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  • Jagendorf, Siegfried (introduction and commentary by Aron Hirt-Manheimer.)
    JAGENDORF'S FOUNDRY: A Memoir of the Romanian Holocaust, 1941-1944.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Harper Collins, (1991.) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author, then a 56 year old engineer, was among the Romanian Jews deported to the German-occupied Soviet territory of Moghilev. He set up a small task force to repair the city's iron-works (The Foundry), and then continued to devise new projects to keep the spared workers alive - eventually saving 15,000 lives. Written by Jagendorf before his death in the United States in 1970, but never published, this account is interspersed with commentaries with Hirt-Manheimer that expand and document this account. Photographs, sources, index. 209 pp. ISBN: 0-06-016106x.

    Condition: Near fine in very good dust jacket (tear to front cover of dj.)

    Book ID: 37444
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  • TALES OF AN ALL-NIGHT TOWN. by Schoen, Elin.
    Schoen, Elin.
    TALES OF AN ALL-NIGHT TOWN.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, (1979) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's first book, a portrait of street life in the oldest all-black town in America, a small Illinois town on the Mississippi River, originally named Brooklyn and also renamed as Lovejoy after the abolitionist printer who was killed. This focuses on the story of James Bollinger, known as the dancer, both law enforcer and desperado who was shot to death on November 14, 1973, on the main street. This book is also a look at the early 70s, "when the empowering, hope-inducing vibes of the black pride movement could still mitigate, if not erase, the crushing effects of the poverty and racism that had not and still…

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    New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, (1979) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's first book, a portrait of street life in the oldest all-black town in America, a small Illinois town on the Mississippi River, originally named Brooklyn and also renamed as Lovejoy after the abolitionist printer who was killed. This focuses on the story of James Bollinger, known as the dancer, both law enforcer and desperado who was shot to death on November 14, 1973, on the main street. This book is also a look at the early 70s, "when the empowering, hope-inducing vibes of the black pride movement could still mitigate, if not erase, the crushing effects of the poverty and racism that had not and still has not been overcome." Cover praise from Truman Capote and Gordon Parks among others. Review copy with publisher's slip and author photograps laid in. 222 pp. ISBN: 0-151849935.

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    Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.

    Book ID: 83444
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  • THE EMPEROR OF LIES. by Sem-Sandberg, Steve
    Sem-Sandberg, Steve
    THE EMPEROR OF LIES.

    Edition: First US printing.

    New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, (2011) dj. Hardcover first edition - The first book by this author to be published in the US - winner of the August Prize, Swedens most important literary award. "In February 1940, the Nazis established what would become the second-largest Jewish ghetto, in the Polish city of Lodz. The leader they appointed was Mordechai Chaim Rumkowski, a sixty-three-year-old Jewish businessman and orphanage director - and the elusive, authoritarian power sustaining the ghettos very existence. [This] chronicles the tale of his rule over a quarter-million Jews for the next four and a half years. He sought to transform the ghetto into a productive industrial complex and strove to make it - and himself -…

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    New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, (2011) dj. Hardcover first edition - The first book by this author to be published in the US - winner of the August Prize, Swedens most important literary award. "In February 1940, the Nazis established what would become the second-largest Jewish ghetto, in the Polish city of Lodz. The leader they appointed was Mordechai Chaim Rumkowski, a sixty-three-year-old Jewish businessman and orphanage director - and the elusive, authoritarian power sustaining the ghettos very existence. [This] chronicles the tale of his rule over a quarter-million Jews for the next four and a half years. He sought to transform the ghetto into a productive industrial complex and strove to make it - and himself - indispensable to the Nazi regime." A novel which captures the full panorama of human resilience and probes deeply into the nature of evil - and which asks difficult questions: Was Rumkowski a ruthless opportunist or was he a pragmatist who managed to save Jewish lives through his collaboration policies? Translated from the Swedish by Sarah Death. Map of the ghetto. Includes an afterword by the author, a list of the main characters and a glossary. 661 pp. ISBN: 978-0374139643.

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    Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.

    Book ID: 86071
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  • AINT SUPPOSED TO DIE A NATURAL DEATH. by Van Peebles, Melvin.
    Van Peebles, Melvin.
    AINT SUPPOSED TO DIE A NATURAL DEATH.

    Edition: Paperback original - first printing.

    New York: Bantam, (1973). First edition - A "novel with lyrics, a gutsy, lusty narrative of black street life the explores every aspect of ghetto agony" based on Van Peebles play of the same title. Includes an insert of 16 pages of photographs by Bert Andrews on glossy stock -"Portraits from the Underground Reservation." 156 pp

    Condition: Very good - the usual toning to both the pages and the cover, but more durable and sturdy than most paperbacks from that era. Easily readable and very scarce.

    Book ID: 86121
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  • THE FIFTH SERVANT. by Wishnia, Kenneth J.
    Wishnia, Kenneth J.
    THE FIFTH SERVANT.

    Edition: 1st trade paperback printing.

    New York: Harper Collins, (2011). SIGNED - Mystery set in 1592 in the Jewish ghetto in Prague, featuring Benyamin Ben-Akiva, a Talmudic scholar from Poland. SIGNED on the title page. 398 pp. ISBN: 978-0061725388.

    Condition: Fine in illustrated wrappers (a new copy)

    Book ID: 60308
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  • THE FIFTH SERVANT. by Wishnia, Kenneth J.
    Wishnia, Kenneth J.
    THE FIFTH SERVANT.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Morrow (imprint of Harper Collins), (2010) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Mystery set in 1592 in the Jewish ghetto in Prague, featuring Benyamin Ben-Akiva, a Talmudic scholar from Poland. SIGNED on the title page. 387 pp. Promotional postcard laid in. ISBN: 9780061725371.

    Condition: Fine in a very near fine dust jacket (a new copy but with a tiny tear at fold of dj flap.)

    Book ID: 60310
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  • THE FIFTH SERVANT. by Wishnia, Kenneth J.
    Wishnia, Kenneth J.
    THE FIFTH SERVANT.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Morrow (imprint of Harper Collins), (2010) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Mystery set in 1592 in the Jewish ghetto in Prague, featuring Benyamin Ben-Akiva, a Talmudic scholar from Poland. SIGNED on the title page. 387 pp. Promotional postcard laid in. ISBN: 9780061725371.

    Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket (toning to the pages)

    Book ID: 62078
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  • THE FIFTH SERVANT. by Wishnia, Kenneth J.
    Wishnia, Kenneth J.
    THE FIFTH SERVANT.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Morrow (imprint of Harper Collins), (2010) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Mystery set in 1592 in the Jewish ghetto in Prague, featuring Benyamin Ben-Akiva, a Talmudic scholar from Poland. INSCRIBED on the title page "For -- Who knows what I am talking about. Enjoy." 387 pp. ISBN: 9780061725371.

    Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.

    Book ID: 65094
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