Leon Blum: Man and Statesman
Philadelphia, PA: J. B. Lippincott Company, 1938. 330, illus., index, DJ somewhat worn, soiled, edge tears, and small chips, front DJ flap price clipped. More
Philadelphia, PA: J. B. Lippincott Company, 1938. 330, illus., index, DJ somewhat worn, soiled, edge tears, and small chips, front DJ flap price clipped. More
New York, NY: HarperCollins, 2005. First edition. First Edition [stated]. First printing [stated]. Hardcover. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. xxiii, [1], 721, [3] p. Notes. Index. More
Iowa City, IA: University of Iowa Press, 2002. First edition. First printing [stated]. Hardcover. xiii, [1], 146 p. Selected Bibliography. Index. Signed by author on the title page. More
New York: Praeger, 1991. First pbk. printing [stated]. Trade paperback. xvi, 160 p. Notes. Selected Bibliography. Index. More
New York: Simon & Schuster, 2000. Second Printing [stated]. Hardcover. 397, [3] pages. A Note on Hebrew and Yiddish Terms. Bibliography, Index. Signed by the author. The author of The Inheritance explores the meaning of Judaism in America today, concluding that beneath its prosperous exterior, American Jews are bitterly divided along sectarian and political lines. Samuel G. Freedman is an American author and journalist and currently a professor at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. Freedman was a staff reporter for the Culture section of The New York Times. He has authored six nonfiction books, including Who She Was: A Son's Search for His Mother's Life, a book about his mother's life as a teenager and young woman, and Letters to a Young Journalist. Freedman has won the National Jewish Book Award in 2000 in the Non-Fiction category for Jew vs. Jew: The Struggle for the Soul of American Jewry. His book The Inheritance: How Three Families Moved from Roosevelt to Reagan and Beyond was a finalist for the 1997 Pulitzer Prize. His book, Breaking the Line: The Season in Black College Football That Transformed the Sport and Changed the Course of Civil Rights, was published in New York, in August 2013 by Simon & Schuster. Freedman writes the "On Religion" column in The New York Times and formerly wrote The Jerusalem Post column "In the Diaspora." More
Chicago: The Argus Book Shop, Inc., 1935. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Stiff boards. [2],40, [6] pages. Cover has some wear and soiling and corner creased, chipped and bumped. Some page discoloration and one noted pencil erasure. Solomon Bennett Freehof (August 8, 1892 – 1990) was a prominent Reform rabbi, posek, and scholar. Rabbi Freehof served as president of the Central Conference of American Rabbis and the World Union for Progressive Judaism. Beginning in 1955, he led the CCAR's work on Jewish law through its responsa committee. He also spearheaded changes to Reform liturgy with revisions to the Union Prayer Book (siddur). For many years, he served as the pulpit rabbi at Rodef Shalom in Pittsburgh, PA. According to the congregation, "For more than 35 years, Dr. Freehof's weekly book review series attracted audiences of more than 1,500 Christians and Jews. In 1903, received a degree from the University of Cincinnati (1914) and ordained from Hebrew Union College (1915). He was a World War I army chaplain, a liturgy professor at HUC, and a rabbi at Chicago's Congregation Kehillath Anshe Maarav before moving to Pittsburgh. He retired in 1966. He is descended from the Alter Rebbe, the founder of Lubavitcher Hasidism. He studied halakhah with various Orthodox rabbis, including Rabbi Wolf Leiter of Pittsburgh and Rabbi Leopold Greenwald. Freehof was followed at Rodef Shalom, and in work on Reform responsa, by his protégé, Rabbi Dr. Walter Jacob, who later established the Freehof Institute of Progressive Halakhah. More
New York: Harper & Row, 1986. Presumed first edition/first printing. Hardcover. xiii, 495 p. Occasional footnotes. Illustrations. Notes. Bibliography. Index. More
New York: Delacorte Press, c1999. First Printing. 25 cm, 322. More
