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The Orientalist: Solving the Mystery of a Strange and Dangerous Life
by Tom Reiss  
Powells.com Staff Pick Islamic prince, Hollywood intimate, Mussolini's biographer, Jewish tycoon's son, international bestselling author (Goebbels was a big fan), chummy with the Nabakovs and Pasternaks: Lev Nussimbaum (aka Kurban Said, aka Essad Bey) was all these things...
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The Dream: A Memoir
by Harry Bernstein Publisher Comments “Dreams played an important part in our lives in those early days in England. Our mother invented them for us to make up for all the things we lacked and to give us some hope for the future.” During the hard and bitter years of his youth in...
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King of the Jews :Arnold Rothstein
by Nick Tosches Publisher Comments So begins Nick Tosches's sprawling biography of Arnold Rothstein, which, in fact, is so much more: not only an elegy to old New York but an idiosyncratic history of the world as told in Nick Tosches's inimitable style. Known by many names — A. R...
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Betraying Spinoza (06 Edition)
by Goldstein Publisher Comments In 1656, Amsterdam's Jewish community excommunicated Baruch Spinoza, and, at the age of twenty-three, he became the most famous heretic in Judaism. He was already germinating a secularist challenge to religion that would be as radical as it was original....
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Mordecai
by Emily Bingham Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. [273]-332) and index....
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The Invisible Wall: A Love Story That Broke Barriers
by Harry Bernstein Publisher Comments “There are places that I have never forgotten. A little cobbled street in a smoky mill town in the North of England has haunted me for the greater part of my life. It was inevitable that I should write about it and the people who lived on both...
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Abraham: The First Historical Biography
by David Rosenberg Publisher Comments The world's major religions-Judaism, Christianity, and Islam-find a common root in one man: Abraham. Yet Abraham looms so large in the realm of world religions that he has remained a ward of the Divine rather than a flesh-and-blood citizen of Humanity...
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Peddler's Grandson : Growing Up Jewish in Mississippi (99 Edition)
by Edward Cohen
Publisher Comments Edward Cohen was among the tiny minority of Jews in Jackson, Mississippi, the heart of the Bible Belt. As a child, he grew up singing “Dixie”in his segregated school and saying sh’ma in synagogue. And in his powerful, luminous memoir...
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King of the Jews: The Greatest Mob Story Never Told
by Nick Tosches Publisher Comments Flamboyant mobster Arnold Rothstein was gambling and money. He was the inspiration for Meyer Wolfsheim in The Great Gatsby and Nathan Detroit in Guys and Dolls. It was rumored he masterminded the 1919 World Series fix. He was Mr. Broadway, a king of...
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If I Am Not for Myself: Journey of an Anti-Zionist Jew
by Mike Marqusee Publisher Comments An eloquent and deeply felt memoir exploring the author's complex relationship with his Jewish identity. If I Am Not For Myself is a passionate, thought-provoking exploration of what it means to be Jewish in the twenty-first century. It traces the author'...
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Coming Home
by Linda M Shires Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. 237-253) and index....
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The Rabbi's Daughter
by Reva Mann Publisher Comments In this honest, daring, and compulsively readable memoir, Reva Mann paints a portrait of herself as a young woman on the edge—of either revelation or self-destruction. Ricocheting between extremes of rebellion and piety, she is on a difficult but...
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The Jewish Americans: Three Centuries of Jewish Voices in America
by Beth S. Wenger Publisher Comments What was it like for the first Jews to arrive in the New World? How did a Bavarian immigrant's crockery business expand into one of the nation’s top department stores? How did Yiddish theater and humor influence Hollywood and mainstream entertainment...
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Yom Kippur a Go-Go: A Memoir
by Matthue Roth Publisher Comments Yom Kippur A Go-Go is a mind-blowing meeting of pop culture, Orthodox faith, and hipster poetics. Matthue Roth is an American original: an Orthodox Jew who cites Outkast and Michelle Tea among his influences, who won’t touch a light switch on...
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Rodinsky's Room
by Rachel Lichtenstein Synopsis 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. Rodinsky's...
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Heart of a Wife: The Diary of a Southern Jewish Woman
by Helen Jacobus Apte Publisher Comments In 1995, NPR editor and producer Marcus D. Rosenbaum met his grandmother-fifty years after her death.p Rosenbaum and his family were attending to the bittersweet business of cleaning out the family home after his father died when, in an old closet, in a...
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All Rivers Run To the Sea: Memoirs
by Elie Wiesel Publisher Comments From his early years with his loving Jewish family to the horrors of Auschwitz to his life as a Nobel Prize-winning novelist, Elie Wiesel tells his story. Passionate and poignant, All Rivers Run to the Sea is an unforgettable book of love and rage, doubt...
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Holy Unexpected
by Robin Chotzinoff Publisher Comments Raised a born-again agnostic, Robin Chotzinoff had no interest in religion—and practically no experience in it— until she turned forty. When she suddenly discovered a belief in God, she had no idea what to do next. In Holy Unexpected she...
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We Jews and Blacks: Memoir with Poems
by Willis Barnstone Synopsis A poignant memoir that wrestles with problems of identity, difference, and the human condition...
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Bagels and Grits: A Jew on the Bayou
by Jennifer Anne Moses Publisher Comments Jennifer Anne Moses left behind a comfortable life in the upper echelons of East Coast Jewish society to move with her husband and children to Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Searching for connection to her surroundings, she decided to volunteer at an AIDS...
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