The Mission

by Habe, Hans

Description: Very Good+ in Very Good jacket. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. 319 pages, Stated First American Edition. From the dj, 'In July of 1938, less than five months after Hitler's rape of Austria, Franklin D. Roosevelt convened the International Conference on Refugees, at Evian-les-Bains, a small French spa on the Swiss border. The official purpose of the conferene was to deal with the growing number of Jewish refuees fleeing for their lives from Hitler's Europe. 32 nations agreed to attend the conference, as ... Read More

The Liberation of the Nazi Concentration Camps 1945-Eyewitness Accounts of the Liberators

by Chamberlin, Brewster & Feldman, Marcia (Ed)

Description: Very Good+ No Jacket Issued. 4to-over 9¾"-12" tall. 214pp/illus. Silver lettering to spine and front board. Introduction by Robert H. Abzug. Combatants from 14 nations recount the sights they discovered as they entered the Nazi concentration camps. Read More

The Liberation of the Nazi Concentration Camps 1945-Eyewitness Accounts of the Liberators

by Chamberlin, Brewster & Feldman, Marcia (Ed)

Description: Very Good+ No Jacket Issued. 4to-over 9¾"-12" tall. 214pp/illus. Silver lettering to spine and front board. Introduction by Robert H. Abzug. Combatants from 14 nations recount the sights they discovered as they entered the Nazi concentration camps. Clean. Read More

The Liberation of the Nazi Concentration Camps 1945-Eyewitness Accounts of the Liberators

by Chamberlin, Brewster & Feldman, Marcia (Ed)

Description: Very Good+ No Jacket Issued. 4to-over 9¾"-12" tall. Cloth. Very Good+/No Jacket Issued. First Edition. 4to-over 9¾"-12" tall. 214pp/illus. Silver lettering to spine and front board. Introduction by Robert H. Abzug. Combatants from 14 nations recount the sights they discovered as they entered the Nazi concentration camps. Read More

The Woman Who Defied Kings: the Life and Times of Dona Gracia Nasi-a Jewish Leader During the Renaissance

by Brooks, Andree Aelion

Description: Near Fine in Near Fine jacket. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 1st Printing. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. 596 pages/photos/illus. The life of Dona Gracia Nasi in Lisbon. Read More

The Liberation of the Nazi Concentration Camps 1945-Eyewitness Accounts of the Liberators

by Chamberlin, Brewster & Feldman, Marcia (Ed)

Description: Very Good+ No Jacket Issued. 4to-over 9¾"-12" tall. Cloth. Very Good+/No Jacket Issued. First Edition. 4to-over 9¾"-12" tall. 214pp/illus. Silver lettering to spine and front board. Introduction by Robert H. Abzug. Combatants from 14 nations recount the sights they discovered as they entered the Nazi concentration camps. Read More

Gods and Men: the Origins of Western Culture

by Parkes, Henry Bamford

Description: Very Good in Very Good jacket. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. Hard Cover. First Edition. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. 489pp plus index; b/w illustrations; hardcover in dust jacket; spotting of page fore edges, o/wise very good condition. A narrative history and critical examination of the chief ideas that have gone into the making of our Western civilization, the book deals with the Biblical and post Biblical Hebrews, the Greeks and the Classical and Hellenistic periods, the Romans and the founders and early ... Read More

The Jew in the Literature of England to the End of the 19th Century

by Modder Montagu F.

Description: Very Good in Very Good jacket. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. 435 Pages. The Jew as depicted throughout literature in England through the endof the 19th century. Comprehensive study of literary movements and the opinion of the Jew. Clean. Read More

Judaic Lore in Heine: the Heritage of a Poet

by Tabak, Israel

Description: Very Good. No Jacket. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. Signed by Author Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. 1st Edition. Signed by Author. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. 338 pages. Examines Heine's Jewish heritage and the possible impact it had on his work. Read More

Scrolls of Fire a Nation Fighting for Its Life. Fifty-Two Chapters of Jewish Martyrology

by Kovner Aba / Reisinger Dan (Paintings)

Description: Very Good+ in Very Good jacket. Folio-over 12"-15" tall. Fifty-two Chapters of Jewish Martyrology. Jerusalem: Keter Publishing House, (1981). Paintings by Dan Reisinger, translated by Shirley Kaufman with Dan Laor. Numerous color illustrations. Unpaginated. Text in English & Hebrew. Gift inscription inside front cover. Read More

On the Collecting of Jewish Books

by Freehof, Solomon B.

Description: Near Fine. No Jacket Issued. Limited Edition. 4to-over 9¾"-12" tall. 26pp. Beautifully bound in brown cloth with gilt lettering on front cover and spine, and marbled endpapers. Was presented before the founding members of the Society of Jewish Bibliophiles assembled in Cincinnati for the dedication of the new Library buildings of the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion on June 10, 1961. This edition is limited to 250 copies. Clean. Read More

New Lights & Old Shadows: New Lights of an Isreal Reborn; Old Shadows of a Vanished World: a Selection of 210 Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings & Etchings With an Intro By Dr. Cecil Roth

by Reiss, Lionel S.

Description: Near Fine in Very Good jacket. Folio-over 12"-15" tall. 160pp/illus. A selection of Two Hundred and Ten Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings and Ethcings by Lionel S. Reiss. Part One: Impressions of Israel; Ingathering of the Exiles; Arab-Israeli War Ruins. Part Two: Portraits of Ghetto People and Places; In Memoriam-Tribute to the Martyrdom of European Jewry. First edition. Gift inscription inside front cover. DJ has light wear/chipping. Read More

The Woodcuts of Jakob Steinhardt

by Kolb, Leon (Ed)

Description: Very Good+ in Good+ jacket. Folio-over 12"-15" tall. A catalogue raisonne of Steinhart's work through 1959. Illustrated with 446 b&w reproductions. 1st trade edition/1st printing (a limited edition was published in 1959). DJ chipped along top edge. Read More

The Jews: a Treasury of Art and Literature

by Keller, Sharon R., Illustrated By Various Artist

Description: Near Fine in Very Good+ jacket. Folio-over 12"-15" tall. 384 pages/illus. The selections evoke the tone and texture of Jewish life from biblical times through the centuries of Diaspora across Europe, northern Africa, Asia Minor, and ultimately to the New World; from the Middle Ages through the early 20th century, and from the Holocaust to the subsequent creation of a Jewish homeland in Israel. Read More

The Hebrew Bible in Medieval Illuminated Manuscripts

by Sed-Rajna, Gabrielle

Description: Very Good+ in Very Good jacket. Folio-over 12"-15" tall. 173pp/illus. Tipped-in color plates. With 180 illustrations, 60 in color. Many color plates. Hardcover. Oversized. From the dustjacket: "This unique publication expands our understanding of the wealth of the Jewish iconographic repertoire. The miniature images that embellish manuscripts dating from the thirteenth to the fifteenth century cast biblical figures in a world where hte customs and traditions of the epoch merge with ancient ... Read More

The Finds From the Bar-Kochba Period in the Cave of Letters

by Yadin, Yigael

Description: Near Fine in Very Good (+) jacket. 4to-over 9¾"-12" tall. 279 pp. with 94 figs. & 108 plates (12 in color), 1 folding plan & 21 tables, A detailed study by Israel's foremost archaeologist of one of the most important archaeological projects of the mid-20th century. Light edgewear to dj. Text clean. Read More