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The Abandonment of the Jewsby David S. WymanISBN 0394740777 (0-394-74077-7)
Softcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Abandonment of the Jews'Book summary:It has long been alleged that officials in the Roosevelt administration knew, in surprising detail, about Adolf Hitler's plans to exterminate all the Jews in Nazi Europe--and that these officials did little to prevent the massacre, refusing asylum to shiploads of Jewish refugees and failing to order the bombing of railway lines leading to Auschwitz, Treblinka, and other concentration camps. David S. Wyman examines the evidence, concluding that senior American officials could indeed have saved many thousands, if not millions, of European Jews by intervening earlier. In this controversial work, he suggests, with good cause, that a combination of anti-Semitism and indifference to anything not perceived as being of direct strategic importance to the United States indirectly led to countless deaths. --Gregory McNamee [via]
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The Abandonment of the Jews : America and the Holocaust, 1941-1945by David S. WymanISBN 0394428137 (0-394-42813-7)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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Are You There God? It's Me, Margaretby Judy BlumeISBN 0440404193 (0-440-40419-3)
Softcover, Random House Childrens Books
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Battles of the Bibleby Chaim Herzog, Mordechai GichonISBN 0394501314 (0-394-50131-4)
Hardcover, Random House
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Best of Blume: Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret/Blubber/Iggie's House/Starring Sally J. Freedman as Herselfby Judy BlumeISBN 0440420229 (0-440-42022-9)
Softcover, Yearling Books
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Celebrateby Judith Gross, Bari WeissmanISBN 0448443007 (0-448-44300-7)
Softcover, Grosset & Dunlap
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Chicken Sundayby Patricia PolaccoISBN 0399221336 (0-399-22133-6)
Hardcover, Philomel Books
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The Classic Cuisine of the Italian Jewsby Edda S. MacHlinISBN 0396084354 (0-396-08435-4)
Softcover, Dodd, Mead
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Conversations with Rabbi Smallby Harry KemelmanISBN 0449245276 (0-449-24527-6)
Softcover, Random House Publishing Group
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A Crown of Feathersby Isaac Bashevis SingerISBN 0449234657 (0-449-23465-7)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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Dic of Jewish Lore and Legendby Alan UntermanISBN 0500279845 (0-500-27984-5)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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Dictionary of Jewish Lore and Legendby Alan UntermanISBN 0500110220 (0-500-11022-0)
Hardcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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An Empire of Their Own: How Zukor, Laemmle, Fox, Mayer, Cohn and the Warner Brothers Invented Hollywoodby Neal GablerISBN 051756808X (0-517-56808-X)
Hardcover, Crown Publishing Group
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Eros and the Jews: From Biblical Israel to Contemporary Americaby David BialeISBN 046502033X (0-465-02033-X)
Hardcover, BasicBooks
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False Prophet: A Peter Decker and Rina Lazarus Novelby Faye KellermanISBN 0449003299 (0-449-00329-9)
Softcover, Random House Publishing Group
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Favorite Tales of Sholom Aleichemby Frances Butwin, Sholem Aleichem, Julius ButwinISBN 0517412942 (0-517-41294-2)
Hardcover, Random House Value Pub
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Fraudby David RakoffISBN 038550084X (0-385-50084-X)
Hardcover, Doubleday Publishing
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Fraud'Book summary:Let's get this out of the way: David Rakoff is not David Sedaris. When you hear him being incredibly smart and funny on This American Life, you invariably think, "Oh, it's David Sedaris." But if you listen closely, you can tell the difference. Rakoff, while no less witty or nasal, is a little more disappointed. In his first collection--a series of pieces for public radio and for various magazines--he positively revels in his world-weariness. Whether he's investigating the Loch Ness monster, attending a comedy festival in Aspen, Colorado, visiting a New Age retreat hosted by Steven Seagal, or just, you know, playing Freud in a department-store window at Christmastime, Rakoff tends to get comically depleted. Watching the comic Dan Castellaneta, for example, he writes, "It's a bad sign when I start counting the unused props on stage. Only two wigs, one stool, an easel, and a dropcloth to go. I begin to pray to an unfeeling God to please make Castellaneta multitask." In a piece where he attempts to climb a mountain (well... a very short hill), Rakoff immediately nips any Sierra Club fantasies in the bud: "I do not go outdoors. Not more than I have to. As far as I'm concerned, the whole point of living in New York City is indoors. You want greenery? Order the spinach." But in the end, what makes him such a terrific writer is that he's not only onto everyone else, he's onto himself. No wonder his visit to a kibbutz becomes the occasion for some supremely self-conscious amusement: "I know I sound like the Central Casting New Yorker I've turned myself into with single-minded determination when I say this, but the main problem with working in the fields is that the sun is just always shining." --Claire Dederer [via]
