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Alibiby Joseph KanonISBN 0312425902 (0-312-42590-2)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
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Ancient Israelby Harry M. OrlinskyISBN 0313235597 (0-313-23559-7)
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The Archivistby Martha CooleyISBN 0316158461 (0-316-15846-1)
Softcover, Little Brown & Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Archivist'Book summary:Matthias Lane is the proud gatekeeper to countless objects of desire, the greatest among them being T.S. Eliot's letters to Emily Hale. Now in his late 60s and archivist at an unnamed East Coast university, Matthias is--as one of his colleagues tells him--"exceptionally well defended." He's intent on keeping the Hale collection equally remote, and when a young poet first seeks access, Matthias rebuffs her with little difficulty. Still, Roberta Spire does remind him of his wife, Judith, who had also written poetry but had committed suicide 20 years earlier. And he is much taken with the student's self-possession: "Pleading never works with me," he concedes, "but authentic and angry self-interest does."
Betrayal figures heavily in The Archivist. For starters, Roberta feels betrayed by her parents, German Jews who had spent World War II in hiding and emigrated to the U.S. soon afterward, re-creating themselves as Christians. She has only recently discovered her Jewish background. The irony is that Matthias's wife had also been an Eliot adept and had felt violated by a false version of her own past and destroyed when confronted with the realities of the Holocaust. No wonder Roberta sees the Hale letters as a Holy Grail, the key to her questions about religious conversion and identity.
What holds this exceptionally ambitious and layered first novel together is the love all three main characters have for the pleasures of the text and the knowledge they share that time is, as Eliot writes, both preserver and destroyer. Eliot, after all, had wanted Emily Hale to destroy his letters (and in reality they are sealed until 2020, safe at Princeton University). Martha Cooley is deeply concerned, as are her characters, with questions of conscience, privacy, action and inaction, and security--personal and scholarly. If there is one parallel too many in this impressive work, perhaps that is more like life than some of us care to admit. --Kerry Fried [via]
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The Battle for Godby Karen ArmstrongISBN 0345391691 (0-345-39169-1)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Battle for God'Book summary:About 40 years ago popular opinion assumed that religion would become a weaker force and people would certainly become less zealous as the world became more modern and morals more relaxed. But the opposite has proven true, according to theologian and author Karen Armstrong (A History of God), who documents how fundamentalism has taken root and grown in many of the world's major religions, such as Christianity, Islam, and Judaism. Even Buddhism, Sikhism, Hinduism, and Confucianism have developed fundamentalist factions. Reacting to a technologically driven world with liberal Western values, fundamentalists have not only increased in numbers, they have become more desperate, claims Armstrong, who points to the Oklahoma City bombing, violent anti-abortion crusades, and the assassination of President Yitzak Rabin as evidence of dangerous extremes.
Yet she also acknowledges the irony of how fundamentalism and Western materialism seem to urge each other on to greater excesses. To "prevent an escalation of the conflict, we must try and understand the pain and perception of the other side," she pleads. With her gift for clear, engaging writing and her integrity as a thorough researcher, Armstrong delivers a powerful discussion of a globally heated issue. Part history lesson, part wake-up call, and mostly a plea for healing, Armstrong's writing continues to offer a religious mirror and a cultural vision. --Gail Hudson [via]
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Bible and Sword: England and Palestine from the Bronze Age to Balfourby Barbara Wertheim TuchmanISBN 0345314271 (0-345-31427-1)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Bible and Sword: England and Palestine from the Bronze Age to Balfour'Book summary:With the lucidity and vividness that characterize all her work, two-time Pulitzer Prize winning historian, Barbara Tuchman, explores the complex relationship of Britain to Palestine that led to the founding of the modern Jewish state--and to many of the problems that plague the Middle East today.
"Barbara Tuchman is a wise and witty writer, a shrewd observer with a lively command of high drama."
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Brothersby Bernice RubensISBN 0349130132 (0-349-13013-2)
Softcover, Little, Brown Book Group Limited
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Burnt Bread & Chutney: Growing Up Between Cultures - A Memoir of an Indian Jewish Girlby Carmit DelmanISBN 0345445945 (0-345-44594-5)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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Child at Warby Mark BlesISBN 0340491175 (0-340-49117-5)
Hardcover, Hodder & Stoughton
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A Chosen Few: The Resurrection of European Jewryby Mark KurlanskyISBN 0345448146 (0-345-44814-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Chosen Few: The Resurrection of European Jewry'Book summary:A POWERFUL, DEEPLY MOVING NARRATIVE OF HOPE REBORN
IN THE SHADOW OF DESPAIR
Fifty years after it was bombed to rubble, Berlin is once again a city in which Jews gather for the Passover seder. Paris and Antwerp have recently emerged as important new centers of Jewish culture. Small but proud Jewish communities are revitalizing the ancient centers of Budapest, Prague, and Amsterdam. These brave, determined Jewish men and women have chosen to settleor remainin Europe after the devastation of the Holocaust, but they have paid a price. Among the unexpected dangers, they have had to cope with an alarming resurgence of Nazism in Europe, the spread of Arab terrorism, and the impact of the Jewish state on European life.
