Poetry Month!
 
 

Special Offers see all

Enter to WIN!

Weekly drawing for $100 credit. Subscribe to our Specials newsletter for a chance to win.
Privacy Policy

More at Powell's


Judaism


Used Aisles


spacer

Judaism
Used Books

There are 1511 books in this aisle.
Browse the aisle by Title | by Author | by Price
See recently arrived used books in this aisle.

Featured Titles in Judaism - Used Books
Page 1 of 76 next

Night
Night
by Elie Wiesel
Publisher Comments
Night -- A terrifying account of the Nazi death camp horror that turns a young Jewish boy into an agonized witness to the death of his family...the death of his innocence...and the death of his God. Penetrating and powerful, as personal as The Diary Of... (read more)

List Price $5.99
Your price: $3.50
Used - Mass Market

add to wish list


The Zookeeper's Wife: A War Story
The Zookeeper's Wife: A War Story
by Diane Ackerman
Publisher Comments
When Germany invaded Poland, Stuka bombers devastated Warsaw--and the city's zoo along with it. With most of their animals dead, zookeepers Jan and Antonina Zabinski began smuggling Jews into empty cages. Another dozen "guests" hid inside the Zabinskis... (read more)

List Price $14.95
Your price: $2.50
Used - Trade Paper

add to wish list


Things We Couldn't Say
Things We Couldn't Say
by Diet Eman
Publisher Comments
The true story of Diet Eman, a young Dutch woman who, with her fiance, Hein Siestma, risked everything to rescue imperiled Jews in Nazi-occupied Holland during World War II.... (read more)

List Price $24.00
Your price: $5.50
Used - Trade Paper

add to wish list


Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil (Penguin Twentieth Century Classics)
Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil (Penguin Twentieth Century Classics)
by Hannah Arendt
Publisher Comments
Hannah Arendt's authoritative report on the trial of Nazi leader Adolf Eichmann includes further factual material that came to light after the trial, as well as Arendt's postscript directly addressing the controversy that arose over her account.... (read more)

Your price: $9.50
Used - Trade Paper

add to wish list


The Ten Commandments of Character: Essential Advice for Living an Honorable, Ethical, Honest Life
The Ten Commandments of Character: Essential Advice for Living an Honorable, Ethical, Honest Life
by Joseph Telushkin
Publisher Comments
Here is a wealth of astute and warmhearted counsel on many of life’s most difficult ethical dilemmas. Joseph Telushkin outlines his ten commandments of character, explaining why each one is so vital, and then addresses perplexing issues that can... (read more)

List Price $25.00
Your price: $10.95
Used - Hardcover

add to wish list


In My Hands: Memories of a Holocaust Rescuer
In My Hands: Memories of a Holocaust Rescuer
by Irene Gut Opdyke
Publisher Comments
Raoul Wallenberg's name may not be familiarand#160;to you but the impact he had during World War II is immeasurable.and#160; Raoul was a Swedish humanitarian who worked in Budapest, Hungary, during WWII to rescue Jews from the Holocaust. He did this by... (read more)

List Price $14.95
Your price: $7.95
Used - Trade Paper

add to wish list


The Hiding Place: The Triumphant True Story of Corrie Ten Boom
The Hiding Place: The Triumphant True Story of Corrie Ten Boom
by Corrie Ten Boom
Publisher Comments
“I pray that God forgive them...” Corrie Ten Boom stood naked with her older sister Betsie, watching a concentration camp matron beating a prisoner. “Oh, the poor woman,” Corrie cried. “Yes. May God forgive her,”... (read more)

List Price $7.99
Your price: $4.50
Used - Mass Market

add to wish list


A Jew Among Romans: The Life and Legacy of Flavius Josephus
A Jew Among Romans: The Life and Legacy of Flavius Josephus
by Frederic Raphael
Publisher Comments
From the acclaimed biographer, screenwriter, and novelist Frederic Raphael, here is an audacious history of Josephus (37–c.100), the Jewish general turned Roman historian, whose emblematic betrayal is a touchstone for the Jew alone in the Gentile... (read more)

List Price $28.95
Your price: $19.50
Used - Hardcover

add to wish list


Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland
Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland
by Christopher R. Browning
Publisher Comments
The shocking account of how a unit of average middle-aged Germans became the cold-blooded murderers of tens of thousands of Jews.... (read more)

List Price $15.99
Your price: $6.50
Used - Trade Paper

add to wish list


The Zookeeper's Wife: A War Story
The Zookeeper's Wife: A War Story
by Diane Ackerman
Staff Pick
Ackerman's bestselling books, including A Natural History of the Senses and An Alchemy of Mind, are illuminating windows into the human condition, and are distinguished not only by Ackerman's graceful and exuberant prose but by her inclusion of her own... (read more)

