American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee [Printed by Bolger], (1999.). First edition - Catalogue of an exhibition of newly commissioned art works by eight artists - Magdalena Abakanowicz, Alan Berliner, Wendy Ewald, Leon Golub, Pepon Osorio, Gilles Peress, Fred Wilson and Terry Winters - based on their research of, and responses to, 50,000 photographs in the archives of the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee. Illustrated throughout with black and white photographs. 96 pp. ISBN: 0-96696490X.

New York: Schocken, (2011) dj. Hardcover first edition - In early 1900s Austria, a young Jewish woman converts to Christianity and marries a gentile laborer with disastrous results. Translated from the Hebrew by Jeffrey M. Green. 231 pp. ISBN: 978-0805241792.

New York: Dial Press, (1982) dj. Hardcover first edition - Biography of Bernard Birstein (1892-1959) by his youngest daughter - an account of his emigrant travels, his struggles and his growing family, and finally his years as a rabbi whose synagogue, close to Broadway in New York City, attracted many actors and performers from the nearby theaters xv, 202 pp. ISBN: 0-385274297.

New York & London: Thomas Yoseloff, (1969) dj. Hardcover first edition - Posthumous publication in English of 27 stories, most set in the Eastern Europe of his youth and others dealing with the immigrant experience after his arrival in the United States at age 18. Translated from the Yiddish by Etta Blum. Translator's preface. 232 pp. ISBN: 0-498066754.

Los Angeles: Heritage Publishing, (1995) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Collection of poems, many about California, others rooted in the author's Jewishness, INSCRIBED on the title page "Hi-- Hope you are well - and a prayer for peace" and dated in 1996. Letter from Elie Wiesel bound in. 108 pp. ISBN: 0-9645651-02.

Salt Lake City: Western Epics, 1973 dj. Hardcover first edition - Chronicles fascinating growth of the Jewish community in Utah. Discusses Mormon-Jewish relations in Utah and Southern Idaho. Lithographs and photos. Includes index. 252 pgs. Hard to find in the first edition.

Richmond, CA: Omnidawn, (2014). First edition - The second collection in English by this award-winning Polish American poet. The poems and prose poems explore "issues of dislocation, immigration and desire. . . haunted by a childhood lived under a Communist regime, by the austerity of Eastern block politics, and by the possibility of discovering a fleeting language to carry the seeds of illicit revelation, spiritual transformation, and insight. The book elevates smuggling to a noble art, recording how the Jewish people were hidden and transported during the Holocaust." 88 pp plus "customs" (notes)

New York: Dutton, 1987. dj. Hardcover first edition - Australian writer's first novel, a coming of age story originally published as 'The Boys from Bondi'. Set in Sydney during the depression and World War II, this is the story of two orphaned Jewish boys, who wind up in a home filled with refugees from the Nazis. ISBN: 0-525-672729.

New York: Harper Collins, (2014). First edition - For two years, Davidson met every Friday with 89-year-old Rabbi Zalman Shachter-Shalomi, founder of the Jewish Renewal movement, to discuss what he calls The December Project - that is, "creating strategies to deal with pain and memory loss, and finding tools to cultivate simplicity, fearlessness, and joy at any age. Davidson includes twelve exercises so that readers may experience what she did a sea change in facing what we all must face: mortality." Glossary. 193 pp.

New York: Philosophical Library, (1950.) dj. Hardcover first edition - A collection of essays written after 1936, including many never before published, on a variety of topics ranging from a self-portrait to science to public affairs and world affairs, including the idea of mass destruction. One section is devoted to scientists through the years and the final section on "my people" deals with being Jewish and the history of the Jews. Index. This is the variant with the frontispiece black and white portrait of Einstein by Lotte Jacobi and the typographical jacket. Index. 282 pp.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2007. dj. Hardcover first edition - The first novel (second book) by the author of the award-winning collection of short stories "For the Relief of Unbearable Urges." Englanders wondrous and much-heralded collection of stories won the This opens in a forgotten Jewish cemetery in Buenos Aires, in the midst of Argentina's Dirty War. Kaddish Poznan struggles with a son who wont accept him; and when that son becomes one of the disappeared, he is thrust into the corridors of the Ministry of Special Cases. 330 pp. ISBN: 978-0375404931.

San Francisco: Harper Collins, (1990) dj. Hardcover first edition - A bilingual edition of the 31 lyric poems that comprise The Song of Songs in the Bible, with the poems in the original Hebrew and English, as well as thoughtful essays on translation as a journey and on the literary structure of the poems. Beautifully illustrated by Barry Moser. Notes to the poems, bibliography. xviii, 213 pp plus colophon. ISBN: 0-06062339X.

