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After the Holocaust: Rebuilding Jewish Lives in Postwar Germanyby Michael Brenner, Barbara HarshavISBN 0691006792 (0-691-00679-2)
Softcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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The Angel's Mistake: Stories of Chelmby Francine Prose, Mark H. PodwalISBN 0688149065 (0-688-14906-5)
Hardcover, HarperCollins Publishers
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Anthology of Holocaust Literatureby Jacob GlatsteinISBN 0689703430 (0-689-70343-0)
Softcover, Macmillan Pub Co
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The Art of Israeli Cooking: Original Israeli Recipes Never before Published as Well as Favorite Traditional Dishes, All Kosherby Aldo NahoumISBN 070710212X (0-7071-0212-X)
Hardcover, Gifford
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The Artless Jew: Medieval and Modern Affirmations and Denials of the Visualby Kalman P. BlandISBN 069108985X (0-691-08985-X)
Softcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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At the Entrance to the Garden of Eden : A Jew's Search for God with Christians and Muslims in the Holy Landby Yossi Klein HaleviISBN 0688169082 (0-688-16908-2)
Hardcover, HarperCollins Publishers
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› Find signed collectible books: 'At the Entrance to the Garden of Eden : A Jew's Search for God with Christians and Muslims in the Holy Land'Book summary:Yossi Klein Halevi, born in America and now an Israeli citizen, embarked on a spiritual quest in order to appreciate the religious dimensions of conflicts in the Middle East. Beginning in 1998, he undertook "an attempt at religious empathy" in order "to test whether faith could be a means of healing rather than intensifying the conflicts in this land." Halevi, author of the critically acclaimed Memoirs of a Jewish Extremist, chose "to pray and meditate with my Christian and Muslim fellow believers," as "a conscious refutation of the way we religious people of different faiths have always judged each other--by what we believe about God, rather than how we experience God's presence." The holy days of each religion form the structure of At the Entrance to the Garden of Eden, and Halevi's encounters with Sufi dervishes, Muslim sheiks, monks, nuns, and laypeople are entertaining, poignant, and sometimes fearsome. The stories do not separate "spirituality" from "politics"--or history, psychology, or theology. His commitment to describing an integrated experience of the many aspects of religious life helps to make the book a successful exercise in empathy, and a book of lasting literary value. --Michael Joseph Gross [via]
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The Autobiography of a Seventeenth-Century Venetian Rabbi: Leon Modena's Life of Judahby Leone Modena, Mark R. CohenISBN 0691055297 (0-691-05529-7)
Hardcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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The Autobiography of a Seventeenth-Century Venetian Rabbi: Leon Modena's Life of Judahby Mark R. Cohen, Leone ModenaISBN 0691008248 (0-691-00824-8)
Softcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Autobiography of a Seventeenth-Century Venetian Rabbi: Leon Modena's Life of Judah'Book summary:Leon (Judah Aryeh) Modena was a major intellectual figure of the early modern Italian Jewish community--a complex and intriguing personality who was famous among contemporary European Christians as well as Jews. Modena (1571-1648) produced an autobiography that documents in poignant detail the turbulent life of his family in the Jewish ghetto of Venice. The text of this work is well known to Jewish scholars but has never before been translated from the original Hebrew, except in brief excerpts. This complete translation, based on Modena's autograph manuscript, makes available in English a wealth of historical material about Jewish family life of the period, religion in daily life, the plague of 1630-1631, crime and punishment, the influence of kabbalistic mysticism, and a host of other subjects. The translator, Mark R. Cohen, and four other distinguished scholars add commentary that places the work in historical and literary context. Modena describes his fascination with the astrology and alchemy that were important parts of the Jewish and general culture of the seventeenth century. He also portrays his struggle against poverty and against compulsive gambling, which, cleverly punning on a biblical verse, he called the "sin of Judah." In addition, the book contains accounts of Modena's sorrow over his three sons: the death of the eldest from the poisonous fumes of his own alchemical laboratory, the brutal murder of the youngest, and the exile of the remaining son. The introductory essay by Mark R. Cohen and Theodore K. Rabb highlights the significance of the work for early modern Jewish and general European history. Howard E. Adelman presents an up-to-date biographical sketch of the author and points the way toward a new assessment of his place in Jewish history. Natalie Z. Davis places Modena's work in the context of European autobiography, both Christian and Jewish, and especially explores the implications of the Jewish status as outsider for the privileged exploration of the self. A set of historical notes, compiled by Howard Adelman and Benjamin C. I. Ravid, elucidates the text.
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Behind the Geometrical Method: A Reading of Spinoza's Ethicsby Edwin M. CurleyISBN 069102037X (0-691-02037-X)
Softcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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The second book, whose argument is conducted in the notes to the text, attempts to support further the often controversial interpretations offered in the text and to carry on a dialogue with recent commentators on Spinoza. The author aligns himself with those who interpret Spinoza naturalistically and materialistically.
