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FAYE KELLERMAN COLLECTION II
KELLERMAN, FAYE
VARIOUS
THIS IS A COLLECTION OF (4) RECENT BOOKS WRITTEN BY FAYE KELLERMAN IT CONTAINS THE FOLLOWING BOOKS: "JUPITER BONES" (7131), "STALKER" (7418), "FORGOTTEN" (7478) AND "STREET DREAMS" (7922).
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SCHWARZ, LEO, ED
ROBERTA POLLACK
AN ANTHOLOGY OF 50 STORIES OF ADVENTURE, FAITH, AND LOVE, TAKEN FROM JEWISH LITERATURE OVER THE AGES.
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7160
KRICH, ROCHELLE
MARION FELDINGER
LISA BROCKMAN IS A STAFF PHYSICIAN AT A PRESTIGIOUS FERTILITY CLINIC THAT HAS COME UNDER FIRE FOR ALLEGED EGG SWITCHING. THE MURDER OF A YOUNG EGG DONOR AND THE MYSTERIOUS DISAPPEARANCE OF DR. MATTHEW GORDON, THE CLINIC'S FOUNDER AND LISA'S FIANCEE, PUTS HER MEDICAL CAREER IN JEOPARDY. IN DESPERATION, LISA LAUNCHES HER OWN SEARCH FOR THE TRUTH. © 1998
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5377
THE STORY OF PURIM
SILVERMAN, MAIDA
A SIMPLE RETELLING OF THE PURIM STORY INCLUDING A RECIPE FOR 'HAMENTASCHEN.'
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7985
HOW HOLLYWOOD AND VIVALDI DISCOVERED ME
KAUFMAN, LOUIS; KAUFMAN, ANNETTE
SUSS, ASHER
KAUFMAN (1905-1994), PROBABLY THE MOST-RECORDED AMERICAN VIOLINIST IN HISTORY, IS CREDITED WITH OVER 100 FILM SOUNDTRACKS AND WITH HELOING TO POPULARIZE THE MUSIC OF VIVALDI. WITH HIS WIFE, A NOTED PIANIST, HE SHARES HIS MEMOIRS AND SAMPLES OF HIS MUSIC. THE BOOK INCLUDES APPENDICES OF REVIEWS AND RECORDINGS. ©2003
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A MEMOIR
GORNICK, VIVIAN
CAREY, SANDRA
A DYNAMIC ACCOUNT OF GORNICK'S INTENSE AND VOLATILE RELATIONSHIP WITH HER FORMIDABLE MOTHER. A DESCRIPTION BY THE NEW YORK NATIVE AND FEMINIST OF HOW SHE CAME INTO HER OWN FROM A BRONX TENEMENT INT HE 1940S.
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8398
FIFTEEN JOURNEYS: WARSAW TO LONDON
REICHARDT, JASIA
THE TRAVELER IS A YOUNG GIRL, WHO WE MEET AT AGE SEVEN. ALONG THE WAY, SHE LOSES HER HOME, HER FAMILY, HER NAME, HER HAIR, AND FINALLY, HER FEAR. TWO THINGS HELP HER ON HER JOURNEYS DURING THESE DIFFICULT YEARS: SOME LESSONS FROM HER PARENTS AND A LARGE SHARE OF LUCK, WHICH NEVER DESERTS HER.
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4592
EYTAN, RACHEL
THIS NOVEL IS SET IN A HOME FOR REFUGEE AND UNWANTED CHILDREN IN PRE-STATEHOOD PALESTINE. IT WON THE BRENNER PRIZE FOR LITERATURE.
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5161
WIESEL, ELIE
JUDITH TESSER
A NOVEL ABOUT REUVEN TAMIROFF, A HOLOCAUST SURVIVOR WHO WAS FORMERLY THE LEADER OF THE JEWISH COUNCIL IN A CONDEMNED CENTRAL EUROPEAN GHETTO. HIS AMERICAN-BORN SON GRADUALLY LEARNS OF THE BURIED EVENTS OF HIS FATHER'S LIFE.
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A BIOGRAPHY OF SOLOMON SCHECHTER
EISENBERG, AZRIEL
SIDNEY BIEGELSON
A BIOGRAPHY OF THE FOUNDER OF CONSERVATIVE JUDAISM WRITTEN ESPECIALLY FOR YOUNG PEOPLE. © 1965
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6027
OZ, AMOS
TAMIR
A NOVEL IN WHICH EFRAIM 'FIMA' NISAN'S EMOTIONAL DISINTEGRATION MIRRORS THE BREAKDOWN OF ETHICS IN ISRAEL. NISAN HAS MADE A MESS OF HIS ONCE-PROMISING LIFE AND HE NEARLY GOES CRAZY WITH MORAL OUTRAGE AS HE TAKES ON THE CONSCIENCE OF THE ISRAELI NATION.
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5383
FINAL ANALYSIS OF DR. STARK
TELUSHKIN, JOSEPH
ELISSA BAUM
WHILE SOLVING THE MYSTERY OF HIS FRIEND'S MURDER, RABBI WINTER, AN ORTHODOX RABBI, ALSO LEARNS A LESSON IN THE EVILS OF TALE-BEARING AND RUMOR-MONGERING.
