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New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1960. First Edition. First? Printing. 21 cm, 310, bibliography, notes, index, DJ worn, soiled, scuffed, and chipped. Inscription by the author defaced/erased. More
New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1960. First Edition. First? Printing. 21 cm, 310, bibliography, notes, index, DJ worn, soiled, scuffed, and chipped. Inscription by the author defaced/erased. More
New York: D. Appleton-Century Company, 1943. 22 cm, 372, index, boards somewhat worn and soiled. More
New York: Jewish Theological Seminary, c1977. First? Edition. First? Printing. 24 cm, 30, bibliography. Introduction by Menahem Schmelzer. More
Hoboken, NJ: Ktav Pub. House, c1992. 24 cm, 180, illus., references, one sheet of project ephemera laid in. Approbation by Ehud Olmert, Mayor of Jerusalem. More
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010. First Edition [Stated], First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. lviii, 811, [11] pages. Notes. Index. DJ has slight wear and soiling. Anthony Robert Julius (born 16 July 1956) is a British solicitor advocate known for being Diana, Princess of Wales' divorce lawyer[1] and for representing Deborah Lipstadt. Trials of the Diaspora is a ground-breaking book that reveals the full history of anti-Semitism in England. Anthony Julius focuses on four distinct versions of English anti-Semitism. He begins with the medieval persecution of Jews, which included defamation, expropriation, and murder, and which culminated in 1290 when King Edward I expelled all the Jews from England. Turning to literary anti-Semitism, Julius shows that negative portrayals of Jews have been continuously present in English literature from the anonymous medieval ballad "Sir Hugh, or the Jew's Daughter," through Shakespeare's Merchant of Venice, to T. S. Eliot and beyond. The book then moves to a depiction of modern anti-Semitism--a pervasive but contained prejudice of insult and exclusion that was experienced by Jews during their "readmission" to England in the mid-17th century through the late 20th century. The final chapters detail the contemporary anti-Semitism that emerged in the late 1960s and the 1970s and continues to be present today. It treats Zionism and the State of Israel as illegitimate Jewish enterprises, and, in Julius's opinion, now constitutes the greatest threat to Anglo-Jewish security and morale. A penetrating and original work, Trials of the Diaspora is sure to provoke much comment and debate. More
Zurich: Neue Zurcher Zeitung Pub. 2002. Second Edition. 240, wraps, illus., diagrams, bibliography, notes. More
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2017. Advance Reading Copy [stated]. Trade paperback. [8], 567, [1] pages. Publisher's letter to reviewer laid in. This is a sophisticated work of historical fiction about women separated by centuries, and the choices and sacrifices they must make in order to reconcile the life of the heart and mind. Set in London of the 1660s and of the early twenty-first century, this book is the interwoven tale of two women of remarkable intellect: Ester Velasquez, an emigrant from Amsterdam who is permitted to scribe for a blind rabbi just before the plague hits the city; and Helen Watt, an ailing historian with a love of Jewish history. As the novel opens, Helen has been summoned by a former student to view a cache of seventeenth-century Jewish documents newly discovered in his home during renovation. Enlisting the help of Aaron Levy, an American graduate student as impatient as he is charming, and in a race with another fast-moving team of historians, Helen embarks on one last project: to determine the identity of the documents' scribe, the elusive "Aleph." Rachel Kadish is an American writer of fiction and non-fiction and the author of several novels and a novella. Her novel The Weight of Ink won the National Jewish Book Award in 2017. Her fiction work has won the National Jewish Book Award and the Julia Ward Howe Prize, the John Gardner Fiction Prize, and the Association of Jewish Libraries Fiction Award. Kadish has also written in Quartz magazine about Chiune Sugihara, the Japanese diplomat who saved her family during World War II and in The Paris Review on the importance of historical fiction in illuminating forgotten history. More
New York: HarperSanFrancisco [a Division of HarperCollinsPublishers], 1994. Sixth printing [stated]. Hardcover. x, 304, [4] pages. Inscribed by the author on the title page. Inscription reads For the hands of Lucy Prinz Well met, Rodger Kamenetz. Includes Acknowledgments; Introduction; Sparks; Flames; Roadblocks; Heights; Blessings; Contact; The Angel of Tibet and the Angel of the Jews; Always Remind; Debating Monks and Angels; Shabbat Shalom and Tashe Delek; Jewish Buddhists, Buddhist Jews; JUBUs in America; Tibetan Intellectuals, Tibetan Orphans; An Interview with the Oracle; Secret Doors; Tantra and Kabbalah; Survival Strategies; One Last Question; A Buddhist Jew--The Allen Ginsberg Story; A Synagogue in Delhi; Buddha's Jews; A Last Secret; and In a Pool of Nectar. Notes and References. Glossary. Rodger Kamenetz (born 1950) is an American poet and author best known for The Jew in the Lotus (1994), an account of the historic dialogue between rabbis and the XIV Dalai Lama. His poetry explores the Jewish experience and in recent years, dream consciousness. This amazing journey through Tibetan Buddhism and Judaism leads Kamenetz to a renewed appreciation of his living Jewish roots. Since 2003 he's been instrumental in developing Natural Dreamwork, a practice that focuses on the sacred encounters in dreams. More
