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by Deborah Dwork Publisher Comments A magisterial, dramatic account that reshapes the way we think and talk about the greatest crime in history. Unrivaled in reach and scope, Holocaust illuminates the long march of events, from the Middle Ages to the modern era, which led to this great... (read more) List Price $27.95 Your price $14.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Continuum Publisher Comments This is a book of the key text of the Kabbalah, a work known as the Zohar ("Splendour"). The Zohar is a commentary on the Torah and although it is sometimes ascribed to a second-century rabbi, Simon Bar-Yochai, the form in which it is most widely known... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $3.50 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Esther Rudo Hautzig Publisher Comments This is a collection of 20 haunting true stories, each revealing the struggle for Jewish identity and the solace gained through faith. As a child, Esther Hautzig and her family were exiled to Siberia for being capitalists, thus inadvertently escaping the... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Howard Schwartz Publisher Comments With this collection, Howard Schwartz retells 36 Jewish fairy tales that are at once otherworldly and earthy, pious and playful. Drawn from sources as diverse as Morocco and India, Spain and Eastern Europe, Babylon and Egypt, the stories are... (read more) List Price $33.00 Your price $11.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
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 $7.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Ilil Arbel Publisher Comments Moses Maimonides' life reads like an adventure story. Personal tragedies, gained and lost fortunes, shipwrecks, all were part of his tumultuous tale, as well as sudden and bewildering fame as court physician to the Sultan Saladin and all his wives and... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price $7.75 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Daniel Matt Publisher Comments Written in a unique, lyrical Aramaic, this masterpiece of Kabbalah exceeds the dimensions of a normal book; it is virtually a body of literature, comprising over 20 discrete sections. The bulk of the "Zohar"consists of a running commentary on the Torah... (read more) List Price $49.95 Your price $27.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Raymond Rao Lambert Synopsis For years Raymond-Raoul Lambert's Diary has been among the most important untranslated records of the experience of French Jews in the Holocaust. Lambert's Diary survived the war and was published in France in 1985. Although written with the... (read more) List Price $27.50 Your price $19.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Karen Armstrong Publisher Comments As the foundation stone of the Jewish and Christian scriptures, the Book of Genesis unfolds some of the most arresting stories of world literature. In this book, Karen Armstrong brilliantly illuminates the mysteries and profundities of this mystifying... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price $7.75 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Brana Gurewitsch Book News Annotation Contains 25 interviews, most of which are from the Yaffa Aliach Collection, donated by the Center for Holocaust Studies to the Museum of Jewish Heritage, New York. The narratives include Eva Schonbrun's remembrances of her sister who refused to leave... (read more) List Price $22.95 Your price $18.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
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by Judah Rubinstein Publisher Comments Out of a small group of Jewish settlers that came to Cleveland in 1839 sprang the large, vibrant, and diverse Jewish community, numbering in excess of 81,500, that has contributed significantly to Cleveland's life. At the turn of the century, many... (read more) List Price $34.00 Your price $23.25 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Shalom Carmy Publisher Comments This collection of essays seeks to understand the tension between contemporary and traditional elements in the thought, practices, and life of Modern Orthodox Jewry. Together, they are a fascinating study of the balance that occurs between modernity and... (read more) List Price $40.00 Your price $32.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Ellen M Umansky Publisher Comments A magnificent collection of letters, poems, sermons, public addresses, blessings, prayers, rituals, diary excerpts, minutes of organizational meetings, and spiritual autobiographies written by Jewish women from 1560 to the present. Contributors include... (read more) List Price $24.00 Your price $5.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Rifat Sonsino Publisher Comments "This book offers a description and analysis of six classic Jewish views of death: the concept of death as nothingness; a belief in a descent to Sheol . . . where the dead are supposed to dwell; the concept of resurrection in an afterlife . . .; faith in... (read more) List Price $10.00 Your price $6.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Trudi Alexy Publisher Comments Acclaimed in the Progressive's "Best Reading of 1993," these thrilling and harrowing firsthand stories of survivors and their rescuers vividly reveal the secret history of the Jews who found asylum from Hitler's Final Solution under Franco's Fascist... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price $8.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Robert Rockaway Publisher Comments American Jewish leaders, many of German extraction, created the Industrial Removal Office (IRO) in 1901 in order to disperse unemployed Jewish immigrants from New York City to smaller Jewish communities throughout the United States. The IRO was designed... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price $4.18 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Dana Evan Kaplan Publisher Comments The only comprehensive and up-to-date look at Reform Judaism, this book analyzes the forces currently challenging the Reform movement, now the largest Jewish denomination in the United States. To distinguish itself from Orthodox and Conservative... (read more) List Price $22.95 Your price $12.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Shmuel Yosef Agnon Publisher Comments Known for his ability to evoke the rich imagery of the Bible and ancient Israel, Nobel Laureate S. Y. Agnon created a witty poem for each letter of the Hebrew alphabet. Imaginative illustrations and dual-language Hebrew-English text make Agnon's Alef Bet... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price $10.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Joseph Bendersky Publisher Comments Very little has been written about America's own history of anti-Semitism. In this shocking book, the first documented examination of anti-Semitism in an American governmental institution, Joseph Bendersky shows that such racism permeated the highest... (read more) List Price $22.00 Your price $5.60 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Jack Salzman Publisher Comments This book provides us with a means to challenge, and perhaps even to verify, our sense of the past--and in so doing to better understand the present. Fifteen critical essays by leading historians, scholars, and political and religious figures of this... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
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