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4553
THE DIARIES OF JOSEPH GOEBBELS
TREVOR-ROPER, HUGH, ED.
DORIS WEINBERG
THE DIARY ENTRIES OF JOSEPH GOEBBELS, NAZI PROPAGANDA MINISTER, IN HIS FINAL YEAR.
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8468
THE DISCOVERY OF STREPTOMYCIN AND A LIFE IT SAVED
AUERBACHER, INGE; SCHATZ, ALBERT
ROXANNE KLEIMAN
A POIGNANT STORY ABOUT DR. ALBERT SCHATZ, DISCOVERER OF STREPTOMYCIN, WHO NEVER RECEIVED THE RECOGNITION HE DESERVED. THE TIMING OF THE DISCOVERY MEANT THE DIFFERENCE FOR SURVIVAL FOR AUTHOR AUERBACHER, A SURVIVOR OF A CONCENTRATION CAMP. HOW THESE TWO LIVES INTERTWINED IS ONE THE READER WILL NEVER FORGET.
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4736
TEN JEWISH RESPONSES
SONSINO, RIFAT;SYME, DANIEL B.
ELEANOR SCHICK
A COMPILATION OF TEN DISTINCT JEWISH THEOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVES AND THE DIFFERENT WAYS JEWS HAVE SPOKEN OF GOD THROUGHOUT HISTORY.
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4843
MACKINNON, COLIN
FRANCES WALDMAN
IN 1977 TEHERAN, AN ISRAELI SPY IS KILLED AND THE SEARCH IS ON TO DISCOVER WHO KILLED HIM AND WHY. THE SEARCH TAKES READERS THROUGH THE VARIOUS RELIGIOUS AND SOCIAL STRATA OF MIDDLE EAST POLITICS.
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8636
FINDING MEANING IN AN IMPERFECT WORLD
LANDAU, IDDO
JAMES MCGOWAN
IN THIS WARMLY WRITTEN BOOK, RICH WITH EXAMPLES FROM THE AUTHOR'S LIFE, FILM, LITERATURE, AND HISTORY, LANDAU OFFERS NEW THEORIES AND PRACTICAL ADVICE THAT AWAKEN US TO THE MEANING ALREADY PRESENT IN OUR LIVES AND DEMONSTRATES HOW WE CAN ENHANCE IT.
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5955
JEWISH TEXTS AND THE LIVES WE LIVE
HOLTZ, BARRY W.
ELAINE RACOUN
IN THIS SEQUEL TO 'BACK TO THE SOURCES,' HOLTZ ADDRESSES THOSE READERS WHO LIVE IN A PREDOMINANTLY SECULAR WORLD BUT WANT TO EXPLORE THE RELEVANCE OF JEWISH TEACHINGS TO THEIR LIVES.
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8238
JEWISH SONGWRITERS, AMERICAN SONGS
LEHMAN, DAVID
WIN ROBBINS
LEHMAN, POET, ANTHOLOGIST AND CRITIC (THE LAST AVANT-GARDE), MELDS DREAMY PERSONAL REFLECTIONS WITH IMPRESSIVE ARCHIVAL EXCAVATION FOR A THOROUGH LOOK AT THE POPULAR EARLY-20TH-CENTURY SONGWRITERS AND WHAT MADE THEIR WORK QUINTESSENTIALLY JEWISH.
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8427
STEEL, DANIELLE
LORNA KOCH
THE STORY OF BERNIE FINE WHOSE WIFE DIES, LEAVING HIM ALONE WITH TWO CHILDREN. A KIDNAPPING AND A BITTER CUSTODY BATTLE FORCE HIM TO LEARN WHAT PERSONAL COMMITMENT IS ALL ABOUT.
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7731
WINGATE OF ETHIOPIA, BURMA, AND ZION
BIERMAN, JOHN; SMITH, COLIN
RUBIN, RICHARD
WELL RESEARCHED BIOGRAPHY OF ORDE WINGATE WHO LED CAMPAIGNS AGAINST THE JAPANESE IN BURMA IN WORLD WAR II, BATTLE AGAINST THE ITALIANS IN ETHIOPIA, AND PLAYED A ROLE IN DEVELOPING A ZIONIST ARMY IN PALESTINE (ISRAEL) AFTER WORLD WAR II. IN BOTH HIS PERSONAL AND MILITARY LIFE, WINGATE OFTEN EMPLOYED UNCONVENTIONAL TACTICS, FOR WHICH HE WAS BOTH DESPISED AND PRAISED.
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5951
HERMAN, RICHARD JR.
RENEE GOODSTEIN
SET IN THE NEAR FUTURE, IRAQ HAS BEEN ALLOWED TO RECOVER FULLY FROM THE SECOND GULF WAR AND IS ABLE TO JOIN EGYPT AND SYRIA IN ATTACKING ISRAEL. ISRAEL'S PRIME MINISTER IS PREPARED TO USE NUCLEAR WEAPONS IF IRAQ EMPLOYS ITS DEADLIEST NERVE GAS, FORCING U.S. FIGHTER PILOTS TO EMBARK ON A DESPERATE MISSION AGAINST IRAQ'S CHEMICAL PLANTS.
