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The Accidental Empire: Israel And the Birth of the Settlements, 1967-1977by Gershom GorenbergISBN 0805082417 (0-8050-8241-7)
Softcover, Owl Books
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After the Warby Carol MatasISBN 0689807228 (0-689-80722-8)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'After the War'Book summary:"Didn't the gas ovens finish you all off?" is the response that meets Ruth Mendenberg when she returns to her village in Poland after the liberation of Buchenwald at the end of World War II. Her entire family wiped out in the Holocaust, the fifteen-year-old girl has nowhere to go.
Members of the underground organization Brichah find her, and she joins them in their dangerous quest to smuggle illegal immigrants to Palestine. Ruth risks her life to help lead a group of children on a daring journey over half a continent and across the sea to Eretz Israel, using secret routes and forged documents -- and sheer force of will.
This adventure will touch readers, who will marvel at the resources and inner strength of mere children helping other children to find a place in this world in which they can belong. Carol Matas, one of the foremost authors of historical fiction, brings the desperation and passion of this remarkable journey to life. [via]
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Anne Frank Rememberedby Miep Gies, Alison Leslie GoldISBN 0671662341 (0-671-66234-1)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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It seems as if we are never far from Miep's thoughts....Yours, Anne
For the millions moved by Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl, here at last is Miep's own astonishing story. For more than two years, Miep Gies and her husband helped hide the Franks from the Nazis. Like thousands of unsung heroes of the Holocaust, they risked their lives each day to bring food, news, and emotional support to the victims.
From her own remarkable childhood as a World War I refugee to the moment she places a small, red-orange, checkered diary -- Anne's legacy -- in Otto Frank's hands, Miep Gies remembers her days with simple honesty and shattering clarity. Each page rings with courage and heartbreaking beauty. [via]
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- Anne Frank Remembered: ISBN 0833514148 (0-8335-1414-8)
Hardcover, Bt Bound - Anne Frank Remembered: The Story of the Woman Who Helped to Hide the Frank Family: ISBN 0671547712 (0-671-54771-2)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster - Anne Frank Remembered: ISBN 0816143803 (0-8161-4380-3)
Hardcover, Thorndike Pr - Anne Frank Remembered: The Story of the Woman Who Helped to Hide the Frank Family: ISBN 0671662341 (0-671-66234-1)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
- Anne Frank Remembered: ISBN 0833514148 (0-8335-1414-8)
Anne Frank, Beyond the Diary : A Photographic Remembranceby Ruud Van der Rol, Rian Verhoeven, Tony Langham, Plym Peters, Anna QuindlenISBN 0670849324 (0-670-84932-4)
Hardcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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Atlas of Jewish Historyby Martin Gilbert, Arthur BanksISBN 0880290188 (0-88029-018-8)
Softcover, Barnes & Noble, Incorporated
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Atlas of Jewish History'Book summary:This atlas traces the history, the worldwide migrations, the achievements, and the lives of the Jewish people from ancient Mesopotamia to the present day. It is the product of remarkable research and sheds a vivid light on the role of the Jews in their different national settings, their complex history, their reaction to persecution - whether by dispersal, acceptance, or defense - and their enormous contribution to the human experience in many fields over almost four thousand years. The atlas illustrates the enterprise and normalities of Jewish Life as well as the perpetual and irrational violence that has pursued Jews in every century and to almost every corner of the globe. [via]
Chutzpahby Alan M. DershowitzISBN 0671760890 (0-671-76089-0)
Softcover, Touchstone Books
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Cliffsnotes Oliver Twistby Harry KasteISBN 0822009587 (0-8220-0958-7)
Softcover, Cliff Notes
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Cliffsnotes Oliver Twist'Book summary:The original CliffsNotes study guides offer expert commentary on major themes, plots, characters, literary devices, and historical background. The latest generation of titles in the series also feature glossaries and visual elements that complement the classic, familiar format.[via]In CliffsNotes on Oliver Twist, youll meet a dear, grateful, gentle orphan who, instead of possessing too little feeling, possessed rather too much. The CliffsNotes commentaries, summaries, and character analysis will show you why this sweet, sad, and moving story is considered to be one of Dickens' greatest works (and one of his more politically-charged ones). Youll also find
- Life and background of the author, Charles Dickens
- A short introduction to the novel
- A list of characters
- Essays about symbolism, style, setting, and more
- A review section that tests your knowledge
Classic literature or modern modern-day treasure you'll understand it all with expert information and insight from CliffsNotes study guides.