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The Gates of Novemberby Chaim PotokISBN 044991240X (0-449-91240-X)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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The Gates of November : Chronicles of the Slepak Familyby Chaim PotokISBN 0394588673 (0-394-58867-3)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Gates of November : Chronicles of the Slepak Family'Book summary:Potok, well known for his novels of Jewish family life such as The Chosen, turns to nonfiction in The Gates of November, a wrenching family chronicle with a riveting historical undercurrent. The story of the family patriarch, Solomon Slepak, spans most of the book: ignoring his mother's wish that he become a rabbi, Slepak emigrated at 13 to America, became a Marxist in New York, returned to fight in the Russian Revolution, and rose to prominence within the Communist Party. But while Solomon remained a convinced Bolshevik, his son Volodya rejected socialism when anti-Semitism emerged during Stalin's era. Disowned by his father, Volodya was later exiled to Siberia as a dissident. The story of the Slepaks is simultaneously the story of Soviet Jewry and the rise and fall of the Soviet Union. [via]
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Gershon's Monster: A Story for the Jewish New Yearby Eric A. Kimmel, Baal Shem Tov, Jon J. MuthISBN 043910839X (0-439-10839-X)
Hardcover, Scholastic
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Gershon's Monster: A Story for the Jewish New Year'Book summary:Rather than regret or atone for his everyday mistakes, baker Gershon simply sweeps them into his basement. Once a year on Rosh Hashanah, he stuffs these demon-shaped transgressions in a giant bag and dumps them into the Black Sea. Of course, Gershon must discover sooner or later that his selfish acts cannot be disposed of so easily. In spite of a pointed warning from a rabbi, Gershon refuses to realize that his behavior will come back to haunt him someday. It's only when he is faced with the monstrous bulk of his misdeeds that Gershon finally, truly repents.
Eric A. Kimmel's beautiful retelling of the traditional Hasidic legend for the Jewish New Year captures all the weighty value of responsibility and forgiveness. In his author's note, Kimmel describes the Rosh Hashanah ceremony called tashlikh, in which people gather at the seashore or by a river to recite biblical verses and turn their pockets inside out, allowing bread crumbs to fall into the water--a symbolic casting-off of sins.
Award-winning illustrator Jon J Muth's expressive and luminous watercolors, suffused with the pale golden light of day or oppressed under a lowering coastal sky, are unforgettable, as is the remarkably frightening yet stunning "immense black monster covered with scales like iron plates," on each of which is written one of Gershon's misdeeds. Muth's extraordinary work can also be seen in author Karen Hesse's lovely picture book Come On, Rain! (Ages 5 to 9) --Emilie Coulter [via]
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The Golemby Gustav MeyrinkISBN 0486250253 (0-486-25025-3)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Golem'Book summary:"A favorite of connoisseurs of works of fantasy for many decades." St. Louis Post-Dispatch. A compelling story of mystical experiences, strange transformations, and profound terror, this is the most famous supernatural novel in modern European literature, set in Ghetto of Old Prague around 1890. 13 black-and-white illustrations. "Not to be missed." Los Angeles Times.[via]More editions of The Golem:
The Golem and "the Man Who Was Born Again" Two German Supernatural Novelsby Gustav MeyrinkISBN 0486233278 (0-486-23327-8)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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Gone to Soldiersby Marge PiercyISBN 0449215571 (0-449-21557-1)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Gone to Soldiers'Book summary:In a stunning tour-de-force, Marge Piercy has woven a tapestry of World War II, of six women and four men, who fought and died, worked and worried, and moved through the dizzying days of the war. A compelling chronicle of humans in conflict with inhuman events, GONE TO SOLIDERS is an unforgettable reading experience and a stirring tribute to the remarkable survival of the human spirit.
