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A Brief Chapter in My Impossible Lifeby Dana ReinhardtISBN 0385746989 (0-385-74698-9)
Hardcover, Random House Children's Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Brief Chapter in My Impossible Life'Book summary:Simones starting her junior year in high school. Her moms a lawyer for the ACLU, her dads a political cartoonist, so shes grown up standing outside the organic food coop asking people to sign petitions for worthy causes. Shes got a terrific younger brother and amazing friends. And shes got a secret crush on a really smart and funny guywho spends all of his time with another girl.
Then her birth mother contacts her. Simones always known she was adopted, but she never wanted to know anything about it. Shes happy with her family just as it is, thank you.
She learns who her birth mother wasa 16-year-old girl named Rivka. Who is Rivka? Why has she contacted Simone? Why now? The answers lead Simone to deeper feelings of anguish and love than she has ever known, and to question everything she once took for granted about faith, life, the afterlife, and what it means to be a daughter. [via]More editions of A Brief Chapter in My Impossible Life:
Days of Awe: A Treasury of Jewish Wisdom for Reflection, Repentance, and Renewal on the High Holy Daysby Nahum N. Glatzer, Maurice T. Galpert, S. Y. AgnonISBN 0805210482 (0-8052-1048-2)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Exodusby Leon UrisISBN 2221098625 (2-221-09862-5)
Softcover, Distribooks Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Exodus'Book summary:Exodus is an international publishing phenomenon--the towering novel of the twentieth century's most dramatic geopolitical event. Leon Uris magnificently portrays the birth of a new nation in the midst of enemies--the beginning of an earthshaking struggle for power. Here is the tale that swept the world with its fury: the story of an American nurse, an Israeli freedom fighter caught up in a glorious, heartbreaking, triumphant era. Here is Exodus --one of the great best-selling novels of all time.
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Gates of Shabbat: A Guide for Observing Shabbatby Mark Dov Shapiro, Neil WaldmanISBN 0881230103 (0-88123-010-3)
Softcover, Central Conference of Amer
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Generation Jby Lisa SchiffmanISBN 0062515780 (0-06-251578-0)
Softcover, HarperCollins Canada, Limited
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Generation J'Book summary:"I'm not alone. I am part of a generation of fragmented Jews. We're in a kind of limbo. We're suspended between young adulthood and middle age, between Judaism and atheism, between a desire to believe in religion and a personal history of skepticism. Call us a bunch of searchers. Call us post-Holocaust Jews. Call us Generation J."
Generation J is the ambivalent generation: unaffiliated seekers, men and women who have grown up questioning the bounds of organized religion. Lisa Schiffman is one of these seekers, and Generation J chronicles her journey through the contradictory landscape of Jewish identity. Moving from the personal to the universal, from autobiography to anthropology, from laughter to tears, Schiffman shows us the many ways in which one can be religious.
Whether dipping into a ritual bath, getting henna-tattooed with the Star of David, unravelling the mysteries of the kabbalah, or confronting what Jewish tradition has to say about gay marriage, Schiffman reveals the conflicts of meaning and connection common to all who try to chart their own spiritual path. And, through it all, with humor and sensitivity, she confronts the reasons for her own quest and begins to untangle some of the thorniest questions about identity, community, and religion in America today.
This engaging exploration of what it means to be Jewish is every bit as much a fascinating tour of the varieties of contemporary Jewish practice as it is an unusual personal quest. Smart, funny, and provocative, Schiffman brilliantly explores the problems and possibilities facing any spiritual seeker today.
