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Anne Frank Remembered: The Story of the Woman Who Helped to Hide the Frank Familyby 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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The Arcades Projectby Walter Benjamin, Kevin McLaughlin, Howard EilandISBN 0674008022 (0-674-00802-2)
Softcover, Harvard Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Arcades Project'Book summary:You could spend years trying to read Walter Benjamin's The Arcades Project--after all, he spent much of the last 13 years of his life doing the research. When he committed suicide in 1940, he destroyed his copy of the manuscript, and so for decades the work was believed lost. But another copy turned up, and Howard Eiland and Kevin McLaughlin have translated it into English. It is a complex, fragmentary work--more a series of notes for a book than a book itself--which probes the culture of the Paris arcades (a cross between covered streets and shopping malls) of the mid-19th century and the flaneur ("the man who walks long and aimlessly through the streets" in an "anamnestic intoxication [that] ... feeds on the sensory data taking shape before his eyes but often possesses itself of abstract knowledge--indeed, of dead facts--as something experienced and lived through"). The Arcades Project is, frankly, so dense a work that one hardly has enough time to glimpse fleetingly at its sections--over 100 pages of notes on Baudelaire alone!--before mentioning it to you, though one certainly looks forward to the opportunity to peruse it at leisure. [via]
Ben Hur: A Tale of the Christby Lew Wallace, Harold KingISBN 0679203923 (0-679-20392-3)
Hardcover, D. McKay Co
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A Bridge of Longing: The Lost Art of Yiddish Storytellingby David G. RoskiesISBN 0674081404 (0-674-08140-4)
Softcover, Harvard Univ Pr
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The Broken Staff: Judaism Through Christian Eyesby Frank E. ManuelISBN 0674083709 (0-674-08370-9)
Hardcover, Harvard Univ Pr
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A Certain People: American Jews and Their Lives Todayby Charles E. SilbermanISBN 0671628771 (0-671-62877-1)
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City of Godby E.L. DoctorowISBN 0679447830 (0-679-44783-0)
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Collected Storiesby Franz Kafka, Gabriel JosipoviciISBN 0679423036 (0-679-42303-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Collected Stories'Book summary:(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed)
Franz Kafkas imagination so far outstripped the forms and conventions of the literary tradition he inherited that he was forced to turn that tradition inside out in order to tell his splendid, mysterious tales. Scrupulously naturalistic on the surface, uncanny in their depths, these stories represent the achieved art of a modern master who had the gift of making our problematic spiritual life palpable and real.
This edition of his stories includes all his available shorter fiction in a collection edited, arranged, and introduced by Gabriel Josipovici in ways that bring out the writers extraordinary range and intensity of vision.
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The Correspondence of Walter Benjamin and Gershom Scholem 1932-1940by Walter Benjamin, Gershom Scholem, Gary SmithISBN 0674174151 (0-674-17415-1)
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Elvis, Jesus & Coca-Colaby Kinky FriedmanISBN 0671869221 (0-671-86922-1)
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Farewell Espana : The World of the Sephardim Rememberedby Howard Morley SacharISBN 0679409602 (0-679-40960-2)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Farewell Espana : The World of the Sephardim Remembered'Book summary:They number barely a million today, less than one-tenth of the world Jewish population. But long ago, on Iberian soil, they were the magisters of their people, and the leaven of Mediterranean civilization altogether. Such were the Sephardim, and in Moslem Andalusia they were renowned prime ministers and army commanders, distinguished scientists, belletrists, and religious scholars. In Christian Spain and Provence, their translators ignited Europe's twelfth-century renaissance, their revenue agents funded the economies of Aragon and Castile, and their astronomers and navigators plotted the explorations of Christopher Columbus and Vasco da Gama.
From the late fifteenth century onward, in exile from their Spanish and Portuguese homelands, the Sephardim made their mark as viziers and intimate advisers of Ottoman sultans, as vastly esteemed physicians of Renaissance dukes and popes, and as dynamic importers and exporters in the Dutch maritime traffic. Whether as professing Jews or converted "New Christians," it was this protean minority that functioned as a self-contained international trading network, spanning the seas and oceans, pioneering the gem industry of Europe and the sugar and tobacco plantations of Brazil, and flourishing as merchant ship captains amid pirate-infested Caribbean waterways.
