HISTORY / Jewish from Barbara Bilson Books

New York: Basic Books, 2004. Near fine (very light edgewear) in near fine dust jacket (light edgewear). 430 pages, including index. Author -- as of publication date 2004 -- teaches at Vilnius University (Lithuania). Explores the origin, history, and centrality of Yiddish, including today. . Hard Cover. Illus. by Illustrations and maps.

New York: Schocken, 2011. Near fine+ (small amount of edgewear at top of spine) in very good dust jacket (some insect nibbling along jacket folds). 286 pages including notes. The discovery and history and significance of the largest cache of discarded Jewish texts.. 1st Edition. Hard Cover. Illus. by Photographs and manuscripts.

Woodstock, Vermont: Jewish Lights, 2011. Signed by author on first free endpaper: "With best wishes, Mark Glickman. 1/6/11." Fine in fine dust jacket. The treasure was basically scraps, stored in an attic for centuries, but meaningful once a nineteenth-century rabbi began to realize what he had found. The rabbi, Solomon Schechter, had stumbled on "the largest trove of early and… Ler mais sobre este item

New York: K. G. Saur, 1982. This is Part 2 of Volume 3 in the series, "Jewish Immigrants of the Nazi Period in the U.S.A." Herbert A. Strauss, general editor. Review copy, near fine (very light edgewear) without dust jacket as issued. Covers the years 1933 to 1938. Contains an introduction, "The German-Jewish Press, 1933-1938, as a Source of… Ler mais sobre este item

New York: K.G. Saur, 1987. Fine without dust jacket. Volume 6 in the series, "Jewish Immigrants of the Nazi Period in the U.S.A." A study of the background to German anti-semitism, the Nazi period, and immigration to the United States. Issued without dust jacket. Review copy. 411 pages including index. Each section has extensive notes, including bibliographical information… Ler mais sobre este item