To Give Life: The UJA in the Shaping of the American Jewish Community
New York: Schoken Books, 1981. First Printing. 205, illus., bibliography, index, DJ somewhat worn, soiled, and sunned. More
New York: Schoken Books, 1981. First Printing. 205, illus., bibliography, index, DJ somewhat worn, soiled, and sunned. More
New York: Columbia University Press, 1995. First edition. First printing [stated]. Hardcover. xii, [16], 198 p. Illustrations. Occasional footnotes. Bibliography. Index. More
Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1980. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Hardcover. viii, 392 pages. Some wear and small tears and creasing to dust jacket. Endpapers and text contains substantial red and black underlining and notations. Includes Preface and Introduction. Also includes chapters on Background, 1700-1780; Germany, 1780-1819; France, 1780-1880; Germany, 1830-1873; Austria-Hungary, 1780-1880; The Movement; and Culmination. Also contains Notes and Index. Jacob Katz (born 15 November 1904 in Magyargencs, Hungary, died 20 May 1998 in Israel) was a Jewish historian and educator. He established the history curriculum used in Israel's High Schools. Katz deployed sociological methods in his study of Jewish communities, with special attention to changes in Jewish law and Orthodoxy. He pioneered the modern study of Orthodoxy and its formation in reaction to Reform Judaism. In the year 1945 Jacob Katz presented to a conference of historians his article "Marriage and Sexual Relations at the close of the Middle Ages". Katz had already been credited with a few articles in the fields of education, psychology, and pedagogy, and their publication had given him a good reputation in the field. Ben-Zion Dinur encouraged Katz not to give up on his research even in the absence of an academic post. With hindsight it is possible to claim that Katz's article on "Marriage and Sexual Relations" in Zion paved the way for his joining the faculty of Hebrew University. Katz became a specialist in Jewish-gentile relations, the Jewish Enlightenment, anti-Semitism, and the Holocaust. His works provide much of the basis for scholarly analyses of anti-Semitism. More
New York: Simon & Schuster, 2003. Book Club Edition. First Printing. 418, illus., maps, chronology, appendices, sources and notes, bibliography, index. More
New York: Scribner, c1988. First Printing. 24 cm, 311, notes, index, slight wear and soiling to DJ. More
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, c1988. First Printing. Hardcover. 24 cm, 311 pages, notes, index, slight wear and soiling to DJ. Inscribed by the author. More
New York: Viking, 1997. First Edition. First Printing. 328, illus., notes, DJ slightly worn and soiled, sticker residue on DJ. More
New York: Random House, c1989. First Edition. First Printing. 24 cm, 270. More
New York: Rinehart & Company, Inc., 1956. Presumed First Edition/First Printing. Hardcover. 271 pages. Front DJ flap price clipped, DJ worn, soiled, edge tears, and chips, some page discoloration. Signed by the author. More
New York: Newmarket Press, 1999. First Edition. First Printing. Hardcover. 368 pages. Illus., index, front DJ flap price clipped. Inscribed by the author (Jeff Young). More
Alfred A. Knopf, 1978. Reprint. Second printing. Hardcover. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 307 p. Index. More
New York, NY: Simon & Schuster, 1982. First Printing thus [Stated]. Hardcover. 400 pages. Illustrations. Name in ink on fep. Half-title page roughly removed. DJ has wear, tears and some soiling and is in a plastic sleeve. Thomas Michael Keneally, AO (born 7 October 1935) is an Australian novelist, playwright and author of non-fiction. He is best known for writing Schindler's Ark, the Booker Prize-winning novel of 1982 which was inspired by the efforts of Poldek Pfefferberg, a Holocaust survivor. The book would later be adapted to Steven Spielberg's Schindler's List, which won the Academy Award for Best Picture. He was a lecturer at the University of New England (1968 70). He has also written screenplays, memoirs and non-fiction books. Keneally was known as "Mick" until 1964 but began using the name Thomas when he started publishing, after advice from his publisher to use what was really his first name. More
New York: Oxford University Press, 1999. Reprint. Second printing. Hardcover. xviii, 936 p. Footnotes. Illustrations. Bibliographical Essay. Index. More
