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The Angel Of Forgetfulnessby Steve SternISBN 014303734X (0-14-303734-X)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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Anne Frank: A Hidden Lifeby Mirjam PresslerISBN 0141312262 (0-14-131226-2)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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Antisemitism in Americaby Leonard DinnersteinISBN 0195037804 (0-19-503780-4)
Hardcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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Antisemitism: Part One of the Origins of Totalitarianismby Hannah ArendtISBN 0156078104 (0-15-607810-4)
Softcover, Harcourt on Demand
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Apples and Honey: A Rosh Hashanah Bookby Joan Holub, Cary PilloISBN 0142501360 (0-14-250136-0)
Softcover, Puffin
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Arab and Jew: Wounded Spirits in a Promised Landby David K. ShiplerISBN 0142002291 (0-14-200229-1)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Arab and Jew: Wounded Spirits in a Promised Land'Book summary:The Jew, according to the Arab stereotype, is a brutal, violent coward; the Arab, to the prejudiced Jew, is a primitive creature of animal vengeance and cruel desires. In this monumental work, David Shipler delves into the origins of the prejudices that have been intensified by war, terrorism, and nationalism.[via]Focusing on the diverse cultures that exist side by side in Israel and Israeli-controlled territories, Shipler examines the process of indoctrination that begins in schools; he discusses the far-ranging effects of socioeconomic differences, historical conflicts between Islam and Judaism, attitudes about the Holocaust, and much more. And he writes of the people: the Arab woman in love with a Jew, the retired Israeli military officer, the Palestinian guerilla, the handsome actor whose father is Arab and whose mother is Jewish.
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Authorized King James Version With Apocrypha Bibleby Stephen Prickett, Robert CarrollISBN 0192835254 (0-19-283525-4)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Authorized King James Version With Apocrypha Bible'Book summary:The Bible is the most important book in the history of Western civilization, and also the most difficult to interpret. It has been the vehicle of continual conflict, with every interpretation reflecting passionately held views that have affected not merely religion, but politics, art, and even science.
This unique edition offers an exciting new approach to the most influential of all English biblical texts--the Authorized King James Version, complete with the Apocrypha. Its wide-ranging Introduction and the substantial notes to each book of the Bible guide the reader through the labyrinth of literary, textual, and theological issues, using the most up-to-date scholarship to demonstrate how and why the Bible has affected the literature, art and general culture of the English-speaking world.
The Bible: Authorized King James Version also includes the latest biblical research, evaluated and put into context as well as discussing centuries of critical opinion. A non-sectarian, historical approach makes it suitable for a wide range of readers. A Glossary of terms used in the Notes and six maps of the Holy Land further illuminate the meaning of this most culturally influential version of the Bible. [via]More editions of Authorized King James Version With Apocrypha Bible:
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Ben Hur: A Tale of the Christby David Mayer, Lew WallaceISBN 0192831992 (0-19-283199-2)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Ben Hur: A Tale of the Christ'Book summary:A spiritual tale of the quest for love, the recovery of identity and patrimony, Ben-Hur never fails to delight in its detail and realism. As David Mayer's introduction makes explicit, Ben-Hur is marked by traces of contemporary issues and American Victorian concerns and tensions which shed important light on social and cultural history. [via]
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The Bible: Authorized King James Versionby Stephen Prickett, Robert CarrollISBN 0192830996 (0-19-283099-6)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Bible: Authorized King James Version'Book summary:The Bible is the most important book in the history of Western civilization, and also the most difficult to interpret. It has been the vehicle of continual conflict, with every interpretation reflecting passionately-held views that have affected not merely religion, but politics, art, and even science.
This unique edition offers an exciting new approach to the most influential of all English biblical texts--the Authorized King James Version, complete with the Apocrypha. Its wide-ranging Introduction and the substantial notes to each book of the Bible guide the reader through the labyrinth of literary, textual, and theological issues, using the most up-to-date scholarship to demonstrate how and why the Bible has affected the literature, art and general culture of the English-speaking world.
