Search Results: Judaica from Syber's Books ABN 40533682787

Jewish Holocaust Museum and Research Centre, Melbourne, 1994. First Edition. Softcover. Very Good Condition. the back part of the book by European standards has been written in Yiddish, and the rest of the book follows the traditional pagination. Full of laudatory praise, from Bill Hayden, Yehuda Avneh, John Hewson, Paul Keating, Jeff Kennett, John Brumby and others, this book reflects on 10 years of the Jewish Holocaust Museum and research Centre, and the achievements. Size: 4to 9¾" - 12" tall. 84, 9, pages in original colour illustrated softcover binding creased at the top right hand corner of the front panel, but otherwise showing the damage.. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: History; Judaica; Genealogy & Local History. ISBN: 0646180975. ISBN/EAN: 9780646180977. Inventory No: 0259875. . 9780646180977

Centre D'etudes Historiques (aupres de l'Association des Juifs Polonais en France ) affilie au Congres De Culture Juive, Paris, 1955. First Edition. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Very Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Illustrator: Various. 1.9 kg.; 440 pages, illustrated with reproductions of written works, art works, and photographs in black-and-white. Opposite each page of photographs the text is reproduced in French, English, Polish, Spanish, Yiddish and Ivrit. The only colour used in the book is on the title page. Included is four pages of errata. Bookseller's stamp at lower left-hand corner of front end page, which also shows some foxing, a 1.5 inch tear affects the first page of the book proper, being sited approximately 1.5 inches from the bottom front corner along the side. Foxing to the rear end pages. The lower corners of the boards show signs of bumping. The original slipcase has started to crack at its seams. "It's true that all that your book contains,… Read More

Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1967. First Edition. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Very Good Condition/Very Good. Author's note. Burgundy coloured cloth covered boards with silver coloured titles to the back strip. Illustrated dustwrapper with gold and white coloured titles to the front panel and white coloured titles to the back strip. Black and white photograph of author to the rear fold over panel. Alex Yagodah lives in Israel, but, was born in provincial Hungary before World War II. He is notified by an American lawyer that he could potentially inherit a great deal of money if he can say he remains a Jew. What Alex does then, is to ruminate on what occurred during the Nazi occupation, at what cost he escaped, and, if he considers himself still a Jew. Rubbing of the book corners and back strip edges. Light tanning of the text block edges and age toning of the pages. Rubbing of the dustwrapper edges and panels with a hint of fading to the back strip. Size: 8vo - over… Read More

Jason Aronson Inc, New Jersey, 1994. reprint. Softcover. Very Good Condition. second-hand copy, no damage, no annotations. The original discourses in this book are presented in an attempt to heighten general awareness of this neglected mitzvah. – Page 1 this is the first edition by this publisher. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Religion & Theology; judaica; ISBN: 1568212496. ISBN/EAN: 9781568212494. Inventory No: 0280166. . 9781568212494

Dent, London, 1981. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Condition/Very Good. while most Holocaust literature deals with the unimaginable horror and inhumanity of the Nazis, this book records in one of those individual acts of simple humanity which relieve the blackness and which deserves a remembrance. Top and front edges of the textblock a slightly darkened with age, the dust jacket has a small rub on the rear fold over creeks and at the top left of the spine section of the jacket. 22cm Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 267 pages. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: History; Judaica; Military & Warfare. ISBN: 0460045032. ISBN/EAN: 9780460045032. Inventory No: 0244572. . 9780460045032

Chatto and Windus, London, 1972. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Condition/Very Good. the dust jacket has faded on the spine and darkened on the rear panel, and has a half inch tear at the top right of the front panel. apart from a couple of trivial foxing spots to the 1st and last pages of the book, there is no damage. In this book an extraordinary insight into the ambivalencies, obsessions and regenerative resources of the victims of the Nazi Holocaust combined with a narrative imagination as assured as it is original – dust jacket blurb Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 384 pages. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Literature & Literary; Judaica; philosophy. ISBN: 0701118121. ISBN/EAN: 9780701118129. Inventory No: 0261278. . 9780701118129

Macmillan, London, 1986. First Edition. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Good/Very Good. 406 pp., illustrated dustwrapper, translated from the french by Stanley Hochman; The author was an actress who married Yves Montand. The story of two Jewish families who escape the World War 1 pogroms in Poland and Ukraine. Page edges browned with age, foxing of front foldover. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Fiction; Judaica; ISBN: 033341599X. ISBN/EAN: 9780333415993. Inventory No: 0204055. . 9780333415993