List Price $24.95
Your price: $5.95
Used - Hardcover

add to wish list


Jewish Literacy: The Most Important Things to Know about the Jewish Religion, Its People, and Its History
Jewish Literacy: The Most Important Things to Know about the Jewish Religion, Its People, and Its History
by Joseph Telushkin
Publisher Comments
How much do you know about Judaism?How did the Ten Lost Tribes become lost ? Are circumcisions performed on the Sabbath ? Which country first granted Jews equal rights ?When was polygamy outlawed for Jews ? Why does Jewish law compare gossiping to murder... (read more)

List Price $35.00
Your price: $8.95
Used - Hardcover

add to wish list


The Wisdom Books: Job, Proverbs, and Ecclesiastes: A Translation with Commentary
The Wisdom Books: Job, Proverbs, and Ecclesiastes: A Translation with Commentary
by Robert Alter
Publisher Comments
Here, in Robert Alter’s bold new translation, are some of the most magnificent works in world literature. The astounding poetry in the Book of Job is restored to its powerful ancient meanings and rhythms. The account of creation in its Voice from... (read more)

List Price $35.00
Your price: $25.00
Used - Hardcover

add to wish list


She Who Dwells Within: Feminist Vision of a Renewed Judaism, a
She Who Dwells Within: Feminist Vision of a Renewed Judaism, a
by Lynn Gottlieb
Publisher Comments
A high-spirited woman rabbi assesses contemporary Judaism and breathes new life into classic tradition by drawing on Jewish, feminist, ecological and Native American sources.... (read more)

List Price $18.75
Your price: $5.50
Used - Trade Paper

add to wish list


I and Thou
I and Thou
by Martin Buber
Publisher Comments
Martin Buber's I and Thou has long been acclaimed as a classic. Many prominent writers have acknowledged its influence on their work; students of intellectual history consider it a landmark; and the generation born since World War II considers Buber as... (read more)

List Price $15.00
Your price: $6.50
Used - Trade Paper

add to wish list


All But My Life: A Memoir
All But My Life: A Memoir
by Gerda Weissmann Klein
Publisher Comments
All But My Life is the unforgettable story of Gerda Weissmann Klein's six-year ordeal as a victim of Nazi cruelty. From her comfortable home in Bielitz (present-day Bielsko) in Poland to her miraculous survival and her liberation by American troops... (read more)

List Price $15.95
Your price: $4.50
Used - Trade Paper

add to wish list


The Drowned and the Saved
The Drowned and the Saved
by Primo Levi
Publisher Comments
Levi wrote of the moral collapse that occurred in Auschwitz and the fallibility of human memory that allows such atrocities to recur. Levi's last book published before his death in 1987.... (read more)

List Price $14.95
Your price: $3.95
Used - Trade Paper

add to wish list


The Holocaust: Problems and Perspectives of Interpretation (Problems in European Civilization)
The Holocaust: Problems and Perspectives of Interpretation (Problems in European Civilization)
by Donald L Niewyk
Publisher Comments
This volume in the Problems in European Civilization series features a collection of secondary-source essays focusing on aspects of the Holocaust. The essays in this book debate the origins of the Holocaust, the motivations of the killers, the experience... (read more)

List Price $9.95
Your price: $4.95
Used - Trade Paper

add to wish list


Great Jewish Women
Great Jewish Women
by Elinor Slater
Publisher Comments
From the biblical Deborah to U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the individuals profiled in this volume are the authors' considered choice for Jewish women who have had the greatest impact on their respective fields.... (read more)

List Price $28.95
Your price: $4.50
Used - Hardcover

add to wish list


Amidah My Peoples Prayerbook Volume 2 Tradit
Amidah My Peoples Prayerbook Volume 2 Tradit
by Lawrence A Hoffman
Publisher Comments
This momentous, critically-acclaimed series is truly a people's prayer book, one that provides a diverse and exciting commentary to the traditional liturgy. It will help modern men and women find new wisdom and guidance in Jewish prayer, and bring the... (read more)

List Price $24.95
Your price: $13.00
Used - Hardcover

add to wish list


Hitler's Willing Executioners: Ordinary Germans and the Holocaust
Hitler's Willing Executioners: Ordinary Germans and the Holocaust
by Daniel Goldhagen
Publisher Comments
This groundbreaking international bestseller lays to rest many myths about the Holocaust: that Germans were ignorant of the mass destruction of Jews, that the killers were all SS men, and that those who slaughtered Jews did so reluctantly. Hitler's... (read more)

List Price $17.95
Your price: $6.50
Used - Trade Paper

add to wish list


1 3 4 5 ... 76 next»


Browse the entire aisle:
by Title | by Author | by Price
See recently arrived used books in this aisle.
There are 1511 books in this aisle.

This way to more aisles in Judaism
spacer
spacer
  • back to top
Follow us on...




Powell's City of Books is an independent bookstore in Portland, Oregon, that fills a whole city block with more than a million new, used, and out of print books. Shop those shelves — plus literally millions more books, DVDs, and eBooks — here at Powells.com.