Hardcover. NY, Macmillan, 1st, 1921, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth with gilt lettering on spine. 220 pages, a Jewish Chaplain's memoir of service in France during WWI. Foreword by Cyrus Adler. Frontis photo of Jewish welfare workers. Bookplate from private library on inside front cover, faded lettering on spine otherwise a clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, Knopf, 1st, 2024, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in a bright pictorial boards, 208 pages, color plates. The queen of American Jewish cooking (Houston Chronicle) revises her children's classic for a new generation. In Jewish tradition, holidays are a time for family and feasting, and for Joan Nathan, nothing embodies the holiday spirit more than cooking delicious festive favorites with friends and loved ones. When her own children were young, Nathan published the first version of this book, which covers nine Jewish holidays and includes step-by-step instructions for kids and their families to prepare accessible feasts. Now she updates a beloved go-to resource for her grand-children's generation (Out with the Pot Roast! In with the Tahini Shakes!) and adds a heaping helping of new recipes. Included are dishes old and new, traditional and novel, and mouthwatering recipes that everyone will enjoy, from Moroccan Apricot Chicken and Chicken Schnitzel Tenders to Mushroom Kreplach Dumplings and Veggie Quiche.Included are essays on the history of Jewish holidays, instructions for how to celebrate them, and craft activities such as making challah covers and candlesticks. Clean, bright copy.

Softcover. NY, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, reprint, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 192 pages. Roman Vishniac's A Vanished World is an extraordinary record of the lives of German and Eastern European Jews in the years immediately preceding the Holocaust. Vishniac, a Russian Jew, began to take photographs of village life during World War I, when Russian Jews who lived near the front were accused of being German spies and were deported to Siberia. He later moved to Germany, where he witnessed the horrible events of Kristallnacht and the anti-Jewish legislation that allowed Hitler to declare his enemies stateless and therefore unworthy of international protection. As we study Vishniac's photographs--a surviving fraction of the more than 16,000 he took--we are aware that we are seeing the faces of those soon to die, witnessing a world that has all but perished. Yet that world, of shops and schools, of busy streets and quiet farms, remains with us if only as a ghostly memory, thanks in part to Vishniac's compassionate eye.

hardcover. New York, Athemeum, 1st, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 172 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Illustrations by Konigsburg, dust jacket price clipped. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. London, M. Dawson for Iohn Bellamie, 1632, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 261 pages, brown calf covers with edgewear to edges, some loss of leather at top of spine. with four parts in one volume, together full-page woodcut figures and illustrations in the text. WEMYSS or WEEMES, JOHN (1579 - 1636), divine, born about 1579, was the only son of John Wemyss of Lathockar in Fife. He was educated at the university of St. Andrews, where he graduated M.A. in 1600. In 1608 he was appointed by the general assembly minister of Hutton in Berwickshire, 'as one of the best learned and disposed for peace of those on the side of the ministers, for maintaining unity among the brethren, who were considered as tending to episcopacy.' "printed by Thomas Cotes for Iohn Bellamie, and are to be sold at his shoppe at the signe of the three Golden Lyons in Cornehill, neere the Royall Exchange, 1632." Front fly leaf loose, hinges cracked. Interior pages bright and clean. Small ownership signature to title page dated 1734. Title lettered in script on fore-edge of book.

Hardcover. Princeton, NJ, Princeton University Press, 2nd Edition, 1955, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 544 pages. Hardcover. Second edition, corrected and enlarged. Previous owner's ID stamp on endpapers. Red cloth cover boards, gilt title on black on spine, some agewear to cover boards. Binding very good. Spine straight. Some pages have some light notes/underlining. This anthology brought together the most important historical, legal, mythological, liturgical, and secular texts of the ancient Near East, with the purpose of providing a rich contextual base for understanding the people, cultures, and literature of the Old Testament. Due to size and weight, DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY6

