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.

Woodstock, VT: Jewish Lights Publishing, (1996) dj. Hardcover first edition - "Mysticism and science: What do they have in common? How can one enlighten the other? By drawing on modern cosmology and ancient Kabbalah, Matt shows how science and religion can together enrich our spiritual awareness and help us recover a sense of wonder and find our place in the universe." Extensive notes, glossary, 200 pp plus publisher's ads. Ribbon marker bound in. ISBN: 1-879045486.

New York: Fawcett Columbine, (1993) dj. Hardcover first edition - Contains 22 stories, recorded by Marks, many being told for the first time of "Jewish men and women who hid from the Nazis as children - and of how this experience shaped their later lives. . . In Nazi-occupied Europe, there were about 1.6 million Jewish children, ny 1945, about 1.5 million had been killed. . Some children, however, survived by disguising themselves as Christians and hiding--often without their families, and often forced to live in sewers, huts, barns, and woods." (Kirkus) Preface by Abraham H. Foxon and a chapter on the historical perspective by Nechama Tec. Photographs. xxvii, 307 pp. ISBN: 0-44990685X.

New York: Barricade Books, (2004) dj. SIGNED hardcover - At 15, Michel was taken to Auschwitz, where his parents and grandmother died and where he witnessed unbearable atrocities, including the conducting of medical experiments on girls and women by Joseph Mengele. Late in the afternoon of April 15, 1945, the author and two friends escaped and he went on to became a successful speaker and fund-raiser for the United Jewish Appeal in America, leading a group to Auschwitz, and participating in the World Gathering of Survivors in Israel and more. Illustrated with photographs. INSCRIBED on the front endpaper with the exhortation to "Remember! Never forget." xvii, 298 pp. ISBN: 0-962303240.

New York: Ticknor & Fields, (1991) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Highly praised author's second novel. "Set in waterlogged Memphis during the great flood of 1939, [it]] spins an unusual variation on the Huck Finn theme. For 15-year-old Harry Kaplan, recently transplanted from Brooklyn to Memphis's teeming Jewish ghetto, working in his father's pawnshop is a bore. So bookish, comically awkward Harry hooks up with two orphaned black twins, wise-guy Lucifer and his tagalong mute brother Michael. Renegade Harry and the twins navigate flooded Beale Street, exploring brothels, cabarets, a wrecked steamboat and the stereotypes each culture harbors toward the other." (Publishers Weekly) Cover praise from Gordon Lish, Barry Hannah, Lee Smith and more. SIGNED (with a quirky backwards 'Steve') on the title page. 310 pp. ISBN: 0-899197248.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, (1994) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Three "lyrically comic tales about the Pinch, a backwater Jewish community in Memphis, whose misbegotten citizens refer to themselves as 'the lost tribe.' His dreamers are plagued by history, lust, solitude, and the extravagance of their own fevered imaginations." SIGNED on the title page with the word "thanks." Review copy with publisher's letter laid in. 267 pp. ISBN: 0-684195321.

Altadena, CA: Prospect Park Books, (2019). SIGNED first edition - The author's first novel, one which brings an old Jewish detective in LA, who doesn't believe in God, out of retirement to investigate the possible murder of a charismatic rabbi, who dropped dead over lunch at Canter's Deli. He hires ex-wrestler Omar Villasenor to provide some much-needed muscle, and they provide an entertaining tour of L.A. while they track down a killer with a surprising motive. SIGNED on the title page. 232 pp plus a 1 pg glossary. ISBN: 978-1945551642.

New York: Routledge, (2002). SIGNED first edition - A collection of 21 essays - by Hebrew school teachers, principals, rabbis, Jews in the pews, and those who define themselves as secular - which show how they are "changing Jewish American culture, creating communities and making room for themselves, as openly, unapologetically queer and Jewish. Combining political analysis and personal memoir, these essays explore the various ways queer Jews are creating new forms of Jewish communities and institutions, and demanding that Jewish communities become more inclusive." SIGNED on the title page by editor Caryn Aviv. Notes on contributors, index. 281 pp. ISBN: 0-415931673.

New York: Noonday, (1964). A collection of essays by this notes psychologist. Notes, index. 206 pp

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: 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: 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: 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 & 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.

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.

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.

Oakland CA: PM Press, (2015). SIGNED first edition - A collection of 33 new stories by authors both Jewish and not-Jewish, including Marge Piercy, Harlan Ellison, S. J. Rozan, Wendy Hornsby, Charles Ardai, Moe Prager/Reed Farrell Coleman, Alan Orloff, Jonathan Santlofer, Gary Phillips, and many others. The stories "explore such issues as the Holocaust and its long-term effects on subsequent generations, anti-Semitism in the mid- and late-20th-century United States, and the dark side of the Diaspora." Includes an introduction by Wishnia and brief biographical notes on the contributors. INSCRIBED by Wishnia on the title page. 418 pp plus 12 pp publishers' ads. ISBN: 978-1629631110.

New York: Harper Collins, (2002) dj. Hardcover first edition - Award-winning author's third novel. When "an elderly pair of Holocaust survivors, Lothar and Rose Levin, commit suicide. Their son, Oliver, a successful New York mystery writer already suffering from his wife's desertion and a crippling case of writer's block, is devastated by the news. Oliver's 14-year-old daughter, Ariel, comes to the rescue, conjuring not only her grandparents from the grave but also a remarkable group of Jewish literary golems (ghosts, in this case) who also killed themselves after a lifetime of Holocaust memories. Among the visitors here to inspire Oliver toward writing a serious second novel are Primo Levi, Jerzy Kosinski, and Paul Celan." (Tom Keogh) 367 pp. ISBN: 0-060184906.

New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, (1969) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The sequel to "The Manor," portraying the period between the Polish insurrection of 1863 and the end of the 19th century, a period during which the Jews began to play an important part in Polish industry, commerce, arts and science. INSCRIBED on the half title page and SIGNED I. B. Singer. Translated from the Yiddish by his nephew Joseph Singer, Elaine Gottlieb and Elizabeth Shub. 374 pp.

Philadelphia: The Jewish Publication Society of America, 1917. Hardcover first edition - Poems and short stories from the hebrew of Judah Steinberg by Emily Solis-Cohen Jr.. Colored frontispiece and three internal plates. 175 pp.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1989. dj. Hardcover first edition - A collection of essays, many on writers - including Italo Calvino, William Gaddis, Coetze, Henry James and more - and others which are an exploration of Jewish thought. 283 pp. ISBN: 0-394-566254.

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.

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: Random House, (1958). Hardcover - In his introduction, he points out these poems, collected from many different books and places, and written between 1940 and 1958, document his obsession. Notes. xi, 71 pp.

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: Fromm International, 1995. First edition - At age 72 and facing death from lung cancer, Pawel looks back at his life beginning in 1934 Belgrade, where he and his family moved to from Berlin shortly after the Nazis took power. Pawel is best known for the landmark biography of Franz Kafka "The Nightmare of Reason." 247 pp.