Delving into the intimate stories of European Jews from all walks of life, Kurlansky weaves together a vivid tapestry of individuals sustaining their traditions, and flourishing, in the shadow of history. An inspiring story of a tenacious people who have rebuilt their lives in the face of incomprehensible horror, A Chosen Few is a testament to cultural survival and a celebration of the deep bonds that endure between Jews and European civilization.
Consistently absorbing . . . A Chosen Few investigates the relatively uncharted territory of an encouraging phenomenon.
Los Angeles Times
I can think of no book that portrays with such intelligence, historical understanding, and journalistic flair what life has been like for Jews determined to build lives in Europe.
SUSAN MIRON
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City Of Glassby Paul Karasik, Paul Auster, David Mazzucchelli, Art SpiegelmanISBN 0312423608 (0-312-42360-8)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'City Of Glass'Book summary:I cannot possibly offer enough praise for David Mazzucchelli and Paul Karasik 's adaptation of City of Glass. While some critics found it to be a dry choice of books to turn into a comics, I think the interplay between image and text only heightens the original metafictional narrative. The treatment of the first speech by the crazy antagonist, Peter Stillman--in which the word balloons trail from random objects such as a broken television and a bottle of ink--is brilliant. Neon Lit: Paul Auster's City of Glass deftly illustrates why comics is a perfect format for exploring fictions about text: the words become visible objects of the story. [via]
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The Collected Stories of Isaac Bashevis Singerby Isaac Bashevis SingerISBN 0374517886 (0-374-51788-6)
Softcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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The Collected Works of Bruno Schulzby David Grossman, Bruno Schulz, Jerzy FicowskiISBN 0330347837 (0-330-34783-7)
Softcover, Pan Macmillan
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Collected Works of Bruno Schulz'Book summary:Brings together Bruno Schulz's stories, letters and drawings in one volume. Schulz is the author of two collections of stories, "Cinnamon Shops" and "Sanatorium under the Sign of the Hourglass". [via]
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Daniel Derondaby A. S. Byatt, George EliotISBN 0375411232 (0-375-41123-2)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Daniel Deronda'Book summary:George Eliots last and most unconventional novel is considered by many to be her greatest. First published in 1876, Daniel Deronda is a richly imagined epic with a mysterious hero at its heart.
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Daniel Deronda, a high-minded young man searching for his path in life, finds himself drawn by a series of dramatic encounters into two contrasting worlds: the English country-house life of Gwendolen Harleth, a high-spirited beauty trapped in an oppressive marriage to a wealthy man, and the very different life of a poor Jewish girl, Mirah, who is searching for her family. After rescuing Mirah from an attempt to drown herself in the Thames, Deronda accompanies her on her quest into Londons Jewish community, which he finds unexpectedly appealing. Gwendolen, meanwhile, increasingly relies on his support as she suffers from the consequences of her mistakes and the terror that she has brought a curse upon herself. As Deronda uncovers the surprising secret of his own parentage, Eliots moving and suspenseful narrative opens up a world of Jewish experience previously unknown to the Victorian novel.More editions of Daniel Deronda:
The Devil's Doorby Sharan NewmanISBN 031285420X (0-312-85420-X)
Hardcover, St Martins Pr
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A Diary of the Nazi Years 1942-1945 Vol. 2by Victor Klemperer, Michael ChalmersISBN 0375502408 (0-375-50240-8)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Diary of the Nazi Years 1942-1945 Vol. 2'Book summary:The second volume of Victor Klemperer's searing diary, kept in secret during the 12 years he suffered under the Nazi regime, covers the period from 1942 to 1945. The humiliations visited on even such "privileged" Jews as Klemperer (whose wife was Aryan) grew increasingly severe, with house searches, arbitrary arrests, and brutal beatings becoming virtually routine. The 60-year-old historian is forced to shovel snow despite his heart condition; hunger gnaws at him as rations are mercilessly cut. Yet he clings to an intellectual life, continuing his reading and making notes on the lies and obfuscations of official Nazi discourse that would become his postwar masterpiece, Lingua Tertii Imperii. "The Russians, who have only just been annihilated, are tremendous and quite inexhaustible opponents," he notes sardonically after reading a mendacious fascist article in 1942. His lengthy account of his escape with his wife from Dresden after the Allied bombings of 1945 unforgettably captures the chaos of World War II's final days and the mixed feelings of a Jew who could never wholeheartedly gloat over the defeat of the nation that had persecuted him. Above all, his unflinching depiction of human nature and society in extremis amply justifies his cherished belief that even the Nazis "cannot prevent language from testifying to the truth." --Wendy Smith [via]
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Dreamland : Europeans and Jews in the Aftermath of the Great Warby Howard Morley SacharISBN 0375409149 (0-375-40914-9)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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The End of the Peace Process: Oslo and Afterby Edward W. SaidISBN 0375409300 (0-375-40930-0)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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An End To Evil: How To Win The War On Terrorby Richard Perle, David FrumISBN 0345477170 (0-345-47717-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'An End To Evil: How To Win The War On Terror'Book summary:An End to Evil charts the agenda for whats next in the war on terrorism, as articulated by David Frum, former presidential speechwriter and bestselling author of The Right Man, and Richard Perle, former assistant secretary of defense and one of the most influential foreign-policy leaders in Washington.