Hardcover. Berkeley, University of California Press, 1st, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn and darkened dust jacket, 421 pages with frontispiece map, illustrations and 16 photographic plates. Important economic, religious, and social study of the ancient Jewish settlement on the island of Elephantine. During the 5th century B.C., the southern frontier of ancient Egypt was guarded by an Aramean garrison at Syene (modern Aswan) and a Jewish garrison on the adjacent island of Elephantine. This study is an interpretation of the well-known group of Aramaic papyrus texts found on the site at the beginning of the 20th century. Names on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. NY, Jewish Opinion Publishing Corporation, 1st, 1944, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover. 285 pages+ portrait frontis. Original full cloth binding, edges browned. Original dust jacket, chipped, tanning. First Edition. Stephen S. Wise (1874-1949) was born in Budapest and as a child emigrated to New York, where he received his Jewish and secular education. He was ordained as a rabbi in the New Jewish Theological Seminary and went on to become a Reform rabbi and ardent Zionist and Anti-fascist. This book was published to mark Rabbi Wise's 70th birthday. his comments on Zionism, Hitlerism, the fate of the Jews - as WW2 was drawing to a close - were enormously influential.

Hardcover. Boston, Bulfinch/Little, Brown and Co, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Gold covers, blue cloth spine sith gilt titles, color illustrated dust jacket, gorgeous full page color illustrations. Mild rubbing to dust jacket; a beautiful clean, tight copy in excellent condition.

Hardcover. London, Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1st, 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a dust jacket with light fading to spine, 472 pages. From the original Arabic version of Bahya Ben Joseph Ibn Paquda's al-Hidaya ila Fara'id al-Qulub. Introd., trans. and notes by Menahem Mansoor, Sara Arenson, and Shoshana Dannhauser. 1973. 480 p. Bibliog. One of the most important works of Jewish philosophy and ethics, composed in the early 12th century. The author was very much influenced by the neo-Platonism of his age, as well as by the Muslim mystical ideas of the Sufis. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Israel/New York, Steimatzky/LeonAmiel, 1st, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 191 pages, 50 color and 40 b&w plates. Includes color lithograph at front of book. Blue cloth covers, gilt lettering on spine, bright dust jacket.

Hardcover. Oxford, England, Oxford University Press, 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 328 pages. Hardcover. B/w illustrations throughout. Previous owner's name on front flyleaf. Black cover boards, gilt title on spine. Binding tight. Spine straight. Pages clean, unmarked, bright. Dust jacket unclipped, excellent, glossy. Assesses the comexity and fluidity of Christian identity from the reign of Elizabeth I and the early Stuart kings through the English Revolution, and into the Restoration, which the English Church and monarchy were restored.

Hardcover. NY, Henry Holt, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 16 plates, 13 text maps, bibliography, index; An insightful history of Churchill's lifelong commitment-both public and private-to the Jews and Zionism, and of his outspoken opposition to anti-SemitismWinston Churchill's commitment to Jewish rights, to Zionism, and ultimately to the State of Israel never wavered. In 1922, he established on the bedrock of international law the right of Jews to emigrate to Palestine. During his meeting with David Ben-Gurion in 1960, Churchill presented the Israeli prime minister with an article he had written about Moses, praising the patriarch. In between these events he fought harder and more effectively for the Jewish people than the world has ever realized.

Softcover. Los Angeles, CA, Green Integer, 1st, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 185 pages. Softcover with light edgewear to paper wrappers. Small stain on rear wrapper, otherwise clean, tight copy. Small book; 6"x4".

Hardcover. NY, G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1st, 1961, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover. 371 pages. Grey cloth with gilt decoration & gilt titles to spine. Previous owner's pen marks in small writing to back top title page, table of contents & bibliography. Signature to front endpaper. Black & white illustrations throughout. Dust jacket with toning & edgewear, small chips, now protected with a plastic cover. Light marginal foxing to top edge & front fly leaf. Otherwise, clean & unmarked.

Hardcover. NY, Farrar, Sraus and Giroux, 1st, 1965, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket, 650 pages, b&w illustrations. A rare study of the Nabataeans, whose kingdom included that archaeological wonder of the world:, Petra. Name on front fly leaf, dj spine with fading.

