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CHAGALL: The Art of Dreams (Discoveries Series)
by Daniel Marchesseau. Beautiful color reproductions. Condition: NEW 1998 Harry N. Abrams small soft cover, first printing. The reproductions of Chagall's art are all in color and are stunning. Content: Reviewer: "[This is] like a small encyclopeadia about Chagall, but in a convenient and light format (although there is A LOT of i nformation in the book)! It offers an excellent trip into the world of Chagall: not only his art, but also his life. Some of the pictures (like the ones on the first pages, showing Chagall while he is painting) are stunning. If one word could describe this book, it would be: "complete". I recommend it to those who do not want to pay millions of bucks to have an excellent book on Chagall." [1 copy available]
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THE FALL OF THE SPANISH INQUISITION (Historical Fiction)
by Daniel Rosenfeld. Condition: NEW 2001 Rosenfeld Publications Trade Paperback, no printing given. Content: This book of historical fiction - fantasy is in response to a question that haunted the author for years: Why the absense of Jewish people fighting against repressive regimes during the 2000 years of the Diaspora? In this book he writes of historical evens, as he would have liked them to be. Alternative History, if you prefer. The plot: A group of young men and women band together to fight the monstrous behavior of the Catholic Church in 15th century Spain. They sabotage the operations of the church, and with the help of Queen Isabella bring down the Inquisition, and stop the mass torture and burning to death of those who refuse to convert. Interesting reading. [1 copy available]
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GRANDMA DORALEE PATINKIN'S HOLIDAY COOKBOOK:
A Jewish Family's Celebrtions
by Doralee Patinkin Rubin. Introduction by Mandy Patinkin. Decorations by Jill Weber. Condition: NEW 1999 St. Martin's Press Trade Paperback, first edition, first printing. Perfect. Content: Tony- and Emmy-winning performer Mandy Patinkin has long sung the praises of his mother's cooking, from her famous butter-crisp cookies and irresistible chicken soup with matzo balls to her candied sweet potatoes and delicious Passover nut sponge cake. Following the phenomenal success of her first cookbook, Grandma Doralee Patinkin returns, this time delivering menus for the most special and challenging meals of all - the holidays. Organized by holiday, this book presents complete menus for Rosh Hashanah, Hanukkah, Passover, and other Jewish holidays, as well as Thanksgiving, bridal luncheons, patio suppers, and more. Spanning appetizers, salads, vegetables, entrees, and desserts, and including both buffet and sit-down menus, the recipes reflect traditions that go back many generations, as well as contemporary favorites. Anyone whose holiday memories include delicious homemade potato latkes, noodle kugel, and melt-in-your-mouth rugelach will delight in this homespun and heartfelt collection. [1 copy available]
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L'CHAYIM. . .to life!: A Novel
by Fred Kurtzman. B&W decorations. Condition: NEW 2000 Echo Life Publishing Trade Paperback. Content: This is a fictionalized diary of a young Jewish boy growing up in small town America. Starting from just before his Bar Mitzvah, in 1967, the author takes us through his young and short life to the end in 1978. In it we learn of his hopes and dreams, fears and failures, and loves and successes. Things that a young boy would not discuss with anyone but himself. We feel what life is for him to learn about dating, how he tried to understand his parents and how he tried to get them to understand him. We experience first hand how he learns about life through his love and caring for animals. And although we never learn his name and his life is short, we start to understand the person he was to become. In turn we start to understand how many of us "babyboomers" of today got our outlook on life. [2 copies available]
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AN ISAAC BASHEVIS SINGER READER
by Isaac Bashevis Singer. Winner Nobel Prize for Literature. Condition: UNREAD 1979 Farrar, Straus hardcover & DJ (in mylar jacket), second printing. DJ has 2 short tears (repaired). Interior perfect. Content: One novel (Magician of Lublin); 15 short stories; and 4 "memoirs" (first English publication). Questions welcome. [1 copy available]
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THE LIFE AND WORKS OF CHAGALL (Marc Chagall)
A Compilation of Works from the Bridgeman Art Library
by Nathaniel Harris. Color repros of Chagall's work. Condition: NEW 1994 Paragon Books for Shooting Stars hardcover (pictorial boards) & DJ (in mylar jacket). No edition given. Content: Beautiful art book which gives us a short biography of Chagall (what a life!) with color reproductions of his art and the story behind each painting. Especially great for a synagogue library. Questions welcome. [1 copy available]
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THE UNORTHODOX BOOK OF JEWISH RECORDS & LISTS
by Allan Gould & Danny Siegel. Great B&W comic illustrations. Condition: UNREAD, but not perfect, 1982 Hautig (Canada) Trade Paperback, no printing given. Tiny edgewear and name top title page. Content: All the "did-you-knows" from Jewish history up to the early 1980s - the original, Jewish names of the Seven Dwarfs, people with whom Jews may not have sexual relations, the worst Jewish famines, and ever popular highest temperature in a Synagogue where a woman wore a mink stole - interesting and fun, even if it is a bit dated. Questions welcome. [1 copy available]
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WANDERING STARS: An Anthology of Jewish Fantasy & Science Fiction
edited by Jack Dann. Intro by Isaac Asimov. Condition: NEW 1998 Jewish Lights Publishing Trade Paperback, first printing. Tiny edge wear. Content: Reviewer: "This book, first published in 1974, was billed as "the first time in a science fiction collection that the Jew -- and the richness of his themes and particular points of view -- will appear without a mask." Mask? What mask? The mask of non-Jewish pennames, for one thing. Did you know that "Clyde Crane Campbell" is really Horace L. Gold? Or that William Tenn is Phillip Klass? Heck, even "Jack Dann" doesn't sound very Jewish. As Isaac Asimov points out in his intro to this book, many Jewish F&SF writers of the pulp era used gentile-sounding pennames to get published, because antisemitism kept people with names like "Chaim Ishkowitz" out of print. Asimov was the first Jewish SF writer to use his own ethnic-sounding name because, as he explains in the introduction, "I didn't know any better." (Asimov's intro, entitled "Why Me?", is a real gem -- be sure to read it!) Jews also come out of the closet in the stories themselves. In most F&SF of the time (and even today) you rarely see an openly Jewish character or theme. Here in "Wandering Stars," we meet futuristic rabbis, Hasidim, dybbuks, golems and more. Some of the stories are humorous, others are spine-chilling. "Gather Blue Roses" falls into the second category: Imagine a highly-developed empath trapped in a Nazi concentration camp... Then there's "Trouble with Water," which is more of a fantasy, as is the I.B. Singer classic, "Yachid and Yachidah." Two of the stories also deal with the theme of gilgul (reincarnation): "The Jewbird" by Bernard Malamud, and "I'm Looking for Kadak" by Harlan Ellison. One thing which struck me about this collection is how many of the stories assume that Jews will still be persecuted in the distant future. William Tenn's "On Venus have we got a Rabbi" actually uses persecution as the definition of "Jewishness" on a planet of non-humanoids. In "Paradise Last," Jews who score well on standardized achievement tests are "rewarded" with a planet of their own -- and thereby removed from mainstream society. These are good stories, but I would like to think that there could be a better future-vision for my people. Still, this anthology was ground-breaking in its time, and remains a good read today." Questions welcome. [1 copy available]
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