Stars of David: Prominent Jews Talk about Being Jewish
by Abigail Pogrebin


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“When my mother got her nose job, she wanted me to get one, too. She said I would be happier.”—Dustin Hoffman “It’s a heritage to be proud of. And then, too, it’s something that you can’t escape because the world... (read more)

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My Mother's Daughter
by H J Cummins


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Journalist H.J. Cummins grew up thinking her mother never liked her. In search of answers, she learns about her mother's traumatic past in Germany under Hitler, under the economic and personal hardship where survival comes at the expense of joy and... (read more)

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Tikkun Reader
by Michael Lerner


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Tikkun (teokun): To heal, repair, and transform the world. The Tikkun Reader is a collection of the best of Tikkun magazine from the past 20 years, providing the most cohesive collection of writings that articulate the progressive, left leaning religious... (read more)

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Antisemitism, Christian Ambivalence, and the Holocaust
by Kevin P Spicer


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Examines the history of antisemitism in the European Christian churches... (read more)

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Emma Lazarus (Jewish Encounters)
by Esther Schor


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Emma Lazarus’s most famous poem gave a voice to the Statue of Liberty, but her remarkable life has remained a mystery until now. She was a woman so far ahead of her time that we are still scrambling to catch up with her–a feminist, a Zionist,... (read more)

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Five Cities of Refuge: Weekly Reflections on Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy
by Lawrence Kushner


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In the ancient Jewish practice of the kavannah (a meditation designed to focus one’s heart on its spiritual goal), Lawrence Kushner and David Mamet offer their own reactions to key verses from each week’s Torah portion, opening the biblical... (read more)

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Using and Abusing the Holocaust (Jewish Literature and Culture)
by Lawrence L Langer


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Examines a range of important issues in the study of Holocust history, literature, and memory.... (read more)

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The Jews of Rhode Island (Brandeis Series in American Jewish History, Culture, and Lif)
by George M Goodwin


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A richly illustrated survey of the history and culture of Rhode Island Jews.... (read more)

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Medieval Cultures #40: The Spectral Jew: Conversion and Embodiment in Medieval Europe
by Steven F Kruger


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Medieval European culture encompassed Judaic, Christian, Muslim, and pagan societies, forming a complex matrix of religious belief, identity, and imagination. Through incisive readings of a broad range of medieval texts and informed by poststructuralist,... (read more)

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Kasztner's Train: The True Story of an Unknown Hero of the Holocaust
by Anna Porter


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The heroic story of the “Hungarian Oscar Schindler” who saved thousands of Hungarian Jews from certain death at the hands of the Nazis, only to be accused of collaboration and assassinated in Israel twelve years after WWII ended. Oscar... (read more)

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Landscapes of Memory a Holocaust Girlhoo
by Ruth Kluger


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This is the story of Ruth Kluger's life. In 1942 at the age of 11 she was deported to a Nazi concentration camp with her mother; they would move to two other camps before the war ended. This book recounts a childhood spent in Nazi camps and Ruth's... (read more)

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Small Acts of Kindness: Striving for Derech Eretz in Everyday Life
by Shalom Freedman


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In a society such as ours, when doing good is the stuff of legend and hagiography, Freedman's meticulous description of the constant struggle to be a good person and to do good for others is refreshing and bracing. It shows how good can triumph in spite... (read more)

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Mindful Jewish Living: Compassionate Practice
by Jonathan Slater


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In this popular introduction to Jewish mindfulness practice, Rabbi Jonathan P. Slater examines Jewish sources and applies their teachings to the practices of mindfulness and meditation. Drawing from Hasidic texts as well as liturgical, talmudic, and... (read more)

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Kabbalah & Criticism Paper #0001: Kabbalah and Criticism
by Harold Bloom


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"I am intrigued by the unexpected parallels and analogies that he has found...often difficult...but never dull..". -- Jaroslav Pelikan "Bloom's... unraveling of the Kabbalistic theory is very well informed". -- The New York Review of... (read more)

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What Time and Sadness Spared: Mother and Son Confront the Holocaust
by Roma Nutki Ben Atar


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Not an ordinary memoir, this book is a joint project undertaken by a holocaust survivor, who recalls her Nazi-era experiences, and her historian son, who brings an awareness of the tricks and difficulties presented by historical narrative and memory.... (read more)

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The Invisible Voice: Meditations on Jewish Themes
by George Konrad


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Written over the last two decades, the essays in this collection speak to what it means to be Jewish-historically, theologically, ideologically, philosophically-within the context of the Holocaust and the disintegration of Communism. George Konrád,... (read more)

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Unfinished People: Eastern European Jews Encounter America
by Ruth Gay


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Nearly three million Jews came to America from Eastern Europe between 1880 and the outbreak of World War I. For the most part, they were young, single, unskilled, uneducated, and yet filled with hope of a new life in a new land. In Unfinished People... (read more)

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Scattered Among the Peoples
by Allan Levine


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From Seville in 1492 to Kiev in 1967, Allan Levine’s dazzling new history brings to life ten defining points in the Jewish Diaspora in a series of moment-in-time portraits of individual people, their families and communities, and the cities they... (read more)

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