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8641
HIRSHBERG, DAVID
JOHNSON, PAUL
A story told by a radio raconteur revisiting his past in post-World War II Boston, the playground and battleground for two brothers whose lives are transformed by discoveries they never could have imagined.
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1173
POTOK, CHAIM
SALO MINKIN
CONSIDERED AN UNUSUAL CHILD BY HIS TRADITIONAL HASIDIC FAMILY, ASHER LEV GROWS UP TO BECOME A TALENTED AND SUCCESSFUL ARTIST. THE BOOK DESCRIBES HIS PERSONAL AGONY AND THE CONFLICT BETWEEN HIS ART AND HIS RELIGION.
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2549
NISSENSON, HUGH
BARBARA FRIEDMAN
A NOVEL ABOUT IMMIGRANT LIFE ON NEW YORK'S LOWER EAST SIDE IN THE EARLY 1900S.
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8261
MY PARENTS WENT THROUGH THE HOLOCAUST AND ALL I GOT WAS THIS LOUSY SHIRT
A NEAR-LIFE EXPERIENCE
STADNER, S. HANALA
ELAINE WOLBROM
TORTURED BY A PAST FILLED WITH NAZIS AND THE PARENTS WHO FLED THEM, HANALA ESCAPED FROM MONTREAL, HEADED FOR HOLLYWOOD AND CHANGED HER NAME TO SOMETHING NOT JEWISH. SHE BECAME SUZAN STADNER, THE CREATOR AND STAR OF HER OWN TV SHOW. BUT NOT RIGHT AWAY. WHEN SHE FIRST ARRIVED, INSTEAD OF GETTING INTO ACTING, SHE GOT INTO DRUGS, ALCOHOL AND LIMOS WITH STRANGE MEN. AFTER SEVERAL OVERDOSES, SHE BECAME SOBER AND AN AEROBICS INSTRUCTOR.
THE NARRATOR AND DIRECTOR OF THIS RECORDING FOUND THIS BOOK BOTH MOVING AND INSPIRING.
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685
EBAN, ABBA
ESTELLE ADEN
EBAN PRESENTS A BROAD HISTORY, INTENDED TO EXPLAIN THE JEWISH PEOPLE TO A CONFUSED AND OFTEN UNCOMPREHENDING WORLD, BUT ALSO SUITABLE FOR KNOWLEDGEABLE JEWS. REMAKE OF AN EARLIER RECORDING. © 1968
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4431
ABBA EBAN'S HISTORY OF THE JEWS.
BAMBERGER, DAVID
ABBA EBAN'S HISTORY OF THE JEWS AS ADAPTED FOR A YOUNG AUDIENCE BY DAVID BRAMBERGER.
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8425
THE TRIUMPH AND TRAGEDY OF ISRAEL
SHAVIT, ARI
TIM ZAGIN
AN AUTHORITATIVE AND DEEPLY PERSONAL NARRATIVE HISTORY OF THE STATE OF ISRAEL, BY ONE OF THE MOST INFLUENTIAL JOURNALISTS WRITING ABOUT THE MIDDLE EAST TODAY
EN4
7603
A NOVEL ABOUT LIFE IN A TWENTIETH CENTURY JEWISH-AMERICAN VILLAGE
RAND, ROBERT
ROSSI, MARGARET
THE STORY OF AN IMMIGRANT COMMUNITY TRYING TO DEAL WITH THE SAME CULTURAL ISSUES AND MORAL CHOICES FACED BY PREVIOUS AND SUBSEQUENT NEWCOMERS. PERCEIVED AS DIFFERENT, SKOKIE'S JEWS AND THEIR OFFSPRING STRUGGLE TO UNDERSTAND-AND FIT INTO- THE POLITICAL, RACIAL, AND CULTURAL STEW THAT IS THE UNITED STATES.© 2001
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8008
THE LIFE OF LILLI JAHN, 1900-1944
DOERRY, MARTIN, ED.
JAN BURRELL
LILLI HAD FIVE CHILDREN AND A MEDICAL PRACTICE WITH HER NON-JEWISH HUSBAND UNTIL THE NAZIS PRESSURED HIM INTO DIVORCING HER. LATER, SHE WAS DEPORTED TO THE CAMPS, BUT CONTINUED HER LIFELONG HABIT OF WRITING TO HER LOVED ONES. HER STORY IS PRESERVED IN MORE THAN 300 LETTERS AND DOCUMENTS AND EDITED BY HER GRANDSON. TRANSLATED FROM GERMAN ("MEIN VERWUNDETES HERZ," 2002) BY JOHN BROWNJOHN © 2004
EN4
1769
RUBINSTEIN, ARTHUR
GEN PHILLIPS
THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF THE PROMINENT MUSICIAN. COVERS HIS YOUTH, HIS FORMATIVE YEARS, AND THE MUSIC OF PRE-WORLD WAR I EUROPE.
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7165
AN ANTHOLOGY OF JEWISH MYSTERY AND DETECTIVE FICTION
RAPHAEL, LAWRENCE W., ED.
RAMU DAMODAR
EACH OF THE THIRTEEN ORIGINAL MYSTERY STORIES IN THIS COLLECTION INVOLVE JEWISH CHARACTERS AND SUBJECTS, FROM A CORPORATE GIANT WHO KIDNAPS A RABBI, TO A MISSING CLARINETIST IN A KLEZMER BAND, TO FOUR RABBIS WHO USE TEXT INTERPRETATION SKILLS TO HELP A DETECTIVE SOLVE A MURDER THAT ONE OF THEM HAS COMMITTED. AUTHORS INCLUDE MICHAEL KAHN, STUART KAMINSKY, FAYE KELLERMAN, AND BATYA YASGUR. © 1999
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5396
AN INTRODUCTION TO JEWISH MYSTICISM
ARIEL, DAVID S.
DR. IRVING KRAMER
A COMPREHENSIVE HISTORY OF JEWISH MYSTICISM GEARED TO THE LAY READER.
