The One Hour Purim Primer
by Shimon Apisdorf


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Whether you have celebrated Purim fifty times or never at all, if you want to learn about Purim this book has what you are looking for. The One Hour Purim Primer is a thoughtful blend of practicality and depth. It contains: -A clear step-by-step guide to... (read more)

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Waiting for America: A Story of Emigration
by Maxim D Shrayer


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This memoir recounts the story of Shrayer, who immigrated to the US from Moscow in 1987, focusing on the period he and his family spent in Vienna and Italy on the way to the US, as well as his romantic relationships there. There is no index. Shrayer... (read more)

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The Search for Major Plagge: The Nazi Who Saved Jews
by Michael Good


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When The Search for Major Plagge was published last spring, the world finally learned about a unique hero—and about one American doctor's extraordinary journey to tell Karl Plagge's story.Part detective story, part personal quest, Michael Good's... (read more)

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Wintergreen: Suppressed Murders
by Anna Elisabe Rosmus


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A noted human rights activist/author now living in the US presents an expos... (read more)

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Letters from Prague: 1939-1941
by Raya Czerne Shapiro


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Their discovery of a box of letters to America sent from relatives in Prague led two sisters to compile this extraordinary collection. Raya Schapiro and Helga Weinberg found the letters among their mother's effects after her death in 1990. They were... (read more)

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Kabbalah: A Brief Introduction for Christians
by Tamar Frankiel


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Kabbalah is well known as the foundation of the Jewish mystical tradition but few are aware that Kabbalah's spiritual applications extend beyond Jewish life. This spiritually insightful guide demystifies the intricate world of Kabbalah and shows that it... (read more)

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Healing the Jewish-Christian Rift: Growing Beyond Our Wounded History
by Ron Miller


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Judaism and Christianity have had a volatile relationship in their two-thousand-year history. Anger, rivalry, insensitivity, bloodshed and murder have marred the special connection these two Abrahamic faiths share. In the last several decades, scholars... (read more)

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Home We Build Together: Recreating Society
by Jonathan Sacks


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Arguing that global communications have fragmented national cultures and that multiculturalism, intended to reduce social friction, is today reinforcing it, Jonathan Sacks advocates for a new approach to national identity. He envisions a responsibility... (read more)

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Gift from the Enemy: Childhood Memories of Wartime Italy
by Eric Lamet


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Lamet was born into an upper-middle class Jewish family in 1930. When German troops marched into Vienna in 1938, his family fled to Italy, where Lamet and his mother were interned in a remote mountain village for much of the war. The text provides... (read more)

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American Zionism from Herzl to the Holocaust
by Melvin I Urofsky


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Theodore Herzl, a Vienna journalist, realized that anti-Semitism, dramatically illustrated by the Dreyfus Affair in 1890s France, would never be stemmed by the attempts of Jews to assimilate. The publication of his Der Judenstaat in 1896 began the... (read more)

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Finding the Jewish Shakespeare: The Life and Legacy of Jacob Gordin
by Beth Kaplan


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Gordin (1953-1909) was a famous dramatist of the golden age of Yiddish theater in New York. Kaplan (creative nonfiction writing, Ryerson U., Toronto), who won a 1994 award for her play Gordin in America, introduces her great-grandfather in this... (read more)

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Eichmann and the Holocaust
by Hannah Arendt


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The perfect books for the true book lover, Penguins Great Ideas series features twelve more groundbreaking works by some of historys most prodigious thinkers. Each volume is beautifully packaged with a unique type-driven design that highlights the... (read more)

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Warsaw
by Julian Padowicz


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In 1939, Julian Padowicz says, "I was a Polish Jew-hater. Under different circumstances my story might have been one of denouncing Jews to the Gestapo, or worse. As it happened, I was a Jew myself, and I was seven years old." Julian's mother was a... (read more)

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Words on Fire: The Unfinished Story of Yiddish
by Dovid Katz


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Words on Fire offers a rich, engaging account of the history and evolution of the Yiddish language. Drawing on almost thirty years of scholarship, prominent Yiddish scholar Dovid Katz traces the origins of Yiddish back to the Europe of a thousand years... (read more)

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Jewish People: An Illustrated History
by Shmuel Ahituv


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Documents the turbulent history of the Jewish people. This atlas portrays various aspects of Jewish history that lends itself to cartographic interpretation, since biblical times. It presents the coverage of major themes in biblical, mishnaic, talmudic... (read more)

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Harry Haft: Auschwitz Survivor, Challenger of Rocky Marciano (Religion, Theology, and the Holocaust)
by Alan Scott Haft


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Alan Scott Haft provides the first-hand testimony of his father, Harry Haft, a holocaust victim with a singular story of endurance, desperation, and unrequited love. Harry Haft was a sixteen-year-old Polish Jew when he entered a concentration camp in... (read more)

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Unbroken: From Auschwitz to Buenos Aires (Jewish Latin America)
by Charles Papiernik


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One of the few South American (Argentina) Holocaust memoirs available in English, Charles Papiernik's story is very different from the stereotypical image of Holocaust survivors in South America in that he claims never to have encountered anti-Semitism.... (read more)

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God at the Edge: Searching for the Divine in Uncomfortable and Unexpected Places
by Niles Ell Goldstein


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Through adventure and raw experience, whether dogsledding above the Arctic Circle or spending the night in a New York jail, Goldstein explores the connections between struggle and growth, fear and transcendence, and uncertainty and his Jewish faith... (read more)

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