David Horowitz was born in Poland and arrived in Palestine in 1920 where he joined a commune. Later he joined the Work Brigade, coordinated the Jewish presentations to the Anglo-American Committee of Enquiry for Palestine and participated in the delegation to the United Nations in 1947. Then he went on to become the first Director General of the Israeli Ministry of Finance, where he initiated negotiations for reparations from Germany and laid the groundwork for the Bank of Israel of which he became the first Governor. This book is his autobiography.

The background: the declining world of those days. My thoughts summon up a kleidoscope of changing seasons, the swirling leaves of fall; snowflakes fluttering outside my window panes, the smile of spring and the heat of the yellow summer.
It was a world of seeming serenity, of individual freedom and governmental laxity, but also of poverty and distress in a society oblivious of what was to come.

Bruria Kogan came from Austria to America, where she married a man equally endowed. Her greatest blessing was her only child, David, a youth of exceptional brilliance and character. Then tragedy struck. David became afflicted with Hodkin's Disease, and shortly after his graduation from Cornell University, he died. Bruria Kogan felt she could not survive. Her will to live was gone and she tried suicide.
How she was brought back to life and was able to imbue others with its sacredness is the theme of her story.

271 pages, hardcover, good condition: some age marks. Inscribed by the author and her husband.

How many of us would come into this world if our parents had been given a choice, or if they would have had to justify their wish to bring another being into this world? I wonder. Our son David was very much wanted, and this may have accounted for his exuberance and vitality.
We were married in 1925. Two years later we lost our first son, born prematurely due to an accident. I did not grieve too much. I was young and life lay ahead of me. We moved from a small Pennsylvania town to Yonkers, adjacent to New York. There David was born in 1929, and our joy knew no bounds.

Autobiography of Ruth Dayan, who was married to the Moshe Dayan for 36 years and who later went on to lead the development of local crafts in Israel to become the country's best known export, and later had a significant role in the development of the Brit Bnei Shem, the purpose of which was to promote understanding between the Arabs and Jews residing in Israel

I felt wonderfully happy, sitting up there in the eucalyptus tree waiting for Moshe, and absolutely free of doubts, which was unusual. I was seventeen years old and a high-school dropout, finished forever with city life and my parents' comfortable home in Jerusalem. Moshe was nineteen, and a farmer. That was one of the many things I liked about him in those first few weeks we knew each other. He was so unlike all the schoolboys with whom I had been in and out of love. Moshe was someone who went out before daybreak to plow a frozen field, who knew how to handle a scythe and how to make things grow. Also, he was exceptionally intelligent and handsome, and he loved Tolstoy and Dostoevsky.

The life story of Zwi Brenner, whose path included Wingate's special Night Squads, Hanita, the Acre prison, the Jewish Brigade, the acquisition of arms in the United States, and the secretary-generalship of the Kibbutz movement. Between each of these, he always returned to his first love, to his home and family in Kibbutz Afikim.

"On October 30, 1934, I immigrated to Eretz Israel. That was the most important day of my life, the day I was reborn."

The autobiography of Chaim Weizmann, the first president of the State of Israel.

El pueblecito donde naci, Motol, se levantaba - y quiza todavia exista - sobre la ribera de un pequeno rio en la gran zona pantanosa que ocupa parte de la provincia de Minsk y los estados adyacentes de la Rusia Blanca. Era un pais llano, abierto, triste y monotono, pero con sus rios, sus bosques y sus lagos, no debaja de ser pintoresco.

Interviews and statements by Golda Meir.

I was born in 1898 in Kiev, a city outside the Jewish Pale of Settlement, after our parents and my sister had moved there from Pinsk, a town deep in the Pale.

Memoirs of Edwin Samuel, who was a British colonial servant in Palestine from 1920 till 1948.

274 pages, hardcover, no dust jacket, good condition: bookstore label on inner backboard.

"It is not easy to be a Jew" - thus runs the old aphorism. Towards the middle of the last century, the Jews of Hungary felt that they indeed had a special claim to the ironic phrase.

An alphabetical autobiography, presenting events, people, places and ideas. Entries include: American Colony, Ehud Avriel, Banana, Childhood, Degania Aleph, Ruth Dayan, London, Mother, Palace of Fine Arts, Pueckler Muskau, Dean Rusk, San Francisco, Tel Aviv, and more.