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8049
MYSTICS, MAVERICKS, AND MERRYMAKERS
AN INTIMATE JOURNEY AMONG HASIDIC GIRLS
LEVINE, STEPHANIE WELLEN
JESSIA LEONARD
DR. LEVINE SPENT A YEAR AMONG THE CHABAD-LUBAVITCH HASIDIM OF CROWN HEIGHTS, BROOKLYN, TO EXPLORE HOW YOUNG WOMEN DEAL WITH THE CONFLICTS BETWEEN THE RULES OF THEIR COMMUNITY AND THE PULL OF MAINSTREAM AMERICAN LIFE. CONTRARY TO STEREOTYPE, SHE FOUND GIRLS WITH MORE CONFIDENCE THAN MANY OF THEIR MAINSTREAM PEERS. SHE EXPLORES WHY THIS MIGHT BE, AND WHAT LESSONS MIGHT BE LEARNED ABOUT PROMOTING GIRLS' POSITIVE DEVELOPMENT IN GENERAL. FOREWORD BY CAROL GILLIGAN © 2003
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8021
AND OTHER STORIES
BEZMOZGIS, DAVID
ELIZABETH LONDON
SEVEN SHORT STORIES CONTINUE THE SAGA OF THE BERMAN FAMILY - BELLA, ROMAN, AND THEIR TEENAGED SON MARK - RUSSIAN JEWS , LIKE THE AUTHOR, FLED BREZHNEV'S RIGA FOR TORONTO. FIRST INTRODUCED IN MAGAZINES LIKE THE NEW YORKER, BEZMOZGIS' DEPICTION OF THE FAMILY'S IMMIGRANT EXPERIENCES HAS BEEN COMPARED TO THE EARLY WORK OF BERNARD MALAMUD AND PHILIP ROTH. © 2004
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7785
THE GOLDHAGEN THESIS AND HISTORICAL TRUTH
FINKELSTEIN, NORMAN G.; BIRN, RUTH
JANICE TOWERS
THE AUTHORS DISPUTE THE HYPOTHESIS OF DANIEL GOLDHAGEN (IN "HITLER'S WILLING EXECUTIONERS," 1996) THAT, RATHER THAN AN ABERRANT ANOMALY PERPETRATED BY NAZI ARCH VILLAINS, THE HOLOCAUST WAS AN ATROCITY IN WHICH ORDINARY GERMANS AT ALL LEVELS OF SOCIETY, MOTIVATED BY UNDERLYING ANTI-SEMITIC CULTURAL ASSUMPTIONS, WILLINGLY TOOK PART. GOLDHAGEN IS ACCUSED OF USING FAULTY SCHOLARSHIP AND PROPAGANDA TO PUT THE ENTIRE GERMAN NATION ON TRIAL, ALTHOUGH HE "EXPLICITLY REJECTS COLLECTIVE GUILT."© 1998
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6710
PHILLIPS, CARYL
SANDRA CAREY
PHILLIPS DEVIATES FROM HIS USUAL THEMES OF HOMELESSNESS AND RACISM TO DEAL WITH AN UNEXPECTED SUBJECT - THE HOLOCAUST. EVA'S ACCOUNT OF HER HOLOCAUST EXPERIENCES IS INTERCUT WITH TWO WILDLY DISCONTINUOUS NARRATIVES: A RETELLING OF OTHELLO AND AN ACCOUNT OF THE 15TH-CENTURY PERSECUTION OF THE JEWS OF THE ITALIAN CITY PORTOBUFFOLE. © 1997
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1256
ASCH, SHOLEM
BEATRICE LEVY
A NOVEL BASED ON THE LIFE OF JESUS, DESCRIBING THE CUSTOMS AND THE RELIGIOUS IDEAS OF THE TIME.
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4962
KLAUS BARBIE AND THE INTERNATIONAL
ASCHERSON, NEAL, I. HILTON & M. LINK
MEL DAVIS
WRITTEN BY A TEAM OF BRITISH JOURNALISTS THE BOOK TRACES THE LIFE AND CAREER OF KLAUS BARBIE AND DISCUSSES HIS EFFORTS TO TRANSPLANT FASCISM TO SOUTH AMERICA.
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7126
HOW ONE JEWISH WOMAN SURVIVED THE HOLOCAUST
BEER, EDITH HAHN; DWORKIN, SUSAN
ARLINE KEMPNER
EDITH HAHN WAS A YOUNG WOMAN STUDYING LAW IN VIENNA WHEN THE GESTAPO FORCED HER AND HER MOTHER INTO A GHETTO. EDITH WAS TAKEN AWAY TO A LABOR CAMP, AND, WHEN SHE RETURNED HOME MONTHS LATER, SHE FOUND HER MOTHER HAD BEEN DEPORTED. KNOWING SHE WOULD BECOME A HUNTED WOMAN, EDITH WENT UNDERGROUND. USING A CHRISTIAN FRIEND'S IDENTITY PAPERS, SHE FLED TO MUNICH WHERE SHE MET WERNER VETTER, A NAZI PARTY MEMBER WHO FELL IN LOVE WITH HER. DESPITE HER PROTESTS AND EVEN HER EVENTUAL CONFESSION THAT SHE WAS JEWISH, HE MARRIED HER AND KEPT HER IDENTITY A SECRET. DESPITE THE RISK IT POSED TO HER LIFE, EDITH CREATED A REMARKABLE RECORD OF SURVIVAL WHICH IS NOW PART OF THE PERMANENT COLLECTION AT THE HOLOCAUST MUSEUM IN WASHINGTON, D.C. © 1999
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8570
NAZIS, ISLAMISTS, AND THE MAKING OF THE MODERN MIDDLE EAST
RUBIN, BARRY; SCHWANITZ, WOLFGANG
PAUL SPERRY
DURING THE 1930S AND 1940S, A UNIQUE POLITICAL ALLIANCE WAS FORGED AMONG THIRD REICH LEADERS, ARAB NATIONALISTS, AND MUSLIM RELIGIOUS AUTHORITIES. THE AUTHORS UNCOVER THE COMPLETE STORY OF THIS DANGEROUS ALLIANCE AND EXPLORE ITS CONTINUING IMPACT ON ARAB POLITICS IN THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY.
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3337
THE IRISH, GERMANS, JEWS AND ITALIANS
BAYOR, RONALD
ZELDA PANZIRER
THE TENSE RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN THE IRISH, GERMANS, JEWS AND ITALIANS IN NEW YORK CITY DURING THE DEPRESSION ARE ANALYZED IN TERMS OF SOCIAL AND POLITICAL CAUSES.
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8445
BURSTEIN, DROR
MARCEL SISLOWITZ
A FASCINATING BLEND OF REMINISCENCE, FICTION, AND AMATEUR SCIENCE, SEEKING TO CONVEY NOT ONLY A PERSONAL STORY BUT THE BIG PICTURE IN WHICH THE SAGA OF LIFE ON EARTH HAVE THE SAME STATUS AS ANECDOTES ABOUT ONE'S AUNTS AND UNCLES.