Farewell Espana transcends conventional historical narrative. With the lucidity and verve that have characterized his numerous earlier volumes, Howard Sachar breathes life into the leading dramatis personae of the Sephardic world: the royal counselors Samuel ibn Nagrela and Joseph Nasi, the poets Solomon ibn Gabirol and Judah Halevi, the philosophers Moses Maimonides and Baruch Spinoza, the statesmen Benjamin Disraeli and Pierre Mendes-France, the warriors Moshe Pijade and David Elazar, the fabulous charlatans David Reuveni and Shabbatai Zvi.
In its breadth and richness of texture, Sachar's account sweeps to the contemporary era of Mussolini, Hitler, and Franco, poignantly traces the fate of Balkan Sephardic communities during the Holocaust -- and their revival in the Land and State of Israel. Not least of all, the author offers a tactile dimension of immediacy in his personal encounters with the storied venues and current personalities of the Sephardic world. Farewell Espana is a window opened on a glowing civilization once all but extinguished, and now flickering again into renewed creativity. [via]More editions of Farewell Espana : The World of the Sephardim Remembered:
Festival of Lights : The Story of Hanukkahby Maida Silverman, Carolyn S. EwingISBN 0671643762 (0-671-64376-2)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing
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The First Dissident : The Book of Job in Today's Politicsby William SafireISBN 0679417559 (0-679-41755-9)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group
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A First Passoverby Leslie Swartz, Jacqueline ChwastISBN 067188025X (0-671-88025-X)
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Forgottenby Elie WieselISBN 0671689703 (0-671-68970-3)
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From Prejudice to Destruction: Anti-semitism, 1700-1933by Jacob KatzISBN 0674325052 (0-674-32505-2)
Hardcover, Harvard Univ Pr
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From Prejudice to Destruction: Antisemitismby Jacob KatzISBN 0674325079 (0-674-32507-9)
Softcover, Harvard Univ Pr
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Gershom Scholemby David Biale, Anthony David SkinnerISBN 0674363329 (0-674-36332-9)
Softcover, Harvard Univ Pr
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The Gnostic Gospelsby Elaine PagelsISBN 0679724532 (0-679-72453-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Gnostic Gospels'Book summary:Gnosticism's Christian form grew to prominence in the 2nd century A.D. Ultimately denounced as heretical by the early church, Gnosticism proposed a revealed knowledge of God ("gnosis" meaning "knowledge" in Greek), held as a secret tradition of the apostles. In The Gnostic Gospels, author Elaine Pagels suggests that Christianity could have developed quite differently if Gnostic texts had become part of the Christian canon. Without a doubt: Gnosticism celebrates God as both Mother and Father, shows a very human Jesus's relationship to Mary Magdalene, suggests the Resurrection is better understood symbolically, and speaks to self-knowledge as the route to union with God. Pagels argues that Christian orthodoxy grew out of the political considerations of the day, serving to legitimize and consolidate early church leadership. Her contrast of that developing orthodoxy with Gnostic teachings presents an intriguing trajectory on a world faith as it "might have become." The Gnostic Gospels provides engaging reading for those seeking a broader perspective on the early development of Christianity. --F. Hall [via]
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Gone to Soldiersby Marge PiercyISBN 0671634216 (0-671-63421-6)
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Good As Goldby Joseph HellerISBN 0671823884 (0-671-82388-4)
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Hannahby Paul-Loup SulitzerISBN 067164923X (0-671-64923-X)
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Ideas and Opinionsby Albert Einstein, Alan LightmanISBN 0679601058 (0-679-60105-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Ideas and Opinions'Book summary:A new edition of the most definitive collection of Albert Einstein's popular writings, gathered under the supervision of Einstein himself. The selections range from his earliest days as a theoretical physicist to his death in 1955; from such subjects as relativity, nuclear war or peace, and religion and science, to human rights, economics, and government. [via]
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Jackie Mason's "the World According to Me!"by Jackie MasonISBN 0671646079 (0-671-64607-9)