New York: Delacorte Press, 1999. First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. [12], 322, [2] pages. Inscribed by the author on the title page. Inscription reads 2/23/99 For Claudia All best wishes! Helen Fremont. Helen Fremont is an award-winning author and essayist. She wrote the critically-acclaimed, national best-selling book, After Long Silence. Her latest book, The Escape Artist, was selected as an “Editor’s Choice” new book by The New York Times in 2020. Helen Fremont, a lawyer and writer, was raised Roman Catholic by her Eastern European émigré parents. It was not until she was thirty-five that she discovered that her parents were, in fact, Jewish Holocaust survivors. The story of her parents’ survival, as well as her own efforts to piece together her family’s hidden identity is recorded in her memoir, After Long Silence. A national bestseller and Featured Alternate of the Book of the Month Club, the book has been published in England and Germany. It was selected by The New York Times as a “New and Noteworthy” book in 2000. Her critically acclaimed memoir, The Escape Artist, was selected as a New York Times “Editor’s Choice” in 2020. It was also recommended as one of the “Best New Books” by People Magazine in 2020, and BookPage named it a “Reader’s Choice” book of 2020. Helen is a graduate of Boston University Law School, and the Warren Wilson MFA Program for Writers. She has been a consultant with the U.S. Justice Department. Her works of fiction and nonfiction have appeared in Prize Stories: The O. Henry Awards, The New York Times, Ploughshares, Harvard Review, and Lilith, among other publications. More
New York: Continuum, 1994. First? Edition. First? Printing. 24 cm, 328, references, index. More
Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc., [1968]. First? Edition. First Thus? Printing. 24 cm, 536, illus., bibliographical footnotes, music, pencil erasure on front endpaper, DJ worn and soiled, front DJ flap price clipped. More
Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc., [1968]. First? Edition. First Thus? Printing. 24 cm, 536, illus., bibliographical footnotes, music, few library markings, rear free endpaper partly pasted inside rear board. More
Chapel Hill, NC: University of NC Press, 1995. First Edition. First Printing. 421, notes, bibliography, index, usual library markings, front board hinge weakened, strengthened with glue, DJ in plastic sleeve DJ pasted to boards, some corners creased. An exhaustively researched account of the killings of over 70,000 physically and mentally handicapped German citizens under a program code-named "T4." Friedlander asserts that many of the practices used in the "T4" program served as a model for those used during the Holocaust. More
Seattle, WA: University of Washington Press, 1999. Presumed first edition/first printing. Hardcover. xiv, 177 pages. Illustrations. Map. Foreword by Michael Berenbaum. A Samuel and Althea Stroum Book. Name of previous owner present. DJ has slight wear and soiling. Henry Friedman was robbed of his adolescence by the monstrous evil that annihilated millions of European Jews and changed forever the lives of those who survived. Like many other survivors, Henry Friedman has found it difficult to confront his past, but he has also felt the obligation to bear witness. Now retired, he devotes much of his time to telling his story, which he believes is a message of hope, to schoolchildren throughout the Pacific Northwest. In I'm No Hero, he confronts with unblinking honesty the pain, the shame, and the bizarre comedy of his passage to adulthood. He has received national recognition for his recollections. More
Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2001. First Paperback Edition [stated]. Presumed first printing thus. Trade paperback. xiv, 178 pages. Illustrations. Map of Poland. Minor cover wear and soiling. Small red mark on fore-edge. Inscribed by the author on the half-title page. Inscription reads: To Barbara! Keep up the noble work you are doing. Never give up Hope! Henry Friedman 2/13/10. Foreword by Michael Berenbaum. In 1939 when the Russians occupied Brody, his family lost their business and many of their private possessions. When the Nazis invaded Brody in 1941, they swiftly deprived Jews of their basic rights, forbidding Jews to attend school or teach and forcing them to wear armbands bearing the Star of David. One day in February 1942, a young woman named Julia Symchuck ran to the Friedman’s house and warned Henry's father that the Gestapo was coming for him. Thanks to Julia, Henry’s father was able to flee. In the fall of 1942, the Nazis forced the remaining Jews in the area into a ghetto in Brody. Henry, his mother, his younger brother, and their female teacher hid in a barn owned by Julia Symchuck's parents. The Friedmans remained in hiding for 18 months. In March 1944 they were liberated by the Russians. More