The Bible: Authorized King James Version also includes the lastest biblical research, evaluated and put into context as well as discussing centuries of critical opinion. A non-sectarian, historical approach makes it suitable for a wide range of readers. A Glossary of terms used in the Notes and six maps of the Holy Land further illuminate the meaning of this most culturally influential version of the Bible. [via]More editions of The Bible: Authorized King James Version:
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The Bible: King James Version With the Apocryphaby David NortonISBN 0141441518 (0-14-144151-8)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Bible: King James Version With the Apocrypha'Book summary:A major new edition of the King James Bible-faithfully presented for the twenty-first century[via]
Although it is the most important book in the religious life and culture of the English-speaking world, the King James Bible, or Authorized Version of 1611, has never been perfectly represented in print. This edition makes available the translators' intended work with a fidelity never before achievedallowing the most read, heard, and loved book in the English language to speak with new vigor to modern readers.The work we have long read as the King James Bible contains numerous changes, both deliberate and accidental, to the text. David Norton has scrupulously collated the established text with the translators' original manuscripts to create this new authoritative edition. In addition, he has modernized and standardized the spelling but left intact the words and grammatical forms, and he has restored most of the original punctuation, which, unlike the standard version, largely adheres to modern practices. Finally, he presents the text in paragraph format, making this King James Bible a fully comprehensible and gratifying read.
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Broken Glassby Arthur MillerISBN 0140480951 (0-14-048095-1)
Softcover, Penguin USA
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The Changing Faces of Jesusby Geza VermesISBN 0142196029 (0-14-219602-9)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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Confessions of a Closet Catholicby Sarah LittmanISBN 0142405973 (0-14-240597-3)
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Congregation: Contemporary Writers Read the Jewish Bibleby David RosenbergISBN 0156220407 (0-15-622040-7)
Softcover, Harcourt
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Congregation: Contemporary Writers Read the Jewish Bibleby Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, David RosenbergISBN 0151463506 (0-15-146350-6)
Hardcover, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
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Devil in Viennaby Doris OrgelISBN 0142402362 (0-14-240236-2)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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Dog Yearsby Gunter Grass, Ralph ManheimISBN 015626112X (0-15-626112-X)
Softcover, Harcourt
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Drummers of Jerichoby Carolyn MeyerISBN 0152001905 (0-15-200190-5)
Softcover, Harcourt Children's Books
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Early Christian Writings: The Apostolic Fathersby Andrew Louth, Maxwell StaniforthISBN 0140444750 (0-14-044475-0)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Early Christian Writings: The Apostolic Fathers'Book summary:The writings in this volume cast a glimmer of light upon the emerging traditions and organization of the infant church, during an otherwise little-known period of its development. A selection of letters and small-scale theological treatises from a group known as the Apostolic Fathers, several of whom were probably disciples of the Apostles, they provide a first-hand account of the early Church and outline a form of early Christianity still drawing on the theology and traditions of its parent religion, Judaism. Included here are the first "Epistle of Bishop Clement of Rome", an impassioned plea for harmony; "The Epistle of Polycarp"; "The Epistle of Barnabas"; "The Didache"; and, the Seven Epistles written by Ignatius of Antioch - among them his moving appeal to the Romans that they grant him a martyr's death. [via]
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Elsewhere, Perhapsby Amos OzISBN 0156284758 (0-15-628475-8)
Softcover, Harvest Books
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Epic of Gilgameshby Andrew GeorgeISBN 0140449191 (0-14-044919-1)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Epic of Gilgamesh'Book summary:Originally the work of an anonymous Babylonian poet who lived more than 3,700 years ago, The Epic of Gilgamesh tells of the heroic exploits of the ruler of the walled city of Uruk. Not content with the immortality conveyed by the renown of his great deeds, Gilgamesh journeys to the ends of the earth and beyond in his search for eternal life, encountering the wise man Utanapishti, who relates the story of a great flood that swept the earth. This episode and several others in the epic anticipate stories in the Bible and in Homer, to the great interest of biblical and classical scholars. Told with intense feeling and imagination, this masterful tale of love and friendship, duty and death, is more than an object of scholarly concern; it is a vital rendering of universal themes that resonate across the ages and is considered the world's first truly great work of literature. [via]
