Man in the Shadows: Inside the Middle East Crisis with a Man Who Led the Mossad
New York: St. Martin's Press, 2006. First edition. Stated. First printing [stated]. Hardcover. x, 292 p. Index. More
New York: St. Martin's Press, 2006. First edition. Stated. First printing [stated]. Hardcover. x, 292 p. Index. More
Washington, DC: Palestine Affairs Center, 1988. 29, wraps, notes, covers somewhat soiled. Copy of article on "Blacks and the Israeli conflict" by Jean Bond laid in. More
Westport, CT: Lawrence Hill & Company, 1986. First Edition. First printing [stated]. Hardcover. [10], 210, [4] pages. Index. DJ has slight wear and soiling. Signed by author on half-title. Grace Halsell (May 7, 1923 – August 16, 2000) was an American journalist and writer. The daughter of writer Harry H. Halsell, she studied at Texas Tech from 1939 to 1942, at Columbia University from 1943 to 1944, at Texas Christian University from 1945 to 1951, and at the Sorbonne (Paris) from 1957 to 1958. Halsell worked for several newspapers between 1942 and 1965, including the Lubbock Avalanche-Journal, the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, and the Washington bureau of the Houston Post. She covered both the Korean and Vietnam Wars as a reporter, and was a White House speech writer for President Lyndon B. Johnson from 1965 to 1968. She wrote ten books, including the critically acclaimed Soul Sister and Journey to Jerusalem. More
New York: Arcade Publishing [Little, Brown and Company], 1989. 1st English Language Edition [stated]. First Printing [stated]. Hardcover. 24 cm. viii, 273, [7] pages. Index. Marek Halter is a French-Jewish writer and activist, known best for his historical novels, which have been translated into English, Polish, Hebrew, and many other languages. In 1968, he founded together with his wife, Clara Halter, the magazine Élements, which published equally works by Israeli, Palestinian, and Arab writers. His first book, a political autobiography, Le Fou et les Rois (The Jester and the Kings) was awarded the Prix Aujourd'hui in 1976. Other works include The Messiah, The Mysteries of Jerusalem, The Book of Abraham (1986) and its sequel, The Children of Abraham (1990), The Wind of the Khazars (2003) —a piece of historical fiction about the Khazars, a nomadic kingdom of Turkic people in the Caucasus who converted to Judaism—, Sarah (2004), Zipporah (2005), Lilah (2006), and Mary of Nazareth (2008). More
New York: Arcade Pub. c1989. 1st Eng. Lang. Edition. First Printing. 24 cm, 273, index, p. 140 creased. Translation of: Le fou et les rois. More
New York: Random House, 1965. First Printing. 22 cm, 118. More
London: Vallentine, Mitchell, 1958. Presumed first edition/first printing. Hardcover. x, 113, [5] p. ll., 23 cm. Illustration. More
Jerusalem, Israel: Keter Publishing House Jerusalem Ltd., 1974. Presumed first edition/first printing thus. Trade paperback. x, 285p.; 22 cm. Bibliography. More
New York: The Free Press, 1977. Third printing [stated]. Trade paperback. xiii, [1], 194 pages. Cover and edges have some wear and soiling. The former chief of Israeli intelligence, examining then current Arab attitudes toward Israel, indicates some hope for a Middle East peace, despite continuing Arab hostility and depending upon Israel's responses to Arab demands and proposals. More than half a century later, the conflicts remain unresolved. Yehoshafat Harkabi (born 1921, Haifa; died 26 August 1994, Jerusalem) was chief of Israeli military intelligence from 1955 until 1959 and afterwards a professor of International Relations and Middle East Studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Harkabi had a good command of Arabic, a deep knowledge of Arab civilization and history, and a solid understanding of Islam. He developed from an uncompromising hardliner to supporter of a Palestinian state who recognized the PLO as a negotiations partner. In his most well-known work Israel's Fateful Hour, Harkabi described himself as a "Machiavellian dove" intent on searching "for a policy by which Israel can get the best possible settlement of the conflict in the Middle East" (1988, p. xx) - a policy that would include a Zionism "of quality and not of acreage" (p. 225). Harkabi was forced to resign as chief of Military Intelligence as a consequence of the 1959 Night of the Ducks. Following his military career, Harkabi served as a visiting professor at Princeton University and guest scholar at the Brookings Institution. He was Maurice Hexter professor and director of the Leonard Davis Institute of International Relations and Middle East Studies at Hebrew University of Jerusalem. More
