David Altshuler Editor (20 results)

Paper Back. Condition: Acceptable.

Paper Back. Condition: Good.

Softcover. Condition: Fair. No Dust Jacket. Cover has creases, black marks on the edge.

Trade Paperback. Condition: Fine. First Edition. spine square and uncracked, clean, uncreased.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. First Thus. First Summit Books Soft Cover Edition (First Thus) (Number Line With The One Present. Short Gift Inscription On The Ffep, Else Near Fine.

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. Altshuler, David (Editor)., Summit Books/Smithsonian Institution, 1983, c1983, 2nd printing, illus. soft cover (large format paperback), fine, 288 pp with endnotes, bibliography & index, extensive full color/B&W photographic & other illus., small 4to, ISBN: 0671494988, 'The collection of the Czechoslovak State Jewish Museum in Prague is a unique respository of historic artifacts, artistic rarities, and cultural memories'. …

Trade Paperback. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Both a catalog to the traveling exhibition of items from the State Jewish Museum in Prague sponsored by the Smithsonian institution, and an illustrated history of Jewish life in Bohemia, Moravia and Slovakia over a nearly 1,000 year period. Richly illustrated with color and black & white photographs. 288 pages.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Both a catalog to the traveling exhibition of items from the State Jewish Museum in Prague sponsored by the Smithsonian institution, and an illustrated history of Jewish life in Bohemia, Moravia and Slovakia over a nearly 1,000 year period. Richly illustrated with color and black & white photographs. Book and jacket in very good condition, except that the jacket is price-clipped. 288 pages, 7½ x 10 inches.…

Paperback. Condition: G/No Dustjacket. First Printing. New York, NY: Summit Books. G/No Dustjacket. (1983). First Printing. Paperback. 8vo., 287 pp., shelfwear, pencil marks on Tpage . Photgraphs(Color & B&W) (illustrator).

Paperback, edition. quarto, 288pp., numerous color and b&w plates. Fine. O.P.

Quarto, softbound, 288 pp. Photo. illus. Tiny rip to top of spine; otherwise, Fine. "The collection of the Czechoslovak State Jewish Museum in Prague is a unique resposity of historic artifacts, artistic rarities, and cultural memories. These objects document the vitality and significance of Czech Jewry, which has flourished for a millennium at the crossroads of East and West and is the oldest continuous Jewish community in Europe. One hundred fifty-three local Jewish communities in Bohemia and Moravia were devastated during the Holocaust, and thus the Prague Museum bears eloquent testimony to a world virtually snuffed out just one generation ago. This book brings to American audiences their first glimpse of this extraordinary collection of Judaica in conjuction with an exhibition that is touring our nation's major museums under the auspices of the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service." Jewish History, European History, Jewish Heritage, Jewish Art, Czech Jewry, Bohemia, Moravia, Judaica, European History, Jewish History, Religion, Faith, Judaica.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. A very good copy of the first edition in a like original dust jacket. 300p. 8vo. Internally clean and free of notes and marks but with some light toning and a few scattered age spots. The dust jacket is sharp and free of chips or tears. Has some spotting and rubs.…

Condition: Very Good. Location:50 161 424 From the repository of historic artifacts, artistic rarities, cultural memories-document Czech Jewry life. 287 pp. 50 161 424.

Paperback. First edition. Very Good. 288pp. (loc 599/1).

Paperback. Condition: As New. Has some very minor shelf wear. Like New inside and Out! Clean & Crisp Pages. Excellent book.(Fast Shipping).

Hardcover. First edition. 288 pages. Orig. blue cloth. Very good in very good dust wrapper.

Hardcover. dj. First Edition, First Printing. In Very Good condition with a Very Good dust jacket. Spine is tan with gray lettering. Dust jacket protected with a mylar covering. Mild general shelf wear. Minor bumping to edges of dust jacket. Mild cocking to spine. Text block clean. Shelved in U.S. History, DMV. 1416298. Shelved Dupont Bookstore. …

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st. 1st printing; dj w/uinclipped price, in mylar; brown c w/gilt spine titles; 300 clean, unmarked pages.a collection of articles from The Record, the journal of the Jewish Historical Society of Greater Washington. The articles are grouped into four sections: Synagogue Life (articles about the histories of specific congregations); Community Organizations; Society and Culture; and Preserving the Past.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. xvii, [1], 206 pages. This appears to be signed by the author at the upper right corner of fep. DJ has some wear, tears and soiling. Some edge soiling. Includes Preface, Introduction, Chronology, Map, Chart, Abbreviations, Notes, Selected Bibliography; and Index. Chapters include Prelude; The History of the Bar Kokhba Rebellion; the Bar Kokhba Rebellion; Premodern Reactions: Repression and Passivity; The Bar Kokhba Syndrome, The Important of Political Realism; Realism in Judaism in Judaism and in Zionism; Past and Future; The Destiny and the Enterprise, and Epilogue. Yehoshafat Harkabi (born 1921, Haifa; died 1994, Jerusalem) was chief of Israeli military intelligence from 1955 until 1959 and afterwards a professor of International Relations and Middle East Studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Harkabi had a command of Arabic, a knowledge of Arab civilization and history, and an understanding of Islam. He developed from an uncompromising hardliner to supporter of a Palestinian state who recognized the PLO as a negotiations partner. In his well-known work Israel's Fateful Hour, hei described himself as a "Machiavellian dove" intent on searching "for a policy by which Israel can get the best possible settlement"--a policy that would include a Zionism "of quality and not of acreage". Harkabi resigned as chief of Military Intelligence as a consequence of the 1959 Night of the Ducks. Following his military career, Harkabi was Maurice Hexter professor and director of the Leonard Davis Institute of International Relations and Middle East Studies at Hebrew University of Jerusalem. In the year 132, a well-planned rebellion broke out in Judea. The Jewish warrior Bar Kokhba emerged as its leader, and it has forever after been known by his name. Now, nearly two thousand years later, Dr. Yehoshafat Harkabi, former chief of Military Intelligence of the State of Israel, expert on Arab affairs, and Professor of International Relations and Middle Eastern Studies of the Hebrew University, has written the first comprehensive military analysis of the Bar Kokhba Rebellion. The implications of this work go well beyond the Jewish sphere. The Bar Kokhba Rebellion is an instance of how political and military decisions are made by leaders who perceive their situation as desperate. It explore under what conditions and in what straits should leaders risk national suicide?" The Bar Kokhba Syndrome examines the uses of realism and the perils of unrealism. It questions present conceptions of reality and notions of risk-taking in the policy of the Israeli government--with regard to peace in the Middle East. The Bar Kokhba Rebellion must thus be seen as a nadir in Jewish history--a calamity of monumental proportions. In fact, this was the view held by Jewish thinkers through the ages. But with the emergence of modern Zionism, what was traditionally a negative symbol was transformed into a positive one, and the effects of this transformation on the Jewish consciousness are much more than symbolic. Simon ben Kosevah, or Cosibah, known to posterity as Bar Kokhba (died 135 CE), was a Jewish military leader who led the Bar Kokhba revolt against the Roman Empire in 132 CE. The revolt established a three-year-long independent Jewish state in which Bar Kokhba ruled as nasi ("prince"). Some of the rabbinic scholars in his time imagined him to be the long-expected Messiah. Bar Kokhba fell in the fortified town of Betar. First Edition [stated], presumed first printing.…

8vo. pp. 288. 220 illus. (many colour, some full-page). biblio. index. wrs.