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by Roger Bennett Publisher Comments The Music May Have Stopped, but the Party’s Never Over. Bar Mitzvah Disco. Everyone's Invited Pick up your table card and come be our guest on this journey back to a time when style, music, and lust went hand in hand with a Day-Glo necklace, a pair... (read more) List Price $23.95 Your price $16.50 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Ali Appleman Jurman Publisher Comments After losing her entire family to the Nazis at age 13, Alicia Appleman-Jurman went on to save the lives of thousands of Jews, offering them her own courage and hope in a time of upheaval and tragedy. Not since The Diary of Anne Frank has a young voice so... (read more) List Price $7.50 Your price $2.50 (Used - Mass Market) 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 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
by Lawrence Kushner Publisher Comments A leading scholar of Jewish spirituality and a Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright--study partners of long standing--offer a unique exploration of the meaning of the Bible in today's world.... (read more) List Price $21.00 Your price $11.20 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by George Konrad Publisher Comments Written over the last two decades, the essays in this collection speak to what it means to be Jewish-historically, theologically, ideologically, philosophically-within the context of the Holocaust and the disintegration of Communism. George Konrad, a... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price $9.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Kristina (edt) Swarner Publisher Comments All the color, vibrancy, and humor of Yiddish is captured in this delightfully illustrated treasury of over 100 folk sayings in both English and Yiddish. From the sublime (Man thinks and God laughs/A mentsh tracht un Got lacht) to the practical (When you... (read more) List Price $10.95 Your price $4.88 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Riv Ellen Prell Publisher Comments Why would an American ethnic group use racist terms, such as "JAP," "the Jewish prince', and the "ghetto girl," to describe itself? In her history of Jewish acculturation during the twentieth century, Riv-Ellen Press addresses this compelling question as... (read more) List Price $18.00 Your price $10.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Morrison Bial Publisher Comments Written in a lively style, the guidebook explores every aspect of Jewish living - the complete life cycle from birth through burial and mourning.... (read more) List Price $6.95 Your price $1.60 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Lawrence Hoffman Publisher Comments Discovering the Deep Spiritual Wisdom of the Jewish Tradition "Larry Hoffman is one of contemporary Judaism 's most perceptive and creative teachers." —Lawrence Kushner, author of Eyes Remade for Wonder Rabbi Lawrence A. Hoffman is widely... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price $7.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
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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 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 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 Susan Zuccotti Publisher Comments What did Pius XII do to aid Jews during World War II? This meticulously researched and balanced book examines efforts on behalf of Jews in Italy, the country where the pope was in a position to be most helpful. It finds that despite a persistent myth to... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price $9.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Nechama Tec Publisher Comments Few lives shed more light on the complex relationship between Jews and Christians during and after the Holocaust--or provide a more moving portrait of courage--than Oswald Rufeisen's. A Jew passing as a Christian in occupied Poland, Rufeisen worked as... (read more) List Price $29.00 Your price $5.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Danielle Dardashti Publisher Comments For families wanting to put a new spin on activities for Jewish holidays, holy days, and even the everyday -- The Jewish Family Fun Book is the complete sourcebook.<P>With over eighty-five easy-to-do activities to re-invigorate age-old Jewish... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price $11.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Allan Levine Publisher Comments From Seville in 1492 to Kiev in 1967, Allan Levine’s dazzling new history brings to life ten defining points in the Jewish Diaspora in a series of moment-in-time portraits of individual people, their families and communities, and the cities they... (read more) List Price $36.99 Your price $6.40 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Ron Chernow Publisher Comments Bankers, philanthropists, scholars, socialites, artists, and politicians, the Warburgs stood at the pinnacle of German (and, later, of German-American) Jewry. They forged economic dynasties, built mansions and estates, assembled libraries, endowed... (read more) List Price $18.00 Your price $9.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Samuel Heilman Publisher Comments In this first in-depth portrait of ultra-Orthodox Jews in Israel today, Samuel Heilman introduces a community that to many may seem to be the very embodiment of the Jewish past. To outsiders who stumble upon these neighborhoods and find bearded men in... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price $16.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Ezra Mendelsohn Publisher Comments This series is published yearly by the Institute of Contemporary Jewry at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. It is edited by Jonathan Frankel, Peter Medding, and Ezra Mendelsohn, all distinguished professors of history at The Hebrew University. Volume... (read more) List Price $111.00 Your price $10.80 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
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