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Jesus of Nazareth, King of the Jews : A Jewish Life and the Emergence of Christianityby Paula FredriksenISBN 0679446753 (0-679-44675-3)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Jesus of Nazareth, King of the Jews : A Jewish Life and the Emergence of Christianity'Book summary:The epigraph to Jesus of Nazareth, King of the Jews by Paula Fredriksen includes the following observation by Matteo Ricci: "[A]ll things (including those that at last come to triumph mightily) are at their beginnings so small and faint in outline that one cannot easily convince oneself that from them will grow matters of great moment." This little thought helps to explain Fredriksen's big one, that no one during Jesus' lifetime (including the man himself) considered Jesus to be the Messiah. That interpretation of his life, Fredriksen argues, was occasioned by his death: "Jesus' crucifixion as King of the Jews had come as a shock to his core followers. Their experiences of his continued presence after his death, on the evidence of the Gospels, surprised them, too. Seeking to understand what they had witnessed, they turned to Scripture." Jesus of Nazareth, King of the Jews makes its argument through careful reconstruction of Jesus' historical context, and dogged attention to the details of his crucifixion and to the fates of his immediate followers. The book's surprising arguments and its lucid style make this a valuable addition to the canon of popular Historical Jesus scholarship. --Michael Joseph Gross [via]
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Jewelry Talks : A Novel Thesisby Richard KleinISBN 0679441980 (0-679-44198-0)
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Jewish and Female: Choices and Changes in Our Lives Todayby Susan Weidman SchneiderISBN 0671604392 (0-671-60439-2)
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The Jewish Baby Bookby Anita DiamantISBN 0671639358 (0-671-63935-8)
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Jewish Holiday Funby Judith CorwinISBN 0671602306 (0-671-60230-6)
Hardcover, J. Messner
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Jewish Holiday Funby Judith Hoffman CorwinISBN 067160127X (0-671-60127-X)
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Jews and Freemasons in Europe 1723-1939by Jacob KatzISBN 0674474805 (0-674-47480-5)
Hardcover, Harvard University Press
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The Jews in America: Four Centuries of an Uneasy Encounter A Historyby Arthur HertzbergISBN 0671627090 (0-671-62709-0)
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Josephus: The Jewish War Books I-IIby JosephusISBN 0674995368 (0-674-99536-8)
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Josephus: The Jewish War Books V-VIIby G.P. GooldISBN 0674995694 (0-674-99569-4)
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Judaism: The Key Spiritual Writings of the Jewish Traditionby Arthur HertzbergISBN 0671743767 (0-671-74376-7)
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Judeophobia: Attitudes Toward the Jews in the Ancient Worldby Peter SchaferISBN 0674487788 (0-674-48778-8)
Softcover, Harvard Univ Pr
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Kabbalah, Magic, and Science: The Cultural Universe of a Sixteenth-Century Jewish Physicianby David B. RudermanISBN 0674496604 (0-674-49660-4)
Hardcover, Harvard Univ Pr
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The Keeping Quiltby Patricia PolaccoISBN 0671649639 (0-671-64963-9)
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The Last Temptation of Christby Nikos KazantzakisISBN 0671672576 (0-671-67257-6)
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Life of Piby Yann MartelISBN 0676978991 (0-676-97899-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Life of Pi'Book summary:Serious novels about young boys being drawn closer to God while trapped on lifeboats with dangerous wild animals ought to be impossible. Life of Pi, Yann Martel's second novel, proves they're not. Its plot stretches the limits of credibility into new and exciting shapes, and the fact that Martel has made his materials into an enchanting story is almost unbelievable. Martel's Pi is Piscine Molitor Patel, a boy from Pondicherry, one of the few Indian towns to be colonized by France. Pi is an intelligent, unusual child: he has a scientific turn of mind but is also a practising Hindu, Moslem, and Christian. Pi's family runs a large zoo, but they decide to sell their animals to zoos in the United States and emigrate to Canada. Crossing the Pacific (with their animals), they're shipwrecked halfway between China and Midway. Pi survives, only to find himself sharing a lifeboat with an injured zebra, a spotted hyena, an orangutan, and Richard Parker--an immense Bengal tiger.