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The Gospel According to Moses: What My Jewish Friends Taught Me About Jesusby Athol DicksonISBN 1587430487 (1-58743-048-7)
Softcover, Baker Pub Group
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After he spent five years attending Chever Torah, Athol Dickson found his faith radically changed-the result being a deeper relationship with God. In beautiful and simple language, The Gospel according to Moses illustrates Dickson's journey of faith exploring some of the primary theological differences and similarities between Christianity and Judaism. He draws generously on both Old and New Testament scriptures, looking at Christian and Jewish perspectives on topics such as suffering, grace vs. works, and the place of Jesus in the Hebrew Scriptures. [via]More editions of The Gospel According to Moses: What My Jewish Friends Taught Me About Jesus:
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Hebrew-English TanakhISBN 0827606974 (0-8276-0697-4)
Softcover, Jewish Pubn Society
Find This BookBook summary:The JPS Hebrew-English TANAKH features the oldest-known complete Hebrew version of the Holy Scriptures, side by side with JPSs renowned English translation. Its well-designed format allows for ease of reading and features clear type, an engaging and efficient two-column format that enables readers to move quickly from one language to another, and an organization that contemporary readers will find familiar.
The Hebrew text of this TANAKH is based on the famed Leningrad Codex, the Masoretic text traceable to Aaron ben Moses ben Asher, ca. 930 CE. Ben-Asher researched all available texts to compile an authoritative Bible manuscript. In 1010 CE his work was revised by Samuel ben Jacob, a scribe in Egypt. Lost for centuries, the manuscript was eventually discovered in the mid-nineteenth century and became known as the Leningrad Codex. This edition adapts the latest BHS edition of the Leningrad text by correcting errors and providing modern paragraphing.
The English text in this TANAKH is a slightly updated version of the acclaimed 1985 JPS translation. Wherever possible, the results of modern study of the languages and culture of the ancient Near East have been brought to bear on the biblical text, which allows for an English style reflective of the biblical spirit and language rather than of the era of the translation.
This edition also includes an informative preface that discusses the history of Bible translation, focusing on the latest JPS English translation of the Holy Scriptures. It is the result of a 30-year interdenominational collaboration of eminent Jewish Bible scholars. Readers are sure to appreciate one of the most intensive projects in the history of The Jewish Publication Society.
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A History of the Jewish Experience: Book One, Torah and History, Book Two Torah, Mitzvot, and Jewish Thoughtby Leo TreppISBN 0874416728 (0-87441-672-8)
Softcover, Behrman House
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A History of the Jewish Experience: Eternal Faith, Eternal People.by Leo TreppISBN 087441072X (0-87441-072-X)
Softcover, Behrman House
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Holy Scriptures Jewish EditionISBN 0832616001 (0-8326-1600-1)
Hardcover, Delair Pub Co
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If This Is a Man and the Truce: And, the Truceby Primo LeviISBN 0140047239 (0-14-004723-9)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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Jesus and Judaismby E. P. SandersISBN 0800620615 (0-8006-2061-5)
Softcover, Augsburg Fortress Pub
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Jew Vs. Jew: The Struggle for the Soul of American Jewryby Samuel G. FreedmanISBN 0684859459 (0-684-85945-9)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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The Jewish Way in Death and Mourningby Maurice LammISBN 0824604229 (0-8246-0422-9)
Softcover, Jonathan David Pub
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The Jewish Way: Living the Holidaysby Irving GreenbergISBN 0671873032 (0-671-87303-2)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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The Jewsby Howard FastISBN 1596872497 (1-59687-249-7)
Softcover, Ibooks
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Jews'Book summary:Beginning in the ancient world, this colorful, fast-paced saga enriches our understanding of the Jews and their impact on the world. With drama no fiction can match, master storyteller Howard Fast traces the evolution of a tradition powerful enough to give lasting identity to a scattered, wandering people. Bringing to life the extraordinary men and women who have shaped history-Moses, Hillel, Jesus (and many more)-this compelling book explores the customs and philosophies that have endured persecution, emigration, and the Holocaust. Fast also probes the towering achievements of this unique and fascinating people, illustrating their important role in the origins of Western culture, Christianity and modern Europe. The Jews is comprehensive, enlightening and utterly readable. [via]
