Race/Ethnic Studies-Literature / Judaica/Holocaust Studies from Gargoyle Books

Munich, Germany: Comite International de Dachau, 1978. Soft cover. Very Good. Catalogue designed to guide visitors through the Dachau Memorial Museum, opened in 1965 in Bavaria to commemorate the victims of the atrocities perpetrated at the concentration camp of that same name, 1933 until the end of World War II in 1945, when the camp was liberated. A… Read more about this item

Acorn Independent Press Ltd., 2017. First Edition First Printing 1st Printing. Hardcover. As New/Fine. Extremely hard-to-find, this is a now out-of-print journalistic re-investigation of the heinous unsolved murders by Jack the Ripper in London's East End, 1888-1891, which locates this madman's crimes in the sociopolitical landscape of the area, focusing on how he expressed a larger current of… Read more about this item

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Clarion Books, 1996. First Edition Later Printing 2nd Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/Fine. Wisniewsi, David. A masterful retelling of the traditional Jewish legend of the golem--the giant man made of clay brought to life to vanquish the Jews of Prague. Winner of the 1997 Caldecott Medal (sticker on front DJ). Illustrated by the author… Read more about this item

Pantheon Books, 1988. First Edition First Printing 1st Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/Fine. Exhaustively researched, this book offers a noted historian's perspective on when & how the "final solution" which resulted in the genocidal extermination of millions of Jewish people became part of Adolf Hitler's & the Nazi's agenda in the years before & during WWII. A FIRST EDITION,… Read more about this item

University Press Of America, 1986. First Edition First Printing . Hardcover. As New/Near Fine. A sociological analysis of the Jewish community in Los Angeles, CA, at the time of the survey, the second largest Jewish enclave in the United States. In 211 pages. A FIRST EDITION, First Printing, fro 1986, this was part of a collection of social… Read more about this item

Farleigh Dickinson University Presses, 1984. First Edition First Printing . Hardcover. As New/Near Fine. A muldisciplinary collection of 10 essays which explore the changing relations between Jewish & African-American from the 19th-century to the present, highlighting the situations in the US, Africa, & Israel. In 211 pages with an Introduction by the editor. Part of a collection of… Read more about this item

University of California Press, 1990. First Edition First Printing 1st Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/Fine. Designed for scholars of medieval & Jewish history, this work explores problems in distinguishing different types of attitudes toward Jewish people, separating Christian anti-Judaism from antisemitism, in general, from the Middle Ages to the present. In 417 pages with extensive Notes & Index.Part of… Read more about this item

London, England: Coronet/Hodder Paperbacks Ltd., 1975. First Thus 1st Printing. Soft cover. Fine. The true story of how a young man cheated death in the most harrowing of Nazi campts"--Auschwitz, in 1944. First-person account documents his arrest as a Jew living in France, his kidnap, torture, imprisonment, & miraculous escape after being hanged. Orig. published in French in… Read more about this item

New York, New York: Book Find Club/Reynal & Hitchcock, 1945. Book Club Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Author's first novel, in which he starkly addresses the complexity of racial & ethnic relations & the fear of the "other" in an urban setting. "Could very well be to the virus of American anti-semitism what "Uncle Tom's Cabin' was to… Read more about this item

New York, New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1984. First Edition First Printing 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. A collection containing the "lion's share" of the children's stories that this Nobel-prize winning author has penned, most translated from the original Yiddish, & all rich in Jewish tradition & the cultural roots of his native Poland. In 338 pages.… Read more about this item

Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1948. First Edition First Printing 1st Printing. Hardcover. Very Good+/Good+. A complete pattern for the genius of evil" is contained within this book, which provides a startling, intimate view of the inner world & schemes of Adolf Hitler's right-hand man as they plotted the "Final Solution" & beyond in the… Read more about this item

Yale University Press, 1994. First Edition First Printing 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. Part of a collection of social science books--the majority packed away since Brand New--just removed from storage where they have been since the 1990s following review for an academic publication. To get them listed expeditiously, we are foregoing our usual detailed descriptions. This one offers… Read more about this item

new york, : Free Press, 1979. First Edition First Printing 1st Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Reports results of (up till the late 1970s) the largest empirical study every undertaken of anti-Jewish hostility in the US. Sadly, 50 years later, these elements have not gone away (see MAGA), but may offer some insights as to how we can… Read more about this item

1967. First Edition First Printing 1st Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/Good. A big, useful, happy, & sometimes riotously funny collection of colloquialisms, proverbs, curses, obscenities, & ribald expressions" in Yiddish, presented for the first time in transliterated phonetic form.In 167 pp. A FIRST EDITION, First Printing, from 1967, this hardcover 8vo has blue paper over boards lettered in black… Read more about this item

University of Washington Press, 1995. First Trade Paperback Edition 1st Printing. Soft cover. Near Fine. Comprehensive sociological analysis of the evolution of Jewishness & Jewish identity in the United States across the second half of the 20th century. In 190 pages with Notes & Index. Part of a collection of social science books--the majority packed away since Brand… Read more about this item

University Press of America, 1993. Reprint . Soft cover. Near Fine. Empirical study conducted by sociologists of the dimensions of Jewish identity in the contemporary (1970s) United States. Orig. published in 1974, this is the 1993 reprint, in 167 pages with Notes, Bibliography, & Index in rear. Part of a collection of social science books--the majority packed away… Read more about this item

Cambridge University Press, 1991. First Edition First Printing . Hardcover. As New/Near Fine. Part of a collection of linguistic books--the majority packed away since Brand New--just removed from storage where they have been since the 1990s following review for an academic publication. To get them listed expeditiously, we are foregoing our usual detailed descriptions. From 1991, this one… Read more about this item

George Braziller, 1991. First American Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. True story of the conflict between Polish Catholics & Jews around the world that arose when a group of Carmelite nuns sought to create a convent in one of the abandoned buildings that surrounded the Nazi death camp at Auschwitz. In 169 pages with Notes & Index. Part… Read more about this item

New York, New York: Godwin Books/Henry Holt and Company, 2017. First American Edition 5th or later Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Both heartbreaking & heartwarming, this is a fictionalized account of the true story of Dita Kraus, a 14-year-old Czech girl imprisoned at Auschwitz until rescued by the Allies at the end of WWII, who not only survived,… Read more about this item

The Jewish Black Book Committee, 1946. First Edition First Printing . Hardcover. Good+/No Jacket. Published not long after the end of WWII when all the atrocities committed by the Nazis against Jews had been exposed to the world, this volume was created by a committee comprised of Jewish writers, artists, scientists, anti-fascists, the World Jewish Congress, & Vaad… Read more about this item