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Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1971. 318, endpaper plans, glossary, rough spot inside front flyleaf, DJ soiled and small tears. More
Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1971. 318, endpaper plans, glossary, rough spot inside front flyleaf, DJ soiled and small tears. More
Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1971. 318, endpaper plans, glossary, boards scuffed. 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
New York, N.Y. Cliff Street Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, 1998. First Edition [stated]. Sixth printing [stated]. Hardcover. xvii, [1], 333, [1] pages. Inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper. Hebrew notation at the top of fep. Inscription reads: To Betz. May G-d be with you. Esther Jungreis. Ink comment on page after 333 and ink mark on rear end paper. Esther Jungreis (April 27, 1936 – August 23, 2016) was a Hungarian-born American religious leader. She was the founder of the international Hineni movement in the United States. A Holocaust survivor, she worked to bring Jews to Orthodox Judaism. Due to her experiences as a Holocaust survivor, she became "determined to devote her life to combating the spiritual holocaust that was occurring here in the United States." This led to the birth of the Hineni movement on November 18, 1973, in Madison Square Garden's Felt Forum. The movement aimed to promote authentic, traditional Yiddishkeit in the United States. As the leader of this movement, she drew criticism for her outspoken stance against interfaith marriages. She was also critical of secularization, which she viewed as a form of assimilation. A preview of her 4th book said "She asks her listeners to pause and consider who they are and why we are here." Filled with wisdom as timeless as the Torah itself, The Committed Life is for anyone eager to connect with ancient wellsprings of faith. Each chapter offers its own riveting lesson on such pivotal subjects as responsibility, forgiveness, banishing fear, gratitude, anger, committing to marriage, depression, faith, and hope. More
London: Vallentine Mitchell, 1998. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Hardcover. xi, [1], 275, [1] pages. Illustrations. Appendix A: The History of the Exodus. Appendix B: The History of the Ordzhonikidze Detachment, Kirov Brigade. Index. Foreword by Sir Martin Gilbert. Sticker residue on DJ flap. Two cousins relate their experiences with Bielski s partisan brigade in war-torn Russia during the Second World War. Natives of Novogrodek, part of present-day Belarus, they describe Jewish life before the Holocaust and furnish a most moving account of how a thriving and prosperous Jewish center was decimated by the Nazis and local collaborators. Initial joy when their hometown was taken over by the Soviet Union disappeared when the Germans ran the Russians out of town and started implementing policies to eradicate all Jews and anything Jewish. Dov (Berl), the elder of the cousins, whose account comprises the first section of the book, lost his immediate family in the early days of German occupation and escaped from ghetto life in November 1942. More
Place_Pub: New York: McGraw-Hill Book Co., Inc., 1971. First Edition. 25 cm, 127, profusely illus. in color, small tears/chips to DJ edges, some wear to plastic coating of DJ. Preface by John Wykert. 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: Collier Books, 1973. Revised Edition. First Collier Books Edition [stated]. Presumed First Printing. Trade paperback. 410, [2] p. maps. 21 cm. Occasional footnotes. Index. Previous owner's mailing label on half-title page. Embossed stamp on title page. Format is approximately 5.5 inches by 8 inches. Translation of Megilat yisurin. Originally published as The Scroll of Agony, this is a classic depiction of the Holocaust. Carefully hidden and preserved in a kerosene can, twenty years after the annihilation of the Warsaw Ghetto, it was discovered. Now reissued with recently found entries spanning April 4, 1941 through May 2, 1942, and a new Preface by Abraham H. Katsh, it is an extraordinary first-person record of the Nazi occupation and destruction of Warsaw's Jewish community. From an on-line posting on Abraham I. Katsh: "Polish-born American educator and researcher who was a scholar of Judaica and was credited with the addition of modern Hebrew to the curricula of American colleges; during the Cold War he persuaded Soviet officials to allow him to study and microfilm--and thus make available to scholars--thousands of Jewish documents they had seized and hidden (b. Aug. 10, 1908, --d. July 21, 1998)." More
New York: Oxford University Press, 1998. Second Printing. 25 cm, 290, illus., references, index, some wear and soiling to boards. More
Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1944. 391, boards soiled & stained, call # on spine, discoloration & stamps inside boards, stamp on title page, pages have darkened. More
Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1944. 391, pages have darkened, discoloration inside boards, boards scuffed, spine discolored. More
New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1999. First printing [stated]. Hardcover. [10], 339, [1] pages. Illustrations. Inscribed by the author on the fep to Gee Gee (Georgie Anne Geyer!). Inscription reads Washington, 9 May '99 Gee Gee, I not only admire you so much--bit it's always so great fun...thanks for the inspiration. Fred. Georgie Anne Geyer (April 2, 1935 – May 15, 2019) was an American journalist who covered the world as a foreign correspondent for the Chicago Daily News and then became a syndicated columnist for the Universal Press Syndicate. Her columns focused on foreign affairs issues and appeared in approximately 120 newspapers in North and South America. She was the author of ten books, including a biography of Fidel Castro and a memoir of her life as a foreign correspondent, Buying the Night Flight. In 1973, she was the first Western reporter to interview Saddam Hussein, then Vice President of Iraq. She also interviewed Yasser Arafat, Anwar Sadat, King Hussein of Jordan, Muammar al-Gaddafi, and the Ayatollah Khomeini. She reported on rebels in the Dominican Republic, was held by authorities in Angola for her reporting during civil war, and was threatened with death by the Mano Blanca death squads in Guatemala. 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
