Judaica

Ben-Gurion: The Burning Ground 1886-1948

Teveth, Shabtai · 1987 · Structure, Verses, Agency Books

$9.60 (€8.71 | £7.27 | ¥1,533)

Boston, Houghton, Mifflin, 1987. . Softcover. Size: Large 8vo 9" - 10. Sturdy, still tightly bound softcover copy, big, fat, thick, minor wear of covers, less to text-block, but with neither underlining nor highlighting. Perfectly readable, usable copy. Volume contains schola...

Israel in Antiquity: From David to Herod

Ackerman, Andrew S. and Susan L. Braunstein · 1982 · Structure, Verses, Agency Books

$8.80 (€7.98 | £6.66 | ¥1,405)

New York, The Jewish Museum, 1982. First Edition. Softcover. Size: 4to 11" - 13" tall. Good looking, structurally sound copy of an exhibition catalog, in First Edition, with 136 pp. and replete with black-and-white and some full-color illustrations, plus a map, architectural...

Defenders of the Faith; Inside Ultra-Orthodox Jewry

Heilman, Samuel · 1992 · Structure, Verses, Agency Books

$9.60 (€8.71 | £7.27 | ¥1,533)

New York, Schocken Books, 1992. 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,...

Tradition: Orthodox Jewish Life in America

Warshaw, Mal · 1976 · Structure, Verses, Agency Books

$9.60 (€8.71 | £7.27 | ¥1,533)

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 ...

Artists of Israel: 1920-1980

Goodman, Susan Tumarkin, Guest Curator · 1981 · Structure, Verses, Agency Books

$12.80 (€11.61 | £9.69 | ¥2,043)

New York, The Jewish Museum, by the Wayne State University Press, 1981. First Edition. Softcover. Size: 4to 11" - 13" tall. First Edition. Susan Tumarkin Goodman was the Exhibition Curator for an exhibition sponsored for The Jewish Museum, with essays by her and by Moshe Bara...

Alfred Kazin: A Biography

Cook, Richard M. · 2007 · Structure, Verses, Agency Books

$12.80 (€11.61 | £9.69 | ¥2,043)

Hartford, Connecticut, Yale University Press, 2007. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. The Jewish literary critic Alfred Kazin was at the time of his death in 1998 one of the most prominent intellectuals of post-war America. Heavy focus on the journals that Kaz...

My German Question: Growing Up in Nazi Berlin

Peter Gay · 1998 · Structure, Verses, Agency Books

$10.40 (€9.44 | £7.87 | ¥1,660)

Hartford, Connecticut, Yale University Press, 1998. 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-w...

Ancient Synagogue Excavations at Khirbet Shema', Upper Galilee, Israel, 1970-1972

Meyers, Eric M., A. Thomas Kraabel, James Fr. Strange · 1976 · Structure, Verses, Agency Books

$21.60 (€19.60 | £16.35 | ¥3,448)

Durham, North Carolina, Published for the American Schools of Oriental Research by Duke University Press, 1976. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 4to 11" - 13" tall. Another fine contribution to the Meiron excavation project for the digging seasons 1970-1972, representing the J...

The Wonders of America: Reinventing Jewish Culture 1880-1950

Joselit, Jenna Weissman · 1994 · Structure, Verses, Agency Books

$11.20 (€10.16 | £8.48 | ¥1,788)

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 highlight...

Abraham Mapu: The Creator of the Modern Hebrew Novel

Patterson, David · 1964 · Structure, Verses, Agency Books

$9.60 (€8.71 | £7.27 | ¥1,533)

London, East and West Library, 1964. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. A fine contribution to the series Studies in Modern Hebrew Literature, by David Patterson, Cowley Lecturer in Post-Biblical Hebrew at the University of Oxford. Fine frontis portrait of Abra...

Under the Canopy : The Story of a Friendship with Isaac Bashevis Singer That Chronicles the Awakening of Jewish Identity

Straus, Dorothea · 1982 · Structure, Verses, Agency Books

$9.60 (€8.71 | £7.27 | ¥1,533)

New York, George Braziller, 1982. 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 highligh...

Hand in the Darkness: The Autobiography of a Refusenik

Nudel, Ida · 1990 · Structure, Verses, Agency Books

$11.20 (€10.16 | £8.48 | ¥1,788)

New York, Warner Books, 1990. First English 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 high...

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

Bunzl, Matti · 2004 · Structure, Verses, Agency Books

$11.20 (€10.16 | £8.48 | ¥1,788)

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 ant...

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

Bilski, Emily and Sigrid Bauschinger, eds. · 1960 · Structure, Verses, Agency Books

$14.40 (€13.06 | £10.90 | ¥2,299)

Berkeley, California, University of California Press, 1960. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 4to 11" - 13" 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 neit...

Road of Ages

Nathan, Robert · 1935 · Structure, Verses, Agency Books

$11.20 (€10.16 | £8.48 | ¥1,788)

New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1935. 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. Top-stained in blu...

Important Hebrew Manuscripts Incunabula & Manuscripts Printed Books Choice Judaica Books

Parke-Bernet Galleries,Inc. · 1970 · Structure, Verses, Agency Books

$20.00 (€18.15 | £15.14 | ¥3,193)

New York, Parke-Bernet Galleries,Inc., 1970. First Edition. Softcover. Size: Large 8vo 9" - 10. A fine looking auction catalog for a collection of Judaica, incunabula, precious Hebrew manuscripts, all from the library of Mr. Michael Zagayski. Sterling condition softcover copy...

Of Making Many Books

Bloch, Joshua · 1953 · Structure, Verses, Agency Books

$12.80 (€11.61 | £9.69 | ¥2,043)

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 under...

King Herod's Dream: Caesarea on the Sea

Holum, Kenneth G., Robert L. Hohlfelder, Robert J. Bull and Avner Raban. · 1988 · Structure, Verses, Agency Books

$19.20 (€17.42 | £14.53 | ¥3,065)

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 ...

Words to Outlive Us: Eyewitness Accounts from the Warsaw Ghetto

Grynberg, Michal, ed. · 2002 · Structure, Verses, Agency Books

$16.00 (€14.52 | £12.11 | ¥2,554)

New York, Metropolitan Books, by Henry Holt, 2002. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: Large 8vo 9" - 10. The Warsaw Ghetto and the place of anti-Semitism in pre-W.W.I.I. Poland under fascism is the subject of Michal Grynberg's fine and sobering account of the prelude to the Holo...

Stunden Der Andacht. Ein Gebet- Und Erbaungs-Buch Fã¼R Israels Frauen Und Jungfrauen Zur ã¶Ffentlichen Und Hã¤Uslichen Andacht, So Wie Fã¼R Alle Verhã¤Ltnisse Des Weiblichen Lebens

Schlessinger, M. and Fanny Neuda · 1882 · Structure, Verses, Agency Books

$20.00 (€18.15 | £15.14 | ¥3,193)

New York, H. Sakolski, 1882. Reprint Edition. Hardcover. Size: 12mo 7" - 7. A fine-looking reprint of a German-language devotional for German women and girls. Bound handsomely in brown cloth, with gilt lettering to cover. Decorated endpapers. Gilt edges all around. Fanny Neud...