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8003
A POLITICAL AUTOBIOGRAPHY
LERNER, GERDA
JOAN ATLAS
A PIONEERING SCHOLAR OF WOMEN'S HISTORY, LERNER'S EXPERIENCE PARALLELS THE POLITICAL DISSENT MOVEMENTS OF THE 20TH CENTURY. BORN IN VIENNA, SHE WAS IMPRISONED BY THE NAZIS, ESCAPED TO AMERICA, AND MARRIED MOVIE DIRECTOR CARL LERNER. TOGETHER, THEY FOUGHT THE DEPRESSION AND THE BLACKLIST AND JOINED THE UNION, PEACE, AND CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENTS. EARNING A COLLEGE DEGREE LATER IN LIFE, GERDA HAD A BRILLIANT ACADEMIC CAREER AND PROMOTED BETTER SCHOOLS IN NEW YORK CITY. © 2002
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3535
AGRESS, HYMAN; AGRESS, FRANCES
EDNA BENDER & MIRIAM FREDMAN
THE STORY OF YOUNG RABBI LEVI WHOSE ATTEMPTS TO SATISFY BOTH HIS RADICAL AND CONSERVATIVE CONGREGANTS TAKE AN OMINOUS TURN WHEN HE RECEIVES POISON PEN LETTERS AND CALLS THREATENING MURDER.
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4694
FISCHEL, H.A.
SHIRLEY KALB
A COMMENTARY ON THE FIRST BOOK OF MACCABEES, WHICH DEALS WITH A CRUCIAL PERIOD IN JEWISH HISTORY: THE UPRISING OF A TINY BAND OF VALIANT MACCABEES AGAINST THE TYRANNY OF THE SYRIAN KINGS.
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5582
HOBSON, LAURA Z.
DONALD GISENBERG
IN THIS NOVEL OF THE HARASSMENT OF LIBERALS AND RADICALS IN THE UNITED STATES DURING THE YEARS PRECEDING WORLD WAR I, A RUSSIAN-JEWISH INTELLECTUAL AND HIS FRIEND BECOME INVOLVED IN VARIOUS RADICAL GROUPS THAT AFFECT THEIR FAMILIES IN MANY WAYS.
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6841
BRILEY, JOHN
HARRY SMALL
JEWISH COLLEGE STUDENT LISA COOPER DECIDES TO JOIN THE MOSSAD WHEN HER ISRAELI NIECE AND NEPHEW ARE KILLED. HER ASSIGNMENT? MEET AND MARRY A SAUDI ARABIAN STUDENT AND LIVE WITH HIM UNTIL THE MOSSAD CONTACTS HER. AS TIME PASSES SHE BEGINS TO CARE FOR HER HUSBAND AND FINDS SHE MUST ULTIMATELY CHOOSE BETWEEN HIM OR HER PEOPLE. © 1997
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2195
FIRST-CENTURY JUDAISM IN CRISIS
NEUSNER, JACOB
FRAN KLIPSTEIN, HARRIET ALKOFF
BASED ON THE AUTHOR'S PRIZEWINNING BIOGRAPHY OF YOCHANAN BEN ZAKKAI AND HIS TIMES, THIS BOOK DESCRIBES THE CONFLICT BETWEEN THE ROMANS WHO WANTED TO EXPAND THEIR EMPIRE AND THE JEWISH PEOPLE WHO WISHED TO CONTINUE TO OBSERVE THE LAWS OF THEIR RELIGION AND LIVE IN THEIR HOLY LAND.
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2138
SEFORIM, MENDELE MOCHER
B. WILK
THIS NOVEL WITHIN A NOVEL TELLS OF THE LOVE OF TWO CRIPPLED BEGGARS.
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3878
SAUL-JONAH-JEREMIAH-ELIJAH-JOSHUA
WIESEL, ELIE
SATAH BAKER
A STUDY OF THE PROPHETS JOSHUA, SAUL, JEREMIAH, ELIJAH AND JONAH.
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3080
LENGYEL, OLGA
MARIAN BAER
A MEMOIR OF THE AUTHOR'S EXPERIENCES IN AUSCHWITZ. LENGYEL LATER BECAME A MEMBER OF THE MEDICAL PROFESSION.
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5361
YEHOSHUA, A.B.
LYNN HIMELFARB
YEHOSHUA WRITES OF THE PAINFUL AND AWKWARD READJUSTMENT TO LIFE OF A PASSIVE CIVIL SERVANT WHO HAD NURSED HIS WIFE THROUGH A LONG AND FATAL ILLNESS.
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1291
BASSANI, GIORGIO
ADELINE MAREMONT
FIVE STORIES WHICH RECREATE THE SOCIAL HISTORY OF THE ITALIAN CITY OF FERRARA WHERE MASS DEPORTATION OF JEWS TOOK PLACE DURING WORLD WAR II.
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181
MALAMUD, BERNARD
SCHIER, NANCY
MALAMUD BASED THIS NOVEL ON THE BEILIS BLOOD LIBEL COURT CASE IN KIEV IN 1913.