Hardcover. New York, Farrar Straus Giroux, 1st, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Color illustrated by Antonio Frasconi. Dust jacket shows some minor wear. Hardbound. Translated from the Yiddish by the author and Elizabeth Shub. The winner of the 1970 National Book Award for children's literature retells a Hebrew legend with vivid simplicity and an internationally respected artist interprets it with a sincerity and fresh vision reminiscent of medieval art.

Softcover. West Lafayette IN, Purdue University Press , 1st, 2020, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 529 pages, b&w illustrations. Eva and Otto is a true story about German opposition and resistance to Hitler as revealed through the early lives of Eva Lewinski Pfister (1910-1991) and Otto Pfister (1900-1985). It is an intimate and epic account of two Germans-Eva born Jewish, Otto born Catholic-who worked with a little-known German political group that resisted and fought against Hitler in Germany before 1933 and then in exile in Paris before the German invasion of France in May 1940. After their improbable escapes from separate internment and imprisonment in Europe, Eva obtained refuge in America in October 1940 where she worked to rescue other endangered political refugees, including Otto, with the help of Eleanor Roosevelt. As revealed in recently declassified records, Eva and Otto later engaged in different secret assignments with the US Office of Strategic Services (OSS) in support of the Allied war effort. Despite their vastly different backgrounds, Eva and Otto gave each other hope and strength as they acted upon what they understood to be an ethical duty to help others threatened by fascism. The book provides a sobering insight into the personal risks and costs of a commitment to that duty. Their unusually beautiful writing-directed to each other in diaries and correspondence during two long periods of wartime separation-also reveals an unlikely and inspiring love story.

Hardcover. NY, Lothrop, Lee & Shepard, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. Color illustrations by Anatoly Ivanov. Light soil to cover/dust jacket. TIght copy.

Hardcover. Rochester, NY, Judaic Impressions, 1st Edition, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Nonpaginated. SIGNED NOTE FROM TRANSLATOR LAID IN. Hardcover Folio. Cover boards bound in black cloth, white paste-on on spine with title, a touch of fading to spine and some shelf wear. 2 light smudges of soil to 1st poem title page (see image). 3Scarce 1st Edition, only 100 printed. "The five poems (written during the Holocaust) compiled in this book are witness of the unquenchable spirit of man. They are personal, lyrical and so very Jewish. They speak to God - arguing, protesting, demanding, pleading, accusing and longing...".

Softcover. Santa Monica CA, Gitta Rosenzweig , 1st, 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 421 pages, illustrated with b&w, color photographs. A self-published memoir chronicling her family's past during the Holocaust. The author was raised in a Catholic orphanage in Poland, later immigrated to America and later returned to trace her parent's history. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on front fly leaf. Clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. NY, Clarion, 2nd pr., 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. Winner of the Caldecott Medal. Color illustrations by the author. Clean, tight copy. Second printing, without the Caldecott sticker.

Hardcover. NY, Oxford University Press, 1st, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 365 pages. Holy war, sanctioned or even commanded by God, is a common and recurring theme in the Hebrew Bible. Rabbinic Judaism, however, largely avoided discussion of holy war in the Talmud and related literatures for the simple reason that it became dangerous and self-destructive. Reuven Firestone's Holy War in Judaism is the first book to consider how the concept of ''holy war'' disappeared from Jewish thought for almost 2000 years, only to reemerge with renewed vigor in modern times.The revival of the holy war idea occurred with the rise of Zionism. As the necessity of organized Jewish engagement in military actions developed, Orthodox Jews faced a dilemma. There was great need for all to engage in combat for the survival of the infant state of Israel, but the Talmudic rabbis had virtually eliminated divine authorization for Jews to fight in Jewish armies. Once the notion of divinely sanctioned warring was revived, it became available to Jews who considered that the historical context justified more aggressive forms of warring.