"Panoramic...This is a sweeping epic in the best sense."
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Good As Goldby Joseph HellerISBN 0440204402 (0-440-20440-2)
Softcover, Dell Publishing
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Great Jewish Short Storiesby Saul BellowISBN 0440331226 (0-440-33122-6)
Softcover, Dell Publishing
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Hester Among the Ruinsby Binnie KirshenbaumISBN 0393041522 (0-393-04152-2)
Hardcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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The Holocaust in Historyby Michael R. MarrusISBN 0452009537 (0-452-00953-7)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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Holy Blood, Holy Grailby Michael Baigent, Richard Leigh, Henry LincolnISBN 0440136482 (0-440-13648-2)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Holy Blood, Holy Grail'Book summary:Michael Baigent, Henry Lincoln, and Richard Leigh, authors of The Messianic Legacy, spent over 10 years on their own kind of quest for the Holy Grail, into the secretive history of early France. What they found, researched with the tenacity and attention to detail that befits any great quest, is a tangled and intricate story of politics and faith that reads like a mystery novel. It is the story of the Knights Templar, and a behind-the-scenes society called the Prieure de Sion, and its involvement in reinstating descendants of the Merovingian bloodline into political power. Why? The authors of Holy Blood, Holy Grail assert that their explorations into early history ultimately reveal that Jesus may not have died on the cross, but lived to marry and father children whose bloodline continues today. The authors' point here is not to compromise or to demean Jesus, but to offer another, more complete perspective of Jesus as God's incarnation in man. The power of this secret, which has been carefully guarded for hundreds of years, has sparked much controversy. For all the sensationalism and hoopla surrounding Holy Blood, Holy Grail and the alternate history that it outlines, the authors are careful to keep their perspective and sense of skepticism alive in its pages, explaining carefully and clearly how they came to draw such combustible conclusions. --Jodie Buller [via]
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Hooray for Yiddish!by Leo RostenISBN 0517454688 (0-517-45468-8)
Hardcover, Random House Value Pub
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Hungry Heartsby Anzia Yezierska, Vivian GornickISBN 0451526414 (0-451-52641-4)
Softcover, Penguin Group (Canada)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Hungry Hearts'Book summary:First published in 1920 to great acclaim, a collection of ten original stories by a Jewish-American writer captures the experience of a young immigrant woman's experience in the slums of New York in the twenties. [via]
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The Imported Bridegroomby Abraham Cahan, Gordon HutnerISBN 0451526244 (0-451-52624-4)
Softcover, Penguin Group (Canada)
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An Interrupted Life: The Diaries of Etty Hillesum, 1941-1943by Etty Hillesum, Arnold J. Pomerans, J. G. GaarlandtISBN 0394532171 (0-394-53217-1)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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The J. A. P. Chronicles: A Novelby Isabel RoseISBN 0385512864 (0-385-51286-4)
Hardcover, Doubleday Publishing
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J.B.by Archibald MacLeishISBN 0395083532 (0-395-08353-2)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin
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Jewish Life in the Middle Agesby Israel AbrahamsISBN 0486437582 (0-486-43758-2)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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The Jewish State: The Struggle for Israel's Soulby Yoram HazonyISBN 0465029027 (0-465-02902-7)
Softcover, Perseus Books Group
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Jewish Travellers in the Middle Ages: 19 Firsthand Accountsby Elkan Nathan AdlerISBN 048625397X (0-486-25397-X)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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A Journey to the End of the Millennium : A Novel of the Middle Agesby A. B. Yehoshua, Nicholas R. M. De LangeISBN 0385488823 (0-385-48882-3)
Hardcover, Doubleday Publishing
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Journey to the End of the Millennium : A Novel of the Middle Ages'Book summary:One would think from all the brouhaha about the imminent arrival of Y2K that the world had never experienced a change of millennium. In fact, we've been through it all before, as A.B. Yehoshua reminds us in his novel, A Journey to the End of the Millennium. The year is 999 and the protagonist is Ben Attar, a North African Jewish merchant who has, for many years, been in profitable partnership with his nephew Abulafia and a Muslim trader named Abu Lutfi. But when Abulafia marries a German Jew who disapproves of his uncle's two wives, the partnership is suddenly dissolved and Ben Attar finds himself out of business.