New York: Delacorte, 1999. Raised as a Catholic, at about the age of 30, this author discovered she was Jewish. A moving account of her familyÕs experiences during the Holocaust and the changed relationship between a daughter and her parents.

New York: Dial Press, (2001.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Second novel - and 4th book - by this critically acclaimed young writer (her first novel, 'Katerskill Falls' was nominated for the National Book Award.) Set in Hawaii and elsewhere, this is the story of an often exasperating young woman's sarch for her destiny. 360 pp. ISBN: 0-385-334168.

New York: Random House, (1996) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A memoir about her search to discover the truth about her father, who died when she was just seven. INSCRIBED on the title page "For -- with thanks for your intelligence and care." xiv, 274 pp. ISBN: 0-679428852.

Minneapolis: Lerner Publications Co., (1978) dj. Hardcover first edition - The story of one Jewish family's ordeal in Revolutionary Russia and of the author's parents' escape from Ukraine after the Russian Revolution. Ukrainian Jews were caught in the middle of the struggle for power between three forces: the Bolshevik Red Army, the anti-Bolshevik White Army, and the forces fighting for Ukrainian independence, and facing the dangers of the 1918-1920 brutal pogroms against Jews. Foreword by Nora Levin Illustrated with photographs. Includes a chronology and a glossary. 127 pp. ISBN: 0-822507625.

New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, (1998) dj. Hardcover first edition - A collection of ten short stories by this award winning writer. 268 pp.

New York: William H. Morrow, (1999) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's third novel, a story of intrigue set in Elizabethan England - "Rebecca Lopez, the daughter of Roderigo Lopez, Queen Elizabeth's own physician, keeps many secrets. Not only are she and her family conversos, or secret Jews who must practice their religion in secret, but Rebecca craves adventure and walks about London in male dress. One day she actually crosses swords with a fledgling dramatist named Will Shakespeare." SIGNED on the title page. Historical summary. 607 pp. Map endpapers. ISBN: 1-557100276.

New York: Arbor House, (1987.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Author's second novel - a mystery featuring the Orthodox Jewish widow Rina Lazarus and LA Detective Peter Decker novel. SIGNED and dated in the year of publication on the front endpaper. 311 pp. ISBN: 0-877958874.

New York: William H. Morrow, (1994) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The eighth book in this award-winning series, featuring LAPD homicide detective Peter Decker and his wife, Rina Lazarus. This novel centers around two murdered diamond dealers - one north of Los Angeles, the other in Manhattan - and two missing families. SIGNED on the title page. 396 pp. ISBN: 0-688-046126.

New York: The Jonathan David Company, 1948. Hardcover first edition - An uncommon early book dealing with Jewish nomenclature - both Hebrew names and secular names. In addition to discussing the history behind choosing names, this includes long lists of names with comments on the significance and roots of them. Includes an index to Hebrew names. 288 pp.

New York: Ballantine, (2002.) dj. Hardcover first edition - First mystery featuring freelance crime reporter Molly Blume. Set in Los Angeles, and interesting for its depiction of the modern Jewish Orthodox community. 337 pp. ISBN: 0-45-449711.

New York: Ballantine, (2002.) dj. Hardcover first edition - First mystery featuring freelance crime reporter Molly Blume. Set in Los Angeles, and interesting for its depiction of the modern Jewish Orthodox community. 337 pp. ISBN: 0-45-449711.

New York: Avon (Harper Collins), (2000.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Fourth mystery featuring Los Angeles detective Jessie Drake. Drake's discovery of, and exploration of her Jewish routes add an unusual twist to this novel. 336 pp. ISBN: 0-380-977699.

New York: Arcade Publishing, (1991). Black activist and award-winning author's account of his path from his boyhood as the son of a Black Methodist minister in the South to his conversion to Judaism. Glossary. 248 pp. ISBN: 1-559701757.

Woodstock NY: Overlook Press, (1999.) dj. Hardcover first edition - "Primo Levi is represented in this world almost entirely by his writings, and his public self--shy, intelligent, diffident--in some respects disguised the man within. This first biography delves deeply into the life and mind of the controversial writer" a chemist by training, a partisan during World War II, a philosopher, and most importantly a survivor of the concentration camps and a Holocaust witness. Translated from the French by Steve Cox. List of Primo Levi's works. Photographs, notes, glossary of concentration camp terms, bibliography, and index. x, 452 pp. ISBN: 0-87951-8065.

New York: Union of American Hebrew Congregations. (1962.). Hardcover - A look at "the ways in which Protestants, Catholics, and Jews are relating to one another (or failing to relate) in ten American cities" - including Boston (conflict on the Charles), Nashville (Athens with an Achilles heel), Cleveland (city without Jews), Philadelphia, Minneapolis and St Paul, Plainview on Long Island, Los Angeles, New York City and Muncie. 344 pp.