Most of these animals are doomed, but Pi and Richard Parker cling to life, establishing a tacit order on the lifeboat. Martel handles this part of the story perfectly: one would expect Life of Pi to become cute, or perhaps preachy, but it is neither. Life on the boat proceeds in strict accordance with the rules of ecology and territorialism, and the interdependence of the passengers is both believable and absorbing. Life of Pi is a superb novel, both for its story and for its rich examinations of religion, isolation, and love. If this is an indication of what is to come, we can expect great things from Yann Martel. --Jack Illingworth [via]
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The Literary Guide to the Bibleby Frank Kermode, Robert AlterISBN 0674875311 (0-674-87531-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Literary Guide to the Bible'Book summary:This literary guide leads the reader toward an understanding and appreciation of a book that has shaped the minds of men and women for two millenia and more. Provides an analysis of the Bible's structures, themes, narrative techniques and poetic forms. 1 line illustration. [via]
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Master And Margaritaby Michael Glenny, Mikhail BulgakovISBN 0679410465 (0-679-41046-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'MASTER AND MARGARITA'Book summary:Surely no stranger work exists in the annals of protest literature than The Master and Margarita. Written during the Soviet crackdown of the 1930s, when Mikhail Bulgakov's works were effectively banned, it wraps its anti-Stalinist message in a complex allegory of good and evil. Or would that be the other way around? The book's chief character is Satan, who appears in the guise of a foreigner and self-proclaimed black magician named Woland. Accompanied by a talking black tomcat and a "translator" wearing a jockey's cap and cracked pince-nez, Woland wreaks havoc throughout literary Moscow. First he predicts that the head of noted editor Berlioz will be cut off; when it is, he appropriates Berlioz's apartment. (A puzzled relative receives the following telegram: "Have just been run over by streetcar at Patriarch's Ponds funeral Friday three afternoon come Berlioz.") Woland and his minions transport one bureaucrat to Yalta, make another one disappear entirely except for his suit, and frighten several others so badly that they end up in a psychiatric hospital. In fact, it seems half of Moscow shows up in the bin, demanding to be placed in a locked cell for protection.
Meanwhile, a few doors down in the hospital lives the true object of Woland's visit: the author of an unpublished novel about Pontius Pilate. This Master--as he calls himself--has been driven mad by rejection, broken not only by editors' harsh criticism of his novel but, Bulgakov suggests, by political persecution as well. Yet Pilate's story becomes a kind of parallel narrative, appearing in different forms throughout Bulgakov's novel: as a manuscript read by the Master's indefatigable love, Margarita, as a scene dreamed by the poet--and fellow lunatic--Ivan Homeless, and even as a story told by Woland himself. Since we see this narrative from so many different points of view, who is truly its author? Given that the Master's novel and this one end the same way, are they in fact the same book? These are only a few of the many questions Bulgakov provokes, in a novel that reads like a set of infinitely nested Russian dolls: inside one narrative there is another, and then another, and yet another. His devil is not only entertaining, he is necessary: "What would your good be doing if there were no evil, and what would the earth look like if shadows disappeared from it?"
Unsurprisingly--in view of its frequent, scarcely disguised references to interrogation and terror--Bulgakov's masterwork was not published until 1967, almost three decades after his death. Yet one wonders if the world was really ready for this book in the late 1930s, if, indeed, we are ready for it now. Shocking, touching, and scathingly funny, it is a novel like no other. Woland may reattach heads or produce 10-ruble notes from the air, but Bulgakov proves the true magician here. The Master and Margarita is a different book each time it is opened. --Mary Park [via]
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The Moor's Last Sighby Salman RushdieISBN 0679420495 (0-679-42049-5)
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Moses the Egyptian: The Memory of Egypt in Western Monotheismby Jan AssmanISBN 0674587391 (0-674-58739-1)
Softcover, Harvard Univ Pr
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The Mystery and Meaning of the Dead Sea Scrollsby Hershel ShanksISBN 0679457577 (0-679-45757-7)
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On Being a Christianby Hans KungISBN 0671790722 (0-671-79072-2)
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On the Genealogy of Morals/Ecce Homoby R. J. Hollingdale, Walter Arnold Kaufmann, Friedrich NietzscheISBN 0679724621 (0-679-72462-1)
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The Origins of the Inquisition in Fifteenth Century Spainby Benjamin NetanyahuISBN 0679410651 (0-679-41065-1)
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Parables in Midrash: Narrative and Exegesis in Rabbinic Literatureby David SternISBN 067465448X (0-674-65448-X)
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Peace of Mindby Joshua Loth LiebmanISBN 0671560107 (0-671-56010-7)
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Pity the Nation: The Abduction of Lebanonby Robert FiskISBN 0671747703 (0-671-74770-3)
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Prayersby Peter WashingtonISBN 0679444661 (0-679-44466-1)
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Prisoner Without a Name, Cell Without a Numberby Jacobo Timerman, Toby TalbotISBN 0679720480 (0-679-72048-0)
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The Promised City: New York's Jews, 1870-1914by Moses RischinISBN 0674715012 (0-674-71501-2)
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The Puttermesser Papersby Cynthia OzickISBN 0679454764 (0-679-45476-4)
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Qumran and the History of the Biblical Textby S. Talmon, Cross, F. & Talmon, sISBN 0674743628 (0-674-74362-8)
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Ragtimeby E.L. DoctorowISBN 0679602976 (0-679-60297-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Ragtime'Book summary:Published in 1975, Ragtime changed our very concept of what a novel could be. An extraordinary tapestry, Ragtime captures the spirit of America in the era between the turn of the century and the First World War.
