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All Rivers Run to the Sea: Memoirsby Elie WieselISBN 0805210288 (0-8052-1028-8)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Alphabet of Creation : An Ancient Legend from the Zoharby Ben ShahnISBN 0805240578 (0-8052-4057-8)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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Beni's Family Treasuryby Jane Breskin ZalbenISBN 0805058893 (0-8050-5889-3)
Hardcover, Henry Holt & Co
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The Bintel Brief: Sixty Years of Letters from the Lower East Side to the Jewish Daily Forwardby Isaac MetzkerISBN 0805209808 (0-8052-0980-8)
Softcover, Schocken Books
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The Book of Adam to Mosesby Lore Segal, Leonard BaskinISBN 0805209611 (0-8052-0961-1)
Softcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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A Book of Life : Embracing Judaism As a Spiritual Practiceby Michael StrassfeldISBN 0805241248 (0-8052-4124-8)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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The Book of Modern Jewish Etiquette : A Guide for All Occasionsby Helen LatnerISBN 0805237577 (0-8052-3757-7)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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A Book That Was Lostby Alan L. Mintz, Anne Golomb Hoffman, Shmuel Yosef AgnonISBN 0805210660 (0-8052-1066-0)
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A Book That Was Lost : And Other Storiesby Shmuel Yosef Agnon, Alan Mintz, Anne Golomb HoffmanISBN 0805241205 (0-8052-4120-5)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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A Century of Ambivalence : The Jews in Russia and the Soviet Union, 1881 to the Presentby Zvi GitelmanISBN 0805240349 (0-8052-4034-9)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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Cultures of the Jews: Diversities of Diaspora A new Historyby David BialeISBN 0805212019 (0-8052-1201-9)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Dictionary of Yiddish Slang and Idiomsby Fred KogosISBN 0806503475 (0-8065-0347-5)
Softcover, Lyle Stuart
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Emma Lazarusby Esther H. SchorISBN 0805242163 (0-8052-4216-3)
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Everyday Kabbalah: A Practical Guide to Jewish Meditation, Healing, and Personal Growthby Melinda RibnerISBN 0806519800 (0-8065-1980-0)
Softcover, Kensington Pub Corp
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Five Cities of Refuge: Weekly Reflections on Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomyby David Mamet, Lawrence KushnerISBN 0805242201 (0-8052-4220-1)
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Here is a fascinating glimpse into two great minds, as each author approaches the text from his unique perspective, each seeking an understanding of the Bibles personalities and commandments, paradoxes and ambiguities. Kushner offers his words of Torah with a conversational enthusiasm that ranges from family dynamics to the Kabbalah; Mamet challenges the reader, often beginning his comment far afieldwith Freud or the American judiciarybefore returning to a text now wholly reinterpreted.
In the tradition of Israel as a people who wrestle with God, Kushner and Mamet grapple with the biblical text, succumbing neither to apologetics nor parochialism, asking questions without fear of the answers they may find. Over the course of a year of weekly readings, they comment on all aspects of the Bible: its richness of theme and language, its contradictions, its commandments, and its often unfathomable demands. If you are already familiar with the Bible, this book will draw you back to the text for a deeper look. If you have not yet explored the Bible in depth, Kushner and Mamet are guides of unparalleled wisdom and discernment. Five Cities of Refuge is easily accessible yet powerfully illuminating. Each weeks comments can be read in a few minutes, but they will give you something to think about all week long.
Lawrence Kushner teaches and writes as the Emanu-El Scholar at The Congregation Emanu-El of San Francisco. He has taught at Hebrew Union CollegeJewish Institute of Religion in New York City and served for twenty-eight years as rabbi of Congregation Beth El in Sudbury, Massachusetts. A frequent lecturer, he is also the author of more than a dozen books on Jewish spirituality and mysticism. He lives in San Francisco.