This world is an unsafe place for Americansand the U.S. government remains unready to defend its people. In An End to Evil, David Frum and Richard Perle sound the alert about the dangers around us: the continuing threat from terrorism, the crisis with North Korea, the aggressive ambitions of China. Frum and Perle provide a detailed, candid account of Americas vulnerabilities: a military whose leaders resist change, intelligence agencies mired in bureaucracy, diplomats who put friendly relations with their foreign colleagues ahead of the nations interests. Perle and Frum lay out a bold program to defend Americaand to win the war on terror.
Among the topics this book addresses:
" why the United States risks its security if it submits to the authority of the United Nations
" why France and Saudi Arabia have to be treated as adversaries, not allies, in the war on terror
" why the United States must take decisive action against Irannow
" what to do in North Korea if negotiations fail
" why everything you read in the newspapers about the Israeli-Arab dispute is wrong
" how our government must be changed if we are to fight the war on terror to victorynot just stalemate
" where the next great terror threat is coming fromand what we can do to protect ourselves
An End to Evil will define the conservative point of view on foreign policy for a new generationand shape the agenda for the 2004 presidential-election year and beyond. With a keen insiders perspective on how our leaders are confrontingor not confrontingthe war on terrorism, David Frum and Richard Perle make a convincing argument for why the toughest line is the safest line.
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Enemiesby Elizabeth Shub, Isaac Bashevis Singer, Aliza ShevrinISBN 0374515220 (0-374-51522-0)
Softcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Enemies'Book summary:Almost before he knows it, Herman Broder, refugee and survivor of World War II, has three wives: Yadwiga, the Polish peasant who hid him from the Nazis; Masha , his beautiful and neurotic true love; and Tamara, his first wife, miraculously returned from the dead. Astonished by each new complication, and yet resigned to a life of evasion, Herman navigates a crowded, Yiddish New York with a sense of perpetually impending doom.[via]More editions of Enemies:
Enemies, a Love Storyby Isaac Bashevis SingerISBN 0374148309 (0-374-14830-9)
Hardcover, Farrar, Straus and Giroux
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Fierce Attachments: A Memoirby Vivian GornickISBN 0374529965 (0-374-52996-5)
Softcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Fierce Attachments: A Memoir'Book summary:Rarely is the barbed edge of mother love described with such scorching wit and raw emotion as it is in Vivian Gornick's reissued memoir. Fierce Attachments zigzags between a Bronx tenement teeming with immigrants in the 1940s and New York in the 1980s. It chronicles an almighty struggle between the author and her mother, a stubborn rabble-rouser bursting with tart, angry pronouncements, moxie, and an undeniable measure of charm. Waving away an "Eastern religionist" trying to sell her on his god, she raps out: "Young man, I am a Jew and a socialist. I think that's more than enough for one lifetime, don't you?" Her husband's untimely death is the occasion for such wild histrionics--screaming, refusing to walk, flinging herself into the grave--that when Gornick works the Middle East years later as a journalist, the ululating cries and fainting mourners at funerals seem comfortably familiar. The rapid-fire flow of confidences and furious arguments between the duo mellow slightly, believably, as they grow older together. [via]
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Fighting Terrorism: How Democracies Can Defeat Domestic and International Terrorismby Binyamin NetanyahuISBN 0374524971 (0-374-52497-1)
Softcover, Noonday Pr
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Foreverby Peter HamillISBN 0316735698 (0-316-73569-8)
Softcover, Little Brown & Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Forever'Book summary:This is the magical, epic tale of Cormac O'Connor, who arrives in New York City from Ireland in 1741 and remains, well, forever. For Cormac has been given the gift of immortality, but only on the condition that he never leave the island of Manhattan. Through Cormac's eyes, we watch the city transform from a burgeoning settlement on the tip of an untamed wilderness to the romantic, gaslit world of Edith Wharton's time, and finally to the pulsing, thriving metropolis of the present day. But this is also Cormac's story, as he explores the mysteries of time and immortality, death and loss, sex and love. Though his life is proof of enduring magic, the living of it takes place in a world that can be gloriously, or terribly, real. [via]
A Frost in the Nightby Edith BaerISBN 0374424829 (0-374-42482-9)
Softcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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God in Search of Man: A Philosophy of Judaismby Abraham Joshua HeschelISBN 0374513317 (0-374-51331-7)
Softcover, Noonday Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'God in Search of Man: A Philosophy of Judaism'Book summary:God in Search of Man: A Philosophy of Judaism is among Abraham Joshua Heschel's most comprehensive studies of the Jewish religion. It is a work of impeccable scholarship conveyed with absolute clarity, in a spirit of utmost reverence and compassion. "Religion is an answer to man's ultimate questions," Heschel declares on the book's first page. Religion that forgets its roots in humanity's lived experience, religion that inadequately addresses the earthly realities of life, Heschel says, is false religion. And yet, Heschel asserts that religion is not a vehicle by which humanity draws closer to God; it is always God who reaches out to humanity through religion. "Judaism is God's quest for man. The Bible is a record of God's approach to His people. More statements are found in the Bible about God's love for Israel than about Israel's love for God."