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The Epic of Gilgameshby N.K. SandarsISBN 014044100X (0-14-044100-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Epic of Gilgamesh'Book summary:'I am Gilgamesh who seized and killed the Bull of Heaven, I killed the watchman of the cedar forest, I overthrew Humbaba who lived in the forest' Gilgamesh, King of Uruk, and his companion Enkidu are the only heroes to have survived from the ancient literature of Babylon, immortalized in this epic poem that dates back to the third millennium BC. Together they journey to the Spring of Youth, defeat the Bull of Heaven and slay the monster Humbaba. When Enkidu dies, Gilgamesh's grief and fear of death are such that they lead him to undertake a quest for eternal life. A timeless tale of morality, tragedy and pure adventure, The Epic of Gilgamesh is a landmark literary exploration of man's search for immortality. N. K. Sandars's lucid, accessible translation is prefaced by a detailed introduction that examines the narrative and historical context of the work. In addition, there is a glossary of names and a map of the Ancient Orient. @UrukRockCity All the ladies want to get it on now that I've slain the demon. But I must decline. I'm a clean man these days. I just can't win with women. Before, nailing all the ladies was bad. Now I refuse to seduce, and the Gods send a giant bull to kill me? From Twitterature: The World's Greatest Books in Twenty Tweets or Less [via]
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The Epic of Gilgameshby Not AvailableISBN 0141026286 (0-14-102628-6)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Epic of Gilgamesh'Book summary:A great king, strong as the stars in Heaven. Enkidu, a wild and mighty hero, is created by the gods to challenge the arrogant King Gilgamesh. But instead of killing each other, the two become friends. Travelling together to the Cedar Forest, they fight and slay the evil monster Humbaba. But when Enkidu is killed, his death haunts and breaks the mighty Gilgamesh. Terrified of mortality, he resolves to find the secret of eternal life...[via]
@UrukRockCity All the ladies want to get it on now that Ive slain the demon. But I must decline. Im a clean man these days.
I just cant win with women. Before, nailing all the ladies was bad. Now I refuse to seduce, and the Gods send a giant bull to kill me?
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The Ethicsby Benedictus De SpinozaISBN 0140435719 (0-14-043571-9)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Ethics'Book summary:[via]Published shortly after his death in 1677, Ethics is undoubtedly Spinozas greatest worka fully cohesive philosophical system that strives to provide a coherent picture of reality and to comprehend the meaning of an ethical life. Following a logical step-by-step format, it defines in turn the nature of God, the mind, human bondage to the emotions, and the power of understanding, moving from a consideration of the eternal to speculate upon humanitys place in the natural order, freedom, and the path to attainable happiness. A powerful work of elegant simplicity, Ethics is a brilliantly insightful consideration of the possibility of redemption through intense thought and philosophical reflection.
- First time in Penguin Classics
- Edwin Curley's translation is considered definitive
- Inlcudes an introduction outlining Spinoza's philosophy and placing it in context
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Focusby Arthur MillerISBN 0142000426 (0-14-200042-6)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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The Four Questionsby Lynne Sharon Schwartz, Ori ShermanISBN 0140552693 (0-14-055269-3)
Softcover, Penguin Group (Canada)
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Freud, Jews, and Other Germans: Masters and Victims in Modernist Cultureby Peter GayISBN 0195024931 (0-19-502493-1)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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The Garden of the Finzi-Continisby Giorgio Bassani, William WeaverISBN 0156345706 (0-15-634570-6)
Softcover, Harvest Books
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The Girls' Guide to Hunting and Fishingby Melissa Bank, ChowhoundISBN 0143035479 (0-14-303547-9)
Softcover, Penguin Group (Canada)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Girls' Guide to Hunting and Fishing'Book summary:Jane Rosenal, the narrator of The Girls' Guide to Hunting and Fishing, is wise beyond her years. Not that that's saying much--since none of her elders, with the exception of her father, is particularly wise. At the age of 14, Jane watches her brother and his new girlfriend, searching for clues for how to fall in love, but by the end of the summer she's trying to figure out how not to fail in love. At twice that age, Jane quickly internalizes How to Meet and Marry Mr. Right, even though that retro manual is ruining her chances at happiness. In the intervening years, Melissa Bank's heroine struggles at love and work. The former often seems indistinguishable from the latter, and her experiences in book publishing inspire little in the way of affection. As Jane announces in "The Worst Thing a Suburban Girl Could Imagine": "I'd been a rising star at H----- until Mimi Howlett, the new executive editor, decided I was just the lights of an airplane."