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Davita's Harpby Chaim PotokISBN 0816139512 (0-8161-3951-2)
Hardcover, Thorndike Pr
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The Drowned and the Savedby Primo LeviISBN 067972186X (0-679-72186-X)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Drowned and the Saved'Book summary:This book, published months after Italian writer Primo Levi's suicide in 1987, is a small but powerful look at Auschwitz, the hell where Levi was imprisoned during World War II. The book was his third on the subject, following Survival in Auschwitz (1947) and The Reawakening (1963). Removed from the experience by time and age, Levi chose to serve more as an observer of the camp than the passionate young man of his previous work. He writes of "useless violence" inflicted by the guards on prisoners and then concludes the book with a discussion of the Germans who have written to him about their complicity in the event. In all, he tries to make sense of something that--as he knew--made no sense at all. [via]
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Edith's Bookby Edith Velmans-Van HessenISBN 0670881619 (0-670-88161-9)
Hardcover, Viking
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The Endless Steppe: Growing up in Siberiaby Esther HautzigISBN 0694056081 (0-694-05608-1)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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- The Endless Steppe: Growing up in Siberia: ISBN 0690263716 (0-690-26371-6)
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Fatherlandby Robert HarrisISBN 0812977211 (0-8129-7721-1)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Fatherland'Book summary:Fatherland is set in an alternative world where Hitler has won the Second World War. It is April 1964 and one week before Hitler's 75th birthday. Xavier March, a detective of the Kriminalpolizei, is called out to investigate the discovery of a dead body in a lake near Berlin's most prestigious suburb.
As March discovers the identity of the body, he uncovers signs of a conspiracy that could go to the very top of the German Reich. And, with the Gestapo just one step behind, March, together with an American journalist, is caught up in a race to discover and reveal the truth -- a truth that has already killed, a truth that could topple governments, a truth that will change history.
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The Garden of the Finzi-Continisby Giorgio BassaniISBN 0704310813 (0-7043-1081-3)
Hardcover, Quartet Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Garden of the Finzi-Continis'Book summary:Giorgio Bassani's masterwork has Vittorio de Sica's 1971 film adaptation to thank for its dual success and obscurity. Not enough people know that this tale of a middle-class Jewish youth's obsession with the far more aristocratic Micol Finzi-Contini stems from a novel, not a novelization. Bassani's doom- and tomb-ridden examination of one-sided love is far more complex--about individuals' inability to contend with personal and political annihilation. Events call for heroism, yet it seems "downright absurd that now, all of a sudden, exceptional behavior was demanded of us." The narrator writes in retrospect, 13 years after World War II's end, and reveals the Finzi-Continis' 1943 deportation to Germany right from the start: "Who could say if they found any sort of burial at all?"
As Fascist racial laws go from strength to strength, the family, which had long isolated itself from the other inhabitants of Ferrara, opens its walled grounds and tennis court to other young Jews and even returns to the local temple. Unfortunately, the situation encourages the narrator's dream that Micol will return his love, and she is forced into cruel honesty. "She looked into my eyes, and her gaze entered me, straight, sure, hard: with the limpid inexorability of a sword."