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5653
ASCHER, CAROL
NINA MELTZER
AS TOLD BY NINE-YEAR-OLD EVA, THIS IS THE STORY OF THE HOFFMANS, REFUGEES FROM WORLD WAR II VIENNA, WHO ATTEMPT TO ESTABLISH THEMSELVES IN 1950S TOPEKA, KANSAS IN THE MIDST OF SERIOUS RACIAL TENSIONS.
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6952
RABINOVICH, DALIA
LONDON, ELIZABETH
DAVID AND FLORA GROSSENBERG, A YOUNG JEWISH COUPLE, EMIGRATE TO COLUMBIA SHORTLY AFTER THEIR MARRIAGE AND SOON DISCOVER THAT THE CLASH OF CULTURES-BETWEEN COLUMBIAN AND AMERICAN TRADITIONS, AND BETWEEN MODERN JEWS AND THEIR CONSERVATIVE RUSSIAN EMIGRE RELATIONS-WILL TEST THEIR MARRIAGE AND THEIR FAMILY BONDS.
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6690
COURTER, GAY
MIRIAM ALIMONOS
BEAUTIFUL DINAH SASSOON, DAUGHTER OF AN AFFLUENT OPIUM TRADER AND PILLAR OF CALCUTTA'S TIGHT-KNIT JEWISH COMMUNITY, SEES HER PRIVILEGED FUTURE DESTROYED WHEN HER MOTHER IS MYSTERIOUSLY MURDERED. THIS TRAGIC EVENT LEAVES DINAH DISHONORED AND VIRTUALLY UNMARRIAGEABLE, UNTIL EDWIN SALE SPARKS HER INDOMITABLE SPIRIT AND AMBITION. © 1990
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7758
SET IN THE TURMOIL OF PALESTINE IN 1938
BARON, AILEEN G.
SANDY SKODNIK
LILY SAMPSON, AN AMERICAN GRADUATE STUDENT ON AN ARCHAEOLOGICAL DIG IN THE JERUSALEM, CONFRONTS MURDER, INTRIGUE, AND THE THEFT OF ANTIQUITIES DURING THE BRITISH MANDATE ON THE BRINK OF WORLD WAR II. THIS BOOK WON FIRST PRIZE IN ITS CATEGORY AT BOTH THE PIKES PEAK AND SOUTHWEST WRITERS CONFERENCES IN 2000.© 2002
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1365
MILLER, ARTHUR
MRS. EUGENE KRAMON
A ALLEGORICAL STORY ABOUT ANTI-SEMITISM. LAWRENCE NEWMAN, OFFICE WORKER AND ORDINARY ANTI-SEMITE, STARTS WEARING GLASSES AND IS SUDDENLY MISTAKEN FOR A JEW. HE BEGINS EXPERIENCING THE BIGOTRY OF THE NEIGHBORS HE'D BEEN FRIENDLY WITH BEFORE, AND IN DUE COURSE HE FINDS SUPPORT AND UNDERSTANDING FROM ONE OF THE VERY JEWISH IMMIGRANTS HE HAD PREVIOUSLY SO DESPISED.
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7978
MEGGED, AHARON
ARLENE KEMPNER
SHMUEL FOIGLMAN, A YIDDISH POET AND HOLOCAUST SURVIVOR, IS INSPIRED BY ZVI ARBEL'S WRITINGS ON JEWISH HISTORY TO SEND THE ISRAELI HISTORIAN A COLLECTION OF HIS POEMS. WHEN ARBEL DECIDES TO HAVE THE POEMS TRANSLATED INTO HEBREW, THE TWO VERY DIFFERENT KINDS OF JEWS FORM AN UNLIKELY RELATIONSHIP, WHICH BECOMES AN OBSESSION FOR ARBEL, DRIVING A WEDGE BETWEEN HIM AND HIS WIFE. TRANSLATED FROM THE 1987 HEBREW BY MARGANIT WEINBERGER-ROTMAN. © 2003
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NOY, DOV, ED.
JANE WEISS
A SELECTION OF JEWISH FOLK TALES ON BOTH RELIGIOUS AND SECULAR THEMES. TRANSLATED BY GENE BA
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8587
IDA SIMONS
PAM VASSIL
IT IS THE MIDDLE OF THE ROARING '20S, AND GITTEL IS LIVING IN THE HAGUE WITH HER PARENTS. I A MASTERLY AND TIMELESS ODE TO A RELATIVELY CAREFREE INTERLUDE IN A DARK AND DRAMATIC PERIOD.
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1600
SINGER, ISAAC BASHEVIS
BETTY BUSMAN
A HUMOROUS STORY ABOUT THE PEOPLE OF CHELM WHO ARE POOR BUT CONTENT UNTIL ONE OF THEIR SAGES POINTS OUT WHAT THEY ARE MISSING.
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967
FOR DYING YOU ALWAYS HAVE TIME
SINGER, SALLY M.
HELEN KLEINER
AN AMERICAN-JEWISH WOMAN VISITING ISRAEL BECOMES INVOLVED IN A SPY AND COUNTERSPY INTRIGUE DURING HER TRAVELS IN THE COUNTRY.
