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Contemporary:
Botticelli
Blue Skies
An American in Florence
Merrill Joan Gerber
Fratricide
in the Holy Land
A Psychoanalytic View of the Arab-Israeli Conflict
Avner Falk
Terrace Books
German-Jewish
Identities in America
Edited by Christof Mauch and Joseph Salmons
Inside a Class
Action
The Holocaust and the Swiss Banks
Jane Schapiro
Jews, Turks,
and Other Strangers
The Roots of Prejudice in Modern Germany
Jerome S. Legge Jr.
Journeys beyond the Pale
Yiddish Travel Writing in the Modern World
Leah V. Garrett
People as Subject,
People as Object
Selfhood and Peoplehood in Contemporary Israel
Virginia R. Dominguez
ISBN 0-299-12324-3 Paper
Preso sin nombre,
celda sin número
Jacobo Timerman
With forewords by Arthur Miller and Ariel Dorfman
Fiction
Alligators
May Be Present
A Novel
Andrew Furman
Library of American Fiction, Terrace Books
ISBN 0-299-20780-3 Cloth
The Army of
Truth
Selected Poems: In the historic fight to obtain equal rights
for Jews in nineteenth-century Norway
Henrik Wergeland; Edited by Ragnhild Galtung; Translated by Anne
Born, G.M. Hathorne-Hardy, and I. Grndahl
ISBN 0-299-18530-3 Cloth
Brooklyn Boy
Alan Lelchuk
ISBN 0-299-18744-6 Paper
The Centaur
in the Garden
Moacyr Scliar; Translated by Margaret A. Neves
ISBN 0-299-18784-5 Paper
The Dark Sister
Rebecca Goldstein
With a new afterword
The Fire Stays
in Red
Poems
Ronny Someck
ISBN 0-299-17900-1 Cloth
ISBN 0-299-17904-4 Paper
The Fullness
of Time
Poems by Gershom Scholem
Gershom Scholem, Translated by Richard Sieburth
Introduction by Steven M. Wasserstrom
The German
Officer's Boy
Harlan Greene
Terrace Books
ISBN 0-299-20810-9 Cloth
Glimmering
Girls
A Novel of the Fifties
Merrill Joan Gerber
Library of American Fiction, Terrace Books
ISBN 0-299-21060-X Cloth
Ladies and
Gentlemen, the Original Music of the Hebrew Alphabet &
Weekend in Mustara
Two Novellas
Curt Leviant
ISBN 0-299-17950-8 Cloth
A Letter to
Harvey Milk
Short Stories
Lesléa Newman
With a new preface
Terrace Books
Life in the
Damn Tropics
A Novel
David Unger
Foreword by Gioconda Belli
Looking Back,
Going Forward
New & Selected Poems
Herman Taube
Distributed for Dryad Press
ISBN 1-928755-03-8 Paper
The Manor and The Estate
Isaac Bashevis Singer
Translated by Joseph Singer, Elaine Gottlieb, and Herman Eichenthal
Library of American Fiction, Terrace Books
Mazel
Rebecca Goldstein
ISBN 0-299-18124-3 Paper
Nowhere in
Africa
An Autobiographical Novel
Stefanie Zweig
Translated by Marlies Comjean
Pain, Pining,
and Pine Trees
Contemporary Hebrew Poetry
Yair Mazor
ISBN 965-306-203-4 Cloth
The Poetry
of Asher Reich
Portrait of a Hebrew Poet
Yair Mazor; Illustrations by Michael Kovner
Ripe
Roy Jacobstein
ISBN 0-299-18250-9 Cloth
ISBN 0-299-18254-1 Paper
The Song of Songs
and the Ancient Egyptian Love Songs
Michael V. Fox
ISBN 0-299-10094-4 Paper
Stories of
an Imaginary Childhood
Melvin Jules Bukiet
ISBN 0-299-18074-3 Paper
Telling the
Little Secrets
American Jewish Writing since the 1980s
Janet Handler Burstein
0-299-21240-8 Cloth
The Theatre
of the Holocaust, Vol. 1
Four Plays
Edited, with introduction by Robert Skloot
ISBN 0-299-09074-4 Paper
The Theatre of the Holocaust, Vol.