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Jps Hebrew-English Tanakh BibleISBN 0827607660 (0-8276-0766-0)
Softcover, Jewish Pubn Society
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Judaismby Arthur HertzbergISBN 0807601632 (0-8076-0163-2)
Hardcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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Judaism As a Civilizationby Arnold M. Eisen, Mordecai Menaheim KaplanISBN 0827605293 (0-8276-0529-3)
Softcover, Jewish Publication Society
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Judaism As a Civilization: Toward a Reconstruction of American-Jewish Lifeby Mordecai Menahem KaplanISBN 0827601948 (0-8276-0194-8)
Softcover, Jewish Publication Society of America
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Keeping Passover: Everything You Need to Know to Bring the Ancient Tradition to Life and Create Your Own Passover Celebrationby Ira SteingrootISBN 0060675535 (0-06-067553-5)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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The Last Kabbalist of Lisbonby Richard ZimlerISBN 1585670227 (1-58567-022-7)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Last Kabbalist of Lisbon'Book summary:Richard Zimler's The Last Kabbalist of Lisbon is not a particularly religious novel, but it uses religion to great dramatic effect. Although its story takes place during the 16th- century slaughter of Jews in Portugal, and its main characters are Jewish mystics, Zimler is less interested in describing their spiritual lives than in plotting a fantastic murder mystery. The book purports to be a modern translation of a medieval manuscript telling the story of the murder of a great kabbalist in Lisbon named Abraham. Occasionally, the story invokes a bit of kabbalist wisdom that is every bit as luminous as the ancient texts that inspired this novel: "Books are created from holy letters," one character says. "Just as angels are, according to some. Viewed from this perspective--through a window of Kabbalah, if you like--an angel is nothing but a book given heavenly form." Such moments are too rare for the book to be very perceptive about the tradition to which its title alludes, but nevertheless, it's an absorbing and genuinely suspenseful story. -- Michael Joseph Gross [via]
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The Last of the Justby Stephen Becker, Andr±E Schwarz-BartISBN 1585670162 (1-58567-016-2)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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The Living Torah English Edition With Haftarot, Bibliography, & Indexby Aryeh KaplanISBN 0940118351 (0-940118-35-1)
Hardcover, Moznaim Pub Corp
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The Living Torah Hebrew: The Five Books of Moses and the Haftarot/Hebrew and English in One Volumeby Aryeh KaplanISBN 0940118726 (0-940118-72-6)
Hardcover, Moznaim Pub Corp
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The Living Torah the Five Books of Moses: A New Translation Based on Traditional Jewish Sources, With Notes, Introduction, Maps, Tables, Charts, Bibliography and Indexby Aryeh KaplanISBN 0940118297 (0-940118-29-7)
Hardcover, Moznaim Pub Corp
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Living Torah the Five Books of Moses: A New Translation Based on Traditional Jewish Sources, With Notes, Introduction, Maps, Tables, Charts, Bibliography and Index'Book summary:This Book Contains
Joshua (Yehoshua), Page 1
Judges (Shoftim), Page 95
Samuel I (Shmuel 1), Page 181
Samuel II (Shmuel 2), Page 283
Kings I (Melachim 1), Page 379
Kings II (Melachim 2), Page 483
Bibliography, Page 581
Index, Page 591 [via]More editions of The Living Torah the Five Books of Moses: A New Translation Based on Traditional Jewish Sources, With Notes, Introduction, Maps, Tables, Charts, Bibliography and Index:
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The Living Torah: The Five Books of Moses and the Haftarotby Aryeh KaplanISBN 0940118734 (0-940118-73-4)
Hardcover, Moznaim Pub Corp
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Living Torah: The Five Books of Moses and the Haftarot'Book summary:Amazing five volume set of the beloved Living Torah by Rabbi Arye Kaplan. One book for each of the Five Books of Moses. Inspiring commentary and clear explanations. [via]
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Man's Search for Meaningby Viktor E. FranklISBN 0671023373 (0-671-02337-3)
Softcover, Pocket Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Man's Search for Meaning'Book summary:Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl is among the most influential works of psychiatric literature since Freud. The book begins with a lengthy, austere, and deeply moving personal essay about Frankl's imprisonment in Auschwitz and other concentration camps for five years, and his struggle during this time to find reasons to live. The second part of the book, called "Logotherapy in a Nutshell," describes the psychotherapeutic method that Frankl pioneered as a result of his experiences in the concentration camps. Freud believed that sexual instincts and urges were the driving force of humanity's life; Frankl, by contrast, believes that man's deepest desire is to search for meaning and purpose. Frankl's logotherapy, therefore, is much more compatible with Western religions than Freudian psychotherapy. This is a fascinating, sophisticated, and very human book. At times, Frankl's personal and professional discourses merge into a style of tremendous power. "Our generation is realistic, for we have come to know man as he really is," Frankl writes. "After all, man is that being who invented the gas chambers of Auschwitz; however, he is also that being who entered those gas chambers upright, with the Lord's Prayer or the Shema Yisrael on his lips." [via]