The author has re-created a tragic era in which even nobility could not outrun events, let alone admit they needed to. (For a nonfiction account of the fates of five Italian Jewish families under fascism, see Alexander Stille's Benevolence and Betrayal.) Bassani's elision of historical and personal agony is furthermore superbly translated by William Weaver. All is foretold in the novel's Manzonian epigraph, "The heart, to be sure, always has something to say about what is to come, to him who heeds it. But what does the heart know? Only a little of what has already happened." [via]
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Greater Than Angelsby Carol MatasISBN 068983084X (0-689-83084-X)
Softcover, Simon Pulse
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If Not Now, When?by Primo LeviISBN 0671493361 (0-671-49336-1)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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International Jewby Henry FordISBN 0849004187 (0-8490-0418-7)
Hardcover, Gordon Pr Pubs
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Introduction to the New Testamentby Helmut KoesterISBN 080062100X (0-8006-2100-X)
Hardcover, Augsburg Fortress Pub
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The Jew in the Lotus: A Poet's Rediscovery of Jewish Identity in Buddhist Indiaby Rodger KamenetzISBN 0765760029 (0-7657-6002-9)
Hardcover, Rowman & Littlefield Pub Inc
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Jewish Fundamentalism in Israelby Israel Shahak, Norton MezvinskyISBN 0745312764 (0-7453-1276-4)
Softcover, Univ of Michigan Pr
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Softcover, Univ of Michigan Pr
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The Jews in America: The Roots, History, and Destiny of American Jewsby Max I. DimontISBN 067125412X (0-671-25412-X)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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Kingdom of Priests: A History of Old Testament Israelby Eugene H. MerrillISBN 0801021030 (0-8010-2103-0)
Softcover, Baker Pub Group
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Landscapes of Memory: A Holocaust Girlhood Rememberedby Ruth KlugerISBN 0747560056 (0-7475-6005-6)
Hardcover, Bloomsbury
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The Last Kabbalist of Lisbonby Richard ZimlerISBN 0879518340 (0-87951-834-0)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Last Kabbalist of Lisbon'Book summary:Richard Zimler's The Last Kabbalist of Lisbon is not a particularly religious novel, but it uses religion to great dramatic effect. Although its story takes place during the 16th- century slaughter of Jews in Portugal, and its main characters are Jewish mystics, Zimler is less interested in describing their spiritual lives than in plotting a fantastic murder mystery. The book purports to be a modern translation of a medieval manuscript telling the story of the murder of a great kabbalist in Lisbon named Abraham. Occasionally, the story invokes a bit of kabbalist wisdom that is every bit as luminous as the ancient texts that inspired this novel: "Books are created from holy letters," one character says. "Just as angels are, according to some. Viewed from this perspective--through a window of Kabbalah, if you like--an angel is nothing but a book given heavenly form." Such moments are too rare for the book to be very perceptive about the tradition to which its title alludes, but nevertheless, it's an absorbing and genuinely suspenseful story. -- Michael Joseph Gross [via]
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The Last of the Justby Andre Schwarz-Bart, Stephen BeckerISBN 0689703651 (0-689-70365-1)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Last of the Just'Book summary:According to Jewish tradition, 36 "just men" are born in every generation to take the burden of the world's suffering upon themselves. This book tells the story of two Jews, divided by eight centuries, who are persecuted to death, becoming part of the catastrophic history of the Jewish people. [via]
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Medallionsby Zofia Nalkowska, Zofia Nakowska, Diana KuprelISBN 0810117436 (0-8101-1743-6)
Softcover, Northwestern Univ Pr
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Oliver Twistby Charles Dickens, Les Martin, Jean Day ZallingerISBN 0679803912 (0-679-80391-2)
Softcover, Random House Childrens Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Oliver Twist'Book summary:With two classic tales, and a two-in-one DK Reader, the latest titles in this beloved series of book-and-CD packages will be favorites of children and parents alike. [via]
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- Oliver Twist: ISBN 0756618355 (0-7566-1835-5)
Softcover, Dk Pub - Oliver Twist: ISBN 0812580036 (0-8125-8003-6)
Softcover, Tor Books - Oliver Twist: ISBN 0679417249 (0-679-41724-9)
Hardcover, Alfred a Knopf Inc - Oliver Twist: ISBN 0688129110 (0-688-12911-0)
Hardcover, HarperCollins Publishers - Oliver Twist: ISBN 0766607704 (0-7666-0770-4)
Hardcover, Modern Pub - Oliver Twist: ISBN 0861124529 (0-86112-452-9)
