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3675
CORMAN, AVERY
ISABELLE RUBIN
A KID ESCAPES THE STIGMA OF BEING BORN JEWISH AND POOR IN THE BRONX TO MAKE IT BIG IN THE WORLD OF ADVERTISING. WITH GENTLE HUMOR THE AUTHOR CAPTURES THE FLAVOR OF ROBIN'S HALF-JEWISH, HALF-IRISH CATHOLIC NEIGHBORHOOD IN THE WARTIME 1940S.
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6770
MAMET, DAVID
DAVID NATALE
THIS IS A NOVEL BASED ON A REAL EVENT: THE 1914 TRIAL OF LEO FRANK, A JEWISH FACTORY MANAGER IN GEORGIA FALSELY ACCUSED OF RAPING AND MURDERING A YOUNG SOUTHERN WHITE GIRL. IN AN UNDERLYING POLEMIC, MAMET ALSO DEVELOPS THE THEMES OF JEWISH INSECURITY IN A CHRISTIAN SOCIETY AND THE CONFLICTED PSYCHOLOGY OF ASSIMILATED JEWS. © 1997
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3953
EIGHT DECADES OF A JEWISH FAMILY
DITENFASS, MARK
RITA KING
THE STORY OF THE HOPES AND FEARS, THE ASPIRATIONS AND LIMITS WHICH DEFINE THE LIEBERS AS A JEWISH FAMILY.
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2011
HERZL, THEODOR
LILLIAN SCHA
THE NOVEL IN WHICH HERZL ENVISIONED THE ESTABLISHMENT AND GROWTH OF A JEWISH COMMONWEALTH IN WHAT WAS THEN PALESTINE.
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6063
STEIN, ARLENE
SHIRLEY RADCLIFFE
IN THIS EPISTOLARY NARRATIVE SET IN UTICA, NEW YORK, THE AUTHOR TELLS THE STORY OF A FIRST-GENERATION AMERICAN JEWISH WOMAN BORN TO IMMIGRANT PARENTS.
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8210
A MEMORY LOOP
LELYVEID, JOSEPH
PAUL SPERRY
IN THIS MEMOIR, THE AUTHOR REFLECTS ON FAMILIAL ECCENTRICITIES AS HE SORTS THROUGH HIS DYING FATHER'S BELONGINGS. HE RECALLS NOT JUST HIS OWN PAST, BUT THAT OF HIS RABBI FATHER AND SHAKESPEAREAN SCHOLAR MOTHER, AS WELL AS POLITICAL EVENTS OF THEIR TIME, LIKE THE SCOTTSBORO TRIALS AND THE ZIONIST MOVEMENT.
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5729
WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO BE A JEW?
KUGEL, JAMES
EMILY ROSEN
MODELED ON 'THE KUZARI,' THIS NOVEL IS AN EXTENDED CONVERSATION BETWEEN JUDD LEWIS, WHO WANTS TO LEARN THE BASICS OF JUDAISM, AND ALBERT ABBADI, A JEWISH-SYRIAN IMMIGRANT. THEIR DISCUSSION TAKES LEWIS FROM THE BRINK OF INTERMARRIAGE TO A DECISION TO LEAD AN OBSERVANT JEWISH LIFE.
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6750
STEINSALTZ, ADIN
SARENE MEYERS
TALMUDIC SCHOLAR STEINSALTZ EXPLORES TOPICS RANGING FROM THE NATURE OF JEWISH IDENTITY AND THE CHARACTER OF THE STATE OF ISRAEL TO INTERPRETATION OF THE FIVE MEGILLOT. ALSO INCLUDED ARE TWO INTERVIEWS THAT PROVIDE GLIMPSES INTO THE INTENSITY THAT MARKS THE LIFE AND WORK OF THIS GREAT TEACHER AND RABBI. © 1995
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7590
A MEMOIR OF LANGUAGE
STAVANS, ILAN
CHARLES ROEMER
THIS BOOK IS A MEMOIR OF ILAN STAVANS'S IDENTITY FORMATION THROUGH LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE. AN EXCERPT: "AS HAVING BEEN BORN INTO YIDDISH AND SPANISH AND THEN HAVING BEEN LURED AWAY BY ENGLISH. I FOUND MY TRUE SELF THE MOMENT I SPOKE SHAKESPEARE'S TONGUE."© 2001
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3854
ON BOTH SIDES OF THE WALL
MEED, VLADKA
HERMINE KATZ
A HOLOCAUST SURVIVOR TELLS OF HER EXPERIENCES IN THE TWO AND A HALF YEAR PERIOD FROM 1942 UNTIL LIBERATION IN 1945.
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7476
A SON'S MEMOIR
SKAKUN, MICHAEL
EDITH FRIEDMAN
MICHAEL SKAKUN TELLS THE COMPELLING STORY OF HIS FATHER, JOSEPH WHO, AS A YESHIVA STUDENT, FINDS HIS POLISH TOWN INVADED BY NAZIS. MASKING HIS IDENTITY AS A JEW, JOSEPH SKAKUN ASSUMES NUMEROUS IDENTITITES, INCLUDING THAT OF A NAZI RECRUIT.
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4116
JEWS IN AMERICA 1881-1981
DAVIDOWICZ, LUCY S.
RUTH DIAMOND
THIS FAMOUS HOLOCAUST WRITER TELLS OF THE ACHIEVEMENTS AND HARDSHIPS OF THE PAST CENTURY.
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7631
ROCHLIN, HARRIET
GLORIA WEINER
THE THIRD NOVEL IN ROCHLIN'S DESERT DWELLERS TRILOGY, CONCERNS ARIZONA FRONTIER LIFE IN THE 1880S FROM A JEWISH PERSPECTIVE. THIS IS ACTION-FILLED AND REPLETE WITH THE FRONTIER SPIRIT.© 2001
EN4
1057
ROSENZWEIG, FRANZ
FAY COHEN
THREE EPISTLES WITH AN EXCHANGE OF LETTERS BETWEEN MARTIN BUBER AND THE AUTHOR, A LEADER IN THE FIELD OF JEWISH THOUGHT IN NORTH AMERICA.
