Grandfather J. B.: Letters to My Grandson
Boston, MA: Little, Brown, c1976. First Edition. First? Printing. 21 cm, 210, facsimiles, DJ worn, soiled, and small tears. More
Boston, MA: Little, Brown, c1976. First Edition. First? Printing. 21 cm, 210, facsimiles, DJ worn, soiled, and small tears. More
New York: Viking Press, [1971]. First? Edition. First? Printing. Hardcover. 22 cm, 216 pages, DJ worn, torn, soiled, and chipped, pencil erasure on front endpaper. Excerpts for a Kirkus review posted on-line: Wry, delightful, immaculately sensitive sketches, some of which have appeared in the New Yorker, in which Dr. Berczeller remembers his youth and medical training in the Vienna of the Twenties. These are accounts of love affairs and some admiring portraits of personalities. All are recalled with a youthful enjoyment. After becoming a doctor, Berczeller contracted TB, recovered, and married. He shifted to private practice in the village of Mattersburg where he became involved in some bizarre episodes, the most improbable being the attempted incarceration of a former Army Colonel given to appearing in the nude on market day. The chronology ends with a quiet account of a noisy Nazi march down the main street of Mattersburg, and a return after the war with its sudden recognitions of a time and a people that was. More
Boston, MA: Bulfinch Press, 2003. First Edition. First? Printing. Quarto, 48, illus., usual library markings, no CD enclosed. More
Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1993. First Edition [stated] First Paperback Printing [Stated]. Trade paperback. The format is approximately 8.5 inches by 11 inches. xv, [1], 240 pages. Minor cover wear and soiling noted. This was published to coincide with the opening of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in April, 1993. This volume commemorates the victims of the Holocaust, using photographs of the museum's artifacts to document the human stories. The contents include From the Director; Introduction, The Nazi Assault; The Holocaust; The Last Chapter; Afterword; Bibliographical Note; About the Museum; and Index. US Holocaust Memorial Museum ticket stub from November 18, 1994 laid in. The World Must Know depicts the evolution of the Holocaust comprehensively, as it is presented in the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. The Museum honors the six-million Jews and millions of other victims of the Nazis during World War II a memorial to the past and a living reminder of the moral obligations of societies. The World Must Know documents the compelling human stories of the Holocaust as told in the Museum's renowned Permanent Exhibition. "The World Must Know by Michael Berenbaum is a skillfully organized and clearly told account of the German Holocaust that consumed, with unparalleled malevolence, six million Jews and millions of innocent others Protestants, Catholics, Poles, Russians, Gypsies, the handicapped, and so many others, adults and children. This ... vital guide through the unique corridors of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum... merits the widest of audiences." Chaim Potok, author of The Chosen and The Promise. More
New York: Am Gathering/Jewish Hol Surv, 1985. 270, illus., pencil erasure on front endpaper, DJ somewhat worn, soiled, and small edge tears. Preface by Elie Wiesel. More
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1952. Second Printing. 461, frontis illus., index, slight discoloration inside boards, DJ stained & worn: small tears, small pieces missing The wartime diary which Berenson, the humanist and art historian, kept from1 January 1941 to 12 November 1944. More
New York: Scribner Book Company, 2001. Fourth Printing. 347, illus., notes, bibliography, index, black mark on bottom edge, DJ somewhat worn, soiled, and small edge tear. More
New York: Simon and Schuster, c1989. First Printing. 25 cm, 425, illus., index, pencil erasure on front endpaper, tear at rear DJ flap. More
New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1967. First Edition [stated], presumed first printing. Hardcover. Format is approximately 5 inches by 7.5 inches. DJ has some wear and soiling. 191, [1] pages. Inscribed by the author on the fep. Inscription follow a Hebrew notation at the top right corner. Inscription reads: To Dick a colleague & a friend. with best wishes from Chaim Bermant. Diary of an Old Man covers one winter month in Cyril's life as he struggles to survive on his almost nonexistent pension. The everyday events which are recounted--keeping warm, finding lodging, cooking, reading the papers in the local library--conceal an extraordinary feat of imagination on the part of the author. Cyril, the diarist, is cantankerous, voluble, mean and human...Through small incidents and with an acute ear for backchat, Mr. Bermant conveys Cyril's refusal to be defeated, and the humor as well as the tragedies of old age. This is a delightful and unusual novel about a rascally old age pensioner who lives in a single room without much to do but extracts a fair mount of malicious glee from the misfortunes of his contemporaries. Chaim Icyk Bermant (26 February 1929 – 20 January 1998) was a British-based journalist, and author. Born in Braslav, Belarus, he spent part of his childhood in Scotland. He was educated at Glasgow University, where he graduated in economics, and the London School of Economics. He contributed regularly to The Jewish Chronicle and to the national press, particularly The Observer. An Orthodox Jew and supporter of Israel, he was freely critical of both. He wrote several novels and non-fiction works, mostly on the quirks of British Jewish society. More
