Category: Jewish History

The Precious Legacy: Judaic Treasures from the Czechoslovak State Collections.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York: Summit Books[1983].

Seller ID: 50012s

Quarto, softbound, 288 pp. Photo. illus. Tiny rip to top of spine; otherwise, Fine. ÒThe collection of the Czechoslovak State Jewish Museum in Prague is a unique resposity of historic artifacts, artistic rarities, and cultural memories. These objects document the vitality and significance of Czech Jewry, which has flourished for a millennium at the crossroads of East and West and is the oldest continuous Jewish community in Europe. One hundred fifty-three local Jewish communities in Bohemia and Moravia were devastated during the Holocaust, and thus the Prague Museum bears eloquent testimo...
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Nazi Gold: The Full Story of the Fifty-Year Swiss-Nazi Conspiracy to Steal Billions from Europe's Jews and Holocaust Survivors.

By: Bower, Tom.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York: HarperCollins, [1997].

Seller ID: 28447

1st edition. Octavo, cloth & boards, xv, 381 pp. Photos. Fine in dust jacket.
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Souvenir Journal 1974, In Celebration of the 125th Birthday of Emma Lazarus, 21st Annual Donor Luncheon, June 6, 1974. Brooklyn Council, Emma Lazarus, Jewish Womens Clubs.

By: Brooklyn Council, Emma Lazarus, Jewish Womens Clubs.

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Brookly, NY: The Caslon Press, Inc., 1974.

Seller ID: 4513s

Octavo, stapled pink wrappers, [60] pp. Fine. Brooklyn Council Emma Lazarus Jewish Women's Clubs: Women -- Join and Enjoy a Program of -- Rights for Women, Civic and Consumer Affairs: (1) Jewish Education and Child Welfare, (2) Israel, (3) Civil Rights and Peace, (4) Rights for Women, (5) Consumer Affairs.
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Israel: The Story of a Nation.

By: Him, George, ed.

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Jerusalem: The Government Printer, 1958.

Seller ID: 28363a

Duodecimo, softbound, [109]. Photos, illus., maps. Near-Fine. A synopsis of the Israel Pavilion at the Universal Exhibition, Brussels, 1958.
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The Early Jews of New Orleans.

By: Korn, Bertram Wallace.

Price: $35.00

Publisher: Waltham, Massachusetts, 1969. American Jewish Communal Histories, No. 5. First Edition.

Seller ID: 00470scs

Signed by the Author. Octavo, navy blue cloth (hardcover), black spine label, gilt letters, map illustrated endpapers, xxi, 382 pp. Near-Fine, with rubbing to covers, in a like dust jacket with light foxing (age darkened spotting). ÒJewish life in the exciting and cosmopolitan city of New Orleans under French, Spanish, and American rule during the period 1757 to 1850 presents many intriguing complexities to the modern scholar and layman. In this significant volume, Dr. Bertram Wallace Korn, the noted authority on the ante-bellum period of American Jewish history, makes a penetrating study...
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Poor Jews: An American Awakening.

By: Levine, Naomi and Martin Hochbaum.

Price: $9.50

Publisher: New Brunswick, New Jersey: Transaction Books, (1974).

Seller ID: qms1671

Octavo, blue cloth (hardcover), silver letters, 206 pp. Ex-libris, with usual stamps (Temple B'Nai Israel Library); otherwise, a very attractive copy with few signs of wear; in a Very Good dust jacket with edgewear. From dust jacket: Citing national data and descriptions of the life styles of the Jewish poor, the authors reveal unique social characteristics of the Jewish poor -- including the surprising statistic that over two-thirds of this group are past the age of sixty, thus experiencing the compounded disadvantage of being poor, elderly and deserted by the younger, mobile Jewish commun...
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