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Between War and Peace: Dilemmas of Israeli Securityby Efraim KarshISBN 071464711X (0-7146-4711-X)
Hardcover, Frank Cass & Co
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Bystanders' to the Holocaust: A Re-Evaluationby David Cesarani, Paul A. LevineISBN 0714682438 (0-7146-8243-8)
Softcover, Frank Cass & Co
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Creation and the Persistence of Evil: The Jewish Drama of Divine Omnipotenceby Jon D. LevensonISBN 0691029504 (0-691-02950-4)
Softcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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A Critical Edition with a Translation and Notes of the Book of Tradition: (Sefer Ha-Qabbalah)by Abraham ben David Ibn Daud, Gerson D. CohenISBN 0710062419 (0-7100-6241-9)
Hardcover, Routledge & K. Paul
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Dreidel, Dreidel, Dreidelby Stephen Carpenter, Public DomainISBN 0694012173 (0-694-01217-3)
Hardcover, Harperfestival
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Egypt, Canaan, and Israel in Ancient Timesby Donald B. RedfordISBN 0691000867 (0-691-00086-7)
Softcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Egypt, Canaan, and Israel in Ancient Times'Book summary:Covering the time span from the Palaeolithic period to the destruction of Jerusalem in 586 BC, Egyptologist Donald Redford explores 3000 years of uninterrupted contact between Egypt and Western Asia across the Sinai land-bridge. He presents a sweeping narrative of the love-hate relationship between the peoples of ancient Israel/Palestine and Egypt. Who were the Egyptians, Canaanites and Hebrews? Why did Egypt act like a magnet on the peoples of Palestine? And what did Egypt see in the area later called the Holy Land? Why did she create an empire there? In answering these questions, Redford argues that Egypt's attitude arose from a fundamental position adopted toward Asia in general. This stance was taken up by Pharaonic civilization centuries before the Israelites appeared and prevailed long after the end of the Biblical period. [via]
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Fabricating Israeli History: The `New Historians'by Efraim KarshISBN 071468063X (0-7146-8063-X)
Softcover, Frank Cass & Co
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Fear and Trembling and the Sickness Unto Deathby S. KierkegaardISBN 0691019622 (0-691-01962-2)
Softcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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Fear and Trembling: Repetitionby Soren Kierkegaard, Howard and Edna HongISBN 0691020264 (0-691-02026-4)
Softcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Fear and Trembling: Repetition'Book summary:Presented here in a new translation, with a historical introduction by the translators, Fear and Trembling and Repetition are the most poetic and personal of Søren Kierkegaard's pseudonymous writings. Published in 1843 and written under the names Johannes de Silentio and Constantine Constantius, respectively, the books demonstrate Kierkegaard's transmutation of the personal into the lyrically religious.
Each work uses as a point of departure Kierkegaard's breaking of his engagement to Regine Olsen--his sacrifice of "that single individual." From this beginning Fear and Trembling becomes an exploration of the faith that transcends the ethical, as in Abraham's willingness to sacrifice his son Isaac at God's command. This faith, which persists in the face of the absurd, is rewarded finally by the return of all that the faithful one is willing to sacrifice. Repetition discusses the most profound implications of unity of personhood and of identity within change, beginning with the ironic story of a young poet who cannot fulfill the ethical claims of his engagement because of the possible consequences of his marriage. The poet finally despairs of repetition (renewal) in the ethical sphere, as does his advisor and friend Constantius in the aesthetic sphere. The book ends with Constantius' intimation of a third kind of repetition--in the religious sphere.
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Fear: Anti-semitism in Poland After Auschwitz, an Essay in Hby Jan T. GrossISBN 0691128782 (0-691-12878-2)
Hardcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Fear: Anti-semitism in Poland After Auschwitz, an Essay in H'Book summary:Poland suffered an exceedingly brutal Nazi occupation during the Second World War. Close to five million Poles were killed. Of these, more than half were Jews killed in the Holocaust. Ninety percent of the world's second largest Jewish community was annihilated. But despite the calamity shared by Poland's Jews and non-Jews, anti-Semitic violence did not stop in Poland with the end of the war. Jewish Holocaust survivors returning to their Polish hometowns after the war experienced widespread hostility, including murder, at the hands of their neighbors. The bloodiest peacetime pogrom in twentieth-century Europe took place in Kielce, Poland, a year after the war ended. Jan Gross's Fear is a detailed reconstruction of this pogrom and the Polish reactions to it that attempts to answer a perplexing question: How was anti-Semitism possible in Poland after the war?
Gross argues that postwar Polish anti-Semitism cannot be understood simply as a continuation of prewar attitudes. Rather, it developed in the context of the Holocaust and the Communist takeover: Anti-Semitism eventually became a common currency between the Communist regime and a society filled with people who had participated in the Nazi campaign of murder and plunder, people for whom Jewish survivors were a standing reproach. The Polish poet Czeslaw Milosz said that Poland's Communist rulers fulfilled the dream of Polish nationalists by bringing into existence an ethnically pure state.
For more than half a century, what happened to Jewish Holocaust survivors in Poland has been cloaked in guilt and shame. Writing with passion, brilliance, and fierce clarity, Gross at last brings the truth to light.
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The Forgotten: A Peter Decker / Rina Lazarus Novelby Faye KellermanISBN 0688156142 (0-688-15614-2)
Hardcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Forgotten: A Peter Decker / Rina Lazarus Novel'Book summary:L.A. homicide detective Peter Decker and Rina Lazarus, his Orthodox Jewish wife, return in a new entry in this popular series. Faye Kellerman can be counted on to deliver emotional complexity along with suspense, and in The Forgotten it comes from the relationship between Peter and Jacob, Rina's troubled teenage son. Jacob has a personal connection to the event that sets off this intricately plotted novel, the defacing of Rina's synagogue by one of his classmates. Ernesto Golding can't explain why he vandalized the synagogue, but when he and his therapists are murdered months after the incident, Peter realizes that something the teenager told him when admitting his guilt may hold the key to the killings: Ernesto's belief that his grandfather may have been a Nazi who posed as a Jew to escape to South America after the war. Investigating Ernesto's story gives Rina a strand of the plot to tease out; meanwhile, Peter concentrates on another motive for the therapist murders that involves computer fraud, the College Board exams, and the high cost exacted by parents who pressure their teenagers to succeed.