New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1981. First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. [6], 282 pages. Index. DJ has wear, tears, soiling and chips. “Every day,” writes Rabbi Meir Kahane, “the Arabs of Israel move closer to becoming a majority. Are we [Israel] committed to national suicide? Should we allow demography, geography, and democracy to push Israel closer to the abyss? According to Rabbi Kahane, Israel can only be sustained by a permanent Jewish majority and a small, insignificant, and placid Arab minority. But the Arab population continues to grown quantitatively and qualitatively. They openly vow to destroy the Jewish state – with the democratic vote. In this explosive manifesto Rabbi Kahane sets forth the only plan to save Israel. Israeli Arabs would be given the options of accepting noncitizenship, leaving willingly with compensation, or being forcibly expelled without compensation. Controversial? Yes. “For Jews and Arabs in Israel there is only one answer – separation. Jews in their land, Arabs in theirs. Separation. Only separation.” They Must Go was written in 1980 while Rabbi Meir Kahane was jailed in Ramle Prison by the Israeli government under an unprecedented administrative detention order that imprisoned him without a trial, without his being informed of any specific charge, and without opportunity to know or to question any alleged evidence or witness. Rabbi Kahane’s ideas were suppressed, defamed, and subjected to hysterical diatribes by people who were too frightened to consider them intelligently or to debate them intellectually. Is there a time bomb ticking away relentlessly in the Holy Land? Can Arabs and Jews ultimately coexist in a Jewish-Zionist state? More
New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1969. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Hardcover. 253, [1] pages. Illustrations, including 25 in full color. Notes. Glossary-Index. Photocredits. Foreword by Louis Finkelstein. DJ has slight wear and soiling. Dr. Kanof was noted for his research and writing in the field of Jewish ceremonial art; his role in the development of the Tobe Pascher Workshop of the Jewish Museum, New York, N.Y.; his curatorship at the North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, N.C.; and his patronage of the arts. More
New York: Collier Books, 1973. Revised Edition, First Collier Books Edition. Trade paperback. 410, [2] pages. Footnotes. Maps. Cover has some wear and soiling. Some edge soiling. This was previously published under the title The Warsaw Diary of Chaim A. Kaplan. Chaim Aron was born in Gorodishche, Belorussia. He received a talmudical education at the yeshivah of Mir and later studied at the Government Pedagogical Institute in Vilna. In 1902 he settled in Warsaw, where he founded a pioneering elementary Hebrew school, of which he was principal for 40 years. The diarist has an eye for detail as well for major trends. He is concerned with politics as well as with philosophy. Since the diary was his constant companion, Kaplan poured into it a great deal of his intellectual life – his thoughts, his information, and all the conversations he had with his friends. He is not detached from the scene; indeed, he apparently sought out all possible first-hand information and his descriptions deal with the mood of the time, the hour of occurrence. Many seeming contradictions are really the hourly changes of those fantastic times, with the result that at times he condemns the leaders of the Jewish community and at times praises them. He had no use for Adam Czerniakow, the president of the Judenrat whom he accused of usurping power at a time when the Warsaw Jewish community was powerless to elect a leader. Yet when Czerniakow committed suicide because he could no longer bring himself to deliver Jews to the Nazis, Kaplan wrote a noble eulogy of him, commenting: His end proves that he worked and strove for the good of his people, though not everything done in his name was praiseworthy. More
New York: Oxford University Press, 1998. Second Printing. 25 cm, 290, illus., references, index, some wear and soiling to boards. More
