Even now, the motivation for the search recorded in these pages appears so pragmatic, almost crass. I seem to have been looking for a kind of supertreasure whose value would not be affected by economic, social, political, nor, indeed, by any external circumstances. Once I came across a few lines written by a poet named Eli Siegel:
substance
is what remains
when everything you can think of
has gone
That seemed to explain what I was after. But then I found a Hebrew word that expressed it better. The word is yesh whuch means, literally, there is. The old rabbis used it as a synonym for the treasure which awaits saints in the future life.

In this novel Potok brings back the Hasidic artist hero of My Name Is Asher Lev . Lev is called back to Brooklyn from France--and once again forced to make a choice between the sacred and the worldly. Lev comes to realize that his decision will affect not only the two worlds he inhabits, but also the sanctitiy of his family and, most importantly, the future of his young son.

370 pages, hardcover with dust jacket, good condition: book is clean and tight, gift inscription on endpaper.

Afterward I lived in Paris, in the same apartment where I had painted the Brooklyn Crucifixion. I married Devorah, and we moved to the Rue des Rosiers. Some years later, Devorah gave birth to a girl, and we named her Rochel, after Devorah`s mother, of blessed memory, who was taken away in the July 1942 roundup of French Jews. We called her Rocheleh, beloved little Rochel.

Jacob M. Rothschild became rabbi of the Hebrew Benevolent Congregation in Atlanta, Georgia, in 1946. He could not have known then that his career would be distinguished by outspoken support of human rights, a synagogue bombing, and frienship with a Nobel laureate and his family. He could not have known that his support of human rights would help to make a hostile South more amenable to justice and decency in race relations, that the bombing of The Temple would indirectly hasten peaceful integration of the city's schools, and that his support of Martin Luther King, Jr., would bring about a landmark Atlanta dinner honoring King. He could not have known, and might never have believed, that on his death in 1973 an entire city would mourn. With a foreword by Coretta Scott King.

239 pages, hardcover with dust jacket, very good condition. Inscribed by the author. ISBN 0-86554-117-5 (0865541507).

I asked Jack this question on one of our first dates, as soon as I thought I knew him well enough to be blunt. He fielded it in a manner developed over the ten years since he had entered the rabbinate, with a quick quip designed to divert the thought.

History of the Jews in Spain. The book has seven parts: Historical Vicissitudes; Toledo: The Jerusalem of the Spanish Hebrews; The Jews in the Hispanic Kingdoms; The Inquisition and the Jews; The Twilight of the Spanish Jews; The Jews in Modern Spain; The Sephardim. Translated from the Spanish.

372 pages, paperback, 12.5cmX17cm, fair condition: pages are clean, book is complete, wear to the papercovers, loose back cover.

It has been said that the Hebrew tradition oscillates between two opposite poles: meekness and violence. Sometimes by means of force and at others by submitting to the avatars, the Jewish people has managed to survive in the eternal struggle against its tragic destiny.

Contents: Imagerie populaire Juive En Alsace; Mappot; Sederzwehl; manuscripts Enlumines; Tradition Et Creativite Dans L'Imagerie Populaire Juive D'Alsace.

The book unfolds the story of the rise and fall of the local Arab potentate, Dahir al-Umar, and his successor, the ruthless Turkish Governor, Jezzar Ahmed Pasha. It also describes the many facets of 18th century life in the area - internal political and military strife, the intricate relationship between the Ottoman State and its provinces, administrative institutions and their special local features, and the development of trade with Europe.

344 pages, hardcover with dust jacket, good condition: pages are white and unmarked, binding is tight.

The Ottoman Empire reached the peak of its power, both internally and externally, in the middle of the 16th Century. Although it is possible to point to subsequent Ottoman victories, both at sea and on land (the conquest of Cyprus and Crete, the re-occupation of Baghdad, and the defeat of the Russian Army at Pruth), these are not typical of the turn events were beginning to take during the course of the 17th Century. Ottoman forces began to suffer an ever-increasing succession of set-backs in the field, and the Sultan was no longer able to extend the frontiers of his Empire at will.

An historical resume of Jewish happenings in rhyme. The various periods dealt with in this book are: The Patriarchal age, The Commonwealths and Exils, The Diaspora Communities, The Third Commonwealth afther the Holocaust, The Macabean Revolt, The Talmudic Age, The Rise of Christianity, The Mystics and Sages in All Lands, The Spanish Inquisition, The False Messiahs.

118 pages, hardcover with dust jacket, good condition: pages and binding are clean and tight, some wear and tear to jacket. Inscribed by the author.

It is the year 1941. In a courtyard on Mapu Street in Kovno live a number of Jewish families. The children of these families play in the courtyard. This is a novel of these children, caught up in the Second World War. Translated from the Hebrew by David S. Segal.

It was a courtyard somewhat larger than usual. The house wasn't very big, leaving all the more room for the yard. There were a few apartments on the second and third stories. The ground floor was taken up by a small grocery store, a garage, and a warehouse.