Kellerman skillfully keeps the dramatic tension going as she pulls all the pieces of her complex plot together. But what makes this novel her best yet is her acutely revealing portrait of Jacob, struggling with the existential angst of adolescence as he attempts to reconcile his devotion to Judaism with the temptations of contemporary life, from drugs to sex. She brilliantly limns his search for identity, intimacy, and independence even as he redefines his relationship to Peter and Rina, in a scenario that resounds with psychological truth. The Forgotten is a terrific addition to the Kellerman oeuvre. While she's always been an exceptional illustrator of the emotional life of the family, this time she writes with an expertise that may owe something to professional insights of her husband, author Jonathan Kellerman, who's also a child psychologist. --Jane Adams [via]
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The Fragility of Goodness: Why Bulgaria's Jews Survived the Holocaustby Tzvetan Todorov, Arthur DennerISBN 0691088322 (0-691-08832-2)
Hardcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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From This Day Forwardby Cokie Roberts, Steve RobertsISBN 0688168914 (0-688-16891-4)
Hardcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'From This Day Forward'Book summary:Journalists Cokie and Steve Roberts take a look at the institution of marriage American style, including their own match of thirty-three years, in this compelling and wise new book that is destined to be another bestseller
With a narrative structure similar to We Are Our Mothers' Daughters, Cokie and Steve Roberts use personal recollections as a springboard for the discussion of larger issues such as marriage, love, and family. When Cokie and Steve Roberts got married, some "friends" said it wouldn't last-just because she's Catholic and he's Jewish. Proving the doubters wrong, they have been married for over thirty years and have a few pieces of advice. Cokie and Steve will discuss issues from their own marriage as well as open a window onto famous unions in history, as seen from their different perspectives as husband and wife. Those stories tell a tale of the particular strengths and weaknesses of marriage in America and show the foundation of marriage as one that's undergone tremendous amounts of change while remaining fundamentally the same. With a narrative structure similar to We Are Our Mothers' Daughters, Cokie and Steve Roberts use personal recollections as a springboard for the discussion of larger issues such as marriage, love, and family. When Cokie and Steve Roberts got married, some "friends" said it wouldn't last-just because she's Catholic and he's Jewish. Proving the doubters wrong, they have been married for over thirty years and have a few pieces of advice. Cokie and Steve will discuss issues from their own marriage as well as open a window onto famous unions in history, as seen from their different perspectives as husband and wife. Those stories tell a tale of the particular strengths and weaknesses of marriage in America and show the foundation of marriage as one that's undergone tremendous amounts of change while remaining fundamentally the same.With a narrative structure similar to We Are Our Mothers' Daughters, Cokie and Steve Roberts use personal recollections as a springboard for the discussion of larger issues such as marriage, love, and family. When Cokie and Steve Roberts got married, some "friends" said it wouldn't last-just because she's Catholic and he's Jewish. Proving the doubters wrong, they have been married for over thirty years and have a few pieces of advice. Cokie and Steve will discuss issues from their own marriage as well as open a window onto famous unions in history, as seen from their different perspectives as husband and wife. Those stories tell a tale of the particular strengths and weaknesses of marriage in America and show the foundation of marriage as one that's undergone tremendous amounts of change while remaining fundamentally the same. [via]
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Generations of Memories: Voices of Jewish Womenby Jewish Women in London GroupISBN 0704342057 (0-7043-4205-7)
Hardcover, Women's Press
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German Reparations and the Jewish World: A History of the Claims Conferenceby Ronald W. ZweigISBN 0714651524 (0-7146-5152-4)
Hardcover, Frank Cass & Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'German Reparations and the Jewish World: A History of the Claims Conference'Book summary:German Reparations and the Jewish World" has become a standard reference work since it was first published. Based extensively on archival sources, the author examines the difficult debate within the Jewish world whether it was possible to reach a material settlement with Germany so soon after Auschwitz. Concentrating on how the money was spent in rebuilding Jewish life, he also analyzes how the reparations payments transformed the relations bteween Israel and the diaspora, and between different Jewish political and ideological groups. This revised and expanded edition includes material on sensitive relief programmes from archives that have only recently been opened to researchers. In a new, extensive introductory essay the author reexamines the reparations, restitution and indemnification processes from the perspective of 50 years later. [via]
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The Giftby Aliana Brodmann, Anthony Carnabuci, Anthony CarnubucciISBN 0689822405 (0-689-82240-5)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Gift'Book summary:With her Hanukkah money in her pocket, a little girl eagerly sets out to find the perfect way to spend her treasure. Will she choose a fancy hat? A new doll? A soft, gray kitten? Nothing seems just right until she hears a lovely melody from a street musician's accordion. Suddenly she knows what to do with her gift -- and in giving from her heart she receives the best gift of all. [via]
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The Golden Cityby Neil WaldmanISBN 0689800800 (0-689-80080-0)
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Hellenistic Civilization and the Jewsby Victor TcherikoverISBN 0689702485 (0-689-70248-5)