2
Six Plays
Edited, with introduction by Robert Skloot
ISBN 0-299-16274-5 Paper
The Tree of
Life: A Trilogy of Life in the Lodz Ghetto
Book I: On the Brink of the Precipice, 1939
Chava Rosenfarb
Translated from the Yiddish by the author in collaboration with
Goldie Morgentaler
Terrace Books
Gay &
Lesbian / Gender Studies:
Body, Remember
A Memoir
Kenny Fries
The German
Officer's Boy
Harlan Greene
Terrace Books
ISBN 0-299-20810-9 Cloth
The Jewish
Women of Ravensbrück Concentration Camp
Rochelle G. Saidel
A Letter to
Harvey Milk
Short Stories
Lesléa Newman
With a new preface
Terrace Books
Naked in the
Promised Land
A Memoir
Lillian Faderman
An Underground
Life
Memoirs of a Gay Jew in Nazi Berlin
Gad Beck
Cloth $24.95 · ISBN 0-299-16500-0
Paper $16.95 · ISBN 0-299-16504-3
What History
Tells
George L. Mosse and the Culture of Modern Europe
Edited by Stanley G. Payne, David J. Sorkin and John S. Tortorice
Foreword by Walter Laqueur
Wrestling with
God and Men
Homosexuality in the Jewish Tradition
Rabbi Steven Greenberg
History:
Arrows in the
Dark
David Ben-Gurion, the Yishuv Leadership, and Rescue Attempts
during the Holocaust
Tuvia Friling; Translated by Ora Cummings
Blood Libel
The Damascus Affair of 1840
Ronald Florence
The Blood Libel Legend
A Casebook in Anti-Semitic Folklore
Edited by Alan Dundes
ISBN 0-299-13110-6 Cloth
ISBN 0-299-13114-9 Paper
Brothers and
Strangers
The East European Jew in German and German Jewish Consciousness,
1800–1923
Steven Aschheim
ISBN 0-299-09114-7
Collected Memories
Holocaust History and Post-War Testimony
Christopher R. Browning
Conversos,
Inquisition, and the Expulsion of the Jews from Spain
Norman Roth
ISBN 0-299-14230-2 Cloth
ISBN 0-299-14234-5 Paper
The Darkness
We Carry
The Drama of the Holocaust
Robert Skloot
ISBN 0-299-11664-6
Doubly Chosen
Jewish Identity, the Soviet Intelligentsia, and the Russian Orthodox
Church
Judith Deutsch Kornblatt
The Elsewhere
On Belonging at a Near Distance
Adam Zachary Newton
Reading Literary Memoir from Europe and the Levant
ISBN 0-299-20890-7 Cloth
Ethics of Maimonides
Hermann Cohen
ISBN 0-299-17760-2 Cloth
ISBN 0-299-17764-5 Paper
Fratricide
in the Holy Land
A Psychoanalytic View of the Arab-Israeli Conflict
Avner Falk
Terrace Books
The German
Officer's Boy
Harlan Greene
Terrace Books
ISBN 0-299-20810-9 Cloth
German-Jewish
Identities in America
Edited by Christof Mauch and Joseph Salmons
Germany and
Its Gypsies
A Post-Auschwitz Ordeal
Gilad Margalit
ISBN 0-299-17670-3 Cloth
ISBN 0-299-17674-6 Paper
Guide to the Wisconsin
Jewish Archives
Cynthia Knight
ISBN 0-87020-271-5 Paper - out of print
Hasidism on
the Margin
Reconciliation, Antinomianism, and Messianism in Izbica and Radzin
Hasidism
Shaul Magid
A History of
the Crusades, Volume I
The First Hundred Years
Edited by Marshall W. Baldwin
Series Edited by Kenneth M. Setton
ISBN 0-299-04834-9 Paper
A History of
the Crusades, Volume II
The Later Crusades, 11891311
Edited by Robert Lee Wolff and Harry W. Hazard
Series Edited by Kenneth M. Setton
ISBN 0-299-04844-6 Paper
A History of
the Crusades, Volume III
The Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries
Series Edited by Kenneth M. Setton; Volume Edited by Harry W.
