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The Women's Passover Companion: Women's Reflections on the Festival of Freedom
by Sharon C Anisfeld Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. 293-295) and index....
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Birkon Mikdash M'At: The Nfty Bencher
by Jeremy Gimbel Publisher Comments This pocket-sized volume of blessings and songs was compiled by Reform Jewish teenager, making it one of the most unique benchers on the market today. Birkon Mikdash M?at promises to inspire a new generation of Reform Jews. Perfect prayer and song...
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The "Jewish Threat": Anti-Semitic Politics of the U.S. Army
by Joseph Bendersky Publisher Comments Very little has been written about America's own history of anti-Semitism. In this shocking book, the first documented examination of anti-Semitism in an American governmental institution, Joseph Bendersky shows that such racism permeated the highest...
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Bridges and Boundaries: African Americans and American Jews
by Jack Salzman Publisher Comments This book provides us with a means to challenge, and perhaps even to verify, our sense of the past--and in so doing to better understand the present. Fifteen critical essays by leading historians, scholars, and political and religious figures of this...
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Over the Rooftops of Time: Jewish Stories, Essays, Poems (Suny Series, Modern Jewish Literature & Culture)
by Myra Sklarew Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. 191-194) and index....
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In the Lion's Den: The Life of Oswald Rufeisen
by Nechama Tec Publisher Comments Few lives shed more light on the complex relationship between Jews and Christians during and after the Holocaust--or provide a more moving portrait of courage--than Oswald Rufeisen's. A Jew passing as a Christian in occupied Poland, Rufeisen worked as...
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Yiddish Wisdom = Yiddishe Chochma
by Kristina (edt) Swarner Publisher Comments All the color, vibrancy, and humor of Yiddish is captured in this delightfully illustrated treasury of over 100 folk sayings in both English and Yiddish. From the sublime (Man thinks and God laughs/A mentsh tracht un Got lacht) to the practical (When you...
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Scattered Among the Peoples
by Allan Levine Publisher Comments 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...
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Playing Right Field: A Jew Grows in Greenwich
by George Tabb Publisher Comments "Playing Right Field" refers to an early experience of the author and his brother, Lloyd, who played Little League together; they were forced to share one team T-shirt because their father the multimillionaire was too cheap to buy one for each of them....
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Liberal Judaism at Home
by Morrison Bial Publisher Comments Written in a lively style, the guidebook explores every aspect of Jewish living - the complete life cycle from birth through burial and mourning....
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Flares of Memory: Stories of Childhood During the Holocaust
by Anita Brostoff Publisher Comments 'In a series of writing workshops at the Holocaust Center of Pittsburgh, survivors assembled recently to remember the pivotal moments in which their lives were irreparably changed by the Nazis. These \"flares of memory\" invoke lost childhoods...
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Gates of Prayer for Weekdays & at a House of Mourning
by Chaim Stern Publisher Comments With changes in language regarding gender issues, this alternative version of Gates of Prayer for the House of Mourning includes services for the funeral home and house of the bereaved, afternoon and evening services, special "At a House of Mourning...
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While America Watches: Televising the Holocaust
by Jeffrey Shandler Publisher Comments 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. <BR>...
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Staying Alive a Family Memoir
by Janet Reibstein Synopsis 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 About the Author Beryl Lieff Benderly is the author of several books, including Dancing without Music: Deafness in America....
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Nazi gold :the full story of the fifty-year Swiss-Nazi conspiracy to steal billions from Europe's Jews and Holocaust survivors
by Tom Bower Publisher Comments In the 1930s and 1940s, as Nazi Soldiers Goose-stepped across Europe, thousands of Jews looked to Switzerland for help. A bastion of neutrality, Switzerland seemed the ideal place to entrust with their life savings while they faced Hitler's genocidal...
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Writings from Ancient Israel: A Handbook of Historical and Religious Documents
by Klaas A D Smelik Publisher Comments "On the walls of buildings ...on leather and papyrus, Israelites living under the monarchy (1000-587 B.C.E.) penned or scratched texts ranging from food and crop inventories ...to memorials...Smelik ...(has compiled these) remnants of early writing ...in...
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Facing the Extreme: Moral Life in the Concentration Camps
by Tzvetan Todorov Publisher Comments The Nazi concentration camps and the Soviet gulag provide the context for this acclaimed examination of the human capacity for moral life. Drawing on a striking array of documents, Tzvetan Todorov reconstructs a vivid portrait of the conduct of those who...
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The Secret Garden: An Anthology in the Kabbalah
by David Meltzer Publisher Comments The Secret Garden is a re-issue of a long out of print collection of Jewish Kabbalistic writings from Hellenistic times through the seventeenth century. Since its publication in the '70s much scholarly and popular writing has whetted the appetite for...
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The Popes Against the Jews: The Vatican's Role in the Rise of Modern Anti-Semitism
by David I Kertzer Publisher Comments A groundbreaking historical study based on documents previously locked in the Vatican's secret archives: The Popes Against the Jews graphically shows how the Catholic Church helped make the Holocaust possible. Pope John Paul II, as part of his effort to...
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