Washington, DC: National Journal Group, Inc., 2000. 28 cm, 80, wraps, color illus. More

New York: Jewish Frontier, c1960. 32, Section 2 only, wraps, covers worn, soiled, & minor edge chips, some page discoloration. Issue on "Israel Seen from Within. " More

Pleasantville, NY: The Reader's Digest, 1984. Wraps. 12 p. More

Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2003. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Hardcover. xiv, [2], 359, [7] pages. Illustrations. Notes. Index. DJ has slight wear and soiling. Richard D. Alba (born December 22, 1942) is an American sociologist, who is a Distinguished Professor at the Graduate Center, CUNY. He is known for developing assimilation theory to fit the contemporary, multi-racial era of immigration, with studies in America, France and Germany. Alba earned his B.A. in 1963 and Ph.D. in 1974 from Columbia University. Alba's text on assimilation theory (written with Victor Nee), Remaking the American Mainstream (2003) won the Thomas & Znaniecki Award of the American Sociological Association and the Eastern Sociological Society’s Mirra Komarovsky Award. It was one of the most highly cited works in sociology. Alba has also written about the historical realities of assimilation, using Italian Americans to exemplify them. His book, Ethnic Identity: The Transformation of White America, summarizes his thinking on the assimilation of the so-called white ethnics. More

New York: Pantheon Books, 1999. First Edition [Stated], First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. x, 694 pages. Family tree on endpapers. Illustrations. Maps. Plans, Notes. Index. DJ has slight wear, soiling and sticker residue. Adele Logan Alexander is an adjunct professor of history at George Washington University, where she has taught since 1983. She teaches the history of slavery, the civil rights movement, and African-American women. She has taught at Howard University, University of Maryland, and Trinity College. Her research focuses on the black Atlantic world, African-American history, and family history. She has written two books, Ambiguous Lives: Free Women of Color in Rural Georgia, 1789-1879, and Homelands and Waterways: The American Journey of the Bond Family, 1846-1926. The latter book won the non-fiction prize of the Black Caucus of the American Library Association. In 2003 the African American Historical and Genealogical Society recognized her contributions to family history with an award for Outstanding Lifetime Contribution. More

New York, NY: Statue of Liberty-Ellis Island Foundation, Inc., 1985. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Hardcover. 304 pages. Illustrated endpapers. Profusely illustrated. Author's Note. Illustration Credits. Index. Oversized book measuring 10-3/4 inches by 9 inches. This is the official book for the Centennial of the Statue of Liberty, published by The Statue of Liberty--Ellis Island Foundation, Inc. Topics covered include Liberty: The Story of the Statue; Old Lands, New Nation; The Perils of the Journey; Promise of a Young Land; Iron Rails, Golden Mountain; Through Ellis Island; The Shock of the Great City; Years of Hope and Struggle; and The Enduring Dream. Also includes Afterword: Tracing the Family; Author's Note and Illustrations Credits; and Index. Also contains an Afterword: Tracing the Family. More

Bloomington, MN: Bethany House Publishers, 2008. Trade paperback. 428, [4] p. More

Washington, DC: Woodrow Wilson Int'l Center, c2000. 28 cm, 34, wraps. More

New York: Knopf, 1989. First Edition. First? Printing. 22 cm, 361, index, DJ torn at top of spine, DJ edges worn, pencil erasure residue on flyleaf and in index. More

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: The Jewish Publication Society of America, 1974. First Edition [stated], presumed first printing. Hardcover. xi, [1], 350, [4] pages. DJ has several small tears and chips. Includes Preface, Introduction: The First Fifteen Years, six chapters. Conclusion, Notes, Bibliography, and Index. Also includes an Appendix on the Income and Expenditure of JDC: 1914-1939, as well as 20 black and white tables in the text. A card from the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, with the compliments of Chairman Edward Ginsburg of the Committee, is laid in at the front of the book. This book deals with the efforts of American Jews--through their overseas aid organization, the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee--to come to the aid of European Jewry in the crucial prewar decade, 1929-1939. Yehuda Bauer (born April 6, 1926) is an Israeli historian and scholar of the Holocaust. He is a professor of Holocaust Studies at the Avraham Harman Institute of Contemporary Jewry at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. His family migrated to Palestine by managing to get past Nazi officials on a train which slipped them over the border into Poland, from which they moved, via Romania, to Palestine. He joined the Palmach and fought in the 1948 Arab-Israeli War. He was the founding editor of the journal Holocaust and Genocide Studies, and served on the editorial board of the Encyclopaedia of the Holocaust, published by Yad Vashem in 1990. During the years, 1933–1939, in which America was in the Great Depression, the Jewish Distribution Committee was able to aid over 190,000 Jews in their escape from a Nazi-occupied Germany. Of the 190,000 Jews, 80,000 were able to escape Europe completely. More

Detroit, Michigan: Wayne State University Press, 1998. First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. 388, [2] pages. DJ has slight wear and soiling. Includes 32 black and white illustrations following page 197. Also includes Notes, Dates of the Hillulah; Morocco: Map of Jewish Saints; List of Saints According to Their Burial Place; Glossary; Bibliography; Index of Saints and Their Tombs; and General Index. Part One includes Introduction; Terms Used to Designate Saints; Genesis of a Saint; Families of Saints and Their Descendants; The Saints and Erets Yisra'el; Saints and Their Disciples; Saints as Miracle Makers; Saints and the World of Nature; Dreams in Saint Veneration; Visiting the Saint: The Hillulah; Poems and Songs of the Hillulah; The Communal Organization around the Holy Sites; Relations between Jews and Muslims in Saint Veneration; Saint Worship as Practiced by Jews and Muslims in Morocco; Moroccan Jewry and Saint Worship in Israel; and Conclusion. Part Two includes The Saints: Tales and Legends; and Holy Women: Tales and Legends. The author was a senior researcher and lecturer on Jewish and Comparative Folklore at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He eared his Ph.D. from the Georg-August University in Gottingen, Germany. This is one of the Raphael Patai Series in Jewish Folklore and Anthropology. The author presents the reader with the miraculous tales and legends of the Jewish patron saints as well as a masterful compendium of 656 Jewish saints, including 25 women. This book assures us that the memory of these saints and of their devoted followers will be kept alive. More

Carol Stream: Tyndale House Publishers, Inc., 2015. First edition. First printing [stated]. Hardcover. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. x, 277, [1] pages. Illustrations. Notes. Signed by author. Inscribed on fep--signed by both. More