Softcover, Macmillan Pub Co
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Himmo, King of Jerusalemby Yoram KaniukISBN 0701114576 (0-7011-1457-6)
Hardcover, Chatto & Windus
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Hitler's Jewish Soldiers: The Untold Story Of Nazi Racial Laws And Men Of Jewish Descent In The German MilitaryISBN 0700613587 (0-7006-1358-7)
Softcover, Univ Pr of Kansas
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Hitler's Jewish Soldiers: The Untold Story of Nazi Racial Laws and Men of Jewish Descent in the German Militaryby Bryan Mark RiggISBN 0700611789 (0-7006-1178-9)
Hardcover, Univ Pr of Kansas
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Hitler's Jewish Soldiers: The Untold Story of Nazi Racial Laws and Men of Jewish Descent in the German Military'Book summary:Working in newly opened archives and reexamining old evidence, historian Bryan Mark Rigg turns up a surprising wrinkle in the history of Nazi Germany: the presence of part-Jewish soldiers not only in the ranks but also in the upper echelons of the German military. One such soldier recalled, "I served because I wanted to prove Hitler's racial nonsense wrong. I wanted to prove that people of Jewish descent were indeed brave and courageous soldiers." By Rigg's estimate, as many as 150,000 soldiers, sailors, and airmen of partial Jewish descent (Mischlinge, in Nazi terminology) served in Adolf Hitler's forces--some, such as field marshal and war criminal Erhard Milch, placed in high positions by Hitler himself even as he tightened the noose on the Jews of Europe. Rigg considers the role of these men as they negotiated the confusion of the monolithic, racist state in dealing with Germans of partial Jewish descent. "[Their] experience clearly demonstrates the complexity of life in the Third Reich," writes Rigg. His book sheds light on a difficult subject in the face of certain controversy, and it merits discussion. --Gregory McNamee [via]
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Holy Bible: New King James Version, Burgundyby NKJV TRANSLATIONISBN 0718015592 (0-7180-1559-2)
Hardcover, Thomas Nelson Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Holy Bible: New King James Version, Burgundy'Book summary:Enhance your time reading and exploring God's Word. Experience a whole new level of visual comfort and biblical study with Thomas Nelsons NKJV Personal Size Giant Print End-of-Verse Reference Bible. This Bible is filled with references and study aids to strengthen your Bible reading. Plus, it features giant print type, making reading more enjoyable than ever. Ideal for individual study, teaching, and ministry work, this trusted edition of the Holy Bible will enhance your time exploring the beauty and meaning of Gods Word.
Features include:
- End-of-verse references and translation notes
- Family record section
- Bible book introductions
- Stars marking messianic prophecies
- Words of Jesus in red
- Concordance
- Full-color maps
- 2 ribbon markers
- Type size: 11
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Personal Size Giant Print End-of-Verse Reference Bibles sold to date: More than 3.5 million
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Hooray! It's Passover!by Leslie Kimmelman, John HimmelmanISBN 0694014524 (0-694-01452-4)
Hardcover, HarperCollins Publishers
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If You Come Softlyby Jacqueline WoodsonISBN 0698118626 (0-698-11862-6)
Softcover, Puffin
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The Illuminated Haggadah: Featuring Medieval Illuminations from the Haggadah Collection of the British Libraryby British LibraryISBN 071121106X (0-7112-1106-X)
Hardcover, F. Lincoln
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Illuminated Haggadah: Featuring Medieval Illuminations from the Haggadah Collection of the British Library'Book summary:Reflecting its Talmudic ancestry, this illuminated Haggadah contains Jewish stories and traditions, and is also a prayerbook made for use. It tells the story of release from persecution and slavery into freedom and a new life. It is as relevant today as when it was written, over 2000 years ago. The Exodux of the Children of Israel from Egypt is a pivotal event in the Bible, celebrated today in books, plays and films. Each year, during the festival of Passover, Jewish families gather to remember the Exodus. The evening meal, or Seder, is filled with biblical readings, symbolic foods to be eaten and songs to be sung. The traditional patter of this meal is recorded in the Haggadah - literally, "story-telling". The book is decorated with illustrations taken from the British Library's collection of Medieval Haggadot, and the commentary makes the book accessible to all readers. [via]
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Imperialism and Jewish Society, 200 B.C.E. to 640 C.Eby Seth SchwartzISBN 0691117810 (0-691-11781-0)
Softcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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Jazz Age Jewsby Michael AlexanderISBN 0691116539 (0-691-11653-9)
Softcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Jazz Age Jews'Book summary:Jazz Age Jews tells the stories of Arnold Rothstein, the gangster accused of fixing the 1919 World Series; Felix Frankfurter, the defending lawyer for the infamous Sacco and Vanzetti murder trial who went on to become a Supreme Court justice; and Al Jolson, who starred, in blackface, in the first talking picture, The Jazz Singer. These three minibiographies, elegantly written by historian Michael Alexander, compose one big story about Jews in the 1920s who thought of themselves as outsiders. Most historians explain this situation as an effect of anti-Semitism; Alexander argues that Jewish outsider status was a theological phenomenon. Jews who migrated from Eastern Europe in the late 19th and early 20th centuries brought with them the belief that "humiliation and alienation were signs of being God's chosen people." Therefore, "In America, when Jews were not being marginalized, they identified with those who were," as demonstrated by the three life stories in Jazz Age Jews. Their stories, as told by Alexander, are "are about making it but thinking you haven't. They are about being there but believing you are held back." They offer succor to all Americans who "despite evidence of their own success, understand themselves best by identifying with those who have least." --Michael Joseph Gross [via]