Hardcover, Byeway Books - Oliver Twist: ISBN 0881033693 (0-88103-369-3)
Hardcover, Bt Bound - Oliver Twist: ISBN 0749307552 (0-7493-0755-2)
Softcover, Heinemann - Oliver Twist: ISBN 0789454637 (0-7894-5463-7)
Softcover, Dk Pub - Oliver Twist: ISBN 0804900094 (0-8049-0009-4)
Softcover, Airmont Pub Co - Oliver Twist: ISBN 0708980198 (0-7089-8019-8)
Hardcover, Ulverscroft Large Print Books - Oliver Twist: ISBN 0721413986 (0-7214-1398-6)
Hardcover, Ladybird Books Ltd - Oliver Twist: ISBN 078943959X (0-7894-3959-X)
Hardcover, Dk Pub - Oliver Twist: ISBN 081670726X (0-8167-0726-X)
Hardcover, Troll Communications Llc - Oliver Twist: ISBN 0866119566 (0-86611-956-6)
Hardcover, Abdo Pub Co - Oliver Twist: ISBN 0679803912 (0-679-80391-2)
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- Oliver Twist: ISBN 0756618355 (0-7566-1835-5)
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Oliver Twistby Penko Gelev, John MalamISBN 0764134906 (0-7641-3490-6)
Softcover, Barrons Juveniles
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Oliver Twist'Book summary:Oliver, an orphan in 19th-century London, falls into a den of thieves, but is finally rescued by Mr. Brownlow, a wealthy benefactor. In each of Barron's Graphic Classics, an English literary classic is transformed into a dramatic graphic novel with superb, atmospheric color illustrations and a finely-paced narrative. The tale--chosen from among important novels in the literary canon-- will keep young readers fascinated from first page to last. Graphic Classics make fine introductions for young readers to the riches of English literature. Books are available in both paperback and hardcover editions. In addition to the stories, each title features a brief biography and time line of its author, a list of his important works, a glossary, and an index. As such, these books are suitable for classroom use on junior and senior high school levels. [via]
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Oliver Twist / Arabicby Charles DickensISBN 0866851380 (0-86685-138-0)
Softcover, Intl Book Centre
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Oliver Twist ; Great Expectations ; A Tale of Two Citiesby Charles DickensISBN 0706416716 (0-7064-1671-6)
Hardcover, Octopus Books
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Ordeal of Civility: Freud, Marx, Levi-Strauss, and the Jewish Struggle With Modernityby John Murray CuddihyISBN 0807036099 (0-8070-3609-9)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin
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The Orientalist: Solving the Mystery of a Strange and Dangerous Lifeby Tom ReissISBN 0812972767 (0-8129-7276-7)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Orientalist: Solving the Mystery of a Strange and Dangerous Life'Book summary:A thrilling page-turner of epic proportions, Tom Reisss panoramic bestseller tells the true story of a Jew who transformed himself into a Muslim prince in Nazi Germany. Lev Nussimbaum escaped the Russian Revolution in a camel caravan and, as Essad Bey, became a celebrated author with the enduring novel Ali and Nino as well as an adventurer, a real-life Indiana Jones with a fatal secret. Reiss pursued Levs story across ten countries and found himself caught up in encounters as dramatic and surrealand sometimes as heartbreakingas his subjects life.
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Our Crowdby Stephen BirminghamISBN 0671790056 (0-671-79005-6)
Softcover, Pocket Books
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Our Crowd: The Great Jewish Families of New Yorkby Stephen BirminghamISBN 0815604114 (0-8156-0411-4)
Hardcover, Syracuse University Press
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Our Crowd: The Great Jewish Families of New York'Book summary:Once upon a time, New York City was home to many Jews. They still remain there but not as many as there used to be. Jewish families were very important. Many great people come from them. This book tells all of what life was like to be Jewish and growing up in NYC back in the day. [via]
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The Periodic Tableby Primo LeviISBN 0805210415 (0-8052-1041-5)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Periodic Table'Book summary:Writer Primo Levi (1919-1987), an Italian Jew, did not come to the wide attention of the English-reading audience until the last years of his life. A survivor of the Holocaust and imprisonment in Auschwitz, Levi is considered to be one of the century's most compelling voices, and The Periodic Table is his most famous book. Springboarding from his training as a chemist, Levi uses the elements as metaphors to create a cycle of linked, somewhat autobiographical tales, including stories of the Piedmontese Jewish community he came from, and of his response to the Holocaust. [via]
The Promiseby Chaim PotokISBN 0783802560 (0-7838-0256-0)
Hardcover, G K Hall & Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Promise'Book summary:"A superb mirror of a place, a time, and a group of people who capture our immediate interest and hold it tightly."