Hazard
ISBN 0-299-06670-3 Cloth
A History of
the Crusades, Volume IV
The Art and Architecture of the Crusader States
Series Edited by Kenneth M. Setton; Volume Edited by Harry W.
Hazard
ISBN 0-299-06820-X Cloth
A History of
the Crusades, Volume V
The Impact of the Crusader States on the Near East
Series Edited by Kenneth M. Settonbook; Volume Edited by Norman
P. Zacour and Harry W. Hazard
ISBN 0-299-09140-6 Cloth
A History of
the Crusades, Volume VI
The Impact of the Crusades on Europe
Volume Edited by Harry W. Hazard and Norman P. Zacour
Series Edited by Kenneth M. Setton
ISBN 0-299-10744-2 Paper
In Times of
Crisis
Essays on European Culture, Germans, and Jews
Steven E. Aschheim
ISBN 0-299-16860-3 Cloth
ISBN 0-299-16864-6 Paper
The Jewish
Radical Right
Revisionist Zionism and Its Ideological Legacy
Eran Kaplan
Jewish Scholarship
and Culture in Nineteenth-Century Germany
Between History and Faith
Nils Roemer
Studies in German Jewish Cultural History and Literature
ISBN 0-299-21170-3 Cloth
The Jewish
Women of Ravensbrück Concentration Camp
Rochelle G. Saidel
Jews, Turks,
and Other Strangers
The Roots of Prejudice in Modern Germany
Jerome S. Legge Jr.
The Masada
Myth
Collective Memory and Mythmaking in Israel
Nachman Ben-Yehuda
ISBN 0-299-14830-0 Cloth - out of print
ISBN 0-299-14834-3 Paper
A Match Made
in Hell
The Jewish Boy and the Polish Outlaw Who Defied the Nazis
Larry Stillman; From the testimony of Morris Goldner
Mixed Blood
Intermarriage and Ethnic Identity in Twentieth-Century America
Paul R. Spickard
ISBN 0-299-12114-3 Paper
Nazi Culture
Intellectual, Cultural, and Social Life in the Third Reich
George L. Mosse
Nightmare's
Fairy Tale
A Young Refugee's Home Fronts, 1938–1948
Gerd Korman
0-299-21080-4 Cloth
Shoah Studies
One Who Came
Back
The Diary of a Jewish Survivor
Josef Katz; Translated by Hilda Reach
With a new foreword by Herman Taube
ISBN 1-928755-07-0 Paper
Outsiders in
19th-Century Press History
Multicultural Perspectives
Edited by Frankie Hutton and Barbara Straus Reed
Poles, Jews,
and the Politics of Nationality
The Bund and the Polish Socialist Party in Late Czarist Russia,
1892–1914
Joshua D. Zimmerman
Preso sin nombre,
celda sin número
Jacobo Timerman
With forewords by Arthur Miller and Ariel Dorfman
Proletpen
America's Rebel Yiddish Poets
Edited by Amelia Glaser and David Weintraub; Translated by Amelia
Glaser
With illustrations by Dana Craft and an introduction by Dovid
Katz
ISBN 0-299-20800-1 Cloth
Remembering
the Holocaust
Edited by Michael E. Stevens
