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FOOTNOTES from an Antiquarian Bookseller's Life
Michael Selzer, who was educated in England at Bedales School and at Balliol College, Oxford, has spent much of his life in one corner or the other of the world of books. He is a prolific (even if not, as he says himself, a particularly distinguished) writer of books and articles, and over the past 25 years has been an antiquarian bookseller, bookbinder, and book auctioneer. He is also something of an Internet pioneer, having created Bibliofind, the first major online site for the sale of old, used and rare books, which is now owned by Amazon. The vignettes and ruminations in his latest book, Footnotes, provide unusual and often amusing glimpses into some of the experiences and challenges of antiquarian bookselling. Among them is the little-known story of an FBI investigation that led Alibris, one of Bibliofind's competitors, to plead guilty in Federal court to eleven counts of a criminal information. They also offer important insights into the difficulties the antiquarian trade now faces as modern culture, led by the academic world, intensifies its repudiation of the past.
Working with the Person with Schizophrenia
The person with schizophrenia poses a formidable challenge even to the experienced clinician. Bizarre, unpredictable behavior, disordered thought patterns, peculiar, even unintelligible speech, and extreme distrust can drastically limit the clinician's ability to conduct therapy. It is often seemingly impossible to determine the cause of these behaviors: Are they a result of the disease, the side effects of drugs, or the patient's efforts to cope? In this brilliant and insightful book, Dr. Michael Selzer and his colleagues offer a radical new perspective on understanding and treating the schizophrenic person. What is often lacking, they argue, is a clear understanding of the patient's own ex...
Deliverance Day
On April 29, 1945, U.S. Army troops captured the Dachau concentration camp, freeing 30,000 prisoners. From interviews with former inmates and American soldiers who were there, Selzer recreated the hour-by-hour drama of the liberation. Telling what happened from the predawn military orders to take Dachau, to the execution of over 120 SS guards by a few enraged GIs and the rescue of the prisoners.
The Nuremberg Mind
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The Symmetry Norm and the Asymmetric Universe
The concept of symmetry (as in shapes whose left and right halves mirror each other) did not originate in the Classical world, as is often supposed, but in Italy at the beginning of the Renaissance. From the outset it was associated with the belief that Nature's forms are symmetric and that nothing can be beautiful unless it too has a symmetric shape. Michael Selzer calls this the symmetry norm. The symmetry norm was soon adopted throughout western Europe. It literally changed the face of the continent, for its advocates not only demanded that all new buildings henceforth be symmetric, but that important medieval churches and other public buildings be given new, symmetric facades. The free-f...
Terrorist Chic
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First Person Jewish
Examining more than a dozen films from Jewish artists, this book reveals how the postmodern impulse to turn the lens inward intersects provocatively with historical tropes and stereotypes of the Jew. It focuses on Jewish filmmakers working on the margins and examines the work of Jonathan Caouette, Chantal Akerman and many more.
Israel
The central thesis of this book is that the Zionist movement sought, not only the establishment of a Jewish state, but also the eradication of all the characteristic features of Jewish life in the Diaspora - a goal called shlilat ha-galut, the negation of the Diaspora. The negation of the Diaspora, in turn, required the creation of a new Jewish type which in many respects would imitate the identity of anti-Semites, whose perception of Jews was all too often accepted as valid by their victims. Michael Selzer, at one time liaison officer of the Council of the Sephardi Community in Jerusalem, and winner of a National Jewish Book Award, finds that many of the elements that have led to the bitter...
Renewing the Fear
These reflections on the Nazi Holocaust open with the author's childhood in a prison camp and culminate in a short but profoundly disturbing visit to Berlin sixty-five years later. Although addressing many issues, Selzer focuses particularly on the problems of remembering the victims and their persecutors, taking as his starting point the Biblical injunction, "Remember what Amalek did to you". Many will find these reflections disturbing, few will deny their profundity and importance.