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Jerusalemby Kay Prag, John FlowerISBN 0713629444 (0-7136-2944-4)
Hardcover, A & C Black
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Jerusalem in History : From 300 BC to 1996 ADby K. J. AsaliISBN 0710305591 (0-7103-0559-1)
Softcover, Kegan Paul International, Limited
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Jew in the Medieval World, 315-1791: A Source Bookby MarcusISBN 0689701330 (0-689-70133-0)
Softcover, Macmillan Pub Co
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Jewish Enlightenment in an English Key: Anglo-Jewry's Construction of Modern Jewish Thoughtby David B. RudermanISBN 0691048835 (0-691-04883-5)
Hardcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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Jewish Spirituality: From the 16th Century Revigal to the Presentby Arthur GreenISBN 0710213808 (0-7102-1380-8)
Hardcover, Routledge
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Jews and the American Soul: Human Nature in the Twentieth Centuryby Andrew R. HeinzeISBN 0691127751 (0-691-12775-1)
Softcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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The Jews of France: A History from Antiquity to the Presentby Esther Benbassa, M. B. DebevoiseISBN 0691090149 (0-691-09014-9)
Softcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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Job, the Story of a Simple Manby Joseph RothISBN 0701139099 (0-7011-3909-9)
Softcover, Hogarth Press
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Journey to Americaby Sonia Levitin, Charles RobinsonISBN 0689711301 (0-689-71130-1)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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Judaismby Michael KanielISBN 0713709723 (0-7137-0972-3)
Hardcover, Blandford Press
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Judaism'Book summary:Judaism offers a concise and interesting account of the development of Jewish art from the formative times of Judaism to the beginning of the twentieth century. The book examines the link between art and religion in the ancient world. It discusses the relationship between Judaism and art in the light of the Second Commandment, and demonstrates that Judaism's supposed antipathy to art is not supported by Jewish sources or by or by archeological or other historic evidence. [via]
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Light Jewish Holiday Dessertsby Penny EisenbergISBN 0688159850 (0-688-15985-0)
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Lower East Side Memories: A Jewish Place in Americaby Hasia R. DinerISBN 0691095450 (0-691-09545-0)
Softcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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Mothers and Children: Jewish Family Life In Medieval Europeby Elisheva BaumgartenISBN 0691091668 (0-691-09166-8)
Hardcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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Neighbors: The Destruction of the Jewish Community in Jedwabne, Polandby Jan T. GrossISBN 0691086672 (0-691-08667-2)
Hardcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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No Pretty Pictures: A Child of Warby Anita LobelISBN 0688159354 (0-688-15935-4)
Hardcover, Greenwillow
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On Passoverby Cathy Fishman, Melanie W. HallISBN 0689832648 (0-689-83264-8)
Softcover, Aladdin Paperbacks
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› Find signed collectible books: 'On Passover'Book summary:As a young girl prepares for Passover with her family, she uses all her senses to experience this important Jewish holiday. Everyone in her family answers her questions (which are an integral part of Passover) and playfully encourages her to understand more deeply what they are celebrating. Her father tells her that it is important for Jewish people to celebrate Passover every year so that they can always remember what it was like when people were slaves in Egypt, and so they can pray for all the people in the world who don't have freedom. The girl learns that Passover has things to see (feathers, candles, and spoons), smell (gefilte fish and chicken soup), taste (matzah bread), hear (songs and blessings), and feel (the softness of the silk matzah cover). Passover is a time to ask questions. But most of all, she says, Passover is "a wonderful feeling in my heart, dyenu." (Hebrew for "it would be enough.")
Cathy Goldberg Fishman's gentle, lilting child's-eye-view of Passover is a quiet extravaganza of the senses. Melanie W. Hall's wonderfully Chagall-like collagraph and mixed-media illustrations create a mystical backdrop that evokes history and tradition as it commemorates ancient symbolic ritual. This is one of four in a series by the author/illustrator team, including On Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur, On Hanukkah, and On Purim. (Ages 5 to 10) --Emilie Coulter [via]
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Only Yesterdayby Barbara Harshav, Shmuel Yosef AgnonISBN 0691009724 (0-691-00972-4)
Hardcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Only Yesterday'Book summary:Israeli Nobel Laureate S.Y. Agnon's famous masterpiece, his novel Only Yesterday, here appears in English translation for the first time. Published in 1945, the book tells a seemingly simple tale about a man who immigrates to Palestine with the Second Aliya--the several hundred idealists who returned between 1904 and 1914 to work the Hebrew soil as in Biblical times and revive Hebrew culture. Only Yesterday quickly became recognized as a monumental work of world literature, but not only for its vivid historical reconstruction of Israel's founding society. This epic novel also engages the reader in a fascinating network of meanings, contradictions, and paradoxes all leading to the question, what, if anything, controls human existence?