ISBN 0-87020-293-6 Paper
A Rescuer's
Story
Pastor Pierre-Charles Toureille in Vichy France
Tela Zasloff
ISBN 0-299-17500-6 Cloth
Spinoza's Modernity
Mendelssohn, Lessing, and Heine
Willi Goetschel
They'll Have
to Catch Me First
An Artist's Coming of Age in the Third Reich
Irene Awret
ISBN 0-299-18830-2 Cloth
The Tree of
Life: A Trilogy of Life in the Lodz Ghetto
Book I: On the Brink of the Precipice, 1939
Chava Rosenfarb
Translated from the Yiddish by the author in collaboration with
Goldie Morgentaler
Terrace Books
What History
Tells
George L. Mosse and the Culture of Modern Europe
Edited by Stanley G. Payne, David J. Sorkin and John S. Tortorice
Foreword by Walter Laqueur
When Angels
Fooled the World
Rescuers of Jews in Wartime Hungary
Charles Fenyvesi
ISBN 0-299-18840-X Paper
Witness to
History
A Refugee from the Third Reich Remembers
Joachim Von Elbe
ISBN 0-299-97068-X Cloth
Witnessing
the Disaster
Essays on Representation and the Holocaust
Edited by Michael Bernard-Donals and Richard Glejzer
Wrestling with
God and Men
Homosexuality in the Jewish Tradition
Rabbi Steven Greenberg
Yahweh Versus
Yahweh
The Enigma of Jewish History
Jay Y. Gonen
Holocaust:
The 23rd Psalm
A Holocaust Memoir
George Lucius Salton
ISBN 0-299-17970-2 Cloth
. . . And Heaven
Shed No Tears
Henry Armin Herzog
Shoah Studies
ISBN 0-299-21074-X Paper
Arrows in the
Dark
David Ben-Gurion, the Yishuv Leadership, and Rescue Attempts
during the Holocaust
Tuvia Friling; Translated by Ora Cummings
A Childhood
under Hitler and Stalin
Memoirs of a "Certified" Jew
Michael Wieck
Collected Memories
Holocaust History and Post-War Testimony
Christopher R. Browning
The German
Officer's Boy
Harlan Greene
Terrace Books
ISBN 0-299-20810-9 Cloth
Inside a Class
Action
The Holocaust and the Swiss Banks
Jane Schapiro
The Jewish
Women of Ravensbrück Concentration Camp
Rochelle G. Saidel
One Who Came
Back
The Diary of a Jewish Survivor
Josef Katz; Translated by Hilda Reach
With a new foreword by Herman Taube
ISBN 1-928755-07-0 Paper
Remembering
the Holocaust
Edited by Michael E. Stevens
ISBN 0-87020-293-6 Paper
A Rescuer's
Story
Pastor Pierre-Charles Toureille in Vichy France
Tela Zasloff
Rescuing the
Children
A Holocaust Memoir
Vivette Samuel
With a foreword by Elie Wiesel
ISBN 0-299-17740-8 Cloth
Telling the
Little Secrets
American Jewish Writing since the 1980s
Janet Handler Burstein
0-299-21240-8 Cloth
The Theatre
of the Holocaust, Vol. 1
Four Plays
Edited, with introduction by Robert Skloot
ISBN 0-299-09074-4 Paper
The Theatre of the Holocaust, Vol.
