The Shadows Within: Essays on Modern Jewish Writers.
Philadelphia: The Jewish Publication Society, 1987. First Edition. Hardbound. Octavo in dust jacket, xii, 198 pp., selected bibliography, index. More
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Kings: Hebrew Text and English Translation with an Introduction and Commentary.
London: Soncino Press, 1950. Softbound. Octavo in dust jacket with one short tear and minor discoloring at the base of the spine, xiii, 337 pp., authorities cited, index. Biblical text is in Hebrew and English and the commentary is all in English. More
My Grandparents, My Parents and I: Jewish Art and Culture.
Munich Berlin London New York: Prestel, 2006. First Edition. Hardbound. Quarto in dust jacket, 192 pp., color illustrations throughout, some b/w photos, bibliography. Another survey of "Jewish Art," that tries to compile the work of artists who strongly identitfied with the Jewish people with the work of artists who were..... More
Creator & Creation: Nature in the Worldview of Ancient Israel.
Peabody, Mass. Hendrikson Publishers, Inc., 1994. Second Printing, 2003. Softbound. Octavo, glossy paper covers, xii, 306 pp., b/w illustrations, select bibliography, index of Modern Authors, Index of Scriptural References. “The growing concern our society has for our mounting environmental crisis has required us to rethink our basic cultural models. Simkins..... More
Upper Limit Music: The Writings of Louis Zukofsky.
Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 1997. Softbound. Octavo, paper covers, xiv, 288 pp., index. Scroggins provides a provocative and advanced introduction to the thought and writing of Louis Zukofsky, aptly described as one of the "first postmodernists." Poet, translator, and editor, Louis Zukofsky was born in New York City in 1904..... More
Hebrew Illuminations.
Boulder, CO: Sounds True, Inc., 2006. Hardbound. Quarto in dust jacket, xii, 99 pp. with about fifty full page color illustrations and about sixty smaller b/w and color illustrations. The work is divided into two sections. The first illustrated the author's series of illustratiosn for all of the letters of..... More
The Columbia Guide to the Literatures of Eastern Europe Since 1945.
New York: Columbia University Press, 2003. Hardbound. Small quarto in dust jacket, xxxvi, 641 pp., chronology of Major Political Events, 1944-2002, Journals, Newspapers, and Other Periodical Literature, Notes on Orthography, Transliterations and Titles, Selected Bibliography, Author Index. Discussed the literatures of Albania (and Kosovo), Bosnia-Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croaria, the Czech Republic..... More
Postcolonial Reconfigurations: An Alternative Way of Reading the Bible and Doing Theology.
London: SCM Press, 2003. Softbound. Octavo, paper covers, viii, 184 pp., select bibliography, indexes. More
The Life and Thought of A.D. Gordon: Pioneer, Philosopher and Prophet of Modern Israel.
New York: Bloch Publishing Company, 1964. Hardbound. Octavo in dust jacket soiled and torn along the spine, xii, 151 pp., notes, bibliography. More
Facing the Extreme: Moral Life in the Concentration Camps.
London: Pheonix, 2000. Softbound. Octavo, paper covers, 307 pp. Translated by Arthur Denner and Abigail Pollak. More
Writing the Self: Autobiographical Writing in Modern Arabic Literature.
London: Saqi Books, 1998. Hardbound. Royal octavo in dust jacket, 342 pp., notes, index. Foreword: Random Variations on an Autobiographical Theme, by Edwar al-Kharrat. Introduction by Robin Ostle. More
Hebrew Union College Annual Volume LX.
Cincinnati: Hebrew Union College, 1989. Hardbound. Octavo, brown cloth with gold lettering, viii, 258 pp. in English and 32 pp. in Hebrew. Articles are "The System of the Verb in Standard Biblical Hebrew," E.J. Revell, "Isaiah's Impure Lips and Their Purification in Light of Mouth Purification and Mouth Purity in..... More
Justice Matters: Legacies of the Holocaust and World War II.
New York: Oxford University Press, 2004. First Edition. Hardbound. Octavo in dust jacket, viii, 198 pp., references, index. More
Perek Shirah: The Song of the Universe. The Schottenstein Edition.
Brooklyn, New York: Mesorah Publications, ltd., 2004. Second Edition. Hardbound. Quarto, faux leather with blind stamped decoration and gold lettering agaisnt black panels, 136 pp., color photos throughout. Text is in English with the Hebrew text. More
Israel in the Biblical Period: Institutions, Festivals, Ceremonies, Rituals.
Edinburgh & New York: T & T Clark, 2001. Softbound. Small octavo, paper covers, xiv, 209 pp., essential bibliography, indexes. Translated into English by John Bowden. More
Christians and Jews in Germany: Religion, Politics, and Ideology in the "Second Reich" (1870-1914).
Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press, 1975. Hardbound. Octavo in dust jacket, wear to the front endpaper, 359 pp., documents, bibliographical esssay, index, ink-stamps on the edges. Translated from Hebrew by Noah Jonathan Jacobs. More
On the Kabbalah and its Symbolism.
New York: Schocken, 1969. Softbound. Octavo, paper covers, vi, 216 pp., index. Translated by Ralph Manheim. More
The Essential Talmud. Thirtieth Anniversary Edition.
New York: Basic Books, 1976. Softbound. Octavo, paper covers, vi, 296 pp., index. Translated by Chaya Galai. With a new preface by the author and two new chapters. More
From Philo to Spinoza: Two Studies in Religious Philosophy.
New York: Behrman House, Publishers, 1977. Softbound. Octavo, paper covers, vi, 64 pp. More
She'elot u-teshuvot mi-ma'amakim.
New York: 1959. Hardbound. Octavo, red cloth with gold lettering, 312 pp. Text is in Hebrew. More
The Claims of Memory: Representations of the Holocaust in Contemporary Germany and France.
Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press, 1999. First Edition. Hardbound. Octavo in dust jacket, xii, 244 pp., b/w photos, notes, index. More
Maseket Gitin/ Hebrew-English Edition of the Babylonian Talmud: Gittin.
London: The Soncino Press, 1963. Hardbound. Quarto, red cloth with gold lettering, iv, 358, vii pp., abbreviations, glossary. Under the editorship of I. Epstein. In Hebrew (Aramiac) and English on facing pages. Essay by the editor. Introduction by Freedman. Introduction by Maurice Simon. More
The Jew in English Fiction.
Cincinnati: The Robert Clarkee Company, 1903. New Edition, Revisd and Enlarged. Hardbound. Small octavo, brown cloth with gold lettering, 207 pp., ink-stamps, library pocket. More
Tradition and Change: The Development of Conservative Judaism.
New York: The Burning Bush Press, 1958. First Edition. Hardbound. Octavo, red cloth with gold lettering, x, 477 pp. More
Ancient Judaism: Biblical Criticism from Max Weber to the present.
Cambridge, UK: Polity Press, 1984. Softbound. Octavo, paper covers, xiv, 314 pp., bibliography, index. More