The First Ten Years: A Diplomatic History of Israel
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1958. First Printing. 21 cm, 239, illus., index, pencil erasure on front endpaper, DJ worn. More
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1958. First Printing. 21 cm, 239, illus., index, pencil erasure on front endpaper, DJ worn. More
London: HMSO, 1930. Presumed First Edition, First printing. 23 maps, map volume only, 23 large color maps in case, library stamps on wrong side of each map and inside case, library sticker on spine. More
London: Collins, 1950. Eighth Printing. Hardcover. 384, maps, some soiling inside rear board and flyleaf, boards scuffed, board edges & corners somewhat worn. Major Roy Alexander Farran DSO, MC & Two Bars (2 January 1921 – 2 June 2006) was a British soldier, politician, farmer, author and journalist. He was highly decorated for his exploits with the Special Air Service (SAS) during World War II. Farran became widely known after being court martialled on a charge of murdering an unarmed 16-year-old member of the Jewish underground militant group Lehi during his command of an undercover Palestine Police unit. After his brother was killed in a revenge attack, Farran emigrated to Canada where he forged a successful business and political career, holding a seat in the Legislative Assembly of Alberta from 1971 to 1979 sitting with the Progressive Conservative caucus. He served as a cabinet minister in the government of Premier Peter Lougheed during that period. More
London: Cassell, 1999. Cassell Military Classics Edition Second Printing [stated]. Trade paperback. 339, [1] pages. Maps. Cover has some wear. Major Roy Alexander Farran DSO, MC & Two Bars (2 January 1921 – 2 June 2006) was a British soldier, politician, farmer, author and journalist. He was highly decorated for his exploits with the Special Air Service (SAS) during World War II. Farran became widely known after being court martialled on a charge of murdering an unarmed 16-year-old member of the Jewish underground militant group Lehi during his command of an undercover Palestine Police unit. After his brother was killed in a revenge attack, Farran emigrated to Canada where he forged a successful business and political career, holding a seat in the Legislative Assembly of Alberta from 1971 to 1979 sitting with the Progressive Conservative caucus. He served as a cabinet minister in the government of Premier Peter Lougheed during that period. More
New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1970. First? Edition. First? Printing. 394, notes, bibliography, index, some soiling and edge wear to DJ. More
New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Company, 1950. First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. 384 pages. Previous owner's name and date in ink on fep. Some cover wear. Footnotes. Maps. Endpiece. Index. Foreword by Field -Marshal Earl Wavell. This work focuses on The Black Watch during the Second World War. Brigadier Bernard Edward Fergusson, Baron Ballantrae, KT, GCMG, GCVO, DSO, OBE (6 May 1911 – 28 November 1980) was a British Army officer and military historian. He became the last British-born Governor-General of New Zealand. Fergusson was educated at Eton College and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst. From the latter, he was commissioned as a second lieutenant into the Black Watch on 27 August 1931. He was promoted to lieutenant on 27 August 1934. He served with the 2nd Battalion of his regiment in the British Mandate of Palestine during the Arab revolt and later became aide-de-camp (ADC) to Major General Archibald Wavell, then General Officer Commanding of the 2nd Infantry Division in England, on 11 March 1937. In October 1943 he was promoted to acting brigadier and given command of the 16th Infantry Brigade, which was converted into a Chindit formation for operations in the deep jungles of Burma miles behind Japanese lines. He commanded this brigade throughout the Chindit operations of 1944 before becoming Director of Combined Operations from 1945 to 1946. After the war, Fergusson held various positions, including command of the 1st Battalion, Black Watch. Fergusson was created a life peer on 10 July 1972 as Baron Ballantrae, of Auchairne in the County of Ayrshire and The Bay of Islands in New Zealand. More
Chicago, IL: Follett, [1972]. First? Edition. First? Printing. 24 cm, 429, maps, index. More
Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 2008. First Printing [Stated]. Trade paperback. xii, [2], 271, [3] pages. Includes introduction, 20 black and white illustrations, Acknowledgments, Notes, and Index. Also includes information on Independence and Expansion; The "Sephardic Republic": Salonika to 1923; Normalization to Destruction; "The Greeks": Greek Jews Beyond Greece; and Conclusion: Greek Jewish History--Greek or Jewish? This book is the first comprehensive English-language history of Greek Jews. The author describes the history of this diverse group and the processes that worked to make them emerge as a collective. It also follows Jews as they left Greece, as deportees to Auschwitz or emigres to Palestine/Israel and New York's Lower East Side. Katherine Elizabeth Fleming is the Alexander S. Onassis Professor of Hellenic Culture and Civilization in the Department of History at New York University (NYU). Fleming holds a Ph.D. in History (1995) from the University of California, Berkeley. She specializes in the modern history of Greece and the broader Mediterranean context, with a focus on religious minorities. Fleming is is the second director of the Remarque Institute. In addition to her appointments at NYU, Fleming is a permanent associate member of the faculty of the department of history of the École Normale Supérieure in Paris, where she runs a longstanding workshop on the history of the Mediterranean with the French historian of Italy, Gilles Pécout. Fleming has sat on the boards of numerous journals, among them the American Historical Review. Fleming is also President of the board of the University of Piraeus in Athens, Greece. More
New York, NY: Thomas Dunne Books, 2008. First edition. First printing [stated]. Hardcover. Glued binding. Cloth over boards. xvi, [2], 254 p. Illustrations. Index. More
Hicksville, NY: Exposition Press, c1975. First Edition. First? Printing. 21 cm, 292, illus., DJ worn with some tears, edges soiled, few library markings, two stamps blacked over on boards. Inscribed by author. More
New York: Donald I. Fine, Inc., 1988. First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. 24 cm. 422, [2] pages. Illustrations. Index. DJ has slight wear and soiling. Inscribed to Jared Blum on second fep. Foreword by Elie Wiesel. Arnold Forster was an American Jewish leader, lawyer and writer who was a longtime executive of the Anti-Defamation League of B’nai Werth. Associated with the Anti-Defamation League for nearly six decades, Mr. Forster was its general counsel from 1946 to 2003. He helped document and combat myriad forms of anti-Semitism in the United States and overseas. His books, many of which began as league reports, include “The Trouble-Makers” (Doubleday, 1952), “ and “The New Anti-Semitism” (McGraw-Hill, 1974), all written with Benjamin R. Epstein. Mr. Forster was also the author of a memoir, “Square One”, which has a foreword by Elie Wiesel. Mr. Forster wrote the screenplays of several documentary films including “The Avenue of the Just”, about Gentiles who saved Jews during the Holocaust, and “Zubin and the I.P.O.”, about Zubin Mehta, the music director of the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra. Mr. Forster recounted his decades-long campaign against bigotry. Reviewing the memoir in The New York Times Book Review, Marlene Sanders called it “an earnest chronicle of the useful life of a dedicated man.” Ms. Sanders continued: “The work of Mr. Forster and the league over the years has contributed to eliminating many institutionalized forms of prejudice.” She added, “We may not be back to ‘Square One’ in solving the problem, but this book is a reminder that there is still work to be done.”. More
Chautauqua, NY: The Chautauqua Press, 1928. Fourth printing [stated]. Hardcover. Folding map at frontis. xiii, [3], 332, [4] pages. Footnotes. A Selected Bibliography for the Traveler. Index of Scriptural References. Index of Subjects and Proper Names. Cover has some wear and soiling. Page xiii is bound in prematurely, prior to page vii. Some endpaper and page discoloration and foxing. Harry Emerson Fosdick (May 24, 1878 – October 5, 1969) was an American pastor. Fosdick became a central figure in the Fundamentalist–Modernist controversy within American Protestantism in the 1920s and 1930s and was one of the most prominent liberal ministers of the early 20th century. Although a Baptist, he was called to serve as pastor, in New York City, at First Presbyterian Church in Manhattan's West Village, and then at the historic, inter-denominational Riverside Church in Morningside Heights, Manhattan. Fosdick's sermons won him wide recognition. His 1933 anti-war sermon, "The