God in Search of Man is almost as exhausting as it is exhaustive. Detailed analyses of "Awe," "Wonder," and "Glory" stand alongside discourses on religion and time, the nature of prophesy, and the problem of evil. Heschel's encyclopedic knowledge of and omnivorous interest in the nature of Judaism is, for most readers, more productively taken in small doses than swallowed whole. The book's table of contents, however, will get a considerable workout over the years, as readers return again and again to find Heschel's opinions about various aspects of spiritual life. --Michael Joseph Gross [via]
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Great Neckby Jay CantorISBN 0375413944 (0-375-41394-4)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Great Neck'Book summary:From the much-praised author of Krazy Kat and The Death of Che Guevara, the tumultuous story of a group of friends growing up idealistic, radical, and romantic in the sixties and seventies.
We enter their lives in 1960 as a sixth-grade class of Great Neck kidsmost of them Jewishlearns for the first time, in horrifying detail, about the Holocaust, with its moral imperative to make justice in the world. When the older brother of one of the students is murdered in Mississippi during Freedom Summer, they think they have found their mission, and when they receive letters from him seemingly written after his death, a heady mystical dimension is added that impels them into the civil rights and peace movements, joining their lives to a multitude of others.
Among the huge cast of characters: a boy-genius comic-book artist, who transforms their gang into Superheroes. The lovely long-legged sister of the boy who was murdered and the brilliant kid brother of the black activist killed with him. The gay son of a wealthy art collector, who introduces his friends
to the wild and sometimes dangerous New York art scene. The beautiful daughter of a Holocaust survivor, who joins the ultraradical Weathermen; the quantum physics whiz and Christian mystic who becomes her bomb-maker; and a Black Power leader, who will accompany her and others into their last and most extreme act.
Great Neck brings us inside privileged Long Island childhoods and into the churches and juke joints
and jails of Mississippi, into underground meetings and protest marches fueled by a potent mix of sex, politics, and drugs. It reminds us of the optimism, courage, and dangerous dreams of a generation who sometimes seemed to think they must be superheroes. Above all, Great Neck is the compelling portrait of complex, appealing young men and women shaping and being shaped by the momentous events of their time. [via]More editions of Great Neck:
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A History of Israelby John BrightISBN 0334006244 (0-334-00624-4)
Hardcover, S.C.M. Press
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A History of Israel'Book summary:Unsurpassed for nearly half a century, and now with a new introduction and appendix by William P. Brown, John Bright's A History of Israel will continue to be a standard for a new generation of students of the Old Testament. This book remains a classic in the literature of theological education.