Seduced by Zionist slogans, young Isaac Kumer imagines the Land of Israel filled with the financial, social, and erotic opportunities that were denied him, the son of an impoverished shopkeeper, in Poland. Once there, he cannot find the agricultural work he anticipated. Instead Isaac happens upon house-painting jobs as he moves from secular, Zionist Jaffa, where the ideological fervor and sexual freedom are alien to him, to ultra-orthodox, anti-Zionist Jerusalem. While some of his Zionist friends turn capitalist, becoming successful merchants, his own life remains adrift and impoverished in a land torn between idealism and practicality, a place that is at once homeland and diaspora. Eventually he marries a religious woman in Jerusalem, after his worldly girlfriend in Jaffa rejects him.
Led astray by circumstances, Isaac always ends up in the place opposite of where he wants to be, but why? The text soars to Surrealist-Kafkaesque dimensions when, in a playful mode, Isaac drips paint on a stray dog, writing "Crazy Dog" on his back. Causing panic wherever he roams, the dog takes over the story, until, after enduring persecution for so long without "understanding" why, he really does go mad and bites Isaac. The dog has been interpreted as everything from the embodiment of Exile to a daemonic force, and becomes an unforgettable character in a book about the death of God, the deception of discourse, the power of suppressed eroticism, and the destiny of a people depicted in all its darkness and promise. [via]
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Only Yesterdayby Shmuel Yosef AgnonISBN 0691095442 (0-691-09544-2)
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The Outcasts of 19 Schuyler Placeby E. L. KonigsburgISBN 0689866372 (0-689-86637-2)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Outcasts of 19 Schuyler Place'Book summary:Twelve year old Margaret Rose Kane is incorrigible. Not only does she refuse to bend to the will of her manipulative cabin mates at Camp Talequa, she stands up to and inadvertently insults the camp director and Queen-in-residence, Mrs. Kaplan. The intimidating and cruel confrontations that threaten to break Margaret's spririt only serve to strengthen her resolve, and everyone is happy when Margaret is finally banished/rescued from Camp Talequa. Luckily for her, with her parents in Peru, this means she can spend the rest of the summer with her delightfully eccentric Hungarian great-uncles, Alexander and Morris Rose. Margaret adores her great-uncles, and loves the house at 19 Schuyler Place--especially the three peculiar clock towers (tall painted structures covered in pendants made from broken china, crystal, bottles, jars, and clock parts) that the Rose brothers have been building for as long as she can remember. For Margaret and the Rose brothers, the towers represent beauty for beauty's sake--they sparkle in the sun and sing in the wind--they exist only to spread joy. Not everyone loves the towers however, and forty-five years after the birth of the project, the city council declares the towers "unsafe," and demands that they be dismantled and destroyed. Filled with the same fiery resolve that helped her survive Camp Talequa, Margaret (with the help of a handyman named Jake, a loyal dog named Tartufo, and few other unexpected allies) launches a plan to save the towers in the name of art, history, and beauty.
A companion novel to the award-winning author's acclaimed Silent to the Bone, Outcasts is strikingly unique, incredibly interesting, and, with references to "Bartleby the Scrivener", and the rose windows of Notre Dame, exceptionally literary. In other words, The Outcasts of 19 Schuyler Place is vintage Konigsburg. This quirky masterpiece will be enjoyed by young fans of Konigsburgs other erudite works, and Polly Horvaths The Canning Season.. (Ages 10 and older) [via]
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The Radetzky Marchby Joseph RothISBN 0713904690 (0-7139-0469-0)
Hardcover, Allen Lane
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Radetzky March'Book summary:Joseph Roth's 1932 novel, The Radetzky March, starts with an accident that creates a dynasty. When an infantry lieutenant steps in front of a bullet intended for the young Franz Joseph, the Austro-Hungarian emperor rewards him with wealth, promotion, and a knighthood. Almost overnight, Joseph Trotta is "severed" from his ancestors, and his family is transformed from unremarkable soldiers and peasants living in the outer reaches of the empire to barons and high-ranking officials living near the imperial palace. As long as Franz Joseph is the Kaiser, their status is secure. But when Trotta happens upon a schoolbook account of the event that exaggerates his heroism, he is shaken:
He had been driven from the paradise of simple faith in Emperor and Virtue, Truth, and Justice, and, now fettered in silence and endurance, he may have realized that the stability of the world, the power of laws, and the glory of majesties were all based on deviousness.