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5378
APPELFELD, AHARON
THIS NOVEL PORTRAYS A HOLOCAUST SURVIVOR, WHO SPENT FOUR YEARS IN CONCENTRATION CAMPS, TENTATIVELY JOINING THE COMPANY OF SURVIVORS.
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6005
MOSCO, MAISIE
DANIELLE STANLEY
WHEN HER MOTHER DIES, BELLA MINSKY IS ENTRUSTED WITH THE CARE OF HER YOUNGER SIBLINGS. FORCED TO GIVE UP HER DREAM OF ATTENDING OXFORD UNIVERSITY, SHE TURNS THE FAMILY CLOTHING BUSINESS INTO AN INTERNATIONAL SUCCESS.
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3642
KISSINGER, HENRY
WITHOUT PORTFOLIO SINCE 1977, KISSINGER STILL INVOLVES HIMSELF WITH FOREIGN POLICY. HERE ARE HIS MAJOR SPEECHES, STATEMENTS, ARTICLES AND INTERVIEWS FROM JUNE 1977 TO MID 1980 ON SUCH TOPICS AS THE ECONOMY, DETENTE, NATO, AND THE MIDDLE EAST.
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7013
FOR THE RELIEF OF UNBEARABLE URGES
ENGLANDER, NATHAN
SANDI SKODNIK
THE STORIES IN THIS VOLUME BY THE TWENTY-EIGHT YEAR OLD AUTHOR WHOSE WORKS HAVE APPEARED IN STORY MAGAZINE AND THE NEW YORKER ARE INVENTIVE AND OFTEN HAUNTING, STEEPED IN THE WEIGHT OF JEWISH HISTORY AND IN THE CUSTOMS OF ORTHODOX JEWISH LIFE. © 1999
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CULTURE WARS IN THE AGE OF DREYFUS
BROWN, FREDERICK
NIKKI JAMES
THE AUTHOR WRITES ABOUT THE FORCES THAT LED UP TO THE YEARS OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY WHEN FRANCE, DEFEATED BY PRUSSIA IN THE FRANCO-PRUSSIAN WAR OF 1870-71, WAS FORCED TO CEDE THE BORDER STATES OF ALSACE AND LORRAINE, AND OF THE RESULTING CIVIL WAR THAT TOPPLED NAPOLÉON III, CRUSHED THE PARIS COMMUNE, AND PROVOKED A DANGEROUS NATIONALISM THAT GRIPPED THE REPUBLIC.
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1494
GRAY, MARTIN
BEATRICE SUDNOW
THE STORY OF A MAN WHO LOST EVERYTHING BUT HIS WILL TO SURVIVE. INCLUDES HIS LIFE IN THE WARSAW GHETTO, THE SLAUGHTER OF HIS FAMILY, HIS IMPRISONMENT AT TREBLINKA, AND HIS HUNT FOR NAZI WAR CRIMINALS.
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6449
FOR THOSE WHO CAN'T BELIEVE
OVERCOMING THE OBSTACLES OF FAITH
SCHULWEIS, HAROLD M.
EDITH FRIEDMAN
RABBI SCHULWEIS ADDRESSES THE MAJOR HURDLES TO BELIEF IN THE LATE TWENTIETH CENTURY AND ATTEMPTS TO HELP READERS UNDERSTAND THE ROLE OF PRAYER, MIRACLES, AND DIVINE REVELATION IN THEIR LIVES.© 1994
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STORIES
LAPPIN, ELENA
ELLEN DAVID
TRANSPLANTED FROM ONE COUNTRY TO ANOTHER, WOMEN LIKE ISRAELI NORA, RUSSIAN VERA, AND GERMAN PAULA SETTLE INTO LIVES OF PERSISTENTLY UNFAMILIAR IF NOT UTTERLY STRANGE ROUTINES. THE AUTHOR HAS COMPOSED THESE INSIDIOUSLY FUNNY TALES ABOUT LOVE AND SURVIVAL IN AN INTERNATIONAL NO-MAN'S LAND OF MARRIAGE.
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8622
KRAUSS, NICOLE
ELIZABETH LONDON
JULES EPSTEIN, A SIXTY-EIGHT YEARS OLD MAN IS UNDERGOING A METAMORPHOSIS. IN THE WAKE OF HIS PARENTS’ DEATHS, HIS DIVORCE FROM HIS WIFE OF MORE THAN THIRTY YEARS, AND HIS RETIREMENT FROM THE NEW YORK LAW FIRM WHERE HE WAS A PARTNER, HE HAS FELT AN IRRESISTIBLE NEED TO GIVE AWAY HIS POSSESSIONS. WITH THE LAST OF HIS WEALTH HE TRAVELS TO ISRAEL, WITH A NEBULOUS PLAN TO DO SOMETHING TO HONOR HIS PARENTS. I
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1158
ARNOLD, ELLIOTT
MARION BAER
A NOVEL ABOUT A JEW, SUFFERING FROM THE GUILT OVER HAVING PARTICIPATED IN AN RAF RAID ON A GERMAN CITY, WHO RETURNS TO GERMANY TO DISCOVER HOW HIS MOTHER DIED.