Secaucus, NJ: A Birch Lane Press Book, Carol Publishing Group, 1998. First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. xi[1], 212 pages. Pages 85-88 have a crease. Signed and dated on the front free endpaper by the author, Kathryn Bernhelmer. Contains Acknowledgments, Introduction, the fifty films, Afterword, Bibliography and Index. Kathryn has spent her professional life writing about, teaching, and presenting the arts. Founding Director of the Boulder Jewish Film Festival, Kathryn was Director of Menorah and ACE at the Boulder JCC from 2003 through August, 2019. The former film and theater critic for the Boulder Daily Camera, Kathryn is the author of "The Fifty Greatest Jewish Movies" and "The Fifty Funniest Films of All Time." The 50 Greatest Jewish Movies is the first book to review and rank movies depicting the Jewish experience, and it offers a fascinating guided tour through film history. This entertaining and illuminating collection of in-depth reviews, enhanced by fifty stunning movie stills, is filled with fascinating biographical and historical information. Do you know that Hollywood did not begin to address the horrors of the Holocaust until fourteen years after the end of World War II? Or that it was not until the 1960s that Jewish actors were routinely presented to the public without having their ethnic identity airbrushed? The 50 Greatest Jewish Movies provides a culturally sensitive critique of how Jews have been, and continue to be, defined. More
Nashville: Thomas Nelson, 2009. First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. xvi, 380, [4] pages. Map. Appendix A-F. Bibliography. Inscribed and dated by the author on the title page. Signed sentiment added in ink on Dedication page. Minor red edge stain. The author is a mission-driven professional with extraordinary ability to generate ideas, advance project goals, find solutions, contact and connect people, inspiring individuals to take action to achieve desired results. Requested and arranged private audiences with Pope Francis and Pope Benedict XVI at the Vatican. She developed a pilot program that included building a website, creating curricula and academic guidelines for students and teachers to research a World War II veteran. American students studying in Florence, Italy participated in commemoration programs for Memorial Day and Veterans Day with Prime Minister Matteo Renzi, U.S. Ambassador John R. Phillips and Brigadier General John Hort which resulted in the creation of a video of the two commemorations. More
W Owiecimiu: Publications of Pastwowe Muzeum, 1978. Second edition (revised). Wraps. Text in English, German. 330 p., [2] fold. leaves of plates: ill.; 21 cm. More
Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1998. First Printing [Stated]. Trade paperback. vi, 280, [2] pages. Notes. Notes on Contributors. Index. Sticker residue inside the front cover. David Biale is an American historian specializing in Jewish history. Biale specialized in Jewish history, and obtained a Ph.D. in the subject from the University of California, Los Angeles in 1977. Between 1986 and 1999, Biale was the Koret Professor of Jewish History and director of the Center for Jewish Studies at the Graduate Theological Union. He subsequently joined the University of California, Davis, as Emanuel Ringelblum Distinguished Professor of Jewish History. Michael Galchinsky writes on human rights literature, international human rights law, nineteenth-century British literature, and Jewish studies. His study of Jewish human rights activism after World War II, Jews and Human Rights: Dancing at Three Weddings, explores Jews’ initial enthusiasm for the growing international human rights regime in the wake of the Holocaust, but then the waning of their support, starting in the late 1960s, as the human rights began to be used to delegitimize Israel. He also co-edited with David Biale and Susannah Heschel, Insider/Outsider: American Jews and Multiculturalism. Susannah Heschel (born 15 May 1956) is an American scholar and the Eli M. Black Distinguished Professor of Jewish Studies at Dartmouth College. The author and editor of numerous books and articles, she is a Guggenheim Fellow and the recipient of numerous awards. Heschel's scholarship focuses on Jewish and Christian interactions in Germany during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. More
Austin, TX: Eakin Press. First Edition [Stated], First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. viii, 316 pages. Illustrations. Appendices. Glossary. Endnotes. Bibliography. Index. Inscribed by author on fep. Minor binding roughness inside front cover. Minor soiling noted. DJ has some spine sunning, slight wear and soiling. Dallas has one of the largest Jewish communities in the state. German Jews arrived in Dallas as part of the mid-nineteenth century immigration to Texas from the German principalities following their revolutions. They established the city's first Jewish cemetery in 1854. The small but growing Jewish community wanted a permanent religious structure as well as a rabbi to conduct services and to offer religious education for children. In 1873, several families founded the first congregation in the Dallas area, Jewish Congregation Emanu-El (now Temple Emanu-El), a Reform congregation. The Temple was chartered in 1875. The next year they built a small red brick temple in the Byzantine style at Commerce and Church (now Field) streets in downtown Dallas. The congregation engaged its first rabbi, Aaron Suhler, in 1875 and joined the Union of American Hebrew Congregations in 1906, an association of Reform congregations. More