2
Six Plays
Edited, with introduction by Robert Skloot
ISBN 0-299-16274-5 Paper
The Tree of
Life: A Trilogy of Life in the Lodz Ghetto
Book I: On the Brink of the Precipice, 1939
Chava Rosenfarb
Translated from the Yiddish by the author in collaboration with
Goldie Morgentaler
Terrace Books
Voices &
Views
A History of the Holocaust
Deborah Dwork
ISBN 0-9700602-0-3 Cloth
ISBN 0-9700602-1-1 Paper
When Angels
Fooled the World
Rescuers of Jews in Wartime Hungary
Charles Fenyvesi
When Memory
Comes
Saul Friedländer
Witnessing
the Disaster
Essays on Representation and the Holocaust
Edited by Michael Bernard-Donals and Richard Glejzer
Memoirs:
The 23rd Psalm
A Holocaust Memoir
George Lucius Salton
ISBN 0-299-17970-2 Cloth
. . . And Heaven
Shed No Tears
Henry Armin Herzog
Shoah Studies
ISBN 0-299-21074-X Paper
Body, Remember
A Memoir
Kenny Fries
A Childhood
under Hitler and Stalin
Memoirs of a "Certified Jew"
Michael Wieck
ISBN 0-299-18544-3 Paper
Confronting
History
A Memoir
George Mosse
ISBN 0-299-16580-9 Cloth
The Elsewhere
On Belonging at a Near Distance
Adam Zachary Newton
Reading Literary Memoir from Europe and the Levant
ISBN 0-299-20890-7 Cloth
An Epitaph
for German Judaism
From Halle to Jerusalem
Emil Fackenheim
ISBN 0-299-17590-1 Cloth
Fortress of
My Youth
Memoir of a Terezín Survivor
Jana Renée Friesová
ISBN 0-299-17810-2 Cloth
Greek Mind/Jewish
Soul
The Conflicted Art of Cynthia Ozick
Victor Strandberg
ISBN 0-299-14260-4 Cloth
ISBN 0-299-14264-7 Paper
Hidden
A Sister and Brother in Nazi Poland
Fay Walker and Leo Rosen
ISBN 0-299-18060-3 Cloth
Imagining Lives
Autobiographical Fiction of Yiddish Writers
Jan Schwarz
ISBN 0-299-20960-1 Cloth
Isaac Bashevis
Singer
A Life
Janet Hadda
Isaac Bashevis
Singer and the Lower East Side
Photographs by Bruce Davidson
With introductions by Isaac Bashevis Singer and Ilan Stavans
Terrace Books
The Jewish
Women of Ravensbrück Concentration Camp
Rochelle G. Saidel
A Match Made
in Hell
The Jewish Boy and the Polish Outlaw Who Defied the Nazis
Larry Stillman; From the testimony of Morris Goldner
Naked in the
Promised Land
A Memoir
Lillian Faderman
Nightmare's
Fairy Tale
A Young Refugee's Home Fronts, 1938–1948
Gerd Korman
0-299-21080-4 Cloth
Shoah Studies
Nowhere in
Africa
An Autobiographical Novel
Stefanie Zweig
Translated by Marlies Comjean
One Who Came
Back
The Diary of a Jewish Survivor
Josef Katz; Translated by Hilda Reach
With a new foreword by Herman Taube
ISBN 1-928755-07-0 Paper
People of the
Book
Thirty Scholars Reflect on Their Jewish Identity
Jeffrey Rubin-Dorsky and Shelley Fisher Fishkin
ISBN 0-299-15010-0 Cloth
ISBN 0-299-15014-3 Paper
The Poetry
of Asher Reich
Portrait of a Hebrew Poet
Yair Mazor; Illustrations by Michael Kovner
Preso sin nombre,
celda sin número
Jacobo Timerman
With forewords by Arthur Miller and Ariel Dorfman
Prisoner without
a Name, Cell without a Number
Jacobo Timerman
With a new introduction by Ilan Stavans
Foreword by Arthur Miller
ISBN 0-299-18244-4 Paper
Proletpen
America's Rebel Yiddish Poets
Edited by Amelia Glaser and David Weintraub; Translated by Amelia
Glaser
With illustrations by Dana Craft and an introduction by Dovid
Katz
ISBN 0-299-20800-1 Cloth
Recollecting
Freud
Isidor Sadger; Edited, introduced and translated by Alan Dundes,
with help from Johanna Micaela Jacobsen
ISBN 0-299-21100-2 Cloth
Remembering
the Holocaust
Edited by Michael E. Stevens
ISBN 0-87020-293-6 Paper
Requiem for
a German Past
A Boyhood among the Nazis
