Shores of Refuge: A Hundred Years of Jewish Emigration
New York: Holt, c1988. First Edition. 24 cm, 673, illus., bookplate. Inscribed by the author. More
New York: Holt, c1988. First Edition. 24 cm, 673, illus., bookplate. Inscribed by the author. More
New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1988. First edition. Stated. First printing [stated]. Hardcover. xiii, 673 pages. Illustrations. Notes. Index. More
Totowa, NJ: Rowman & Littlefield, c1986. First Printing. 25 cm, 270, bibliography, index, DJ in plastic sleeve, pencil erasure on endpages. More
Boston, Massachusetts: The Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston, 1995. Second printing [stated]. Hardcover. xiii, [1], 353, [1] pages. Presentation bookplate on fep. Oversized book, measuring 11 inches by 9-1/4 inches. This book was published in commemoration of the 100th anniversary of the Combined Jewish Philanthropies. Since its inception, Boston's Jewish community has been noted for its unmatched intellectual strength, its capacity for innovation, and its willingness to take risks in support of its vision and ideals. Includes Foreword, Preface, The Jews of Boston in Historical Perspective, Strangers and Sojourners: The Jews of Colonial Boston, "Israelites in Boston," 1840-1880; The Emergence of a Unified Community, 1880-1917; From Margin to Mainstream, 1917-1967; Moving Apart and Growing Together, 1967-9994; In Search of Suburbs: Boston's Jewish Districts, 1843-1994; Temples in the American Athens: A History of the Synagogues of Boston; Community and Philanthropy; Pioneers and Pacesetters: Boston Jews and American Zionism; Passionate Visions in Contest: On the History of Jewish Education in Boston; The Smart Set: An Assessment of Jewish Culture; Appendix A: The Jewish Population of Boston; Appendix B: Combined Jewish Philanthropies,1895-1995; About the Authors; Selected Bibliography; and Index. More
New York, NY: PublicAffairs, 2007. Presumed first paperback edition, first printing [stated]. Trade paperback. 263 p. Illustrations. xiii, [1], 263, [3] p. Maps. Timeline. French Archival Document reproduced. Notes. Bibliography. Index. More
Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1926. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Hardcover. 353, [1] pages. Frontis illustration. Preface by David Lloyd George. Cover has some wear and soiling. Some endpaper soiling. Some page foxing noted. Raymond Savage (1888-1964) was a literary agent and writer. Field Marshal Edmund Henry Hynman Allenby, 1st Viscount Allenby, GCB, GCMG, GCVO (23 April 1861 – 14 May 1936) was an English soldier and British Imperial Governor. He fought in the Second Boer War and also in the First World War, in which he led the British Empire's Egyptian Expeditionary Force (EEF) during the Sinai and Palestine Campaign against the Ottoman Empire in the conquest of Palestine. The British succeeded in capturing Beersheba, Jaffa, and Jerusalem from October to December 1917. His forces occupied the Jordan Valley during the summer of 1918, then went on to capture northern Palestine and defeat the Ottoman Yildirim Army Group's Eighth Army at the Battle of Megiddo, forcing the Fourth and Seventh Army to retreat towards Damascus. Subsequently, the EEF Pursuit by Desert Mounted Corps captured Damascus and advanced into northern Syria. During this pursuit, he commanded T. E. Lawrence ("Lawrence of Arabia"), whose campaign with Faisal's Arab Sherifial Forces assisted the EEF's capture of Ottoman Empire territory and fought the Battle of Aleppo, five days before the Armistice of Mudros ended the campaign on 30 October 1918. He continued to serve in the region as High Commissioner for Egypt and Sudan from 1919 until 1925. More
New York: Carol Pub. Group, c1993. First Printing. 24 cm, 246, illus., map, index. More
New York: Carol Pub. Group, c1993. First Printing. 24 cm, 246, illus., map, index, usual library markings, DJ in plastic sleeve, DJ pasted inside boards. More
New York: Pilgrim Press, c1983. 22 cm, 522, illus., maps, corners bumped, minor tears to DJ. More
Buenos Aires, Argentina: STF Books, 2007. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Hardcover. 176 pages. Oversized book, measuring 11 inches by 9-1/4 inches. Illustrated endpaper. Profusely illustrated in color and in black and white. Foreword by David A. Harris. This book presents the American Jewish Committee's accomplishments during its first hundred years with thoughtful but concise text, graphically interesting chronologies, and compelling archival documents and photographs. This approach provides a vivid and readable portrait of how AJC, established in an act of conscience to rescue Jews from czarist oppression, became a global presence that made a difference on many of the key issues of the twentieth century. American Jewish Committee (AJC) is a Jewish advocacy group established on November 11, 1906. It is one of the oldest Jewish advocacy organizations and, according to The New York Times, is "widely regarded as the dean of American Jewish organizations". As of 2009, AJC envisions itself as the "Global Center for Jewish and Israel Advocacy". Besides working in favor of civil liberties for Jews, the organization has a history of fighting against forms of discrimination in the United States and working on behalf of social equality, such as filing a friend-of-the-court brief in the May 1954 case of Brown v. Board of Education and participating in other events in the Civil Rights Movement. In 1979, David Harris began working for the American Jewish Committee (AJC). In 1981, he left the AJC to take a position at the National Coalition Supporting Soviet Jewry. In 1984, he returned to the AJC and since 1990, Harris has served as the Executive Director of the AJC. More
New York: Monthly Review Press, [1972]. First Printing. 22 cm, 247, map, front DJ flap price clipped. More
Philadelphia, PA: Jewish Publication Society, 1986. First Edition. 24 cm, 106, illus. More
