Bilski, Emily D., ed.

Berlin Metropolis: Jews and the New Culture, 1890-1918

Berkeley, California, University of California Press, 2000. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 4to 11" - 13" 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. Beautifully conceived exhibition catalogue published in conjunction with the exhibition under the same name at The Jewish Museum in New York from November 14, 1999 - April 23, 2000. Illustrated throughout in black-and-white and full color and bound in tall quarto format. 265 pp. Contributions by the editor, Emily D. Bilski, and by Sigrid Bauschinger, Inka Bertz,Barbara Hahn, Peter Jelavich, Paul Mendes-Flohr, Peter Paret, and Chana C. Schutz.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . As New/As New,

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Book number: 347205

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Keywords: Emily D. Bilski|Sigrid Bauschinger, Inka Bertz|Barbara Hahn|Peter Jelavich|Paul Mendes-Flohr|Peter Paret|Chana C. Schutz

Birnbaum, Philip

Fluent Hebrew

New York, Hebrew Publishing Co., 1965. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. A perfectly serviceable reference copy; nothing fancy, but complete and sturdy. Bound in blue cloth, moderately worn of exterior, bumpnig to spine head and foot, clean and tightly bound of interior. Volume contains scholarly apparatus in the form of, e.g., notes, index, and bibliography. Bilingual texts in Hebrew and England, and with plentiful black-and-white illustrations and photographs. xvi [1], 1-491 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Used: Good

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Book number: 352371

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Keywords: Hebrew language Jewish history Jewish culture

Biro, Adam

One Must Also Be Hungarian

Chicago, The University of Chicago Press, 2006. First English 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. Bound handsomely in black cloth and with silver lettering to spine. 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. Translated from the original Hungarian by Catherine Tihanyi. Nearly 30 half-tone illustrations and photographs and an additional figure. 168 [1] pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . As New/Fine,

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Book number: 347144

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Keywords: Adam Biro|Catherine Tihanyi|Hungary|Hungarian culture|Jewish culture|Jewish history

Bloch, Joshua

Of Making Many Books

Philadelphia, Jewish Publication Society of America, 1953. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Sturdy, attractive, tightly bound, internally clean hardcover copy, with unbruised tips, neat and tidy paste-downs; not ex-library, with neither highlighting nor underlining. Burgundy-colored cloth covers, gilt lettering to cover and spine. Louis E. Levinthal provides a Foreword, then many hundreds of bibliographic entries regarding the books published and/or printed by the Jewish Publication Society of America arranged both chonologically and thematically. ix [1], 1-329 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Near Fine

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Book number: 349678

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Keywords: Jewish history|Jewish culture|books|bibliographies|Jewish Publication Society of America

Bohlman, Philip V.

The Land Where Two Streams Flow: Music in the German-Jewish Community of Israel

Urbana-Champaign, Illinois, University of Illinois Press, 1989. 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, illustrated, showing only very minor wear beyond short closed tear to rear upper panel, 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. xviii [1], 2-257 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Used: Like New

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Book number: 347133

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Keywords: Philip V. Bohlman|German-Jewish community|music|Judaica|Jewish history|Jewish culture|Israel

Brilliant, Richard

Facing the New World: Jewish Portraits in Colonial and Federal America

Munich, Germany, Prestel, 1997. . Softcover. Size: 4to 11" - 13" tall. Sterling condition softcover copy, with unfurled tips, tight binding, and clean internals, showing only very slight shelf- and edge-wear to the glossy pictorial wraps. Additional essay provided by Ellen Smith, and with research assistance provided by Elizabeth Lamb Clark. xvi, 112 pp., and sumptuously illustrated with black-and-white and full-color illustrations and photographs. Covers Early American Jewish History (1585-1830), Jews during the Revolutionary War, genealogies of influential families such as the Levy-Franks and the Etting/Gratz families. Volume contains scholarly apparatus in the form of, e.g., notes, index, and bibliography.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . As New

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Book number: 351430

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Keywords: Richard Brilliant Jewish arts Colonial America Federal America Jewish history Jewish culture

Brinner, William M.

