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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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