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Albahari, David; Elias-Bursac, Ellen (translated from Serbian) Gotz and Meyer
Harvest Books 2006 015603110-8 / 9780156031103 Trade Paperback Fine 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Near-new copy. Appears unread. NO remainder marks or clippings. Tight spine, bright pages. NO writing, marks or tears. 169 pages. Synopsis Götz and Meyer, two noncommissioned SS officers, are entrusted with an assignment, “not a big one,” but one that requires efficiency. Their task is to transport prisoners from a concentration camp near Belgrade in a hermetically sealed truck, in which they are asphyxiated. The nameless narrator of Götz and Meyer, a Jewish schoolteacher, discovers Wilhelm Götz and Erwin Meyer while researching the deaths of his relatives. Overwhelmed by the horror of his discoveries as they become entangled with his own feverish imaginings, he organizes a class trip. The school bus becomes Götz and Meyer’s truck, and the teacher and his students merge with Belgrade’s lost souls in a sacred act of remembering.
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Aleichem, Sholom; Kazin, Alfred (Introduction) Selected Short Stories of Sholom Aleichem
The Modern Library 1956 Hard Cover Very Good + No Jacket 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall
A photo of this book is available. Very-good+, clean condition. NO remainder marks or price clippings. Red boards with gilt lettering (clean and bright). NO writing or marks inside book. Tight spine, bright pages. 432 pages. 2 pages in book front show tears along top-right edge. Appears that previous owner tore out where their name/signature would have been. Does NOT interfere with any of the text, reading, etc. CONTENTS: Introduction by Alfred Kazin; On Account Of A Hat; The Pair; The Town Of Little People; The Inheritors; Tevye Wins A Fortune; A Page From The Song Of Songs; Two Dead Men; The Clock That Struck Thirteen; Home For The Passover; The Enchanted Tailor; A Yom Kipper Scandal; In Haste; Eternal Life; Hannukah Money; Tit For Tat; Modern Children; You Musn't Weep - It's Yom-Tev; I'm Lucky - I'm An Orphan; Dreyfus In Kasrilevka; the Convoy; The Fiddle; The Day Before Yom Kippur; Three Little Heads; A Country Passover; The Lottery Ticket; The Miracle Of Hashono Rabo; Hodel; A Daughter's Grave; Cnards; Glossary.
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Avishai, Bernard The Hebrew Republic: How Secular Democracy and Global Enterprise Will Bring Israel Peace at Last
Harcourt 2008 0151014523 / 9780151014521 Hard Cover Fine Fine 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Near-new condition. NO remainder marks or price clippings. Price inside dustcover: $26.00. Stated First Edition. Number line: A C E G I K J H F D B. 290 pages. Tight spine, bright pages. NO writing marks or tears inside book. Synopsis: Political economist Bernard Avishai has been writing and thinking about Israel since moving there to volunteer during the 1967 War. now he synthesizes his years of study and searching into a short, urgent polemic that posits that the country must become a more complete democracy if it has any chance for a peaceful future. He explores the connection between Israel’s democratic crisis and the problems besetting the nation the expansion of settlements, the alienation of Israeli Arabs, and the exploding ultraorthodox population. He also makes an intriguing case for Israel’s new global enterprises to change the country’s future for the better. With every year, peace in Israel seems to recede further into the distance, while Israeli arts and businesses advance. This contradiction cannot endure much longer. But in cutting through the inflammatory arguments of partisans on all sides, Avishai offers something even more enticing than pragmatic solutions he offers hope.
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Bailey, Albert Edward; Kent, Charles Foster History of the Hebrew Commonwealth
Charles Scribner's Sons 1920 Hard Cover Very Good + No Jacket 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Very-good+, clean copy of this 1920 hardback. Apparent First Edition. NO remainder marks or clippings. Dark-maroon boards (clean - shows slight wear). Illustrated - includes color frontispiece map "Modern Palestine with Ancient Towns and Highways". 412 pages. NO foxing. Pages show only slight tanning. 4 pages in book front, show light writing in margins. Does NOT interfere with reading. NO other writing or marks inside book. Tight spine, no tears.
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Bar-Zohar, Michael Facing a Cruel Mirror: Israel's Moment of Truth
Scribner 1990 0684191946 / 9780684191942 Hard Cover Fine Fine 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Near-new condition - Dustcover shows only slight wear - Book is in Fine Condition - Price inside dustcover: $22.95 - Number line: 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 - NO remainder marks or price clippings - Tight spine - Bright pages - 246 pages - A former member of the Knesset, Bar-Zohar says that Israel is deeply divided by differences between religious and secular forces, hawks and doves, Arabs and Jews, and that it is struggling to maintain its moral and democratic ideals. He believes that the constant need to form coalition governments has stymied peace initiatives, and that electoral reform is needed.