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A History Of The Jews In The Modern Worldby Howard Morley SacharISBN 0375414975 (0-375-41497-5)
Hardcover, Alfred a Knopf Inc
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In My Father's Courtby Isaac Bashevis SingerISBN 0374505926 (0-374-50592-6)
Softcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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Incantationby Alice HoffmanISBN 0316010197 (0-316-01019-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Incantation'Book summary:From a New York Times bestselling author comes a journey ofloss and rebirth with a startling premise inspired by historical fact.Estrella is a Marrano: one of the Spanish Jews living double lives whenthose who refused conversion risked everything. Estrella's discovery thather family secretly practices the ancient way of wisdom known as kabbalahleads her to her true self and true love-but also to a devastatingconfrontation with unimaginable evil, unleashed by the betrayal of afriend. With themes of faith, friendship, and persecution, Alice Hoffman'stragic and beautiful novel resonates profoundly in our times. [via]
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The Invisible Wall: A Love Story That Broke Barriersby Harry BernsteinISBN 0345495802 (0-345-49580-2)
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The Jews in the Modern World: A History Since 1750by W. D. Rubinstein, Abraham J. Edelheit, Hilary L Rubinstein, Dan Cohn-SherbokISBN 0340691638 (0-340-69163-8)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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Jude the Obscureby Thomas HardyISBN 0333168976 (0-333-16897-6)
Hardcover, Trafalgar Square
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Jude the Obscure'Book summary:This is the story of a struggle between the flesh and spirit. It concerns Jude Fawley, a young Wessex villager of exceptional promise, who goes to Oxford, contracts a loveless marriage and becomes embroiled in a doomed love affair with his cousin. [via]
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Ladies Auxiliaryby Tova MirvisISBN 0345441265 (0-345-44126-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Ladies Auxiliary'Book summary:When free-spirited Batsheva moves into the close-knit Orthodox community of Memphis, Tennessee, the already precarious relationship between the Ladies Auxiliary and their teenage daughters is shaken to the core. In this extraordinary novel, Tova Mirvis takes us into the fascinating and insular world of the Memphis Orthodox Jews, one ripe with tradition and contradiction. Warm and wise, enchanting and funny, The Ladies Auxiliary brilliantly illuminates the timeless struggle between mothers and daughters, family and self, religious freedom and personal revelation, honoring the past and facing the future. An unforgettable story of uncommon atmosphere, profound insight, and winning humor, The Ladies Auxiliary is a triumphant work of fiction. [via]
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The Last Jewby Noah GordonISBN 0312978391 (0-312-97839-1)
Softcover, St. Martin's Press
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Last Waltz in Viennaby George ClareISBN 033049077X (0-330-49077-X)
Softcover, Pan Books Ltd
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Letting Goby Philip Roth, James AtlasISBN 0374517010 (0-374-51701-0)
Softcover, Farrar, Straus & Giroux
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The Lexus and the Olive Treeby Thomas L. FriedmanISBN 0374185522 (0-374-18552-2)
Hardcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Lexus and the Olive Tree'Book summary:One day in 1992, Thomas Friedman toured a Lexus factory in Japan and marveled at the robots that put the luxury cars together. That evening, as he ate sushi on a Japanese bullet train, he read a story about yet another Middle East squabble between Palestinians and Israelis. And it hit him: Half the world was lusting after those Lexuses, or at least the brilliant technology that made them possible, and the other half was fighting over who owned which olive tree.
Friedman, the well-traveled New York Times foreign-affairs columnist, peppers The Lexus and the Olive Tree with stories that illustrate his central theme: that globalization--the Lexus--is the central organizing principle of the post-cold war world, even though many individuals and nations resist by holding onto what has traditionally mattered to them--the olive tree.
Problem is, few of us understand what exactly globalization means. As Friedman sees it, the concept, at first glance, is all about American hegemony, about Disneyfication of all corners of the earth. But the reality, thank goodness, is far more complex than that, involving international relations, global markets, and the rise of the power of individuals (Bill Gates, Osama Bin Laden) relative to the power of nations.
No one knows how all this will shake out, but The Lexus and the Olive Tree is as good an overview of this sometimes brave, sometimes fearful new world as you'll find. --Lou Schuler [via]
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The Lexus and the Olive Tree: Understanding Globalizationby Thomas L. FriedmanISBN 0374192030 (0-374-19203-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Lexus and the Olive Tree: Understanding Globalization'Book summary:One day in 1992, Thomas Friedman toured a Lexus factory in Japan and marveled at the robots that put the luxury cars together. That evening, as he ate sushi on a Japanese bullet train, he read a story about yet another Middle East squabble between Palestinians and Israelis. And it hit him: Half the world was lusting after those Lexuses, or at least the brilliant technology that made them possible, and the other half was fighting over who owned which olive tree.
Friedman, the well-traveled New York Times foreign-affairs columnist, peppers The Lexus and the Olive Tree with stories that illustrate his central theme: that globalization--the Lexus--is the central organizing principle of the post-cold war world, even though many individuals and nations resist by holding onto what has traditionally mattered to them--the olive tree.
Problem is, few of us understand what exactly globalization means. As Friedman sees it, the concept, at first glance, is all about American hegemony, about Disneyfication of all corners of the earth. But the reality, thank goodness, is far more complex than that, involving international relations, global markets, and the rise of the power of individuals (Bill Gates, Osama Bin Laden) relative to the power of nations.
