Catalogue of the Israeli Pavilion in The Venice Biennale, 1988, presented by the works of Zadok Ben David and Motti Mizrachi, All articles and captions are written in both English and hebrew.

An account of the Jews from the French Revolution to the first years of the State of Israel.

630 pages, paperback, good condition: pages are clean, cover is tight with few creasings.

In the eighteenth century a majestic silhouette of spires and battlements greeted the traveler who made his way down the valley of the lower Main River in southwestern Germany. It was the silhouette of Frankfurt, one of the four remaining free cities of the Holy Roman empire, and one of Germany`s most important commercial entrepots.

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Wanderings - History of the Jews / Chaim Potok
 

A selection from the collected essays of Ahad Ha-Am, titled 'Al Parashat Derachim' ("At the Parting of the Ways"). The essays are concerned with the theoretical and the practical problems of the Jewish people. The essays in this volume include: Sacred and Profane; Justice and Mercy; Positive and Negative; Anticipations and Survivals; Past and Future; Two Masters; Imitation and Assimilation; Many Inventions; Slavery in Freedom; The New Savior; and more. Translated from the Hebrew by Leon Simon.

Author Thomas Friedman spent six years of journalistic service for the New York Times in Beirut and Jerusalem from 1979 to 1985, and has won two Pulitzer prizes. In this book he chronicles his days as a reporter in both Lebanon and Israel, reaching deeper into the traumatic, complex recent history of the conflicts in the Middle East, trying to provide an understanding of the political causes and psychological effects of the seemingly endless conflict.

In June 1979, my wife, Ann, and I boarded a red-and-white Middle East Airlines 707 in Geneva for the four-hour flight to Beirut. It was the start of the nearly ten-year journey through the Middle East that is the subject of this book. It began, as it ended. with a bang.

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From Time Immemorial / Joan Peters

Yaacov Meridor, leader of The Irgun Zvai Leumi, accounts his experiences when exiled by the British colonial administratio to prison camps in Africa. He tells about the escapes he took part in. Translated and abridged from the Hebrew by Molly Lyons and Jaap Bar David.

My wife went to the door. Her ``Who`s there?`` was answered by a voice speaking Hebrew - but with an accent so English that I became immediately suspicious. Could it be the British police?

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The Revolt / Menachem Begin

Author Richard Crossman was a member of the Anglo-American Committee on Palestine. In this book he describes hisimpressions and the process of learning and understanding the situation in Palestine.

It was a Thursday evening in October 1945. I was standing in the inner lobby - just outside the debating chamber of the House of Commons - when the chief Labour Whip, Mr. William Whiteley, came up to me. ``You will not be going to Vienna,`` he said. ``Ernest Bevin has got another job for you, something about Palestine. You will be hearing more soon.``

I was annoyed and intrigued: annoyed because I was due that week-end to leave with a Parliamentary Delegation for Austria - a country I knew something about - intrigued because I was aware that Palestine had become a ticklish problem for the Labour Government. I remembered a little ruefully that I had said to my wife, only a few days before: ``It is always a good thing for a politician to admit to ignorance. There are two subjects I shall always be totally ignorant about, India and Palestine.``

A dramatic eyewitness account of the Six Day War - from the earliest border incidents to one of the biggest armored battles of all time.

290 pages, hardcover with dust jacket, good condition: pages are clean and tight, some wear to jacket.

At midday on Saturday 13 May 1967, Ilan Yakuel, aged twenty-three, parked his father`s Peugeot 404 outside the Rehovot home of General Tal. He walked up the mango-tree-lined path and knocked at the door. Mrs Tal and the children welcomed him with pleased surprise. Ilan was always a welcome guest at the house of the Armoured Corps` commander, for although General Tal was known to be a strict disciplinarian, he had taken a great liking to young Ilan, who less than a year ago had been his adjutant. 