Sholom Aleichem's works that show his bond with the Shivat Zion aspiration, his understanding of the Zion motif, his longing for the homeland of Israel, and his intense interest in the problems associated with Zionism and Palestine. The book contains different kinds of work: descriptions of a way of life, stories, one-acters, a short novel, political essays, records of a Zionist Congress, and a stack of Menachem Mendel letters. Translated from the Yiddish and Hebrew.

242 pages, hardcover with dust jacket, good condition: pages and binding are clean and tight, tears to jacket.

``So tell me, please, exactly how - you mean to say that you yourself, with your own eyes, have seen the Western Wall? That`s what it`s called? Yuo really saw it? Please tell me, how and what and when!``

This volume is a compiliation of several important cases heard by the Supreme Court of Israel on terrorism, security activities and Israeli policy in the West Bank. It contains cases from 2004 and 2005.

Three Hebrew stories in Spanish translation: Capitulos de Con Sus Propias Manos / Moshe Shamir; El Nombre / Aaron Megued; El Prisionero / S. Izhar.

A massive reference book, divided into two sections: one, with biographical entries of Jewish personalities, leaders, people of great deed in every field of activity. The second one reviews Israeli public bodies. 20th biennial English edition.

494 pages, hardcover, good condition: clean and tight book with faded cover.

The purpose of this book is to shed light on the key facets of irredentism in historical and comparative perspective. The contributors examine the determinants, the dynamics, and the consequences of irredentism as it affects the policies of countries and groups making irredentist claims and of those against whom claims are being made.

161 pages, hardcover, good condition: pages are white and unmarked, binding is clean and tight. Rare book. ISBN 1-55587-221-2 (1555872212)

The author describes community education projects that took place in development towns in Israel. The author provides us with a mixture of the very practical, down-to-earth experience and the theoretical basis for that experience.

Empowerment is defined here as an enabling process which enhances people's own abilities and capacities to direct and control their own lives. By its very nature it is unique to the individual or the group. What is to be found here, however, is a guide to some of the processes involved and a description of some of the activities which have been undertaken by community education projects in Israel committed to this approach. All of these projects have early childhood education at their core and all of them base their work on the pinciples of community development.

A collection of essays, divided inro several main chapters: Religion, Anti-Semitism, Law, The Arts, Science, Palestine, Poland, America. some deal with personal experiences, others with principles and procedures. Many of the essays were written during World War II. From the Table of Contents: Anti-Semitism in the World of Tomorrow; Judaism and International Law; Jewish Literature in the World of Tomorrow; Palestine in the Post-War World; Polish Jewry - Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow; America and Israel of Tomorrow; and more.

501 pages, hardcover, no dust jacket, 23cm tall, good condition: pages are clean and unmarked, binding is tight with minor rubbing and wear.

In the quest for happiness magic has had its day, philosophy its period, and science its epoch. With all its humanistic values, with all the insight of Freud, with all the aid to metaphysics of Bergson, and with all the advantage of modern research, the failure of science in the field of human happiness by now has become a truism.

What is prophecy? What is the nature of the prophetic inspiration? What are the unique ideas they convey? These are some of the questions the author undertakes to answer. This book provides a unique opportunity to gain fresh and deep knowledge of Israel's prophetic movement.

What manner of man is the prophet? A student of philosophy who turns from the discourses of the great metaphysicians to the orations of the prophets may feel as if he were going from the realm of the sublime to an area of trivialities. Instead of dealing with the timeless issues of being and becoming, of matter and form, of definitions and demonstrations, he is thrown into orations about widows and orphans, about the corruption of judges and affairs of the market place.

A Passover Haggadah with color illustrations of Yosl Bergner. The Hebrew text is given alongside an English transliteration.

43 plates (4 in colour) of Mane-Katz's paintings: Saturday Walk in Jerusalem, A Man in the Big City, The Yellow Moon, Jacob's Dream, Jews of Gerba, Jewish folk-musicians, Meditation, The Wedding, and more. With a preface on the artist by Alfred Werner.

A selection of papers written about Chaim Weizmann the Zionist leader and the scientist. Contributors include: Viscount Samuel, Lord Melchett, Martin Buber, Joseph Baratz, Joseph Klausner, R. Meinertzhagen, Moshe Smilanski, Hugo Bergman, and more. This volume also includes selected speeches by Chaim Weizmann.

Soon after the outbreak of war in August, 1914, when Turkey threw in her lot with Germany and Austria, the future of Palestine, with other parts of the Turkish Empire, came into the foreground of international politics. The British Cabinet, of which I was then a member, had to keep it in view as a question bound to come up for solution when, as we were confident would be the case, Germany and her allies were defeated. Palestine, neighbouring the Suez Canal, could not fail to be of special concern to Britain with her great interests in the Middle East.