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8520
NEVO, ESHKOL
NIKKI JAMES
AROMANTIC ADVENTURE, A SEARCH FOR A FATHER THAT LEADS TO LOVE, AND A QUEST FOR AN UNDERSTANDING OF IDENTITY AND FOR SECOND CHANCES. IS IT EVER POSSIBLE TO START AGAIN?
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1740
KAHANE, MEIR
BILLIE FLAMM & ESTHER WERNER
THE LEADER OF THE ACTIVIST GROUP, THE JEWISH DEFENSE LEAGUE, DISCUSSES HIS PHILOSOPHY OF JEWISH DEFENSE IN LIGHT OF THE MASS DESTRUCTION OF EUROPEAN JEWS.
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8359
ROTH, MATTHUE
AVERSA, AMY
TEENAGED HAVA IS A SELF-CONSCIOUSLY OBSERVANT JEWISH BROOKLYNITE WITH UNORTHODOX TENDENCIES; SHE HAS SPIKED HAIR AND LOVES PUNK CULTURE, AND HER BEST FRIENDS ARE IAN, GAY AND NON-JEWISH, AND MOISHE, A COUNTERCULTURAL ORTHODOX FILMMAKER. WHEN SHE IS OFFERED A LEAD ROLE IN A HOLLYWOOD SITCOM ABOUT A JEWISH FAMILY, SHE IS THRUST INTO A WORLD OF MAKE-BELIEVE AND PRETENSE, AND SPENDS THE SUMMER TRYING TO SORT OUT WHAT IS REAL AND WHAT ISN'T AND WHAT HER RELIGION MEANS TO HER.
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7807
KAHN, SHARON
SHARON SPENSER
IN THIS SECOND BOOK ABOUT RUBY ROTHMAN, A RABBI'S WIDOW IN ETERNAL, TEXAS, RUBY IS INVOLVED IN A MATZO BALL SALE HELD AT THE NEW GYM TO BENEFIT THE TEMPLE. THEN A FITNESS TRAINER IS FOUND MURDERED, ONE OF THE MATZO BALLS IN HIS POCKET, AND RUBY HELPS INVESTIGATE.© 2000
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8448
ZANDMAN, FELIX
DAN PARILIS
AT THE AGE OF 16, ZANDMAN SPENT 17 MONTHS HIDING FROM THE NAZIS UNDER THE FLOORBOARDS OF THE HOUSE OF A POLISH PEASANT FAMILY. IN THIS MOVING AUTOBIOGRAPHY, ZANDMAN, WHO BECAME A SUCCESSFUL SCIENTIST AND INVENTOR, DESCRIBES HIS JOURNEY.
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8648
HOW JEWS PRACTICE THEIR RELIGION TODAY
WERTHEIMER, JACK
SCHREIBER, STEVE & JOHNSON, PAUL
Taking a fresh look at American Judaism today, Jack Wertheimer, a leading authority on the subject, sets out to discover how Jews of various orientations practice their religion in today's radically altered landscape.
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6003
MOSCO, MAISIE
NINA MENDE
ABRAHAM PATRICK, GRANDSON OF THE JEWISH FAMILY MATRIARCH, MARIANNE, AND THE SON OF A CATHOLIC WOMAN, HAS BEGUN TO QUESTION HIS PRIVILEGED LIFE AND TO SEARCH FOR HIS OWN HERITAGE. MEANWHILE, HIS THREE COUSINS WRESTLE WITH THEIR DESTINIES AS THEY SEARCH FOR THEIR PARENTS' KILLERS.
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4634
EBAN, ABBA
ELIZABETH KAUFMAN
EBAN AGAIN BRINGS HIS WEALTH OF PRACTICAL EXPERIENCE TO THE SUBJECT OF DIPLOMACY AND INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS IN A MODERN AGE.
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5474
DAYAN, YAEL
ADELINE MAIRMONT
THE STORY OF AN ISRAELI COLONEL'S DAUGHTER WHO REBELS AGAINST HER MILITARY TRAINING BUT MATURES BECAUSE OF THE EXPERIENCE.
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6844
NAMES, CEREMONIES, CUSTOMS: A GUIDE FOR TODAY'S FAMILIES
DIAMANT, ANITA
BOB MESARD
DIAMANT'S PIONEERING THE JEWISH BABY BOOK (1988) WAS A HIGHLY PRACTICAL GUIDE FOR LIBERAL JEWISH PARENTS-TO-BE AND NEW PARENTS. SHE HAS NOW REVISED AND EXPANDED THAT EXCELLENT BOOK TO INCLUDE TO COPY FOR CEREMONIES, A SPECIAL SECTION FOR INTERFAITH FAMILIES, AND NEW CEREMONIES FOR GIRLS. © 1994
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5246
BERKOWITZ, GILA
CYNTHIA BLASENSTEIN & BEVERLY FRIEDLER
RECIPES FOR JEWISH DISHES THAT EMPHASIZE HEALTHFUL INGREDIENTS. INCLUDES SECTIONS ON VEGETARIAN, HOLIDAY, AND ISRAELI FOODS.
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7979
A CONGREGATION SEARCHES FOR ITS LEADER
FRIED, STEPHEN
HIRLEY SOMMER
FRIED WROTE THIS COMBINATION MEMOIR AND INVESTIGATIVE REPORT AFTER HIS FATHER DIED AND HE BEGAN SAYING KADDISH AT HAR ZION, A POPULAR CONSERVATIVE SYNAGOGUE IN PHILADELPHIA. THERE HE RECONNECTED WITH HIS CHILDHOOD RABBI, THE RENOWNED GERALD WOLPE, WHO HAD JUST ANNOUNCED HIS RETIREMENT. OVER THE NEXT THREE YEARS, THE TWO MEN SHARED THEIR THOUGHTS ON LOSING THEIR FATHERS, AND FRIED DOCUMENTED THE CONTENTIOUS SEARCH FOR WOLPE'S REPLACEMENT. © 2002
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446
A REPORT WITH DOCUMENTS
JACOBS, PAUL; LANDAU, SAUL
SYLVIA MOGELOF
A COLLECTION OF WRITINGS BY AND ABOUT THE STUDENT LEFT. AS ALWAYS, YOUNG JEWS MAKE UP A STRONG SEGMENT OF OUR RADICAL YOUTH. © 1966
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2683
NEW WORLD FOR SIMON ASHKENAZY
MARKISH, DAVID
ELAINE ROTHENBERG
A NOVEL ABOUT A FIFTEEN-YEAR OLD BOY WHO IS EXILED TO SIBERIA.