David Mamet is a Pulitzer Prizewinning playwright. He is the author of Glengarry Glen Ross, The Cryptogram, and Boston Marriage, among other plays. He has also published three novels and many screenplays, children's books, and essay collections. [via]More editions of Five Cities of Refuge: Weekly Reflections on Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy:
Godwrestlingby Arthur I. WaskowISBN 0805206450 (0-8052-0645-0)
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The Golden Tradition: Jewish Life and Thought in Eastern Europeby Lucy S. DawidowiczISBN 0805207686 (0-8052-0768-6)
Softcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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A History of the Jewish People in the Time of Jesusby Emil Schurer, Nahum N. GlatzerISBN 0805200088 (0-8052-0008-8)
Softcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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A History of the Jews: From Earliest Times Through the Six Day Warby Cecil RothISBN 0805200096 (0-8052-0009-6)
Softcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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Home Lands: Portraits of the New Jewish Diasporaby Larry TyeISBN 0805065911 (0-8050-6591-1)
Softcover, Holt & Company, Henry
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How to Trace Your Jewish Roots: Discovering Your Unique Historyby Jo DavidISBN 0806520426 (0-8065-2042-6)
Softcover, Citadel Pr
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The Jewish Holiday Baker : Recipes for Breads, Cakes, and Cookies for All the Holidays and Any Time of the Yearby Joan NathanISBN 0805241426 (0-8052-4142-6)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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The Jewish Holiday Kitchenby Jean NathanISBN 080520900X (0-8052-0900-X)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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The Jewish Holiday Kitchen : 250 Recipes from Around the World to Make Your Celebrations Specialby Joan NathanISBN 0805211098 (0-8052-1109-8)
Softcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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Jewish Holiday Traditions: Joyful Celebrations from Rosh Hashanah to Shavuotby Linda BurghardtISBN 0806522062 (0-8065-2206-2)
Hardcover, Kensington Pub Corp
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The Jews of Silenceby Elie WieselISBN 0805208267 (0-8052-0826-7)
Softcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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The Jews: Their History.by Louis FinkelsteinISBN 0805202714 (0-8052-0271-4)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Joan Nathan's Jewish Holiday Cookbook: Revised and Updated on the Occasion of the Twenty-Fifth Anniversary of the Publication of the Jewish Holiday Kitchenby Joan NathanISBN 0805242171 (0-8052-4217-1)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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The Journey Home : How Jewish Women Shaped Modern Americaby Joyce AntlerISBN 0805211012 (0-8052-1101-2)
Softcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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Kuzari an Argument for the Faith of Israelby Judah HaleviISBN 0805200754 (0-8052-0075-4)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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The Legend of the Baal-Shemby Martin BuberISBN 0805202331 (0-8052-0233-1)
Softcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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The Life of Davidby Robert PinskyISBN 0805242031 (0-8052-4203-1)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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Poet, warrior, and king, David has loomed large in myth and legend through the centuries, and he continues to haunt our collective imagination, his flaws and inconsistencies making him the most approachable of biblical heroes. Robert Pinsky, former poet laureate of the United States, plumbs the depths of Davids life: his triumphs and his failures, his charm and his cruelty, his divine destiny and his human humiliations. Drawing on the biblical chronicle of Davids life as well as on the later commentaries and the Psalmstraditionally considered to be Davids own wordsPinsky teases apart the many strands of Davids story and reweaves them into a glorious narrative.
