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Holy Days: The World of the Hasidic Family
by Lis Harris Publisher Comments A beloved contemporary classic, Holy Days is a personal account of New York's Hasidic community, its beliefs, its mysteries, and its encounter with secularism in the present age. Combining a historical understanding of the Hasidic movement with a...
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Into the Arms of Strangers
by Mark Jonatha Harris Publisher Comments For nine months before the outbreak of World War II, Britain conducted an extraordinary rescue mission. It opened its doors to over 10,000 endangered children-90 percent of them Jewish-from Germany, Austria, and Czechoslovakia. These children were taken...
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Finding God: Ten Jewish Responses
by Rifat Sonsino Publisher Comments Covers 4,000 years of Jewish thought and how Jews have spoken of God throughout history. Ten distinct Jewish theological perspectives on belief help readers discover that no single interpretation accurately conceptualizes the Jewish God....
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The Jewish Expression
by Judah Goldin Publisher Comments In this classic collection, leading modern scholars examine and interpret 3,000 years of Jewish literature and history. The essays study the actions and institutions of the Jewish people as well as their literary tradition. Included are essays on...
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Jews Who Rock
by Guy Oseary Publisher Comments Foreword by Ben Stiller Afterword by Perry Farrell Jewish achievement in the sciences? Celebrated. Jews in literature? Lionized. But until now, there's been no record of the massive contributions of Jews in Rock n' Roll. Jews Who Rock features 100 top...
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Angles of Vision
by Philip M Klutznick Publisher Comments A remarkable memoir of our age by a public servant, innovative developer, and leader in the world Jewish community. Intensely interesting. --Publishers...
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Back to the Sources: Reading the Classics
by Barry W Holtz Publisher Comments With chapters written by leading scholars specifically for this volume, 'Back to the Sources' is the first comprehensive guide to this literary legacy: the Bible, the Talmud, the midrashic literature, the commentaries, the legal codes, the mystical texts...
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Jerusalem, Take One!: Memoirs of a Jewish Filmmaker
by Alan Rosenthal Publisher Comments Jerusalem, Take One! Memoirs of a Jewish Filmmaker is a behind-the-scenes look at the life of documentary filmmaker Alan Rosenthal, the maker of over sixty films including Day of Peace, Out of the Ashes, A Nation Is Born, and On the Brink of Peace. As a...
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Unfinished People: Eastern European Jews Encounter America
by Ruth Gay Publisher Comments 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...
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A Time to Be Born: Customs and Folklore of Jewish Birth
by Michele Klein Synopsis Psychologist and folklorist Michele Klein draws upon many rich sources -- prayers, folktales, folk remedies, as well as biblical, rabbinical, and mystical literature -- to explore childbirth from a specifically Jewish context....
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Unbroken: From Auschwitz to Buenos Aires (Jewish Latin America)
by Charles Papiernik Publisher Comments 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....
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The Little Book of Hannukah
by Steven Zorn Publisher Comments Here's a profound collection of Hanukkah traditions and celebrations, including quotations, songs, blessings, stories, games and recipes, contained within the pages of a Running Press; Miniature Edition™. Fun and informative, it makes a great gift...
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Basic Judaism (Harvest Book.)
by Milton Steinberg Publisher Comments Rabbi Steinberg identifies seven strands that weave together to make up Judaism: God, morality, rite and custom, law, sacred literature, institutions, and the people. A classic work directed to both the Jewish and the non-Jewish reader....
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Haggadah: Illustrated Youth Edition: Fully Illustrated, with Complete Text, Simplified Translation and Comments
by Rabbi Nosson Scherman and Yitzchok Zev Scherman Publisher Comments There has never been a Haggadah that offers so much for all ages, especially for young people: The full text in large easy-to-read type; a new translation that is not only simple and accurate, but that adds words and phrases to clarify difficult passages;...
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Spiritual Judaism: Restoring Heart and Soul to Jewish Life
by David S Ariel Publisher Comments In the first comprehensive guide of its kind, a noted Judaic scholar applied Jewish spiritual principles to daily life....
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Thorsons Principles of Jewish Spirituality
by Sara Isaacson Publisher Comments An exploration of the vibrant heart of Jewish spirituality, a religion which is currently experiencing a resurgence of interest....
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The Holocaust (Cambridge Perspectives in History)
by Peter Neville Publisher Comments This text provides an authoritative and lucid study of the Holocaust....
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Shanda: The Making and Breaking of a Self-Loathing Jew
by Neal Karlen Publisher Comments Early in his memoir, Neal Karlen tells a rabbi, "I love Judaism. It's Jews I can't stand." What he means is that he hates the parochialism and material trappings of the young Jews he knows: Their new temples are gilded and the parking lots spill over...
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Invisible Lines of Connection
by Lawrence Kushner Publisher Comments Through stories of his everyday encounters with family, friends, colleagues and strangers, Kushner takes us deeply into our lives, finding flashes of spiritual insight in the process....
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Because of Romek a Holocaust Survivor S
by David Faber Synopsis Biography, Autobiography, Memoir of teenagerboy. Survivor of eight concentration camps, Polish-born Jewish Holocaust survivor; Nazi victim from 1939-45; witness to the Nazi murders of parents, brother, five of six sisters, "riveting true story", endorsed...
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