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8472
ORIA, SHELLY
LINA LANSKY
TRYING TO FIGURE OUT WHAT AN ISRAELI IS, WHO AN ISRAELI IS IN AMERICA, THE OBSERVANT SHELLY ORIA TAKES US TO BROOKLYN AND MANHATTAN, TEL AVIV AND JERUSALEM. THESE ARE STORIES OF BUSTED LOVE, TENTATIVE LUST, AND INTERNATIONAL IDENTITY.
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6906
NEW YORK JEWS AND THE GREAT DEPRESSION
UNCERTAIN PROMISE
WENGER, BETH S.
JUDY TESSER
WENGER, A JEWISH HISTORY PROFESSOR, OFFERS A HISTORY IN WHICH THE DEPRESSION BECAME THE CATALYST THAT TRANSFORMED THE JEWISH IMMIGRANT INTO THE AMERICAN JEW. CHALLENGED BY ANTI-SEMITISM AND VARIOUS QUOTAS, NEW YORK JEWS DREW UPON A TRADITION OF PRIVATE PHILANTHROPY AND COMMUNAL RESPONSIBILITY TO ESTABLISH NETWORKS FOR ASSISTANCE.
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7468
NEW YORK TIMES PASSOVER COOKBOOK
MORE THAN 200 HOLIDAY RECIPES FROM TOP CHEFS AND WRITERS
AMSTER, LINDA
SANDI SKODNIK
AT LAST, FROM THE PAPER OF CULINARY RECORD, COMES A TREASURE TROVE OF MORE THAN 200 RECIPES THAT CELEBRATE THE DELICIOUS FESTIVITY OF THE PASSOVER TABLE. COMPILED FROM TIMES ARTICLES AND AUTHORS SPANNING ALOMOST FIFTY YEARS, THE NEW YORK TIMES PASSOVER COOKBOOK REPRESENTS JEWISH CUISINE FROM ALL OVER THE WORLD.
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8529
NEW YORK'S YIDDISH THEATRE
FROM THE BOWERY TO BROADWAY
HANSON, EDNA
STEVE SCHREIBER
IN THE EARLY DECADES OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY, A VIBRANT THEATRICAL CULTURE TOOK SHAPE ON NEW YORK CITY'S LOWER EAST SIDE.THIS BOOK RECOUNTS THE HEYDAY OF "YIDDISH BROADWAY" AND ITS VITAL CONTRIBUTION TO AMERICAN JEWISH LIFE AND CROSSOVER TO THE BROADER AMERICAN CULTURE.
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8343
TALBOT, TOBY
ELLEN DAVID
TOBY TALBOT HAS RECORDED AND RESURRECTED AN EXCITING PERIOD IN THE CULTURAL HISTORY OF NEW YORK CITY AND THE WORLD'S CINEMA.
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8283
NEWS FROM THE NEW AMERICAN DIASPORA AND OTHER TALES OF EXILE
NEUGEBOREN, JAY
SANDI SKODNICK
FROM UKRAINE TO BROOKLYN AND FROM BROOKLYN TO WESTERN MASSACHUSETTS AND FLORIDA, WANDERING JEWS STRAY FAR FROM THEIR GEOGRAPHICAL, CULTURAL AND SPIRITUAL HOMES. THE CHARACTERS EXHIBIT COMPLEX SYMPTOMS OF THEIR DISPLACEMENT, SELF-IMPOSED OR OTHERWISE, IN THESE TALES ABOUT MEMORY AND DISLOCATION, MANY OF WHICH ARE FRAMED AS REMINISCENCES.
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7855
NEXT YEAR I WILL KNOW MORE
LITERACY AND IDENTITY AMONG YOUNG ORTHODOX WOMEN IN ISRAEL
EL-OR, TAMAR
HYLA MELNICK
FOR CENTURIES, JEWISH LITERACY EDUCATION WAS RESERVED FOR MALES. NOW PROFESSOR EL-OR, AN ISRAELI ANTHROPOLOGIST, EXPLORES THE SPREADING PRACTICE OF INTENSIVE JUDAIC STUDIES AMONG WOMEN IN THE RELIGIOUS ZIONIST COMMUNITY. SHE PREDICTS THAT THIS TREND WILL LEAD TO CHANGES IN JEWISH THEOLOGY AND LAW AS THE COMMUNITY BECOMES MORE FEMINIST—AND EVEN MORE RELIGIOUS. TRANSLATED FROM HEBREW BY HAIM WATZMAN. © 2002
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1924
WIESEL, ELIE
AN AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL NOVEL IN WHICH THE AUTHOR RECOUNTS HIS CHILDHOOD EXPERIENCE IN NAZI DEATH CAMPS AND HIS LOSS OF FAITH IN GOD.
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5866
NIGHT OF THE BROKEN GLASS
BRONER, PETER
MELVIN DAVIS
A NOVEL THAT CONTRASTS THE INTERTWINED DESTINIES OF THREE GERMANS WHO GRAPPLE WITH THE NAZI MENACE IN RADICALLY DIFFERENT WAYS.
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4879
HIGGINS, JACK
DAN GORDON & GERTRUDE ROSENBERG
THE PROTAGONIST, HARRY MARTINEAU, IS A BRILLIANT AMERICAN PHILOSOPHER TURNED KILLER FOR HIS COUNTRY DURING WORLD WAR II.
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433
ARNOLD, ELLIOTT
MARCIA FELTHEIMER
AN EPIC NOVEL OF THE HEROIC DEFIANCE BY DENMARK WHICH RESCUED THE DANISH JEWS FROM THE NAZI CREMATORIA. © 1967
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4506
FRANCIS, CLARE
MILDRED FRIDUSS, ADA GROSS, RICA ZWEIBEL
THIS NOVEL FOLLOWS THREE PEOPLE, ONE CARRYING SECRETS TO ENGLAND, TRYING TO ESCAPE FROM FRANCE DURING WORLD WAR II.
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4681
ALEICHEM, SHOLOM
YOSELE THE CANTOR IS ENTICED INTO MARRYING THE SOPHISTICATED PERELE AND LEAVES HIS FIRST LOVE ESTHER. TOO LATE, HE REGRETS HIS CHOICE AND, HEARTBROKEN, HE LOSES HIS 'GOLDEN' VOICE.
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4442
NIGHTMARE YEARS 1930-1940
20TH CENTURY JOURNEY, VOL. II
SHIRER, WILLIAM L.
