Kaniel, Michael

Judaism

Dorset, England, Blandford Press, 1979. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Another fine contribution to the The Art of World Religions series, Fine-looking, structurally sound hardcover, little discernible wear, bright interior, unmarked. Bright and shiny dust jacket, illustrated, little worn. From the publisher's blurb, "offers a concise and interesting account of the development of Jewish art from the formative times of Judaism to the beginning of the twentieth century. It discusses the relationship between Judaism and art in the light of the Second Commandment,and demonstrates that Judaism's supposed antipathy to art is not supported by Jewish sources or by archaeological or other historic evidence." Volume contains scholarly apparatus in the form of, e.g., notes, index, and bibliography. Prelims, 2-160 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: 352374

Catalogue: Religion::Judaism

Keywords: Jewish religion Jewish culture Judaism Michael Kaniel Israel Semitism

Katz, Dori

Looking for Strangers: The True Story of My Hidden Wartime Childhood

Chicago, University of Chicago, 2013. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Stated First Edition, with "1" in number line present. Apparently unread, spine still crackles. Volume contains scholarly apparatus in the form of, e.g., notes, index, and bibliography. An extremely powerful memoir from a Holocaust survivor of Germany occupation of Belgium and her wartime experiences. x [1], 2-170 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: 346956

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Keywords: Dori Katz|The Holocaust|Jewish History|Jewish Culture|WWII|World War Two

Keen, Michael E.

Jewish Ritual Art in the Victoria & Albert Museum

London, Victoria & Albert Museum, 1991. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 4to 11" - 13" tall. Sterling condition hardcover copy, with bruised but unbroken tips, tight binding, and clean internals, showing only very slight shelf- and edge-wear; not ex-library, with neither underlining nor highlighting anywhere. Very light crimping to upper tips for an initial range of pages. Blue cloth covers are quite lovely, and with sharp and distinct gilt lettering to spine. Bright and shiny dust jacket, illustrated, showing only very minor wear, mostly to tips and edges, not price-clipped. Many, many score gorgeous illustrations in black-and-white and full-color of Jewish ritual art in the Victoria & Albert Museum. The Catalogue portions are broken into five sections, including regarding Public Worship and the Synagogue, Festivals and Holy Days, Domestic Worship and Observance, Costumes Worn by Jewish People, and a Miscellany of items and Doubtful or Specious Objects. vi + 126 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Used: Very Good

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Book number: 346027

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Keywords: Victoria & Albert Museum|Jewish Ritual Art|Judaica|ritual art|Michael E. Keen

Kemelman, Harry

Thursday the Rabbi Walked out; Wednesday the Rabbi Got Wet

New York, William Morrow and Company, . Book Club Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. A good-looking, structurally sound set of two (2) Harry Kemelman mystery novels, featuring the incomparable Rabbi detective David Small. Book Club Editions, each bound in short octavo hardcover format, sturdy, attractive, tightly bound, internally clean hardcover copies, with unbruised tips, neat and tidy paste-downs; not ex-library, with neither highlighting nor underlining. Illustrated paper dust wrappers present, not price-clipped, one moderately worn, the other, less so. Thursday the Rabbi Walked Out was published in 1978, Wednesday the Rabbi Got Wet, in 1976.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Near Fine/Very Good,

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Book number: 349156

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Libo, Kenneth and Irving Howe

We Lived There Too: In Their Own Words and Pictures Pioneer Jews and the Westward Movement of America 1630-1930

New York, St Martin's Press / Marek, 1985. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: Large 8vo 9" - 10. A fine and engaging social history of Jews along Hester Street and beyond in the Lower East Side of New York, built upon primary documents galore, journals, memoirs and black-and-white photographs. Fine-looking, structurally sound hardcover, little discernible wear, bright interior, unmarked. Big, tall Imperial octavo format copy, bound in light gray linen cloth over boards. Bright and shiny dust jacket, illustrated, little worn, protected by a plastic coat. Volume contains scholarly apparatus in the form of, e.g., notes, index, and bibliography. [5], 6-347 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Fine/Fine,

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Book number: 352413

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Keywords: Jewish-Americans Jewish History Jewish Culture Hester Street New York Lower East Side

Serge Klarsfeld

The Children of Izieu: A Human Tragedy (English and French Edition)

New York, Harry N Abrams Inc,, 1985. . 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. Big, tall quarto-sized pictorial wraps, and replete with full-color and black-and-white illustrations and photographs and in English and French languages. Double-columned texts, well illustrated throughout with plates, maps and reproductions of old documents. Harrowing account of the deportation of French Jewish children and their subsequent murder by Germans. Also covers the fight to bring Klaus Barbie to justice. 134 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Fine

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Book number: 351269

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Keywords: The Holocaust Serge Klarsfeld The children of Izieu W.W.I.I.