East and West Library, Oxford, 1946. First Edition. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Very Good Condition/Fair. Preface by translator, translator's introduction, glossary of Hebrew terms, translator's notes and index. Red coloured cloth covered boards with gilt coloured embossed titles to the front top edge of the front panel and there is a small black insert to the central part of the same panel, and, within that insert gilt coloured titles. Gilt coloured titles to the back strip. Orange coloured tint to the top text edge. Plaintext dustwrapper white coloured titles to the front panel and orange and black coloured titles to the back strip. Quoting the blurb of the front panel " ... The ideas of this outstanding modern thinker and master of Hebrew pros are as valid and inspiring today as they were at the time when they made their first appeal to the last generation. Softening to the back strip edges with a little bumping of the top book corners. A few rubs and marks to the book… Read More

Desclee de Brouwer, Paris, 2003. Edition Unstated. Softcover (with flaps). Good Condition. second-hand copy, previous owner has used lemon highlighter on some of the pages, and black pennant to underline other texts, not particularly prevalent or intrusive. PLEASE note the text is in French. Aimé Pallière's biography portrays the fresco of Judeo-Christian relations in France for a century: 1850-1950 and thus brings a major contribution to this dialogue. Modernist Catholic and Dreyfusard, Pallière works in Judaism without ever converting. He is convinced that "noachism", according to the Kabbalist Rabbi Elie Benamozegh (1822-1900), is the religion of the future: the Jews will be the priests and laymen of other monotheisms, the faithful. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 418 pages. Text is in French. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category:… Read More

Ure Smith, Dee Why West, New South Wales, 1979. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Condition/Very Good. Illustrator: Photographic. Preface and introduction by author, indexed, with a glossary of American terms and their equivalent Australian terms, as well as a dictionary of cooking terms. Illustrated throughout full-page colour photography with the emphasis on the food, and not ambience, the book is divided into traditional and holiday dishes, breads, salad dressings and relishes, a couple of luncheon menus (well 26, but who's counting) and 26 dinner menus. The instructions for preparation are detailed, and there is no sign of a calorie counter anywhere in the book. Photographic illustrated dust jacket shows a partially set table, with what looks like soup with dumplings, cucumber salad, latkes, boiled rolled brisket, challah, and chopped liver. No haute cuisine, simple honest cooking. Rubbing to the lower book edges, top book corners and top back strip corners. Age toning and a few… Read More

Gebrüder Stiepel, Reichenberg in Böhmen, 1931. Edition Unstated. Softcover. Very Good Condition. there are a couple of foxing spots on the rear panel, there is no other damage to describe. Includes references, and index. Please note that the text is in German Size: 4to 9¾" - 12" tall. 84 pages. Text is in German. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Humour; Judaica; German Language; Inventory No: 0255626. .

Maddick Manuscripts, Inc. -- The World Publishing Company, New York, 1971. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Condition/Good. 550 g; XII, 276 pages, photographic illustrated dust jacket. The dustjacket is rubbed across both top and bottom edges, with short splits either side of the spine top and bottom. Handling marks the edges of the text block. No damage to describe. "To be a rabbi is to perform a delicate balancing act. It is no simple task to flourish or even to survive in a job where one man must answer to several hundred employers." Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Biography & Autobiography; Judaica; Inventory No: 0233250. .

Maddick Manuscripts, Inc. -- The World Publishing Company, New York, 1971. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Condition/Very Good. XII, 276 pages, photographic illustrated dust jacket. Slight rubbing of the edges of the jacket, previous owner's name on first page, otherwise in very good order. "To be a rabbi is to perform a delicate balancing act. It is no simple task to flourish or even to survive in a job where one man must answer to several hundred employers." Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Biography & Autobiography; Judaica; Inventory No: 0242758. .