Bank's first collection has a beautiful, true arc, and all the sophistication and control her heroine could ever desire. In "The Floating House," Jane and her boyfriend, Jamie, visit his ex-girlfriend in St. Croix, and right from the start she can't stop mimicking her beautiful competitor, in a notably idiotic fashion. "I'm like one of those animals that imitates its predators to survive," she realizes--one of several thousand of Bank's ruefully funny phrases. But even as Jane clowns around, desperately trying to keep up appearances, she is so hyperaware it hurts. Again and again, the author explores the dichotomy between life as it happens and the rehearsed anecdote, the preferred outcome. In The Girls' Guide to Hunting and Fishing, even suburban quiet has "nothing to do with peace." Bank's much-anticipated debut merits all its buzz and, more to the point, transcends it. --Kerry Fried [via]
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The Great Code: The Bible and Literatureby Northrop FryeISBN 0156027801 (0-15-602780-1)
Softcover, Harcourt
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Great Code: The Bible and Literature'Book summary:The subject of Northrop Frye's The Great Code is "a huge, sprawling, tactless book inscrutably in the middle of our cultural heritage": the Bible. And though literary critic Frye insists on approaching this monumental book only as a "unified structure of narrative and imagery," he acknowledges that the Bible is somehow "more" than a work of literature. The Great Code tries to track down that sense of "more." The Bible, according to Frye, is at the centre of our mythical universe, establishing "the imaginative framework within which Western Literature has operated down to the eighteenth century and is to a large extent still operating."
Arranged in two parts, the first setting forth critical principles under the headings of "language," "myth," "metaphor" and "typology," and the second focusing primarily on the application of those principles, The Great Code adopts the "double mirror" structure of the Bible's Old and New Testaments. The book grew out of a course Frye taught at the University of Toronto for half a century, and so, he insists, it addresses not the Biblical or even the literary scholar so much as the general reader, including those without much prior knowledge of the Bible or any particular religious faith. With its successor, Words with Power, The Great Code forms perhaps the most ambitious and most personal project of this great literary man's career. Though he was himself ordained in the United Church of Canada in his early 20s, Frye decided to leave the religious for the academic life; what he took with him was a fierce fascination with this sacred text and a deep sense of its literary and cultural importance. It is the one book that, Frye says, "all my critical work has revolved" around. --Russell Prather [via]
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Hanukkah, Oh Hanukkahby Susan L. RothISBN 0142407011 (0-14-240701-1)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Hanukkah, Oh Hanukkah'Book summary:Hanukkah, Oh Hanukkah,[via]come light the menorah . . .
Come and join this lovable family of mice at their Hanukkah party! Everyone will enjoy the festival of lights as they sing, dance the hora, play with dreidels, and eat latkes. And the musical score at the end of the book will help youngsters sing the festive song! Susan L. Roth's colorful collages will entice childrenyoung and oldto celebrate this luminous holiday with their entire family.