Unknown Soldier", inspired the British priest Dick Sheppard to write a letter that ultimately led to the founding of the Peace Pledge Union. His Riverside Sermons was printed in 1958, and he published numerous other books. His radio addresses were nationally broadcast; he also wrote the hymn "God of Grace and God of Glory". Fosdick's book A Guide to Understanding the Bible traces the beliefs of the people who wrote the Bible, from the Hebrews (which he regarded as practically pagan) to the faith and hopes of the New Testament writers. Fosdick was a member of the American Friends of the Middle East, a founder of the Committee for Justice and Peace in the Holy Land, and an active "anti-Zionist" More
Palgrave MacMillan, 2007. First edition. Stated. First printing [stated]. Hardcover. 256 p. Notes. Index. More
HarperSanFrancisco, 2003. Reprint. Sixth printing. Hardcover. xii, 305 p. Source Notes. Index. More
Place_Pub: Gainesville, FL: University Press of Florida, 1993. First? Edition. First? Printing. 374, notes, bibliography, index, minor edge soiling, pencil erasure on half-title. 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
Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1951. 214, tables, appendices, index, marginal pencil underlining on a few pages, some discoloration inside hinges, boards & spine scuffed. More
New York: Herzl Press, 1965. Presumed First Edition/First Printing. Hardcover. 22 cm, 341 pages. DJ somewhat worn and soiled, some chips/small tears to DJ edges. Signed by the author. More
New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1992. First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. xiii, [1], 297, [1] pages. Oversize--measures 11-1/2 by 8-3/4 inches. Contains an introduction by Peter Gay. Illustrations. Maps. Topics covered include origins, the institutions of Jewish life, from the Middle Ages to the court Jews, the return to history (The Age of Moses Mendelssohn), The Struggle for Emancipation, and The Nazi Period, Emigration, Palestine, and the End. Also includes further reading, acknowledgments, credits, and an index. Ruth Gay (née Slotkin; October 19, 1922 – May 9, 2006) was a Jewish writer who wrote about Jewish life and won the 1997 National Jewish Book Award for non-fiction for Unfinished People: Eastern European Jews Encounter America (1996). Peter Joachim Gay (June 20, 1923 – May 12, 2015) was a German-American historian, educator, and author. He was Sterling Professor of History at Yale University. More
New Haven: Yale University Press, 1992. First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. Oversized book, measuring 8-1/2 by 11-1/4. xiii, [1], 297, [1] pages. Illustrations (some in color). Gift inscription, not from the author, on fep. Introduction by Peter Gay. Includes chapters on Origins; The Institutions of Jewish Life; From the Middle Ages to the Court Jews; The Return to History; The Struggle for Emancipation; In the Fifty-Year Empire; and The End. Also includes Further Reading, Acknowledgments, Credits, and Index. This unique book provides a panoramic over view of the 1600 year history of the Jews in Germany. Through texts, pictures, and contemporary accounts, it follows the German Jews from their first settlements on the Rhine in the fourth century to the destruction of the community in World War II. Using both voices and images of the past, the book reveals how the German Jews looked, how they lived, what they thought about, and what others thought of them. Ruth Gay's text, interwoven with excepts from memoirs, letters, newspapers, and many other contemporary sources, shows how the German Jews organized their communities, created a new language (Yiddish), and built their special culture--all this under circumstances sometimes friendly, but often murderously hostile. The book explains the internal debates that agitated the community from medieval to modern times, and analyzes how German Jewry emerged into the modern world. The earliest document in the book is a fourth-centrury decree by the Emperor Constantine permitting Jews to hold office in Cologne. Among the last are letters, written in Nazi Berlin, from Betty Scholem to her son Gershom in Palestine. More
Place_Pub: Englewood Cliffs, NJ: M. Dworkin & Co., 2001. 219, wraps, illus., footnotes, address label pasted to half-title. More
New York, NY: Random House, 1999. First edition. First edition [stated]. Presumed first printing. Hardcover. xvii, [9], 402, [4] p. Illustrations. Maps. Books by Freya Stark. Bibliography. Notes. Index. Illustration Credits. More