Woodstock, VT: Jewish Lights Publishing, 2006. First edition. First printing [stated]. Hardcover. Glued binding. Paper over boards. xxvi, 312, [14] p. Interviews. Endnotes. BIbliography. Index. More
New York: Paragon House, 1992. First Edition. First Printing. 24 cm, 326, usual library markings, spine weak (may have been repaired), some damp stains at bottom Analyzes the 1948 assassination by Zionist extremists of the Swedish Count Folke Bernadotte, who in 1945 had helped to rescue over 30,000 Jews from the Nazis. More
New York, N.Y. Herzl Press, 1985. Presumed First English Language Edition. Hardcover. 225, [1] pages. DJ has some wear, soiling, edge tears and chips. Review slip laid in. Includes Introduction, Conclusion--Is Man Noting but the Shape of His Native Land, Notes, and Index. Part 1 covers National Home or Land of Destiny; Part II covers From the Exile: Memoires and Visions of the Destined Land; Part III covers Regaining the Land of Destiny as a Homeland; and Part 4 covers Building the Homeland. Eliezer Schweid (born September 7, 1929) is an Israeli scholar, writer and Professor of Jewish Philosophy at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He is a fellow of the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs. In 1994, Schweid was awarded the Israel Prize, in Jewish thought. Eliezer Schweid analyzes the relationship and explores the unique attachment of the people of Israel to the land. throughout the generations. The Israelites had a specific Promised Land as their goal. The Bible tells of the Promise, and relates the story of the settlement of the land, and the ultimate exile from it. The author begins with the Biblical basis for Israel's attachment to the land, and proceeds to analyze the ways in which that attachment varied--and the manner in which land itself was viewed--when the people were exiled and when the return to rebuild the land began. He surveys the Talmudic authorities. Schweid deals with the legitimacy of Israel's claim to the land, and resolves the dilemmas resulting from the varying approaches. Schweid differentiates between the concept of Israel as the Biblical Promised Land and the physical homeland as it was built and rebuilt by generations of settlers and resettlers. More
New York, NY: Doubleday, 2010. Book Club Edition. Hardcover. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. xiii, [1], 482, [4] p. Illustrations. Notes. Index. More
New York: Doubleday, 2010. First Edition [Stated], First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. viii, [2], 482, [4] pages. Illustrations. Notes. Index. Tom Segev (born March 1, 1945) is an Israeli historian, author and journalist. He is associated with Israel's New Historians, a group challenging many of the country's traditional narratives. Segev worked during the 1970s as a correspondent for Maariv in Bonn. He writes a weekly column for the newspaper Haaretz. His books have appeared in fourteen languages. In The Seventh Million: The Israelis and the Holocaust (1993), Segev explores the impact of the Holocaust on the identity, ideology and politics of Israel. Although controversial, it was praised by Elie Wiesel. In One Palestine, Complete: Jews and Arabs Under the British Mandate, a New York Times Editor's Choice Best Book (2000) and a recipient of a National Jewish Book Award in the Israel category, Segev describes the era of the British Mandate in Palestine (1917–1948). Segev's history of the social and political background of the Six-Day War, 1967: Israel, the War, and the Year That Transformed the Middle East (2006) states that there was no existential threat to Israel. Segev also doubts that the Arab neighbors would have attacked Israel. Large segments of the Israeli population had a real fear that the Egyptians and Syrians would eliminate them. That fear pressured the Israeli government that it opted for a pre-emptive attack. The Jordanian army's attack on West Jerusalem provided a pretext to invade East Jerusalem, according to Segev. Even though the occupation of East Jerusalem was not politically planned, the author considers that it was always desired. More
New York: Schocken Books, 1973. Later printing. Trade paperback. ix, [1], 257, [1] pages. Illustrations. Introduction by Abba Eban. Ink notation on first page. Hannah Szenes (often anglicized as Hannah Senesh or Chanah Senesh; July 17, 1921 – November 7, 1944) was a poet and Special Operations Executive (SOE) paratrooper. She was one of 37 Jewish parachutists of Mandate Palestine parachuted by the British Army into Yugoslavia during the Second World War to assist in the rescue of Hungarian Jews about to be deported to the German death camp at Auschwitz. Szenes was arrested at the Hungarian border, then imprisoned and tortured, but refused to reveal details of her mission. She was eventually tried and executed by firing squad. She is regarded as a national heroine in Israel, where her poetry is widely known and the headquarters of the Zionist youth movements Israel Hatzeira, a kibbutz and several streets are named after her. More
London: Croom Helm, 1981. Hardcover. 252 p. 23 cm. Table. Maps. Figures. Notes. Bibliography. Index. More
Jerusalem, Israel: Shalem Center, 2000. 24 cm, 204, wraps. More
New York: Schocken Books, 1980. First Printing. Hardcover. 25 cm, 412 pages. Illus., references, index, DJ worn, soiled, and torn, publisher's ephemera laid in. Signed by the author. More
New York: Public Affairs, 2008. First Edition. First Printing. Hardcover. 259 pages. Index. Signed by the author. More
New York: Public Affairs, 2008. First Edition. First Printing. 259, index. Inscribed by the author. More
Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Comapny, Inc., 1962. First Edition. First Printing. 23 cm, 298, DJ quite worn, soiled, torn, and chipped. More
Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1962. First Edition. First? Printing. 23 cm, 298, highlighting/underlining, DJ repaired with tape, front flyleaf clipped, pencil erasure on front flyleaf. More