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"Sephardic-American Voices: Two Hundred Years of a Literary Legacy (Brandeis Series in American Jewish History, Culture, and Life)"

By: Matza, Diane

Price: $8.00

Publisher: Brandeis University Press:

Seller ID: 9780874518900

ISBN: 0874518903

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: very good

This collection of stories, poems, and plays by American Jews of Sephardic descent gives voice to a culture previously unheard in a literary canon with a predominantly Eastern European and Ashkenazic accent. Representing only five percent of US Jewish immigrants, Sephardim have necessarily existed on the margins of Jewish and American life. Yet these Jews of Spanish, Greek, and Middle Eastern origins have, as Diane Matza demonstrates, maintained their ethnic identity despite persecution, expulsion, and prolonged cultural insularity. These selections, many available for the first time, span nea...
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The Fighting Ghettos (Original title: Seifer Milchamot Hagetaot)

By: "Barkai, Meyer (ed. & trans.)"

Price: $12.49

Publisher: "Philadelphia, PA", J. B. Lippincott Company: 1962

Edition: (1st English edition)

Seller ID: 4-8H007

Binding: Hardbound

Condition: VERY GOOD-/Good- dj

"Tight, clean interior, faint foxing to exterior page edges, light age soil to cover edges, square. Map covers and endpapers. Slight softening and rubbing to spine ends. Owners name inside front cover. Dust jacket is present but soiled with a few tiny rips along edges. Originally publish in Hebrew in Tel Aviv in 1954 by the Ghetto Fighters House and Kibbutz Hammeuchad. ""Firsthand account of Jewish resistance to the Germans - Within the Ghetto Walls, In the Concentration Camps, In the Forests"""
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Antisemitism: A History Portrayed

By: "Boonstra, Jansen & Kniesmeyer (ed)"

Price: $18.95

Publisher: "Amsterdam, Netherlands", Anne Frank Foundation: 1989

Seller ID: 7-NY001

ISBN: 9012062020

Binding: Oversize Paperback

Condition: VERY GOOD

"Tight, right, clean and square. Light shelfwear to covers with rubbed edges and a reading crease on the spine. ""The Concept of antisemitism refers to ideas and actions directed against Jews and Judaism…This is in the first place a history in pictures: an anti-Jewish language of images as it has developed over hundreds of years...""129 indexed, illustrated pages including Bibliography. 7.75x10.75x.5"""
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"The Jews: Their History, Culture, and Religion (Volume II)"

By: "Finkelstein, Louis (Ed.)"

Price: $18.95

Publisher: "Philadelphia, PA", The Jewish Publication Society of America: 1949

Edition: "(2nd edition, 1955)"

Seller ID: 1NH007

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: NEAR FINE/ Good+

"As new except for a tiny bump which has left a few page corners with a faint crease. Dust jacket is intact and unclipped but worn at spine ends and severely age-tanned on spine and top edges. Revised edition. Chapters 17-35, pages 745-1431, including index. "
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Pursuing the American Dream: White Ethnics and the New Populism

By: "Krickus, Richard"

Price: $8.96

Publisher: "Garden City, NY", Anchor: 1976

Edition: (1st thus)

Seller ID: 58P055

ISBN: 0385051506

Binding: Paperback

Condition: FINE

"Analyzes increasing ethnic self-awareness with special emphasis on Jewish and Catholic minorities...whose ""voting influence has become crucial in virtually all the national and local elections in America"" Appears unread. Tight, bright, clean, square."
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Fulfillment: the Epic Story of Zionism

By: "Learsi, Rufus"

Price: $22.95

Publisher: Cleveland and New York, The World Publishing Company: 1951

Edition: (1st Edition HC 1051)

Seller ID: 70H011

Binding: Hardbound

Condition: NEAR FINE/Good

"Tight, bright, faint age soil to exterior edges and end papers, square. Slight softening to top edge of spine and corners of coves. DJ is intact and unclipped but is age soiled with ripped edges. The history of modern political Zionism culminating in the founding of Israel. Much of it deals with Americans that pushed the founding of a Jewish state. Also deals with prominent people in the movement such as Theodor Herzl. Book includes maps of region just before and after the founding of Israel. Blue cloth, gilt lettering."
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Taking Root: Jewish Immigrants in America

