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by Elie Wiesel Publisher Comments A New Translation From The French By Marion Wiesel Night is Elie Wiesel’s masterpiece, a candid, horrific, and deeply poignant autobiographical account of his survival as a teenager in the Nazi death camps. This new translation by Marion Wiesel... (read more) List Price $9.00 Your price $4.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
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 $1.00 (Used - Mass Market) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Alfred J Kolatch Synopsis A popular, low-priced Haggadah for the modern Jewish home, this edition contains the full traditional Passover service in both Hebrew and English text, plus many meaningful quotations culled from the literature of the ages designed to reinforce the... (read more) Your price $3.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Abraham J Heschel Publisher Comments Abraham Heschel is a seminal name in religious studies and the author of Man Is Not Alone and God in Search of Man. When The Prophets was first published in 1962, it was immediately recognized as a masterpiece of biblical scholarship.The Prophets... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price $9.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Michael Wex Publisher Comments A delightful excursion through the Yiddish language, the culture it defines and serves, and the fine art of complaint Throughout history, Jews around the world have had plenty of reasons to lament. And for a thousand years, they've had the perfect... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price $7.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Rav P. S. Berg Publisher Comments For thousands of years, no book has been more shrouded in mystery than the Zohar, yet no book offers us greater wisdom. The central text of Kabbalah, the Zohar is a commentary on the Bible’s narratives, laws, and genealogies and a map of the... (read more) List Price $24.00 Your price $9.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Lucette Lagnado Publisher Comments In vivid and graceful prose, Lucette Lagnado re-creates the majesty and cosmopolitan glamour of Cairo in the years between World War II and Gamal Abdel Nasser's rise to power. Her father, Leon, was a boulevardier who conducted business on the elegant... (read more) List Price $25.95 Your price $17.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Primo Levi Publisher Comments In 1943, Primo Levi, a twenty-five-year-old chemist and Italian citizen of Jewish race, was arrested by Italian fascists and deported from his native Turin to Auschwitz. Survival in Auschwitz is Levi's classic account of his ten months in the German... (read more) List Price $11.00 Your price $6.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Anne Frank Publisher Comments Anne Frank's The Diary of a Young Girl is among the most enduring documents of the twentieth century. Since its publication in 1947, it has been read by tens of millions of people all over the world. It remains a beloved and deeply admired testament to... (read more) List Price $5.99 Your price $2.50 (Used - Mass Market) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Kofi A Annan Synopsis In this book, the reader can share their thoughts on intolerance, anti-Semitism and what can be done to end this longest surviving for of bigotry that has brought suffering and destruction to millions of ordinary people. Their thoughtful and passionate... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price $4.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
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by Art Spiegelman Powells.com Staff Pick Two powerful, definitive chronicles of modern atrocities the perfect books for anyone who doubts comix have grown up. The Pulitzer Prize-winning Maus is a staggering personal depiction of the Holocaust, rendered all the stronger by Spiegelman's... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $8.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Anne Frank Publisher Comments Discovered in the attic in which she spent the last years of her life, Anne Frank's remarkable diary has since become a world classic -- a powerful reminder of the horrors of war and an eloquent testament to the human spirit. In 1942, with Nazis... (read more) List Price $5.50 Your price $3.50 (Used - Mass Market) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
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 $16.00 Your price $6.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Aaron Lansky Publisher Comments In 1980 an entire body of Jewish literature--the physical remnant of Yiddish culture--was on the verge of extinction. Precious volumes that had survived Hitler and Stalin were being passed down from older generations of Jewish immigrants to their non... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price $7.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Wladyslaw Szpilman Publisher Comments Named one of the Best Books of 1999 by the Los Angeles Times, The Pianist is now a major motion picture directed by Roman Polanski and starring Adrien Brody (Son of Sam). The Pianist won the Cannes Film Festival’s most prestigious prize—the... (read more) List Price $13.00 Your price $6.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Daniel Mendelsohn Publisher Comments In this rich and riveting narrative, a writer's search for the truth behind his family's tragic past in World War II becomes a remarkably original epic — part memoir, part reportage, part mystery, and part scholarly detective work — that... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price $ (Used - ) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Hannah Arendt Publisher Comments This report on the trial of German Nazi leader Adolf Eichmann first appeared as a series of articles in the New Yorker in 1963. This edition contains further factual material that came to light after the trial, as well as Arendt's postscript commenting... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price $6.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Simon Wiesenthal Publisher Comments While imprisoned in a Nazi concentration camp, Simon Wiesenthal was taken one day from his work detail to the bedside of a dying member of the SS. Haunted by the crimes in which he had participated, the soldier wanted to confess to and obtain... (read more) List Price $13.00 Your price $6.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Howard Schwartz Publisher Comments Drawing upon their rich religious and cultural heritage--a heritage that stretches back to Biblical times and passes through many varied epochs and environments--Jewish sages, artists, writers, and storytellers have continually created imaginative and... (read more) List Price $21.50 Your price $8.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Jps Powells.com Staff Pick I still like to read the Psalms in the King James Bible; but when I want to read a clear and modern language version of the scriptures, I prefer the Jewish Publication Society's (JPS) Tanakh. This version of what is also known as the Old Testament was... (read more) List Price $22.00 Your price $14.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
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