As World War I approaches and the monarchy's limitations become apparent, Trotta's son and grandson become even further removed from this paradise. They continue to follow the codes of honor and duty, though such behavioral guides become pointless, even burdensome, in a world shorn of simple faith in an emperor. Trotta's grandson Carl Joseph finds his military career overwhelmed by bad horsemanship, alcohol dependency, frivolous roulette and baccarat debts, and misguided love affairs--the kinds of flaws, he thinks, that are inevitable without the self-assurance and practical knowledge that he would have gained had he earned (rather than inherited) his position. Not long ago, he thinks wistfully, his family lived as peasants "in dwarfed huts, making their wives fertile by night and their fields by day." It is here that the Trottas' demise is at its most poignant, as the focus of the narrative shifts from the loss of status to the far more devastating loss of purpose.In both style and temperament, Roth's novel stands between the 19th and 20th centuries, and the three Trottas could be seen as part of a progression that stretches back to Tolstoy's Prince Andrei and looks ahead to the Mathieu of Sartre's Les Chemins de la Liberté trilogy. Although The Radetzky March illustrates why the monarchy was doomed, and isn't blind to the new nations and ideologies on the horizon, Roth is more interested in his characters' psychology than their politics. And their central difficulty--the bewildering meaninglessness that follows the dissolution of an ideal--has been a fundamental 20th-century dilemma. The Trottas are, in Roth's stunning phrase, "homesick for the Kaiser." One need only substitute "the Chairman" or "Marxism" or "God" to understand the novel's lasting resonance. --John Ponyicsanyi [via]
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Resisting History: Historicism and Its Discontents in German-Jewish Thoughtby David MyersISBN 0691115931 (0-691-11593-1)
Hardcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Resisting History: Historicism and Its Discontents in German-Jewish Thought'Book summary:Nineteenth-century European thought, especially in Germany, was increasingly dominated by a new historicist impulse to situate every event, person, or text in its particular context. At odds with the transcendent claims of philosophy and--more significantly--theology, historicism came to be attacked by its critics for reducing human experience to a series of disconnected moments, each of which was the product of decidedly mundane, rather than sacred, origins. By the late nineteenth century and into the Weimar period, historicism was seen by many as a grinding force that corroded social values and was emblematic of modern society's gravest ills. Resisting History examines the backlash against historicism, focusing on four major Jewish thinkers. David Myers situates these thinkers in proximity to leading Protestant thinkers of the time, but argues that German Jews and Christians shared a complex cultural and discursive world best understood in terms of exchange and adaptation rather than influence.
After examining the growing dominance of the new historicist thinking in the nineteenth century, the book analyzes the critical responses of Hermann Cohen, Franz Rosenzweig, Leo Strauss, and Isaac Breuer. For this fascinating and diverse quartet of thinkers, historicism posed a stark challenge to the ongoing vitality of Judaism in the modern world. And yet, as they set out to dilute or eliminate its destructive tendencies, these thinkers often made recourse to the very tools and methods of historicism. In doing so, they demonstrated the utter inescapability of historicism in modern culture, whether approached from a Christian or Jewish perspective.
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The Rothschilds: A Family Portraitby Frederic MortonISBN 068970657X (0-689-70657-X)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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Shalom in the Homeby Shmuley Boteach RabbiISBN 0696235072 (0-696-23507-2)
Softcover, Meredith Books
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Some Time with Feynmanby Leonard MlodinowISBN 0713996439 (0-7139-9643-9)
Hardcover, Allen Lane
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Song of the Magdaleneby Donna Jo NapoliISBN 0689873964 (0-689-87396-4)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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When the world goes dark and her mind explodes within her, Miriam's future is shattered. In ancient Israel such seizures make her unclean. If anyone finds out about them, she will be an outcast.
Only Abraham -- the son of Hannah, her caretaker -- shares her secret. Abraham, too, is afflicted -- a perfect mind in an imperfect body -- and to the villagers he is an idiot.
To Miriam he is a savior.... [via]
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Spin the Dreidel!by Alexandra Cooper, Claudine GevryISBN 0689864302 (0-689-86430-2)
Hardcover, Little Simon
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The Stories of Bernard Malamudby Bernard MalamudISBN 0701128062 (0-7011-2806-2)
Hardcover, Chatto & Windus
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The Synagogueby Harold A. MeekISBN 0714829323 (0-7148-2932-3)
Hardcover, Phaidon Press
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The Trees of the Dancing Goatsby Patricia PolaccoISBN 0689808623 (0-689-80862-3)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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The Trial of Adolf Eichmannby Edward Frederick Langley Russell Russell of LiverpoolISBN 0712645926 (0-7126-4592-6)
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Under Crescent and Cross: The Jews in the Middle Agesby Mark R. CohenISBN 069101082X (0-691-01082-X)
Softcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Under Crescent and Cross: The Jews in the Middle Ages'Book summary:The exacerbation of Arab-Israeli conflict at the time of the Six-Day War in 1967 gave birth in some quarters to a radical revision of Jewish-Arab history. At stake was the long-standing, originally Jewish, "myth of the interfaith utopia," in which medieval Muslims and Jews peacefully cohabited in Arab lands - a utopia that many Arabs claimed had continued until the emergence of modern Zionism. Some Jewish writers challenged this notion with a "countermyth of Islamic persecution", suggesting that medieval Jews fared not much better socially and politically under Islamic rule than they did under Christendom. Full of implications for Jewish, Islamic and European historians, both myths form the backdrop of this provocative book, aimed at enriching our understanding of medieval gentile-Jewish relations. It offers an in-depth explanation of why medieval Islamic-Jewish relations, although not utopic, were less confrontational and violent than those between Christians and Jews in the West. The author presents a systematic comparison of the legal, economic and social situations of Jews in medieval Islam and Christendom, offering fresh insights on issues of hierarchy, marginality and ethnicity, persecution and collective memory. His analysis includes differences in theology that helped influence the way Muslims and Christians treated Jews. [via]
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The Upstairs Roomby Johanna ReissISBN 0690851278 (0-690-85127-8)
Hardcover, Ty Crowell Co
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When the German army occupied Holland, Annie de Leeuw was eight years old. Because she was Jewish, the occupation put her in grave danger-she knew that to stay alive she would have to hide. Fortunately, a Gentile family, the Oostervelds, offered to help. For two years they hid Annie and her sister, Sini, in the cramped upstairs room of their farmhouse.