SHEILA CHAETS
A JOURNALIST, WHO BEGAN HIS CAREER AS AN AMERICAN OVERSEAS RADIO CORRESPONDENT, GIVES A FIRST-HAND ACCOUNT OF THE EARLY DAYS OF THE NAZI RISE TO POWER AND THE EVENTS THAT LED TO THE HOLOCAUST.
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7558
UNCOVERING THE HIDDEN PATTERN OF CRIME & PUNISHMENT
FREEDMAN, DAVID NOEL
MARGARET ROSSI
DAVID NOEL FREEDMAN DELVES INTO THE OLD TESTAMENT AND REVEALS A PATTERN OF DEFIANCE OF THE COVENANT OF GOD THAT INEXORABLY LED TO THE DOWNFALL OF THE NATION OF ISRAEL, THE DESTRUCTION OF THE TEMPLE, AND THE BANISHMENT OF SURVIVORS FROM THE PROMISED LAND. FREEDMAN CHARTS THE VIOLATION OF THE FIRST NINE COMMANDMETNS ONE BY ONE AND SHOWS THAT BECAUSE COVETOUSNESS LIES BEHIND ALL THE CRIMES COMMITTED, EACH ACT IMPLICTLY BREAKS THE TENTH COMMANDMENT AS WELL.© 2000
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8562
NINE FOLDS MAKE A PAPER SWAN
GILLIGAN, RUTH
NIKKI JAMES
THE UNKNOWN STORY OF THE JEWS IN IRELAND. A HEARTBREAKING PORTRAIT OF WHAT IT MEANS TO BELONG, AND HOW STORYTELLING CAN REDEEM US ALL.
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3772
NINE QUESTIONS PEOPLE ASK ABOUT JUDAISM
PRAGER, DENNIS & JOSEPH TELUSHKIN
THIS BOOK DEALS WITH THE BASIC QUESTIONS THAT PERPLEX JEWS ALL OVER THE WORLD AND ALSO EXPLAINS THE FUNDAMENTAL CHARACTERISTICS OF THE JEWISH HERITAGE. JUDAISM EMERGES AS A RATIONAL MORAL ALTERNATIVE FOR CONTEMPORARY MAN.
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7268
MONOLOGUES AND BITS AND BOBS OF OTHER THINGS
ALEICHEM, SHOLOM
SHIRLEY KALB
IN THESE MONOLOGUES WRITTEN BETWEEN 1901 AND 1916, FIVE WOMEN AND SEVEN MEN TELL THEIR OWN TALES. THEY ARE RICH AND POOR, EDUCATED AND IGNORANT. THE IMPLIED LISTENERS - A RABBI, A DOCTOR, OR THE AUTHOR HIMSELF - SAY VIRTUALLY NOTHING.THESE NARRATIVES PROVIDE A UNIQUE PORTRAYAL OF EASTERN EUROPEAN JEWISH SOCIETY AND THEY GO A LONG WAY TOWARD DEMYSTIFYING THE SHTETL, WHICH HAS TOO OFTEN BEEN THE OBJECT OF UNDUE NOSTALGIA. © 1998
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2218
NINETY MINUTES AT ENTEBBE
STEVENSON, WILLIAM
BETTY BERNBACH
THE STORY OF THE RAID ON THE AIRPORT IN UGANDA BY ISRAELI COMMANDOS ON JULY 4, 1976, IN ORDER TO RESCUE THE 103 HOSTAGES HELD BY ARAB TERRORISTS.
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3416
ROOTH, ANNE REED & JAMES P. WHITE
BLANCHE SANTO
STEPHEN ROWE, WHO INHERITS GOLD FROM HIS GERMAN FATHER AND GOES TO ZURICH TO COLLECT, IS THREATENED BY AGENTS OF ODESSA, THE NAZI UNDERGROUND. HE TURNS TO ISRAELI INTELLIGENCE FOR HELP.
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8435
THE BRIEF, REMARKABLE LIFE OF DANNY LEWIN, THE GENIUS WHO TRANSFORMED THE INTERNET
RASKIN, MOLLY KNIGHT
NIKKI JAMES
A STORY OF A YOUNG MATHEMATICAL GENIUS WHO WROTE A SET OF ALGORITHMS THAT WOULD CREATE A FASTER INTERNET. DANNY LEWIN’S BRILLIANT BUT BRIEF LIFE IS LARGELY UNKNOWN BECAUSE, UNTIL NOW, THOSE CLOSEST TO HIM HAVE GUARDED THEIR MEMORIES AND QUIETLY MOURNED THEIR LOSS. LEWIN WAS STABBED TO DEATH AT AGE 31 WHILE TRYING TO OVERPOWER THE TERRORISTS WHO WOULD EVENTUALLY FLY AMERICAN FLIGHT 11 INTO THE WORLD TRADE CENTER.
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205
AYALTI, HANAN J.
TRANSLATED FROM YIDDISH. AUTHOR FROM POLAND. A POIGNANT STORY OF A LOVE AFFAIR BETWEEN A JEWISH MAN AND AN IRISH GIRL IN THE 1940'S.
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6144
ELLIS, JULIE
MARION HARRIS
KATIE FREEMAN IS DETERMINED TO FULFILL HER DREAMS OF A BETTER LIFE WITH HER CHILDHOOD SWEETHEART HARRY NEWHOUSE. THEY MOVE TO TEXAS DESPITE THE EVER-PRESENT THREAT OF ANTI-SEMITISM AND SUCCEED UNTIL AN UNEXPECTED TRAGEDY THREATENS TO DESTROY THEIR MARRIAGE.
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2135
NO HAVEN FOR THE OPPRESSED
U.S. POLICY TOWARD JEWISH REFUGEES 1938-1945
FRIEDMAN, SAUL
LUCILLE KAHN
U.S. POLICY TOWARD JEWISH REFUGEES FRO 1938-1945.
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8395
MAKING JEWISH HUMOR (LIBRARY OF JEWISH IDEAS)
WISSE, RUTH R.
DIANE LIPMAN
WISSE BROADLY TRACES MODERN JEWISH HUMOR AROUND THE WORLD, TEASING OUT ITS IMPLICATIONS AS SHE EXPLORES MEMORABLE AND TELLING EXAMPLES FROM GERMAN, YIDDISH, ENGLISH, RUSSIAN, AND HEBREW.
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5970
THE MAKING OF THE ISRAELI AIR FORCE
YONAY, EHUD
NOAH WATERMAN
THROUGH A SERIES OF ANECDOTES, YONAY TELLS THE STORY OF THE ISRAELI AIR FORCE FROM ITS BIRTH IN 1948 TO ITS DRAMATIC RAID ON IRAQ'S OSIRAK NUCLEAR REACTOR IN 1981.
