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Unorthodox: The Scandalous Rejection of My Hasidic Roots by Deborah Feldman Publisher Comments In the tradition of Ayaan Hirsi Alis Infidel and Carolyn Jessops Escape, Unorthodox is a captivating story about a young woman determined to live her own life at any cost. The Satmar sect of Hasidic Judaism is as mysterious as it is intriguing to... (read more) Your price: $23.00 New - Hardcover 
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The Invisible Wall: A Love Story That Broke Barriers by Harry Bernstein Publisher Comments A wonderfully charming memoir written when the author was 93, "The Invisible Wall" vibrantly brings to life an all-but-forgotten time and place. Bernstein offers a moving tale of working-class life, and of the boundaries that can be overcome by love.... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $3.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Maimonidies (05 Edition) by Sherwin B. Nuland Publisher Comments Sherwin B. Nulandbest-selling author of How We Diefocuses his surgeons eye and writers pen on this greatest of rabbis, most intriguing of Jewish philosophers, and most honored of Jewish doctors. Moses Maimonides was a Renaissance man before there was a... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Abraham: The First Historical Biography by David Rosenberg Publisher Comments The world's major religions-Judaism, Christianity, and Islam-find a common root in one man: Abraham. Yet Abraham looms so large in the realm of world religions that he has remained a ward of the Divine rather than a flesh-and-blood citizen of Humanity... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price: $2.50 Used - Hardcover
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The Peddler's Grandson: Growing Up Jewish in Mississippi by Edward Cohen Publisher Comments Edward Cohen was among the tiny minority of Jews in Jackson, Mississippi, the heart of the Bible Belt. As a child, he grew up singing “Dixie”in his segregated school and saying shma in synagogue. And in his powerful, luminous memoir, Cohen... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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A Jew Grows in Brooklyn: The Curious Reflections of a First-Generation American by Jake Ehrenreich Publisher Comments A first-generation American-born son of Jewish immigrants, who became a widely sought-after stage-show entertainer, recounts the life lessons he has accumulated over the course of his life: first as a child dreaming of being just an all-American kid... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Rashi (09 Edition) by Elie Wiesel Publisher Comments From Elie Wiesel, winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, comes a magical book that introduces us to the towering figure of RashiRabbi Shlomo Yitzchakithe great biblical and Talmudic commentator of the Middle Ages. Wiesel brilliantly evokes the world of... (read more) List Price $22.00 Your price: $12.00 Used - Hardcover
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The Jewish Americans: Three Centuries of Jewish Voices in America by Beth S. Wenger Publisher Comments What was it like for the first Jews to arrive in the New World? How did a Bavarian immigrant's crockery business expand into one of the nation’s top department stores? How did Yiddish theater and humor influence Hollywood and mainstream entertainment... (read more) List Price $40.00 Your price: $7.50 Used - Hardcover
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Rahel Levin Varnhagen: The Life and Work of a German Jewish Intellectual (Texts & Contexts) by Heidi Thomann Tewarson Publisher Comments Rahel Levin Varnhagen (1771–1833) occupied a unique place in German intellectual history. She is known for the salon she initiated in Berlin, which became a center for intellectuals and artists of various social classes—especially for writers... (read more) List Price $22.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Out of Egypt: A Memoir by Andre Aciman Publisher Comments This richly colored memoir chronicles the exploits of a flamboyant Jewish family, from its bold arrival in cosmopolitan Alexandria to its defeated exodus three generations later. In elegant and witty prose, André Aciman introduces us to the marvelous... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Tightrope: Six Centuries of a Jewish Dynasty by Michael Karpin Publisher Comments Jewish history from the Middle Ages to the present, told through the captivating story of one family Nearly twenty years ago, a chance meeting with a Backenroth family member spurred journalist Michael Karpin to years of research that spanned the globe... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Hardcover
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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: $24.00 Used - Hardcover
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Jacob's Cane: A Jewish Family's Journey from the Four Lands of Lithuania to the Ports of London and Baltimore; A Memoir in Five Gene by Elisa New Publisher Comments Drawn to an image of her great-grandfathers ornately carved cane, scholar Elisa New embarked on a journey to discover the origins of her precious family heirloom. Treading back across the paths of her ancestors, she travels from Baltimore to the Baltic... (read more) List Price $27.95 Your price: $3.95 Used - Hardcover
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All Rivers Run To the Sea: Memoirs by Elie Wiesel Publisher Comments From his early years with his loving Jewish family to the horrors of Auschwitz to his life as a Nobel Prize-winning novelist, Elie Wiesel tells his story. Passionate and poignant, All Rivers Run to the Sea is an unforgettable book of love and rage, doubt... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $3.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Turbulent Souls:: A Catholic Son's Return to His Jewish Family by Stephen J Dubner Publisher Comments Turbulent Soulsis 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 religion... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $4.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Passion for Freedom: Maria's Story by Maria Gomori Publisher Comments A young Hungarian girl fleeing the Holocust finding safety in Canada.... (read more) List Price $18.00 Your price: $3.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Contraversions #6: Conversations with Dvora by Amia Lieblich Publisher Comments The life of Dvora Baron (1887-1956) evokes both inspiration and mystery. She was born in a Russian shtetl, the precocious daughter of a rabbi. Her intellectual gifts garnered her an education usually reserved for boys, and she soon proved a brilliant... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price: $1.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Invisible Wall a Love Story That Broke Barriers by Harry Bernstein Your price: $3.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Lovesong :becoming a Jew by Julius Lester Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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Raquela: A Woman of Israel by Ruth Gruber Your price: $3.50 Used - Trade Paper
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