Jurgen Herbst
ISBN 0-299-16410-1 Cloth
ISBN 0-299-16414-4 Paper
Re-reading
Wagner
Edited by Reinhold Grimm and Jost Hermand
ISBN 0-299-97076-0 Cloth
A Rescuer's
Story
Pastor Pierre-Charles Toureille in Vichy France
Tela Zasloff
ISBN 0-299-17500-6 Cloth
Rescuing the
Children
A Holocaust Memoir
Vivette Samuel
With a foreword by Elie Wiesel
ISBN 0-299-17740-8 Cloth
Spinoza's Modernity
Mendelssohn, Lessing, and Heine
Willi Goetschel
Telling the
Little Secrets
American Jewish Writing since the 1980s
Janet Handler Burstein
0-299-21240-8 Cloth
The Tenement
Saga
The Lower East Side and Early Jewish American Writers
Sanford Sternlicht
Terrace Books
Theo
An Autobiography
Theodore Bikel
ISBN 0-299-18284-3 Paper
They'll Have
to Catch Me First
An Artist's Coming of Age in the Third Reich
Irene Awret
ISBN 0-299-18830-2 Cloth
An Underground
Life
Memoirs of a Gay Jew in Nazi Berlin
Gad Beck
ISBN 0-299-16500-0 Cloth
ISBN 0-299-16504-3 Paper
Up Society's
Ass, Copper
Rereading Philip Roth
Mark Shechner
What History
Tells
George L. Mosse and the Culture of Modern Europe
Edited by Stanley G. Payne, David J. Sorkin and John S. Tortorice
Foreword by Walter Laqueur
When Angels
Fooled the World
Rescuers of Jews in Wartime Hungary
Charles Fenyvesi
ISBN 0-299-18840-X Paper
When Memory
Comes
Saul Friedländer
Oral Histories:
It Happened on Broadway
An Oral History of the Great White Way
Myrna Katz Frommer and Harvey Frommer
It Happened in Brooklyn
An Oral History of Growing Up in the Borough in the 1940s, 1950s, and 1960s
Myrna Katz Frommer and Harvey Frommer
New Introduction
It Happened in the Catskills
An Oral History in the Words of Busboys, Bellhops, Guests, Proprietors, Comedians, Agents, and Others Who Lived It
Myrna Katz Frommer and Harvey Frommer
New Introduction
Religion:
The Blood Libel Legend
A Casebook in Anti-Semitic Folklore
Edited by Alan Dundes
ISBN 0-299-13110-6 Cloth
ISBN 0-299-13114-9 Paper
Brothers and
Strangers
The East European Jew in German and German Jewish Consciousness,
1800–1923
Steven Aschheim
ISBN 0-299-09114-7 Paper
Doubly Chosen
Jewish Identity, the Soviet Intelligentsia, and the Russian Orthodox
Church
Judith Deutsch Kornblatt
Ethics of Maimonides
Hermann Cohen
ISBN 0-299-17760-2 Cloth
ISBN 0-299-17764-5 Paper
Jewish Scholarship
and Culture in Nineteenth-Century Germany
Between History and Faith
Nils Roemer
Studies in German Jewish Cultural History and Literature
ISBN 0-299-21170-3 Cloth
The Making
of a Sage
A Study in Rabbinic Ethics
Jonathan Wyn Schofer
On Jewish Learning
Franz Rosenzweig
Edited by N. N. Glatzer
ISBN 0-299-18234-7 Paper
Preso sin nombre,
celda sin número
Jacobo Timerman
With forewords by Arthur Miller and Ariel Dorfman
The Star of
Redemption
Rosenzweig
Translated by Barbara E. Galli
Foreword by Michael Oppenheim, Introduction by Elliot R. Wolfson
Modern Jewish Philosophy and Religion: Translations and Critical
Studies
Wrestling with
God and Men
Homosexuality in the Jewish Tradition
Rabbi Steven Greenberg
Yahweh Versus
Yahweh
The Enigma of Jewish History
Jay Y. Gonen
UW Press
series with a Jewish Studies or Jewish interest connection.
George L.
Mosse Series in Modern European Cultural and Intellectual History
Jewish
Voices from Russia and Eastern Europe
Modern
Jewish Philosophy and Religion: Translations and Critical Studies
Sources
in Modern Jewish History
Studies
in German Jewish Cultural History and Literature
Studies
on Israel
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