Search Results: Judaica from Lawrence Jones

Jerusalem: The Magnes Press, the Hebrew University, 1980. 2 columes-complete. xiii, 324, xvii, pp325-801; corrigenda, index. Or brown cloth in jackets. Minor foxing to page edges and prelims, small scuff to rear jacket panel of Vol II.. First English Language Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo.

Jerusalem: Magnes Press, Hebrew University, 1979. 2 VOLUMES-COMPLETE. xxii, 1089pp; index, bibliography, notes. Or brownglossy boards in plain card slipcase. Spines faded, minor foxing to page edges, 2 scuffs to spine of Volume 1. A vivid picture of the religious and social thought of the Tanna'im and Amora'im, their absorbtion and rejection of extraneous concepts, their spiritual struggles and the goals they sought to achieve. The intellectual ferment marking this era crystallized principles that fashioned Jewish national and religious image for generations.. Second Enlarged Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Slipcase. 8vo.

Dallas : Sisterhood Temple Emanu-El, 1974. 366pp, index. Or card covers with plastic comb binding. Some toning and marks to card covers. Thousands of recipes covering the gamut of Jewish cooking.. Fourth Printing (revised). Soft Cover. Very Good. 8vo.

London: Collins, 1990. 220 pages, full-page map. Cloth boards in dust-jacket which is unevenly faded. A graphic account of an English Jew's life in modern Israel.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo.

Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2000. ix, 314pp, index, bibliography, notes. Or black cloth in jacket. Some fading to spine otherwise near new. Offers a persuasive explanation of the ambivalent political response of American Jewish leaders in dealing with the Rooseveldt administration while placing the American Jewish encounter with Nazism within the overall history of the American Jewish experience.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo.

Peabody, MA: Hendrickson Publishers, 1986. x, 783pp. Or boards. Very slight bump to bottom front corner. Every word and inflection of the Hebrew Old testament arranged alphabetically and with grammatical analysis. A complete series of Hebrew paradigms with grammatical remarks and explanations.. Fourth Printing. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo.

Hertsfordshire, UK: Paladin., 1973. 394pp, index, bibliography, chronology, glossary, appendix, notes. Or card covers. Edgeworn with creases at corners, page edges and margins foxed/toned. In 1963 the trial of 22 former staff members at Auschwitz began in Frankfurt. It was the first full scale case of its kind tried by Germans before ajudge and jury. This volume brings together two of the four deposoions by members of the Insitut fur Zeitgeschichte which were made to the court before the first witnesses were called. They were intended as historical statements on the organization and functions of the SS.. Reprint. Paperback. Good. 8vo.

New York: The Macmillan Co, 1965. xv, 332pp, index, bibliographic notes. Or charcoal cloth in jacket. Prev owners name stamped crossed out on ffep. This history of anti-semitism, the first written by a Catholic priest, clearly establishes that discernible anti-semitic attitudes existed at least three centuries before the birth of Christ. But he does not retreat from the truth about anti-Semitism in the Christian era, and throughout the book he blames the culpable, regardless of their stature or place in the Christian community. . First Edition, Fourth Printing.. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo.

New York: Alfred A Knopf, 2015. xv, 618pp, index, bibliography, notes, appendix, bw ills, endpaper maps. Or boards in jacket. ear new. The Zionist movement and the struggle for the creation of a Jewish state.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo.

New York: Schocken Books, 1967. 153pp. Or papered boards with black cloth spine in jacket. Approx 3mm at edges of jacket toned, toned along flap folds, light rubbing. Endpapers and page edges toned. A brilliant portrait of both anti-Semite and Jew from a non-Jew and non-Jewish standpoint. . First Schocken Hardback Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo.

New Haven: Yale University Press, 1994. HEAVY. xxi, 398pp, index, bibliography, bw ills, col plates. Or pictorial card. Minor edge wear to covers. Survey of early life in the land of the Bible from the Neolithic era (8th millenium BCE) to the fall of Jerusalem and the destruction of the First Temple in 586 BCE. . First English Language Paperback. Soft Cover. Very Good. 4to.

New York: Alfred A Knopf, 1991. xii, 335pp, index, glossary, notes. Or boards in jacket. Prev owner label on front free endpaper, minor foxing to page edges. The author shows Himmler the man, growing from unlikeable boyhood to being the perfect beaurocrat. At the same time, he presents the reader with facts about the origins of the policies Himmler espoused, establishing among other things that, before the war, Himmler had plans to murder all German Jews who would not -- or could not -- leave the country and that as early as 1939 consideration was given to the use of gas chambers and crematoria.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo.

London: Thames and Hudson., 1997. HEAVY. 40pp text, 98pp full color plates, pictorial endpapers. Or purple cloth in jacket. Slight edge wear to jacket. Written and illuminated by Joel ben Simeon, called Feibusch Ashkenazi with a commentary attributed to Eleazar ben Judah of Worms. Full color reproduction of this important 15th century manuscript Haggadah held by the British Library.. New Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Illus. by Simeon, Joel Ben. Folio.

London: Tom Stacey: Peebles Press, 1973. 224pp, index, bw ills. Or blue cloth in jacket. Price clipped, slight edge wear to jacket and writing on bottom edge of page block. 300 Israeli recipes-traditional and modern- to tempt the palate.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 4to.

Albuquerque: Route 66 Publishing, 1995. 120pp, notes, bw ills. Ir card covers. Light crease to front cover. English language translation of The Guide to the Museum- guide to the Auschitz museum with some additional material. A stark reminder of man's inhumanity to man.. First English Language Edition. Trade Paperback. Fine. 8vo.

New York: MJF Books, 2005. xxii, 327pp, index, notes, bw ills. Or boards in jacket. Near new. A new perspective in this shocking portrait of the Auschwitz death camp.. Reprint. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo.

New York: Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1981. xii, 368pp, 16pp of b/w photos, 19 maps, biographical notes, index, endpaper maps: Europe under Nazi rule. Cloth-backed papered boards in dust-jacket. Very light edge wear to jacket. The author sets out to answer the questions: 'What was known, and when?', 'How did the Allied Governments react?', and 'Why was Auschwitz never bombed?'. Third US Printing. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo.

Adelaide: Rigby, 1974. HEAVY. 360pp, index, references, bibliography, num bw ills, endpaper maps. Green cloth in jacket. Minor thumb soiling to bottom page corners, tiny tear at top left of front jacket panel. Eight jewish convicts arrived in the First Fleet to be followed by hundreds more. One became the leader of a bushranger gang, some were hanged, flogged or sent to outer settlements like Moreton Bay. Some soared to amazing success becoming detectives, merchants, boxers, actors, journalists, politicians, farmers. The first complete history of the Australian Jewsih communities from First Fleet to Gold Rush.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 4to.

New York: Doubleday, 1985. HEAVY. Introduction by Paul Cowan. viii, 184pp, illustrated throughout in colour and b/w. Or cl boards in dust-jacket. WITH, loosely inserted, Passover Haggadah, 24pp, stapled, prepred for use at the Model Seder, prepared by the UJEB, and a one-page Barmitzvah Prayer. The book's Mementoes, write-in pages, have not been completed. The book 'encompasses a broad cross-section of the 4000-year continuum of Jewish tradition and values, and reflects the richness of that heritage and way of life'.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 4to.

New York: Random House., 1970. 211pp. Or black papered boards with light blue cloth spine in jacket. Very slightest of shelf wear to boards and jacket. Signed by author on half-title. . Signed by Author. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Near Fine. 8vo.