Most people thought the war wouldn't last long. But for Annie and Sini -- separated from their family and confined to one tiny room -- the war seemed to go on forever.
In the part of the marketplace where flowers had been sold twice a week-tulips in the spring, roses in the summer-stood German tanks and German soldiers. Annie de Leeuw was eight years old in 1940 when the Germans attacked Holland and marched into the town of Winterswijk where she lived. Annie was ten when, because she was Jewish and in great danger of being cap-tured by the invaders, she and her sister Sini had to leave their father, mother, and older sister Rachel to go into hiding in the upstairs room of a remote farmhouse.
Johanna de Leeuw Reiss has written a remarkably fresh and moving account of her own experiences as a young girl during World War II. Like many adults she was innocent of the German plans for Jews, and she might have gone to a labor camp as scores of families did. "It won't be for long and the Germans have told us we'll be treated well," those families said. "What can happen?" They did not know, and they could not imagine.... But millions of Jews found out.
Mrs. Reiss's picture of the Oosterveld family with whom she lived, and of Annie and Sini, reflects a deep spirit of optimism, a faith in the ingenuity, backbone, and even humor with which ordinary human beings meet extraordinary challenges. In the steady, matter-of-fact, day-by-day courage they all showed lies a profound strength that transcends the horrors of the long and frightening war. Here is a memorable book, one that will be read and reread for years to come.
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The View from Saturdayby E. L. KonigsburgISBN 0689817215 (0-689-81721-5)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The View from Saturday'Book summary:A powerhouse sixth-grade Academic Bowl team from Epiphany Middle School; the art of calligraphy; the retirees of Century Village, Florida; a genius dog named Ginger; and a holiday production of "Annie" all figure heavily in the latest book by E. L. Konigsburg, who has produced a Newbery Medal-winning children's tale to rival her classic From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler, which won the Newbery Medal almost 30 years ago. The new book centers around a group of four brilliant, shy 12-year-olds and the tea party they have each Saturday morning. Konigsburg's wacky erudition and her knack for offbeat characters make this a funny and endearing story of friendship. [via]
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What I Like about Passoverby Varda LivneyISBN 0689844913 (0-689-84491-3)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing
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What Is Hannukah?by Harriet Ziefert, Rick BrownISBN 0694004839 (0-694-00483-9)
Softcover, HarperCollins Publishers
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What My Mother Doesn't Knowby Sonya SonesISBN 0689855532 (0-689-85553-2)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'What My Mother Doesn't Know'Book summary:Meet Sophie. She sees herself as the too-tall "Mount Everest of teenage girls," who, along with her friends, often suffers from "lackonookie disease." She's dating smoky, sexy Dylan, covertly chatting online with "cybersoul"-mate Chaz, and secretly nursing a crush on sweet, geeky Murphy. Her two best friends are closer to her than sisters, and she "hates hating" her soap opera-addicted mom, wishing "she would show half as much interest in my life as she does in Luke and Laura's." In other words, Sophie is a typical teenage girl. What is not so typical is how author Sonia Sones records all of Sophie's thoughts in a freewheeling verse that is such a naked outpouring of inner longing, most readers will blush in embarrassed recognition of their own remembered or current teenage desires. Sones gently leads both the reader and Sophie towards an understanding of the difference between love and lust as Sophie slowly comes to realize that Dylan's outsides are no match for Murphy's insides. Autobiographical of Sones, perhaps? The author claims it isn't so, and she's probably right. With her frank manner, lusty thoughts, and hidden insecurities, Sophie reflects many teenage girls, past and present. No woman will be able to read this heartfelt verse novel and not find a bit of herself in Sophie's secret, sexy thoughts. Sones's decadent, almost shamefully delicious collection of angst poems is a loving and amazingly accurate tribute to adolescent girlhood. (Ages 12 and older) --Jennifer Hubert [via]
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When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbitby Judith KerrISBN 0698115899 (0-698-11589-9)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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The World's Great ClassicsISBN 0717200019 (0-7172-0001-9)
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Find This BookBook summary:Odyssey, The: The World's Great Classics, by Homer; tr. by S.H. Butcher and Andrew Lang [via]
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Young Heroes of the Bibleby Kirk Douglas, Dom LeeISBN 0689814917 (0-689-81491-7)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Young Heroes of the Bible'Book summary:What makes a young person a hero? Is it standing up to a gigantic bully? Is it offering a thirsty stranger a drink of water? Or is it learning humility from your older brothers?
In five stories from the Bible and the Midrash, legendary actor and acclaimed author Kirk Douglas examines how the greatest biblical characters performed deeds of heroism even at young ages. You'll learn how little Abraham put his father's idol shop out of business; how Miriam saved her brother Moses from the pharaoh's death sentence; how Joseph overcame a bad case of self-importance to become a great leader; and how little David, the shepherd, slew the mighty giant Goliath.
In telling these timeless stories, Kirk Douglas remembers his own childhood in Amsterdam, New York, where he first heard these in Sunday school, and how they affected him throughout his childhood and his long career in Hollywood. The warmth and humor of his recollections will touch you as the stories of young heroes will inspire. [via]
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The Zionist Idea: A Historical Analysis and Readerby Arthur HertzbergISBN 0689700938 (0-689-70093-8)
Softcover, Macmillan Pub Co
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