Under the clarifying and captivating light of Pinskys erudition and imagination, and his mastery of image and expression, King Davidboth the man and the idea of the manis brought brilliantly to life.More editions of The Life of David:
Living a Year of Kaddishby Ari GoldmanISBN 0805211314 (0-8052-1131-4)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Magickal Judaism: Connecting Pagan and Jewish Practiceby Jennifer HunterISBN 0806525762 (0-8065-2576-2)
Softcover, Kensington Pub Corp
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Maimonidesby Sherwin B. NulandISBN 0805242007 (0-8052-4200-7)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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The Memoirs of Gluckel of Hamelnby Glueckel, Gluckel HamelinISBN 0805205721 (0-8052-0572-1)
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The Metamorphosis, the Penal Colony, and Other Storiesby Franz Kafka, Willa Muir, Edwin Muir, Arthur SamuelsonISBN 0805210571 (0-8052-1057-1)
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Modern English-Yiddish, Yiddish-English Dictionaryby U. WeinreichISBN 0805205756 (0-8052-0575-6)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Modern Jewish History: A Source Readerby Robert Chazan, Marc Lee RaphaelISBN 0805204628 (0-8052-0462-8)
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Modern Jewish Thought : A Source Readerby Nahum N. GlatzerISBN 080520542X (0-8052-0542-X)
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The Naked and the Deadby Norman MailerISBN 0805060189 (0-8050-6018-9)
Hardcover, Henry Holt & Co
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Written in gritty, journalistic detail, the story follows a platoon of Marines who are stationed on the Japanese-held island of Anopopei. Composed in 1948 with the wisdom of a man twice Mailer's age and the raw courage of the young man he was, The Naked and the Dead is representative of the best in twentieth-century American writing.More editions of The Naked and the Dead:
On Being a Jewish Feministby Susannah HeschelISBN 0805210369 (0-8052-1036-9)
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On Being a Jewish Feminist: A Readerby Susannah HeschelISBN 0805207457 (0-8052-0745-7)
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On Jewish Learningby Franz Rosenzwerg, Nahum N. GlatzerISBN 0805208437 (0-8052-0843-7)
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On Jews and Judaism in Crisisby Gershom ScholemISBN 0805209549 (0-8052-0954-9)
Softcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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The One Facing Usby Ronit Matalon, Marsha WeinsteinISBN 0805061851 (0-8050-6185-1)
Softcover, Holt & Company, Henry
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One People, Two Worlds: A Reform Rabbi and an Orthdox Rabbi Explore the Issues That Divide Themby Ammiel HirschISBN 0805211403 (0-8052-1140-3)
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One People, Two Worlds : An Orthodox Rabbi and a Reform Rabbi Explore the Issues That Divide Themby Ammiel Hirsch, Yosef ReinmanISBN 0805241914 (0-8052-4191-4)
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Origins of Totalitarianismby Hannah Arendt, Samantha PowerISBN 0805242252 (0-8052-4225-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Origins of Totalitarianism'Book summary:The Origins of Totalitarianism is an indispensable book for understanding the frightful barbarity of the twentieth century. Suspicious of the inevitability so often imposed by hindsight, Hannah Arendt was not interested in detailing the causes that produced totalitarianism. Nothing in the nineteenth centuryindeed, nothing in human historycould have prepared us for the idea of political domination achieved by organizing the infinite plurality and differentiation of human beings as if all humanity were just one individual. Arendt believed that such a development marked a grotesque departure from all that had come before.
In The Origins of Totalitarianism, Arendt sought to provide an historical account of the forces that crystallized into totalitarianism: The ebb and flow of nineteenth-century anti-Semitism (she deemed the Dreyfus Affair a dress rehearsal for the Final Solution) and he rise of European imperialism, accompanied by the invention of racism as the only possible rationalization for it. For Arendt, totalitarianism was a form of governance that eliminated the very possibility of political action. Totalitarian leaders attract both mobs and elites, take advantage of the unthinkability of their atrocities, target objective enemies (classes of people who are liquidated simply because of their group membership), use terror to create loyalty, rely on concentration camps, and are obsessive in their pursuit of global primacy. But even more presciently, Arendt understood that totalitarian solutions could well survive the demise of totalitarian regimes.