The story opens in 1906 in New Rochelle, New York, at the home
of an affluent American family.
One lazy Sunday afternoon, the famous escape artist Harry Houdini swerves his car into a telephone pole outside their house. And almost magically, the line between fantasy and historical fact, between real and imaginary characters, disap-
pears. Henry Ford, Emma Goldman, J. P. Morgan, Evelyn Nesbit, Sig- mund Freud, and Emiliano Zapata slip in and out of the tale, crossing paths with Doctorow's imagined family and other fictional characters, including an immigrant peddler and a ragtime musician from Harlem whose insistence on a point of justice drives him to revolutionary violence.
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The Reformationby Will Durant, Ariel DurantISBN 0671610503 (0-671-61050-3)
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Religions of the Ancient World: A Guideby Sarah Iles JohnstonISBN 0674015177 (0-674-01517-7)
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A Season for Healing: Reflections on the Holocaustby Anne RoipheISBN 0671688790 (0-671-68879-0)
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Selected Short Stories of Franz Kafkaby Franz Kafka, Wilma Muir, Edwin Muir, Philip RahvISBN 0679600612 (0-679-60061-2)
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Selected Writings: 1913-1926by Gary Smith, Walter Benjamin, Michael W. Jennings, Howard Eiland, Marcus Paul BullockISBN 0674945859 (0-674-94585-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Selected Writings: 1913-1926'Book summary:A leading German critic of his day and a member of the generation scarred by the First World War, Walter Benjamin's writing career was marked by deep philosophical insights and tumultuous emotional crises. His work has mostly been unavailable in English translations, but this collection marks the first of three proposed volumes of his essays. In his early work, we encounter Benjamin as an idealistic university student and come to see him commenting on the aesthetics of such subjects as morality in children's books, the uses of force and violence, and writers such as Goethe and Dostoyevsky. [via]
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Selected Writings: 1927-1934by Gary Smith, Rodney Livingstone, Walter Benjamin, Michael W. Jennings, Howard Eiland, Marcus Paul BullockISBN 0674945867 (0-674-94586-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Selected Writings: 1927-1934'Book summary:A leading German critic from the generation of Europeans scarred by the First World War, Walter Benjamin (1892-1940) had a writing career marked by deep philosophical insights and tumultuous emotional crises. But until recently, most of his work was unavailable in English; the handful of essays that could be read in English, like "The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction," were undisputed classics, but the full spectrum of Benjamin's thought remained untapped. That has changed with Harvard University's publication of the multivolume Selected Writings. This second volume covers Benjamin's work from 1927 to 1934, the period in which he established himself as a leading public intellectual, and encompasses a wide variety of literary forms addressing an even wider variety of subject matter. From interviews with André Gide to film reviews of work by Chaplin and Eisenstein, from the autobiographical recollections of "A Berlin Chronicle" to his reflections on the cultural nostalgia for children's literature and toys, Benjamin wrote with perception and unflagging inquisitiveness. The editors have provided a chronological essay, which helps place the assembled writings in the context of Benjamin's life; the collection considered as a whole will undoubtedly be of vital importance to any scholar of modern European philosophy. [via]
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Slow Motion : A Memoir of How a Life Gone Terribly Wrong Can Be Rescued Through Tragedyby Dani ShapiroISBN 0679456317 (0-679-45631-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Slow Motion : A Memoir of How a Life Gone Terribly Wrong Can Be Rescued Through Tragedy'Book summary:Dani Shapiro was rescued by tragedy. At the age of 23 she is a wreck. A Sarah Lawrence college dropout, she is living as the mistress--one of many, she would later find out--of her best friend's stepfather, Lenny, a high-profile New York City lawyer. It is the height of the excessive '80s, and Lenny goes to extravagant lengths to keep his woman--putting her up in a large downtown apartment, draping her in furs and flashy gems, and spiriting her away by Concorde to Paris for weekend flings. When she isn't with Lenny, Shapiro leisurely courts an acting and modeling career and actively pursues her drug dealer, who delivers cocaine to her door. She is at an expensive spa in California--at a far remove from the middle-class, orthodox Jewish home in which she was raised--when, one snowy night, her parents' car careens into a highway median. When she returns to New Jersey, to her parents' hospital bedsides, she begins the journey to discover and mine her inner strength. She succeeds, and though the process is as arduous as it is painful, Shapiro finds within herself the power to nurse her mother through nearly 100 broken bones, to survive her father's death, and to reset the course of her life. Slow Motion ends where its subject's troubles began: with Shapiro, newly single, re-enrolling as an undergrad at Sarah Lawrence.