The story of Ariel Sharon's trial vs. Time magazine. The author spent time in the courtroom and met many of the key principals in the case. He also began to dig deeper into the background issues, which figured in the legal battle: Israel's 1982 incursion into Lebanon, the killings in Sabra and Shatilla, and Time magazine's abysmal record of Middle East coverage since the creation of the State of Israel.

336 pages, paperback, pocket book,  good condition.

It was a bitter winter's day. Inside the courtroom, a tense atmosphere prevailed. It was evident on the faces of spectators and principals alike, as the jury of six filed into their reserved box for one last verdict.

Elie Wiessel's first book, based on his own experiences during the Holocaust. This book is an account of the Nazi death camp horror that turns a young Jewish boy into an agonized witness to the death of his family, the death of his innocence, and the death of his God.

They called him Moshe the Beadle, as though he had never had a surname in his life. He was a man of all work at the Hasidic synagogue. The Jews of Sighet - that little town in Transylvania where I spent my childhood - were very fond of him.

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Color illustrations of plants (mostly trees) referred to in the Bible. Each plant is illustrated in its natural surroundings and accompanied by explanatory texts. Water colours and drawings: David Lavie. Explanatory text: Menachem Zaharoni and Se'ev Berlinger.

102 pages, hardcover, 30 cm tall, good condition: pages are clean and unmarked, binding is tight with some rubbing to cover..

A selection of Israeli poetry in a Spanish translation. The selection includes songs by Amir Gilboa, Zelda, Tuvia Ribner, Nathan Yonatan, Yehuda Amichai, Nathan Zach, Ben Tzion Tomer, and more. Translated from the Hebrew by Oded Sverdlik.

A record of the archaeological acomplishments in the Holy Land in the 1950s and 1960s. More than a score of working archaeologists, excavators and researchers describe at first hand some of the most remarkable of these archaeological finds. Photographs, made on site, and explanatory diagrams and maps accompany the reports. From the Table of Contents: Diana Kirkbride: Beidha - An Early Neolithic Village in Jordan; Kathleen M. Kenyon: Jericho - Oldest Walled Town; Yigael Yadin: The Rise and Fall of Hazor; Benjamin Mazar: Excavation at the Oasis of Engedi; Yohanan Aharoni: The Citadel of Ramat Rahel; Moshe Dotan: Ashdod - A City of the Philistine Pentapolis; Crystal M. Bennet: The Nabateans in Petra; N. Avigad: The Necropolis of Beth She'arim; and more.

220 pages, hardcover with dust jacket, good condition: pages are white and clean, binding is tight, jacket is complete.

The story of Benjamin, who lives in a world of visions and grotesque idealism and leaves the microscopic Tuneyadevka in his adventurous search for the legendary Ten Tribes. Translated from the Yiddish by Moshe Spiegel.

124 pages, hardcover, no dust jacket, 12cmX19cm, good condition: a part of the cover is darker then the rest - probably due to a stamp / tape that had been removed.

``All my days (so says Benjamin the Third himself) - until my great journey, that is - I have lived in Tuneyadevka [Droneville]. There I was born, there I was raised, and there I had the great good fortune to marry my spouse, the virtuous Zelda, may her days be long in the land!``

This book about the history of the Jewish Reform Movements records significant developments in America and Europe up to the time of the establishment of the State of Israel. Out of the author's judicious selection and translation of extracts from contemporary sermons, books, minutes, tracts and proclamations there unfolds a dynamic panorama of the Liberal commitment in religious Jewry. Dr. Plaut provides a succinct introduction to each selection.

383 pages, hardcover with dust jacket, good condition: pages are clean, binding is tight, some small tears to jacket.

The spirit of German idealism and religious reform had a profound effect on the burgeoning Jewish society of America. German Jews were found in all major cities, and after the 1840s German rabbis came in increasing numbers to minister to them. With few exceptions the German language was the second, if not the first, tongue spoken in American Reform congregations during most of the 19th century, and thus the full weight of the Old World`s religious emancipation was brought to bear on the New.