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7850
ESSAYS BY THE GODFATHER
GUTKIND, LEE
MICHELLE HARBER
GUTKIND, THE "GODFATHER OF CREATIVE NON-FICTION," BATTLES HIS WEIGHT, EX-WIVES, ABUSIVE FATHER, RABBI, SHRINK, AND CRITICS IN THIS COLLECTION OF ESSAYS, IN A LIFELONG, CROSS-COUNTRY, CROSS-CULTURAL SEARCH FOR IDENTITY AND STABILITY.© 2003
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5968
WIESEL, ELIE
HORRIFIED THAT HE IS LOSING HIS MEMORY DUE TO ILLNESS, A ROMANIAN JEWISH HOLOCAUST SURVIVOR ENTRUSTS HIS AND OTHERS' ACCOUNTS OF SURVIVAL TO HIS SON, MALKIEL, A JOURNALIST. AT HIS FATHER'S REQUEST, MALKIEL JOURNEYS TO THE CARPATHIAN MOUNTAINS TO EXPLORE THE MYSTERIES THAT STILL CONFOUND HIS FATHER.
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6415
THE ABANDONMENT OF AMERICANS IN HITLER'S CAMPS
BARD, MITCHELL G.
RICHARD HANA
BASED ON ORIGINAL DOCUMENTS AND INTERVIEWS WITH SURVIVORS, THE AUTHOR REVEALS THAT WASHINGTON OFFICIALS KNEW U.S. CITIZENS WERE BEING BRUTALIZED AND KILLED IN CONCENTRATION CAMPS YET DID NOTHING TO SAVE THEM. BARD DESCRIBES THE FATE OF AMERICANS CAUGHT IN EUROPE AND THE MISTREATMENT OF AMERICAN MILITARY POWS, ESPECIALLY JEWS.© 1994
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AMERICAN LIVES
SEROTTE, BRENDA
NORMA FIRE
SEROTTE'S MEMOIR TELLS OF HER GROWING UP IN THE BRONX IN A SEPHARDIC JEWISH FAMILY AMONG ASHKENAZI NEIGHBORS. SHE WRITES OF HER TURKISH-BORN RELATIVES, THEIR CUSTOMS AND RITUALS, AND HOW SHE CAME DOWN WITH POLIO SHORTLY BEFORE HER EIGHTH BIRTHDAY. DESCRIPTIONS OF HER FAMILY MEMBERS ARE WHAT MAKE THIS MEMOIR A JOY TO READ.
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MEGGED, AHARON
NORMA ARBIY
ISRAELI AUTHOR MEGGED WRITES METAPHORICALLY ABOUT A LONELY OUTSIDER, WHILE PROTESTING AGAINST A SOCIETY WHICH IS LOSING ITS FAITH. © 1962
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1991
GREENBERG, SIMON
A COMPENDIUM OF JEWISH HISTORY, LAW, CUSTOMS, AND PRINCIPLES OF FAITH.
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3726
GOLDREICH, GLORIA
ELEANOR SEIDMAN
INA FELDMAN, LOVING WIFE AND MOTHER AS WELL AS SUCCESSFUL BUSINESSWOMAN, HAS TO FACE THE MOST IMPORTANT DECISION OF HER LIFE. IN LIGHT OF HER HOLOCAUST EXPERIENCE, SHOULD SHE ABORT THE UNWANTED CHILD SHE IS CARRYING? PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE COME TOGETHER IN A SINGLE UNPREDICTABLE MOMENT.
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1134
BERLIN, ISAIAH, SIR
TEMPLE SINAI OF ROSLYN HEIGHTS, NY
A COLLECTION OF ESSAYS ABOUT CONFORMITY, COERCION, AND THE LIMITS AND GLORIES OF FREEDOM.
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7108
HORN, SHIFRA
LILA STERN
SHIFRA HORN'S NOVEL TELLS THE STORY OF FOUR GENERATIONS OF WOMEN IN ONE FAMILY AGAINST THE BACKGROUND OF ONE HUNDRED YEARS IN JERUSALEM. THE STORY BEGINS WITH AMAL, OF THE FIFTH GENERATION, WHO IS DESPONDENT OVER HER HUSBAND'S DESERTION AFTER THE BIRTH OF HER SON. HER MOTHER, GRANDMOTHER AND GREAT-GRANDMOTHER ARE OVERJOYED, BECAUSE THE BIRTH OF A HEALTHY BOY MEANS THAT THEIR FAMILY'S LONG CURSE HAS BEEN BROKEN - THERE IS NO DAUGHTER TO INHERIT IT. COME, LISTEN, THEY SAY TO AMAL, LISTEN TO THE STORY OF THE CURSE THAT FORESHADOWED EVERY FATHER'S DISAPPEARANCE. BE COMFORTED BY YOUR "FOUR MOTHERS." © 1999
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6705
A HOLOCAUST STORY
PERL, LILA; BLUMENTHAL LAZAR, MARIAN
ADELE BORDEN
MARIAN BLUMENTHAL WAS NOT QUITE FIVE YEARS OLD WHEN HER FAMILY FLED GERMANY FOR THE RELATIVE SAFETY OF HOLLAND. THEY HAD VISAS FOR THE U.S., BUT THE NAZIS INVADED HOLLAND BEFORE THEY COULD BE USED. THE BLUMENTHALS WERE SENT TO THE "FAMILY CAMP" AT BERGEN-BELSEN, WHERE THEY REMAINED UNTIL THEY WERE LIBERATED AT THE END OF THE WAR. © 1996
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1120
FOUR STRANGE BOOKS OF THE BIBLE
BICKERMAN, ELIAS
ELLEN JAKOBSON
AN INTELLECTUAL AND HISTORICAL APPROACH TO UNDERSTANDING THE BOOKS OF DANIEL, JONAH, ESTHER, AND ECCLESIASTES.