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Birmingham, Steven The Rest of Us: The Rise of America's Eastern European Jews
Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.A. Little Brown & Co 1984 0316096474 / 9780316096478 Hard Cover Near-Fine Fine 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
A photo of this book is available. Stated Third Printing. Remainder mark on top. NO price clippings. Price inside dustcover: $19.95. ONLY writing/mark inside book is small date stamp in book front on blank page (Ap 4 86). Illustrated. 392 pages. Tight spine, bright pages. NO writing, marks or tears inside book. Red boards with gilt lettering (clean and bright). Synopsis: This, the last addition to Stephen Birmingham's historical trilogy, recounts the immigration of Eastern European Jews to America in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Birmingham spotlights the successes of several of these famous immigrants, including Samuel Goldwyn, Benny (Bugsy) Siegel, Helena Rubinstein, and Irving Berlin. Booknews: Birmingham has written over 25 works of fiction and non-fiction, and this book is the last in an historical trilogy about American Jews. It covers American Judaism from the massive immigrations of Eastern European Jews in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, to contemporary issues. It is, in general, a story of success and prospering against all odds, including poverty and racism, which focuses on several highly successful immigrants, such as Samuel Goldwyn, Benny (Bugsy) Siegel, Helena Rubenstein, and Irving Berlin. Annotation c. Book News, Inc.
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Bisno, Abraham with a Foreword By Joel Seidman Abraham Bisno Union Pioneer An Autobiographical Account of Bisno's Early Life and the Beginnings of Unionism in the Women's Garment Industry
The University of Wisconsin Press 1967 Hard Cover Near-Fine No Jacket 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
1967 Copyright - No tears - No writing - Tight spine - 244 pages - Frontispiece photo of Bisno - 5 3/4 x 8 3/4 - Abraham Bisno, Union Pioneer - An autobiographical account of Bisno's early life and the beginnings of unionism in the women's garment industry. Bisno, in the early 1900s, one of the best-known labor leaders among the Jewish garment workers in Chicago and New York. Born in Russia in 1866, the son and grandson of tailors, he was apprenticed to the trade as a boy, and when his family migrated to the United States in 1881, he went to work at once; for a short time in Atlanta, where the family first lived, then in Chattanooga, and finally in Chicago, where the family settled in 1882. It was there that his interest in improving conditions for workers developed, and for more than thirt years he took a leading part in union activity in the garment industry, serving in 1890 as the first president of the Chicago Cloak Maker's Union, one of the forerunners of the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union and later as chief clerk of the Joint Board of the ILGWU in New York City. Although after 1917 he devoted most of his time to the real estate business, he never lost interest in union affairs.
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Black, Edwin IBM and the Holocaust: The Strategic Alliance Between Nazi Germany and America's Most Powerful Corporation
New York, New York, U.S.A. Random House Large Print 2001 0375431241 / 9780375431241 Hard Cover Very Good + Very Good + Large Print Edition 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Very-good+, clean condition. This is a LARGE PRINT Edition. NO remainder marks or price clippings. Price inside dustcover: $27.50. Orange-red boards with black lettering (clean and bright). NO writing or tears inside book. 981 pages. Tight spine, bright pages. Synopsis IBM and the Holocaust is the stunning story of IBM's strategic alliance with Nazi Germany. Newsweek Backed by exhaustive research, Black's case is simple and stunning! Biography The son of Polish survivors, Washington-based writer Edwin Black is the author of the award-winning Holocaust finance investigation, The Transfer Agreement, and is an expert on commercial relations with the Third Reich.
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Blitzer, Wolf Between Washington and Jerusalem: A Reporter's Notebook
Cary, North Carolina, U.S.A. Oxford Univ Pr 1985 0195037081 / 9780195037081 Hard Cover Fine Fine 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Near-new condition - NO remainder marks or price clippings - Tight spine - Bright pages - NO writing, marks or tears inside book - 259 pages - Number line: 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 - Price inside dustcover: $15.95 - Many journalists have mastered the Washington political scene, while others have gained entree to the highest echelons of Israeli politics. Wolf Blitzer is one of the few to have done both. An American fluent in Hebrew, Blitzer has interviewed and gained the respect of nearly all the major policy-makers in Israel and the United States over the past dozen years. The late Anwar Sadat credited Blitzer with first giving him the idea of making his historic trip to Jerusalem. The U.S.-Israeli relationship is like no other and this book helps explain why. Most importantly, it outlines the limits of the relationship, explaining why neither country can afford an all-out confrontation. There is special emphasis on the way decisions are made in Washington--the role of the foreign policy bureaucracy, Congress, the press, the Jewish community, the Arabs and their supporters, and the official Israeli presence. In addition, chapters cover the special U.S.-Israeli cooperation in military, strategic, and intelligence matters. The book is filled with fascinating vignettes of people: the career diplomat responsible for the explosive (in 1975 terms) Saunders document which said, "In many ways, the Palestinian dimension of the Arab-Israeli conflict is the heart of that conflict."...the American industrialist who became involved in some spectacular diplomatic back-channel efforts to save Soviet Jews...the German-Jewish refugee secretary of state who came to play such a decisive role in American-Israeli affairs...the three deeply religious leaders, Begin, Sadat, and Carter, "who progressed from an agreement to pray together to an agreement to make peace once and for all." From his unique vantagepoint, Blitzer considers the potential for either sharp strains or even closer collaboration in the future.