New York: The Viking Press, 1981. First Edition. Presumed first printing. Hardcover. xii, 218, [2] pages. Illustrations. Footnotes. Bibliography. DJ somewhat scuffed and some edge wear. Inscribed by the author. John David Bierman, journalist and author, born January 26 1929; died January 4 2006. John Bierman was one of the last of a generation of buccaneering reporters and writers who pursued successful careers across the media. Newspaper reporter, editor, radio correspondent, television "fireman", documentary maker and, finally, acclaimed historian, Bierman excelled at each, in a working life that reached back to the days of plate cameras and reporters in trilbies. Bierman's breakthrough book was Righteous Gentile: The Story of Raoul Wallenberg (1981), which brought to international attention the then largely neglected story of the Swedish diplomat who rescued Hungarian Jews from the Nazis. Bierman's words are inscribed on Wallenberg's statue in central London: "The 20th century spawned two of history's vilest tyrannies. Raoul Wallenberg outwitted the first but was swallowed up by the second. His triumph over Nazi genocide reminds us that the courageous and committed individual can prevail against even the cruelest state machine. The fate of the six million Jews he was unable to rescue reminds us of the evil to which racist ideas can drive whole nations. Finally, his imprisonment reminds us not only of Soviet brutality but also of the ignorance and indifference which led the free world to abandon him. We must never forget these lessons." More
New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2015. First American Edition [stated], 1st Printing [stated]. Hardcover. vii, [1], 544, [4] pages. Illustrations. Index. Anna Bikont (born 17 July 1954) is a psychologist and writer associated with the Gazeta Wyborcza newspaper since its inception in 1989. Anna Bikont got her MA in Psychology in the Warsaw University, and worked there until 1988. Between 1982 and 1989 She was an underground Solidarity activist; co-founder and editor of Tygodnik Mazowsze weekly, Poland's largest underground publication. She was a co-founder of Gazeta Wyborcza, where she still works today as senior journalist. Her book 'Le Crime et le Silence' won the European Book Prize in 2011. More
Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 1981. First edition. Stated. Presumed first printing. Hardcover. 216, [1] p. Notes. Bibliography. Index. More
New York: Doubleday, 1989. First Edition. 24 cm, 215, illus., map, slight wear to DJ edges, ink notation on endpaper. More
New York: Doubleday, 1989. First Edition. 24 cm, 215, illus., map, some wear and creasing to DJ, DJ somewhat soiled, scratch to rear DJ. Inscribed by the author. More
Washington, DC [?]: Jacqueline Mendels Birn, 2013. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Trade paperback. 213, [3] pages. Footnotes. Illustrations. Selected Bibliography. Selected Filmography. Inscribed by the author on the photograph page. Inscription reads February 2014 To Harry, With all my hopes for a better future for humanity. Jacqueline Birn. Jacqueline was born on April 23, 1935 in Paris, France. Jacqueline had a normal childhood before the outbreak of the war in 1939, but everything changed in May 1940 when Germany invaded France. In the early days of the invasion the bombardments often forced the family to don gas masks and seek shelter in the cellar of their apartment building. Shortly after the invasion they fled to Deux-Sèvres, but returned to Paris after the armistice was signed and Jacqueline and Manuela were able to attend the local public school that September. In July 1941, the Vichy government instituted a program of “Aryanization” and although her father was forced to sell his share of the business to his non-Jewish partner, he continued to work and would hide in a back room if someone came in. In June 1942 French Jews were ordered to wear the yellow Star of David and the following month 13,000 Jews were rounded up and sent to the Drancy transit camp where most were deported to Auschwitz. Most of the roundups took place in areas of Paris with a high concentration of foreign Jews, but the Mendels lived in a primarily Catholic, French neighborhood where they were one of only a few Jewish families and the authorities did not come for them. More
New York: Pantheon Books, c1988. First Edition. First? Printing. 22 cm, 275, Inscribed by the author. More
New York: Crown Publishers, [1967]. First? Edition. First? Printing. Hardcover. 22 cm, 279 pages, illus., former owner's stamp on front endpaper and top edge. Inscribed by the author. More
New York: Crown Publishers, [1967]. First? Edition. First? Printing. 22 cm, 279, illus., bibliographical footnotes, DJ torn at spine, pencil erasure on front endpaper. Foreword by Philip M. Klutznick. More