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The Hebrew Scriptures: An Introduction to Their Literature and Religious Ideasby Samuel SandmenISBN 0195023692 (0-19-502369-2)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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A History of Israel: From the Aftermath of the Yom Kippur Warby Howard Morley SacharISBN 0195043863 (0-19-504386-3)
Hardcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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History of the Jews in Modern Timesby Lloyd P. GartnerISBN 0192892592 (0-19-289259-2)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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The Holocaust: The Fate of European Jewry, 1932-1945by Leny YahilISBN 019504522X (0-19-504522-X)
Hardcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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The Holy Bible: A Facsimile of the Pennyroyal Caxton Edition of the King James Bibleby Barry MoserISBN 0142005029 (0-14-200502-9)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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If I Should Die Before I Wakeby Han NolanISBN 0152046798 (0-15-204679-8)
Softcover, Harcourt Childrens Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'If I Should Die Before I Wake'Book summary:As sixteen-year-old Hilary, a neo-Nazi, lies wounded in a Jewish hospital, she slips into a coma and begins to relive the harrowing memories of Chana-a Jewish girl whose family was brutalized in the wartime ghettos and Nazi death camps of Poland. At the same time, Hilary begins to come to terms with difficult memories of her own. When she wakes, she finally finds herself on the path to recovery from a lifetime of rage and resentment. Chanas story . . . is brilliantly rendered. -Booklist[via]More editions of If I Should Die Before I Wake:
If You Come Softlyby Jacqueline WoodsonISBN 0142406015 (0-14-240601-5)
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In My Brother's Image: Twin Brothers Separated by Faith After the Holocaustby Eugene PoganyISBN 0141002247 (0-14-100224-7)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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In the Month of Kislev : A Story for Hanukkahby Nina Jaffe, Louise AugustISBN 0140556540 (0-14-055654-0)
Softcover, Penguin Group (Canada)
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It Happened in the Catskills: An Oral History in the Words of Busboys, Bellhops, Guests, Proprietors, Comedians, Agents, and Others Who Lived Itby Myrna Katz Frommer, Harvey FrommerISBN 0156002388 (0-15-600238-8)
Softcover, Harcourt
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Jacob the Liarby Jurek BeckerISBN 0151459754 (0-15-145975-4)
Hardcover, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Jacob the Liar'Book summary:This fable of a Jewish ghetto during World War II is one of the great literary masterworks of the Holocaust. Published in Germany in 1969, it is only now appearing in an authorized English translation. Concerning a former cafe owner who fabricates the story of the Russian army's inexorable advance on the ghetto, and the liberation that will follow their arrival, the tale has the simple power of myths or dreams. A comic tale of unimaginable tragedy, the novel brings vividly to life the doomed inhabitants of the ghetto: Schmidt, the obtuse assimilationist; the child, Lina, who hunts for Jacob's imaginary radio; Frankfurte,r the formerly obese burgher. And Jacob himself, a storyteller whose inventions become like bread to the others, who finds himself trapped in his growing mesh of lies until he is driven to tell the truth. At the end there are two final passages: one in which the Russians arrive to save the ghetto; and one in which they don't. Who is to distinguish between fact and myth? [via]
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Jewels and Ashesby Arnold ZableISBN 0156001470 (0-15-600147-0)
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A Jewish Holiday ABCby Malka Drucker, Rita PocockISBN 0152013660 (0-15-201366-0)
Softcover, Harcourt Children's Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Jewish Holiday ABC'Book summary:Celebrate a full year of Jewish holidays in this alphabet book that introduces young children to the wealth of history and ritual surrounding Jewish traditions. An informative section detailing the origins and history of holiday observances, a glossary of holiday terms, and a pronunciation guide supplement the glowing text. Full color. [via]
The Jewish Poets of Spain, 900-1250by David GoldsteinISBN 0140442502 (0-14-044250-2)
Hardcover, Penguin
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Judaismby Nicholas De LangeISBN 0192892134 (0-19-289213-4)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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Judaism: An Introductionby Jacob NeusnerISBN 0141008490 (0-14-100849-0)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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Judaism and Christian Beginningsby Samuel SandmelISBN 0195022823 (0-19-502282-3)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr on Demand
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Letters from Rifkaby Karen HesseISBN 0141311967 (0-14-131196-7)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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Life of Piby Yann MartelISBN 0156027321 (0-15-602732-1)
Softcover, Harcourt
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Life of Pi'Book summary:Yann Martel's imaginative and unforgettable Life of Pi is a magical reading experience, an endless blue expanse of storytelling about adventure, survival, and ultimately, faith. The precocious son of a zookeeper, 16-year-old Pi Patel is raised in Pondicherry, India, where he tries on various faiths for size, attracting "religions the way a dog attracts fleas." Planning a move to Canada, his father packs up the family and their menagerie and they hitch a ride on an enormous freighter. After a harrowing shipwreck, Pi finds himself adrift in the Pacific Ocean, trapped on a 26-foot lifeboat with a wounded zebra, a spotted hyena, a seasick orangutan, and a 450-pound Bengal tiger named Richard Parker ("His head was the size and color of the lifebuoy, with teeth"). It sounds like a colorful setup, but these wild beasts don't burst into song as if co-starring in an anthropomorphized Disney feature. After much gore and infighting, Pi and Richard Parker remain the boat's sole passengers, drifting for 227 days through shark-infested waters while fighting hunger, the elements, and an overactive imagination. In rich, hallucinatory passages, Pi recounts the harrowing journey as the days blur together, elegantly cataloging the endless passage of time and his struggles to survive: "It is pointless to say that this or that night was the worst of my life. I have so many bad nights to choose from that I've made none the champion."
