Search Results: Judaica from Twin City Antiquarian Books

New York: Bloch Publishing Company, 1920 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Sewn in printed paper wraps, 91 pp. Light soil to wraps & a bit of chipping to spine ends. Hyman G. Enelow (1876-1934) was a Reform rabbi at Temple Emanu-El in New York from 1912 to 1934. In this rather charmingly understated book, he asks the questions, need Jews become Christians? Atheists? Christian Scientists? Ethical Culturists? Unitarians? and answers that no, Judaism is good enough. Shipping weight 1 lb.. Wraps. VG/No dj. 18 X 12½ cm.

Boston: David R. Godine, 1981 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Translated by Daly Bilu. Sage green cloth, [v], 270, [5] pp. Top edge of cloth faded, else as new. DJ slightly rubbed at corners and spine ends, rear panel lightly soiled; in Brodart archival cover. "The secure world of a well-established and apparently well-assimilated Jewish writer, in an Austrian town before World War II, falls to pieces under the force of political and social realities which daily sanctify the old Austrian anti-Semitism. We learn what we learn through Bruno, the thirteen-year-old son of the family, whose spare and uninflected accounts of illness, forced hilarity, ruined railway journeys, conversions, and doomed strategies of accomodation disclose the slow onset of disaster." Shipping weight 2 lbs. (International 1 lb., 12 oz.). First Edition in English. . Fine/Near Fine. 20 X 13 cm.

New York: Jewish Opinion Publishing Company, 1944 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. No edition statement, but title page date matches copyright date. Grey cloth, gilt titles on front board & spine, 285 pp, frontis. Corners bumped, spine ends rumpled, spine & edges faded, faintly musty. DJ spine & edges browned, slight wear & chipping, a few smudges; in Brodart archival cover. Collected essays, gathered under the following headings: the Jewish fate and faith; Hitlerism and beyond; Zion--homeland and hope; contemporaries and comrades; towards peace and justice. Shipping weight 2 lbs.. Presumed First Edition. . VG/VG. 22½ X 13½ cm.

Philadelphia: The Jewish Publication Society of America, 1954 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Quarter grey cloth, black & blue paper-covered boards, blue titles on spine, [vi], 344 pp. Spine ends worn & rumpled. DJ corners & spine ends rubbed & slightly chipped, several 1-2 cm tears with creasing to bottom edge; in Brodart archival cover. From the DJ: "...a skillful picture of a German rabbi and his wife, who, uprooted from the seeming security of their position in Germany, are faced with the dual task of uniting a congregation and becoming adjusted to the pace of life in the United States." No additional printings noted, title page date matches copyright date. Shipping weight 2 lbs.. First Edition. . VG/VG. 22 X 15 cm.

Philadelphia: The Jewish Publication Society of America, 1967 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Inscribed by author on half-title. Black cloth, red cloth spine with black & gilt titles, endpaper maps, x, 307 pp. Inscribed by author, dated in 1973, and signed with both his (illegible) real name and the pseudonym. Half-title and ffep are browned by a taped-in newspaper clipping about Stalin's August 1952 purge of Jewish leaders; pencil underlining & notes on two pages. Price-clipped DJ rubbed at extremities, half-inch tear to bottom of rear panel; in Brodart archival cover. From the DJ: "A sensational bestseller in Israel, where it was awarded the Ussichkin Prize for Literature for the year 1966-67, Between Hammer and Sickle is a skillful blend of fact and personal experience that unravels the bewildering puzzle growing out of the Soviet Union's often contradictory attitude toward its Jews." Shipping weight 2 lbs.. . Near… Read More

New York: Hebrew Publishing Co., 1964 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Blue cloth, xi, 719 pp, English and Hebrew indexes. Corners bumped and frayed, boards faded and soiled, glass rings on rear board, half a bookplate and scars from attempted removal on fpd, owner's name on recto of ffep, shaken hinges repaired with acid-free PVA, internally clean. From the Introduction: "The purpose of this book is to provide in a single handy volume the essential teachings of Judaism. It is written for those who want an up-to-date and easily intelligible account of basic Jewsih concepts, a knowledge of which brings meaning to what may otherwise seem empty phrases. ... Encyclopedic in scope and compact in content, easy to consult and convenient to use, this work has been designed not only for rabbis, teachers and students, but also for all laymen who are interested in the universal message of Judaism." Arranged alphabetically in Hebrew, but the text is… Read More

New York: Central Conference of American Rabbis, 1979 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Dark blue cloth, gilt titles on front board & spine, xxxiv, 338 pp, index. Corners bumped, a bit of scuffing to front board, marginal notes on one page. Proceeding of a conference of Reform Jewish rabbis. Contains reports & papers of committees charged with making recommendations on various matters, both administrative and religious, text of addresses, memorials to recently deceased members, lists of members, past presidents, etc. Shipping weight 2 lbs.. . VG+/No dj. 23½ X 15½ cm.