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8099
CONVERSATIONS ON BEING JEWISH IN TODAY'S WORLD
FELDMAN, EMANUEL, RABBI
RHODA KAHN
A SERIES OF DIALOGUES BETWEEN DAVID, A QUESTIONING JEW, AND HIS RABBI ARE THE FRAMEWORK FOR THIS DISCUSSION OF JUDAISM'S ONGOING RELEVANCE AND ITS ANSWERS TO MODERN QUESTIONS. EACH CHAPTER IS A SELF-CONTAINED CONVERSATION ABOUT A PARTICULAR TOPIC, FROM SABBATH, HOLIDAYS, AND KEEPING KOSHER TO REPENTANCE, PRAYER, AND HOLINESS, AND FROM GOD AND THE TORAH TO INTERPERSONAL AND INTERFAITH DEALINGS. © 1994
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4753
SOLOVEITCHIK, JOSEPH B., RABBI
ANITA LIEF LEVINE
USING CLASSICAL JEWISH SOURCES, THE TALMUDIC SCHOLAR AND ORTHODOX PHILOSOPHER DISCUSSES THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE INDIVIDUAL, THE COMMUNITY AND GOD.
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8159
MEMORIES OF A LIFETIME IN THE YIDDISH THEATRE
KADISON, LUBA;BULOFF, JOSEPH
BERNARD FINEMAN
THE CAREERS OF THE GREAT YIDDISH ACTOR AND ACTRESS (HUSBAND AND WIFE) WERE INTIMATELY INVOLVED WITH YIDDISH THEATER FOR OVER 60 YEARS. FROM THE DAYS OF THE VILNA TROUPE TO THEIR SUCCESS ON THE AMERICAN YIDDISH STAGE, THIS ACCOUNT INCLUDES THEATER MEMORABILIA THAT HAS BEEN DONATED TO THE HARVARD UNIVERSITY LIBRARY.
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4126
ADAN, AVRAHAM (BREN)
LUCILLE JACOBS, SELDA WAGNER
STORY OF HOW THE ISRAELI DEFENSE FORCES REGAINED THEIR LOST MORALE DURING THE OCTOBER WAR OF 1973.
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8383
A DELICIOUS ADVENTURE CONNECTING JEWS, RELIGIONS, HISTORY, TRAVEL, RITUALS AND RECIPES TO THE MAGIC OF CACAO
PRINZ, RABBI DEBORAH
NICOLE CHARBANI
A DELIGHTFUL, FASCINATING READ FULL OF HISTORY, RELIGION, ETHICS, ANECDOTES AND RECIPES THAT WILL MAKE YOU HUNGRY.
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4690
DELAHAYE, MICHAEL
HARRIETTE ROSENBERG
A THRILLER ABOUT AN AMERICAN JOURNALIST WHO DISCOVERS THAT THE ISRAELIS HAVE UNEARTHED A CRUCIFIED SKELETON WHICH MAY BE THAT OF JESUS.
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8460
THE SECRET OPERATION OF THE ETHIOPIAN EXODUS
FELDMAN. MICHA
WIN ROBINS
TOLD THROUGH DIARY ENTRIES INTERSPERSED WITH THE STORIES OF MANY ETHIOPIAN JEWS IN THEIR OWN WORDS, THIS IS THE GRIPPING ACCOUNT OF THE JEWISH AGENCY'S COORDINATOR OF ETHIOPIAN ALIYAH AS HE WORKED OVER A DECADE TO FREE THE BETA ISRAEL FROM SHOCKING CONDITIONS.
EN4
6992
APPELFELD, DAVID
ALYCE DOMEWITZ
JACOB SIMON AND HIS DAUGHTER JANE ARE HOLOCAUST SURVIVORS. JANE, BECAUSE OF HER EXPERIENCES HAS SUFFERED IDENTITY PROBLEMS. UPON RETIREMENT JACOB BEGINS A DIARY, DEDICATED TO HIS BELOVED GRANDSON, WHICH IS SURREPTITIOUSLY READ BY A YOUNG NURSE IN THE HOSPITAL WHERE HE IS DYING.
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649
CHARYN, JEROME
EDNA GREENSPAN
A NOSTALGIC AND HUMOROUS NOVEL OF THE LOWER EAST SIDE. REMAKE OF AN EARLIER RECORDING. © 1964
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8405
BALSON, RONALD H
BAZ SNIDER
THE GRIPPING TALE ABOUT TWO BOYS, ONCE AS CLOSE AS BROTHERS, WHO FIND THEMSELVES ON OPPOSITE SIDES OF THE HOLOCAUST.
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7626
(A CHILDREN'S BOOK)
BUNTING, EVE
NANCI BRONSTEEN
AT THE TRADITIONAL HANUKKAH CELEBRATION, GRANDMA & GREAT AUNT ROSE PASS ON TO EACH GENERATION THEIR PERSEVERANCE AND THE STRENGTH IT TOOK TO CONTINUE TO CELEBRATE HANUKKAH DURING THE DARKEST HOURS OF THE HOLOCAUST.© 2002
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7907
THE FULL STORY OF THE 1972 MUNICH OLYMPICS MASSACRE...
REEVE, SIMON
JEREMY HANDELMAN
AN INVESTIGATIVE REPORTER, USING THOUSANDS OF NEWLY RELEASED DOCUMENTS AND HUNDREDS OF INTERVIEWS, OFFERS A NEW ACCOUNT NOT ONLY OF THE ACTUAL KIDNAPPING AND MURDER OF 11 ISRAELI ATHLETES BY THE PLO, BUT ALSO OF A FAILED GERMAN RESCUE ATTEMPT AND ISRAEL'S RESPONSE TO THOSE RESPONSIBLE. THE BOOK ALSO BECAME AN ACADEMY AWARD WINNING DOCUMENTARY FILM. © 2000
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6053
COHEN, WILLIAM S.
JAMES SPECTOR
IN A POST-GORBACHEV POST-DESERT STORM ERA THE RUSSIANS ARE PLOTTING TO REVIVE THEIR DECLINING POWER IN THE MIDDLE EAST. WHEN PRO-ISRAEL SENATOR JOSHUA STOCK IS MURDERED IT IS UP TO HIS FRIEND AND FELLOW SENATOR, SEAN FALCONE, TO FIND HIS KILLER.
