of Nazi policies toward Jews and in plans to create a racially pure Third Reich.Investigating more than a dozen camps, from the infamous Dachau, Buchenwald, and Sachsenhausen to less familiar sites, Kim Wunschmann uncovers a process of terror meant to identify and isolate German Jews in the period from 1933 to 1939.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . As New/As New,

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Keywords: Kim Wunschmann|Auschwitz|concentration camps|Jewish history|World War Two|The Holocaust

Yagel, Abraham ben Hananiah; Ruderman, David B., ed.

A Valley of Vision: The Heavenly Journey of Abraham Ben Hananiah Yagel

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, ., 1990. First Edition. . Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Sterling condition hardcover copy, with unbruised tips, tight binding, and clean internals, showing only very slight shelf- and edge-wear; not ex-library, with neither underlining nor highlighting anywhere. Bound handsomely in gray cloth, with sharp and distinct white lettering to spine. Bright and shiny dust jacket, illustrated, showing only very minor wear (just a touch at spine head), not price-clipped. Volume contains scholarly apparatus in the form of, e.g., notes, index, and bibliography. According to the publisher's blurb, "Abraham ben Hananiah Yagel 1553 - c. 1624) composed his Hebrew work Gei Hizzayon (A Valley of Vision) in Italy at the end of the sixteenth century. This striking text, so different from the other writings of the prolific physician, natural philosopher, and kabbalist, is first an autobiographical account of the vicissitudes of the author's years as a Jewish loan -banker. It is also a description of a heavenly journey he is taken on by the soul of his recently deceased father, who visits his son while he is imprisoned in Mantua for debt. Finally, it is a series of theological and moral discussions based on the insights of Judaism, particularly the kabbalah as understood by Yagel and his Italian contemporaries.A Valley of Vision is unique in Hebrew literature in its integration of traditional Jewish materials with contemporary literary and iconographic innovations. It is also a fascinating window into the social and cultural world of Italian Jewry at the end of the sixteenth century and its effect on the entire late Renaissance period.David B. Ruderman's is the first translation of this important work into any Western language. The book will be of great interest to both the specialist and the general reader of Jewish and late Renaissance history, thought, and literature." xii [2], 2-365 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Used: Very Good

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Bet ha-sefarim ha-leumi veha-universitai bi-Yerushalayim

Four Hundred Years of Printing in Erez Israel 1577-1977

Jerusalem, Israel, Jewish National and University Library, 1977. . Softcover. Size: 4to 11" - 13" tall. Uncommon in the trade, there being only a single additional bookseller with copies currently on-line. Sterling condition softcover copy, with unfurled tips, tight binding, and clean internals, showing only very slight shelf- and edge-wear. A fine exhibition catalog held at the Berman Hall, Jewish National and University Library. English and Hebrew Language exhibition catalog, quite fine of interior. In Hebrew: Bet ha-sefarim ha-le'umi veha-universita'i bi-Yerushalayim. xxxi 101-1 pp., paginated in two directions.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Fine

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Zalben, Jane Breskin

Leo & Blossom's Sukkah

New York, Holt, 1990. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: Square 12mo 7" - 7. A superior copy inside and out, being a sterling condition hardcover copy, with unbruised tips, tight binding, and clean internals, showing only very slight shelf- and edge-wear; not ex-library, with neither underlining nor highlighting anywhere. Bright and shiny dust jacket, paper-backed, illustrated, showing only very minor wear, protected by a plastic coat, dust jacket not being price-clipped. Gift-quality condition inside and out. A stated First Printing, measuring 7" x 7", being the third in a series of lovely Jewish-themed books featuring a family of bears celebrating Jewish holidays. Two cuties, Leo and Blossom, build their own Sukkah and celebrate the feast with their parents.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . As New/Fine,

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Zangwill, I. (Israel)

Dreamers of the Ghetto

New York, Harper & Brothers, 1899. . Hardcover. Size: 12mo 7" - 7. Early reprint (1899) of the 1898 true First Edition of this fine and readable social history of Jewish ghettos in anti-Semitic European cities from the 16th century forward. Bound in a short octavo hardcover format, particularly sharp and distinct gilt lettering to cover and spine, including a fine illustration to front cover. Israel Zangwill (1964-1926) was a British author at the forefront of cultural Zionism during the late 19th century, friend to Theodor Herzl and an eventual convert away from Zionism toward a territorial movement (Wikipedia). 523 [1] pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Very Good

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Ben-Zvi, Hava Bromberg

Portraits in Literature the Jews of Poland an Anthology

, Vallentine Mitchell, 2013. First Edition Thus. Softcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Sterling condition softcover copy, with unfurled tips, tight binding, and clean internals, showing only very slight shelf- and edge-wear. Stated First Edition Thus, the hardcover edition having been published in 2011. Volume contains scholarly apparatus in the form of, e.g., notes, index, and bibliography. From the publisher's blurb, "Three million Polish Jews were victims of the Holocaust. Their literary heritage is a treasure to be preserved, and this lavish anthology - now available in paperback - gathers together the rich and varied forms of magnificent Jewish life and culture from a Poland that is no more. The book includes memoirs, short stories, poetry, eyewitness reports, fragments of novels, essays, letters, folktales, and humor on Jewish life in Poland. The work of writers - both Jewish and Polish, prominent and new - presents a true, valid, rich, and compelling panorama of life as it was. Historically informative, heartbreaking, poignant, and amusing, the book speaks in many voices - those of women, children, and survivors. It is an exceptionally broad range of literature that paints a rich panorama of life before, during, and following the Holocaust, ending with tales of hope and renewal in new centers of Jewish life. With every emotion sensitively and skillfully explored, this anthology will fascinate Jewish and non-Jewish readers, shedding light on the origins and roots of contemporary Jewry in the English-speaking world. A meticulous listing of sources and a bibliography will prove fertile ground for students and scholars alike." xxxix, 1-331 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . As New

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Book number: 353810

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Keywords: Jewish history Jewish culture The Jews of Poland Judaism Polish history Jewish literature