New York: Summit Books, 1985 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Signed by Author recto ffep. Quarter red cloth with blue boards, foil titles on spine and 'CES' on front board near spine, 458 pp, notes, index. A light scuff on each board, edges lightly soiled, owner's embossed stamp on ffep. DJ has original bookseller's price sticker on rear panel, corners & spine ends slightly worn, flaw in lamination on front panel; in Brodart archival cover. Shipping weight 3 lbs.. First Edition. . Near Fine/Very Good. 24 X 16½ cm.

New York: Dial Press, 1944 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Full blue cloth, white titles on front board & spine, 340 pp. Head of spine rubbed, 1 cm spot near tail of spine, owners' names on ffep. DJ rubbed, torn, and chipped but substantially complete; in Brodart archival cover. Contains an introduction by Felix Frankfurter and articles about Weizmann, his life and his works by the editor, Norman Angell, Sholem Asch, Michael Assaf, S. N. Behrmann, Ernst Bergmann, Blanche Dugdale, Judith Epstein, Louis F. Fieser, Jacob Fishman, Israel Goldstein, Vladimir N. Ipatieff, Freda Kirchwey, Ludwig Lewisohn, Louis Lipsky, Marvin Lowenthal, Thomas Mann, Lord Melchett, Morris Rothenberg, Harry Sacher, Maurice Samuel, Abba Hillel Silver, H. B. Speakman, Dorothy Thompson, Pierre van Paassen, I. Elazari-Volcani, and Stephen S. Wise. Shipping weight 3 lbs. (International 2 lbs., 4 oz.). First Edition. . VG/G. 24 X 16½ cm.

New Haven & London: Yale University Press, 1961 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Black cloth, gilt titles on spine, xviii, 228 pp, footnotes, bibliography, index. White spots on front board, corners bumped, bookplate on ffep. DJ has chips & tears of 1 to 2 cm; in Brodart protective cover. Sociological study of generational differences among Jews in a midwestern American city (not named, but we would guess Minneapolis). Shipping weight 2 lbs.. First Edition. . VG/VG-. 22 X 14½ cm.

New York: M. Y. Blau, 1951 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Printed by Shulsinger Bros. Linotyping & Publishing Co. Blue leather-textured cloth, gilt titles & blind decorations, 278, [9] pp, 1 plate (negative images of manuscripts on both sides). Three-cm marginal tear to English title page, extremities rubbed, titles dull particularly on spine. Text in Hebrew. Shipping weight 3 lbs. (International 2 lbs., 12 oz.). . Good/No dj. 26½ X 20½ cm.

Philadelphia: The Jewish Publication Society of America, 1976 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Quarter black cloth, lilac paper-covered boards, white & lilac titles on spine, white titles & blind device on front board, blue endpapers, xv, 421, [1] pp, tables, charts, notes, index. Boards sunned near spine and top edge, a lightly bumped corner, a few small spots on edges. DJ slightly browned, with a few small (under 1 cm) edge tears; in Brodart archival cover. From the DJ: "It is the way of communities to develop a political dimension if they are to survive, and since [American] Jews chose to survive as a community, they slowly began to forge a polity appropriate to American conditions: voluntaristic, limited by the reality of Jewish integration into American life, and far from exclusivist in its goals, but no less genuine for all that. The forging of that polity and its relationship to the community it serves are the subjects of this… Read More

New York: Philosophical Library, 1959 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Full sky-blue cloth, dark blue titles on front board & spine, [vii], 237 pp, 64 pp b & w plates. DJ has a bit of edge wear; in Brodart archival cover. According to the DJ: "A handy and up-to-date guidebook of quick refernce in the fields of Jewish history, religion, philosophy and literature." Shipping weight 2 lbs.. First Edition. . Near Fine/Very Good. 21 X 14½ cm.