Abulafia's repudiation of his uncle sets the stage for Ben Attar's journey into the heart of Europe at the turn of the millennium. Accompanied by a rabbi, both his wives, and Abu Lutfi, our hero sails to Paris, where he hopes to persuade his nephew's wife that his marriage to two women is both legally and morally permissible. Yehoshua's tale is more than just a travelog through the Europe of the 10th century; it is also a meditation on religion, law, and the differences between the European Sephardic tradition and that of the Middle Eastern Ashkenazic Jews--differences that echo the current social and ideological conflicts within Israel today. [via]
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Joy of Jewish Cookingby Stephen LongstreetISBN 0517246783 (0-517-24678-3)
Hardcover, Random House Value Publishing
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Joy of Jewish Cooking'Book summary:1988 Weathervane HB, ninth printing {i}. Blue and white DJ. White and blue metallic boards. More than 400 recipes gathered during Stephen and Ethel Longstreet's travels through 13 nations, including U.S. regional Jewish specialties. [via]
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Judaism for Everyone: Renewing Your Life Through the Vibrant Lessons of the Jewish Faithby Schmuley BoteachISBN 0465007953 (0-465-00795-3)
Softcover, Basic Books
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Katerinaby Aharon Appelfeld, Jeffrey M. GreenISBN 0393311104 (0-393-31110-4)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Katerina'Book summary:As an old woman, a gentile peasant from the Ukraine reminisces about the most touching and cruel events in her life: leaving home at an early age; working as a housekeeper in a Jewish household; learning to love the family--and, moreso, their beliefs--and the pain she ultimately endures because of that love. [via]
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Latkes, Latkes, Good to Eat: A Chanukah Storyby Naomi HowlandISBN 0395899036 (0-395-89903-6)
Hardcover, Clarion Books
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Life on Dropsie Avenueby Will EisnerISBN 0393061051 (0-393-06105-1)
Hardcover, Norton & Company, Incorporated, W. W.
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The Little Disturbances of Manby Grace PaleyISBN 0452253918 (0-452-25391-8)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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The Lonely Man Of Faithby Joseph B. SoloveitchikISBN 0385514085 (0-385-51408-5)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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Lying About Hitler: History, Holocaust, and the David Irving Trialby Richard J. EvansISBN 0465021530 (0-465-02153-0)
Softcover, Perseus Books Group
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Magician of Lublinby Isaac Bashevis SingerISBN 0449214796 (0-449-21479-6)
Softcover, Random House Publishing Group
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Masadaby Ernest GannISBN 0515054437 (0-515-05443-7)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group
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The Meaning of Yiddishby Benjamin HarshavISBN 0520059476 (0-520-05947-6)
Hardcover, Univ of California Pr
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A Mediterranean Society: The Jewish Communities of the Arab World As Portrayed in the Documents of the Cairo Geniza The Individual Portrait of Aby S.D. GoiteinISBN 0520056477 (0-520-05647-7)
Hardcover, Univ of California Pr
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It is a rich, panoramic view of how people lived, traveled, worshiped, and conducted their economic and social affairs. The first and second volumes describe the economic foundations of the society and the institutions and social and political structures that characterized the community. The remaining material, intended for a single volume describing the particulars of the way people lived, blossomed into three volumes, devoted respectively to the family, daily life, and the individual. The divisions are arbitrary but helpful because of the wealth of information. The author refers throughout to other passages in his monumental work that amplify what is discussed in any particular section. The result is an incomparably clear and immediate impression of how it was in the Mediterranean world of the tenth through the thirteenth century.