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Softcover, Beacon Pr - Man's Search for Meaning: An Introduction to Logotherapy: ISBN 0807014265 (0-8070-1426-5)
Hardcover, Beacon Pr - Man's Search for Meaning: An Introduction to Logotherapy: ISBN 0671244221 (0-671-24422-1)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster - Man's Search for Meaning: ISBN 067166736X (0-671-66736-X)
Softcover, Pocket Books - Man's Search for Meaning: ISBN 0671834657 (0-671-83465-7)
Softcover, Pocket Books - Man's Search for Meaning: ISBN 0671646702 (0-671-64670-2)
Hardcover, Pocket Books - Man's Search for Meaning: An Introduction to Logotherapy: ISBN 0807029181 (0-8070-2918-1)
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Man's Search for Ultimate Meaningby Viktor E. FranklISBN 0738203548 (0-7382-0354-8)
Softcover, Perseus Books Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Man's Search for Ultimate Meaning'Book summary:Viktor Frankl, author of the smash bestseller Man's Search for Meaning, offers a more straightforward alternative to traditional Freudian psychoanalysis: one's problems may be rooted in a failure to find a meaning in life beyond one's interior world. The basis for his interpretation, however, is not so straightforward. It lies in Frankl's existential analysis, plumbing for the reasons that people have repressed their consciences, their love, their creativity. By legitimizing a spiritual aspect of the human mind, Frankl has separated us definitively from the animal kingdom, but it is still up to each of us to rise to our human potential. [via]
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Meditation and Kabbalahby Aryeh KaplanISBN 0877286167 (0-87728-616-7)
Softcover, Red Wheel/Weiser
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Monday the Rabbi Took Offby Harry KemelmanISBN 0449210014 (0-449-21001-4)
Softcover, Random House Publishing Group
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Moses and Monotheismby S. FreudISBN 0394700147 (0-394-70014-7)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Moses and Monotheism'Book summary:"To deny a people the man whom it praises as the greatest of its sons is not a deed to be undertaken lightheartedly--especially by one belonging to that people," writes Sigmund Freud, as he prepares to pull the carpet out from under The Great Lawgiver in Moses and Monotheism. In this, his last book, Freud argues that Moses was an Egyptian nobleman and that the Jewish religion was in fact an Egyptian import to Palestine. Freud also writes that Moses was murdered in the wilderness, in a reenactment of the primal crime against the father. Lingering guilt for this crime, Freud says, is the reason Christians understand Jesus' death as sacrificial. "The 'redeemer' could be none other than the one chief culprit, the leader of the brother-band who had overpowered the father." Hence the basic difference between Judaism and Christianity: "Judaism had been a religion of the father, Christianity became a religion of the son." Freud's arguments are extremely imaginative, and his distinction between reality and fantasy, as always, is very loose. If only as a study of wrong-headedness, however, it's fascinating reading for those who want to explore the psychological impulses governing the historical relationship between Christians and Jews. --Michael Joseph Gross [via]
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My People's Prayer Book: Traditional Prayers, Modern Commentaries The Sh'Ma and Its Blessingsby Lawrence A. HoffmanISBN 1879045796 (1-879045-79-6)
Hardcover, Jewish Lights Pub
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Nothing Sacred: The Truth About Judaismby Douglas RushkoffISBN 1400051398 (1-4000-5139-8)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Nothing Sacred: The Truth About Judaism'Book summary:In Nothing Sacred: The Truth About Judaism Douglas Rushkoff argues that Judaism is in danger of compromising the core values that have made it so resilient and enduring through the millenniums. The strength and longevity of Judaism lies in its original values--iconoclasm, media literacy and the ability to encourage inquiry instead of obedience. But Rushkoff argues that these values have become dangerously compromised to the point that Judaism is now more concerned with adherence to a righteous path and unquestioning assimilation. Unless the Jewish community restores its emphasis on "inquiry over certainty and fluidity over sanctity" he believes it will be impossible to reach the numerous disaffected Jews who are struggling with the intense and sometimes terrifying challenges of modern life.