THE PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER
Young Reuven Malter is unsure of himself and his place in life. An unconventional scholar, he struggles for recognition from his teachers. With his old friend Danny Saunders--who himself had abandoned the legacy as the chosen heir to his father's rabbinical dynasty for the uncertain life of a healer--Reuvan battles to save a sensitive boy imprisoned by his genius and rage. Painfully, triumphantly, Reuven's understanding of himself, though the boy change, as he starts to aproach the peace he has long sought.... [via]-
Rings of Saturnby W. G. Sebald, Michael HulseISBN 0811214133 (0-8112-1413-3)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Rings of Saturn'Book summary:In August 1992, W.G. Sebald set off on a walking tour of Suffolk, one of England's least populated and most striking counties. A long project--presumably The Emigrants, his great anatomy of exile, loss, and identity--had left him spent. Initially his tour was a carefree one. Soon, however, Sebald was to happen upon "traces of destruction, reaching far back into the past," in a series of encounters so intense that a year later he found himself in a state of collapse in a Norwich hospital.
The Rings of Saturn is his record of these travels, a phantasmagoria of fragments and memories, fraught with dizzying knowledge and desperation and shadowed by mortality. As in The Emigrants, past and present intermingle: the living come to seem like supernatural apparitions while the dead are vividly present. Exemplary sufferers such as Joseph Conrad and Roger Casement people the author's solitude along with various eccentrics and even an occasional friend. Indeed, one of the most moving chapters concerns his fellow German exile--the writer Michael Hamburger.
"How is it that one perceives oneself in another human being, or, if not oneself, then one's own precursor?" Sebald asks. "The fact that I first passed through British customs thirty-three years after Michael, that I am now thinking of giving up teaching as he did, that I am bent over my writing in Norfolk and he in Suffolk, that we both are distrustful of our work and both suffer from an allergy to alcohol--none of these things are particularly strange. But why it was that on my first visit to Michael's house I instantly felt as if I lived or had once lived there, in every respect precisely as he does, I cannot explain. All I know is that I stood spellbound in his high-ceilinged studio room with its north-facing windows in front of the heavy mahogany bureau at which Michael said he no longer worked because the room was so cold, even in midsummer..."
Sebald seems most struck by those who lived or live quietly in adversity, "the shadow of annihilation" always hanging over them. The appropriately surnamed George Wyndham Le Strange, for example, remained on his vast property in increasing isolation, his life turning into a series of colorful anecdotes. He was "reputed to have been surrounded, in later years, by all manner of feathered creatures: by guinea fowl, pheasants, pigeons and quail, and various kinds of garden and song birds, strutting about him on the floor or flying around in the air. Some said that one summer Le Strange dug a cave in his garden and sat in it day and night like St. Jerome in the desert."