No one knows how all this will shake out, but The Lexus and the Olive Tree is as good an overview of this sometimes brave, sometimes fearful new world as you'll find. --Lou Schuler [via]
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Little Man: Meyer Lansky and the Gangster Lifeby Robert LaceyISBN 0316511633 (0-316-51163-3)
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Marjorie Morningstarby Herman WoukISBN 0316955132 (0-316-95513-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Marjorie Morningstar'Book summary:A starry-eyed young beauty, Marjorie Morgenstern is nineteen years old when she leaves New York to accept the job of her dreams-working in a summer-stock company for Noel Airman, its talented and intensely charismatic director. Released from the social constraints of her traditional Jewish family, and thrown into the glorious, colorful world of theater, Marjorie finds herself entangled in a powerful affair with the man destined to become the greatest-and the most destructive-love of her life.Rich with humor and poignancy, Marjorie Morningstar is a classic love story, one that spans two continents and two decades in the life of its heroine. This unforgettable paean to youthful love and the bittersweet sorrow of a first heartbreak endures as one of Herman Wouk's most beloved creations.[via]More editions of Marjorie Morningstar:
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Masters of Death : The SS-Einsatzgruppen and the Invention of the Holocaustby Richard RhodesISBN 0375409009 (0-375-40900-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Masters of Death : The SS-Einsatzgruppen and the Invention of the Holocaust'Book summary:Masters of Death is Richard Rhodes's chronological account of the Third Reich's Einsatzgruppen (a hand-picked task force) and its death work--the executions of 1.5 million people, Jews and non-Jews--in Russia and Eastern Europe from 1941 through 1943. Rhodes sees these operations (the victims were, almost exclusively, shot) as a ghastly prelude to the subsequent (and much more written-about) horrors of the death camps. In chilling--and occasionally excessive--detail, Rhodes describes the killings and the reasons behind the Reich's cautious, rather than precipitous, escalation of the same: the military's "concern for German and world opinion"; the need to improve methodology; and finally, the need to "condition" the troops, thereby avoiding "disabling trauma." Rhodes makes good use of firsthand accounts and outlines the effects the larger war (Pearl Harbor; the failure to defeat Britain) had on Hitler's attempted obliteration of European Jewry. His chapters on the nature of evil seem hurried and not particularly fresh. --H. O'Billovich [via]
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The Matzo Ball Heiressby Laurie ShapiroISBN 0373250533 (0-373-25053-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Matzo Ball Heiress'Book summary:Q: How does Heather Greenblotz, the thirty-one-year-old heiress to the world's leading matzo company, celebrate Passover?
A: Alone. In her Manhattan apartment. With an extremely unkosher ham and cheese panini.
But this year will be different. The Food Network has asked to film the famous Greenblotz Matzo family's seder, and the publicity op is too good to, hem, pass over. Heather is being courted by the handsome director and the subtly sexy cameraman, and she's got family coming out of her ears. It's enough to make a formerly dateless heiress feel like a princess.
Here's hoping that no one will discover that a Greenblotz family seder is about as real as the Easter bunny.
With the "family" cast of her mailman as her uncle, an ancient shopkeeper as Grandma, and her best friend as . . .well, her best friend, Heather thinks she's pulled it off. Until her bisexual father, his lover and her estranged mother stage an unexpected walk-on. As the live broadcast threatens to become a Greenblotz family expose, Heather must dig deep to find faith in love, family and, most of all, herself . . . [via]
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A Moral Reckoning : The Role of the Catholic Church in the Holocaust and Its Unfulfilled Duty of Repairby Daniel Jonah GoldhagenISBN 0375414347 (0-375-41434-7)
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The Museum Guardby Howard NormanISBN 0374216495 (0-374-21649-5)
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The Napoleon of Crime: The Life and Times of Adam Worth. Master Thiefby Ben MacIntyreISBN 0374218994 (0-374-21899-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Napoleon of Crime: The Life and Times of Adam Worth. Master Thief'Book summary:Arthur Conan Doyle fictionalized him as the superhuman Professor Moriarty, and the popular press luridly chronicled his daring heists, though the police never managed to convict him of anything major until he was nearly 50. Forgotten since his 19th-century heyday, master thief Adam Worth (1844-1902) gets a contemporary dusting-off in this cheerfully cynical biography by a British journalist, who sees Worth's story as a case study in Victorian hypocrisy. The colorful New York and London underworlds are as meticulously described as Worth's surprisingly attractive personality. [via]
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The Nazi Dictatorship: Problems and Perspectives of Interpretationby Ian KershawISBN 0340760281 (0-340-76028-1)
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The Nazi Officer's Wife: How One Jewish Woman Survived the Holocaustby Edith Hahn Beer, Susan DworkinISBN 0316848476 (0-316-84847-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Nazi Officer's Wife: How One Jewish Woman Survived the Holocaust'Book summary:Edith Hahn was an outspoken young woman studying law in Vienna when the Gestapo forced her and her mother into a ghetto, issuing them papers branded with a 'J'. Soon Edith was taken away to a labour camp and when she returned home after months away she found her mother had been deported. Her boyfriend, Pepi, proved too terrified to help her, but a Christian friend was not. Using the woman's identity papers, she fled to Munich. There she met Werner Vetter, a Nazi party member who fell in love with her and, despite her protests and even her eventual confession that she was Jewish, he married her and kept her identity secret. In this account, Edith recalls a life of constant, almost paralyzing fear. She tells of German officials who casually questioned the lineage of her parents; of how when giving birth to her daughter, she refused all painkillers, afraid that in an altered state of mind she might reveal something of her past; and of how, after her husband was captured by the Russian Army and sent to Siberia, Edith was bombed out of her house and had to hide at night with her daughter in a closet while drunken Russian soldiers raped women in the streets. [via]