Volume V, subtitled The Individual, draws a portrait of the individual--a social person who mingled within the community; addressed the challenges of poverty, illness, aging, and death; possessed friends, enemies, and lovers; prayed and responded within a religious community; learned, created, thought and taught.More editions of A Mediterranean Society: The Jewish Communities of the Arab World As Portrayed in the Documents of the Cairo Geniza The Individual Portrait of A:
More Die of Heartbreakby Saul BellowISBN 0440201101 (0-440-20110-1)
Softcover, Dell Publishing
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Moses: The Revelation and the Covenantby Martin BuberISBN 0391035479 (0-391-03547-9)
Softcover, Prometheus Books
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Mrs. Katz and Tushby Patricia PolaccoISBN 0440409365 (0-440-40936-5)
Softcover, Random House Childrens Books
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My People : The Story of the Jewsby Abba EbanISBN 0394727592 (0-394-72759-2)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group
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Neuroticaby Melvin Jules BukietISBN 039304808X (0-393-04808-X)
Hardcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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No Matzoh for Meby Nancy E. Krulik, Bryan HendrixISBN 044843119X (0-448-43119-X)
Softcover, Grosset & Dunlap
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The Path of Blessing : Experiencing the Energy and Abundance of the Divineby Marcia PragerISBN 0517703637 (0-517-70363-7)
Hardcover, Crown Publishing Group
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Pioneer Jews: A New Life in the Far Westby Harriet Rochlin, Fred RochlinISBN 0395426391 (0-395-42639-1)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin
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The Quality of Mercyby Faye KellermanISBN 0449218929 (0-449-21892-9)
Softcover, Random House Publishing Group
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Queer Jewsby David Shneer, Caryn AvivISBN 0415931673 (0-415-93167-3)
Softcover, Routledge
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Rabbiby Noah GordonISBN 0449214540 (0-449-21454-0)
Softcover, Random House Publishing Group
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Rabbis and Wivesby Chaim GradeISBN 039450979X (0-394-50979-X)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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Ragtimeby E.L. DoctorowISBN 0452279070 (0-452-27907-0)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Ragtime'Book summary:An account of the interrelated lives of the families of a New Rochelle manufacturer, an immigrant socialist, and a Harlem musician and their involvements with period notables is set against the backdrop of early twentieth-century American history. Reprint. [via]
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The Rest of Us: The Rise of America's Eastern European Jewsby Steven BirminghamISBN 0425080749 (0-425-08074-9)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Rest of Us: The Rise of America's Eastern European Jews'Book summary:THE REST OF US is the third panel of Stephen Birmingham's Jewish triptych (OUR CROWD and THE GRANDEES)--the story of Eastern European Jews who, between 1882 and 1915, thronged into New York to escape the pogroms of czarist Russia.
From Ellis Island, these immigrants poured into the Lower East Side. To established German Jews, this horde was an embarassment and a burden. But the Russians had a passion to succeed and soon they stood on their own.
They made it in an astonishingly short time--from the pushcarts of Hester Street to the Grand Concourse and on to the manicured lawns of Scarsdale and Beverly Hills, "from Poland to polo in one generation." [via]
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Sabbath's Theaterby Philip RothISBN 0395739829 (0-395-73982-9)
Hardcover, Houghton Mifflin
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Say It in Yiddishby U. WeinreichISBN 048620815X (0-486-20815-X)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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Scumby Isaac Bashevis Singer, Rosaline Dukalsky SchwartzISBN 0452267862 (0-452-26786-2)
Softcover, Penguin USA
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A Shayna Maidelby Barbara LebowISBN 0452261503 (0-452-26150-3)
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Shoah : An Oral History of the Holocaustby Claude Lanzmann, Simone de Beauvoir, Elie WieselISBN 0394743296 (0-394-74329-6)
Softcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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Short Friday and Other Storiesby Isaac Bashevis SingerISBN 0449211045 (0-449-21104-5)
Softcover, Random House Publishing Group
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Snow in Augustby Pete HamillISBN 0446606251 (0-446-60625-1)
Softcover, Grand Central Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Snow in August'Book summary:In 1940s Brooklyn, friendship between an 11-year-old Irish Catholic boy and an elderly Jewish rabbi might seem as unlikely as, well, snow in August. But the relationship between young Michael Devlin and Rabbi Judah Hirsch is only one of the many miracles large and small contained in Pete Hamill's novel. Michael finds himself in trouble when he witnesses the 17-year-old leader of the dreaded Falcons gang beating an elderly shopkeeper. For Michael, 1940s Brooklyn is a world still shaped by life in the Old Country, a world where informing on a fellow Irishman is the worst crime imaginable--worse even than the violent crimes committed by some of those fellows. So Michael keeps silent, finding solace in the company of Rabbi Hirsch, a Czech refuge whom he meets by chance. From this serendipitous beginning blossoms a unique friendship--one that proves perilous to both when the Falcons catch up with them.
