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The Dictionary of Jewish Biography
by Dan Cohn Sherbok  Publisher Comments From Abraham to Saul Bellow, from Moses Maimonides to Woody Allen, from the Baal Shem Tov to Albert Einstein, this comprehensive dictionary of Jewish biographies provides a first point of entry into the fascinating richness of the Jewish heritage...
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Marked in Your Flesh Circumcision From
by Leonard B Glick Publisher Comments The book of Genesis tells us that God made a covenant with Abraham, promising him a glorious posterity on the condition that he and all his male descendents must be circumcised. For thousands of years thereafter, the distinctive practice of circumcision...
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The Trail of Tranquility
by Lazer Brody Publisher Comments The Trail to Tranquility, by Lazer Brody, is a unique, innovative, and reader-friendly guide to uprooting anger and attaining genuine inner peace. The reader traverses a thrilling allegorical trail to self-awareness, spiritual growth, and lasting...
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Raising Your Jewish-Christian Child: How Interfaith Parents Can Give Children the Best of Both Their Heritages
by Lee F Gruzen Publisher Comments Based on hundreds of interviews and extensive research and personal experience, this book covers talking with children about God, planning ceremonies, celebrating holidays, relationships with grandparents, and developing a sense of self and belonging....
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The Book of Passover
by Benjamin Blech Publisher Comments In this wonderful keepsake, Rabbi Benjamin Blech complies al the special traditions of Passover--the most important Jewish family holiday commemorating the Israelites' exodus to freedom--with the inspiring rituals, songs, stories, commentaries, and...
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Jewish Mourner's Book of Why
by Alfred J. Kolatch Publisher Comments Comprehensive volume on Jewish death and mourning. Question-and-answer format explores the laws, observances and customs that relate to Jewish mourning. Includes a special inspirational section and readings for the bereaved....
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Five Centuries of Hanukkah Lamps from the Jewish Museum: A Catalogue Raisonne
by Jewish Museum Publisher Comments The observance of Hanukkah as a time of freedom and miracles resonates strongly with Jews today as in centuries past, and the Hanukkah lamp is central to the celebratory ritual. The importance of the Hanukkah lamp is reflected in the collection of The...
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Rodinsky's Room
by Rachel Lichtenstein Publisher Comments Recluse David Rodinsky lived above a synagogue in the heart of the Jewish East End of London. In 1969 he disappeared. His room, a chaos of writings, annotated books and maps, gramophone records, and clothes, remained undisturbed for 20 years.<P>...
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Lighting the Way to Freedom: Treasured Menorahs of Early Israel
by Ari Ha'tell Publisher Comments A fully illustrated history of the Hanukkah Menorahs created by the pioneer Israeli artists and artisans. It's role as a central object of art and worship in Jewish life, and its importance as a symbol of the triumph of freedom over tyranny. Also traces...
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What to Do When You're Dating a Jew
by Jennifer A. Block and Vikki Weiss Publisher Comments Learn everything you need to know about the holidays, traditions, beliefs, and culture of the Jew you love . . . and his or her family. From what to order in a Kosher deli to what to wear to a Purim party, this book answers all the questions you'll face...
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Yom Kippur a Go-Go: A Memoir
by Matthue Roth Publisher Comments In this mind-blowing meeting of pop culture, Orthodox faith, and hipster poetics, Matthue Roth, an Orthodox Jew who cites Outkast and Michelle Tea among his influences, takes readers on a journey among the queer and hip streets of urban America in his...
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Keeping Passover: Everything You Need to Know to Bring the Ancient Tradition to Life and Create Yo
by Ira Steingroot Publisher Comments "Although the idea of 'keeping Passover' has too often come to mean the strict observance of an unending string of ordinances, decrees, rules, regulations, testimonies, precepts, laws, and statutes, it can as well mean the safekeeping of something...
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The Holistic Haggadah: How Will You Be Different This Passover Night?
by Michael L. Kagan Publisher Comments The Holistic Haggadah is a fascinating guide to the inner journey that the Passover Seder evening offers us. It is a daring commentary that challenges each of us to go down into our self-imposed Mitzraim (Egypt) and face our attachments and the false...
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Maimonides (Lives & Legacies)
by Ilil Arbel Publisher Comments Moses Maimonides' life reads like an adventure story. Personal tragedies, gained and lost fortunes, shipwrecks, all were part of his tumultuous tale, as well as sudden and bewildering fame as court physician to the Sultan Saladin and all his wives and...
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Bar Mitzvah Disco: The Music May Have Stopped, But the Party's Never Over
by Roger Bennett Publisher Comments The Music May Have Stopped, but the Party’s Never Over. Bar Mitzvah Disco. Everyone's Invited Pick up your table card and come be our guest on this journey back to a time when style, music, and lust went hand in hand with a Day-Glo necklace, a pair...
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A Century of Horrors: Communism, Nazism, and the Uniqueness of the Shoah (Crosscurrents)
by Alain Besancon Publisher Comments The twentieth century bears the indelible imprint of both communism and Nazism. Today, it sometimes seems as if the former is all but forgotten, at least among Western elites, while our cultural memory of the latter is an inextinguishable fire. This...
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A Time to Every Purpose: Letters to a Young Jew
by Jonathan D. Sarna Publisher Comments At the turn of the twenty-first century, the central question confronting Jewish leaders in America is simple: Why be Jewish? Jonathan D. Sarna, acclaimed scholar of American Judaism, believes that “Why be Jewish?” is the wrong question...
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Memoirs of a Fortunate Jew: An Italian Story
by Dan Vittorio Segre Publisher Comments “I was probably less than five years old when my father fired a shot at my head.” From this first line, Dan Vittorio Segre’s memoir moves from one startling turning point to the next. The child of aristocratic parents, Segre fled...
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An Autobiography
by Salomon Maimon Publisher Comments The life of the brilliant, bedraggled, picaresque Jewish philosopher -- one of the great thinkers of the eighteenth century....
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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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