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  • JELLY. by Ansell, Jack.
    Ansell, Jack.
    JELLY.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Arbor House, (1971) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's third novel - "concerning a man of God (a devout, middle-aged rabbi, married and respectable) and his worldly obsession (a teen-aged girl named Jelly who knows what she wants)" Set in Dallas and New Orleans. 221 pp.

    Condition: Near fine in black boards with a red cloth spine in a very good dust jacket.

    Book ID: 82058
    Keywords: louisiana, rabbi, Southern Writers and the South, teenager, texas
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  • THE OUTSIDER. by Fast, Howard
    Fast, Howard
    THE OUTSIDER.

    Edition: First printing.

    Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1984. dj. Hardcover first edition - A novel by a writer known for his explorations of questions of ethics and morality in his books - Set in a small town in rural New England, from 1946 through the 1970s, this is the story of former Army chaplain, Rabbi David Hartman, and Congregational minister Martin Cooper, who, along with their wives, maintain a friendship that withstands small-town prejudices and the and larger turmoil in the world outside their town - McCarthyism, the Civil rights movement, Vietnam and the struggle for women's rights. 311 pp. ISBN: 0-39536101X.

    Condition: Near fine in very good dust jacket (some wear to the ends of the dj spine)

    Book ID: 84091
    Keywords: Modern first editions, prejudice, rabbi, small town
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  • GOD'S EAR. by Lerman, Rhoda (1936-2015)
    Lerman, Rhoda (1936-2015)
    GOD'S EAR.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Henry Holt, (1989) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's award-winning fifth novel. Publisher's Weekly called it "a passionate, hilarious, God-infused novel [which] centers on Yussell Fetner, Hasidic rabbi turned rich insurance salesman. His clients think he has the gift of prophecy, inherited from his rabbi father, whose own prophetic gifts descend directly from King David. Summoned from Far Rockaway to Kansas by his dying father, Yussel finds himself on a journey into the desert to locate an assemblage of three palm trees and a tent, where, the Rabbi announces, God has decreed that Yussel must found his congregation. Yussel explodes: he doesn't want a congregation, especially not in Kansas; he wants to be in Rockaway selling…

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    New York: Henry Holt, (1989) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's award-winning fifth novel. Publisher's Weekly called it "a passionate, hilarious, God-infused novel [which] centers on Yussell Fetner, Hasidic rabbi turned rich insurance salesman. His clients think he has the gift of prophecy, inherited from his rabbi father, whose own prophetic gifts descend directly from King David. Summoned from Far Rockaway to Kansas by his dying father, Yussel finds himself on a journey into the desert to locate an assemblage of three palm trees and a tent, where, the Rabbi announces, God has decreed that Yussel must found his congregation. Yussel explodes: he doesn't want a congregation, especially not in Kansas; he wants to be in Rockaway selling insurance. But he hasn't time to argue becuase his father dies almost at once (though he returns from time to time to guide Yussel in his ascent toward oneness with the Almighty)." 309 pp. ISBN: 0-805004130.

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    Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.

    Book ID: 88502
    Keywords: judaism, kansas, Modern first editions, rabbi, women authors
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  • Wiesel, Elie, Adapted for the Stage by Marion Wiesel
    ZALMEN or the Madness of God

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Random House, (1975) dj. Hardcover first edition - A play by the Nobel prize winning author which "illuminates the plight of Soviet Jewry as well as the anguish of individuals everywhere who must survive - yet long for something more than mere survival." Based on a translation from the French by Nathan Edelman. 172 pp,. ISBN: 0-394-49637X.

    Condition: Near fine in a fine dust jacket. (corner of front endpaper clipped, otherwise appears unread, and unlike many copies, this does not have a remainder mark.)

    Book ID: 58765
    Keywords: drama, Judaica, literature in translation, nobel laureate, rabbi, soviet union, television movie
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