Interlaced with Hamill's realistic descriptions of violence and fear are scenes of remarkable poignancy: the rabbi's first baseball game, where he sees Jackie Robinson play for the Dodgers; Michael's introduction into the mystical world of the Cabbala and the book's miraculous ending. Hamill is not a lyrical writer, but he is a heartfelt one, and this story of courage in the face of great odds is one of his best. [via]
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Sophie's Choiceby William StyronISBN 0394461096 (0-394-46109-6)
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Sotah : A Novelby Naomi RagenISBN 051758977X (0-517-58977-X)
Hardcover, Crown Publishing Group
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Sunday the Rabbi Stayed Homeby Harry KemelmanISBN 0449210006 (0-449-21000-6)
Softcover, Random House Publishing Group
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Talmud Reference Guide : The Steinsaltz Edition: The Reference Guideby Adin Steinsaltz, Leonard BaskinISBN 0394576659 (0-394-57665-9)
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The Temple Bombingby Melissa Fay GreeneISBN 0449908097 (0-449-90809-7)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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To Raise a Jewish Child: A Guide for Parentsby Hayim Halevy DoninISBN 0465086357 (0-465-08635-7)
Softcover, Basic Books
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A Treasury of Jewish Folkloreby Nathan AusubelISBN 0517502933 (0-517-50293-3)
Hardcover, Crown Publishing Group
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Unfinished People: Eastern European Jews Encounter Americaby Ruth GayISBN 0393322408 (0-393-32240-8)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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Wallby John Richard HerseyISBN 0394756967 (0-394-75696-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Wall'Book summary:Riveting and compelling, The Wall tells the inspiring story of forty men and women who escape the dehumanizing horror of the Warsaw ghetto. John Hersey's novel documents the Warsaw ghetto both as an emblem of Nazi persecution and as a personal confrontation with torture, starvation, humiliation, and cruelty -- a gripping and visceral story, impossible to put down. [via]
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The Wandering Jewsby Joseph Roth, Michael HofmannISBN 039332270X (0-393-32270-X)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Wandering Jews'Book summary:As a journalist, Joseph Roth's greatest strength, and perhaps his greatest weakness, was his self-professed love for his subjects. Roth, who is best known for his novels (particularly The Radetzky March), was the star journalist for the Frankfurter Zeitung in the early 1920s, when he began writing stories that led to The Wandering Jews. This book, newly translated by Michael Hofmann, is a masterpiece of literary journalism whose political prescience (regarding tensions between Eastern and Western Jews and the too-easy consolations of assimilation) is grounded in eclectic character studies (of, for instance, Parisian elites, a carnival performer from Radziwillow, a dock worker in Odessa). In an age of idea-driven journalism, when stories are often tailored to prove a writer's pre-existing thesis, Roth's lovingly inductive reasoning is refreshing. And his aphoristic insights are as spontaneous as they are circumspect. ("When a catastrophe occurs, people on hand are shocked into helpfulness.") The statement that best summarizes Roth's belief about the unalterable fate of the Jews also epitomizes the polished spontaneity of his style: Roth writes that wandering is "a tribulation that is appropriate to all Jews, and to all others besides. Lest we forget that nothing in this world endures, not even a home; and that our life is short, shorter even than the life of the elephant, the crocodile, and the crow. Even the parrots outlive us." --Michael Joseph Gross [via]
Without Feathersby Woody AllenISBN 0446890359 (0-446-89035-9)
Softcover, Grand Central Pub
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