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The Kabbalah Reader: A Sourcebook of Visionary Judaism by Edward Hoffman Publisher Comments This comprehensive and accessible entrée into the world of Kabbalah covers 1,600 years of Jewish mystical thought and features a variety of thinkers—from the renowned to the obscure—unavailable in any other volume. It’s a fresh... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price: $8.98 Sale - Trade Paper 
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Survival in Auschwitz: The Nazi Assault on Humanity by Primo Levi Publisher Comments In 1943, Primo Levi, a twenty-five-year-old chemist and Italian citizen of Jewish race, was arrested by Italian fascists and deported from his native Turin to Auschwitz. Survival in Auschwitz is Levi's classic account of his ten months in the German... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Yosl Rakover Talks to God (Vintage International) by Zvi Kolitz Publisher Comments There are two stories here. One is the now legendary tale of a defiant Jew's refusal to abandon God, even in the face of the greatest suffering the world has known, a testament of faith that has taken on an unpredictable and fascinating life of its own... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $5.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Temple Bombing by Melissa Fay Greene Publisher Comments At 3:37 in the morning of Sunday, October 12, 1958, a bundle of dynamite blew out the side wall of the Temple, Atlanta's oldest and richest synagogue. The devastation to the building was vast-but even greater were the changes those 50 sticks of dynamite... (read more) List Price $21.00 Your price: $3.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Genesis: Translation and Commentary by Robert Alter Publisher Comments Genesis begins with the making of heaven and earth and all life, and ends with the image of a mummy--Joseph's--in a coffin. In between come many of the primal stories in Western culture: Adam and Eve's expulsion from the garden of Eden, Cain's murder of... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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King of the Jews Arnold Rothstein by Nick Tosches Publisher Comments So begins Nick Tosches's sprawling biography of Arnold Rothstein, which, in fact, is so much more: not only an elegy to old New York but an idiosyncratic history of the world as told in Nick Tosches's inimitable style. Known by many names — A. R... (read more) List Price $25.95 Your price: $5.75 Sale - Hardcover
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The Healthy Jew: The Symbiosis of Judaism and Modern Medicine by Mitchell B Hart Publisher Comments The Healthy Jew traces the culturally revealing story of how Moses, the rabbis, and other Jewish thinkers came to be understood as medical authorities in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Such a radically different interpretation, by scholars and... (read more) List Price $40.25 Your price: $8.99 Sale - Hardcover
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Good Book: The Bizarre, Hilarious, Disturbing, Marvelous, and Inspiring Things I Learned When I Read Every Single Word of the Bib (P.S.) by David Plotz Publisher Comments At a time when wars are fought over scriptural interpretation, when the influence of religion on American politics has never been greater, when many Americans still believe in the Bible’s literal truth, it has never been more important to get to... (read more) List Price $14.99 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Sacred Treasure-The Cairo Genizah: The Amazing Discoveries of Forgotten Jewish History in an Egyptian Synagogue Attic by Rabbi Mark Glickman Publisher Comments In 1897, Rabbi Solomon Schechter of Cambridge University stepped into the attic of the Ben Ezra Synagogue in Cairo, Egypt, and there found the largest treasure trove of medieval and early manuscripts ever discovered. He had entered the synagogue's... (read more) List Price $24.99 Your price: $16.95 Sale - Hardcover
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I and Thou by Martin Buber Publisher Comments Martin Buber's I and Thou has long been acclaimed as a classic. Many prominent writers have acknowledged its influence on their work; students of intellectual history consider it a landmark; and the generation born since World War II considers Buber as... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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What Do Zionists Believe? (What Do We Believe?) by Colin Shindler Publisher Comments Zionism was a movement of national liberation. It sought to establish a permanent home for the Jewish people where they could attain political independence and instigate a national renaissance. Some Zionists were inspired by a vision of religious... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price: $5.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Norman Podhoretz: A Biography by Thomas L Jeffers Publisher Comments This is the first biography of the Jewish-American intellectual Norman Podhoretz, longtime editor of the influential magazine Commentary. As both an editor and a writer, he spearheaded the countercultural revolution of the 1960s and after he broke ranks... (read more) List Price $37.00 Your price: $25.00 Sale - Hardcover
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Essential Judaism: A Complete Guide to Beliefs, Customs, and Rituals by George Robinson Publisher Comments What happens at a synagogue service? What are the rules for keeping kosher? How do I light the Hanukah candles? What is in the Hebrew Bible? What do the Jewish holidays signify? What should I be teaching my children about being Jewish? A landmark... (read more) List Price $21.99 Your price: $10.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Kabbalah Inspirations by Jeremy Rosen Publisher Comments Kabbalah, an ancient mystical movement that arose within Judaism, is one of the most beautiful and enigmatic of all the spiritual traditions. This book traces its most thought-provoking and imaginative themes, including creation myths; the tree of life... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price: $8.98 Sale - Hardcover
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The Mascot: Unraveling the Mystery of My Jewish Father's Nazi Boyhood by Mark Kurzem Publisher Comments The ?spellbinding? (The New York Times) true story of a Jewish boy who became the darling of the Nazis When a Nazi death squad massacred his mother and fellow villagers, five-year-old Alex Kurzem escaped, hiding in the freezing Russian forest until he... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Zookeeper's Wife: A War Story by Diane Ackerman Publisher Comments When Germany invaded Poland, Stuka bombers devastated Warsaw--and the city's zoo along with it. With most of their animals dead, zookeepers Jan and Antonina Zabinski began smuggling Jews into empty cages. Another dozen "guests" hid inside the Zabinskis... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Wisdom of Maimonides: The Life and Writings of the Jewish Sage by Edward Hoffman Publisher Comments Here is an accessible introduction to the life and wisdom of the famous twelfth-century philosopher-physician Moses Maimonides, whose prolific writings on medical and religious issues, commentaries on Jewish texts, and writings on Jewish ethics and law... (read more) List Price $15.25 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Auschwitz Report by Primo Levi Publisher Comments While in a Russian-administered holding camp in Katowice, Poland, in 1945, Primo Levi was asked to provide a report on living conditions in Auschwitz. Published the following year, it was then forgotten, and has until now remained unknown to a wider... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price: $8.98 Sale - Hardcover
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The Heart and the Fountain: An Anthology of Jewish Mystical Experiences by Joseph Dan Publisher Comments Joseph Dan is one of the world's leading authorities on Jewish mysticism. In this superb anthology, Dan not only presents illuminating excerpts from the most important mystical texts, but also delves into the very meaning of mysticism itself. Dan takes... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price: $8.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Lampshade: A Holocaust Detective Story from Buchenwald to New Orleans by Mark Jacobson Publisher Comments Few growing up in the aftermath of World War II will ever forget the horrifying reports that Nazi concentration camp doctors had removed the skin of prison ers to make common, everyday lampshades. In The Lampshade, bestselling journalist Mark Jacobson... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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