Race/Ethnic Studies-Literature / Judaica/Holocaust Studies from Gargoyle Books

New York, New York: Book Find Club/Reynal & Hitchcock, 1945. Book Club Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Author's first novel, in which he starkly addresses the complexity of racial & ethnic relations & the fear of the "other" in an urban setting. "Could very well be to the virus of American anti-semitism what "Uncle Tom's Cabin' was to… Read more about this item

New York, New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1984. First Edition First Printing 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. A collection containing the "lion's share" of the children's stories that this Nobel-prize winning author has penned, most translated from the original Yiddish, & all rich in Jewish tradition & the cultural roots of his native Poland. In 338 pages.… Read more about this item

Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1948. First Edition First Printing 1st Printing. Hardcover. Very Good+/Good+. A complete pattern for the genius of evil" is contained within this book, which provides a startling, intimate view of the inner world & schemes of Adolf Hitler's right-hand man as they plotted the "Final Solution" & beyond in the… Read more about this item

Yale University Press, 1994. First Edition First Printing 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. Part of a collection of social science books--the majority packed away since Brand New--just removed from storage where they have been since the 1990s following review for an academic publication. To get them listed expeditiously, we are foregoing our usual detailed descriptions. This one offers… Read more about this item

new york, : Free Press, 1979. First Edition First Printing 1st Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Reports results of (up till the late 1970s) the largest empirical study every undertaken of anti-Jewish hostility in the US. Sadly, 50 years later, these elements have not gone away (see MAGA), but may offer some insights as to how we can… Read more about this item

1967. First Edition First Printing 1st Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/Good. A big, useful, happy, & sometimes riotously funny collection of colloquialisms, proverbs, curses, obscenities, & ribald expressions" in Yiddish, presented for the first time in transliterated phonetic form.In 167 pp. A FIRST EDITION, First Printing, from 1967, this hardcover 8vo has blue paper over boards lettered in black… Read more about this item

University of Washington Press, 1995. First Trade Paperback Edition 1st Printing. Soft cover. Near Fine. Comprehensive sociological analysis of the evolution of Jewishness & Jewish identity in the United States across the second half of the 20th century. In 190 pages with Notes & Index. Part of a collection of social science books--the majority packed away since Brand… Read more about this item

University Press of America, 1993. Reprint . Soft cover. Near Fine. Empirical study conducted by sociologists of the dimensions of Jewish identity in the contemporary (1970s) United States. Orig. published in 1974, this is the 1993 reprint, in 167 pages with Notes, Bibliography, & Index in rear. Part of a collection of social science books--the majority packed away… Read more about this item

Cambridge University Press, 1991. First Edition First Printing . Hardcover. As New/Near Fine. Part of a collection of linguistic books--the majority packed away since Brand New--just removed from storage where they have been since the 1990s following review for an academic publication. To get them listed expeditiously, we are foregoing our usual detailed descriptions. From 1991, this one… Read more about this item

George Braziller, 1991. First American Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. True story of the conflict between Polish Catholics & Jews around the world that arose when a group of Carmelite nuns sought to create a convent in one of the abandoned buildings that surrounded the Nazi death camp at Auschwitz. In 169 pages with Notes & Index. Part… Read more about this item

New York, New York: Godwin Books/Henry Holt and Company, 2017. First American Edition 5th or later Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Both heartbreaking & heartwarming, this is a fictionalized account of the true story of Dita Kraus, a 14-year-old Czech girl imprisoned at Auschwitz until rescued by the Allies at the end of WWII, who not only survived,… Read more about this item

The Jewish Black Book Committee, 1946. First Edition First Printing . Hardcover. Good+/No Jacket. Published not long after the end of WWII when all the atrocities committed by the Nazis against Jews had been exposed to the world, this volume was created by a committee comprised of Jewish writers, artists, scientists, anti-fascists, the World Jewish Congress, & Vaad… Read more about this item

Israel, 1968. First Mass Market Paperback Edition . Soft cover. Very Good. Agor, Alex. Text in English & Hebrew, published in Israel. Small, nearly square 16 mo (6" x 6.75") has black-and-white photographic wrappers, with 62 pages of like photos inside (a good proportion of which are nudes, both men & women) + Notes on the Pictures &… Read more about this item

Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1958. First Edition First Printing . Hardcover. Fair/Good. Bestselling novel of the creation of the Palestinian state, the biggest fiction title in the US when it was published in 1958 since "Gone with the Wind" in 1936. Served as the basis for Otto Preminger's 1960 Oscar-winning film starring Paul Newman… Read more about this item

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Berkley Medallion, 1960. New Edition . Soft cover. VG-. The author, a survivor of Buchenwald, describes in chilling detail the Nazi death camps of World War II, in 328 pages, with 8 pages of black-and-white photos in center (not for the squeamish). Originally published in German as "Der SS Staat'' & translated into… Read more about this item

New York, New York: Dell, 1965. First Mass Market Paperback Edition . Soft cover. Good+. Winner of the Prix de la Resistance, this book reveals "the shattering, secret history behind the rise & fall of the Third Reich." Author was a decorated member of the French Resistance movement during WWII & later in charge of liquidating German records… Read more about this item

Oxford University Press, 1960. First Edition Later Printing . Hardcover. Near Fine/No Jacket. One in a series of "Legacy" series seeking to document the lasting effects of ancient cultures, this volume explores elements of European culture derived from the Islamic world. In 416 pages with Index, photo frontis. Orig. published by Oxford in 1931, this is a 1960… Read more about this item

Random House, 1979. First Edition Later Printing . Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. Basis for the 1982 film of the same name starring Meryl Streep & Kevin Kline (in his first feature film appearance) as lovers in present-day Brooklyn, haunted by shadows of the past. A FIRST EDITION, Fifth printing hardcover from 1979, in publisher's burgundy cloth with gilt lettering… Read more about this item

Tel-Aviv, Israel: Museum of the Combatants & Partisans, 1966. First English Language Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Eyewitness account of the atrocities committed by the German Nazis against the Jewish people in Europe & the heroism of young Jews who fought back. Here, he describes the secret mission of the Jewish Military Organization & its role in the… Read more about this item

Simon & Schuster/Paula Wiseman Books, 1996. First Edition, 2nd Printing . Hardcover. As New/As New. Heartwarming story based on a childhood memory of the author in which, during a scarlet-fever epidemic one cold winter in Michigan, "a Jewish family helps make Christmas special for their sick neighbors by making their own Hanukkah miracle." A FIRST EDITION, 2nd printing… Read more about this item