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5088
ONE FINE DAY THE RABBI BOUGHT A CROSS
KEMELMAN, HARRY
JACK LACKS
WHILE VACATIONING IN JERUSALEM, RABBI SMALL MUST OUTWIT ARMS SMUGGLERS AND A MURDERER IN ORDER TO PREVENT THE ARREST OF AN INNOCENT MAN. PART OF THE SERIES OF RABBI SMALL MYSTERIES. © 1987
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6373
GREENE, JACQUELINE DEMBAR
JEANNE LINDE
A SEQUEL TO OUT OF MANY WATERS IN WHICH THE LAZAR SISTERS ESCAPED THE MONKS WHO HAD KIDNAPPED THEM DURING THE PORTUGUESE INQUISITION AND STOWED AWAY ON SEPARATE SHIPS TO AMSTERDAM. IN THIS BOOK, MARIA, THE OLDER SISTER ARRIVES, BUT NOT ISOBEL, THE YOUNGER. MARIA IS AIDED IN HER SEARCH FOR HER SISTER BY ARTIST REMBRANDT VAN RIJN.© 1994
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863
WIESEL, ELIE
MURIEL HELLER, ROSE MINKIN
THE SEARCH FOR MEANING FOR THE GENERATION BORN AFTER THE HOLOCAUST. © 1970
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8256
THE SPIRITUAL PATH OF A ZEN RABBI
LEW, ALLAN
LORNA KOCHE
LEW'S COMPELLING SPIRITUAL AUTOBIOGRAPHY TRACES A CIRCLE FROM HIS JEWISH BOYHOOD IN BROOKLYN THROUGH A LONG, INTUITIVE QUEST THAT BROUGHT HIM TO BERKELEY, CALIFORNIA, WHERE HE PRACTICED ZEN BUDDHISM. AFTER 10 YEARS OF ZEN MEDITATION, LEW REALIZED THAT HIS IS AN UNDENIABLY JEWISH SOUL. THIS REVELATION, ACCOMPANIED BY DREAMS, VISIONS, AND UNCANNY COINCIDENCES, DROVE HIM BACK TO NEW YORK, HIS FAMILY, AND THE TEMPLE, CULMINATING IN HIS BECOMING A RABBI.
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3056
AN ANTHOLOGY OF SHORT STORIES
GOLDBERG, LESTER
RITA CHASE
THESE STORIES ARE ALL PART OF WHAT THE AUTHOR DESCRIBES AS A SEARCH FOR HIS JEWISH PAST.
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7657
JEWS AND ARABS UNDER THE BRITISH MANDATE
SEGEV, TOM
GITLIN, PHYLLIS, HAL KOSUT, NANCY BRONSTEIN ETC
THIS BOOK EXPLORES THE TIME PRECEDING THE CREATION OF THE STATE OF ISRAEL WHEN THE JEWS AND ARABS OF PALESTINE WERE UNDER BRITISH CONTROL AND BOTH THOUGHT THEY WOULD INHERIT THE LAND. SEGEV TRACKS THE JEWISH AND ARAB MOVEMENTS AND THEIR MOVEMENT TO CONFRONTATION AND MAINTAINS THAT THE BRITISH FAVORED THE ZIONISTS.© 2000
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7716
A REFORM RABBI AND AN ORTHODOX RABBI EXPLORE THE ISSUES THAT DIV
HIRSCH, AMMIEL; REIMAN, YOSEF
ASHER SUSS
A RESULT OF A RESPECTFUL 18 MONTH EMAIL CORRESPONDENCE BETWEEN REFORM RABBI AMMIEL HIRSCH AND ORTHODOX RABBI YOSEF REINMAN ON THE FUNDAMENTAL PRINCIPLES OF JEWISH FAITH AND PRACTICE. THE TWO RABBIS DISCUSS, QUITE HEATEDLY AT TIMES, THE POINTS ON WHICH REFORM AND ORTHODOX JEWS DIFFER, AMONG THEM THE EXISTENCE OF A SUPREME BEING, HOMOSEXUALITY, THE ORIGINS
AND AUTHENTICITY OF THE BIBLE AND THE ORAL LAW, THE ROLE OF WOMEN, ASSIMILATION, THE VALUE OF SECULAR CULTURE, AND ISRAEL.© 2002
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6552
CAUNITZ, WILLIAM J.
FRANK SWEENEY
THE BOOK BEGINS WITH A NUDE CORPSE IN A BATHTUB. FOR NEW YORK DETECTIVE LT. DAN MALONE, IT'S ALL IN A DAY'S WORK. SOON HE'S NECK DEEP IN A MYSTERY INVOLVING THE MOSSAD, MUSLIM EXTREMISTS, THE U.S. ARMY AND THE NYPD. © 1984
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5185
EVANIER, DAVID
IN THESE 14 STORIES, A STRUGGLING NEW YORK CITY WRITER LOOKS BACK AT HIS PAIN-RIDDLED CHILDHOOD, COMES TO TERMS WITH HIS PARENTS, REACHES OUT TO HIS STEPSON, AND CREATES PORTRAITS OF FRIENDS AND CO-WORKERS.
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7073
STAVANS, ILAN
ISABELLE RUBIN
PRESENTING INTENSE EXPLORATIONS OF JEWISH LIFE AND IDENTITY IN THE HISPANIC WORLD, STAVANS STORIES FEATURE INDIVIDUALS WHO RELENTLESSLY INVESTIGATE SPIRITUALITY BEYOND THE REALM OF ORTHODOX RELIGION. SOME OF THE EIGHT STORIES MIX AUTOBIOGRAPHY AND FANTASY AND OTHERS MELD JEWISH MYSTICISM, THRILLER, FICTION AND MEDITATIONS ON SEXUALITY, LOVE, GOD AND THE ROOTS OF ANTI-SEMITISM. © 1996
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6665
ZINIK, ZINOVY
SHARON SPENSER
ZINIK, WHO LEFT RUSSIA IN 1975, CRAFTS EIGHT STORIES DEPICTING THE PLIGHT OF EMIGRES AS THEY ENDURE THEIR SOLITUDE AND TRY TO CREATE NEW LIVES AND NEW SELVES. © 1995
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6571
AN OLD TALE
KIMMEL, ERIC A.