Jerusalem: The Institute for Research in Jewish Law, 1981 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Maroon leather-textured boards, gilt titles on front board & spine, [xxxiv[, 282, [4] pp. Front board a bit scuffed, otherwise very good. Text in Hebrew. Shipping weight 3 lbs.. . VG-/No dj. 28 X 22 cm.

New York: Harper & Row, 1969 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Blue cloth, xiv, 477, [3] pp, 8 ff photo plates, bibliography, index. A few small smudges on boards, one corner and spine ends lightly bumped, and a small spot worn nearly through on half-title. DJ a bit worn at corners and spine ends; in Brodart archival cover. "...Ronald Sanders has gone beyond the clichés. He has told the quite serious and still fascinating story of the Americanization of the Jewish immigrants in all its aspects. The book is organized around the life of a fabulous character of the time, Abraham Cahan. When Cahan became editor of the Jewish Daily Forward, it was a minor Yiddish-language newspaper; at the peak of its career, and of his, it had one of the largest circulations of any newspaper in America." Shipping weight 3 lbs.. First Edition. . Near Fine/Near Fine. 21½ X 14½ cm.

Jerusalem: Keter Publishing House Jerusalem Ltd., 1978 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Full blue-green decorated cloth, gilt titles on spines. Lacks volume 12. Many volumes fine, although some have light rubbing to extremities and/or bumped corners. Heavy set requires additional charge for international or priority shipping. Contains 19 volumes: 15 of the 16 original volumes, plus yearbooks for 1973, 1975, 1975-6, and 1990-1. Exhausive reference on Judaism, except for topics starting with Mim to O. Shipping weight 112 lbs.. 4th ptg. . VG+/No dj. 31½ X 22½ cm.

Cincinnati: Hebrew Union College Press, 1967 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Joint publisher: Quadrangle Books, Chicago. Brown cloth, [viii], 148, [1] pp. Extremities rubbed. DJ lightly rubbed with 3 small tears to top edge; in Brodart archival cover. For most of his long academic career, Slonimsky was Dean of the Jewish Institute of Religion in New York. Although his students remembered him as an inspiring speaker and teacher, his published works were few. This collection gathers unpublished and previously published essays, articles, and prefaces. Contents: on reading the Midrash; the philosophy implicit in the Midrash; Judah Halevi; Hermann Cohen; on being a religious person; prayer; Judaism and the religion of the future; eightieth birthday address. Shipping weight 2 lbs. (International 1 lb., 8 oz.). . VG-/VG. 21½ X 14½ cm.

Notre Dame & London: University of Notre Dame Press, 1990 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Translated by Jon Rothschild. Grey cloth, gilt titles on spine, [vii], 194 pp. DJ in Brodart archival cover. A series of interviews of Wiesel on "evil and suffering, life and death, chance and circumstance. Moreover, the dialogue evokes candid and often surprising responses by Wiesel on the Palestinian problem, Judeo-Christian relations recent changes in the Soviet Union as well as insights into writers such as Kafka, Malraux, Maurac, and Unamuno." Shipping weight 2 lbs.. First Edition in English. . Fine/Fine. 22½ X 14½ cm.

New York: Shilo Publishing House, Inc., 1990 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Hebrew Grammar (Wallenrod & Aaroni) : blue, white & black covers, [ix], 261 pp; covers somewhat soiled, clean inside. Dictionary (Sivan & Levenston): sixth Israeli edition, Bnei-Brak: Steimatzky, 1988-9, ISBN 0-553-14420-0, English to Hebrew - xxii, 399, Hebrew to English - xviii, 294 pp (733 pp in all); covers worn, spine creased, one annotation on preliminary page. Two books for the English-speaking student of the Hebrew language offered as a set. Shipping weight 2 lbs.. Soft Cover. Good/No dj. 23 X 15 cm.

South Brunswick, New York, & London: Thomas Yoseloff, 1972 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Tan cloth, black titles on spine, [v], 575-1056 pp, index. Spine ends turned in, faintly musty. DJ creased and worn along bottom edge of front panel, otherwise has just slight edge wear; in Brodart archival cover. Volume 2 only of a 2-volume set. Contents: the institution of the synagogue; Jewish groups, sects, and languages; the Jews of the world, outline history of the Jewish people; the organizational life of the Jew; index to both volumes. Shipping weight 3 lbs.. 2nd ptg. . Near Fine/Very Good. 24 X 16½ cm.