New York: Oxford University Press, 2001. First Oxford University Paperback Edition. First Printing [Stated]. Trade paperback. xviii, [2], 936, [4] pages. Illustrations. Maps. Footnotes. Bibliographical Essay. Index. Inscribed and dated by the author to Paul Belman (?) on title page. Cover has slight wear and soiling. This is Volume IX of The Oxford History of the United States. This work was awarded a Pulitzer Prize in 2000. David Michael Kennedy (born July 22, 1941 in Seattle, Washington) is an American Pulitzer Prize-winning historian specializing in American history. He is the Donald J. McLachlan Professor of History Emeritus at Stanford University and the former Director of the Bill Lane Center for the American West. Professor Kennedy's scholarship is notable for its integration of economic analysis and cultural analysis with social history and political history. Kennedy is responsible for the recent editions of the popular history textbook The American Pageant. He is also the current editor (since 1999) of the Oxford History of the United States series. This position was held previously by C. Vann Woodward. Earlier in his career, Kennedy won the Bancroft Prize for his first book Birth Control in America: The Career of Margaret Sanger (1970), and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for his book World War I, Over Here: The First World War and American Society (1980). He was the Harold Vyvyan Harmsworth Professor of American History in 1995-6. More
New York: Published for the Zionist Organization of America by the Herzl Press, 1965. Hardcover. 69 p. Illustrations.29 cm. More
New York: The Viking Press, 1983. Fourth Printing. 402, illus., map, index, ink notation on front endpaper, slight edge soiling. More
Cambridge, MA: Da Capo Press, 2010. First edition. First printing [stated]. Hardcover. Glued binding. Paper over boards. x, [4], 294, [10] p. Illustrations, black & white, Maps. Notes. Bibliography. Index. More
New York: W. W. Norton, 1999. First American Edition. First Printing. 25 cm, 845, illus., references, notes, index, DJ somewhat worn, soiled, and creased, slight weakness to front hinge. More
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1957. First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. 314, [6] pages. Occasional Footnotes. Appendix. Index. Slight discoloration inside boards. Felix Kersten (30 September 1898 – 16 April 1960) was before and during World War II the personal physical therapist of Heinrich Himmler. As Heinrich Himmler's personal manual therapist, Dr. Kersten used his powers to intercede on behalf of thousands of Dutchmen, Germans, Jews, and others. Kersten accepted Heinrich Himmler's request to become his personal physical therapist, writing later that he feared for his safety if he had refused. He was able to alleviate Himmler’s severe stomach pains with his skills and gained his trust. During the War, Kersten also provided information to the OSS, predecessor of the CIA. Towards the end of the War, Kersten arranged a meeting between Himmler and Norbert Masur, a member of the Swedish branch of the World Jewish Congress, in Hartzwalde, a few miles from Ravensbrück concentration camp. As a result, Himmler agreed to spare the lives of the remaining 60,000 Jews left in concentration camps days before their liberation by the Allies. In December 1945, the World Jewish Congress presented Kersten with a letter thanking him for helping to save Jewish concentration camp victims. More
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1957. First Printing. 314, appendix, index, slight discoloration inside boards, ink name ins fr bd, DJ worn & soiled: small tears, small pieces missing. More
Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press, 1999. Paperback Edition [stated]. Presumed first printing. Trade paperback. [4], 95, [5] pages. Minor cover soiling. Originally published in Hungarian under the title Kaddis a meg nem szvuletett gyermekert, Budapest, 1990. English translation copyright 1997 at time of hardcover publication. A middle-aged writer and Holocaust survivor explains to a friend why he cannot bring a child into a world that allows such horrors as the Holocaust. Imre Kertész (9 November 1929 – 31 March 2016) was a Hungarian author and recipient of the 2002 Nobel Prize in Literature, "for writing that upholds the fragile experience of the individual against the barbaric arbitrariness of history". He was the first Hungarian to win the Nobel in Literature. His works deal with themes of the Holocaust (he was a survivor of a German concentration camp), dictatorship and personal freedom. During World War II, Kertész was deported in 1944 at the age of 14 with