Rolph Vogel, Bonn, Germany, 1969. First Edition. Stapled Card. Very Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. 100 g; 42 pages, bound in a sun affected stiffened yellow card with two staples. There is a foreword by the publisher, and 10 pages of reproductions of cartoons. "The present documentary report by Simon Wiesenthal entitled "Anti-Jewish Agitation in Poland" is a startling work. Simon Wiesenthal, who is a Pole by birth, opens up a word which was first made in the name of the German people. At a time when the Nazis tried to exterminate the Jewish people, we never thought they had accomplices amongst the oppressed Polish people who struggled against the Jewish fellow-citizens. It is thus all the more moving when a man like Simon Wiesenthal who struggled with might and main against answers puts his finger in the wound again now and reveals that the same people who join forces with the Nazis against the Jews and help to annihilate them are today concerned with eliminating the Jewish… Read More

Efrat Belberg, Jerusalem, 1977. Edition Unstated. Softcover. Good Condition. The text is in Hebrew. Plaintext paperback binding with white coloured titles to the front panel. Taken from many documents, a history of anti-Semitism and of the Holocaust. Creasing of the book corners with rubbing of the book edges and panels. Some fading of the back strip. Age tanning of the text block edges and light age toning of the pages. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 353 pages.. Text is in Hebrew. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: History; Judaica; Hebrew Language; Sociology & Culture. Inventory No: 0287395. .

Australian Institute of Jewish Affairs, Melbourne, 1985. First Edition. Softcover. Very Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. VI, 176 pages, in original softcover binding. "I think this seminar will demonstrate that anti-Semitism must be abhorrent not only to Jews but to all people who value Humanism, democracy and freedom, for racism, in whatever guise it appears, threatens us all. The concluding format will investigate whether there is value in legislation dealing with racism in communities such as Australia." Page VI a clean copy, slightly rubbed on the back panel and on the bottom edges. Free of annotation. Size: 4to 9¾" - 12" tall. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 500 grams. Category: Religion & Theology; judaica; ISBN: 094921700X. ISBN/EAN: 9780949217004. Inventory No: 0274958. . 9780949217004

Cassell, London, 1974. First Edition. Hardcover (1/4 Cloth 3/4 Cloth). Very Good Condition/Good. burnt orange coloured endpapers. 1/4 black coloured cloth covered backstrip with gilt coloured titles. 3/4 brick red coloured cloth panels. Illustrated dustwrapper with white and gold coloured titles to the front panel and backstrip. Black-and-white photograph of author to the rear dustwrapper panel. The story of Anya, who at the end of the war remembers a privileged life growing up in Poland as a much loved child of Jewish parents just prior to World War II, then the ever increasing violence of the Holocaust, and what it took to survive, and the scars it left. Softening and dust marks to the backstrip edges with rubbing of the book corners and lower book edges. Browning of the textblock edges and light age toning of the pages. Chipping to the dustwrapper corners and backstrip edges. Creasing to the top dustwrapper edge with a few small close tears and a small close to tear to the lower edge of… Read More

Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 2002. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. By Author on Free Front End Paper. XIV, 194 pages, acknowledgements, notes, references and index. Black coloured cloth covered boards with metallic red titles to the backstrip. A little bumping to the lower edge. Colour illustrated dustwrapper, with a black background, with white, peach, red and blue titles to the front panel and peach, blue and red titles to the backstrip. Minor rubbing to the dustwrapper edges and to the dustwrapper panels. In this book the author interviewed mothers and daughters in traditional lives and religions (Jewish and Catholic) and how their religious traditions constrained both the mothers and daughters. Gift inscription by the author on the free front end paper. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 500 grams. Category: Religion &… Read More

Western Jewish History Center Judah L. Magnes Memorial Museum,, Berkeley, California, 1980. Edition Unstated. Softcover. Very Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. XIV, 241 pp., black and white photos, notes, bibliographical note, selected secondary sources, index. Some slight signs of handling, clean without damage. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Sociology & Culture; Judaica; USA; 19th century; Inventory No: 0265415. .

Macmillan, Melbourne, 1983. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Condition/Very Good. VIII, 184 pages, last page blank, list of illustrations and authors' note. Black coloured endpapers. The text is illustrated by eight black-and-white photographs and one map of Europe. Black coloured boards with white titles to the backstrip. Shelf wear to the lower book edges. there is a small mark at the top right of the first page where a name sticker had been until I removed it. Illustrated dustwrapper, with red background and black titles to the front panel and backstrip. A little rubbing and creasing to the top and bottom dustwrapper edges and a faint hint of fading to the backstrip. The autobiography of the author whose family for many generations lived in the same small village in Hungary, but whose life disintegrated at the advent of World War II, and the invasion of Hungary by the Germans. It tells of his interment in Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, his eventual liberation to France and… Read More