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The Man in the White Sharkskin Suit: My Family's Exodus from Old Cairo to the New World by Lucette Lagnado Publisher Comments This poignant and breathtaking memoir from an award-winning "Wall Street Journal" reporter recounts the exile of her family from Egypt and her fathers heroic and tragic struggle to survive his riches to rags trajectory.... (read more) List Price $25.95 Your price: $8.95 Used - Hardcover
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Listen to Her Voice by Miki Raver Publisher Comments Eve, Sarah, Rachel, Delilah, Ruth their names live on, but their ancient stories have been obscured. This newly issued paperback presents a sumptuously illustrated retelling of the lives of 18 women in the Hebrew Bible. Author Miki Raver pairs each... (read more) List Price $22.95 Your price: $8.95 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: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Europe and the Jews: The Pressure of Christendom Over 1900 Years by Malcolm Hay Publisher Comments A detailed and moving account of the indignities and cruelties Jews have undergone at the hands of Christians and others in the West, from St John Chrysostom in the 4th century to Hitler in the 20th. Using Hitler's concentration camps as a point of... (read more) List Price $16.25 Your price: $11.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Anne Frank: the Book, the Life, the Afterlife (09 Edition) by Francine Prose Publisher Comments In June 1942, Anne Frank received a red-and-white-checked diary for her thirteenth birthday, just weeks before she and her family went into hiding in an Amsterdam attic to escape the Nazis. For two years, with ever-increasing maturity, Anne crafted a... (read more) List Price $14.99 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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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... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Reawakening: The Companion Volume to Survival in Auschwitz by Primo Levi Publisher Comments First published in English in 1965, The Reawakening is Primo Levi's bestselling sequel to his classic memoir of the Holocaust, Survival in Auschwitz. The inspiring story of Levi's liberation from the German death camp in January 1945 by the Red Army, it... (read more) List Price $16.99 Your price: $7.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Night by Elie Wiesel Publisher Comments This powerful and gripping novel explores what life in the secret annex might have been like for Peter Van Pels. What it was like to be forced into hiding with Anne, first to hate her and then begin falling in love with her.To sit and... (read more) List Price $9.95 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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A Study of the Ten Luminous Emanations, Volume 1: The Wisdom of the Kabbalah by Rabbi Yehuda Ashlag Z"l as Revealed by the Writings of Rabbi Isaac Lur by Yehuda Ashlag Publisher Comments Any student who wishes to understand the process of creation will find author and Kabbalist Rav Ashlag's work enlightening and thought-provoking. Ten Luminous Emanations volume one examines the micro cosmos and presents us with a richer understanding of... (read more) List Price $10.95 Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper
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American Zionism from Herzl to the Holocaust by Melvin I Urofsky Publisher Comments Theodore Herzl, a Vienna journalist, realized that anti-Semitism, dramatically illustrated by the Dreyfus Affair in 1890s France, would never be stemmed by the attempts of Jews to assimilate. The publication of his Der Judenstaat in 1896 began the... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $2.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Story of a Life: A Memoir by Aharon Appelfeld Publisher Comments In spare, haunting, almost hallucinogenic prose, the internationally acclaimed, award-winning novelist shares with us–for the first time–the story of his own extraordinary survival and rebirth. Aharon Appelfeld’s childhood ended when he... (read more) List Price $23.00 Your price: $6.50 Used - Hardcover
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The Hidden Life of Otto Frank by Carol Ann Lee Publisher Comments Carol Ann Lee s impeccably researched portrait The Hidden Life of Otto Frank brings into sharp focus every facet of the extraordinary life, both charmed and cursed, of Otto Frank, the father of the most famous young girl of the twentieth century... (read more) List Price $13.99 Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Sunflower: On the Possibilities and Limits of Forgiveness by Simon Wiesenthal Publisher Comments Robert Coles, The Dalai Lama, Matthew Fox, Mary Gordon, Harold S. Kushner, Albert Speer, Desmond Tutu, and 47 others respond to Wiesenthal's famous question: "Can evil be forgiven?"... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $9.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Invisible Wall: A Love Story That Broke Barriers by Harry Bernstein Publisher Comments A wonderfully charming memoir written when the author was 93, "The Invisible Wall" vibrantly brings to life an all-but-forgotten time and place. Bernstein offers a moving tale of working-class life, and of the boundaries that can be overcome by love.... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $3.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Poyln by Alter Kacyzne Publisher Comments Winner of the National Jewish Book Award In 1921, photographer Alter Kacyzne was comissioned by the New York Yiddish daily, Forverts, to document images of Jewish life in the "old country." Kacyzne's assignment was to become a ten-year journey across... (read more) List Price $50.00 Your price: $11.50 Used - Hardcover
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From a Name to a Number: A Holocaust Survivor's Autobiography by Alter Wiener Publisher Comments Alter Wiener's father was brutally murdered on September 11, 1939 by the German invaders of Poland. Alter was then a boy of 13. At the age of 15 he was deported to Blechhammer, a Forced Labor Camp for Jews, in Germany. He survived five camps. Upon... (read more) List Price $29.75 Your price: $15.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Kabbalah Unveiled by Macgregor S Mathers Publisher Comments This text contains The Book of Concealed Mystery, The Greater Holy Assembly, and The Lesser Holy Assembly from the Zohar.... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $13.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Seven Jewish Cultures: A Reinterpretation of Jewish History & Thought by Ephraim Shmueli Publisher Comments Professor Shmueli has synthesized history, philosophy, biblical scholarship, sociology, literature and psychology into an original and profound new view of Jewish history. Jewish history is viewed as an unfolding of seven successive systems of cultures... (read more) List Price $150.75 Your price: $17.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Jew in the Lotus: A Poet's Rediscovery of Jewish Identity in Buddhist India by Rodger Kamenetz Publisher Comments While accompanying eight high–spirited Jewish delegates to Dharamsala, India, for a historic Buddhist–Jewish dialogue with the Dalai Lama, poet Rodger Kamenetz comes to understand the convergence of Buddhist and Jewish thought. Along the way... (read more) List Price $14.99 Your price: $4.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Garden of Pomegranates by Israel Regardie Publisher Comments Long considered the best single introduction to the Qabalah for magicians, the third edition of Israel Regardie's A Garden of Pomegranates is now better than ever, thanks to the extensive annotations and new material by Chic Cicero and Sandra Tabatha... (read more) List Price $21.95 Your price: $12.95 Used - Trade Paper
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