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: Times Books, 1972. Presumed First U. S. Edition, First printing. Hardcover. [6], 312, [2] pages. Plans. DJ has small tears and wear. Wies aw Kielar (12 August 1919 – 1 June 1990) was a Polish author, filmmaker, and prisoner in the concentration camp Auschwitz. Kielar was arrested in the beginning of 1940 in Jaros aw and was one of the first prisoners of concentration camp Auschwitz (identification number 290). He spent almost five years in different parts of the complex. He held various positions, including nurse, writer and "prison senior". After the Second World War he went to the National Film School in ód and worked as a filmmaker. About his stay in Auschwitz he wrote the book Anus Mundi: 1,500 Days in Auschwitz/Birkenau. More
New York: Farrar , Straus and Giroux, 2018. First American Edition [stated]. Hardcover. [8], 454, [2] pages. Illustrations. Index. Serge Klarsfeld (born 17 September 1935) is a Romanian-born French activist and Nazi hunter known for documenting the Holocaust in order to establish the record and to enable the prosecution of war criminals. Since the 1960s, he has made notable efforts to commemorate the Jewish victims of German-occupied France and has been a supporter of Israel. . Beate Auguste Klarsfeld (née Künzel; born 13 February 1939) is a Franco-German journalist and Nazi hunter who, along with her French husband, Serge, became famous for their investigation and documentation of numerous Nazi war criminals, including Kurt Lischka, Alois Brunner, Klaus Barbie, Ernst Ehlers [de] and Kurt Aschen. On 4 July 1987, the SS war criminal Klaus Barbie (known as the butcher of Lyon) was convicted on her initiative. Barbie was found guilty of crimes against humanity and he was sentenced to life imprisonment. Klarsfeld rated this success as the most important result of their actions. In 1972 she had helped to discover Barbie's whereabouts in Bolivia. It is thanks to their commitment that the Maison d’Izieu (Children of Izieu) memorial was founded, which commemorates the victims of the crimes committed by Barbie. In 1996, during the warfare in the former Yugoslavia, the Klarsfelds joined the outcry against Radovan Karadži and Ratko Mladi for alleged war crimes and genocide of Bosnian Muslims. More
New York: The Vanguard Press, 1975. 1st Eng Lang? Edition. First Thus? Printing. 344, illus., sources, index, name of previous owner, DJ somewhat worn & soiled: edge tears/chips. More
New York: Random House, 1998. First Edition. First Printing. 519, v.1 only of the 2-vol. set, illus., notes, index, front DJ flap price clipped. More
New York: Random House, 1999. First Printing. 556, v.2 only of the 2-vol. set, illus., notes, chronology, index. More
Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1973. Presumed First Edition/First Printing. Hardcover. ix, [1], 518 pages. DJ has price present. DJ has some wear, soiling,and edge tears. Excerpt from KIRKUS REVIEW: Maybe not the largest, maybe not the most secret, but ... the most exciting -- at least as recollected by Ruth Kluger about her operations with the Mossad in World War II. That was a group of ten secret individuals (nine men and a woman) who tried to smuggle Jews out of Europe into Palestine as Hitler was making his final decision between deportation and incineration -- and every country in the world ""regretfully"" barred its doors. Unbelievable obstacles -- finding ship owners willing to lease vessels at premium in wartime; calming down passengers confined shipboard, endless baksheesh (bribes) to border officials, stationmasters, harbormasters, embassies (for phony transit or entry visas); evading British ships and border patrols which sent illegal immigrants (only 10,000 legal per year) back to where they came or, at best, to some Palestinian prison; and finally, money from rich Jews unwilling to believe their civilized world was collapsing all around them. This is truly a tragic, story no one, Jews, gypsies, or the great untouched, should ever forget. More
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1949. First edition. First printing [stated]. Hardcover. xv, 335 p. map. 23 cm. Occasional footnotes. More
New York City: Shengold Publishers, Inc., 1979. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Hardcover. DJ and book have wear and soiling. Bookplate of previous owner on fep. Preface. Notes. The contents are divided into eight chapters: Prolegomenon, The State of Shock, Despair, The World Stands Accused, The Complaint Against Heaven, Confession, Unshaken Faith, and Conclusion. This book is an in-depth study of predominant Holocaust themes as reflected in Hebrew poetry during and in the post-Holocaust periods. Rabbi Kohn consulted leading contemporary Hebrew poets, like Aharon Zeitlin, Yehudah Leib Bialer, Israel Efros, Shimon Halkin, and Chaim Chamiel. The material was selected on specific topics such as Shock, Despair; and Reactions to a silent and indifferent world in full view of the annihilation of the Jewish people; and the sense of guilt of those who survived and of those who were not "there"... This study unveils for the first time, for the English reading public, poetic sources on the Holocaust. Poetry is the closest emotional testimony of the victims and witnesses of the Holocaust whose testimony reverberates from every verse, particularly of those who can no longer personally bear witness. They eternalized their feelings poetically. Poetry comes closest to a recorded testimony of our martyrs. They conveyed their anguish through verse before dying, thus letting us emotionally experience that imponderable moment and help us, albeit vicariously, identify with that suffering. Thus the martyr and victims testify in poetic genre for the annals of human history what happened, while the other poets record their anguished protest and speak the conscience of our partially decimated people. More
New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1983. Presumed First Edition/First Printing. Hardcover. 298 pages. Illus., front DJ flap price clipped, slight wear and soiling to DJ. Inscribed and signed by both authors. More
Atlanta, GA: Longstreet Press, c1995. First Printing. 23 cm, 196, illus., charts, references. Inscribed by the editor (Joseph Korn, the author's son). More