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Blum, Howard The Brigade: An Epic Story of Vengeance, Salvation, and World War II
New York, New York, U.S.A. Perennial 2002 006093283X / 9780060932831 Trade Paperback Very Good + 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Very-good+, clean condition. NO remainder marks or clippings. Illustrated. NO writing, marks or tears inside book. Pages show light tannings. 326 pages. Synopsis It is the final weeks of World War II. His Majesty's Jewish Brigade, the only all-Jewish fighting unit in the war, goes into combat against the Nazis. In one glorious battle they beat the Nazis back and emerge victorious, only to be pulled from the front days later. It is here that the Brigade's real struggle begins. Amidst the chaos of post-war Europe, and under the noses of the occupying Allied armies, the men of the Brigade mastermind one clandestine operation after another, forming secret vengeance squads to assassinate Nazi officers in hiding, and engineering the rescue and transportation of Holocaust survivors to Palestine.
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Blum, Howard The Eve of Destruction : The Untold Story of the Yom Kippur War
HarperCollins 2003 0060013990 / 9780060013998 First Edition Hard Cover Fine Fine 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Near-new condition - NO remainder marks or price clippings - Tight spine - Bright pages - Stated First Edition - Price inside dustcover: $25.95 - 350 pages - Illustrated with photos - NO writing, marks or tears inside book - Thirty years ago, October 6, 1973, on Yom Kippur, the holiest day of the Jewish calendar, the Arab world launched a bold and ingeniously conceived surprise attack against Israel. After three days of intense, bloody combat, an unprepared Israel was fighting for survival, while the Arabs, with massive forces closing in on the Jewish heartland, were poised to redeem the honor lost in three previous wars. Based on declassified Israeli government documents and revealing interviews with soldiers, generals, and intelligence operatives on both sides of the conflict, The Eve of Destruction weaves a suspenseful, eye-opening story about war, politics, and deception. It also tells the moving human tale of the men and women who fought to maintain love and honor as their lives and destinies were swept up in the Yom Kippur War. And for the first time, author Howard Blum uncovers the role of the Egyptian double agent whose masterfully woven plot nearly succeeded in toppling Israel. The Eve of Destruction is not only a complex and fascinating story brimming with headline-making revelations and absorbing characters, it is also mandatory reading for those who want to understand what is happening today in the Middle East.
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Blum, Howard The Eve of Destruction : The Untold Story of the Yom Kippur War
HarperCollins 2003 0060013990 / 9780060013998 First Edition Hard Cover Fine Fine 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Near-new condition - NO remainder marks or price clippings - Tight spine - Bright pages - Stated First Edition - Price inside dustcover: $25.95 - 350 pages - Illustrated with photos - NO writing, marks or tears inside book - Thirty years ago, October 6, 1973, on Yom Kippur, the holiest day of the Jewish calendar, the Arab world launched a bold and ingeniously conceived surprise attack against Israel. After three days of intense, bloody combat, an unprepared Israel was fighting for survival, while the Arabs, with massive forces closing in on the Jewish heartland, were poised to redeem the honor lost in three previous wars. Based on declassified Israeli government documents and revealing interviews with soldiers, generals, and intelligence operatives on both sides of the conflict, The Eve of Destruction weaves a suspenseful, eye-opening story about war, politics, and deception. It also tells the moving human tale of the men and women who fought to maintain love and honor as their lives and destinies were swept up in the Yom Kippur War. And for the first time, author Howard Blum uncovers the role of the Egyptian double agent whose masterfully woven plot nearly succeeded in toppling Israel. The Eve of Destruction is not only a complex and fascinating story brimming with headline-making revelations and absorbing characters, it is also mandatory reading for those who want to understand what is happening today in the Middle East.
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Bright, John A History of Israel: Second Edition
Philadelphia Westminster Press 1974 0664209351 / 9780664209353 Hard Cover Good Good 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Dustcover shows some wear & slight tear along edges. Orange boards with black lettering. Color map plates in back of book. 536 pages. Writing/highlighting throughout book. Does NOT interfere with reading. NO tears inside book.Tight spine - Bright pages. Stated Third Printing, 1974.
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Browne, Lewis Stranger Than Fiction: A Short History of the Jews from Earliest Times to the Present Day
The Macmillan Co. 1935 Hard Cover Very Good + No Jacket 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Very-good+, clean copy of this 1935 hardback. Light-gray boards with red lettering (clean and bright - shows only mild wear & small, light-red ink stain on front, close to spine. NO remainder marks or clippings. Tight spine, clean pages. 377 pages. NO foxing. Light page-tanning. Illustrated throughout. ONLY writing/mark inside book is previous owner's signature in book front, on blank page (H.D. Williams). NO tears.
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