MARILYN PERE
DERIVED FROM JEWISH LORE, THIS IS A TRADITIONAL TALE ABOUT GREED AND HUMILITY. © 1996
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5616
LEAHY, SYRELL ROGOVIN
LEE STEIN BRAVES HER FAMILY'S OPPOSITION TO STUDY IN GERMANY WHERE SHE MEETS HER FUTURE HUSBAND. TWENTY YEARS LATER, DIVORCED AND SEEKING A CAREER CHANGE, LEE RETURNS TO GERMANY TO THE SECRET SHE NEVER SHARED.
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3654
AN ANZIA YEZIERSKA COLLECTION
YEZIERSKA, ANZIA.;ALICE KESSLER-HARR
RUBELLE SCHAFLER
A COLLECTION OF SHORT STORIES AND VIGNETTES. INCLUDED ARE YEZIERSKA'S EARLY TALES, CHRONICLING THE JEWISH IMMIGRANT EXPERIENCE IN NEW YORK'S EAST SIDE GHETTO AND HER LATER SELECTIONS, AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL 'FANTASY FICTION.' THIS VOLUME PROVIDES AN OVERVIEW OF YEZIERSKA'S WORK AND THE PERIOD IN WHICH SHE LIVED.
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6653
YEHOSHUA, A. B.
TAMIR
DURING A TRIP TO INDIA TO TREAT THE HOSPITAL DIRECTOR'S DAUGHTER, DR. BENJAMIN RUBIN FALLS IN LOVE WITH THE DIRECTOR'S WIFE. A NOVEL BY THE DISTINGUISHED ISRAELI NOVELIST ABOUT THE SEARCH FOR EMOTIONAL AND PSYCHOLOGICAL MEANING. © 1996
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5329
HILLEL, SHLOMO
JUDITH TESSER
THE STORY OF THE 1955 AIRLIFT OF 125,000 JEWS TO ISRAEL AND THE ROLE PLAYED BY THE AUTHOR, AN ISRAELI POLITICIAN WHO WAS AN UNDERCOVER AGENT AT THE TIME.
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5995
ROTH, PHILIP
SIMON SCHUSTER
IN THIS NOVEL SET IN JERUSALEM, ROTH PRESENTS TWO CHARACTERS THAT BEAR HIS NAME: ONE A FAMOUS AUTHOR, THE OTHER AN IMPOSTER WHO IMPERSONATES THE 'REAL' PHILIP ROTH SO HE CAN PUBLICIZE HIS SCHEME TO LEAD JEWS OUT OF A DOOMED ISRAEL TO A NEW DIASPORA. THE BOOK EXPLORES THE ETERNAL ISSUE OF THE JEW IN A LARGELY CHRISTIAN CULTURE.
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3060
GOLAN, AVIEZER
BARBARA FRIEDMAN
A GROUP OF YOUNG EGYPTIAN JEWS WHO WERE RECRUITED INTO TWO SPY RINGS IN CAIRO AND ALEXANDRIA IN THE EARLY 1950S, PLANTED A FEW FIRE BOMBS AND WERE EVENTUALLY BETRAYED TO THE EGYPTIAN GOVERNMENT. TWO WERE EXECUTED, TWO RECEIVED SHORT SENTENCES AND FOUR DREW LONG TERMS.
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8584
FLIGHT 139 AND THE RAID ON ENTEBBE AIRPORT, THE MOST AUDACIOUS HOSTAGE RESCUE MISSION IN HISTORY
DAVID, SAUL
TIM ZAGIN
THE DEFINITIVE ACCOUNT OF ONE OF THE GREATEST SPECIAL FORCES MISSIONS EVER, THE RAID OF ENTEBBE, BY ACCLAIMED MILITARY HISTORIAN SAUL DAVID.
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4051
GOODCHILD, PETER
JEANNE BLUMENGARTEN
A HISTORY OF THE SCIENTIST WHO DEVELOPED THE FIRST NUCLEAR WEAPON AND THE DECADE OF PAINFUL ACCUSATION WHICH FOLLOWED IT.
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736
FEUCHTWANGER, LION
JOELYN ROHMAN
A HISTORICAL NOVEL THAT FOCUSES ON THE SCIENTIST'S FAMILY IN GERMANY BEFORE WORLD WAR II. © 1934
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661
SCHWARTZ, J.R.
GERTRUDE (MRS. IRVING) KLAUS
A NOSTALGIC PORTRAIT OF LIFE ON NEW YORK'S LOWER EAST SIDE. © 1960
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2866
LATHAM, AARON
R. DOLIN
ISRAELI INTELLIGENCE GAME INCLUDES MURDER AND SUICIDE AND INVOLVES HIGH POLITICAL FIGURES.
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3426
PORTRAIT OF AN ARTIST GOING BLIND
POTOK, ANDREW
MARION COHEN
POTOK, SCION OF THE MAZIMILIAN COUTURE FURS FAMILY, AS WELL AS A PAINTER OF NOTE, DESCRIBES WITH AN ANTIC HUMOR HIS ATTEMPTS TO DELAY THE INEXORERABLE DEBACLE OF RETINITIS PIGMENTOSA, AN INHERITED, PROGRESSIVE EYE DISEASE.
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5077
CHANA SZENES AND THE DREAM OF ZION
HAY, PETER
NAOMI MUNTER
DRAWING ON EXTENSIVE INTERVIEWS, AS WELL AS UNPUBLISHED DIARIES AND LETTERS, THE AUTHOR DRAMATIZES THE HOLOCAUST AND JEWISH RESISTANCE THROUGH THE EXPERIENCES OF CHANA SZENES AND HER FAMILY. © 1986
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8118
SOLVING THE MYSTERY OF A STRANGE AND DANGEROUS LIFE
REISS, TOM
STEVE SCHREIBER
OM REISS SPENT FIVE YEARS TRACKING DOWN SECRET POLICE RECORDS, LOVE LETTERS, DIARIES AND DEATHBED NOTEBOOKS OF LEV NUSSIMBAUM, REVEALING A DRAMATIC AND WILD LIFE. LEV, A JEW BORN IN 1905 TO A WEALTHY FAMILY IN BAKU, ESCAPED THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION IN A CAMEL CARAVAN. HE TRANSFORMED HIMSELF INTO A MUSLIM PRINCE AND BECAME A BEST-SELLING AUTHOR IN NAZI GERMANY. LEV'S LIFE INCLUDES HIS MARRIAGE TO AN INTERNATIONAL HEIRESS WITH NO IDEA OF HIS REAL IDENTITY UNTIL HE'S EXPOSED BY A TABLOID SCANDAL, HIS FRIENDSHIP WITH GEORGE SYLVESTER VIERECK, WHO WAS ARRESTED AS THE LEADING NAZI AGENT IN THE U.S, AND AN INVITATION TO BE MUSSOLINI'S OFFICIAL BIOGRAPHER - UNTIL THE FASCISTS DISCOVERED HIS ORIGINS.
