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by Gabrielle Glaser Publisher Comments Joshua Steinberg wears his Jewish identity proudly. His Catholic wife, Maura Fitzsimmons, is strongly attached to her Irish roots. For years, Josh's parents referred to Maura only as the Catholic. How do Maura and Josh cope? Rebecca Grodin is the only... (read more) List Price $24.00 Your price $7.50 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Aryeh Wineman Publisher Comments Zohar, or "brilliant light," is the central text of Kabbalah. In Jewish mystical tradition, it is the meeting of midrash (storytelling that expands on events in the Bible) and myth. This selection offers original translations of eight of the most well... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price $11.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Juliet Steyn Publisher Comments Setting out to banalize the Jew, Steyn (arts policy and management, City U. of London) presents case studies from Britain and America to confront the demonization of the Jew and the post-Shoah and postmodern view of the Jew as sublime. She ranges from... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price $8.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Binjamin W Segel Publisher Comments A strange and repugnant mystery of the twentieth century is the durability of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion, a clumsy forgery purporting to be evidence of the supposed Jewish plot to rule the world. Though it has been exposed as a forgery, some... (read more) List Price $10.00 Your price $4.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Steven Roberts Publisher Comments From Steven V. Roberts comes My Fathers' Houses, a memoir of growing up in Bayonne, New Jersey, an immigrant community in the shadow of the Statue if Liberty, and the story of how his father and his grandfather's dreams–and their own passion for... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Stanley E Ely Publisher Comments Stanley Ely says that when the fiftieth or so person confronted him with a skeptical, "You mean you're Jewish, and you're from Texas?" he decided to do more than smile and say, "Yes". The result is this funny, caustic and nostalgic tale in the tradition... (read more) List Price $24.50 Your price $6.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Yehuda Berg Publisher Comments Everyone wants to be financially successful, but great financial success often brings negative side effects in other areas. In this exciting new paperback edition of his popular book, Yehuda Berg shows why the true purpose of our lives is complete... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price $11.50 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Blake Eskin Publisher Comments In 1997, Binjamin Wilkomirski came to New York to read from his prize-winning memoir, "Fragments: Memories of a Wartime Childhood; " raise money for the Holocaust Museum; and look for long-lost relatives. A year later, he was exposed as a gentile... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $6.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Harry James Cargas Publisher Comments This is an intense and moving dialogue rising out of the ashes of the Holocaust and extending to the crucial issues of the present.... (read more) List Price $9.95 Your price $6.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Yaffa Eliach Publisher Comments 'An important work of scholarship and a sudden clear window onto the heretofore sealed world of the Hasidic reaction to the Holocaust. Its true stories and fanciful miracles tales are a profound and often poignant insight into the souls of those who... (read more) List Price $27.50 Your price $18.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
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by Peter Duffy Synopsis This title recounts the amazing story of three brothers who built a city hidden in the middle of the Belorussian forest to save Jews from the invading Nazis. They managed a makeship forest city with hospital, workshops, school and even a bathhouse - and... (read more) Your price $9.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Isschar Ben Ami Publisher Comments Among Moroccan Jews, saint worship is an important cultural characteristic, practiced throughout the population. Saint Veneration among the Jews in Morocco, the only book in English on this topic, contains essential information about Moroccan Jewry... (read more) List Price $49.95 Your price $11.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Benjamin Bender Publisher Comments Holocaust survivor Bender was 11 years old when the German army invaded his native Poland. He lived in Czestochowa, a backward town steeped in medieval ideas and anti-Semitic attitudes--and thoroughly unprepared for the mechanized terror of the Nazis... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price $3.20 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Alexander Cockburn Publisher Comments How did a term, once used accurately to describe the most virulent evil, become a charge flung at the mildest critic of Israel, particularly concerning its atrocious treatment of Palestinians?<P>Edited by Alexander Cockburn and Jeffrey St. Clair... (read more) List Price $11.95 Your price $5.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Michal Peled Ginsburg Publisher Comments A volume in the SUNY series in Modern Jewish Literature and Culture Sarah Blacher Cohen... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price $12.40 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Leonard Dinnerstein Publisher Comments Is antisemitism on the rise in America? Did the "hymietown" comment by Jesse Jackson and the Crown Heights riot signal a resurgence of antisemitism among blacks? The surprising answer to both questions, according to Leonard Dinnerstein, is no--Jews have... (read more) List Price $42.00 Your price $9.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Ira Wolfman Publisher Comments A beautifully illustrated guide to Jewish life in the metropolis: Jewish New York celebrates Jewish life in New York City from the seventeenth century to the present through a selection of photographs, memorabilia, souvenirs, manuscripts, postcards, maps,... (read more) List Price $22.50 Your price $10.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Rich Cohen Publisher Comments A New York Times Notable Book Winner of the Great Lakes Book Award and the 21st Century Award from the Chicago Public Library Raised in an affluent suburb on the North Shore of Chicago, Rich Cohen had a cluster of interesting friends, but none more... (read more) List Price $23.00 Your price $6.40 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Adam Biro Publisher Comments "Somewhere between Isaac Bashevis Singer and Morey Amsterdam."--"Kirkus Reviews" Two Jews were on a train: "All Eastern European Jewish jokes start this way, or almost," says Adam Biro, who has assembled this rich volume of such stories, tales in which-... (read more) List Price $13.00 Your price $6.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Gershom Scholem Publisher Comments "A major contribution to our understanding of the Kabbalah." <BR>--Arthur Green, Professor of Jewish Thought, Brandeis University <BR>In the Zohar and other writings of the Kabbalah, Jewish mystics developed concepts and symbols to help them... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price $10.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
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