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Growing Up Jewish in America: An Oral History
by Myrna Katz Frommer Publisher Comments These childhood memories of one hundred men and women, ranging in age from twenty-two to ninety-nine, create a vivid portrait of American Jewish life in the twentieth century. Oral historians Myrna Katz Frommer and Harvey Frommer are professors at...
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Displaced Persons: Growing Up American After the Holocaust
by Joseph Berger Publisher Comments In this touching account, veteran New York Times reporter Joseph Berger describes how his own family of Polish Jews -- with one son born at the close of World War II and the other in a "displaced persons" camp outside Berlin -- managed against all odds...
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The One Hour Purim Primer
by Shimon Apisdorf Publisher Comments Whether you have celebrated Purim fifty times or never at all, this book has what you are looking for. This book is a thoughtful blend of practicality and depth. It contains a clear step-by-step guide to celebrating Purim, with great ideas for kids, an...
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Holocaust & the Christian World Reflecti
by Carol Rittner Book News Annotation Sixty-seven essays edited by Rittner (Holocaust studies, Richard Stockton College of New Jersey) confront Christian antisemitism, and various churches' responses during and after the Holocaust. Includes a Shoah chronology, reflection questions, b&w...
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God's Womb: The Garden of Eden: Innocence and Beyond
by Martin Herbst Publisher Comments God's Womb thoughtfully presents a new perspective of the world through a unique prism. The story of the Garden of Eden found in the book of Genesis is reinterpreted, and a compelling argument is offered, for the necessity of Adam and Eve to have matured...
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The Cunning of History
by Richard Rubenstein Publisher Comments Chapter One <P> Why should anyone bother to reflect once again on the extermination of Europe's Jews by the Germans thirty years ago? The event is over and done. The world has witnessed a plethora of new horrors since that time. And, given the...
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Admitting the Holocaust: Collected Essays
by Lawrence L Langer Publisher Comments This series of penetrating often gripping essays covers a wide range of issues, from the Holocaust's relation to time and memory and its portrayal in literature to its use and abuse by culture and its role in rehaping our sense of history's legacy...
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The Nazi Officer's Wife: How One Jewish Woman Survived the Holocaust
by Edith H Beer Publisher Comments Edith Hahn was an outspoken young woman in Vienna when the Gestapo forced her into a ghetto and then into a labor camp. When she returned home months later, she knew she would become a hunted woman and went underground. With the help of a Christian...
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Fate Did Not Let Me Go: A Mother's Farewell Letter
by Stephen Ollendorff Publisher Comments Fate Did Not Let Me Go: A Mother's Farewell Letter presents an actual letter from a mother to her son on the eve of the Holocaust....
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Tim Boxer's Jewish Celebrity Anecdotes
by Tim Boxer Publisher Comments Compiled by the celebrity columnist of New York's Jewish Weekly, here is a collection of anecdotes, hilarious stories, and witty comments by Jewish celebrities past and contemporary. Includes celebrity photos....
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The Boys: The Story of 732 Young Concentration Camp Survivors
by Martin Gilbert Publisher Comments Fewer than 100,000 Jews survived the death camps. This is the story of 732 of those Jews--all under the age of sixteen in 1945. It is the story of what they lost, of what they, as children, suffered, and, most of all, of what they overcame. Robbed of...
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Tough Questions Jews Ask: A Young Person's Guide to Building a Jewish Life
by Edward Feinstein Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. 135-136)....
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Jacob's Ladder: Wisdom for the Heart's Ascent
by Noah Benshea Publisher Comments One evening, when the humble, sage man Jacob the Baker came home from work, a stranger waited on his doorstep: Jonah, an orphan boy, sent by an old friend for Jacob to raise, to teach, and to love. Now, for the first time, the gentle poet has been given...
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Celebrating the Jewish Holidays: Poems, Stories, Essays
by Steven J Rubin Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. 415-424)....
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Gold Train the Annihilation of the Jews
by Ronald W Zweig Publisher Comments In 1944, a Hungarian train was loaded with gold, gems, cash, paintings, and numerous other valuables stolen from Hungarian Jews. Roughly valued at more than $1.3 billion today, it vanished while in transit-- a mystery that has remained unsolved and...
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The Get: A Spiritual Memoir of Divorc
by Elise Edelson Katch Publisher Comments The Get is the story of a woman's journey through love, divorce, spirituality, empowerment and, finally, self-discovery. It focuses on the real-life experiences of a modern woman who is pressured to participate in an ancient Orthodox ritual that ends her...
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Dear Lizzie: Memoir of a Jewish Immigrant Woman
by Leona Tamarkin Publisher Comments Leona Tamarkin recounts her ordeal as a Jewish refugee during the First World War and her life as a young immigrant in America after 1920. Tamarkin's narrative rings with determination, will to live, and boldness, even within confoning circumstances...
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Terrible Secret Suppression of the Tru
by Walter Laqueur Publisher Comments Laqueur's new introduction, written for this paperback edition of his classic work, revives the lesson of the Holocaust and broadens our understanding of one of history's most terrible crimes. Despite the outrage that swept the world when the Nazi death...
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Jewish Choices: American Jewish Denominationalism (Suny Series, American Jewish Society in the 1990s)
by Bernard Lazerwitz Publisher Comments Having a religious preference and expressing it via a denominational choice is a fundamental way Americans relate to their society. Similarly, American Jews have divided their religion into four parts -- Orthodox, Conservative, Reform, and no preference...
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You Are My Witness: The Living Words of Rabbi Marshall T. Meyer
by Marshall T Meyer Publisher Comments Marshall Meyer, who died at age 64 in 1993, was a human rights leader and a powerful voice for justice. People flocked to hear him in Argentina, where he served as a rabbi for twenty-five years. In the mid-1980's, he became the spiritual leader of the...
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