(price-clipped) [a lightly-worn book, with a minor bump to the top rear corner and some slight dust-soiling to the top edge; jacket is bright and colorful, with some very minor paper loss at spine ends (no loss of text), some internal dampstaining to the rear panel with only negligible effect to the exterior]. (frontispiece photo of Gertrude Berg) "The Rise of the Goldbergs" (the title was eventually shortened to simply "The Goldbergs") debuted as a 15-minute weekly program on NBC radio in November of 1929, and was an immediate hit. The show became a daily broadcast in 1931, ... View More...
[nice tight copy, small stain and mild soiling on top edge, light browning to fore-edge; jacket browned at spine and edges, small snag at front hinge, a couple of tears at edges of rear panel]. (Texts and Studies of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America, Vol. II) Series NOTE that this is the second volume (of two): Volume II only. The first volume was a survey of the literary activity of the Geonim in the field of Halakah. "The second volume consists of 47 halakic fragments from the Cairo Genizah, mainly Geonic responsa containing many interesting Halakic views. All are copiously an... View More...
[minor shelfwear, light age-toning to edges of text block; jacket a bit edgeworn, light soiling to rear panel]. SIGNED by the author on the ffep (signature only). A selection of pieces from the popular Jewish-American writer and newspaper publisher's three best-selling collections of essays and commentaries (some of which are short enough to fit several to the page). "Harry Golden's brand of personal journalism, which combines the approaches of the crusading newspaper editors of the nineteenth century and the familiar essayists of literary weeklies, has nevertheless a mid-twentieth century f... View More...
(brown cloth, no dust jacket) [moderately worn copy, light bumping at a couple of corners, a few very slightly scrunched lower page corners, gilt spine lettering rubbed but still readable; attractive custom vintage bookplate on front pastedown, previous owner's name/address on ffep]. Reprint of a novel first published in 1891, and, according to the author's original introduction, based on the story told to him by a Russian refugee named Joseph Kierson of "the terrible persecution which compelled such large numbers of his countrymen to flee from their once happy homes." The author ackn... View More...
(no dust jacket, as issued) [moderate soiling and external wear]. (B&W photographs) Nicely-done, well-illustrated history of the author's immediate family -- primarily his father and mother and his four brothers. His father emigrated from Russia to the United States in 1906, settling first in Philadelphia; later the family lived in Wildwood, New Jersey. (There was also a Chicago branch of the family, that of his father's brother.) Although inescapably anecdotal, the book is well put-together and is rich with detail about of the life of this American Jewish family. It's not just a nostalgia-f... View More...
[nice clean copy, minor edgewear, a couple of lines of information on copyright page lined through (but still readable)]. Trade PB (B&W photographs) "A compilation from archives and memory," by one of her granddaughters, telling the life story of the founder and director of the American-European Bethel Mission. View More...
[nice tight copy, bottom corners bumped but otherwise no significant wear, previous owner's bookplate on ffep; jacket shows just mild handling wear]. (B&W photographs) The author "was born Tonica Marlow to a British evangelist father and an Egyptian Jewish mother. At the time of her birth, her father was already a full-fledged Protestant minister with an established congregation, and their household revolved exclusively around the church. At the age of sixteen, Tova was accepted as the youngest student at a noted Christian theological college, and within four years she had become an orda... View More...
[book is clean and flawless; jacket shows only light surface rubbing]. (pen and ink drawings) This book "takes you on a journey of discovery into the fascinating world of the Jewish dietary laws and their implementation in modern times. It explains in every detail everything you have ever wanted to know about kashrus and it opens your eyes to many issues and kashrus practices that most people are unaware of." (Most of the text is in English, with selected passages in Hebrew.) View More...
[nice square clean copy, appears unread, no discernible wear to book; jacket just a tiny bit crinkled at spine ends, very slight wear to bottom corners of spine panel]. Collects the following plays: "Welcome Stranger" (1920) by Aaron Hoffman; "Counsellor-at-Law" (1931) by Elmer Rice; "Awake and Sing!" (1935) by Clifford Odets; "Morning Star" (1940) by Sylvia Regan; "Home of the Brave" (1945) by Arthur Laurents; "The Cold Wind and the Warm" (1958) by S.N. Behrman; and "The Tenth Man" (1959) by Paddy Chayefsky. Introduction by Ellen Schif... View More...
[nice-looking book, gilt lettering on spine and front cover bright as new, slight bumping to bottom corners, shallow dent at edge of rear cover, light soiling to fore-edge; jacket a bit tattered, tears/chips at all corners, about one inch paper loss to base of spine]. The author undertakes in this book to address the "most serious maladjustment between life and religion" that he feels to be manifest in American Judaism. As the jacket blurb states: "Even the professing Orthodox Jew must admit that between the demands of religion and the call of modern American life the chasm is w... View More...
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