New York: New York University, 1970. 35, wraps, illus., some wear and soiling to covers, some ink marks on cover. More
Chappaqua, NY: Rossel Books, 1983. First Edition [stated], presumed first printing. Hardcover. xvii, [1], 206 pages. This appears to be signed by the author at the upper right corner of fep. DJ has some wear, tears and soiling. Some edge soiling. Includes Preface, Introduction, Chronology, Map, Chart, Abbreviations, Notes, Selected Bibliography; and Index. Chapters include Prelude; The History of the Bar Kokhba Rebellion; the Bar Kokhba Rebellion; Premodern Reactions: Repression and Passivity; The Bar Kokhba Syndrome, The Important of Political Realism; Realism in Judaism in Judaism and in Zionism; Past and Future; The Destiny and the Enterprise, and Epilogue. Yehoshafat Harkabi (born 1921, Haifa; died 1994, Jerusalem) was chief of Israeli military intelligence from 1955 until 1959 and afterwards a professor of International Relations and Middle East Studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Harkabi had a command of Arabic, a knowledge of Arab civilization and history, and an understanding of Islam. He developed from an uncompromising hardliner to supporter of a Palestinian state who recognized the PLO as a negotiations partner. In his well-known work Israel's Fateful Hour, hei described himself as a "Machiavellian dove" intent on searching "for a policy by which Israel can get the best possible settlement"--a policy that would include a Zionism "of quality and not of acreage". Harkabi resigned as chief of Military Intelligence as a consequence of the 1959 Night of the Ducks. Following his military career, Harkabi was Maurice Hexter professor and director of the Leonard Davis Institute of International Relations and Middle East Studies at Hebrew University of Jerusalem. More
London: Vallentine, Mitchell, 1972. First U.K.? Edition. First? Printing. 24 cm, 527, DJ worn and badly torn. More
Jersey City, NJ: Ktav Publishing House, Inc., 2004. Presumed first edition/first printing. Hardcover. xi, [1], 388 pages. Illustrations. Distribution letter laid in. More
Manchester: Archives Publications, c1988. approx. 125, wraps, profusely illus., covers somewhat worn, soiled, small scuff, and sticker residue. Foreword by Sir Sidney Hamburger. More
London, England: Sidgwick & Jackson, 1984. Reprint. Second Edition, second printing 1986. Hardcover. 480 p. Illustrations. More
Cincinnati: American Jewish Archives, 1988. 24 cm, 186, wraps, notes, pencil erasure on title page, some wear and soiling to covers. More
New York: Schocken Books, 1992. First Edition [stated], presumed first printing. Hardcover. xxi, [1], 394 pages. Illustrations. Notes. Index. DJ has some wear, soiling and wrinkling. DJ is price-clipped. Slightly cocked. Samuel C. Heilman is a professor of Sociology at Queens College of the City University of New York who focuses on social ethnography of contemporary Jewish Orthodox movements. Heilman holds the Harold Proshansky Chair in Jewish Studies at the CUNY Graduate Center of Queens College of the City University of New York, where he also serves as a Distinguished Professor of Sociology. In 2003, Heilman won the Marshall Sklare Memorial Award for his lifetime of scholarship from the Association for the Social Scientific Study of Jewry. He also was awarded the highest university rank of Distinguished Professor of Sociology by the City University of New York. His books have received various awards. Defenders of the Faith was a finalist for the National Jewish Book Award for 1992. Heilman is also the recipient of fellowships from the National Science Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the American Council of Learned Societies, the Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture, and the Mellon Foundation. He received a Distinguished Faculty Award from the City University of New York in 1985 and 1987. He has been a member of the board of the Association for Jewish Studies, the YIVO Annual and the Max Weinreich Center. More
Berlin: B. Harz, 1919. 265, boards worn, soiled, and foxed, some page discoloration. Text is in German. More
New York: Marcus Wiener Publishing, 1987. 295, illus., DJ worn, soiled, edge tears, and chips. More