As a media watchdog and social commentator, Rushkoff (Coercion: Why We Listen to What "They" Say) is especially attuned to the negative affects of globalisation and media technologies. One of his main gripes is that Judaism is starting to function more like a global corporation. For instance, instead of challenging the market culture's influence over children, "Jewish outreach groups are hiring trend watchers to help them market Judaism to younger audiences", he writes. The good news, says Rushkoff, is that Judaism also has a renaissance tradition: it has faced similar crises in the past and successfully reorganised itself according to its original tenets. He sees the potential for such a renaissance now and offers ideas on how it could come about. With its inflammatory premise and hard-hitting message, this book is destined to stir enormous controversy and, ironically, a good deal of inquiry and debate within the Jewish community. --Gail Hudson, Amazon.com [via]
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Postville: A Clash of Cultures in Heartland Americaby Stephen G. BloomISBN 0156013363 (0-15-601336-3)
Softcover, Harvest Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Postville: A Clash of Cultures in Heartland America'Book summary:Postville, Iowa (population 1,478), seems an unlikely place to find a sizable Jewish population, let alone an ultra-Orthodox Lubavitcher population. It is, after all, in the heart of pork country, and the world headquarters of the Lubavitchers is far away in Crown Heights, Brooklyn. But when the Hygrade meat processing plant, just outside Postville, went belly-up, threatening the town with decline, Sholom Rubashkin bought it and turned it into a glatt kosher processing plant, complete with shochtim and a rabbinical inspectorate. By the late 1980s, "Postville had more rabbis per capita than any other city in the United States, perhaps the world."
The enterprise was a huge international success, with its kosher meats exported even to Jerusalem and Tel Aviv. The Jewish population grew to 150, and they were rich. The town was saved, and the people were grateful. All's well that ends well? Not quite. The Hasidim kept to themselves, did things their own way, and basically had no interest in integrating into Postville. And why would they? Their laws are strict, their mission clear, their community defined by race and religion. They are not interested in watermelon socials or coffee klatches at the diner. Their little boys do not swim with their little girls, are not educated together, and do not go on play dates with goyim. Small-town Iowans, on the other hand, are very friendly. They know each other's news, they support each other's businesses, they wish each other Merry Christmas, they want you to feel at home. They don't like that the new townspeople stomp up the street hunched over, talking in a foreign language and looking straight through them when greeted. They really don't like it when one of the newcomers drives around town with a 10-foot candelabra strapped to his car playing music at full volume for eight consecutive winter nights. They don't actually know about menorahs or Hanukkah.
Into this comes secular Jew Stephen Bloom, a professor at the University of Iowa. By the time he arrived in Postville, the town was riven along religious lines. One of the townspeople was running for mayor on the sole platform of annexation of the land on which the plant stood. Rubashkin was threatening that he'd shut the plant and leave if that came to pass. Bloom closely considers both sides, and the result is a wonderful book. It is a fascinating tale of culture clash in the American heartland: the John Deere cap meets the black fur hat. It is a book about identity and community and what it means to be American. It covers all the things you aren't supposed to talk about at the dinner table--religion, politics, and even sex. It is full of suspense: Will the plant be annexed? Will the Jews leave? And it is also Bloom's exploration of his own sense of belonging. --J. Riches [via]
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The Rabbi's Catby Joann SfarISBN 0375422811 (0-375-42281-1)
Hardcover, Pantheon Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Rabbi's Cat'Book summary:The preeminent work by one of Frances most celebrated young comic artists, The Rabbis Cat tells the wholly unique story of a rabbi, his daughter, and their talking cat a philosopher brimming with scathing humor and surprising tenderness.