New York: Frederick Ungar Publishing, 1982. First? Edition. First? Printing. 390, illus., films of Jewish interest: a chronological listing, bibliography, index, DJ somewhat worn, soiled, edge tears/chips. More
Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1993. First edition. First printing stated. Hardcover. xxx, 677 p. Notes. Subject Index. Author/Title Index. Contributors. More
New York: HarperPerennial, c1994. First Edition. First Printing. 21 cm, 112, wraps, illus., map, bibliography, index. This work first appeared in the Atlantic Monthly in somewhat condensed form. More
New York: Grove Press, 1994. First edition. First edition [stated]. First printing [stated]. Hardcover. xx, 732 p. Illustrations. Notes. Photo Credits. Index. More
New York: Bloomsbury, 2015. First U.S. Edition [stated]. First printing [stated]. Hardcover. xix, [1], 435, [9] pages. Illustrations. A Note about the Text. Maps, Notes. Bibliography and Archives Consulted. Inscribed on the page facing the title page. Derived from a Kirkus review: Gabis brings her sensibility as a poet and indefatigable energy as a historian to this engrossing memoir. The author’s family spoke little about their past. Gabis knew that her maternal grandparents had come to America after World War II; that her grandfather had fought bravely against Russian invaders; that her grandmother had been arrested and sent to labor camps. However, several years ago, she found out more: her grandfather had been a Nazi security chief in a town where at least two mass slaughters had occurred. For the next several years, she became obsessed with one question: was the man she had loved a murderer? The author’s research involved repeated trips to Israel, Poland, and Lithuania. She interviewed Holocaust survivors whose persecution she recounts in moving detail; in Lithuania, she talked with witnesses to Russian and German occupations. Gabis petitioned for information from Lithuanian archives, discovered documents at the Holocaust Museum in Washington, D.C., and eventually amassed some 400 pages of archival material. Her journey was frequently interrupted by obstacles such as a destructive flood in her apartment that damaged documents and food poisoning. But the greatest obstacle proved to be the blurred, slippery past, which continually frustrated her. An eloquent testimony to the war’s enduring, violent impact. More
New York: Knopf, 1994. First Edition. First? Printing. 25 cm, 681, illus. More
New York: Atheneum, 1979. First American Edition. First? Printing. 242, illus., index, front DJ flap price clipped, ink notation inside front board, DJ worn, soiled, and edge tears. More
Frankfurt/Main: Possev-Verlag, 1974. Presumed First Edition, First printing thus. Pocket Paperback. Pocket paperback. TEXT IN RUSSIAN. 243, [1] pages. Wraps. Cover has wear and small creases and tears. Somewhat cocked. Author's photograph on rear cover. Alexander Arkadievich Galich (born Alexander Aronovich Ginzburg, October 1918, Ekaterinoslav – 15 December 1977, Paris) was a Soviet poet, screenwriter, playwright, singer-songwriter, and dissident. He wrote plays and screenplays, and in the late 1950s, he started to write songs and sing them accompanying himself on his guitar. Influenced by the Russian city romance tradition and the art of Alexander Vertinsky, Galich developed his own voice within the genre. He practically single-handedly created the genre of "bard song". Many of his songs spoke of the Second World War and the lives of concentration camp inmates—subjects which Vladimir Vysotsky also began tackling at around the same time. They became popular with the public and were made available via magnitizdat. More
Washington, DC: Regnery Publishing, Inc., 2004. First edition. First printing [stated]. Hardcover. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 444 p. Illustrations. Note on Language. Notes. Selected Bibliography. Index. More
Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin Company, c1984. First Printing. 22 cm, 199, DJ somewhat soiled, small tears and wear to DJ edges, pencil erasure on front endpaper. More