Softcover. Urbana IL, University of Illinois Press, 1st pbk, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 83 pages. In Humanism of the Other, Emmanuel Levinas argues that it is not only possible but of the highest exigency to understand one's humanity through the humanity of others. In paperback for the first time, Levinas's work here is based in a new appreciation for ethics and takes new distances from phenomenology, idealism, and skepticism to rehabilitate humanism and restore its promises. Painfully aware of the long history of dehumanization that reached its apotheosis in Hitler and Nazism, Levinas does not underestimate the difficulty of reconciling oneself with another. The humanity of the human, Levinas argues, is not discoverable through mathematics, rational metaphysics, or introspection. Rather, it is found in the recognition that the other person comes first, that the suffering and mortality of others are the obligations and morality of the self. Clean copy.

Softcover. Huron OH, Bottom Dog Press, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 130 pages. INSCRIBED BY JACOBSON on the title page. The author tells her story of growing up Jewish in Evanston, Illinois.

Hardcover. New Haven CT, Yale University Press, 1st, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 232 pages. Political theorist Michael Walzer reports his findings after decades of thinking about the politics of the Hebrew Bible. Attentive to nuance while engagingly straightforward, Walzer examines the laws, the histories, the prophecies, and the wisdom of the ancient biblical writers and discusses their views on such central political questions as justice, hierarchy, war, the authority of kings and priests, and the experience of exile. Because there are many biblical writers with differing views, pluralism is a central feature of biblical politics. Yet pluralism, Walzer observes, is never explicitly defended in the Bible; indeed, it couldn't be defended since God's word had to be as singular as God himself. Yet different political regimes are described in the biblical texts, and there are conflicting political arguments--and also a recurrent anti-political argument: if you have faith in God, you have no need for strong institutions, prudent leaders, or reformist policies. At the same time, however, in the books of law and prophecy, the people of Israel are called upon to overcome oppression and "let justice well up like water, righteousness like an unfailing stream." Name on front fly leaf, light pencil marking to pages.

Hardcover. Northvale, Jason Aronson Inc., 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 356 pages. Hardcover. Dust jacket with light wear - Jacket now protected with clear plastic cover. Clean, unmarked pages.

Hardcover. London, England, Oxford University Press, Reprint, 1953, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 788 pages. Hardcover. Vol. III & IV only. Previous owner's name stamped on contents page and front endpapers. Green cloth cover boards, gilt title on spine, spine very faded (see image). Pages and edges have a touch of tanning. Edges have a specked design. v. 3. Holiness and its upholders -- v. 4. The renewal and the source of holiness. DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.

Hardcover. New York, New Press, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 198 pages, b&w illustrations. Readers have long cherished the work of comic masters such as Will Eisner, Jules Feiffer, and Art Spiegelman, all of whom happen to be Jewish. Few, however, are probably aware that the Jewish role in creating the American comic art form is no less significant than the Jewish influence on Hollywood filmmaking. Filled with the most stunning examples of this vital artistic tradition, Jews and American Comics tells us how the "people of the book" became the people of the comic book.With three brief essays by Paul Buhle, the well-known historian of American Jewish life, Jews and American Comics offers readers a pictorial backstory tracing Jewish involvement in comic art from several little-known strips in Yiddish newspapers of the early twentieth century through the mid-century origins of the modern comic book and finally to contemporary comic art, which has at last found its place in museums, in private collections, and on the bookshelves of both critics and millions of avid readers.

Hardcover. Edinburgh, T and T Clark, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 342 pages. Jewish-Christian contact and controversy were central to early Christian experience. An understanding of this contact and controversy and its continuation over the centuries is also central to any true understanding of the history of Christianity and of the history of Judaism. The twelve chapters of this book deal especially with the interconnected subjects of polemic and biblical interpretation. Nine are concerned with the ancient world, beginning with post-exilic Jewish writing and the New Testament and going on to later pagan, Jewish and Christian controversies. Three concentrate on medieval and early modern Jewish controversies. Clean copy.

Hardcover. New York, Ktav Pub Inc, 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 226 pages, INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on title page, with photographs throughout. Minor dust jacket edge wear, otherwise, very clean and tight.