Cape Town, South Africa: Kaplan Kushlick Foundation, 1989. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Hardcover. 112 pages. Illustrations (most in color). Index. Published to make the 60th Anniversary of Cape Gate (Pty) Limited. Sarah Rebecca Beliayev (1869-1952) of Velizh (later part of Latvia) and Michael Chaim Kushlick (1869-1932) of Druja, Russia, emigrated to Cape Town, South Africa in 1910 with their children. Menachem Mendel (Max) Kaplan (1876-1923) of Shadove, Lithuania and Razel (Rose) Karabelnik (1880-1913) of Krakinovo, Lithuania emigrated 1903-1904 to Johannesburg, South Africa after being married in Cape Town. Rachel (Rochel) Groll (1882-1954) of Riteve, Lithuania emigrated to Cape Town in 1905. She married Isaac Bloch (1880-1920), also of Riteve, in 1906, settling in Parow, Cape Province. Members of the three families founded the Cape Gate Fence and Wire Works in Parow in 1929. More
Cape Town, South Africa: The Kaplan-Kushlick Foundation, 1979. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Hardcover. 144 pages. Illustrations (some in color). Abbreviated Genealogy--Kaplan, Kushlick and Groll/Bloch families. Bibliography. Index. DJ has some wear, tears, chips and soiling. Published to make the 50th Anniversary of Cape Gate (Pty) Limited. Sarah Rebecca Beliayev (1869-1952) of Velizh (later part of Latvia) and Michael Chaim Kushlick (1869-1932) of Druja, Russia, emigrated to Cape Town, South Africa in 1910 with their children. Menachem Mendel (Max) Kaplan (1876-1923) of Shadove, Lithuania and Razel (Rose) Karabelnik (1880-1913) of Krakinovo, Lithuania emigrated 1903-1904 to Johannesburg, South Africa after being married in Cape Town. Rachel (Rochel) Groll (1882-1954) of Riteve, Lithuania emigrated to Cape Town in 1905. She married Isaac Bloch (1880-1920), also of Riteve, in 1906, settling in Parow, Cape Province. Members of the three families founded the Cape Gate Fence and Wire Works in Parow in 1929. More
New York: The Reconstructionist Press, 1960. First edition. First printing [stated]. Hardcover. xvi, 565 p. Notes. Index. More
New York: Times Books, 1997. Third Printing. Hardcover. 352 pages. Illus., index. Signed by the author. More
New York: Times Books, 1999. Fifth Printing [stated]. Trade paperback. xiv, 352, [2] pages. Illus., index. Signed on the title page with sentiment by the author. Stanley Abram Karnow (1925 – 2013) was an American journalist and historian. He covered Asia from 1959 until 1974 for Time, Life, the Saturday Evening Post, the Washington Post, and NBC News. Present in Vietnam in July 1959 when the first Americans were killed, he reported on the Vietnam War in its entirety. It was during this time that he began to write Vietnam: A History. He was chief correspondent for the 13-hour Vietnam: A Television History series, which premiered on PBS in 1983; it won six Emmy Awards, a Peabody Award, a George Polk Award and a DuPont-Columbia Award. Karnow won the Pulitzer Prize for History for his book In Our Image: America's Empire in the Philippines. His other books include Mao and China: From Revolution to Revolution, which was nominated for a National Book Award; and Paris in the Fifties, a memoir of his own experiences of living in Paris. More
New York: Viking Press, 1976. First? Edition. First? Printing. 22 cm, 271, bibliography, index, bookplate, pencil erasure on front endpaper, damp stains at bottom of DJ and book. More
New York: Schoken Books, 1981. First Printing. 205, illus., bibliography, index, DJ somewhat worn, soiled, and sunned. More
New York: Shiloni Publishers, 1953. Reprint. Third printing. Hardcover. xv, 192 p. 24 cm. Includes Author's preface to the American Edition. 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: Fromm International Pub. 2000. First Printing. 288, usual library markings, DJ in plastic sleeve, DJ pasted to boards. More
New York: Fromm International Pub. 1999. First U.S. Edition. First Printing. 303, illus., some wear to board and spine edges, p. xi soiled. More
New York: Barricade Books, Inc., 1996. First Printings [Stated]. Hardcover. [10, 890, [10], [8], 891-1855, [1] pages. Illustrations. Notes. Bibliography. Sources. Index. Two volume boxed set ins slipcase. Inscribed in Hebrew by the author on the half-titles of Volumes One and Two to David Greenberg. Shmuel "Mooki" Katz (December 1914 – 9 May 2008) was an Israeli writer, historian and journalist. Prior to the formation of the State of Israel, he was a Zionist activist and member of the Irgun High Command. He was a member of the first Knesset and is also known for his biography of Jewish leader Ze'ev Jabotinsky. In 1939, he was sent to London by Ze'ev Jabotinsky to speak on issues concerning Palestine. In 1946 Katz returned to Mandatory Palestine and joined the HQ of the Irgun where he was active in the aspect of foreign relations. He was one of the seven members of the high command of the Irgun, as well as a spokesman of the organization. Katz also served as Irgun commander during the War of Independence. Katz was one of the founders of the Herut political party and served as one of its members in the First Knesset. In 1977 Katz became "Adviser to the Prime Minister for Information Abroad" to Menachem Begin. He accompanied Begin to Washington and explained some points to President Carter. More
New York: Random House, c1989. First Edition. First Printing. 24 cm, 270, usual library markings, slightly cocked. More