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8523
THE DEATH-DEFYING MISSIONS OF THE ISRAELI SPECIAL FORCES
BAR-ZOHAR, MICHAEL; MISHAL, NISSIM
POLLY ADAMS
THE AUTHORS DEPICT IN ELECTRIFYING DETAIL MAJOR BATTLES, RAIDS IN ENEMY TERRITORY, AND THE DEATH- DEFYING COMMANDO MISSIONS OF THE ISRAELI SPECIAL FORCES.
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8355
NO ONE IS HERE EXCEPT ALL OF US
AUSUBEL, RAMONA
KLEIMAN, ROXANNE
IT IS THE LATTER YEARS OF WWII AND A SMALL GROUP OF JEWISH VILLAGERS IN ROMANIA DECIDE THAT THEY'RE TIRED OF RUNNING AWAY FROM THE DESTRUCTION AROUND THEM. THEY DECIDE TO REINVENT HISTORY AND BEGIN THEIR WORLD OVER AGAIN FROM DAY ONE. HUSBANDS AND CHILDREN ARE REASSIGNED HOMES AND STORIES ARE INVENTED TO EXPLAIN THEIR PLACES IN THE WORLD.
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7307
A CHILD OF WAR
LOBEL, ANITA
ALYCE DOMENITZ
ANITA LOBEL WAS BARELY FIVE YEARS OLD WHEN THE NAZIS BURST INTO HER KRAKOW, POLAND HOME, CHANGING HER LIFE FOREVER. SHE WENT INTO HIDING WITH HER BROTHER AND NANNY UNTIL THE NAZIS CAUGHT UP WITH HER; SHE WAS IMPRISONED IN CONCENTRATION CAMPS UNTIL THE END OF THE WAR. SENT BY THE RED CROSS TO RECUPERATE IN SWEDEN, ANITA SLOWLY BLOSSOMED AS SHE DISCOVERED BOOKS, LANGUAGE, AND ART. SINCE COMING TO THE UNITED STATES AS A TEENAGER, ANITA LOBEL HAS BEEN A PAINTER, A FABRIC DESIGNER AND AN ILLUSTRATOR OF CHILDREN'S BOOKS. © 1998
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2067
FOURCADE, MARIE-MADELEINE
LILLIAN SPIEGLER
THE STORY OF THE ALLIANCE NETWORK OF THE FRENCH RESISTANCE WHICH WAS NICKNAMED 'NOAH'S ARK' BY THE GESTAPO BECAUSE ITS MEMBERS USED THE NAMES OF BIRDS AND ANIMALS AS PSEUDONYMS. THE AUTHOR, WHO WAS 29 YEARS OLD IN 1941, DESCRIBES HOW SHE LED THE RESISTANCE MOVEMENT, EVADED THE POLICE, AND SUPERVISED THE GROUP'S ACTIVITIES.
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6233
THE LIVES OF DANNY KAYE
GOTTFRIED, MARTIN
SMALL, HARRY
THE LIFE OF THE COMEDIAN WHO WAS BORN DAVID DANIEL KAMINSKI IN BROOKLYN IN 1913. KAYE DESCRIBES HOW HE GOT HIS START IN SUMMER VAUDEVILLE AND ULTIMATELY MADE IT TO HOLLYWOOD AND BROADWAY. HE GIVES CREDIT TO HIS WIFE, SYLVIA, WHO WROTE HIS SONGS AND DEVISED THE COMIC BUSINESS THAT LAUNCHED HIS CAREER. KAYE DIED IN 1987.© 1994
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566
NON-JEWISH JEW AND OTHER ESSAYS
DEUTSCHER, ISAAC
ADELINE TOPKIS
A STUDY EXPLORING THE LIFE OF THE MODERN JEW. THE BOOK ALSO DISCUSSES THE HERITAGE OF EUROPEAN JEWRY, RUSSIAN AND POLISH JEWS, AND WELL-KNOWN SECULAR JEWS SUCH AS SPINOZA, MARX, AND FREUD. © 1968
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4164
ABELLA, IRVING; TROPER, HAROLD
THE STORY OF CANADA AND JEWISH IMMIGRATION DURING THE HOLOCAUST. USUALLY CONSIDERED TOLERANT AND UNBIGOTED, CANADA, THEN UNDER POPULATED, ADMITTED LESS THAN 5,000 JEWS BETWEEN 1933-1945, THE LEAST OF ANY WESTERN NATION.
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7411
POWELL, JOHN S.
T. SHERMAN
ON OCTOBER 16, 1999, FOVE THERMONUCLEAR WARHEADS ARE SMUGGLED ONTO THE COAST OF NORTH CAROLINA BY A TRANSNATIONAL CARTEL OF CHECHEN MAFIYA, MILITANT ISLAMICS AND A MYSTERIOUS STATE SPONSOR. COAXED OUT OF EARLY RETIREMENT, FRIAR CLARKE, AN EX-CIA LEGEND SCHOOLED IN THE TREACHEROUS ART OF COUNTER-TERRORISM, JOINS FORCES WITH NEST, A HIGH TECH GOVERNMENT SWAT TEAM AS WELL AS THE FBI AND THE ISRAELI MOSSAD TO TRACK DOWN THE ELUSIVE WARHEADS.
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6451
HOW A CANTOR AND HIS FAMILY TRANSFORMED A KLANSMAN
WATTERSON, KATHRYN
JANET KALISH
LARRY TRAPP, GRAND DRAGON OF THE KU KLUX KLAN IN NEBRASKA, HARASSED JEWS, ASIANS, AND AFRICAN AMERICANS. BUT ONE OF HIS TARGETS, CANTOR MICHAEL EISSER, MANAGED TO TURN TRAPP AROUND. TRAPP BECAME A CONVERT TO JUDAISM, LECTURED AGAINST HIS FORMER CAUSES, AND LIVED WITH THE WEISSERS UNTIL HIS DEATH.© 1995
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8632
CONFRONTING RELIGIOUS VIOLENCE
SACKS, RABBI JONATHAN
LYNN KARPO-LANTZ
IN THIS POWERFUL BOOK, ONE OF THE MOST ADMIRED AND AUTHORITATIVE RELIGIOUS LEADERS OF OUR TIME TACKLES THE PHENOMENON OF RELIGIOUS EXTREMISM AND VIOLENCE COMMITTED IN THE NAME OF GOD.
