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by Stephen Mitchell  About the Author Stephen Mitchell attended Amherst, the University of Paris, and Yale. His many books include The Book of Job, Tao Te Ching, Parables and Portraits, The Gospel According to Jesus, A Book of Psalms, Ahead of All Parting: The Selected Poetry and Prose of... (read more)  List Price $20.00 Your price $4.50 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies 
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by Ewa Morawska Publisher Comments This captivating story of the Jewish community in Johnstown, Pennsylvania, reveals a pattern of adaptation to American life surprisingly different from that followed by Jewish immigrants to metropolitan areas. Although four-fifths of Jewish immigrants... (read more) List Price $77.50 Your price $12.50 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Peter Y Medding Publisher Comments This eighth volume of the annual publication of the Institute of Contemporary Jewry focuses on the history and development of American Jewish life since World War II.... (read more) List Price $60.00 Your price $15.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Marc D Angel Publisher Comments The world at large knows very little about the life and work of a rabbi: the responsibilities and obligations, the stresses and pressures, the conflicting demands for time, energy, and understanding, the public causes and private needs that demand... (read more) Your price $6.38 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Yaffa Elaich Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. 753-772) and index.... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price $8.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Manfred Gerstenfeld Publisher Comments Watershed events including the second Palestinian uprising in 2000, September 11, 2001 and the Iraq war have created important new challenges for American Jewry. The introductory essay and interviews with 17 prominent American Jews explore these. Major... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price $25.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by James David Dunn Synopsis In this deep and powerful book, the Kabbalah of Rabbi Isaac Luria (1534-1572) is translated from the original passages of Hebrew. These luminous and sacred passages reveal the most profound teachings of the understanding of God and of our universe... (read more) List Price $22.95 Your price $15.50 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Daniel C Matt Publisher Comments "Daniel Matt's The Essential Kabbalah justifies its title: text and commentary alike are accurate, precise, useful, and truly suggestive."--HAROLD Bloom, author of The Book of J and The Western Canon "Matt has opened the doors to the Kabbalah. Any reader... (read more) List Price $13.00 Your price $7.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Daniel Friedman Publisher Comments "It may fairly be said that religion plays virtually no part in the lives of most American Jews." So begins Daniel Friedman's provocative discussion of American Judaism. Friedman, a rabbi for almost forty years, has counseled thousands of Jews on the... (read more) List Price $20.00 Your price $10.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Catherine Fleming Publisher Comments ""Greece--a Jewish History" is a superb book, one in whose company I would include very few that I've read over the past five, maybe even ten, years. The story Fleming tells is an incredible--and moving--reading experience. The best comprehensive account... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price $27.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Fiona Rosenbloom Publisher Comments & nbsp; & nbsp; Stacy Friedman has just had the most awesome summer of her life. At camp, she and her best friend, Lydia, met a girl who trained them in all things cool, like how many black plastic jelly bracelets to wear and which teeth-whitening strips... (read more) List Price $15.99 Your price $9.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Andrew F Smith Publisher Comments Leo Cherne's life brimmed with paradox and improbability. He was born in the Bronx to a poor, immigrant, Jewish family, and yet rose to the heights of economic and political power in WASP America. A successful entrepreneur and an unofficial advisor to... (read more) List Price $26.50 Your price $4.75 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Judy Petsonk Publisher Comments "Chapter One "Jewish-Christian History: "A Legacy of Pain History forms an invisible backdrop to every life decision discussed in the pages of this book. You need to understand this history -- a history of virulent Christian persecution of Jews... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $4.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Amine Cumsky Weiss Publisher Comments A collection of unique experince which show the power and meaning of the Bat Mitzvah. Grandparents, parents, and children express their intimate experiences of this often life-changing event.... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Art Spiegelman Publisher Comments Acclaimed as a "quiet triumph"x and a "brutally moving work of art,"xx the first volume of Art Spiegelman's Maus introduced readers to Vladek Spiegelman, a Jewish survivor of Hitler's Europe, and his son, a cartoonist trying to come to terms with his... (read more) List Price $18.00 Your price $13.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Omer Bartov Publisher Comments War endlessly tries to mask itself. The myth of the heroic soldier testing his individual courage stands in stark contrast to the reality of mass, anonymous death and the suppression of individual actions. Murder in Our Midst shows that this fundamental... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price $24.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Victor Klemperer Publisher Comments Destined to take its place alongside The Diary of Anne Frank and Elie Wiesel's Night as one of the great classics of the Holocaust, I Will Bear Witness is a timeless work of literature, the most eloquent and acute testament to have emerged from Hitler's... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price $10.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Arthur Koestler Publisher Comments This book traces the history of the ancient Khazar Empire, a major but almost forgotten power in Eastern Europe, which in the Dark Ages converted to Judaism. Khazaria was finally wiped out by the forces of Ghengis Khan, but evidence indicates that the... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price $9.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Joseph Telushkin Publisher Comments In The Book of Jewish Values, Rabbi Joseph Telushkin has combed the Bible, the Talmud, and the whole spectrum of Judaism's sacred writings to give us a manual on how to lead a decent, kind, and honest life in a morally complicated world. Telushkin speaks... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price $15.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Moses Mendelssohn Publisher Comments A translation of the famous 18th-century German treatise with introduction and detailed commentary.... (read more) List Price $22.95 Your price $8.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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