In Algeria in the 1930s, a cat belonging to a widowed rabbi and his beautiful daughter, Zlabya, eats the family parrot and gains the ability to speak. To his masters consternation, the cat immediately begins to tell lies (the first being that he didnt eat the parrot). The rabbi vows to educate him in the ways of the Torah, while the cat insists on studying the kabbalah and having a Bar Mitzvah. They consult the rabbis rabbi, who maintains that a cat cant be Jewish but the cat, as always, knows better.
Zlabya falls in love with a dashing young rabbi from Paris, and soon master and cat, having overcome their shared self-pity and jealousy, are accompanying the newlyweds to France to meet Zlabyas cosmopolitan in-laws. Full of drama and adventure, their trip invites countless opportunities for the rabbi and his cat to grapple with all the important and trivial details of life.
Rich with the colors, textures, and flavors of Algerias Jewish community, The Rabbis Cat brings a lost world vibrantly to life a time and place where Jews and Arabs coexisted and peoples it with endearing and thoroughly human characters, and one truly unforgettable cat. [via]More editions of The Rabbi's Cat:
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Rebecca's Children: Judaism and Christianity in the Roman Worldby Alan SegalISBN 0674750764 (0-674-75076-4)
Softcover, Harvard Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Rebecca's Children: Judaism and Christianity in the Roman World'Book summary:Renowned scholar Alan Segal offers startlingly new insights into the origins of rabbinic Judaism and Christianity. These twin descendants of Hebrew heritage shared the same social, cultural, and ideological context, as well as the same minority status, in the first century of the common era.
Through skillful application of social science theories to ancient Western thought, including Judaism, Hellenism, early Christianity, and a host of other sectarian beliefs, Segal reinterprets some of the most important events of Jewish and Christian life in the Roman world. For example, he finds:
--That the concept of myth, as it related to covenant, was a central force of Jewish life. The Torah was the embodiment of covenant both for Jews living in exile and for the Jewish community in Israel.
--That the Torah legitimated all native institutions at the time of Jesus, even though the Temple, Sanhedrin, and Synagogue, as well as the concepts of messiah and resurrection, were profoundly affected by Hellenism. Both rabbinic Judaism and Christianity necessarily relied on the Torah to authenticate their claim on Jewish life. --That the unique cohesion of early Christianity, assuring its phenomenal success in the Hellenistic world, was assisted by the Jewish practices of apocalypticism, conversion, and rejection of civic ritual.
--That the concept of acculturation clarifies the Maccabean revolt, the rise of Christianity, and the emergence of rabbinic Judaism. --That contemporary models of revolution point to the place of Jesus as a radical. --That early rabbinism grew out of the attempts of middle-class Pharisees to reach a higher sacred status in Judea while at the same time maintaining their cohesion through ritual purity. --That the dispute between Judaism and Christianity reflects a class conflict over the meaning of covenant. The rising turmoil between Jews and Christians affected the development of both rabbinic Judaism and Christianity, as each tried to preserve the partly destroyed culture of Judea by becoming a religion. Both attempted to take the best of Judean and Hellenistic society without giving up the essential aspects of Israelite life. Both spiritualized old national symbols of the covenant and practices that consolidated power after the disastrous wars with Rome. The separation between Judaism and Christianity, sealed in magic, monotheism, law, and universalism, fractured what remained of the shared symbolic life of Judea, leaving Judaism and Christianity to fulfill the biblical demands of their god in entirely different ways.
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Saturday the Rabbi Went Hungryby Harry KemelmanISBN 0449213927 (0-449-21392-7)
Softcover, Random House Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Saturday the Rabbi Went Hungry'Book summary:The answer to the prayers of mystery fans everywhere? A Rabbi Small mystery?full of the wit and wisdom, persistence and chuzpah that put the Rabbi on bestseller lists every day of the week! Ever since he made his debut in FRIDAY THE RABBI SLEPT LATE, the adventures of Rabbi Small have been hailed by critics and fans. And now new fans and old can enjoy the hair-raising tales and unparalleled logic of one of the world?s most unusual sleuths.
