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Art & Its Uses the Visual Image & Volume 4
by Ezra Mendelsohn  Publisher Comments This volume analyses the levels of meaning present in a wide range of visual images - from high art by Jewish artists to Judaica, caricatures, and political propaganda....
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A Survivors' Haggadah
by Yosef Dov Sheinson Publisher Comments In the winter of 1945-46, Holocaust survivors in displaced persons camps around Munich created an extraordinary illustrated haggadah in preparation for the first Passover after liberation. For five decades this unique book was all but forgotten. Now JPS...
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Philo of Alexandria: The Contemplative Life, Giants and Selections
by David Winston Publisher Comments The most in-depth and scholarly panorama of Western spirituality ever attempted!<P>In one series, the original writings of the universally acknowledged teachers of the Catholic, Protestant, Eastern Orthodox, Jewish, Islamic and Native American...
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Jewish Women/Jewish Men: The Legacy of Patriarchy in Jewish Life
by Aviva Cantor Publisher Comments A sweeping look at the complex patterns of the Jewish experience Jewish Women/Jewish Men offers a new and often controversial view of gender, generational, and social struggles throughout Jewish history. Author Aviva Cantor shows how every aspect of...
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The Sabbath
by Abraham Joshua Heschel Publisher Comments Elegant, passionate, and filled with the love of God's creation, Abraham Hoshua Heschel's "The Sabbath" has been hailed as a classic of Jewish spirituality ever since its original publication in 1951--and has been read by thousands of people of many...
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Big Book of Jewish Sports Heroes: Top 100 Ranking (Judaica Sports Collectibles Library)
by Peter Horvitz Publisher Comments Meet the most accomplished and interesting Jewish athletes in the history of sports in this entertaining new title by the author of The Big Book Of Jewish Baseball. Its heroes range from the pioneering boxing displays of Daniel Mendoza to the baseball...
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What Do You Mean, You Can't Eat in My Home?: A Guide to How Newly Observant Jews and Their Less-Observant Relatives Can Still Get Along
by Azriela Jaffe Publisher Comments Here is a book of workable, sensible solutions to the everyday problems faced by newly observant Jews as they try to explain the parameters of their new lives to the people who love them--but think they've gone around the bend. <BR>For the formerly...
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Traditions and Celebrations for the Bat Mitzvah
by Ora Wiskind Elper Publisher Comments Since the Bat-Mitzvah celebration is not founded in ancient tradition, much confusion surrounds it. In Traditions and Celebrations for the Bat Mitzvah, rabbis and experienced educators, learned women and men, consider the occasion of bat mitzvah from a...
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The King of Children: The Life and Death of Janusz Korczak
by Betty Jean Lifton Publisher Comments A classic as stirring as Schindler's List, The King of Children is the acclaimed biography of the first advocate of children's rights and the man known as the savior of hundreds of orphans in the Warsaw ghetto. Janusz Korczak was known throughout Europe...
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Ana Pauker: The Rise and Fall of a Jewish Communist
by Robert Levy Publisher Comments A political biography of Ana Pauker, Romanian Communist leader and Foreign Minister from 1947 to 1952, described by Time Magazine in 1948 as "the most powerful woman alive."...
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A Jew Among the Evangelicals: A Guide for the Perplexed
by Mark I. Pinsky Publisher Comments In this insightful and accessible book, Pinsky, a Jew, and a religion reporter for the "Orlando Sentinel" takes the curious reader on a tour of the fascinating world of Sunbelt evangelicalism....
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Honey From the Rock
by Lawrence Kushner Publisher Comments Quite simply, the easiest introduction to Jewish mysticism you can read. An insightful and absorbing introduction to the ten gates of Jewish mysticism and how it applies to daily life....
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Kabbalah: The Way of the Jewish Mystic (Shambhala Classics)
by Perle Epstein Publisher Comments This pioneering, popular introduction to Jewish mysticism was the first survey written for a general audience, and it's now available in Shambhala Classics. Epstein presents the methods, schools, and legendary practitioners of Kabbalah, unraveling the...
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One Baby Step at a Time: Seven Secrets of Jewish Motherhood
by Chana Weisberg Synopsis One Baby Step at a Time is a collection of eye-opening personal essays, inspirational readings, and refreshingly honest interviews that will uplift, validate, and provide practical suggestions to improve the life of every Jewish mother. In this sequel to...
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The Legend of the Baal-Shem (Mythos)
by Martin Buber Publisher Comments "All positive religion rests on an enormous simplification of the manifold and wildly engulfing forces that invade us: it is the subduing of the fullness of existence. All myth, in contrast, is the expression of the fullness of existence, its image, its...
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A Heart of Wisdom: Making the Jewish Journey from Midlife Through the Elder Years
by Susan Berrin Publisher Comments Over fifty contributors -- rabbis, authors, social workers, psychologists -- explore aging from a Jewish perspective. Extensive resource section....
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The Year in Drashos: A Rabbi's Anthology of Contemporary Thoughts on the Weekly Parsha
by Rabbi Avraham Steinberg Publisher Comments The drasha, or traditional sermon delivered during services, is a rabbi's primary means of conveying Torah ideology and inspiration to his congregants. Many a shulgoer has recounted how, in trying moments of life, the refrain of a rabbi's drasha echoing...
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A Man's Responsibility: A Jewish Guide to Being a Son, a Partner in Marriage, a Father and a Leader
by Rabbi Joseph B. Meszler Synopsis For centuries, Jewish men have taken on a distinctive role in being responsible before God, their families and their communities. They understood themselves as keepers of the covenant between God and the Jewish people, and they knew they were obligated...
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Soul Judaism: Dancing with God in a New Era
by Wayne Dosick Publisher Comments The first practical, easy-to-use guide to embracing the spiritual practices that make everyday life sacred within the Jewish tradition. A do-it-yourself approach to spiritual living....
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Mosaic
by Diane Armstrong Publisher Comments Starting in Krakow, Poland in 1890, and spanning more than one hundred years, five generations, and four continents, Mosaic is Diane Armstrong's moving account of her remarkable, resilient family. This story begins when Daniel Baldinger divorces the wife...
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