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5412
WEIDMAN, JEROME
MIRIAM BLOSVERN
THIS NOVEL TELLS THE STORY OF BENNY KRAMER GROWING UP ON THE LOWER EAST SIDE OF MANHATTAN IN THE 1920S.
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8004
TRAVELS THROUGH THE JEWISH DIASPORA
ROSS, JAMES R.
AUDREY FLAMBERG
PROFESSOR ROSS PRESENTS SIX UNUSUAL JEWISH COMMUNITIES - IN PERU, BRAZIL, INDIA, THE AMAZON, ISRAEL, AND UGANDA - AND REFLECTS ON THE SPECIAL WAYS THEIR BELIEFS AND RITUALS DEVELOPED IN ISOLATION FROM MAINSTREAM JUDAISM. HE ALSO DISCUSSES THE STATUS OF THESE BRANCHES OF THE JEWISH FAMILY TREE IN REGARDS TO THE "WHO IS A JEW?" CONTROVERSY AND ISRAEL'S LAW OF RETURN. © 2001
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5204
FRAGMENTED LIFE OF DON JACOBO LERNER
GOLDEMBERG, ISAAC
NORMA FLASTER
THE STORY OF A RUSSIAN IMMIGRANT FAMILY ATTEMPTING TO RECONSTRUCT THEIR TRADITIONS AND LIFESTYLE IN PERU IN THE 1930S.
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2071
A BIOGRAPHY
BROD, MAX
TRUDY CUTLER
A BIOGRAPHY OF FRANZ KAFKA INCLUDING THE INNER STRUGGLES OF THE WRITER, HIS ILLNESS, AND HIS LAST DAYS.
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4184
ON FEMININITY AND FAITH
VAN HERIK, JUDITH
RUBELLE SCHAFLER
AN EXPLORATION OF THE PSYCHIATRIST'S WRITINGS ON CULTURE AND, IN PARTICULAR HIS THEORIES ON GENDER AND RELIGION.
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4953
KRULL, MARIANNE
JEANNE BLUMENGARTEN
THE AUTHOR REVEALS HOW FREUD'S COMPLEX RELATIONSHIP WITH HIS FATHER DICTATED MANY OF HIS THEORIES AND CHANGED SOME OF HIS EARLY IDEAS.
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4276
BETTELHEIM, BRUNO
T. SHERBER
ITS MOST POTENT, THOUGH TAUT THEME IS THE NOSTALGIA FOR THE VIENNA OF HIS EARLY LIFE. BETTELHEIM WAS BORN THERE IN 1903 INTO A MIDDLE-CLASS, ASSIMILATED JEWISH FAMILY, ABOUT HALF A CENTURY AFTER FREUD, WHOSE ORIGINS WERE VERY SIMILAR, AND HE SAYS THAT THE CULTURE IN WHICH HE WAS REARED HAD NOT CHANGED VERY MUCH.
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5589
FREUD'S VIENNA AND OTHER ESSAYS
BETTELHEIM, BRUNO
JUDITH TESSER
ESSAYS BY THE AUTHOR, A PSYCHOANALYST, WHICH REFLECT HIS CONCERNS AS BOTH CHILD THERAPIST AND HOLOCAUST SURVIVOR. INCLUDED ARE PIECES ON THE AUTHOR'S RETURN TO DACHAU WHERE HE HAD BEEN A PRISONER, MIEP GIES, WHO HAD SHELTERED ANNE FRANK FROM THE NAZIS, AND A DISCUSSION ON SEX AND DEATH IN BETTELHEIM'S NATIVE VIENNA.
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3907
THE EVALUATION OF MEDIEVAL ANTI-SEMITISM
COHEN, JEREMY
DR. IRVING KRAMER
HOW THE DOMINICANS AND THE FRANCISCANS, FROM THE TIME OF THEIR FOUNDING, OVERSAW ALL ANTI-SEMITIC ACTIVITIES OF THE CHURCH.
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8534
FRIARS CLUB ENCYCLOPEDIA OF JOKES
DOUGHERTY, BARRY; COHL,H.AARON
STEVE SCHREIBER
HUMOR.
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5142
FRIDAY THE RABBI SLEPT LATE
KEMELMAN, HARRY
NANCY SCHIERING
THE RABBI IS THE PRIME SUSPECT WHEN A YOUNG NANNY IS FOUND MURDERED NEAR HIS TEMPLE. WITH AN ANGRY CONGREGATION AT HIS BACK, THE RABBI MUST EXONERATE HIMSELF BY SOLVING THE MYSTERY.