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* The Reform Movement in Judaism / David Philipson
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A literal translation of that portion of the sixteenth-century codification of the Babylonian Talmud which describes such deficiencies as render animals unfit for food; to which is appended a discussion of Talmudic anatomy in the light of the science of its day and of the present time.

A study of the spiritual roots of Zionism. The author argues that Israel's ideological identification with the Western liberal tradition is rooted in a fallacy. Zionism is only partially the offspring of the Enlightenment. It is also, and indeed primarily, the offspring of the Jewish myth..Harold Fisch has been a professor of English at Bar-Ilan University since 1957.

197 pages, hardcover with dust jacket, good condition: pages are clean and unmarked, binding is tight, jacket is good but with a few tears.

The early Zionists started with a very keen sense of the radical abnormality of Jewish existence as they found it in the Diaspora. They perceived the presence of some peculiar irritant in Jewish experience, the grain of sand, so to speak, in the oyster. For Theodor Herzl, Max Nordau and Leo Pinsker, that irritant was, in one word: anti-semitism.

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* The Israelis: Founders and Sons / Amos Elon
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Poems: Moses; With Naked Flame; My Age; Space Time Something Nothing; The Colours Sit Council; God Has Been Sick; Jerusalem; Soiled Cells Falling; The Wind Was Silent; and more. Translated from Hungarian by Joseph Gross, Evelyn Fox, Ila Egon.

80 pages, paperback, good condition: pages aare clean and tight. Inscribed by the author on the reverse of the Preface. Very rare book.

Moshe Leshem brings more than forty years of diplomatic experience to this analysis of three centuries of Jewish history. Drawing a parallel between the isolated ghettos of Renaissance Europe and the attempts of current Israeli fundamentalists to transform Israel from a progressive democracy to an insular theocracy, Leshem explains the continuing intifada and the growing disenchantment of American Jews. He outlines a series of policy alternatives that would bring justice to the occupied territories without sacrificing Israeli security and allow its people to freely pursue their religious destiny.

Before the Enlightenment, and the second Exodus it ultimately inspired, the Jews of Europe had no concept of liberty, equality, or the pursuit of happiness. That`s not to say they were hopelessly downtrodden. Their forebears may have been slaves in Egypt, forced to do hard manual labor, but the ghetto Jews were nobody`s slaves. True, they could not settle wherever they wanted or live in any house they could afford. And they were invariably subject to the will and whim of rulers who often found their presence obnoxious.

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A History of Israel: From the Rise of Zionism to Our Time
The Siege: The Saga of Israel and Zionism
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Twelve biographies: Rab Saadia Gaon; Rabbenu Gershom; Rashi; Maimonides; Moritz Steinschneider; David Hoffman; Mayer Sulzberger; Solomon Schechter; The Jewish Scholarship of Joseph Jacobs; Henry Malter; Max Leopold Margolis; Israel Friedlaender The Scholar.

Rab Saadia Gaon
Outside of Palestine no country has exerted a deeper influence on the development of Judaism than Babylonia. Jews had been settled there since the destruction of the first Temple. They had arranged for the return to the homeland under Cyrus; they had inspired and financed the later group which returned under Ezra`s leadership and the trips of Nehemiah to strenghten the new Palestine settlement. Only a small section of Babylonian Jewry, however, had taken an active part in the restoration of Palestine.

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Rashi His Life and Times / Aron Owen
Saadia Gaon: His Life and Works  / Henry Malter
Memoirs of My People / Leo W. Schwarz

The book consists of ommentary on the sayings and maxims of Pirke Abot, interpreting and elucidating their meaning, expanding their import and implication, illustrating by means of parable, dwelling on the lives of the authorities quoted and other distinguished personalities referred t in passing.  Translated from the Hebrew by Judah Goldin.

277 pages, paperback, good condition: pages are clean, hinges are starting but still tight.