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A SPECIMEN OF HUMAN LIFE
New York: Bergman, 1967. Rose cloth. pp 127, [5]. Distributor's sticker on front free endpaper, else fine in fine, price-clipped jacket. Acosta was the son of a noble Portuguese family which had be forced to convert to Catholicism. He fled Portugal for Amsterdam where he could practice his ancestral religion, Judaism. Reacting against Rabbincal Judaism, he formulated his Eleven Theses, which are for the first time translated into a book in English here. He was exiled and reviled by the Jewish community, flogged in public in the great synagogue, spit upon, his books burned. and committed suicide as a result. This book is his autobiography, with new material for the first time translated into English. Uncommon book.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 41535More details Price: USD $24.95 USD $22.46 -
AJSreview. Volume Two 1977 [AJS Review]
Cambridge, MA: Association of Jewish Studies, 1977. Octavo, brown cloth. pp (6), 255 plus 20 pp in Hebrew. Fine copy.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 44268More details Price: USD $17.00 USD $15.30 -
Album of my life
Edition: First printing
Toronto: Azrieli Foundation, 2009. Card covers. 207 pp, photos, index. Fine copy. The Azireli Series of Holocaust Survivor Memoirs.
Condition: Binding: Softcover
Book ID: 47742More details Price: USD $9.95 USD $8.96 -
An early blueprint for Zionism Gyozo Istoczy's Political Anti-Semitism
Edition: First edition.
Boulder, CO: East European Monographs, 1989. Dark blue cloth without jacket, as issued. pp 206. Political anti-Semitism in late 19th century Hugary.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 50985More details Price: USD $11.95 USD $10.76 -
Bits and pieces
Toronto: Azrieli Foundation, c2007. Third printing. Card covers. 86 pp, photos, map index. Fine copy. Winner of the Helen and Stan Vine Canadian Jewish Book Award, with sticker on front cover. Also sticker of the Independent Publisher Book Awards. The Azireli Series of Holocaust Survivor Memoirs. Note: lighter parcel, any default shipping price may be reduced.
Condition: Binding: Softcover
Book ID: 47747More details Price: USD $9.95 USD $8.96 -
BURN THIS GOSSIP. The True Story of George Benjamin of Belleville, Canada's First Jewish Member of Parliament 1857-1863.
Edition: First edition.
Toronto: The Duke & George Press, 1991. The limited issue, #57 of 125 copies, with limitation label tipped to front pastdown, and facing the title page a limitation certificate inside a marbled paper envelope with a wax seal made from an original impression of George Benjamin's personal seal. Maroon boards. xvi, 160 pp. Illustrations in text. Fine in jacket. Inscribed at top corner of title page from the authors to an uncle and aunt.
Condition: Book: Fine, Dust Jacket: Fine, Binding: Hardcover.
Book ID: 32917More details Price: USD $24.95 USD $22.46 -
BURN THIS GOSSIP. The True Story of George Benjamin of Belleville, Canada's First Jewish Member of Parliament 1857-1863.
Toronto: The Duke & George Press, 1991. Octavo, maroon boards. xvi, 160 pp. Illustrations in text. Fine in jacket.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover.
Book ID: 13815More details Price: USD $15.00 USD $13.50 -
Canada's Jews: A Social and Economic Study of Jews in Canada in the 1930s
Montreal & Kingston: McGill - Queens University Press, 1993. Reprint of the 1939 edition. Red cloth. pp (xxiv), 424. Many charts and tables. Fine copy. 2 kg parcel
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 51016More details Price: USD $50.00 USD $45.00 -
CANADIAN JEWISH ARCHIVES
Montreal: National Archives and Library & Bureau of Social and Economic Research, Canadian Jewish Congress. Vol. I, no. 1, August, 1955 - Vol. 1, no. 4, March, 1959. First four issues bound in black leather grain cloth. pp 21, 23, 34, iii, 30, yellow paper covers bound in. A few facsimiles. Fine condition. 6 issues were published by 1962, with a new series begun in 1974.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 51018More details Price: USD $50.00 USD $45.00 -
Children with a Star: Jewish Youth in Nazi Europe
Edition: First edition
New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1991. Grey cloth. pp 354. Illustrated. Abrasion to upper corner of front free endpaper, else fine in fine jacket. 1.5 kg parcel
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 50959More details Price: USD $14.95 USD $13.46 -
CUP OF FURY
Edition: First edition.
New York: Astra Books, 1962. Reddish-brown cloth. Fine copy. Jacket has a few short edge tears; VG otherwise. "This dramatic tale captures the mood of Palestine during the days of 1947 and 1948." Author was a survivor of the holocaust, underground fighter, university professor in America. Laid in is a short 1963 note in the author's hand to a purchaser of the novel.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 8788More details Price: USD $19.00 USD $17.10 -
E/96: fate undecided
Edition: First printing
Toronto: Azrieli Foundation, 2009. Card covers. 130 pp, photos, index. Fine copy. The Azireli Series of Holocaust Survivor Memoirs.
Condition: Binding: Softcover
Book ID: 47744More details Price: USD $9.95 USD $8.96 -
EDELWEISS: a story. Translated by Ellen Frothingham
New York: Henry Holt, 1874. 12mo, original mustard illustrated cloth stamped in black, gilt lettering on spine. Spine lightly darkened with minor rubbing at ends; yellowing to page edges and endpapers; book a little leaned; VG clean, tight and unworn copy otherwise, no owner names. A volume in the Leisure Hour Series number 44.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 41158More details Price: USD $24.95 USD $22.46 -
ESSAYS, AND SKETCHES OF LIFE AND CHARACTER. By a gentleman who has left his lodgings
Edition: First Edition
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 46750More details Price: USD $225.00 USD $202.50 -
EVERYTHING IN THE WINDOW
Edition: First Canadian issue
Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1979. Cloth & boards. Fine copy. Dust jacket has a small tear to rear panel, near fine otherwise. A novel of a Jewish woman finding her way in 1930s Toronto.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 49383More details Price: USD $14.95 USD $13.46 -
FACE OF A HERO
Edition: First printing
Condition: Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 13787More details Price: USD $19.95 USD $17.96 -
Fleeing from the hunter
Edition: First printing
Toronto: Azrieli Foundation, 2010. Glossy card covers. 184 pp, photos, index. Silver sticker of Independent Publisher Book Awards on front cover. Fine copy. The Azireli Series of Holocaust Survivor Memoirs.
Condition: Binding: Softcover
Book ID: 47740More details Price: USD $9.95 USD $8.96 -
From generation to generation
Toronto: Azrieli Foundation, c2012. Second printing. Card covers. 187 pp, photos, index. Fine copy. The Azireli Series of Holocaust Survivor Memoirs.
Condition: Binding: Softcover
Book ID: 47746More details Price: USD $9.95 USD $8.96 -
Gatehouse to hell
Edition: First printing
Toronto: Azrieli Foundation, 2012. Card covers. 184 pp, photos, maps, index. Fine copy. The Azireli Series of Holocaust Survivor Memoirs.
Condition: Binding: Softcover
Book ID: 47748More details Price: USD $9.95 USD $8.96 -
Getting out alive
Toronto: Azrieli Foundation, c2007. Third printing. Card covers. 68 pp, photos, maps, index. Independent Publisher Book Awards sticker on front cover. Fine copy.The Azireli Series of Holocaust Survivor Memoirs. Note: lighter parcel, any default shipping price may be reduced.
Condition: Binding: Softcover
Book ID: 47752More details Price: USD $9.95 USD $8.96