Klug, Brian

Offence: The Jewish Case

London, Seagull Press, 2009. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 12mo 7" - 7. Another fine contribution to the series, Manifestos for the 21st Century, a probing discussion of the limits to free speech about Israel and Palestine. Fine-looking, structurally sound hardcover, little discernible wear to the raspberry cloth covers, bright interior, clean, unmarked. Bright and shiny dust jacket, illustrated, little worn, sharp, crisp, heavy, thick. 101 pp. including notes, bibliography and index.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . As New

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Book number: 355394

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Keywords: Brian Klug Judaica Jewish history and culture

Koebner, Richard, ed.

Studies in Classics and Jewish Hellenism

Jerusalem, The Magnes Press, The Hebrew University, 1954. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Some half-toning of endpapers, but laid in is a Note of Compliments of the Consulate of Israel at Los Angeles. Ink-stamp at first free endpaper from the University of Pacific Libraries, Stockton, California. Volume I of two volumes of contribution to the series, Scripta Hierosolymitana. Sturdy, attractive, tightly bound, internally clean hardcover copy, with unbruised tips, neat and tidy paste-downs; not ex-library, with neither highlighting nor underlining. Brown cloth over boards, gilt lettering to front cover and spine, still sharp and distinctive. Light sunning along top edge. Dust jacket present, Brodart-protected, but moderately worn and chipped. Volume contains scholarly apparatus in the form of, e.g., notes, index, and bibliography. [6], 2-134 pp. and then with a Hebrew language title page at "rear" (which is to say the "front" of the book).Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Very Good/Good,

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Book number: 346406

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Keywords: Scripta Hierosolymitana|Classics|Richard Koebner|Jewish Hellenism|Jewish history|Jewish culture

Kohut, Rebekah

My Portion (an Autobiography)

New York, Thomas Seltzer, 1925. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Uber-scarce in the trade, there being currently no copies of this First Edition. Sturdy, attractive, tightly bound, internally clean hardcover copy, with unbruised tips, neat and tidy paste-downs; not ex-library, with neither highlighting nor underlining. Blind-stamped title to spine, rubbed, gilt-lettered and -ruled front cover. Age-toned endpapers, bumping to spine head and foot. Introduction by Henrietta Szold, who places this fine autobiography and Rebekah Bettelheim Kohut (September 9, 1864 – August 11, 1951) in proper context, Kohut having been an American educator, writer, and community leader, born in Hungary. "She was the first president of the World Congress of Jewish Women, elected at its first convention in 1923. In 1935, Lillian Wald called Rebekah Kohut 'American Jewry's First Lady,'" says a Wikipedia entry about her. xiv + 301 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Very Good

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Book number: 351321

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Keywords: Rebekah Kohut Henrietta Szold Jewish history Jewish culture

Leiblich, Amia

Kibbutz Makom

New York, Pantheon Books, 1981. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Another in a series of fine social histories kibbutz movements in Israel. The author includes interviews she conducted with members and ex-members of an Israeli kibbutz, as well as a history and framework of the kibbutz movement generally. Kibbutz Makom is a composite of real kibbutzes. Sturdy, attractive, tightly bound hardcover, clean, if toned, minimal rubbing to extremities. Bright and shiny dust jacket, illustrated, a little wear along top edge. xxvi [2], 4-318 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: 352414

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Keywords: Kibbutz Makom Amia Lieblich Jewish history Jewish culture Israel intentional communities Kibbutz

Auslander, Leora and Sara Hume

Images of Prayer, Politics, and Everyday Life: The Harry and Branka Sondheim Jewish Heritage Collection

Chicago, Illinois, University of Chicago Library, 2008. First Edition. Softcover. Size: Oblong 32mo 4" - 5" tall. Not currently available to the trade on-line. Virtually pristine copy of the short, oblong trade softcover format volume published to augment the exhibit of the same name. From the web-site devoted to the Collection it is is written that "Visual representations, whether or not they are accurate depictions, reveal how individuals or groups present themselves and how they are presented by others. Images can clarify, complicate, or even contradict accompanying text; they can be created as independent sources of information or to serve as decoration or inspiration. In every instance, they provide evidence that enriches our knowledge of the time and place in which they were created. The Harry and Branka Sondheim Jewish Heritage Collection is thus a unique resource for understanding the history of Jewish life and customs. The Sondheim collection has been carefully assembled over many years by Harry Sondheim, a University of Chicago alumnus (A.B. 1954; J.D. 1957). In 2005, Harry Sondheim began presenting his collection in a series of gifts to the University of Chicago, where it has already begun to enrich Jewish studies," available for and to Jews and those who in good faith "depict Jewish customs and ceremonies.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Fine