In Sebald's eyes, even the everyday comes to seem extraterrestrial--a vision intensified in Michael Hulse's beautiful rendition. His complex, allusive sentences are encased in several-pages-long paragraphs--style and subject making for painful, exquisite reading. Though most often hypersensitive to human (and animal) suffering and making few concessions to obligatory cheeriness, Sebald is not without humor. At one point, paralyzed by the presence of the past, he admits: "I bought a carton of chips at McDonald's, where I felt like a criminal wanted worldwide as I stood at the brightly lit counter, and ate them as I walked back to my hotel." The Rings of Saturn is a challenging nocturne, and the second of Sebald's four books to appear in English. The excellent news is that his novel Vertigo is already slated for translation. --Kerry Fried [via]
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Roots Schmoots: Journeys Among Jewsby Howard JacobsonISBN 0879516054 (0-87951-605-4)
Softcover, Overlook Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Roots Schmoots: Journeys Among Jews'Book summary:In this brilliant memoir, Howard Jacobson describes his journey to his ancestral home in Lithuania to discover his Jewish roots -- with stops along the way in the Catskills, Manhattan, Tucson, Los Angeles, Eilat, Jerusalem, Tiberias, Haifa, and Sefat. Roots Schmoots is fast, funny, and furious, but beneath its surface there is a profound and moving exploration of what it is to be a Jew in the late twentieth century. [via]
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The Samson Option: Israel's Nuclear Arsenal and American Foreign Policyby Seymour M. HershISBN 0679743316 (0-679-74331-6)
Softcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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The Secret Book of Grazia Dei Rossiby Jacqueline ParkISBN 0684848406 (0-684-84840-6)
Softcover, Scribner
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Sophie's Choiceby William StyronISBN 0679736379 (0-679-73637-9)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Sophie's Choice'Book summary:Set in Brooklyn in 1947, this is the story of Sophie, a Polish Catholic immigrant who is haunted by her memories of the concentration camp in wartime Europe, and the terrible choice she was forced to make. [via]
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A Spectacle of Corruptionby David LissISBN 0786264829 (0-7862-6482-9)
Hardcover, Thorndike Pr
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Summer of My German Soldierby Bette GreeneISBN 0786273615 (0-7862-7361-5)
Softcover, Thorndike Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Summer of My German Soldier'Book summary:The summer that Patty Bergen turns 12 is a summer that will change her life forever. During World War II, her small Arkansas town becomes the site of a prison camp housing German prisoners. Patty, who feels rejected, unappreciated, and unloved by her parents, meets an escaped German prisoner named Anton. In Anton, the lonely Jewish girl finds someone who can appreciate her in a way she feels her family never will. Patriotic feelings run high, and Patty risks losing everything -- her family, friends, even her freedom -- for this dangerous friendship. This novel, by Newbery winner Bette Greene, is considered by many to be a modern children's classic. [via]
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Trapped in Hitlers Hellby Jan Markell, Antia DittmanISBN 0882435299 (0-88243-529-9)
Softcover, Gospel Pub House
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Twenty and Tenby Claire Huchet Bishop, William Pene DuboisISBN 0844661686 (0-8446-6168-6)
Hardcover, Peter Smith Pub Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Twenty and Ten'Book summary:Twenty school children hide ten Jewish children from the Nazis occupying France during World War II. [via]
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Ulyssesby James JoyceISBN 0679722769 (0-679-72276-9)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Ulysses'Book summary:Ulysses has been labeled dirty, blasphemous, and unreadable. In a famous 1933 court decision, Judge John M. Woolsey declared it an emetic book--although he found it sufficiently unobscene to allow its importation into the United States--and Virginia Woolf was moved to decry James Joyce's "cloacal obsession." None of these adjectives, however, do the slightest justice to the novel. To this day it remains the modernist masterpiece, in which the author takes both Celtic lyricism and vulgarity to splendid extremes. It is funny, sorrowful, and even (in a close-focus sort of way) suspenseful. And despite the exegetical industry that has sprung up in the last 75 years, Ulysses is also a compulsively readable book. Even the verbal vaudeville of the final chapters can be navigated with relative ease, as long as you're willing to be buffeted, tickled, challenged, and (occasionally) vexed by Joyce's sheer command of the English language.
Among other things, a novel is simply a long story, and the first question about any story is: What happens?. In the case of Ulysses, the answer might be Everything. William Blake, one of literature's sublime myopics, saw the universe in a grain of sand. Joyce saw it in Dublin, Ireland, on June 16, 1904, a day distinguished by its utter normality. Two characters, Stephen Dedalus and Leopold Bloom, go about their separate business, crossing paths with a gallery of indelible Dubliners. We watch them teach, eat, stroll the streets, argue, and (in Bloom's case) masturbate. And thanks to the book's stream-of-consciousness technique--which suggests no mere stream but an impossibly deep, swift-running river--we're privy to their thoughts, emotions, and memories. The result? Almost every variety of human experience is crammed into the accordian folds of a single day, which makes Ulysses not just an experimental work but the very last word in realism.