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8164
A NOVEL
LAVIGNE, MICHAEL
LLOYD MOSS
MICHAEL ROSENHEIM, A DIVORCED STAND-UP COMIC, IS CARING FOR HIS ALZHEIMER'S-AFFLICTED FATHER WHEN HE DISCOVERS 24 VOLUMES OF HIS FATHER'S JOURNALS. IN THEM, HESHEL ROSENHAIM HAS DETAILED, IN THE FORM OF A NOVEL, THAT HE IS NO CONCENTRATION CAMP SURVIVOR BUT A FORMER NAZI ACCOUNTANT AT BERGEN-BELSEN. INTENSE AND VIVID, THIS BOOK IS AN UNSPARING AND UNFORGETTABLE EXAMINATION OF FAITH, HISTORY, IDENTITY, AND LOVE.
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1081
NOT OF THIS TIME, NOT OF THIS PLACE
AMICHAI, YEHUDA
THERESA TAX VOLKELL
A POETIC NOVEL ABOUT A SUCCESSFUL JERUSALEM ARCHAEOLOGIST WHO IS OBSESSED BY THE NEED TO RETURN TO GERMANY AND AVENGE THE MURDER OF A YOUNG GIRL BY THE NAZIS. REMAKE OF MARY PERLOW'S 1972 RECORDING.
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7664
AN ABE LIEBERMAN MYSTERY
KAMINSKY, STUART M.
LORNA KOCHE
IN THIS BOOK, THE SEVENTH IN THE SERIES, THE DETECTIVE ABE LIEBERMAN AND HIS PARTNER, BILL HANRAHAN, WORK ON THE CASE OF TWO HOMICIDES THAT OCCUR AT THE END OF A THEFT AT A JEWELRY STORE. THEY ARE ALSO INVOLVED IN FIGURING OUT ANOTHER MURDER THAT ENDS UP HAVING CONNECTIONS TO THE HOMICIDES AT THE JEWELRY STORE. ADDITIONALLY, LIEBERMAN MUST FIND A WAY TO PAY FOR HIS GRANDSON'S BAR MITZVAH WHILE HANRAHAN DEALS WITH THE FACT THAT AN ASIAN CRIME KINGPIN IS INTERESTED IN HIS FIANCÉE.© 2002
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1660
KAPLAN, MORDECAI M.
MRS. HARVEY MEYERS
A COLLECTION OF APHORISMS AND THOUGHTS FROM THE WRITINGS OF THE FOUNDER OF THE RECONSTRUCTIONIST MOVEMENT. ©1966
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5224
PIONEER JEWS IN NEW ZEALAND
ROSENTHAL, ODEDA
CONSTANCE WARSHOWSKY
A HISTORY OF JEWS IN EARLY NEW ZEALAND, INCLUDING PROFILES OF SUCH PROMINENT JEWS SUCH AS JULIUS VOGEL, NEW ZEALAND'S FIRST JEWISH PRIME MINISTER, AND ASHER ASHER, THE FOUNDER OF ITS FIRST VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT.
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4623
FINDLAY, TIMOTHY
JOYCE KARP
THIS NOVEL IS A RADICAL REVISION OF THE BIBLICAL STORY OF NOAH.
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1249
NOTES FROM THE WARSAW GHETTO
RINGELBLUM, EMMANUEL
IRVING W. KRAMER, M.D.
SPANNING THE PERIOD FROM OCTOBER, 1939 TO THE END OF 1942, A YOUNG PROFESSIONAL HISTORIAN RECORDED THE COURAGEOUS BUT FUTILE EFFORTS OF THE JEWS OF WARSAW IN THEIR FIGHT AGAINST THE NAZIS. REMAKE OF SALO W. MINKIN'S 1972 RECORDING.
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8033
WRITINGS BY DESCENDANTS OF JEWISH HOLOCAUST SURVIVORS
BUKIET, MELVIN JULES, ED.
SHARON SPENSER
HOW HAVE THE MEMORIES OF HOLOCAUST SURVIVORS BEEN FILTERED THROUGH THE IMAGINATIONS OF THEIR CHILDREN? WITH A TITLE THAT MOCKS THE INFAMOUS SIGN AT AUSCHWITZ, THIS ANTHOLOGY INCLUDES THE WORKS, BOTH FICTION AND NON-FICTION, OF "SECOND GENERATION" WRITERS, INCLUDING LILY BRETT, EVA HOFFMAN, SAVYON LIEBRECHT, THANE ROSENBAUM, PETER SINGER, AND ART SPIEGELMAN. © 2002
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8350
THE START OF AN AFFAIR, THE END OF AN ERA
SOLOMONS, NATASHA
POLLY ADAMS
IN 1938 ELISE LANDAU ARRIVES AT TYNEFORD AND IS FORCED TO BECOME A PARLOUR-MAID. AS SERVANTS POLISH SILVER AND SERVE DRINKS ON THE LAWN, ELISE WEARS HER MOTHER'S PEARLS BENEATH HER UNIFORM, AND CAUSES OUTRAGE BY DANCING WITH A BOY. BUT WAR IS COMING, THE WORLD IS CHANGING, AND ELISE MUST CHANGE WITH IT. AT TYNEFORD SHE LEARNS THAT YOU CAN LOVE MORE THAN ONCE.
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5227
A NEW ENGLISH RENDITION OF THE BOOK
FOX, EVERETT, TRANS.
DOROTHY AXELROTH
AN ENGLISH TRANSLATION OF THE BOOK OF EXODUS WHICH ATTEMPTS TO ECHO THE ORIGINAL HEBREW IN THE USE OF SUCH LITERARY ELEMENTS AS REPETITION, ALLUSION, WORD PLAY, AND ALLITERATION. INCLUDES EXPLANATORY NOTES.
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8292
A NOVEL OF SUSPENSE
KRICH, ROCHELLE
GINGER RICH
A FAN OF LOS ANGELES CRIME REPORTER MOLLY BLUME DESPERATELY NEEDS MOLLY'S HELP IN FINDING HIS EIGHTEEN-YEAR-OLD DAUGHTER, HADASSAH, WHO HAS RUN AWAY FROM HOME TO BE WITH A MAN SHE MET ON THE INTERNET. THE MORE MOLLY LOOKS FOR CLUES TO THE MISSING GIRL'S FATE, THE MORE SHE WONDERS: IS HADASSAH A RANDOM VICTIM OF A PREDATOR, OR IS THE GIRL A PAWN IN A SCHEME OF REVENGE AGAINST HER FAMILY?