Sutro Library Hebraica: A Handlist

, California State Library, 1966. First Edition. Softcover. Size: 4to 11" - 13" tall. Sturdy, still tightly bound softcover copy, minor wear of covers and text-block, but with neither underlining nor highlighting. Perfectly readable, usable copy. Just a bit of furling to front cover. 82 pp. in type-script, bright and shiny, glossy printed wraps in card stock. The author was a Professor of Near Eastern Languages, University of California, Berkeley. Preface by Richard H. Dillon, Sutro Librarian, California State Library, then an Introduction by Brinner, then "Notes on the Numbering System and table of Numerical Relationships, and finally a Hand-list of Sutro LIbrary Hebraica, featuring Ms. 1 through 167.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Near Fine

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Book number: 347301

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Keywords: Sutro Library Hebraica|California State Library|Judaica|Judaism

Brisman, Shimeon

A History and Guide to Judaic Bibliography: Volume One of Jewish Research Literature, Volume Two of Jewish Research Literature

Cincinnati / New York, Hebrew Union College Press / Ktav Publishing House, 1987. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Sturdy, attractive, tightly bound, internally clean hardcover copies, with unbruised tips, neat and tidy paste-downs; not ex-library, with neither highlighting nor underlining. This is Bibliographica Judaica 7 and 11, a series of the library of Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion, edited by Herbert C. Zafren. Comprises perhaps a definitive monograph and bibliography of Judaica-related bibliographies. xx + 352 pp. to Volume One. xxvi + 502 pp. to Volume Two. Original publisher's black cloth, with bright and distinct silver lettering to both spines. Volume Two has a bright and shiny dust jacket, illustrated, showing only very minor wear, protected by a plastic coat, dust jacket not being price-clipped. Volumes contain scholarly apparatus in the form of, e.g., notes, index, and bibliography.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Used: Very Good

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Book number: 346295

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Keywords: Judaica|bibliography|Judaism|Jewish history|Jewish culture|Shimeon Brisman

Brodsky, Jacob

Up the Hill (Songs and Poems), Translated from the Yiddish

Chicago, Illinois, M. Ceshinsky, Publisher, 1934. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Uber-scarce in the trade, there being no copies currently available to the trade and only a single copy found in only a single library in the U.S., at the University of Washington in Seattle, Washington. Bound in a burgundy linen cloth over boards, rubbing to gilt lettering to cover and spine, some toning to endpapers, and cracking to front paste-down, else neat, tidy, tightly bound and attractive. Yiddish language collection of poems and songs. 157 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Good

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Book number: 347584

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Keywords: Jacob Brodsky|M. Ceshinsky|Yiddish language|poetry|songs|music|Jewish history|Jewish culture|Judaism|Judaica

Buber, Martin

Zwischen Gesellschaft Und Staat

Heidelberg, Lambert Schneider, 1952. First Edition. Softcover. Size: 12mo 7" - 7. Sturdy, still tightly bound softcover copy, minor wear of covers, sunned and toned a bit, very light toning to text-block, but with neither underlining nor highlighting. Perfectly readable, usable copy, housed in a stiff plastic sleeve. German language text, 42 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Very Good

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Book number: 352403

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Keywords: German language Martin Buber philosophy Jewish history Jewish culture

Holum, Kenneth G., Robert L. Hohlfelder, Robert J. Bull and Avner Raban.

