Living a Year of Kaddish: A Memoir
by Ari L Goldman
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Ari Goldman’s exploration of the emotional and spiritual aspects of spending a year in mourning for his father will resonate with anyone who has lost a loved one, as he describes how this year affected him as a son, husband, father, and member of...
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While America Watches: Televising the Holocaust
by Jeffrey Shandler
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The Holocaust holds a unique place in American public culture, and, as Jeffrey Shandler argues in While America Watches, it is television, more than any other medium, that has brought the Holocaust into our homes, our hearts, and our minds. Much has been...
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Far from Zion: Jews, Diaspora, Memory
by Jason Francisco
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Part document and part visual poem, Far from Zion is the response of a young American Jew to the historical experience of Ashkenazic Jewry in the last century. In the spirit of a contemplative but unsentimental reckoning, the photographs consider the...
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After Auschwitz: One Man's Story
by Hermann Gruenwald
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Born into privilege in Hungary, Hermann Gruenwald's idyllic childhood came to an end in 1944 when he and his family were sent to Auschwitz. During his incarceration, Gruenwald's instinct for survival helped him live through three concentration camps. In...
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The Letters of Menakhem-Mendl and Sheyne-Sheyndl and Motl, the Cantor's Son (New Yiddish Library)
by Sholem Aleichem
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This volume presents an outstanding new translation of two favorite comic novels by the preeminent Yiddish writer Sholem Aleichem (1859-1916)....
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Amazing Jewish Facts and Curiosities: Can You Believe It?
by Ronald H Isaacs
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This book presents an array of strange facts and curiosities about Jewish customs and rituals. In the great body of Jewish literature there are a plethora of fascinating (but relatively unknown), strange, and unusual statements, curiosities, oddities...
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The Kabbalah Unveiled
by S L Macgreg Mathers
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A subject of perennial study and the focus of a recent surge of popular interest, Kabbalah is an ancient Jewish doctrine of esoteric knowledge concerning God, creation, and nature. This essential guide was written by one of the most influential figures...
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Outsider in the Promised Land: An Iraqi Jew in Israel
by Nissim Rejwan
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In 1951, Israel was a young nation surrounded by hostile neighbors. Its tenuous grip on nationhood was made slipperier still by internal tensions among the various communities that had immigrated to the new Jewish state, particularly those between the...
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Legends of the Jews Volume 1
by Louis Ginzberg
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At this early moment the Torah interfered. She addressed herself to God: "O Lord of the world! The world is Thine, Thou canst do with it as seemeth good in Thine eyes. But the man Thou art now creating will be few of days and full of trouble and sin. If...
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Nothing Is Too Late: The Hunt for a Holocaust Swindler
by Mark E. Kalmansohn
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Nothing Is Too Late tells the true story of the mysterious and treacherous Lucian Kozminski, a survivor of four Nazi death camps and an alleged SS collaborator, who embarked on a scheme to steal huge sums of money that the postwar German government had...
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Legends of the Jews Volume 4
by Louis Ginzberg
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As the Boston Book Review wrote in December 1998: Nothing better illustrates the odd intimacy of the Bible and interpretation than The Legends of the Jews, a seven volume set of biblical interpretations that was compiled by the famous Judaic scholar...
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Christianity in Jewish Terms
by T Frymer Kensky
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Over the past few decades, there has been a dramatic and unprecedented shift in Jewish–Christian relations, including signs of a new, improved Christian attitude towards Jews. Christianity in Jewish Terms is a Jewish theological response to the...
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Remembering and Imagining the Holocaust: The Chain of Memory
by Christopher Bigsby
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A study of how the Holocaust has been remembered and interpreted in theatre and fiction....
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Poetry After Auschwitz: Remembering What One Never Knew (Jewish Literature and Culture)
by Susan Gubar
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An eloquent exploration of Holocaust verse in English by one of America's leading feminist critics...
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Jews, Sports, and the Rites of Citizenship
by Jack Kugelmass
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To many, an association between Jews and sports seems almost oxymoronic--yet Jews have been prominent in boxing, basketball, and fencing, and some would argue that hurler Sandy Koufax is America's greatest athlete ever. In Jews, Sports, and the Rites of...
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Understanding Judaism: Origins, Beliefs, Practices, Holy Texts, Sacred Places
by Carl S Ehrlich
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Arguably the oldest monotheistic faith, Judaism worships one universal God and focuses on the relationship He is believed to have initiated with the Jewish people. Understanding Judaism covers Judaism's development over three millennia, explaining major...
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Staying Alive a Family Memoir
by Janet Reibstein
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They were three promising sisters, Mary, Fannie and Regina - young women during the post-war depression. In a tragic twist of fate, all three were to be diagnosed with breast cancer. Fannie died first and then Mary. Told by Janet, Regina's daughter, this...
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Her Works Praise Her: A History of Jewish Women in America from Colonial Times to the Present
by Hasia Diner
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Beryl Lieff Benderly is the author of several books, including Dancing without Music: Deafness in America....
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Race and Religion Among the Chosen Peoples of Crown Heights
by Henry Goldschmidt
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The everyday realities of racial and religious difference in the Brooklyn neighborhood of Crown Heights is explored in a study of the conflict between the Lubavitch Hasidic community and their Afro-Caribbean and African-American neighbors. Simultaneous....
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Refuge Denied: The St. Louis Passengers and the Holocaust
by Sarah A Ogilvie
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In May of 1939 the Cuban government turned away the Hamburg-America Line’s MS St. Louis, which carried more than 900 hopeful Jewish refugees escaping Nazi Germany. The passengers subsequently sought safe haven in the United States, but were...
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