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On Photographyby Susan SontagISBN 0374226261 (0-374-22626-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'On Photography'Book summary:Susan Sontag's On Photography is a seminal and groundbreaking work on the subject. Susan Sontag's groundbreaking critique of photography asks forceful questions about the moral and aesthetic issues surrounding this art form. Photographs are everywhere, and the 'insatiability of the photographing eye' has profoundly altered our relationship with the world. Photographs have the power to shock, idealize or seduce, they create a sense of nostalgia and act as a memorial, and they can be used as evidence against us or to identify us. In these six incisive essays, Sontag examines the ways in which we use these omnipresent images to manufacture a sense of reality and authority in our lives. "Sontag offers enough food for thought to satisfy the most intellectual of appetites". (The Times). "A brilliant analysis of the profound changes photographic images have made in our way of looking at the world, and at ourselves". (Washington Post). "The most original and illuminating study of the subject". (New Yorker). One of America's best-known and most admired writers, Susan Sontag was also a leading commentator on contemporary culture until her death in December 2004. Her books include four novels and numerous works of non-fiction, among them Regarding the Pain of Others, On Photography, Illness as Metaphor, At the Same Time, Against Interpretation and Other Essays and Reborn: Early Diaries 1947-1963, all of which are published by Penguin. A further eight books, including the collections of essays Under the Sign of Saturn and Where the Stress Falls, and the novels The Volcano Lover and The Benefactor, are available from Penguin Modern Classics. [via]
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Organized Anti-Semitism in America: The Rise of Group Prejudice During the Decade 1930-1940by Donald S. Strong, Clyde R. MillerISBN 0313208832 (0-313-20883-2)
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A Palestine Affair : A Novelby Jonathan WilsonISBN 0375422099 (0-375-42209-9)
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The Pieces from Berlinby Michael PyeISBN 0375414363 (0-375-41436-3)
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The Professor of Desireby Philip RothISBN 0374237565 (0-374-23756-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Professor of Desire'Book summary:As a student in college, David Kepesh styles himself a rake among scholars, a scholar among rakes. Little does he realize how prophetic this motto will beor how damning. For as Philip Roth follows Kepesh from the domesticity of childhood into the vast wilderness of erotic possibility, from a ménage a trois in London to the throes of loneliness in New York, he creates a supremely intelligent, affecting, and often hilarious novel about the dilemma of pleasure: where we seek it; why we flee it; and how we struggle to make a truce between dignity and desire. Philip Roth is a great historian of modern eroticism. . . . [He] speaks of a sexuality that questions itself; it is still hedonism, but it is problematic, wounded, ironic hedonism. His is the uncommon union of confession and irony. Infinitely vulnerable in his sincerity and infinitely elusive in his irony. Milan Kundera A thoughtful . . . elegant novel. . . . A fine display of literary skills. The New York Times Book Review [via]
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The Readerby Bernhard Schlink, Carol Brown JanewayISBN 0375408266 (0-375-40826-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Reader'Book summary:Oprah Book Club® Selection, February 1999: Originally published in Switzerland, and gracefully translated into English by Carol Brown Janeway, The Reader is a brief tale about sex, love, reading, and shame in postwar Germany. Michael Berg is 15 when he begins a long, obsessive affair with Hanna, an enigmatic older woman. He never learns very much about her, and when she disappears one day, he expects never to see her again. But, to his horror, he does. Hanna is a defendant in a trial related to Germany's Nazi past, and it soon becomes clear that she is guilty of an unspeakable crime. As Michael follows the trial, he struggles with an overwhelming question: What should his generation do with its knowledge of the Holocaust? "We should not believe we can comprehend the incomprehensible, we may not compare the incomparable.... Should we only fall silent in revulsion, shame, and guilt? To what purpose?"
The Reader, which won the Boston Book Review's Fisk Fiction Prize, wrestles with many more demons in its few, remarkably lucid pages. What does it mean to love those people--parents, grandparents, even lovers--who committed the worst atrocities the world has ever known? And is any atonement possible through literature? Schlink's prose is clean and pared down, stripped of unnecessary imagery, dialogue, and excess in any form. What remains is an austerely beautiful narrative of the attempt to breach the gap between Germany's pre- and postwar generations, between the guilty and the innocent, and between words and silence. --R. Ellis [via]
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Red Mafiya: How the Russian Mob Has Invaded Americaby Robert I. FriedmanISBN 0316294748 (0-316-29474-8)
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Regarding the Pain of Othersby Susan SontagISBN 0374248583 (0-374-24858-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Regarding the Pain of Others'Book summary:A brilliant, clear-eyed new consideration of the visual representation of violence in our culture--its ubiquity, meanings, and effects[via]
Watching the evening news offers constant evidence of atrocity--a daily commonplace in our "society of spectacle." But are viewers inured -or incited--to violence by the daily depiction of cruelty and horror? Is the viewer's perception of reality eroded by the universal availability of imagery intended to shock?
