Judaica

A Mediterranean Society: The Jewish Communities of the Arab World As Portrayed in the Documents of the Cairo Geniza, Volume 5: The Individual

Goitein, S.D., ed. · 1988 · Structure, Verses, Agency Books

$25.60 (€23.23 | £19.38 | ¥4,087)

Berkeley, California, University of California Press, 1988. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Fine-looking, structurally sound hardcover, little discernible wear, bright interior, unmarked. Bound quite handsomely in green cloth, with bright and distinct gilt l...

Dreamers of the Ghetto

Zangwill, I. (Israel) · 1899 · Structure, Verses, Agency Books

$14.40 (€13.06 | £10.90 | ¥2,299)

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 f...

Little Novels

Schnitzler, Arthur · 1929 · Structure, Verses, Agency Books

$11.20 (€10.16 | £8.48 | ¥1,788)

New York, Simon and Schuster, 1929. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Sturdy, attractive, tightly bound hardcover, clean, if toned, minimal rubbing to extremities. Bound simply in shiny black cloth, sharp and distinct gilt lettering to spine. Translated by Eri...

Treasures from the Holy Land: Ancient Art from the Israel Museum

Dever, William G.; Metropolitan Museum of Art; Curators of the Israel Museum · 1986 · Structure, Verses, Agency Books

$12.80 (€11.61 | £9.69 | ¥2,043)

New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1986. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 4to 11" - 13" tall. Superior copy, gift-quality condition, inside and out, no discernible wear, bright and shiny dust jacket, protected. Foreword by Philippe de Montebello, another by Martin Weyl, Dir...

Trends and Issues in Jewish Social Welfare in the United States 1899-1958

Morris, Robert and Michael Freund · 1966 · Structure, Verses, Agency Books

$12.80 (€11.61 | £9.69 | ¥2,043)

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, The Jewish Publication Society of America, 1966. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. A fine social historical survey of American Jewish social welfare programs and efforts, seen through the lens of the proceedings and reports of the N...

Bar Mitzvah: A Guide to Spiritual Growth

Ouaknin, Marc-Alain and Francoise-Anne Menager · 2005 · Structure, Verses, Agency Books

$12.00 (€10.89 | £9.08 | ¥1,916)

New York, Assouline Publishing Company, 2005. First English Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Drawings by Gerard Garouste and photographs by Laziz Hamani augmenting this superior copy, gift-quality condition, inside and out, no discernible wear, bright and shiny dus...

Biting on Granite: Selected Sermons and Addresses

Newman, Louis I. · 1946 · Structure, Verses, Agency Books

$9.60 (€8.71 | £7.27 | ¥1,533)

New York, Bloch Publishing Company, 1946. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Scarce in the trade in this state and condition. First Edition collection of sermons and addresses by a leading Jewish intellectual (1893-1972), who became Rabbi for the Bronx Free Syn...

The Burnt Offering

Goes, Albrecht · 1956 · Structure, Verses, Agency Books

$9.60 (€8.71 | £7.27 | ¥1,533)

New York, Pantheon, 1956. First U.S. Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Translated by Michael Hamburger from the original German, being a probing exploration of German guilt in the Holocaust. Sturdy, attractive, tightly bound hardcover, clean, bright interior, minima...

Diaspora: Exile and the Contemporary Jewish Condition

Levine, Etan, ed. · 1986 · Structure, Verses, Agency Books

$8.00 (€7.26 | £6.06 | ¥1,277)

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 Le...

Kibbutz Makom

Leiblich, Amia · 1981 · Structure, Verses, Agency Books

$8.80 (€7.98 | £6.66 | ¥1,405)

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...

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

Libo, Kenneth and Irving Howe · 1985 · Structure, Verses, Agency Books

$12.00 (€10.89 | £9.08 | ¥1,916)

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-whi...

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

Janowsky, Oscar I. · 1948 · Structure, Verses, Agency Books

$11.20 (€10.16 | £8.48 | ¥1,788)

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, illustrate...

The Wonders of America: Reinventing Jewish Culture 1880-1950

Joselit, Jenna Weissman · 2002 · Structure, Verses, Agency Books

$9.60 (€8.71 | £7.27 | ¥1,533)

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. ...

A Promise to Keep: A Narrative of the American Encounter with Anti-Semitism

Nathan C. Belth · 1979 · Structure, Verses, Agency Books

$9.60 (€8.71 | £7.27 | ¥1,533)

New York, Times Books, 1979. . Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. A fine and disturbing social history of bigotry in Skokie, Illinois against German-American Jews. Sturdy, attractive, tightly bound hardcover, clean, if toned, minimal rubbing to extremities. Bright and shiny d...

Zwischen Gesellschaft Und Staat

Buber, Martin · 1952 · Structure, Verses, Agency Books

$12.80 (€11.61 | £9.69 | ¥2,043)

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, usab...

Jerusalem: City of Mankind

Capa, Cornell · 1974 · Structure, Verses, Agency Books

$11.20 (€10.16 | £8.48 | ¥1,788)

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 w...

Jewish Americans: Three Generations in a Jewish Community

Goldstein, Sidney, and Calvin Goldscheider · 1968 · Structure, Verses, Agency Books

$8.00 (€7.26 | £6.06 | ¥1,277)

Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, Prentice-Hall, 1968. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Another fine contribution to the series, Ethnic Groups in American Life Series, edited by Milton M. Gordon. Sturdy, attractive, tightly bound hardcover, clean, if toned, minim...

Jews in the Modern World, Volume Two

Freid, Jacob · 1962 · Structure, Verses, Agency Books

$11.20 (€10.16 | £8.48 | ¥1,788)

New York, Twayne, 1962. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. A big, broad survey of Jewish history and Jewish culture edited by Jacob Freid, being Volume Two of a three-volume set, and with contributions by him and by Gordon Willard Allport, Salo Wittmayer, Baron...

Early American Jews

Friedman, Lee M. · 1934 · Structure, Verses, Agency Books

$14.40 (€13.06 | £10.90 | ¥2,299)

Cambridge, Massachusetts, Harvard University Press, 1934. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Sturdy, attractive, tightly bound hardcover, clean, if toned, minimal rubbing to extremities. Bound in red cloth, gilt lettering to spine, rubbed, top edge gilt. Eight ...

The Decay of Czarism

Tager, Alexander B. · 1935 · Structure, Verses, Agency Books

$9.60 (€8.71 | £7.27 | ¥1,533)

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Jewish Publication Society, 1935. First U.S. Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. A contribution to the history of the political reaction during the last years of Russian Czarism. based on unpublished materials in the Russian archives. Sturd...