Every encyclopedia opens with a Double-A - Aachen, Aardvark, that sort of thing. I have an unbeatable Double-Double-A - a Finish scholar, vegetarian, archaeologist, masseur, author (of over fifty books), linguist (seven languages), degrees in philosiphy, theology, and Semitic languages.

Called "the tzaddik of Jerusalem," Rabbi Aryeh Levin became a legend in his lifetime. When he discovered Jewish patients in the leper hospital, he took to visiting them every week. Every Sabbath he went to visit the Jewish inmates in the prison. Then, under the British mandate, as the prisons filled with political opponets of the regime, Reb Aryeh's work expanded into a "major operation." He became the prisoners' link with the outside world, carrying (by his phenomenal memory) thousands of messages every week between the men and their families. From his own reminiscences and the recollections of devoted friends and admirers, this book presents a panoramic range of anecdotes and impressions, incidents and episodes in the rich eventful life of Reb Aryeh Levin.Introduction by Chaim Herzog. translated from the Hebrew.
(A page from this book can be read on our Page 80 section)

On the ninth of Nissan (March 28) 1969, Rabbi Aryeh Levin (of blessed memory) passed on from this world, in holiness and purity. So ended a life that was extraordinary, a matter of wonder in many ways. The inner focal-point in the activities of this "tzaddik of Jerusalem" was his utter dedication, his readiness to give of himself and sacrifice himself, in his love of Jews and Jewry.

Called "the tzaddik of Jerusalem," Rabbi Aryeh Levin became a legend in his lifetime. When he discovered Jewish patients in the leper hospital, he took to visiting them every week. Every Sabbath he went to visit the Jewish inmates in the prison. Then, under the British mandate, as the prisons filled with political opponets of the regime, Reb Aryeh's work expanded into a "major operation." He became the prisoners' link with the outside world, carrying (by his phenomenal memory) thousands of messages every week between the men and their families. From his own reminiscences and the recollections of devoted friends and admirers, this book presents a panoramic range of anecdotes and impressions, incidents and episodes in the rich eventful life of Reb Aryeh Levin.Introduction by Chaim Herzog. translated from the Hebrew. Translated from the Hebrew, revised and expanded by Charles Wengrov.
 

469 pages, paperback, good condition. ISBN 0873069862.

On the ninth of Nissan (March 28) 1969, Rabbi Aryeh Levin (of blessed memory) passed on from this world, in holiness and purity. So ended a life that was extraordinary, a matter of wonder in many ways. The inner focal-point in the activities of this "tzaddik of Jerusalem" was his utter dedication, his readiness to give of himself and sacrifice himself, in his love of Jews and Jewry.

Writings of Dvora Dayan, about her childhood and about life people in Palestine.

The book Against the Tide: The Story of an Unknown Partisan is the true story of Sulia Wolozhinski Rubin, a young girl, brought up in the warmth and protection of a middle-class home. Who suddenly finds herself fighting for survival in the forests of the Russian border; fighting against the Nazi conquerors and against the sub-human conditions surrounding her. After the war she undertook another struggle - no less dangerous than the first - against the communists to escape to the Free World.

261 pages, hardcover with dust jacket, good condition:  jacket a little rubbed, gift inscription. Rare book.

As long as I can remember, I have always written down my thoughts — in a diary or simply in notes. From my earliest years, my father and mother encouraged me to "put it all down on paper". Often, at night, I had an urge to write and, I must confess, it persists to this day.

biography of Asher Ginzberg, known as Ahad ha-am: The Furnace of Iron; Escape to Odessa; The Wrong Way; First Visits to Palestine; Sons of Moses; At the Crossroads; The Editorial Chair; Mission to Paris; Jewish Humanism; Political Zionism; Last Years in Russia; London Exile; World War and National Home; Tel Aviv; Philosophy of Judaism and the Spiritual Center; His Personality and Influence.

348 pages, hardcover with dust jacket, good condition: clean pages with no markings, tight binding, some tears to jacket.

In the middle of the eighteenth century a new religious movement came to birth among the Jews of the Carpathian mountains on the borders of Poland. Its founder, one Israel ben Eliezer, reputed a wonder-worker, was known as the Baal-Shem, "Master of the (divine) Name," and became the central figure of a host of legends. Its adherents called themselves Hasidim ("Pious ones").

 biography of Asher Ginzberg, known as Ahad ha-am: The Furnace of Iron; Escape to Odessa; The Wrong Way; First Visits to Palestine; Sons of Moses; At the Crossroads; The Editorial Chair; Mission to Paris; Jewish Humanism; Political Zionism; Last Years in Russia; London Exile; World War and National Home; Tel Aviv; Philosophy of Judaism and the Spiritual Center; His Personality and Influence.