Shapiro, who is the author of three previous novels, writes sparely and lacks the excessive self-consciousness that plagues some memoirs. She develops her story carefully, drawing readers ever closer into her most intimate thoughts and fears. This honest, and sometimes brutal account of loss and recovery is an inspiration. [via]
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Stalin Against the Jewsby Arkady Vaksberg, Antonina W. BouisISBN 0679422072 (0-679-42207-2)
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The Talmud : The Steinsaltz Editionby Adin SteinsaltzISBN 0679407693 (0-679-40769-3)
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The Talmud: The Steinsaltz Edition Tractate Bava Metzia, Part VIby Adin SteinsaltzISBN 0679413782 (0-679-41378-2)
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The Talmud: The Steinsaltz Edition Tractate Ketubotby Adin Steinsaltz, David StraussISBN 0679443975 (0-679-44397-5)
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The Talmud : The Steinsaltz Edition: Tractate Ta'anitby Adin SteinsaltzISBN 0679429611 (0-679-42961-1)
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The Talmud: The Steinsaltz Edition Tractate Ta'Anit, Pt IIby Adin Steinsaltz, Baruch Goldberg, Israel V. BermanISBN 0679443983 (0-679-44398-3)
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The Talmud, the Steinsaltz Edition Vol. 15, Pt. 1 : The Tractate Sanhedrinby Adin SteinsaltzISBN 0679452222 (0-679-45222-2)
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The Timetables of Jewish History: A Chronology of the Most Important People and Events in Jewish Historyby Judah Gribetz, Regina Stein, Edward L. GreensteinISBN 0671640070 (0-671-64007-0)
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Traditions of the Bible: A Guide to the Bible As It Was at the Start of the Common Eraby James L. KugelISBN 0674791517 (0-674-79151-7)
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Ulyssesby James JoyceISBN 0679722769 (0-679-72276-9)
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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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Unto the Soulby Aharon Appelfeld, Jeffrey M. GreenISBN 0679406115 (0-679-40611-5)
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A parable for our times, by the writer whom Irving Howe called "one of the best novelists alive," Unto the Soul lays bare the deepest stirrings of religious feeling and despair within the human soul.
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Walter Benjamin: Selected Writings 1927-1930by Walter Benjamin, Michael W. Jennings, Rodney LivingstoneISBN 0674015886 (0-674-01588-6)
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Walter Benjamin: Selected Writings 1931-1934by Walter Benjamin, Gary Smith, Michael W. Jennings, Marcus Bullock, Howard EilandISBN 0674017463 (0-674-01746-3)
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In Part 1, Benjamin is represented by two of his greatest literary essays, "Surrealism" and "On the Image of Proust," as well as by a long article on Goethe and a generous selection of his wide-ranging commentary for Weimar Germany's newspapers.
Part 2 contains, in addition to the important longer essays, "Franz Kafka," "Karl Kraus," and "The Author as Producer," the extended autobiographical meditation "A Berlin Chronicle," and extended discussions of the history of photography and the social situation of the French writer, previously untranslated shorter pieces on such subjects as language and memory, theological criticism and literary history, astrology and the newspaper, and on such influential figures as Paul Valery, Stefan George, Hitler, and Mickey Mouse.
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Walter Benjamin: Selected Writings, 1913-1926by Walter Benjamin, Michael W. JenningsISBN 0674013557 (0-674-01355-7)
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War and Remembranceby Herman WoukISBN 0671672886 (0-671-67288-6)
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What Does Being Jewish Mean?: Read-Aloud Responses to Questions Jewish Children Ask About History, Culture and Religionby E. B. Rabba FreedmanISBN 0671765744 (0-671-76574-4)
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The White Hotelby D. M. ThomasISBN 0671725203 (0-671-72520-3)
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Who's Who in Jewish History: After the Period of the Old Testamentby Joan ComayISBN 0679504559 (0-679-50455-9)
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The Word : Jewish Wisdom Through Time: A Spiritual Sourcebookby Noah benSheaISBN 0679425845 (0-679-42584-5)
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