New York, N.Y. American Zionist Emergency Council, 1946. 50th Year Special Anniversary Edition, presumed first printing thus. Wraps. 160 pages. Some darkening to pages and some bottom page corners creased. Cover worn. This translation of The Jewish State, based on a revised translation published by the Scopus Publishing Company, was further revised by Jacob M. Alkow, editor of this book. The biography was condensed from Alex Bein's Theodor Herzl, published by the Jewish Publication Society of America. The bibliography and the chronology were prepared by the Zionist Archives and Library. Theodor Herzl (2 May 1860 – 3 July 1904) was an Austro-Hungarian Jewish journalist, playwright, political activist, and writer who was the father of modern political Zionism. Herzl formed the Zionist Organization and promoted Jewish immigration to Palestine in an effort to form a Jewish state. Though he died before its establishment, he is known as the father of the State of Israel. Herzl is specifically mentioned in the Israeli Declaration of Independence and is officially referred to as "the spiritual father of the Jewish State", i.e. the visionary who gave a concrete, practicable platform and framework to political Zionism. However, he was not the first Zionist theoretician or activist; scholars, many of them religious such as rabbis Yehuda Bibas, Zvi Hirsch Kalischer and Judah Alkalai, promoted a range of proto-Zionist ideas before him. Contains an Introduction by Louis Lipsky, a Biography based on the work of Alex Bein. Also contains a Preface and Introduction, as well as chapters on The Jewish Question; The Jewish Company; Local Groups; Society of Jews and Jewish State; and Conclusion; as well as a Bibliography and a Chronology. More
New York: Random House, 1978. First Edition. 277, maps, index, DJ somewhat worn & soiled: edge tears/chips, minor damp stains inside DJ at bottom--board underneath is OK. More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2015. First Edition [stated], presumed first printing. Hardcover. xv, [1]. 618, [6] pages. Endpaper maps, illustrations, appendix, notes, bibliography, index. Chapters 1 through 6 cover the period of time from Britain's conquest of Palestine in 1917, toward the end of World War I, to the early years of World War II, depicting the reasons behind the emergence of a Jewish underground in response to Arab violence and terrorism, and traces its evolution into a counterterrorism strike force that eventually turned its weapons on Britain as well. Chapters 7 through 10 focus on wartime Palestine. The split that produced rival Jewish Terrorist factions, the official Zionist movement, and the growing polarization of the Jewish community from the British government led to the escalation of Jewish terrorism, now directed solely against the British government. The final part, chapters 11 through 19, chronicles the war that Britain fought in Palestine following World War II. More
New York, N.Y. W. H. Freeman and Company, 1997. First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. xii, 362, [10] pages. Heavily illustrated, including 10 color plates. Some Hebrew and Yiddish but this is an English language work. Inscribed by the author (Roald Hoffmann) on the front free endpaper. Inscription reads: For Maxine and family with friendship, Roald, in Ithaca, 1997. Includes a post care with a photograph of Cordoba and a hand written note which states: Dear Maxine, You don't have to be religious, etc. to enjoy this book. See a good photo of me in Plate 6. with affection Roald 8/28/97. Includes Preface, Epilogue, and How We Came to Old Wine, New Flasks, With a Little Help From Our Friends. Also includes Notes, Credits, Glossary of Hebrew and Yiddish, and Index, as well as chapters on Is Nature Natural; A Sukkah from an Elephant; You Must Not Deviate to the Right or the Left; Bitter Waters Run Sweet; The Flag That Came out of the Blue: A Play in Three Acts and Two Intermezzi; Signs and Portents: No Parking in the Courtroom; Pure/Impure; and Camel Caravans in the Pentagon. Roald Hoffmann (born Roald Safran; July 18, 1937) is a Polish-American theoretical chemist who won the 1981 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. He has also published plays and poetry. He is the Frank H. T. Rhodes Professor of Humane Letters, Emeritus, at Cornell University, in Ithaca, New York. Hoffmann received the 1981 Nobel Prize in chemistry, sharing it with Japanese chemist Kenichi Fukui. Shira Leibowitz Schmidt is an engineer, translator, essayist, mother of six, and teacher of English as a foreign language at Netanya Academic College in Israel. More
New York: Council on Foreign Relations, 2008. Presumed first edition/first printing of this issue. Wraps. [10], 166, [2] p. More
Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 1995. Revised edition. First printing [stated]. Hardcover. Sewn binding. Paper over boards. xi, [1], 239, [3] p. Illustrations. Bibliography. Index. More