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AN AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL NOVEL
ZWEIG, STEFANIE
JAN BURRELL
THE NOVEL IS BASED ON ZWEIG'S PERSONAL EXPERIENCE AS A GERMAN JEWISH REFUGEE CHILD IN KENYA DURING WORLD WAR II. THE IRONIC MIX OF ANGER AND SORROW IS UNFORGETTABLE.
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3282
BARBARA MYERHOFF
J. TEMPLE
A MOVING STUDY OF SHTETL-BORN JEWS LOOSELY AFFILIATED WITH THE ALIYAH SENIOR CITIZENS CENTER OF VENICE, CALIFORNIA.
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THE RECKONING
BUCKLEY, WILLIAM F., JR.
BECK, MARILYN
IN 1939 SEBASTIAN AND HIS PARENTS PLAN TO ESCAPE FROM GERMANY TO ARIZONA, BUT SEBASTIAN'S FATHER IS FORCED BY THE GESTAPO TO STAY BEHIND. SEBASTIAN GROWS UP AND ENTERS THE US ARMY FIGHTING AGAINST GERMANY WHILE HIS FATHER IS PRESSURED INTO DESIGNING CONCENTRATION CAMPS. SEBASTIAN IS THEN ASSIGNED AS A TRANSLATOR-INTERROGATOR AT NUREMBERG AND SEBASTIAN IS THRUST INTO THE CENTER OF A LEGAL MAELSTROM AND FINDS HIMSELF AT A CROSSROADS OF EPIC AND PERSONAL HISTORY.© 2002
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4499
TUSA, ANN;TULSA, JOHN
A NARRATIVE HISTORY OF THE NAZI WAR CRIMINALS' TRIAL.
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3606
KAPLAN, JOHANNA
FRANCILLE H. HLAVATY
HE STORY OF A MAN WHO IS ABSORBED WITH THE VAST HUMAN FAMILY BUT HAS NO TIME FOR HIS OWN PEOPLE. SEARCHING FOR THE SOLUTION TO COMPLEX SOCIAL PROBLEMS ON A WORLD SCALE, A UNIVERSALIST WHO WEEPS FOR THE POOR OF APPALACHIA AND THE STARVING INFANTS OF BANGLADESH, HE IS UNABLE TO BE A PROTAGONIST OF THE JEWISH PEOPLE.
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6316
HABERMAN, JOSHUA
SARENE MEYER
THE AUTHOR INTERVIEWED 14 DISTINGUISHED JEWS ON THEIR RELIGIOUS BELIEFS. INCLUDED ARE CYNTHIA OZICK, NORMAN PODHORETZ, ADIN STEINSALTZ, YESAYAHU LEIBOWITZ, ARNO PENZIAS, AND RACHEL COWAN.© 1994
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1699
WIESEL, ELIE
ROBERTA POLLACK
ON THE EVE OF A POGROM, MOSHE, A MYSTIC, PUTS HIS PEOPLE UNDER AN OATH OF SILENCE IN THE BELIEF THAT THIS MAY AVERT FUTURE SUFFERING. ©1973
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2365
LEVIN, MEYER
EDITH PERMAN
AN AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL NOVEL DESCRIBING THE SUPPRESSION OF LEVIN'S DRAMATIZATION OF THE ANNE FRANK TRAGEDY BY FAMOUS THEATRICAL FIGURES.
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4967
THE ARAB-ISRAELI WAR
AKER, FRANK
B.J. EISENSTAT
A DESCRIPTION AND ANALYSIS OF THE 1973 YOM KIPPUR WAR FROM A MILITARY PERSPECTIVE.
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5520
CRUZ, M.
LYNNE KUSHNER
WHILE IN CAIRO TO COVER THE EIGHTH ANNIVERSARY OF THE 1973 OCTOBER WAR, JOURNALIST LUZ GRACIDA BECOMES INVOLVED IN ASSASSINATION ATTEMPTS, PLOTS TO OVERTHROW THE GOVERNMENT, AND A NEW RELATIONSHIP.
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8399
KOPS, BERNARD
MARY MURPHY
SEVENTEEN-YEAR-OLD SAM GLASS IS DEPRESSED. SINCE HIS FATHER DIED SUDDENLY, HE SEES NO POINT IN LIFE. THEN A RABBI FROM THE MIDDLE AGES APPEARS AND TAKES SAM BACK IN TIME. HE MEETS A PANOPLY OF CHARACTERS INCLUDING HIS OWN FOREBEARS AND SOME FAMILIAR FIGURES FROM JEWISH HISTORY. THEN HE DISCOVERS THE SECRET PURPOSE FOR WHICH HE HAS BEEN CHOSEN: TO ASSASSINATE TSAR ALEXANDER II ……
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OF A WORLD THAT IS NO MORE
SINGER, ISRAEL JOSHUA
MRS. STANLEY ROSE & MRS. LESTER ROSENBAUM
THE STORY OF THE HOUSEHOLD OF A RABBI IN A POLISH-JEWISH SHTETL NEAR THE TURN OF THE 20TH CENTURY.
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7593
ROSENFARB, CHAVA
CHAVA ROSENFARB REVISITS HER THEMES OF THE SHTETL AND PRE-HOLOCAUST POLAND, OF ECONOMIC AND POLITICAL OPPRESSION, AND OF THE UPHEAVALS THAT WOULD HERALD A NEW JEWISH NATIONAL AND POLITICAL AWAKENING.© 2000
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3315
OF THIS TIME, OF THAT PLACE AND OTHER STORIES
TRILLING, LIONEL
SERENE MEYERS
FIVE STORIES DEALING WITH INTELLECTUAL CONFRONTATION, THE STRUGGLE TO ESTABLISH MORAL ORDER, AND A JEW'S FEELINGS OF ISOLATION.
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8342
ALEICHEM, SHOLOM
STANLEY BAUMBLATT
A COLLECTION OF SELECTED STORIES BY THE RENOWNED AUTHOR
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3437
SINGER, ISAAC BASHEVIS
RUTH FRANKFORT
EIGHTEEN STORIES SET IN VARIOUS PARTS OF THE GLOBE FROM THE SHTETL TO CONTEMPORARY MIAMI BEACH AND ISRAEL.
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7936
POTOK, CHAIM
MAY BURROWS
A TRILOGY OF RELATED NOVELLAS ABOUT A WOMAN WHOSE LIFE TOUCHES THREE VERY DIFFERENT MEN, AND THE IMPACT THESE MEN HAVE ON HER LIFE. © 2001
