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My Race: A Jewish Girl Growing Up Under Apartheid in South Africa

By: Abramson, Lorraine Lotzof

Price: $10.03

Publisher: DBM Press, LLC: 2010

Seller ID: 101176

ISBN: 0981610234

Condition: Very Good

Signed by Author on Title page with Presentation notation. Nice Firm Clean copy ! Light general wear. 352 pages.
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Rhode Island Jewish Historical Notes Volumes 1,2,3,4,5,6,7 ( 1954 to 1978 )

By: Adelman, David Charak (Founder); Various

Price: $228.00

Publisher: Providence, RI, Rhode Island Jewish Historical Assoc.: 1954

Seller ID: 111083

ISBN: B01BGSK3DS

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

1st Printing. 7 Volumes complete! 1954 to 1978. Nice Firm Clean copies ! Light general wear. Rhode Island Jewish Historical Notes was brought about by the celebration of the Tercentenary of the settlement of Jews in the United States in 1954.
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Aishet Hayil: Woman of Valor

By: Barber, Ava (Design)

Price: $26.45

Publisher: Yeshiva Univ Museum: 1993

Seller ID: 67552

ISBN: 0945447051

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Fine

Deluxe copy with custom cover and silk ribbon. 80 pages. Lovely Museum exhibit with color photos, poetry and text.
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I Am a Rabbi's Wife

By: Bengis, Esther

Price: $11.01

Publisher: Moodus, CT, Esther Bengis: 1938

Seller ID: 89161

ISBN: B00088AJSC

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

1st Printing. Green cloth, gold lettering. Nice Firm Clean copy ! Light general wear. 136 pages.
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The Jewish Justices of the Supreme Court Revisited: Brandeis to Fortas

By: Breyer, Stephen G. (Pref.); Ruth Bader Ginsburg (Intro.)

Price: $35.57

Publisher: American jewish Historical Society: 1995

Seller ID: 69646

ISBN: B0020ODO3E

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Special Limited Edition. Crisp Tight Clean copy ! 142 pages.
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Rabbi Nachman's Fire: An Introduction to Breslover Chassidus

By: Fleer, Gedaliah

Price: $26.76

Publisher: Shulsinger Brothers: 1972

Seller ID: 94165

ISBN: B001L4X0VK

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good

1st Printing. Nice Firm Clean copy ! Light general wear. 110 pages. Breslov (also Bratslav, also spelled Breslev) is a branch of Hasidic Judaism founded by Rebbe Nachman of Breslov (1772û1810) a great-grandson of the Baal Shem Tov, founder of Hasidism. Its adherents strive to develop an intense, joyous relationship with God and receive guidance toward this goal from the teachings of Rebbe Nachman.
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Briefe Aus Der Haft an Eine Freundin. Herausgegeben Von Karl Blanck (Letters from Prison to a Friend. Edited by Karl Blanck)

By: Halsmann, Philipp; Karl Blanck

Price: $90.29

Publisher: Stuttgart, Germany, J. Engelhorns: 1930

Seller ID: 70265

ISBN: B0014IP4TE

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

In German. Letters from prison to a friend. Edited by Karl Blanck Obituary and ephemera added to front blank pages. Nice Tight Clean copy ! Expertly rebound in black cloth covered boards with gold spine lettering. 219 pages. Born to Jewish parents in Latvia. In September 1928, Halsman went on a hiking tour in the Austrian Alps with his father, Morduch. Morduch died from severe head injuries. Under unclear circumstances, Halsman was sentenced to 4 years imprisonment for patricide. The case provoked anti-Jewish propaganda and thus gained international publicity, and Albert Einstein and Thomas M...
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Mordecai Kaplan Jubilee Volume on the Occasion of his Seventieth Birthday (English Section)

By: Kaplan, Mordecai

Price: $16.03

Publisher: Jewish Theological Seminary: 1953

Seller ID: 88838

ISBN: B000PWC754

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good+

Ex-Library, Usual Markings. Moderate general wear. 549 pages.
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Born Twice: A Memoir

By: Kuban, Helen Stern

Price: $13.63

Publisher: Matyi Press: 2006

Seller ID: 88855

ISBN: 0978859952

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Fine

Signed by Author on Title page. Nice Firm Clean copy ! 72 pages. A powerful tale of a young woman's separation from her family in Czechoslovakia and being subjected to the degradations of three Nazi concentration camps. Her facility with languages allowed her to save the life of a friend, who in turn saved Helen Kuban's life! This is a remarkable, inspiring story of a woman whose family and life survived by a thread, whose challenges did not end once liberated from concentration camps, and whose extraordinary strength, spirit, and determination to survive have allowed for a flourishing family ...
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Henrietta Szold : Life and Letters

By: Lowenthal, Marvin

Price: $10.03

Publisher: Viking Press: 1942

Seller ID: 119675

ISBN: B0007DLZNQ

Condition: Very Good

Nice Firm Clean copy ! Light general wear. 350 pages. Henrietta Szold (1860-1945) was a U.S. Jewish Zionist leader and founder of the Hadassah Women's Organization. In 1942, she co-founded Ihud, a political party in Mandate Palestine dedicated to a binational solution.
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Early American Jewry Volume 1: the Jews of New York, New England and Canada

By: Marcus, Jacob Rader

Price: $20.06

Publisher: Jewish Publication Society of America: 1951

Seller ID: 70462

ISBN: B001HV8R0G

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Volume 1only. Nice Firm Clean copy ! Has bookplate. Jacket has light edge wear. 301 pages.
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Louis Marshall, Champion of Liberty: Selected Papers and Addresses, In Two Volumes

By: Marshall, Louis; Charles Reznikoff (Editor); Oscar Handlin (Introduction)

Price: $36.43

Publisher: Jewish Publication Society: 1957

Seller ID: 73145

ISBN: B0020NYWDQ

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

In very good slipcase. Nice Firm copy ! Previous owner name. 1196 pages. Louis B. Marshall (December 14, 1856 û September 11, 1929) was a corporate and constitutional lawyer, mediator and Jewish community leader who worked to secure religious, political, and cultural freedom for all minority groups. He was among the founders of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), defended Jewish and minority rights and, though not a Zionist, he supported the Balfour Declaration. He was also a conservationist, and helped found the State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry.
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