other Hungarian Jews to the Auschwitz concentration camp, and was later sent to Buchenwald. Upon his arrival at the camps, Kertész claimed to be a 16-year old worker, thus saving him from the instant extermination that awaited a 14-year-old. After his camp was liberated in 1945, Kertész returned to Budapest, graduated from high school in 1948, and then went on to find work as a journalist and translator. Following on from Fatelessness, Kertész's Fiasco (1988) and Kaddish for an Unborn Child (1990) are, respectively, the second and third parts of his Holocaust trilogy. His writings translated into English include Kaddish for an Unborn Child and Liquidation, the latter set during the period of Hungary's evolution into a democracy from communist rule. More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1997. First edition. Stated. Presumed first printing. Hardcover. xi, 352 p. Maps. Notes. Archival Sources. Bibliography. Index. More
New York: HarperCollins Publishers, 1999. First Edition [Stated], First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. x, 326 pages. Illustrated endpapers. Index. Illustrations (color). Inscribed by the author. Ronald Borek Kessler (born December 31, 1943) is an American journalist and author of 21 non-fiction books about the White House, U. S. Secret Service, FBI, and CIA. Seven of his books have appeared on The New York Times Best Seller list. From 1970 to 1985, Kessler was an investigative reporter for The Washington Post. In 1972, he won a George Polk Memorial award because of two series of articles he wrote—one on conflicts of interest and mismanagement at Washington area non-profit hospitals, and a second series exposing kickbacks among lawyers, title insurance companies, realtors, and lenders in connection with real estate settlements. That Kessler series resulted in congressional passage in 1974 of the Real Estate Settlement Procedures Act (RESPA), which outlaws kickbacks for referral of settlement services in connection with real estate closings. In 1979, Kessler won a second Polk Award, this one for National Reporting for a series of articles exposing corruption in the General Services Administration. Kessler's Washington Post stories reporting that Lena Ferguson had been denied membership in the Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR) because she is black led to her acceptance by the DAR, appointment to head the DAR Scholarship Committee, and widespread changes in the organization's policies to increase membership by blacks. Since leaving The Washington Post, Kessler has authored 21 nonfiction books. Seven reached the nonfiction New York Times Best Seller list. More
New York: HarperCollins Publishers, 1999. First Edition [Stated], First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. x, 326 pages. Illustrated endpapers. Index. Illustrations (color). Signed on the title page by the author. Ronald Borek Kessler (born December 31, 1943) is a journalist and author of 21 non-fiction books about the White House, U. S. Secret Service, FBI, and CIA. Seven of his books have appeared on The New York Times Best Seller list. From 1970 to 1985, Kessler was an investigative reporter for The Washington Post. In 1972, he won a George Polk Memorial award because of two series of articles he wrote—one on conflicts of interest and mismanagement at Washington area non-profit hospitals, and a second series exposing kickbacks among lawyers, title insurance companies, realtors, and lenders in connection with real estate settlements. That Kessler series resulted in congressional passage in 1974 of the Real Estate Settlement Procedures Act (RESPA), which outlaws kickbacks for referral of settlement services in connection with real estate closings. In 1979, Kessler won a second Polk Award, this one for National Reporting for a series of articles exposing corruption in the General Services Administration. Kessler's Washington Post stories reporting that Lena Ferguson had been denied membership in the Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR) because she is black led to her acceptance by the DAR, appointment to head the DAR Scholarship Committee, and widespread changes in the organization's policies to increase membership by blacks. Since leaving The Washington Post, Kessler has authored 21 nonfiction books. Seven reached the nonfiction New York Times Best Seller list. More
New York: Warner Books, 1996. First edition. First printing [stated]. Hardcover. xii, 480 p. Geneaological Chart on endpapers. Illustrations. Notes. Bibliography. Index. More