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  • ACOSTA, Uriel (1585-1640)
    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.

    Book ID: 41535
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  • 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.

    Book ID: 44268
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  • Szedlecki, Ann
    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.; Octavo

    Book ID: 47742
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  • Handler, Andrew
    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. ; Octavo 0880331585

    Book ID: 50985
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  • DAVIDSON, A.B.
    AN INTRODUCTORY HEBREW GRAMMAR. Introductory Hebrew Grammar: With Progressive Exercises in Reading Writing and Pointing., Revised throughout by John Mauchline. Twenty-sixth edition

    Edinburgh: Clark, 1966. Maroon cloth with bound-in ribbon markers, folding chart taped in at rear. scattered pencil annotations, VG clean copy oitherwise.; Octavo

    Book ID: 54128
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  • Reinhartz, Henia
    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.; Octavo

    Book ID: 47747
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  • GODFREY, Sheldon and Judith
    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. 0969510209

    Book ID: 13815
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  • 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. Inscribed by Author.; 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.; Octavo; Signed by Author. 0969510209

    Condition: Fine in Fine dust jacket

    Book ID: 32917
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  • Canada's Jews: A Social and Economic Study of Jews in Canada in the 1930s by Rosenberg, Louis
    Rosenberg, Louis
    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; Quarto 0773509976

    Book ID: 51016
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  • 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. ; Quarto

    Book ID: 51018
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  • Dwork, Deborah
    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; Octavo 0300050542

    Book ID: 50959
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  • GILLON, Adam
    CUP OF FURY

    Edition: First Edition

    New York: Astra Books, 1962. Inscribed by Author; 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.; Signed by Author

    Book ID: 8788
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  • Ripa, Paul-Henri
    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.; Octavo

    Book ID: 47744
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  • AUERBACH, Berthold
    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.

    Book ID: 41158
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  • RUSSELL, John, Lord (1792-1878)
    ESSAYS, AND SKETCHES OF LIFE AND CHARACTER. By a gentleman who has left his lodgings

    Edition: First Edition

    London: Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1820. Octavo, 21 cm, pages untrimmed in original publisher's boards with paper spine label. pp [2], (vi), 248 + 12-pp April, 1820, publisher's catalogue at front. Preface by Joseph Skillett. Shallow chips to spine ends; spine label darkened and chipped with some loss of lettering; professional clear rice paper repairs to spine and inner margins of boards, not very noticeable; spine has a partial vertical crack; bit of foxing to rear endpapers and last leaf and to catalogue; page edges darkened; in all, VG externally, internally mostly fine, tight in the binding. The second published work, and the first work of fiction, by Lord Russell, the future prime minister (1846-52,…

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    London: Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1820. Octavo, 21 cm, pages untrimmed in original publisher's boards with paper spine label. pp [2], (vi), 248 + 12-pp April, 1820, publisher's catalogue at front. Preface by Joseph Skillett. Shallow chips to spine ends; spine label darkened and chipped with some loss of lettering; professional clear rice paper repairs to spine and inner margins of boards, not very noticeable; spine has a partial vertical crack; bit of foxing to rear endpapers and last leaf and to catalogue; page edges darkened; in all, VG externally, internally mostly fine, tight in the binding. The second published work, and the first work of fiction, by Lord Russell, the future prime minister (1846-52, 1865-66) and Bertrand Russell's grandfather. This book was preceded the year before by a biography of his ancestor, the 1st Duke of Bedford. A series of social and cultural observations purportedly discovered in the rooms of a missing lodger, included are essays on French vs. British pride, literary taste, theatre, political economy, sports, fame, travel, as well as a short story "The Wandering Jew" (pp 202 to end), narrated by the subject of the medieval legend.

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    Book ID: 46750
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  • FAESSLER, Shirley
    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. ; Octavo

    Book ID: 49383
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  • FALSTEIN, Louis [Joseph Heller].
    FACE OF A HERO

    Edition: First printing

    New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1950. Grey cloth. Spine is lightly age-darkened and with a 1/8 inch tear at head; endpapers and page edges lightly yellowed; else fine. Price-clipped dust jacket has shallow chips to bit darkened spine, with a small hole near centre of spin e; skinned spot to rear flap; VG otherwise. A World War II aviation novel, no doubt autobiographical. The hero, a Jew, is a tail gunner in a B-24 over Italy. The author was an aerial gunner in the 15th Air Force and won the Air Medal four times. "The first war novel to picture air combat from the enlisted men's point of view."- jacket flap. Of further interest is the fact that Falstein accused…

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    New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1950. Grey cloth. Spine is lightly age-darkened and with a 1/8 inch tear at head; endpapers and page edges lightly yellowed; else fine. Price-clipped dust jacket has shallow chips to bit darkened spine, with a small hole near centre of spin e; skinned spot to rear flap; VG otherwise. A World War II aviation novel, no doubt autobiographical. The hero, a Jew, is a tail gunner in a B-24 over Italy. The author was an aerial gunner in the 15th Air Force and won the Air Medal four times. "The first war novel to picture air combat from the enlisted men's point of view."- jacket flap. Of further interest is the fact that Falstein accused novelist Joseph Heller of plagiarizing parts of this book in writing CATCH-22.; Octavo

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    Condition: Very Good in Very Good dust jacket

    Book ID: 13787
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  • Domanski, Marian
    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.; Octavo

    Book ID: 47740
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  • Tomasov, Agnes
    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.; Octavo

    Book ID: 47746
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  • Opatowski, Felix
    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.; Octavo

    Book ID: 47748
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