The Origins of Totalitarianism remains as essential a book for understanding our times as it was when it first appeared more than fifty years ago. [via]More editions of Origins of Totalitarianism:
Out of the Whirlwindby Albert FriedlanderISBN 0805209255 (0-8052-0925-5)
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Out of the Whirlwind: A Reader of Holocaust Literatureby Albert H. FriedlanderISBN 0805205179 (0-8052-0517-9)
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Past Continuousby Yaakov ShabtaiISBN 0805208682 (0-8052-0868-2)
Softcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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Peace to End All Peace: The Fall of the Ottoman Empire and the Creation of the Modern Middle Eastby David FromkinISBN 0805068848 (0-8050-6884-8)
Softcover, Henry Holt & Co
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In our time the Middle East has proven a battleground of rival religions, ideologies, nationalisms, and dynasties. All of these conflicts, including the hostilities between Arabs and Israelis that have flared yet again, come down, in a sense, to the extent to which the Middle East will continue to live with its political inheritance: the arrangements, unities, and divisions imposed upon the region by the Allies after the First World War.
In A Peace to End All Peace, David Fromkin reveals how and why the Allies came to remake the geography and politics of the Middle East, drawing lines on an empty map that eventually became the new countries of Iraq, Israel, Jordan, and Lebanon. Focusing on the formative years of 1914 to 1922, when all-even an alliance between Arab nationalism and Zionism-seemed possible he raises questions about what might have been done differently, and answers questions about why things were done as they were. The current battle for a Palestinian homeland has its roots in these events of 85 years ago.More editions of Peace to End All Peace: The Fall of the Ottoman Empire and the Creation of the Modern Middle East:
Pesach for the Rest of Us: Making the Passover Seder Your Ownby Marge PiercyISBN 0805242422 (0-8052-4242-2)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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Poyln: Jewish Life in the Old Countryby Alter KacyzneISBN 0805068295 (0-8050-6829-5)
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In 1921, photographer Alter Kacyzne was commissioned by the New York Yiddish daily, the Forverts, to document images of Jewish life in "the old country." Kacyzne's assignment became a ten-year journey across Poyln (as Poland's three million Yiddish-speaking Jews called their home), from the crowded ghettos of Warsaw and Krakow to the remote villages of Ostrog and Brisk. His candid and intimate views of teeming village squares and rustic workshops, cattle markets and spinning wheels give us a privileged view of a world that is no more.
For more than sixty years, Alter Kacyzne's Forverts photographs-the sole fragment of his vast archive to survive World War II-lay unseen. Now, for the first time, the work of this lost master is restored to the world in a volume of extraordinary poetic force. At once ter and humorous, Poyln tells the story of a way of life and recalls the warmth and spirit of a community on the edge of destruction.
Poyln is sure to stand with Roman Vishniac's A Vanished World as a rare treasure, an indispensable portrait of a people.More editions of Poyln: Jewish Life in the Old Country:
Royte Pomerantsen: or How to Laugh in Yiddishby Immanuel OlsvangerISBN 0805200991 (0-8052-0099-1)
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Saying Kaddish: How to Comfort the Dying, Bury the Dead, and Mourn As a Jewby Anita DiamantISBN 0805210881 (0-8052-1088-1)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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The Schocken Guide to Jewish Books : Where to Start Reading about Jewish History, Literature, Culture, and Religionby Barry W. HoltzISBN 0805210059 (0-8052-1005-9)
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- The Schocken Guide to Jewish Books : Where to Start Reading about Jewish History, Literature, Culture, and Religion: ISBN 0805241086 (0-8052-4108-6)
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Story of Judaismby Bernard J. BambergerISBN 0805200770 (0-8052-0077-0)
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Tales of Mendele the Book Peddlerby Ken Frieden, S. Y. Abramovitsh, Dan Miron, Mendele Mokher Sefarim, Arthur SamuelsonISBN 080521013X (0-8052-1013-X)
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Tales of Mendele the Book Peddler : Fishke the Lame and Benjamin the Thirdby S. Y. Abramovitsh, Dan Miron, Ken FriedenISBN 0805241361 (0-8052-4136-1)
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The Terrible Secret : Suppression of the Truth about Hitler's Final Solutionby Walter LaqueurISBN 0805059849 (0-8050-5984-9)