Saturday brings Yom Kippur to Barnard?s Crossing and Rabbi Small is preparing as usual. But his prayers and fasting are interrupted when a member of his congregation is found dead in his car. The police call it an accident. The insurance company calls it suicide. Only Rabbi Small?s pregnant wife, Miriam, thinks it?s murder. Now it?s up to him to prove her right. [via]
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Schindler's Listby Thomas KeneallyISBN 1568951051 (1-56895-105-1)
Hardcover, Wheeler Pub Inc
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Seek My Face, Speak My Name: A Contemporary Jewish Theologyby Authur GreenISBN 1568212135 (1-56821-213-5)
Softcover, Rowman & Littlefield Pub Inc
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Survival in Auschwitzby Primo LeviISBN 0020291922 (0-02-029192-2)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Survival in Auschwitz'Book summary:Survival in Auschwitz is a mostly straightforward narrative, beginning with Primo Levi's deportation from Turin, Italy, to the concentration camp Auschwitz in Poland in 1943. Levi, then a 25-year-old chemist, spent 10 months in the camp. Even Levi's most graphic descriptions of the horrors he witnessed and endured there are marked by a restraint and wit that not only gives readers access to his experience, but confronts them with it in stark ethical and emotional terms: "[A]t dawn the barbed wire was full of children's washing hung out in the wind to dry. Nor did they forget the diapers, the toys, the cushions and the hundred other small things which mothers remember and which children always need. Would you not do the same? If you and your child were going to be killed tomorrow, would you not give him something to eat today?" --Michael Joseph Gross [via]
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Survival in Auschwitz and the Reawakening: Two Memoirsby Primo LeviISBN 0671605410 (0-671-60541-0)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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Survival in Auschwitz: The Nazi Assault on Humanityby Primo Levi, Stuart WoolfISBN 0684826801 (0-684-82680-1)
Softcover, Touchstone Books
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The Synagogue Survival Kitby Jordan Lee WagnerISBN 1568219679 (1-56821-967-9)
Hardcover, Jason Aronson Inc
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Tales of the Hasidim: Book One The Early Masters and Book Two The Later Masters/Two Books in Oneby Martin BuberISBN 0805209956 (0-8052-0995-6)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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The Temple: Its Ministry and Services As They Were at the Time of Jesus Christby Alfred EdersheimISBN 0825425093 (0-8254-2509-3)
Hardcover, Kregel Pubns
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Temple, Its Ministry and Servicesby A. EdersheimISBN 0802881335 (0-8028-8133-5)
Softcover, Eerdmans Pub Co
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The Torah: A Modern Commentaryby W. Gunther Plaut, David E. S. SteinISBN 0807408832 (0-8074-0883-2)
Hardcover, Urj Pr
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The Torah: A Modern Commentary/English Openingby W. Gunther PlautISBN 0807400556 (0-8074-0055-6)
Hardcover, Urj Pr
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Torah: The Five Books of Mosesby Harry M. OrlinskyISBN 0827600151 (0-8276-0015-1)
Hardcover, Jewish Pubn Society
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The Way of the Torah: An Introduction to Judaismby Jacob NeusnerISBN 0534516033 (0-534-51603-3)
Softcover, Wadsworth Pub Co
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Who Needs Godby Harold KushnerISBN 0743234774 (0-7432-3477-4)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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Why Be Jewish?by David J. WolpeISBN 0805039279 (0-8050-3927-9)
Softcover, Henry Holt & Co
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World of Our Fathersby Irving Howe, Kenneth Libo, Morris DicksteinISBN 0814736858 (0-8147-3685-8)
Softcover, New York Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'World of Our Fathers'Book summary:It was a great adventure--the emigration in the 1880s of two million Jews from East Europe to the United States. Many settled in New York, where they attempted to maintain their own Yiddish culture even while making their way into American society. Howe tells the story of these people--from sweatshop to Hollywood studio, from yeshiva to university, every aspect of Jewish life is vividly depicted. [via]