By: "Meltzer, Milton"

Price: $7.95

Publisher: NY, Laurel Leaf / Dell: 1977

Seller ID: 10P006

ISBN: 0440984920

Binding: Paperback

Condition: NEAR FINE

"Appears unread. As new except for age tanning of pages. In clear protective cover. ""What was it like to pull up roots in your native village and make a home in a strange new land? What kind of people did it? What was it like for the millions of Jews who came to the United States between the 1880s and the 1920s? They came to Castle Garden , later to Ellis Island..."" 256 indexed pages."
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What Will Bind Us Now? A Report on the Institutional Ties between Israel and American Jewry

By: "Norich, Samuel"

Price: $9.95

Publisher: "West Palm Beach, FL", Center for Middle East Peace and Economic Cooperation: 1995

Edition: (2nd printing)

Seller ID: 0NT019

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: FINE

"Tight, bright, clean interior, faint age soil to exterior, faint curl. Notes in margin on 3 pages, underlining on 5. ""whether or not the prospects for peace and the recent demographic and economic growth of Israel, on the one hand and the sudden insecurity of the Diaspora, on the other, warrant the impressions that we have just crossed the threshold of a new epoch of Jewish history, many leaders of Israel and of the Diaspora have come to the conclusion that the central institutions that link to two will have to change in dramatic ways...""86 pages."
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The Search for Jewish Identity in America (Original title: America is Different)

By: "Rosenberg, Stuart E"

Price: $7.95

Publisher: NY, Anchor (#A477)/Doubleday: 1965

Edition: (1st thus)

Seller ID: 70P029

Binding: Paperback

Condition: VERY GOOD+

"Tight, bright, clean interior, light age soil to exterior, tilted. Light edgewear and a bump to top front corner. ""Jewish life in America from Colonial Times to the Present...It's historical, religious & sociological currents."""
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90 minuti a Entebbe (Original title: 90 Minutes at Entebbe)

By: "Stevenson, William"

Price: $21.95

Publisher: "Milan, Italy", Sonzogno Dossier: 1976

Seller ID: 8NT020

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: FINE

"As new-gift quality! Bookstore sticker on back cover. Text in Italian. 160 pages (8.25 x5.25"") ""Storia a retroscena del raid israeliano in Uganda."""
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Das Hechinger Heimweh: Begegnungen mit Juden

By: "Vees, Adof "

Price: $37.95

Publisher: "Tubingen, Germany", Silberburg-Verlag: 1969

Seller ID: 8-3T008

ISBN: 3874072568

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: VERY GOOD+

"As new except for gift inscription from author on title page, faintest tilt to spine and faintest bump to bottom corners of covers. Illustrated exteriors but no dust jacket. 192 pages indexed by family and illustrated with black and white photos. Geschichte und Schicksal der jüdischen Gemeinde Hechingen vom Mittelalter bis zu Beginn des 21. Jahrhunderts. Zeugnisse von Überlebenden.Text in German. (History and fate of the Jewish community in Hechingen from the Middle Ages to the beginning of the 21st century. Testimonies of survivors.). 5.25x8x0.74"" (13.5x20.5x2cm)."
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Príbéh židôvského muyea v Praze (The story of the Jewish museum in Prague)

By: "Volavkova, Hana"

Price: $39.95

Publisher: "Prague, Czechoslovakia", Odeon: 1966

Seller ID: 7-7Y009

Binding: Oversize Hardbound

Condition: GOOD

"READING COPY. Text in SLOVAK. Tight, with bright, clean pages. White cloth covers with gilt designs and title show age soil. UGLY Illustrated dust jacket is present but with totally tattered top and bottom edges with missing pieces and owners sticker on front.. 166 b&w and colored plates. By tracing the history of the once secret Jewish museum in Prague, this book documents the history of the Jews of Czechoslovakia, especially in the twentieth century through the Holocaust. 348 pages. 9.5x10.75x1.25"""
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