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The Testamentby Elie Wiesel, Marion WieselISBN 0805211152 (0-8052-1115-2)
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The Time of the Uprootedby Elie Wiesel, David HapgoodISBN 0805211772 (0-8052-1177-2)
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To Heal A Fractured World: The Ethics Of Responsibilityby Jonathan SacksISBN 0805242414 (0-8052-4241-4)
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The Town Beyond the Wallby Elie Wiesel, Stephen BeckerISBN 0805210458 (0-8052-1045-8)
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Treasures of the Heart: Holiday Stories That Reveal the Soul of Judaismby Diane WolksteinISBN 0805241442 (0-8052-4144-2)
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The Trialby Franz Kafka, Breon MitchellISBN 0805209999 (0-8052-0999-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Trial'Book summary:A terrifying psychological trip into the life of one Joseph K., an ordinary man who wakes up one day to find himself accused of a crime he did not commit, a crime whose nature is never revealed to him. Once arrested, he is released, but must report to court on a regular basis--an event that proves maddening, as nothing is ever resolved. As he grows more uncertain of his fate, his personal life--including work at a bank and his relations with his landlady and a young woman who lives next door--becomes increasingly unpredictable. As K. tries to gain control, he succeeds only in accelerating his own excruciating downward spiral. [via]
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What Is the Use of Jewish History?by Lucy S. Dawidowicz, Neal KozodoyISBN 0805210105 (0-8052-1010-5)
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What You Should Know about Jewish Religion, History, Ethics and Cultureby Sidney L. MarkowitzISBN 0806508116 (0-8065-0811-6)
Softcover, Kensington Publishing Corporation
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When Children Ask About Godby Harold KushnerISBN 0805205497 (0-8052-0549-7)
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When Children Ask About God: A Guide for Parents Who Don't Always Have All the Answersby Harold S. KushnerISBN 0805210334 (0-8052-1033-4)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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While Messiah Tarriedby Nora LevinISBN 0805206167 (0-8052-0616-7)
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While Messiah Tarried: Jewish Socialist Movements, 1871-1917by Nora LevinISBN 0805236155 (0-8052-3615-5)
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The Wisdom of the Talmud: A Thousand Years of Jewish Thoughtby Ben Zion BokserISBN 0806522550 (0-8065-2255-0)
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With a Camera in the Ghettoby Zvi Szner, Alexander Sened, Mendel GrossmanISBN 0805236457 (0-8052-3645-7)
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Witnesses to the Holocaust: An Oral Historyby Rhonda G. LewinISBN 0805791264 (0-8057-9126-4)
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The Wonders of America: Reinventing Jewish Culture, 1880-1950by Jenna Weissman JoselitISBN 0805070028 (0-8050-7002-8)
Softcover, Holt & Company, Henry
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The World of the Talmudby Morris AdlerISBN 0805200584 (0-8052-0058-4)
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Yiddish Folktalesby Yivo Institute for Jewish Research, Leonard Wolf, Beatrice Silverman WeinreichISBN 0805210903 (0-8052-1090-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Yiddish Folktales'Book summary:Filled with princesses and witches, dybbuks and wonder-working rebbes, the two hundred marvelous tales that make up this delightful compendium were gathered during the 1920s and 1930s by ethnographers in the small towns and villages of Eastern Europe. Collected from people of all walks of life, they include parables and allegories about life, luck, and wisdom; tales of magic and wonder; stories about rebbes and their disciples; and tales whose only purpose is to entertain. Long after the culture that produced them has disappeared, these enchanting Yiddish folktales continue to work their magic today. [via]
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Yiddish Proverbsby Hanan J. AyaltiISBN 0805200509 (0-8052-0050-9)
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Zohar: The Book of Splendor Basic Readings from the Kabbalahby Gershom ScholemISBN 0805210342 (0-8052-1034-2)
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This volume of selected passages from the Zohar, culled by the greatest authority on Jewish mysticism, offers a sampling of its unique vision of the esoteric wonders of creation; the life and destiny of the soul; the confluence of physical and divine love; suffering and death; exile and redemption. [via]More editions of Zohar: The Book of Splendor Basic Readings from the Kabbalah:
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