Search Results: Jewish History from Friends of the Cazenovia Public Library

2012 hardcover as pictured. A collection of essays honoring the life and work of John Doyle Klier. The editors bring together some of the most innovative scholarship in the field. Focusing on the complex, often violent, entanglements between Jews and Russians, historians and literary scholars critically reassess the artifacts of high culture, including Yiddish and Russian prose and poetry, as well as dimensions of daily life. Binding is firm. Blue cloth boards show minimal edge wear. Endpapers and text appear clean and unmarked. Dust jacket shows light shelf wear. Your purchase helps support our small village library. s AR

1994 softcover as pictured. Binding is intact, spine uncreased. Covers are rubbed and show wear at edges and hinges. Pencil notation on rear endpaper. Text is clean and unmarked. Includes many b&w photographs. Your purchase helps support our small village library. sAR

2011 hardcover as pictured. The edited diaries of Bina Appleman, a woman born in Imperial Russian Poland, was separated from her family who eventually emigrated alone to the United States at 17. Includes 68 pages of photographs and illustrations. Binding is firm. Green cloth boards with gold stamping show minimal wear. Endpapers and text appear clean and unmarked. Dust jacket shows only light shelf wear. Your purchase helps support our small village library. s OE2

2017 hardcover as pictured. This is the story of a forgotten hero which reveals the tremendous difference in memorial cultures between societies in the West and societies in the former Communist world. In 1943, Aleksandr "Sasha" Pechersky led a mass escape of inmates from Sobibor, a Nazi death camp in Poland. Despite leading the only successful prisoner revolt at a World War II death camp, Pechersky never received the public recognition he deserved in his home country of Russia. Binding is firm. Boards are clean with light edge wear. The plastic veneer is delaminating in places along spine and hinges of the pre-printed cover. Endpapers and text apear clean and unmarked. No dust jacket. Your purchase helps support our small village library. s AR