BRINGING HOME THE LIGHT; A Jewish woman's handbook of rituals
San Francisco: Council Oak, (1999). First printing. Narrow 8vo, pp. ix, 225. Sources. Green paper over boards. About as new in dj. More
San Francisco: Council Oak, (1999). First printing. Narrow 8vo, pp. ix, 225. Sources. Green paper over boards. About as new in dj. More
San Francisco: HarperCollins, (1994). First printing. Narrow 8vo, pp. 224. Glossary. Paper over boards with cloth spine. A nice copy in dj. An account of a woman's battle to say kaddish for her father. More
NY: Oxford, 2000. First printing. 8vo, pp. xi, 498. Notes, bibliography, index. Illustrated. Paper over boards with cloth spine. A nice copy in little scuffed and slightly chipped dj. Harnack was the only American executed as an underground conspiritor during the Nazi regime. The resistance group to which she belonged..... More
Edison NJ: Castle Books, (1996). Large 8vo, pp. 488. A nice copy in slightly scuffed dj. Selections from more than 100 texts, with more than 50 illustrations. More
NY: Jewish Museum, (1998). First Edition. 4to, pp. 194. Chronology, bibliography, index. Published in conjunction with an exhibition in 1998-99. With contributionsw by Diana Linden and others. Copiously illustrated with reproductions in black and white and color.Top outer corner slightly bumped, o/w a nice copy. More
NY: Penguin, (1993). Donald Woodman. Second printing. Horizontal 8vo, pp. 205. Bibliography, notes, filmography. Illustrated in color and black and white. Paper wraps. A diary of the making of the project. A VG tight copy. More
London: Abelard-Schuman, (1957). First Edition. 8vo, pp. 224.With an introduction by Eleanor Roosevelt. Vg in worn, price clipped, dj. An account of daily life in Israel, by the wife of an American who was advising on agricultural policy in 1953 and 1954. More
PA: Ozer, 1971. Duncan, Walter Jack. (reprint of the 1918 edn. 8vo, pp. 313. Red cloth. Illustrated by Walter Jack Duncan. Edges somewhat spotted, o/w a VG tight copy. The memoir of a young Russian Jewish girl as she immigrates to America, and of the hardships immigrants suffered as they..... More
Ithaca NY: Cornell, (1995). Duncan, Walter Jack. First Edition. 8vo, pp. xxi, 313. Introduction by Thomas Dublin, illustrated by Walter Jack Duncan. Maroon cloth. [ Documents in American Social History.] First published in 1918. About as new. More
NY: Philosophical Library, (1952). First Edition. 8vo, pp. ix, 239. Index. inscription on flyleaf by the author's wife and two daughters. Orange cloth. A VG tight copy in chipped and stained dj. An autobiography of an immigrant boy, and a document of the social struggles of the late 19th and..... More
NY: Macmillan, (1974). First printing. Large square 8vo, pp. 175. Written with Wilburt Feinberg. With hundreds of illustrations in color and black-and-white. Rust cloth. Leaves slightly soiled at edges and rippled at top, cover little worn at corners, o/w a VG tight copy in somewhat torn and scuffed dj. More
London: Hurst and Blackett, 1858. Two volumes. 8vo, pp. viii, 342; iv,326, vi. Frontis portrait in voume 1. Two hinges tender, o/w VG. A biography of the celebrated French-Jewish tragedienne and stage star, Rachel Feelix. More
NY: Holt, 1874. 8vo, pp. 465. Maroon cloth. Cover slightly worn and spotted, but a VG tight copy. Deutsch was a student of Indo-European and Semitic languages. This volume contains writings on the Talmud, Islam, Semitic culture and languages, early Arabic poetry, and other related subjects. Deutsch is one of..... More
NY: Basic Books, (2002). First printing. 8vo, pp. xvii, 462. Notes, bibliography, index. Illustrated. Paper over boards. About as new in dj. More
London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, (1985). First English edition. 4to, pp. 355. Index. Copiously illustrated. Blue paper over boards, stamped in silver. Donor's presentation on blank. A nice copy in price-clipped, scuffed, and little spotted dj. More
Prague: Paseka, (1991). 4to, pp. 172. Translated from the Polish by Greta Sylvia Matouskova and Zoja Joachimova. Monochrome photographs by Ehl, with Introduction by Parik and a list of cemeteries, with brief descriptions, by Feidler. Map on rear endpapers giving the locations of the approximately 144 sites. A nice copy..... More
Boston: Little, Brown, (1998). First Edition. Small 4to, pp. 818. Notes, sources, glossary, index. Illustrated with photographs and reproductions. A nice copy in scuffed glassine dj. Heavy. "Eliach's nine-century saga of Eastern European Jewish life is richer and fuller than any ever written. Her research took her from family attics..... More
Boston: Little, Brown, (1998). First Edition. Small 4to, pp. 818. Notes, sources, glossary, index. Illustrated with photographs and reproductions. Pages rippled, o/w VG copy in scuffed glassine dj. Heavy. "Eliach's nine-century saga of Eastern European Jewish life is richer and fuller than any ever written. Her research took her from..... More
Boston: Little, Brown, (1998). First Edition. Large 8vo, pp. xiv, 818. Notes, sources, bibliography, glossary, index. Illustrated wtih photographs. Pictorial paper over boards. A nice copy in somewhat scuffed plastic dj. Heavy. More
Boston: Little, Brown, (1998). First printing. Large 8vo, pp. xiv, 818. Notes, sources, bibliography, glossary, index. Illustrated. Pictorial paper over boards. Cover little scratched, o/w a nice copy in somewhat yellowed plastic dj. The story oif the Jewish community in Lithuania. More
Boston: Little, Brown, (1997). First edition, second printing. 8vo, pp. 322. Bibliography. Illustrated wtih photographs and a map. Donor's presentation on half-title. Gray paper over boards. A nice copy in dj. A memoir of an assimilating, Central European Jewish family and three generations of remarkable women. More
Ithaca NY: Firebrand, (1990). First Edition. 8vo, pp. 85. Bibliography. Preface by Grace Paley. Paper wraps. Cover very slightly spotted, o/w a nice copy. More
London: Hutchinson, n.d. 8vo, pp. 334. Illustrated. Some wear to the cloth, good. Biography of the 19th century Jewish actress. More
Rutherford NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson University, (1986). First Edition. 8vo, pp. 145. Black cloth. Edges slightly scuffed, but a nice copy in chipped and scuffed dj. More
Tel Aviv: Negen, (1948). 8vo, pp. 7. In Hebrew. Paper wraps. Lyrics by Feiner, music by Wilensky. Cover little soiled, but VG. Three songs. More