An award winner in Canada (and winner of the 2002 Man Booker Prize), Life of Pi, Yann Martel's second novel, should prove to be a breakout book in the U.S. At one point in his journey, Pi recounts, "My greatest wish--other than salvation--was to have a book. A long book with a never-ending story. One that I could read again and again, with new eyes and fresh understanding each time." It's safe to say that the fabulous, fablelike Life of Pi is such a book. --Brad Thomas Parsons [via]
Light the Candlesby Joan Holub, Lynne Woodcock CravathISBN 0140567577 (0-14-056757-7)
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The Manuscript Found in Saragossaby Jan Potocki, Ian MacLeanISBN 0140445803 (0-14-044580-3)
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Mary, Called Magdaleneby Margaret GeorgeISBN 0142002798 (0-14-200279-8)
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Mary, from beginning to end of this giant undertaking, is a woman who struggles to reconcile her absence from her young daughter's life with the chance to be part of something important. Through the lens of her ever-inquisitive mind, the story covers the formation of Jesus' ragtag band of disciples and the crucifixion, and ends with Mary's mission as the head of the Christian church in Ephesus, where she died at the age of 90. What makes this a compelling read is that Mary's story connects humanity with faith in a way that's possible to understand, whatever our contemporary beliefs. --Emily Russin [via]
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Master And Margaritaby Mikhail Bulgakov, Richard Pevear, Larissa VolokhonskyISBN 0141180145 (0-14-118014-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'MASTER AND MARGARITA'Book summary:[via]Nothing in the whole of literature compares with The Master and Margarita. Full of pungency and wit, this luminous work is Bulgakov's crowning achievement, skilfully blending magical and realistic elements, grotesque situations and major ethical concerns. Written during the darkest period of Stalin's repressive reign and a devastating satire of Soviet life, it combines two distinct yet interwoven parts, one set in contemporary Moscow, the other in ancient Jerusalem, each brimming with incident and with historical, imaginary, frightful and wonderful characters. Although completed in 1940, The Master and Margarita was not published until 1966 when the first section appeared in the monthly magazine Moskva. Russians everywhere responded enthusiastically to the novel's artistic and spiritual freedom and it was an immediate and enduring success. This new translation has been made from the complete and unabridged Russian text.
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A Mountain of Blintzesby Barbara Diamond Goldin, Anik McGroryISBN 0152019022 (0-15-201902-2)
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Narrative in the Hebrew Bibleby David M. Gunn, Danna Nolan FewellISBN 0192132458 (0-19-213245-8)
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New Testament Historyby Frederick Fyvie BruceISBN 0171220110 (0-17-122011-0)
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Only Begotten Daughterby James MorrowISBN 0156002434 (0-15-600243-4)
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The Oxford Book of Prayerby George AppletonISBN 0192803743 (0-19-280374-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Oxford Book of Prayer'Book summary:Despite the anxious and ubiquitous materialism of the modern world, the practice of prayer and meditation remains a source of both relief and inspiration for millions. This unique compilation of over 1,100 prayers combines the traditional with the modern, stretching from the Bible, the saints and mystics of the past, and the Book of Common Prayer, to a Ghanaian fisherman's prayer, and prayers from many influential non-Christian religions.