LEV WROTE HIS LAST BOOK UNDER HOUSE ARREST, HELPED BY A MYSTERIOUS HALF-GERMAN SALON HOSTESS, A WEAPONS SMUGGLER, AND THE POET EZRA POUND.
THIS REMARKABLE HISTORY AND BIOGRAPHY READS LIKE A NOVEL.
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8081
A MEMOIR OF BROADWAY AND HOLLYWOOD
LAURENTS, ARTHUR
BEA BRESLOW
THE AWARD-WINNING PLAYWRIGHT OF WEST SIDE STORY AND GYPSY, SCREENWRITER OF THE WAY WE WERE, AND DIRECTOR OF BROADWAY'S LA CAGE AUX FOLLES TELLS HIS STORY IN THIS LIVELY, HUMOROUS, BUT BRUTALLY HONEST AUTOBIOGRAPHY. IN ADDITION TO INSIDE STORIES AND INSIGHTS INTO MANY SHOW BIZ PERSONALITIES, LAURENT TAKES US FROM HIS FLATBUSH CHILDHOOD TO CORNELL AND THE ARMY TO THE DEVELOPMENT OF HIS LIBERAL POLITICS AND SOCIAL ACTIVISM. © 2000
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5012
THE PASSOVER RITE AND EARLY RABBINIC JUDAISM
BOKSER, BARUCH M.
GOLDIE M. KURTIN
AN EXPLANATION OF HOW A BIBLICAL, SACRIFICIAL MEAL WAS TRANSFORMED INTO THE PASSOVER SEDER, ONE OF THE MOST POPULAR JEWISH RITUALS. © 1984
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2737
VITAL, DAVID
R. WEIL
STORY OF THE ORIGINS OF MODERN JEWISH NATIONALISM USING PRIMARY SOURCES IN HEBREW, YIDDISH, GERMAN, RUSSIAN, FRENCH, AND ENGLISH.
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3937
COWAN, PAUL
FLORA SHERBER
AN ASSIMILATED JEW RETURNS TO HIS LEGACY, 5000 YEARS OF CULTURE AND HISTORY.
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8583
OFFENBACH AND THE PARIS OF HIS TIME
KRACAUER, SIEGFRIED
IAN STRASFOGEL
AUTOBIOGRAPHY.
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5444
THE SEPHARDIM TODAY
ELAZAR, DANIEL J.
SYLVIA HORENSTEIN
ELAZAR OVERTURNS STEREOTYPES AND CHALLENGES WIDELY-HELD ASSUMPTIONS ABOUT SEPHARDIM IN ISRAEL AND PROVIDES READERS WITH A TOUR OF SEPHARDI COMMUNITIES AROUND THE WORLD.
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459
WEIDMAN, JEROME
DOROTHY RAPPOPORT
DEPICTS CHARACTERS OF JEWISH AND CHRISTIAN FAMILIES DURING THE PERIOD OF WORLD WAR I AND II. © 1967
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8259
A NOVEL
ZWEIBEL, ALAN
LLOYD MOSS
SHULMAN IS RUNNING THE NEW YORK CITY MARATHON AND PONDERS THE TORTUROUS PATH THAT BROUGHT HIM TO SUCH AN UNLIKELY PLACE. THE AUTHOR TELLS THE HILARIOUS STORY OF THE OVERWEIGHT, STRESSED-OUT SHULMAN, WHO SOMEHOW CONVINCES HIMSELF THAT RUNNING 26.2 MILES WILL SOLVE ALL THE PROBLEMS CREATED BY HIS FAILING BUSINESS AND FLAGGING MARRIAGE.
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6773
A ROGUE AGENT EXPOSES THE MOSSAD'S
OSTROVSKY, VICTOR
DAVID THOMPSON
IN AN EXPLOSIVE SEQUEL TO THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER BY WAY OF DECEPTION, A FORMER MOSSAD AGENT TALKS ABOUT HIS CAREER AND THE ROLE OF ISRAEL'S INTELLIGENCE IN WORLD AFFAIRS. © 1995
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2351
THE CHOSEN LAND
KAHANE, RABBI MEIR
M. SCHWARTZENBERGER & E. BERRY
THE FOUNDER AND FORMER LEADER OF THE JEWISH DEFENSE LEAGUE PRESENTS HIS CONCEPT OF ISRAEL AS A 'BIBLICALLY-ORDAINED' NATION AND HIS VISION OF THE COUNTRY AS A 'RELIGIO-NATIONAL' STATE.
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4422
JOSELIT, JENNA WEISSMAN
ARLENE RICHARDS
A SOCIOLOGICAL STUDY OF JEWISH CRIMINALS IN THE UNITED STATES IN THE EARLY PART OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY.
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656
THE STORY OF ELI COHEN, ISRAEL'S GREATEST SPY
BEN-HANAN, ELI
BARBARA T. MATCHEY
THE TRUE STORY OF A HIGHLY SUCCESSFUL ISRAELI SPY IN SYRIA IN THE 1960S. THE BOOK DESCRIBES HIS PENETRATION INTO THE SYRIAN GOVERNMENT AND HIS CAPTURE, TRIAL, AND ULTIMATE EXECUTION. © 1969
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4943
BENDET, MAYER
DR. IRVING KRAMER
AFTER INTERVIEWING MANY RUSSIAN JEWS IN THE UNITED STATES AND ISRAEL, THE AUTHOR FORMULATED A STORY THAT DEPICTS BOTH THE SUFFERING AND THE HOPE OF SOVIET JEWRY
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2155
GOLDEN, HARRY
ALVIN REIWITCH
THE STORY OF JEWISH FAMILIES AND LIFE IN THE SOUTHERN UNITED STATES FROM COLONIAL TIMES TO THE 1970S. AMONG THOSE DISCUSSED ARE THE FAMILIES OF JUDAH BENJAMIN AND SIMON BARUCH, AND THE STRAUSS FAMILY WHO LATER FOUNDED THE WELL-KNOWN DEPARTMENT STORES, R.H. MACY AND ABRAHAM AND STRAUS.