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Book number: 350435

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Keywords: Leora Auslander|Sara Hume|The Harry and Branka Sondheim Jewish Heritage Collection

Letteris, M[eir] Halevia

Ta'Anune Bat Yehudah: Andachtsbuch Fã¼R Israelitische Frauenzimmer Zur ã¶Ffentlichen Und Hã¤Uslichen Erbauung in Allen Verhã¤Ltnissen Des Leben

Brag, Breitegasse, Germany, Wolf Pascheles, 1865. . Hardcover. Size: 12mo 7" - 7. A lovely copy hand bound for Bertha Schwerin, whose name is stamped into the black pebbly leatherette covers, worn and scuffed along edges, tips, rubbed and scuffing along spine, with a fine gilt illustration to rear cover. German language text fit for Austrian Jewish women and friends interested to read the Bible, penned by Meir Halevi Letteris, an Austrian Jew poet and translator of both ancient Greek and Roman classics and various kinds of bibles. Clean, unmarked, and still remarkably bright of interior. 207 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Good

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Book number: 349257

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Keywords: German language|Jewish culture|Jewish history

Levin, Alexandra Lee

Vision: A Biography of Harry Friedenwald

Philadelphia, The Jewish Publication Society of America, 1964. 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, protected by a plastic coat. Top-stained in pink. From the publisher's blurb, "this is the story of a man, the story of a family, and the story of the emerging type of an American Jew during the past century". His varied life included ophthalmology, education, being a medical historian, a rare-book collector, and a pioneer in the Zionist movement. Most exciting was his work in Palestine immediately after the conclusion of World War I." Illustrated. 469 pages. 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. . . . Fine/Near Fine,

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Book number: 352083

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Keywords: Jewish history Jewish culture Alexandra Lee Levin opthamology Judaica Zionism Baltimore

Levine, Etan, ed.

Diaspora: Exile and the Contemporary Jewish Condition

New York, Steimatzky / Shapolsky, 1986. 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. Contributions by the editor, Etan Levine, and by A.B. Yahoshua, Roy A. Rosenbeg, Hillel Halkin, Joseph Heckelman, Lee Bennett Gaber Morris Grossman, Jacob B. Agus, Jack J. Cohen, Bernard Berofsky, Walter P. Zenner, Eugene C. Wiener, Arthur Hertzberg, Martin Buber, Dorothea Braginsky, Amnon Hadary, Abram Kanof and many others. xiv [1], 2-368 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Near Fine/Very Good,

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Book number: 352415

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Keywords: Etan Levine Jewish history Jewish culture diaspora antisemitism the Holocaust

Levy, M[oritz] A[braham]

Geschichte Der Judischen Munzen Gemeinfasslich Dargestellt

Breslau, Schletter's Buchhandlung (H. Skutsch), 1862. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 12mo 7" - 7. A perfectly serviceable reference copy; nothing fancy, but complete. Marbled paper over boards, leather over tips and spine, but considerable scuffing thereto, and front board is present, not detached, but split, with strings showing, so handle with care. Ex-library copy with two accession stickers to spine, ink-stamp at first endpapers, title page, else surprisingly bright and clean of interior but for previous owner's inscription dated 1872. Mostly German language social history of the Jews in Munich, Germany, and with a special focus on inscriptions and coins, but also with Greek and Hebrew lettering here and there. M.A. Levy was a German Jew Orientalist, born at Altona (1817) and died at Breslau (1872). He became and for thirty years practiced as a Professor at the Synagogen-Gemeinde of Breslau, and pioneered the field of Semitic paleography, eventually learning how to decipher and interpret "Phoenician, old Hebrew, Punic, Aramaic, Himyaritic, and later Hebrew coins, seals, gems, and monuments" (Singer and Haneman, tThe Jewish Encyclopedia). 163 pp. and with a list of the black-and-white illustrations in-text.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Good

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Book number: 351937

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Keywords: German language Jewish history Jewish culture German jews Munich jews religion