Hardcover. Cambridge UK, Cambridge University Press, 1st, 2018, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, black cloth with gilt lettering on spine, 420 pages. John Locke's treatises on government make frequent reference to the Hebrew Bible, while references to the New Testament are almost completely absent. To date, scholarship has not addressed this surprising characteristic of the treatises. In this book, Yechiel Leiter offers a Hebraic reading of Locke's fundamental political text. In doing so, he formulates a new school of thought in Lockean political interpretation and challenges existing ones. He shows how a grasp of the Hebraic underpinnings of Locke's political theory resolves many of the problems, as well as scholarly debates, that are inherent in reading Locke. More than a book about the political theory of John Locke, this volume is about the foundational ideas of western civilization. While focused on Locke's Hebraism, it demonstrates the persistent relevance of the biblical political narrative to modernity. Light pencil marking to about 25 pages. Otherwise clean and tight. No dust jacket.

Hardcover. New York, Simon & Schuster, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover. Full color illustrations by Mordicai Gerstein. INSCRIBED WITH SKETCH BY AUTHOR/ILLUSTRATOR OPPOSITE TITLE PAGE. Small surface abrasion to paper at bottom of copyright page and on opposite dedication page. Clean, unmarked pages.

Hardcover. Israel, Yeshivat Kol Yehuda, Reprint, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 264 pages. Hardcover. Black & white illustrations. Dust jacket with light wear along edges. Clean, unmarked pages.

Hardcover. New York, Greenwillow Books, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 51 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Paintings by Mark Podwal. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. West Kennebunk ME, Phoenix Publishing, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. an extraordinary memoir of Maurice that recounts the strange turns and fateful encounters that led him from his newsboyhood to collaborate with some of the world's most important men and to cooperate with some of it's most determined dreamers. Clean copy.

Hardcover. New York , W. W. Norton & Company, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Like new in publishers shrink-wrap. 352 pages, b&w illustrations. A photographic account of Jewish life in America draws on the archives of the premiere national Jewish newspaper, Forward, in a visual tribute that pairs essays by leading intellectuals, including Leon Weiseltier and Deborah E. Lipstadt, with images of such subjects as a shtetl beauty contest, Lower East Side pushcart markets, and labor rallies.

Hardcover. NY, Blue Apple Books, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. SIGNED BY AUTHOR AND ILLUSTRATOR on title page. Light edgewear to dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. Seattle, Fantagraphics, 1st, 2008-, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, Clean, unmarked copy in excellent condition.

Hardcover. Cambridge MA, Harvard University Press, 1st, 1938, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth with faded gilt title on spine. There is a ring stain to front cover where a glass had been placed. Otherwise a clean copy. 139 pages, b&w fronts. portrait of Holmes. INSCRIBED TO STEPHEN S. WISE BY FRANKFURTER; "For S.S.W. /With the best regards of/FF" Stephen Samuel Wise (March 17, 1874 - April 19, 1949) was an early 20th-century American Reform rabbi and Zionist leader in the Progressive Era. Joining U.S. Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis, Felix Frankfurter, and others, Wise laid the groundwork for a democratically elected, nationwide organization of 'ardently Zionist' Jews, 'to represent Jews as a group and not as individuals'.[7] In 1917 he participated in the effort to convince President Woodrow Wilson to approve the Balfour declaration in support of Jewish settlement in Mandate Palestine.[8] In 1918, following national elections, this Jewish community convened the first American Jewish Congress in Philadelphia's historic Independence Hall.

Softcover. New York, John Day Company, 1st Edition, 1933, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 32 pages. Softcover pamphlet with French flaps. Tan wrapper with black title on front cover and text on back cover (see image). Staple bound. A couple of stray marks on front cover (see image). Some light tanning throughout from age. In amazing shape for its age.