In her first full-scale investigation of the role of imagery in our culture since her now-classic book On Photography defined the terms of the debate twenty-five years ago, Susan Sontag cuts through circular arguments about how pictures can inspire dissent or foster violence as she takes a fresh look at the representation of atrocity--from Goya's The Disasters of War to photographs of the American Civil War, lynchings of blacks in the South, and Dachau and Auschwitz to contemporary horrific images of Bosnia, Sierra Leone, Rwanda, and New York City on September 11, 2001.
As John Berger wrote when On Photography was first published, "All future discussions or analysis of the role of photography in the affluent mass-media societies is now bound to begin with her book." Sontag's new book, a startling reappraisal of the intersection of "information", "news," "art," and politics in the contemporary depiction of war and disaster, will be equally essential. It will forever alter our thinking about the uses and meanings of images in our world.More editions of Regarding the Pain of Others:
The Rest of Us: The Rise of America's Eastern European Jewsby Steven BirminghamISBN 0316096474 (0-316-09647-4)
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The Sabbathby Abraham Joshua HeschelISBN 0374529752 (0-374-52975-2)
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The Sabbathby Abraham J. Heschel, Ilya SchorISBN 0374512671 (0-374-51267-1)
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Satan in Gorayby Isaac Bashevis Singer, Jacob Sloan, Ruth R. WisseISBN 0374524793 (0-374-52479-3)
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Satan in Gorayby Jacob Sloan, Isaac Bashevis SingerISBN 0374254044 (0-374-25404-4)
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The Secret Alliance: The Extraordinary Story of the Rescue of the Jews Since World War IIby Ted SzulcISBN 0374249466 (0-374-24946-6)
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See Under: Loveby David GrossmanISBN 0374525196 (0-374-52519-6)
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The Talmud and the Internet: A Journey Between Worldsby Jonathan RosenISBN 0374272387 (0-374-27238-7)
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The Talmud : The Steinsaltz Editionby Adin SteinsaltzISBN 0375502475 (0-375-50247-5)
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Talmud, the Steinsaltz Edition: Tractate Sanhedrinby Adin SteinsaltzISBN 0375501827 (0-375-50182-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Talmud, the Steinsaltz Edition: Tractate Sanhedrin'Book summary:The Talmud: The Steinsaltz Edition makes Judaism's great compendium of tradition, law, and legend accessible in modern English for the first time.
Accepted as the authoritative basis for all subsequent codifications of Jewish law and practice, the multivolume Babylonian Talmud has been studied constantly by Jewish communities throughout the world since its completion in the sixth century.
Yet, for most people, the complexity of the Talmud's Hebrew and Aramaic text is an impenetrable barrier to its riches. Furthermore, the Talmud's unique system of logic and argumentation often baffles even experienced readers.
The Talmud: The Steinsaltz Edition makes it possible at last for everyone to read the Talmud, because it's more than just a translation. Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz becomes your personal instructor, guiding you through the intricate paths of Talmudic logic and thought. His extensive introductions and commentaries clarify the text by providing all the background information needed to follow it, while his illustrated marginal notes supply fascinating insight into daily life in Talmudic times.
Tractate Sanhedrin, Part III, covers chapters four through six of the tractate, and continues the discussion of judicial procedures in civil and criminal cases. It addresses the rules governing the cross- examination of witnesses and explores cases in which witnesses contradict one another. Also addressed are cases in which one may act in self-defense. It examines instances in which a judge must compensate a claimant for his own mistakes, and describes the seating arrangement of the Sanhedrin. Several well-known and beloved aggadic passages also appear in this section. [via]More editions of Talmud, the Steinsaltz Edition: Tractate Sanhedrin:
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The Tragedy of Zionism: Revolution and Democracy in the Land of Israelby Bernard AvishaiISBN 0374520445 (0-374-52044-5)
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The Trialby Franz Kafka, Douglas Scott, Christopher Waller, J. P. SternISBN 033024468X (0-330-24468-X)
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Triangleby Katharine WeberISBN 0374281424 (0-374-28142-4)
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War and Remembranceby Herman WoukISBN 0316954993 (0-316-95499-3)
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Winds of Warby Herman WoukISBN 0316952664 (0-316-95266-4)
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Winds of War War and Remembranceby Herman WoukISBN 0316955027 (0-316-95502-7)
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The World Must Know: The History of the Holocaust As Told in the United States Holocaust Memorial Museumby Michael BerenbaumISBN 0316091340 (0-316-09134-0)
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World Must Know: The History of the Holocaust Memorial Museumby Michael BerenbaumISBN 0316092932 (0-316-09293-2)
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