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4961
POMERANZ, GARY
MARION T.COHEN
THE LEGENDARY MANIA OF CHICAGO CUBS FANS FOR THEIR TEAM SETS THE TONE FOR THIS STORY ABOUT A YOUNG JEWISH CUBS FAN.
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6352
A MEMOIR
ACIMAN, ANDRE
SYLVIA JACOB
A MEMOIR OF THE AUTHOR'S LIFE GROWING UP IN ALEXANDRIA, EGYPT. AS A BOY, ACIMAN CONSIDERED HIMSELF FRENCH BECAUSE HIS FAMILY WERE SEPHARDIC JEWS WHO HAD SETTLED IN EGYPT AND DISCLAIMED THE COMMON LANGUAGE. THEY CONCEALED THEIR JEWISHNESS WHEN NASSER WAS IN POWER AND EVENTUALLY THEY FLED TO PARIS.© 1995
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5401
GREENE, JACQUELINE DEMBAR
LYNN HIMELFARB
IN 1654, A YOUNG PORTUGUESE GIRL STOWS AWAY ABOARD A DUTCH SHIP HEADED FOR NEW AMSTERDAM. THROUGH THE HEROINE'S ADVENTURES, THE YOUNG READER IS INTRODUCED TO AMERICAN AND JEWISH HISTORY.
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6611
MOSCO, MAISIE
SYLLA HASKEL
WHEN HER HUSBAND DIES, MARIANNE DIRECTS HER ENERGIES TO HER CAREER AS A SUCCESSFUL AUTHOR. BUT SOON SHE FINDS HERSELF STEPPING INTO HER GRANDMOTHER'S SHOES AS MATRIARCH OF A PROUD BUT TROUBLED FAMILY. © 1989
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5998
BRENNER, JOSEPH CHAIM
BERNARD MANN
A NOVEL ABOUT RUSSIAN JEWISH EMIGRES WHO TOIL AT A YIDDISH DAILY NEWSPAPER IN LONDON. THEIR PLIGHT IS TEMPERED BY ABRAHAM MENUHIN, AN IMMIGRANT JEW WHO COMES TO THE AID OF A PREGNANT YOUNG WOMAN ABANDONED BY THE BABY'S RUSSIAN GENTILE FATHER.
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1943
THE SOCIAL BACKGROUND OF JEWISH EMANCIPATION, 1770-1870
KATZ, JACOB
S. BRAV & RABBI EMERITUS
AN ACCOUNT OF THE TRANSFORMATION OF JEWISH LIFE FROM THE GHETTO TO BEING FIRST-CLASS CITIZENS IN THE GENTILE SOCIETIES. THE AUTHOR PRESENTS THE STORY OF JEWISH EMANCIPATION AS A WHOLE FROM BOTH JEWISH AND NON-JEWISH VIEWS.
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823
A READER OF HOLOCAUST LITERATURE
FRIEDLANDER, ALBERT H.
BLANCHE HALPERN
© 1968
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8095
A CATHERINE LEVENDEUR MYSTERY
NEWMAN, SHARAN
JAY WILLIAMS
NEWMAN RETURNS TO 12TH CENTURY FRANCE, BUT THE 9TH BOOK IN THIS SERIES REVOLVES AROUND CATHERINE'S COUSIN SOLOMON, A BUSINESS ASSOCIATE OF HERS AND HER HUSBAND EDGAR'S WHO MUST KEEP THEIR FAMILY CONNECTION SECRET, AS HE WAS RAISED JEWISH WHILE HER FATHER WAS ABDUCTED AS A CHILD AND RAISED CATHOLIC. TRAVELING WITH EDGAR, SOLOMON JOINS A RESCUE PARTY SEARCHING FOR A JEWISH GIRL KIDNAPPED IN SPAIN BY CHRISTIANS, WHEN HE ENCOUNTERS HIS ESTRANGED FATHER JACOB, WHO HAS REJECTED JUDAISM AND BECOME A MONK CALLED BROTHER JAMES. JAMES IS ON A SIMILAR MISSION, TO RANSOM CATHOLIC KNIGHTS CAPTURED BY MUSLIMS. CAN FATHER AND SON, CHRISTIAN AND JEW, LEARN TO COOPERATE AS THE TWO RESCUE PARTIES JOIN FORCES? © 2003
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7989
MIRVIS, TOVA
ARLENE KEMPNER
TZIPPY GOLDMAN, 22, IS ALREADY CONSIDERED A SPINSTER IN HER INSULAR ORTHODOX COMMUNITY. BRYAN MILLER'S MODERN ORTHODOX PARENTS ARE MORE CONCERNED WITH HIS DEFECTION TO THE ULTRA-ORTHODOX WORLD OF FAMILIES LIKE THE GOLDMANS. IN ISRAEL TO FIND THEMSELVES, TZIPPY AND BRYAN - NOW BARUCH - FIND EACH OTHER INSTEAD, AND TWO LOVING BUT VERY DIFFERENT ORTHODOX FAMILIES ARE BROUGHT TOGETHER BY A MARRIAGE SURROUNDED BY ZANY EVENTS. © 2004
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4593
FAST, HOWARD
B. FOERDER, R. WEINBERG, M. LOEB
THIS NOVEL FOLLOWS THE LIFE OF RABBI DAVID HARTMAN, FROM HIS PRESENCE AT THE LIBERATION OF DACHAU, THROUGH 30 YEARS OF CONGREGATIONAL WORK IN THE UNITED STATES
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8132
THE AMAZNG ADVENTURES OF A MAN WHO RESCUED A MILLION YIDDISH BKS
LANSKY, AARON
LAWRENCE AVERY
AS A GRADUATE STUDENT, LANSKY STARTED TO SALVAGE YIDDISH BOOKS THAT WERE BEING DISCARDED. TO LANSKY, YIDDISH LITERATURE REPRESENTED AN IMPORTANT PIECE OF JEWISH CULTURAL HISTORY AND A LINK TO PAST GENERATIONS. IN THIS BOOK THAT IS BOTH HILARIOUS AND MOVING, LANSKY DESCRIBES HOW HE TRAVELED TO WHEREVER YIDDISH BOOKS COULD BE FOUND SUCH AS PRIVATE COLLECTIONS, DUMPSTERS, AND LIBRARIES. THE BOOKS HE AMASSED BECAME A COLLECTION OF 1.5 MILLION BOOKS AND IS NOW THE NATIONAL YIDDISH BOOK CENTER, WHICH LANSKY IS THE FOUNDER AND PRESIDENT OF. THE BOOK IS A TESTIMONY TO HIS LOVE OF JUDAISM AND LITERATURE AND HIS DESIRE TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE IN THE WORLD.