Hardcover. Seattle WA, Fantagraphics, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, b&w illustrations. Light shelf-wear to boards, else a clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. Seattle WA, Fantagraphics, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, b&w illustrations. Light shelf-wear to boards, else a clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. New York, Red Ozier Press, 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Unpaginated, hardcover. SIGNED BY AUTHOR & ILLUSTRATOR. Singer's signature to last story page in pen. Interior color lithographic frontispiece signed in pencil by Callner. Illustrated with three colored lithographs, each signed by Richard Callner in pencil. Violet morocco leather spine, sides, and corner-tips. Blue boards. Translated from the original Yiddish by the author and Elizabeth Pollet. Light age toning to top text block edge. Heavy fading to spine. Rough-cut fore edge. Of 155 copies, this is number 76. Scarce. A clean and tight copy.

Hardcover. Berkeley, CA , University of California Press, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 283 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. A very clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket edges. A tight copy. Black and white illustrations throughout. This richly detailed study reconceptualizes a striking but enigmatic moment in Rembrandt's art from the 1650s--one of the artist's most prolific and creative periods. Michael Zell identifies a significant theological shift in Rembrandt's use of religious imagery and interprets this shift in light of the unique religious and social conditions of seventeenth-century Amsterdam. Rembrandt's biblical art has generally been regarded as the embodiment of a Protestant aesthetic. By looking closely at the artist's relationship with his patron Rabbi Menasseh ben Israel and the ideas of a group of "philosemitic" Protestants with whom the rabbi was engaged in an apologetic dialogue, Zell deepens and complicates our understanding of Rembrandt's sacred art from this period.

Softcover. University Press of Maryland, 2000, Softcover, 306 pages. Memoir (translated from the German by Henny Wenkart) of a Jewish woman in 19th-century Russia, with scholarly introduction and analysis. Pauline Wengeroff's memoir tells what it was like to be a Jewish girl and a Jewish woman in 19th-century Russia, as foundations of faith and tradition eroded around her. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Oxford UK, Oxford University Press, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 314 pages including index. In the midst of an age of prejudice, John Selden's immense, neglected rabbinical works contain magnificent Hebrew scholarship that respects, to an extent remarkable for the times, the self-understanding of Judaism. Scholars celebrated for their own broad and deep learning gladly conceded Selden's superiority and conferred on him titles such as "the glory of the English nation" (Hugo Grotius), "Monarch in letters" (Ben Jonson), "the chief of learned men reputed in this land" (John Milton). Although scholars have examined Selden (1584-1654) as a political theorist, legal and constitutional historian, and parliamentarian, Renaissance England's Chief Rabbi is the first book-length study of his rabbinic and especially talmudic publications, which take up most of the six folio volumes of his complete works and constitute his most mature scholarship. It traces the cultural influence of these works on some early modern British poets and intellectuals, including Jonson, Milton, Andrew Marvell, James Harrington, Henry Stubbe, Nathanael Culverwel, Thomas Hobbes, and Isaac Newton. It also explores some of the post-biblical Hebraic ideas that served as the foundation of Selden's own thought, including his identification of natural law with a set of universal divine laws of perpetual obligation pronounced by God to our first parents in paradise and after the flood to the children of Noah. Selden's discovery in the Talmud and in Maimonides' Mishneh Torah of shared moral rules in the natural, pre-civil state of humankind provides a basis for relationships among human beings anywhere in the world. The history of the religious toleration of Jews in England is incomplete without acknowledgment of the impact of Selden's uncommonly generous Hebrew scholarship. Name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. Berkeley CA, University of California Press, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 156 pages. Between 1935 and 1938 the celebrated photographer Roman Vishniac explored the cities and villages of Eastern Europe, capturing life in the Jewish shtetlekh of Poland, Romania, Russia, and Hungary, communities that even then seemed threatened-not by destruction and extermination, which no one foresaw, but by change. Using a hidden camera and under difficult circumstances, Vishniac was able to take over sixteen thousand photographs; most were left with his father in a village in France for the duration of the war. With the publication of Children of a Vanished World, seventy of those photographs are available, thirty-six for the first time. The book is devoted to a subject Vishniac especially loved, and one whose mystery and spontaneity he captured with particular poignancy: children.

Hardcover. Mohr Siebeck, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 654 pages, b&w illustrations. Light shelf-wear to dust jacket, previous owner's stamp on front end paper. Faint foxing to top edge, otherwise a clean, tight copy.