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World of Our Fathers: The Journey of the East European Jews to America and the Life They Found and Madeby Irving HoweISBN 0883658828 (0-88365-882-8)
Hardcover, BBS Publishing Corporation
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Your Word Is Fire: The Hasidic Masters on Contemplative Prayerby Arthur Green, Barry W. HoltzISBN 1879045257 (1-879045-25-7)
Softcover, Jewish Lights Pub
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The Zohar: Pritzker Editionby Daniel Chanan Matt, Daniel C. MattISBN 0804752109 (0-8047-5210-9)
Hardcover, Stanford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Zohar: Pritzker Edition'Book summary:This third volume of The Zohar: Pritzker Edition completes the Zohar's commentary on the book of Genesis. Here we find spiritual explorations of numerous biblical narratives, including Jacob's wrestling with the angel, Joseph's kidnapping by his brothers, his near seduction by Potiphar's wife, his interpretation of Pharaoh's dreams, and his reunion with his brothers and father.[via]
Throughout, the Zohar probes the biblical text and seeks deeper meaningfor example, the divine intention behind Joseph's disappearance, or the profound significance of human sexuality. Divine and human realities intertwine, affecting one another.
Toward the end of Genesis, the Bible states: Jacob's days drew near to diean idiomatic expression that the Zohar insists on reading hyperliterally. Each human being is challenged to live his days virtuously. If he does, those days themselves are woven into a garment of splendor; at death, they "draw near," enveloping him, escorting him to the beyond.
Sefer ha-Zohar (The Book of Radiance) has amazed and overwhelmed readers ever since it emerged mysteriously in medieval Spain toward the end of the thirteenth century. Written in a unique Aramaic, this masterpiece of Kabbalah exceeds the dimensions of a normal book; it is virtually a body of literature, comprising over twenty discrete sections. The bulk of the Zohar consists of a running commentary on the Torah, from Genesis through Deuteronomy.More editions of The Zohar: Pritzker Edition:
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Schindler's Listeby Thomas Keneally, Gunther DanehlISBN 3442425298 (3-442-42529-8)
Softcover, Distribooks Inc
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JPS Hebrew - English Tanakhby Jewish Publication Society StaffISBN 0827606567 (0-8276-0656-7)
Hardcover, Kuperard Publishers
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› Find signed collectible books: 'JPS Hebrew - English Tanakh'Book summary:Bound in navy leatherette with gilded edges and navy satin ribbon; padded binding.
The JPS Hebrew-English TANAKH features the oldest-known complete Hebrew version of the Holy Scriptures, side by side with JPSs renowned English translation. Its well-designed format allows for ease of reading and features clear type, an engaging and efficient two-column format that enables readers to move quickly from one language to another, and an organization that contemporary readers will find familiar.
The Hebrew text of this TANAKH is based on the famed Leningrad Codex, the Masoretic text traceable to Aaron ben Moses ben Asher, ca. 930 CE. Ben-Asher researched all available texts to compile an authoritative Bible manuscript. In 1010 CE his work was revised by Samuel ben Jacob, a scribe in Egypt. Lost for centuries, the manuscript was eventually discovered in the mid-nineteenth century and became known as the Leningrad Codex.
This edition adapts the latest BHS edition of the Leningrad text by correcting errors and providing modern paragraphing. The English text in this TANAKH is a slightly updated version of the acclaimed 1985 JPS translation. Wherever possible, the results of modern study of the languages and culture of the ancient Near East have been brought to bear on the biblical text, which allows for an English style reflective of the biblical spirit and language rather than of the era of the translation.
This edition also includes an informative preface that discusses the history of Bible translation, focusing on the latest JPS English translation of the Holy Scriptures. It is the result of a 30-year interdenominational collaboration of eminent Jewish Bible scholars. Readers are sure to appreciate one of the most intensive projects in the history of The Jewish Publication Society.
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La Historia de los Judiosby Paul JohnsonISBN 9501522156 (950-15-2215-6)
Hardcover, Vergara
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