Jewish from JimsOldBooks

New York: Harper and Row, 1968. Creasing and some small tears to edges of unclipped dustwrapper, minor bumping to spine ends and corners of black boards, an old address (Asher Bitan, Tel Aviv) on f/ep, otherwise a good clean tight copy of the hard-cover book. The author's first novel, originally published in Hebrew as "Lo' Me'Akhshav, Lo Mi'Kan" in… Read more about this item

Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2020. Very slight creasing to edges of unclipped dustwrapper, otherwise a good clean tight copy of this hard-cover book. Looks at Western thinking on the Jews from the seventeenth century onwards, including links between Jewish and Christian messianism, the association of the Jews with universalist and transformative ideas in philosophy, politics, literature and social… Read more about this item

Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice-Hall, 1969. Ex library copy with label on spine of price-clipped dustwrapper and an ink stamp on title page, contents page and inside back cover. Slight creasing to edges of dustwrapper, some wear to spine ends and edges of blue boards, sellotape marks inside front and back covers, new front endpaper fitted, but otherwise a… Read more about this item

Edinburgh: Southside, 1974. Paperback edition published by Southside in 1974. Some creasing to the spine and scuffing to spine ends and corners, a small water-mark to the top edge of back cover, some yellowing to outer pages, but otherwise a not too bad, tight copy of this soft-cover book. The author's memories of her childhood in 1929-32 in… Read more about this item

Jerusalem: The Israel Museum, 2003. English language edition. Very slight creasing to top edge of dustwrapper and some scratching to back panel of same. Original owner's gift message (blacked out) takes up most of f/ep, but otherwise a good clean tight copy of this hard-cover book. Issued to accompany the exhibition of the same name held at… Read more about this item

New York: Summit Books, 1991. Some creasing and a couple of small tears to the edges of the unclipped dustwrapper, minor bumping to spine ends, otherwise a good clean tight copy of this hard-cover novel. Set in late fifteenth century Spain, the story deals with a young man, a "converso" (a person descended from Jews who converted to Christianity)… Read more about this item

Evanston, Illinois: Northwestern University Press, 1990. A very good clean tight copy, with no creasing to the spine or covers, of this soft-cover book containing fourteen articles by different authors on aspects of Jewish history and culture, all originally appearing in the YIVO Annual between the 1940s and the early 1980s. The articles are: ''The Eastern European era in… Read more about this item

London: Valentine Mitchell & Co Ltd, 1995. Some creasing to the front cover, an ink stamp on top edge of pages ''Production Copy'', otherwise a good clean tight copy, with no creasing to the spine, of this soft-cover book. Looks at six modern Hebrew (Israeli) novels where the characters leave Israel and then come back. The novels covered… Read more about this item

New York: New York University Press, 1970. Ex library copy with creasing to the edges of the dustwrapper, minor bumping to spine ends and corners of blue boards, remains of paper labels inside front board and on f/ep, ink stamp on f/ep and on rev of title page. Otherwise a good clean tight copy of this hard-cover book, being… Read more about this item