Selected for their literary merit as well as spiritual quality, these prayers speak to the modern reader. Arranged under headings such as "Prayers from the Scripture," "Prayers of Christians, Personal and Occasional," and "Prayers of Other Traditions of Faith," the anthology includes a subject index to guide the reader to prayers for particular occasions, as well as an index of authors and sources. It serves as the ideal source for browsing or for more structured prayer, as well as for private meditation or public worship. [via]-
The Oxford Dictionary of World Religionsby John Westerdale BowkerISBN 0192139657 (0-19-213965-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Oxford Dictionary of World Religions'Book summary:IThe Oxford Dictionary of World Religions is an exceptionally wide-ranging A-Z reference guide to the history, beliefs, dogmas, practices, individuals, customs, and artifacts of the worlds religions past and present. As well as detailed information on individual religious traditions, there are fascinating general entries on common topics such as prayer, ethics, asceticism, confession, cosmology, art and architecture, and music. [via]
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People of the Covenant: An Introduction to the Old Testamentby David A. Smith, Henry Jackson Flanders, Robert Wilson CrappsISBN 019504438X (0-19-504438-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'People of the Covenant: An Introduction to the Old Testament'Book summary:Using contemporary literary approaches and the most recent historical scholarship, this introduction to the Hebrew Scriptures provides a thorough and coherent approach to the basic human issues of the Scriptures. It emphasizes the meanings that the Hebrews gave to persons and events in their attempts to manage life's struggles, and provides textual aids that help students understand these ideas and apply them to contemporary issues. Accessible and stimulating to students with a wide range of academic and religious backgrounds, People of the Covenant is grounded in the best scholarly methodologies, respect for the rich literary values of the Old Testament, and concern for its enduring religious relevance. [via]
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Pharaoh's Daughter : A Novel of Ancient Egyptby Julius LesterISBN 0152018263 (0-15-201826-3)
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Philo of Alexandria: An Introductionby Samuel SandmelISBN 0195025156 (0-19-502515-6)
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Pity the Nation: Lebanon at Warby Robert FiskISBN 0192801309 (0-19-280130-9)
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The Procedureby Harry Mulisch, Paul VincentISBN 0142001279 (0-14-200127-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Procedure'Book summary:Internationally renowned novelist Harry Mulisch's The Procedure is a haunting and fascinating novel about two men who try to create life but fail. In the late sixteenth century, Rabbi Jehudah Löw, in order to guarantee the safety of the Jews in Prague, creates a golem by following a procedure outlined in a third-century cabalist text. Four hundred years later, Victor Werker, a Dutch biologist mourning the loss of his stillborn daughter, causes an international uproar when he creates a complex organic clay crystal that can reproduce and has a metabolism. But his unsettling discovery takes its toll as his inner and outer demons pursue him around the world, from California to Venice, Cairo, and Jerusalem. [via]
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The Psalmsby Peter LeviISBN 0140443193 (0-14-044319-3)
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Rahel Varnhagen: The Life of a Jewish Womanby Hannah ArendtISBN 0156761009 (0-15-676100-9)
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Ravelsteinby Saul BellowISBN 0141001763 (0-14-100176-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Ravelstein'Book summary:Throughout the 1980s and 1990s, Saul Bellow confined himself to shorter fictions. Not that this old master ever dabbled in minimalism: novellas such as The Actual and The Bellarosa Connection are bursting at the seams with wit, plot, and the intellectual equivalent of high fiber. Still, Bellow's readers wondered if he would ever pull another full-sized novel from his hat. With Ravelstein, the author has done just that--and he proves that even in his ninth decade, he can pin a character to the page more vividly, and more permanently, than just about anybody on the planet.