348 pages, hardcover, no dust jacket, good condition: yellowing pages, pencil underlines.

In the middle of the eighteenth century a new religious movement came to birth among the Jews of the Carpathian mountains on the borders of Poland. Its founder, one Israel ben Eliezer, reputed a wonder-worker, was known as the Baal-Shem, "Master of the (divine) Name," and became the central figure of a host of legends. Its adherents called themselves Hasidim ("Pious ones").

In the winter of 1945, Gerda Weissmann, with more than four thousand other young women, began a three-hundred-mile march from a labor camp in Poland to Czechoslovakia. A prisoner of the Nazis from the age of eighteen, Gerda was one of 120 who survived that march. This book is an account of her wartime experiences, and of her memories of her parents and brother. Klein’s story was the basis for the Academy Award-winning documentary One Survivor Remembers

261 pages, hardcover with dust jacket, very good condition: owner's name.

There is a watch lying on the green carpet of the living room of my childhood. The hands seem to stand motionless at 9:10, freezing time when it happened.

Abba Eban's autobiography. He begins his memoirs by describing his childhood in South London, his days as a brilliant young scholar at Cambridge, his early service to Zionism as the assistent to Chaim Weizmann, and his vital role as Permanent Delegate to the United Nations during the War of Independence and the establishment of the State of Israel. Drawing on his experiences as Ambassador to the United States and as Minister of Foreign Affairs, he then tells of the climatic hours spent during the crises of Suez, the Six Day War and the Yom Kippur War.

Outwardly, everything seemed normal. Millions were living their boyhood years at the same familiar rythm. No drama disturbed the even flow.
The scene was London in the nineteen-twenties and thirties: more precisely, a small sector of the endless metropolitan sprawl, bordered by home and school south of the Thames. It was a grey district poised narrowly between austerity and squalor. But both home and school had detached themselves from their local condition as if determined to have nothing to do with their own environment.

The full account of the Shcharanskts` ordeal and triumph. A tale of marriage and separation, imprisonment and earth-shaking appeals, demonstrations and secret maneuverings.

She had no marriage license. No rabbi. The groom was in jail. But Nataliya Steiglits was undeterred. She was determined that within two weeks she would marry Anatoly Shcharansky.
They had met eight months before, in October 1973, in a crowd of Jews on tree-lined Arkhipova Street opposite Moscow`s Great Synagogue, a Greek-style building with ornate Ionic columns. Nataliya had been seeking information about her brother Nichael - Misha - who had been arrested.
 

A biography of David Ben Gurion, the sixth child of a Polish Jew that became the re-establisher of the state of Israel. The book accompanies Ben Gurion as he arrives to work in Palestine as a labourer, continuing through the First World War, which saw the Balfour Declaration and the establishment of the British Mandate in Palestine; the exhaustive and exhausting negotiations and campaigns of the inter-war years; the Second World War; and finally, as the elder statesman of the nation he created, the architect of the Suez campaign and the Eichmann trial. This biography was written when Ben Gurion was still alive, but it is not an authorized biography.

214 pages, hardcover with dust Jacket, good condition: dust jacket is a bit worn.

For several days before the Passover of 1881 there had been talk in Elizabethgrad that the Jews were to be beaten up.

The story of David Ben Gurion. The book is based on intensive research as well as on interviews with Ben Gurion and with people all over the world who have had intimate contact with him.

The man with the wispy halo of white hair turned painfully in bed until his back was to those in the hospital room.
Someone said later that the silence was broken once by a single word:
`Nehemiah!`
Others said he spoke not at all.
After a few moments a low sobbing began to fill the room. They looked from one to another, embarrassed. Most of them had never seen him display such emotion before, although one or two remembered that he had cried also the day the Teacher was buried, years ago.
Quietly they made their way, one by one, to the door.
At last he was entirely alone with his heavy grief.
The wounds in his arm and leg, from which surgeons had dug small pieces of steel, suddenly began to pain again. But the hurt in his heart was the greater, for he knew that there was probably no man in the world to take Nehemiah's place. Everyone else knew it. Nehemiah had known it, too. That was why it was difficult to understand what Nehemiah had done.