Hoffman, Lawrence A.

The Journey Home: Discovering the Deep Spiritual Wisdom of the Jewish Tradition

Boston, Beacon Press, 2002. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Stated First Edition, with "1" in number line present. 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, price-clipped. Prelims + 223 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Fine/Near Fine,

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Book number: 351613

Catalogue: Religion::Judaism

Keywords: Rabbi Lawrence A. Hoffman Jewish ritual Jewish culture Jewish religion

Holmes, John Haynes

Through Gentile Eyes: A Plea for Tolerance and Good

New York, Jewish Opinion Publishing Corporation, New York (1938, 1940. . Hardcover. Size: 24mo 5" - 6" tall. Oddly, title page says 1938, but the copyright page says 1940. 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. Handsomely produced little tome, bound in black cloth over boards, bright red label thereover, sharp and distinct black lettering. Bright and shiny dust jacket, illustrated, showing only very minor wear, protected by a plastic coat, price-clipped. A plea for tolerance in the lead-up to the Holocaust, penned by the minister for the Community Church of New York. [4], 5 [2], 7-91 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Fine/Near Fine,

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Book number: 347137

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Keywords: anti-Semitism|Through Gentile Eyes|Judaism|tolerance|The Holocaust|Germany|World War Two

Holmes, John Haynes

Through Gentile Eyes: A Plea for Tolerance and Good Will

New York, Jewish Opinion Publishing Corporation, 1938. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 12mo 7" - 7. Bound handsomely in black cloth over boards, with a red paper label, black-lettered, to front cover. Bright and shiny dust jacket, illustrated, showing only very minor wear beyond light sunning and soiling, price-clipped. A fine and engrossing 91 pp. sermon on the evils of anti-Semitism from a leading minister at the Community Church of Manhattan, New York, a call for an end to the persecution of the Jews in Germany.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . As New/Very Good,

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Book number: 347884

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Keywords: John Haynes Holmes|Anti-Semitism|Jewish history|Jewish culture|Jewish tradition

Leo Baeck Institute

Year Book III: Publications of the Leo Baeck Institute of Jews from Germany

London, East and West Library, for the Leo Baeck Institute, 1958. First Edition. . Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Foreword by the anonymous editor, then an introduction by Robert Weltsch, and contributions by Ernst Simon, Selma Stern-Taeubler, Ernst Feder, Joseph Leftwich, Eleonore Sterling, Adolph Asch and Johanna Philippson, F.L. Carsten and many more. Fine black-and-white photograph of Martin Buber at frontis from 1877. Bound handsomely in blue cloth boards, gilt lettering to spine. Bright and shiny dust jacket, printed, showing minor wear and light sunning to edges, protected by a plastic coat, dust jacket not being price-clipped. Volume contains scholarly apparatus in the form of, e.g., notes, index, and bibliography. xxix [1], 3-416 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Fine/Very Good,

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Book number: 351217

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Keywords: Jewish history and culture Judaism Martin Buber

Leo Baeck Institute

Year Book VI: Publications of the Leo Baeck Institute of Jews from Germany

London, East and West Library, for the Leo Baeck Institute, 1961. First Edition. . Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Foreword by the anonymous editor, then an introduction by Robert Weltsch, and contributions by Alexander Altmann, Alexander Carlebach, Guy Stern, Hans Kohn, Baruch Kurzweil, Walter Laqqueur, Herbert Strauss, Joseph Walk, Carl Cohen, F.H. Eisner, and many more. Fine black-and-white photograph of Leopold Zunz at frontis. Bound handsomely in blue cloth boards, gilt lettering to spine. Bright and shiny dust jacket, printed, showing minor wear and light sunning to edges, protected by a plastic coat, dust jacket not being price-clipped. Volume contains scholarly apparatus in the form of, e.g., notes, index, and bibliography. xxv [1], 3-357 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Fine/Very Good,

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Book number: 351218

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Keywords: Leo Baeck Institute Judaism Jewish history Jewish culture

Leo Baeck Institute

Year Book XVI: Publications of the Leo Baeck Institute of Jews from Germany

London, East and West Library, for the Leo Baeck Institute, 1971. First Edition. . Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Introduction by Robert Weltsch, Foreword by the anonymous editor, and contributions by Moshe Schwarcz, Michael A. Meyer, Jacob Toury, Herbert A. Strauss, Walter B. Simon, George L. Mosse, William A. Jenks, Donald L. Niewyk, Andrew G. Whiteside, and many more. Fine black-and-white photograph of Norman Bentwich at a festschrift at frontis. Bound handsomely in blue cloth boards, gilt lettering to spine. Bright and shiny dust jacket, printed, showing minor wear and light sunning to edges, protected by a plastic coat, dust jacket not being price-clipped. Volume contains scholarly apparatus in the form of, e.g., notes, index, and bibliography. xxix [1], 3-416 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Fine/Very Good,

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Book number: 351625

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Keywords: Jewish history and culture Judaism Martin Buber

Isaacs, Abram

School Days in Home Town

Philadelphia, Jewish Publication Society of America, 1928. 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. First Edition, First Printing, bound handsomely in green cloth with blindstamped lettering, top-stained in blue. 162 pp. Plentiful scenes and characters of Jewish school life, of what Jewish education in a "Hebrew Home School" was like in 1920s America.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Very Good

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Book number: 351322

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Keywords: Abram S. Isaacs Jewish history Jewish culture