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8471
THE LIFE AND COMEDY OF ALLAN SHERMAN
COHEN, MARK
WIN ROBINS
AN ENTERTAINING BIOGRAPHY OF SONG PARODIST AND COMEDIAN ALLAN SHERMAN.
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7861
AND OTHER STORIES
AUERBACH, JOHN
FRANK SAUNDERS
THESE STORIES DRAW UPON THEMES FROM THE AUTHORS LIFE: HIS YEARS AT SEA, ON A KIBBUTZ, AS AN ALIENATED MAN IN AMERICA, AND HIS AND OTHERS' SURVIVAL OF WAR AND THE HOLOCAUST. THIS IS THE FIRST COLLECTION OF HIS STORIES TO APPEAR IN ENGLISH, THE LANGUAGE IN WHICH THEY WERE WRITTEN. PREFACE BY SAUL BELLOW. © 2003
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7074
OXFORD BOOK OF HEBREW SHORT STORIES
ABRAMSON, GLENDA, ED.
ETHEL E. MADURO
THIS COLLECTION OF HEBREW SHORT STORIES CONTAINS THE WORKS OF THE GREAT MODERN HEBREW PROSE WRITERS (EXCEPT FOR AGNON) IN EUROPE AND ISRAEL. THE SORROWS AND PROBLEMS OF THE JEWISH PEOPLE IN THEIR EXILE AND RETURN ARE COMBINED WITH WORKS OF PERSONAL ANGUISH AND HAPPINESS TO REVEAL THE GREAT SCOPE OF HEBREW LITERATURE.
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1037
PAGAN RABBI AND OTHER STORIES
OZICK, CYNTHIA
GLORIA GLICKENHAUS & PHYLLIS GOODFRIEND
A COLLECTION OF SHORT STORIES ABOUT THE AMERICAN-JEWISH SCENE.
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428
KOSINSKI, JERZY
NANCY SCHIERING
ALTHOUGH IT EXPOSES BRUTALITY, THIS SAGA OF A HOMELESS BOY IN A NIGHTMARE WORLD GLOWS WITH HUMANITY AND COMPASSION. © 1976
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8313
JEWISH CALENDAR AND CULTURE IN EARLY MODERN EUROPE
CARLEBACH, ELISHEVA
CHANNA NEUMAN
FROM ONE OF THE LEADING HISTORIANS OF THE JEWISH PAST COMES A STUNNING LOOK INTO A PREVIOUSLY UNEXAMINED DIMENSION OF JEWISH LIFE AND CULTURE: THE CALENDAR. AN EVOCATIVE ILLUMINATION OF HOW EARLY MODERN JEWISH MEN AND WOMEN MARKED THE RHYTHMS AND REALITIES OF TIME AND FILLED IT WITH ANXIETIES AND ACHIEVEMENTS.
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7859
WILSON, JONATHAN
MARGARET ROSSI
POLITICAL INTRIGUE AND ROMANCE IN 1924 PALESTINE UNDER THE BRITISH MANDATE. A DISILLUSIONED SECULAR JEWISH ARTIST FROM LONDON COMES TO JERUSALEM, HIRED TO PAINT ZIONIST WORKS. HE AND HIS WIFE, A PROTESTANT AMERICAN SOCIALITE, WITNESS THE MURDER OF A PROMINENT ORTHODOX MAN AND ARE DRAWN INTO THE INVESTIGATION.© 2003
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4896
PALESTINE AND THE PALESTINIANS 1876-1983
SMITH, PAMELA ANN
MILDRED E. GRASS
AN ANALYSIS OF THE EMERGENCE OF PALESTINIAN NATIONALISM TRACING ITS DEVELOPMENT FROM A RURAL PEASANT SOCIETY TO A LANDLESS PROLETARIAT. THE AUTHOR ASSERTS THAT THE DRIVE TO ACHIEVE A PALESTINIAN STATE WILL CONTINUE.
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8171
NASSIB, SELIM
MD LAUFER
A SON OF A RICH PALESTINIAN FAMILY HAS A JEWISH LOVER IN HAIFA. SHE IS THE YOUNG GOLDA MEIR, FUTURE PRIME MINISTER OF ISRAEL. LOVE AND ALLEGIANCE CLASH IN THIS HISTORICAL NOVEL ABOUT ONE OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY'S CENTRAL POLITICAL FIGURES.
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8000
EDWARDS, MICHELLE
J J KENNEDY
IT'S THE FIRST CHANUKAH SINCE MAMA DIED. CAN SELMA, PAPA, AND DORA MAKE LATKES WITHOUT HER? CHANUKAH - AND LATKES - MAY NEVER BE THE SAME, BUT SELMA LEARNS TO ADD SOME SPECIAL MEMORIES TO THE CELEBRATION. © 2004
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8479
SEARCHING FOR THE GIRL MY GRANDFATHER LEFT BEHIND
WILDMAN, SARAH
MARIE HOFFMAN
ONE WOMAN’S JOURNEY TO FIND THE LOST LOVE HER GRANDFATHER LEFT BEHIND WHEN HE FLED PRE-WORLD WAR II EUROPE, AND AN EXPLORATION INTO FAMILY IDENTITY, MYTH, AND MEMORY.