King Herod's Dream: Caesarea on the Sea

New York, W. W. Norton & Company, 1988. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 4to 11" - 13" tall. Stated First Edition, with "1" in number line present, penned by Kenneth G. Holum, Robert L. Hohlfelder, Robert J. Bull and Avner Raban, a profound contribution to the archaeology and ethnology of Cassarea, King Herod's dream foundation. 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, illustrated, showing only very minor wear, protected by a plastic coat, dust jacket not being price-clipped. Seven chapters, an Epilogue, and plentiful full-color and black-and-white plates. Volume contains scholarly apparatus in the form of, e.g., notes, index, and bibliography. [4], 5-244 [4] pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Fine/Fine,

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Book number: 349631

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Keywords: Kenneth G. Holum|Robert L. Hohlfelder|Robert J. Bull|Avner Raban

Bunzl, Matti

Symptoms of Modernity: Jews and Queers in Late-Twentieth-Century Vienna

Berkeley, California, University of California Press, 2004. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. A fine and probing social history of Vienna and of Austria more broadly in late 19th-century, discoursing upon queer theory and studies of homosexuality to reveal anti-Semitism and homophobia in Austria. Partly focused on studies of sexuality, partly on Jewish history and Jewish culture, Bunzl reveals popular cultural spaces for Jews and queers. 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 in green cloth, bright and distinct gilt lettering to spine. xii + 292 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Fine

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Book number: 349889

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Keywords: Vienna|Austria|art history|queer theory|homosexuality|anti-Semitism|social history|sexuality|Jewish history|Jewish culture

Capa, Cornell

Jerusalem: City of Mankind

New York, The Viking Press, 1974. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 4to 11" - 13" tall. Stated First Edition, bound handsomely in tall quarto hardcover format, bound in black cloth, with gilt lettering to spine. Bright and shiny dust jacket, illustrated, showing some moderate wear to edges, else fully intact, not price-clipped. [5], 6-127 pp. Photographic views and social histories of the Israeli capital from 21 photographers including Cornell Capa, Leonard Freed, Ernst Haas, Marc Riboud, Ted Spiegel. Fine Introduction by Teddy Kollek (with J. Robert Moskin's assistance), then an editor's Foreword, complete with a list of illustrations (over 125 in black-and-whiteMember, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Near Fine/Very Good,

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Book number: 352401

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Keywords: Cornell Capa Jerusalem Israel Jewish history Jewish culture

Arthur A. Cohen

Arguments and Doctrines: A Reader of Jewish Thinking in the Aftermath of the Holocaust

New York, Harper & Row, 1970. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Sturdy, attractive, tightly bound hardcover, clean, if toned, minimal rubbing to extremities. Bright and shiny dust jacket, illustrated, little worn. There are 28 different essays in four parts: 1) The Foreground of Jewish Existence; 2) The Renewal of Theology; 3) Challenges to Jewish Belief; 4) The Expectations and the Trust. Then an Afterword. A section of Notes on Contributors, which include Hannah Arendt, Harold Rosenberg, Lou Silberman, Ben Halpern, the editor Arthur A. Cohen himself, and many others. The dust jacket blurb notes that the books, beyond being a compilation of the best and most notable examples of postwar Jewish thinking, "is a reader with a specific religious center. This reader is intended to disclose the interior conflict and ferment of Jewish religious thought." Volume contains scholarly apparatus in the form of, e.g., notes, index, and bibliography. xviii [1], 3-541 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Very Good/Very Good,

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Book number: 352399

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Keywords: Arthur A. Cohen essays Jewish history Jewish culture Jewish thinking antisemitism WWII W.W.I.I. The Holocaust

The American Hebrew Committee

Better Understanding between Christians and Jews in America

New York, The American Hebrew Committee, 1928. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 12mo 7" - 7. Sturdy, attractive, tightly bound hardcover in its original First Edition, clean, if toned interior, some rubbing to extremities, sunning to, toning along edges. Light green paper over boards, green cloth over boards. 60 pp., with list of suggested reading. A very interesting take on the Peace Treaty following the cessation of W.W.I. Penned by the Editor of The American Hebrew, who "had the opportunity to make a first-hand study of this situation." Some black-and-white illustrations and photographs, including at frontis.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Good

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Book number: 355402

Catalogue: Religion::Judaism

Keywords: Judaism antiSemitism Jewish history Jewish culture