Both characters add their glorious intonations to the music of Joyce's prose. Dedalus's accent--that of a freelance aesthetician, who dabbles here and there in what we might call Early Yeats Lite--will be familiar to readers of Portrait of an Artist As a Young Man. But Bloom's wistful sensualism (and naive curiosity) is something else entirely. Seen through his eyes, a rundown corner of a Dublin graveyard is a figure for hope and hopelessness, mortality and dogged survival: "Mr Bloom walked unheeded along his grove by saddened angels, crosses, broken pillars, family vaults, stone hopes praying with upcast eyes, old Ireland's hearts and hands. More sensible to spend the money on some charity for the living. Pray for the repose of the soul of. Does anybody really?" --James Marcus [via]
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Softcover, Taylor & Francis - Ulysses: ISBN 0824043758 (0-8240-4375-8)
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The Vanishing American Jew: In Search of Jewish Identity for the Next Centuryby Alan M. DershowitzISBN 0684848988 (0-684-84898-8)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Vanishing American Jew: In Search of Jewish Identity for the Next Century'Book summary:Most recently in the spotlight as one of the many defense lawyers attending O. J. Simpson in his first criminal trial, attorney Alan M. Dershowitz is also a powerful advocate for the liberal Jewish tradition in this country. In an earlier book, Chutzpah, Dershowitz celebrated an end to Jewish isolation and institutional anti-Semitism in America; in his latest book, The Vanishing American Jew, he decries the perhaps inevitable result of this desegregation: assimilation.
Dershowitz writes powerfully about his fear that, with nothing to struggle against and no powerful motivation to maintain traditions, American secular Jews will, within a few generations, lose their Jewishness. The author writes from a privileged position: raised an Orthodox Jew, he embraced secular Judaism in his young adulthood and thus comes equipped with an intimate understanding of what he has chosen to reject and accept. Though Dershowitz has no definitive answers for the problem of The Vanishing American Jew, the questions he raises may be the first step in discovering a solution. [via]
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When Jessie Came Across the Seaby Amy Hest, P.J. LynchISBN 076361274X (0-7636-1274-X)
Softcover, Candlewick Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'When Jessie Came Across the Sea'Book summary:In an inspiring pairing, Amy Hest and P.J. Lynch create an unforgettable tribute to the immigrant experience.
Jessie lives with her grandmother in a poor village in the valleys of eastern Europe. When, to everyone's surprise, young Jessie is chosen by the village rabbi to travel to America, and to leave her grandmother behind, they both feel their hearts will break.
Award-winning author Amy Hest brings her sure and inspired touch to the story of our immigrant heritage as she follows Jessie across the ocean to a new lifeand a new lovein America.
Exquisitely illustrated by P.J. Lynch, with paintings that glow with warmth and carefully observed detail, WHEN JESSIE COMES ACROSS THE SEA transcends time and culture in a tribute to the courage and hope of all who seek a better life. It is destined to become a modern classic. [via]More editions of When Jessie Came Across the Sea:
Who's Who in Jewish History: After the Period of the Old Testamentby Joan ComayISBN 0679504559 (0-679-50455-9)
Hardcover, D. McKay Co
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Why the Jews?: The Reason for Antisemitismby Dennis Prager, Joseph TelushkinISBN 0743246209 (0-7432-4620-9)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Why the Jews?: The Reason for Antisemitism'Book summary:From the bestselling authors of The Nine Questions People Ask About Judaism comes a completely revised and updated edition of a modern classic that reflects the dangerous rise in antisemitism during the twenty-first century. The very word Jew continues to arouse passions as does no other religious, national, or political name. Why have Jews been the object of the most enduring and universal hatred in history? Why did Hitler consider murdering Jews more important than winning World War II? Why has the United Nations devoted more time to tiny Israel than to any other nation on earth?
In this seminal study, Dennis Prager and Joseph Telushkin attempt to uncover and understand the roots of antisemitism -- from the ancient world to the Holocaust to the current crisis in the Middle East. This postmillennial edition of Why the Jews? offers new insights and unparalleled perspectives on some of the most recent, pressing developments in the contemporary world, including:
" The replicating of Nazi antisemitism in the Arab world
" The pervasive anti-Zionism/antisemitism on university campuses
" The rise of antisemitism in Europe
" Why the United States and Israel are linked in the minds of antisemites
Clear, persuasive, and thought provoking, Why the Jews? is must reading for anyone who seeks to understand the unique role of the Jews in human history. [via]
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