Esau's Tears: Modern Anti-Semitism and the Rise of the Jews
by Albert Lindemann


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Esau's Tears explores the rise of modern racial-political anti-Semitism in Europe and the United States. Previous histories have been more concerned with description than analysis and most have lacked balance. The evidence presented in this volume... (read more)

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Tree of Souls: The Mythology of Judaism
by Howard Schwartz


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Only one of the world's mythologies has remained essentially unrecognized--the mythology of Judaism. As Howard Schwartz reveals in Tree of Souls, the first anthology of Jewish mythology in English, this mythical tradition is as rich and as fascinating as... (read more)

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The Gift of Kabbalah: Discovering the Secrets of Heaven, Renewing Your Life on Earth
by Tamar Frankiel


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The first comprehensive, down-to-earth introduction to explain the primary message of Kabbalah - that we are to become like God.... (read more)

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King of the Jews :Arnold Rothstein
by Nick Tosches


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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)

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Nazi Germany and the Jews, Volume 1: The Years of Persecution 1933-1939
by Saul Friedlander


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A great historian crowns a lifetime of thought and research by answering a question that has haunted us for more than 50 years: How did one of the most industrially and culturally advanced nations in the world embark on and continue along the path... (read more)

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Wise Words: Jewish Thoughts and Stories Through the Ages
by Jessica Gribetz


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A comprehensive anthology of wise sayings, stories, and insights from the Jewish tradition addressing such topics as faith, friendship, ethics, nature, charity, kindness, marriage, death, the Holocaust, and Israel. Wise Wordscelebrates the heart and soul... (read more)

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Good Neighbors, Bad Times: Echoes of My Father's German Village
by Mimi Schwartz


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Mimi Schwartz grew up on milkshakes and hamburgers—and her father’s boyhood stories. She rarely took the stories seriously. What was a modern American teenager supposed to make of these accounts of a village in Germany where, according to her... (read more)

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Kristallnacht: Prelude to Destruction (Making History)
by Martin Gilbert


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In the early hours of November 10, 1938, Nazi storm troopers and Hitler Youth rampaged through Jewish neighborhoods across Germany, leaving behind them a horrifying trail of terror and destruction. More than a thousand synagogues and many thousands of... (read more)

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The Lost Childhood: The Complete Memoir
by Yehuda Nir


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This compelling memoir takes readers through the eyes of a child surviving World War II in Nazi-occupied Poland. As a nine-year-old, the author witnessed his father being herded into a truck—never to be seen again. He, his mother, and sister fled... (read more)

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The Temple Bombing
by Melissa Fay Greene


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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)

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Choosing My Religion: A Memoir of a Family Beyond Belief (P.S.)
by Stephen Dubner


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Choosing My Religionis a luminous memoir, crafted with the eye of a journalist and the art of a novelist by New York Times Magazinewriter and editor Stephen J. Dubner. By turns comic and heartbreaking, it tells the story of a family torn apart by... (read more)

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The Jew in the Lotus: Poet's Re-Discovery of Jewish Identity in Buddhist India, a
by Rodger Kamenetz


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"A highly entertaining personal account of one man's surprising journey into the mystical heart of Judaism."--Kirkus... (read more)

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The Prophets (Perennial Classics)
by Abraham J Heschel


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Abraham Heschel is a seminal name in religious studies and the author of Man Is Not Alone and God in Search of Man. When The Prophets was first published in 1962, it was immediately recognized as a masterpiece of biblical scholarship.The Prophets... (read more)

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Toward a Meaningful Life, New Edition: The Wisdom of the Rebbe Menachem Mendel Schneerson
by Simon Jacobson


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With a new foreword and chapter that address the upheaval that followed the events of September 11, Toward a Meaningful Lifeis a spiritual road map for living based on the teachings of one of the foremost religious leaders of our time: Rabbi Menachem... (read more)

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A Race Against Death: Peter Bergson, America, and the Holocaust
by David Wyman


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THE UNKNOWN STORY OF THE MAN WHO LED AMERICA'S MOST EFFECTIVE CAMPAIGN TO RESCUE VICTIMS OF THE HOLOCAUST Now in paperback, A Race Against Death tells the story of Peter Bergson, the man who made it impossible for American leaders to plead ignorance of... (read more)

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The Guide for the Perplexed
by Moses Maimonides


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Great classic of medieval Judaism, major attempt to reconcile revealed religion — Pentateuch, commentaries — and Aristotelian philosophy. Enormously important in all Western thought. Includes Life of Maimonides, analysis of The Guide, indexes... (read more)

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Silent No More: Saving the Jews of Russia, the American Jewish Effort, 1967-1989 (Modern Jewish History)
by Henry L Feingold


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In the context of Cold War politics, Feingold (history, emeritus, City U. of New York), author of The Jewish People in America series, traces the Soviet Jewry movement's struggle to win the right to emigrate. Drawing largely on the American Jewish... (read more)

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The Hand of Compassion: Portraits of Moral Choice During the Holocaust
by Kristen Renw Monroe


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Monroe's accounts of the rescuers are gripping and valuable. She is a sensitive interviewer who gets the most out of her subjects, and her analysis yields some unique conclusions about the theory of morality.... (read more)

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