Character is very much the issue in Ravelstein, whose eponymous subject is a thinly disguised version of Bellow's boon companion, the late Allan Bloom. Like Bloom, Abe Ravelstein has spent much of his career at the University of Chicago, fighting a rearguard action against the creeping boobism and vulgarity of American life. What's more, he's written a surprise bestseller (a ringer, of course, for The Closing of the American Mind), which has made him into a millionaire. And finally, he's dying--has died of AIDS, in fact, six years before the opening of the novel. What we're reading, then, is a faux memoir by his best friend and anointed Boswell, a Bellovian body-double named Chick:
Ravelstein was willing to lay it all out for me. Now why did he bother to tell me such things, this large Jewish man from Dayton, Ohio? Because it very urgently needed to be said. He was HIV-positive, he was dying of complications from it. Weakened, he became the host of an endless list of infections. Still, he insisted on telling me over and over again what love was--the neediness, the awareness of incompleteness, the longing for wholeness, and how the pains of Eros were joined to the most ecstatic pleasures.
Ravelstein is a little thin in the plot department--or more accurately, it has an anti-plot, which consists of Chick's inability to write his memoir. But seldom has a case of writer's block been so supremely productive. The narrator dredges up anecdote after anecdote about his subject, assembling a composite portrait: "In approaching a man like Ravelstein, a piecemeal method is perhaps best." We see this very worldly philosopher teaching, kvetching, eating, drinking, and dying, the last in melancholic increments. His death, and Chick's own brush with what Henry James called "the distinguished thing," give much of the novel a kind of black-crepe coloration. But fortunately, Bellow shares Ravelstein's "Nietzschean view, favorable to comedy and bandstands," and there can't be many eulogies as funny as this one.As always, the author is lavish with physical detail, bringing not only his star but a large gallery of minor players to rude and resounding life ("Rahkmiel was a non-benevolent Santa Claus, a dangerous person, ruddy, with a red-eyed scowl and a face in which the anger muscles were highly developed"). His sympathies are also stretched in some interesting directions by his homosexual protagonist. Bellow hasn't, to be sure, transformed himself into an affirmative-action novelist. But his famously capacious view of human nature has been enriched by this additional wrinkle: "In art you become familiar with due process. You can't simply write people off or send them to hell." A world-class portrait, a piercing intimation of mortality, Ravelstein is truly that other distinguished thing: a great novel. --James Marcus [via]
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Refiner's Fireby Mark HelprinISBN 0156031078 (0-15-603107-8)
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Seize the Dayby Saul BellowISBN 0142437611 (0-14-243761-1)
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Slow Motionby Dani ShapiroISBN 0156008475 (0-15-600847-5)
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Spinozaby Roger ScrutonISBN 0192876309 (0-19-287630-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Spinoza'Book summary:Presents a clear and systematic analysis of Spinoza's thought, and shows its relevance to today's intellectual preoccupations. [via]
Spinoza: A Very Short Introductionby Roger ScrutonISBN 0192803166 (0-19-280316-6)
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The Survivor: An Anatomy of Life in the Death Campsby Terrence Des PresISBN 0195027035 (0-19-502703-5)
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To Jerusalem and Back: A Personal Accountby Saul BellowISBN 0141180757 (0-14-118075-7)
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The True Story of Hansel and Gretelby Louise MurphyISBN 0142003077 (0-14-200307-7)
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Ulyssesby James Joyce, Jeri JohnsonISBN 0192828665 (0-19-282866-5)
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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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When the Chickens Went on Strikeby Erica Silverman, Matthew TruemanISBN 0142402796 (0-14-240279-6)
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Whose Bible Is It?: A Short History of the Scripturesby Jaroslav PelikanISBN 0143036777 (0-14-303677-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Whose Bible Is It?: A Short History of the Scriptures'Book summary:[via]Jaroslav Pelikan, widely regarded as one of the most distinguished historians of our day, now provides a clear and engaging account of the Bibles journey from oral narrative to Hebrew and Greek text to todays countless editions. Pelikan explores the evolution of the Jewish, Protestant, and Catholic versions and the development of the printing press and its effect on the Reformation, the translation into modern languages, and varying schools of critical scholarship. Whose Bible Is It? is a triumph of scholarship that is also a pleasure to read.
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Wisdom and Law in the Old Testament: The Ordering of Life in Israel and Early Judaismby Joseph BlenkinsoppISBN 0192132539 (0-19-213253-9)
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