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4949
AMERICA AND THE REFUGEE CRISIS
WYMAN, DAVID S.
PAULA BARNETT SENNET
AN EXAMINATION OF AMERICA'S REFUGEE POLICY IN THE YEARS PRIOR TO WORLD WAR II. THE AUTHOR CONTENDS THAT UNEMPLOYMENT, NATIONALISM, ANTI-SEMITISM, AS WELL AS FEAR OF FIFTH COLUMNISTS DISGUISED AS REFUGEES LED TO RESTRICTIONS THAT PREVENTED MILLIONS OF PEOPLE FROM ESCAPING CERTAIN DEATH.
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4000
KLEIN, ED
MARGARET ALLEN, NAOMI ROSENBERG & RUTH SCHMITT
A WORLD WAR II THRILLER INVOLVING AN ASSASSINATION ATTEMPT AGAINST EICHMANN AND THE RESCUING OF HUNGARIAN JEWS.
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7520
A NOVEL
GOODMAN, ALLEGRA
BECK, MARILYN
ABANDONED BY HER FOLK-DANCING PARTNER, GARY, IN A HONOLULU HOTEL ROOM, SHARON SPEIGELMAN REALIZES THAT SHE COULD RETURN TO HER ESTRANGED FAMILY IN BOSTON OR BEGIN HER OWN SPIRITUAL QUEST. SHE EVENTUALLY STARTS ON THE PATH HOME TO JUDAISM BUT COMES ACROSS A FEW BUMPS IN THE ROAD.
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7048
POLLACK, EILEEN
LILA STERN
WE FIRST MEET LUCY APPELBAUM, THE HEROINE OF PARADISE, NY, IN 1970, AS A NINE-YEAR-OLD GIRL ENJOYING HER FAMILY'S CATSKILL HOTEL, THE GARDEN OF EDEN. TEN YEARS LATER, HAVING FOUND NOTHING ELSE TO DISTINGUISH HERSELF, LUCY TRIES TO SAVE THE HOTEL BY CAPITALIZING ON A WAVE OF NOSTALGIA FOR THE BORSCHT BELT AND RUNNING THE HOTEL AS A SORT OF LIVING MUSEUM OF YIDDISH CULTURE. LUCY BATTLES HER GRANDMOTHER'S ATTEMPTS TO SABOTAGE LUCY'S SUCCESS, HER PARENTS' SUPERSTITIOUS FEARS OF ANYTHING THAT ATTRACTS ATTENTION TO THE JEWS, HER BROTHER'S CONTENTION THAT WHAT LUCY IS DOING IS MORE A MATTER OF EGO THAN AUTHENTIC RELIGIOUS FEELING, AND HER OWN AFFAIRS OF THE HEART. © 1998
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6994
PARIS YEARS OF ROSIE KAMIN
TELEKY, RICHARD
SARENE MEYER
WHEN HER MOTHER, AN AUSCHWITZ SURVIVOR, COMMITS SUICIDE DURING HER LAST YEAR OF COLLEGE, ROSIE RUNS FROM HER FAMILY TO TAKE UP A LIFE OF SELF-IMPOSED EXILE IN PARIS. WE FIND HER TEN YEARS LATER NURSING A SICK LOVER. BUT WHEN A FORMER LOVER REAPPEARS, ROSIE BEGINS TO REFLECT ON HER YEARS IN PARIS AND HER PATTERNS OF DENIAL AND ESCAPISM.
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REFLECTIONS ON EXODUS
ZORNBERG, AVIVAH GOTTLIEB
IRWIN WEISS
IN HER READING OF THE FAMILIAR STORY OF THE ISRAELITES AND THEIR FLIGHT FROM SLAVEY IN EGYPT, AVIVAH ZORNBERG HAS BROUGHT A VAST RANGE OF CLASSICAL JEWISH INTERPRETATIONS AND MIDRASHIC SOURCES, LITERARY ALLUSIONS AND IDEAS FROM PHILOSOPHY AND PSYCHOLOGY. HER QUEST IN THIS BOOK IS "TO FIND THOSE WHO WILL HEAR WITH ME A PARTICULAR IDIOM OF REDEMPTION," WHO WILL HEAR "WITHIN THE PARTICULARS OF RAPTURE...WHAT CANNOT BE EXPRESSED."
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850
ASCH, SHOLEM
HELEN LEVINE
THE STORY OF A MAN'S SEARCH FOR SPIRITUAL PEACE AND UNDERSTANDING. © 1953
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7234
THE SUGIHARA STORY
MOCHIZUKI, KEN
MARJORIE RAPPOPORT
IN 1940, FIVE-YEAR-OLD HIROKI SUGIHARA, ELDEST SON OF THE JAPANESE CONSUL TO LITHUANIA, SAW FROM THE CONSULATE WINDOW HUNDREDS OF JEWISH REFUGEES FROM POLAND. THEY HAD COME TO HIROKI'S FATHER WITH A DESPERATE REQUEST: COULD CONSUL SUGIHARA WRITE VISAS FOR THEM TO ESCAPE THE NAZI THREAT? THE JAPANESE GOVERNMENT DENIED SUGIHARA'S REQUESTS TO ISSUE THE VISAS. UNABLE TO IGNORE THE PLIGHT OF THE REFUGEES, HE TURNED TO HIS FAMILY. TOGETHER THEY MADE THE CRUCIAL DECISION THAT SAVED THOUSANDS OF LIVES. BASED ON HIROKI
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4027
LEVIANT, CURT
ISABELLE RUBIN
ROMANCE DEVELOPS BETWEEN AN AMERICAN JOURNALIST TOURING THE SINAI AND AN ISRAELI ARMY OFFICER WHOSE HUSBAND IS A PARAPLEGIC.
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30
ROSTEN, LEO
LLOYD MOSS
A COLLECTION OF ESSAYS ON MODERN LIFE BY THE AUTHOR OF THE 'JOYS OF YIDDISH'. HIS HUMOR SOFTENS HIS BITING COMMENTARY ON SOCIETY.
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5005
ROUSSO, NIRA
DON EISENBERG
OVER 200 PASSOVER RECIPES FOR THE GOURMET COOK. © 1987