Jacobs, Joachim

Houses of Life: Jewish Cemeteries of Europe

New York, Frances Lincoln Publishing Group, 2008. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 4to 11" - 13" tall. Augmented with the stunning photographs of Hans Dietrich Bayer in black-and-white and in full, glorious color, too. 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 gray cloth, with white 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. Foreword by Robert M Morgenthau, and then multiple sections and chapters devoted to the histories of Jewish cemeteries in Europe, beginning in early Roman times through those in the Medieval period in Rome, Worms, Mainz, Frankfurt am Main, London, York, Prage, Spain and Portugal, Venic, and elsewhere.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Used: Like New

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Book number: 347209

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Keywords: Jewish cemeteries|Jewish history|Jewish culture|Joachim Jacobs

Blatter, Janet and Sybil Milton

Art of the Holocaust

New York, Rutledge Press, 1981. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 4to 11" - 13" tall. Well over 350 works of art created in ghettos, concentration camps and in hiding by victims of the Nazis and including men and women who would become famous post-Holocaust. An arresting book inside and out. Historical Introduction by Henry Friedlander, Preface by Irving Home. 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 simply in oatmeal cloth, blind-stamped title to front cover. Bright and shiny dust jacket, illustrated, showing only very minor wear, protected by a plastic coat, dust jacket not being price-clipped. Presumed First Edition, though not so stated. Prelims + 12-272 pp. including a full index and select bibliography.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Fine/Near Fine,

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Book number: 351571

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Keywords: Irving Howe Janet Blatter Sybil Milton art of the Holocaust Jewish history and culture Jewish art Jewish artists

Janowsky, Oscar I.

The Jwb Survey. With the Report of the Jwb Survey Commission by Salo W. Baron

New York, The Dial Press, 1948. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. A fine and due homage to the National Jewish Welfare Board. Sturdy, attractive, tightly bound hardcover, clean, if toned, minimal rubbing to extremities. Bright and shiny dust jacket, illustrated, moderately worn along edges, extremities, protected by a plastic coat. Volume contains scholarly apparatus in the form of, e.g., notes, index, and bibliography. And a Foreword by Frank L. Weil.xxxiv, 1-490 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: 352412

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Keywords: Oscar I. Janowsky Judaism Jewish history Jewish culture

Hanry-Jaunet and Gaston Baty

Masques: Cahiers D'Art Dramatique, Neuvieme Cahier--le Theatre Yddisch, Etude Et Documents

Paris, Hanry-Jaunet and Gaston Baty, 1928. First Edition. Softcover. Size: 24mo 5" - 6" tall. Uber-scarce in the trade, there being currently no copies available of this bilingual, French and Yiddish language presentation of Yiddish theatre presentations of Le Dibbouk (two-page, laid in), with a historical presentation of La Compagnie Gaston Baty au Theatre de L'Avenue, a Bibliographie by L. Blumenfeld. Orange printed wraps, moderately soiled, crimped of tips, toned of interior but complete. The presentation of Le Dibbouk was presented by An-Ski, translated from Yiddish to French by Marie-Therese Koerner, music by L. Algazi, stage direction by Gaston Baty and set design by Andre Boll.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Fair

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Book number: 351626

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Keywords: Yiddish Jewish history Jewish culture French language

Illman, Karl-Johan and Tapani Harviainen

Judisk Historia

Abo, Finland, Abo Akademi, 1986. . Softcover. Size: 12mo 7" - 7. Uber-scarce in the trade, there being currently no additional copies available on-line. Number 14 of the Religionsvetenskapliga Skrifter. Sterling condition softcover copy, with unfurled tips, tight binding, and clean internals, showing only very slight shelf- and edge-wear. Finnish language text, simple printed stiff card wraps, a Finnish perspective on the Holocaust. 145 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Fine

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Book number: 351422

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Keywords: Karl-Johan Illman Tapani Harviainen

Joselit, Jenna Weissman

The Wonders of America: Reinventing Jewish Culture 1880-1950

New York, Hill & Wang Pub, 1994. First Edition. Hardcover. 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. Bright and shiny dust jacket, illustrated, showing only very minor wear, not price-clipped. A readable, accessible and still innovative social history of Jewish culture, one that highlights the cultural ingenuity and adaptive genius of American Jewish life in areas of food, culture, courtship, residence and recreation. xi [4], 3-349 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: 349905

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Keywords: Jewish culture|Jewish history|American history|Judaism|Jenna Weissman Joselit

Joselit, Jenna Weissman

The Wonders of America: Reinventing Jewish Culture 1880-1950

New York, Hill and Wang, 2002. . Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Fine-looking, structurally sound hardcover, little discernible wear, bright interior, unmarked. Bright and shiny dust jacket, illustrated, little worn. Bright and shiny dust jacket, illustrated, little worn. Plentiful black-and-white illustrations in text. xi [4], 3-349 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Fine/Fine,

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Book number: 352411

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Keywords: Jenna Weissman Joselit Jewish-Americans Judaism Jewish history Jewish culture

Kacyzne, Alter; Marek Web

Poyln: Jewish Life in the Old Country

New York, Metropolitan Books, 1999. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: Oblong 4to 11" - 13" tall. In 1921 the New York Yiddish-language daily news-magazine Forverts commissioned the Polish photographer Alter Kacyzne to document Jewish history and culture throughout Poland--Poyln, as it was pronounced in Yiddish. Edited by Marek Web and augmented with stunning black-and-white photography and told with a gripping story of Kacyzne's life and demise. 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 a faint crease to bottom front corner, protected by a plastic coat, dust jacket not being price-clipped. 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/Fine,

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Book number: 349163

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Keywords: Alter Kacyzne|Jewish history|Jewish culture|Old Country|European history|Poyln|Poland|Polish Jews|Marek Web