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7112
KADISH, RACHEL
WENDY GOULSTON
IN THIS DEBUT NOVEL, THREE WOMEN, AN ISRAELI, HER AMERICAN COUSIN, AND AN ELDERLY HOLOCAUST SURVIVOR, ARE TRAPPED BY DIFFERENT CIRCUMSTANCES YET UNITED IN THEIR DESIRE FOR LIBERATION. ©
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7891
A PROFOUND NEW VISION OF GROWING OLDER
SCHACHTER-SHALOMI, ZALMAN
MARY ANN DEROSA
BASED ON HIS OWN EXPERIENCES, REB ZALMAN HAS CREATED SPIRITUAL ELDERING--A SOCIAL ACTIVISM, AWARENESS, AND MENTORING PROGRAM TO HELP PEOPLE WELCOME THE AGING PROCESS, RATHER THAN DREADING IT AS HE ONCE DID. © 1995
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7426
FROM CENTRAL PARK TO SINAI
HOW I FOUND MY JEWISH SOUL
NEUBERGER, ROY S.
S. RIFKIN
ROY NEUBERGER TAKES US ON AN ABSORBING JOURNEY FROM AN UNFULFILLED SECULAR LIFE TO A WORLD OF SPIRITUAL RICHNESS, GUIDED BY THE BELIEF THAT THERE IS A VERY REAL ENTITY WHO CREATED THE WORLD AND WHOSE RULES WE ARE OBLIGED TO FOLLOW.
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4413
THE TRANSFORMATION OF FRENCH JEWRY
HYMAN, PAULA
BILLIE BERNSTEIN
AN ANALYSIS OF THE POLITICAL, SOCIAL AND CULTURAL FORCES AFFECTING THE STATUS OF JEWS IN FRANCE FROM THE END OF THE DREYFUS AFFAIR IN 1906 TO 1939. WITH THE INFLUX OF JEWS FROM EASTERN EUROPE AFTER 1906, GENERAL FRENCH ACCEPTANCE OF JEWS RADICALLY DECLINED.
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FREUD'S JEWISH IDENTITY
ROBERT, MARTHE. RALPH MANHEIM, TRAN
JANE N. WEISS
THE AUTHOR CONTENDS THAT FREUD'S ADVANCEMENT OF HIS THEORY OF SEXUALITY WAS BASED LARGELY ON FRUSTRATED AMBITIONS TO ACHIEVE RECOGNITION IN A GENTILE SOCIETY.
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5935
A HISTORY OF SECOND TEMPLE AND RABBINIC TIMES
SCHIFFMAN, LAWRENCE H.
SARAJEAN SHERK
A HISTORICAL OVERVIEW OF JUDAISM DURING THE SECOND TEMPLE PERIOD WHICH DEMONSTRATES HOW JEWISH PRACTICE EVOLVED FROM BIBLICAL TO TALMUDIC TIMES.
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5651
A MEMOIR 1938-1947
DAWIDOWICZ, LUCY S.
RITA LEVINE
THE AUTHOR, AN AMERICAN HISTORIAN, RECOUNTS THE YEAR SHE SPENT IN 1938 WORKING AT THE YIVO ARCHIVES IN VILNA SHORTLY BEFORE THE NAZIS SWEPT IN AND MURDERED NEARLY ALL THAT CITY'S JEWS.
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3768
MOSCO, MAISIE
ZOE BLETH
SARAH SANDBERG WAS A MOTHER, LOVER, VITAL FORCE WHO LAUNCHED HER FAMILY ON A NEW LIFE IN A STRANGE NEW WORLD, ANCHORED IN TRADITION, AMBITION & DESIRE.
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ALEICHEM, SHOLOM
TRUDY CUTLER
IN THIS AUTOBIOGRAPHY, THE WELL-KNOWN YIDDISH WRITER DEPICTS THE LOST WORLD IN WHICH HE LIVED.
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5600
FROM THE KINGDOM OF MEMORY
REMINISCENCES
WIESEL, ELIE
JEAN MARKS
IN THESE ESSAYS AND SPEECHES, WIESEL, THE NOBEL PEACE-WINNING AUTHOR, RECOUNTS BOTH THE HISTORICAL AND PERSONAL MOMENTS IN HIS LIFE. INCLUDED ARE HIS RETURN TRIP TO AUSCHWITZ, TREBLINKA, AND BIRKENAU, HIS CASTIGATION OF HOLOCAUST REVISIONISTS, HIS 1986 NOBEL LECTURE, AND HIS CHILDHOOD.
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1841
TALES OF THE JEWS OF YEMEN
GOITEN, S.D., ED.
A COLLECTION OF FOLK TALES, LEGENDS, AND SONGS OF THE YEMENITE JEWS.
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5338
FROM THE MACCABEES TO THE MISHNAH
COHEN, SHAYE J.D.
ELEANOR SCHICK
A BRIEF ACCOUNT OF JEWS AND JUDAISM FROM 160 THROUGH 63 B.C.E.
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5923
A MEMOIR OF LAUGHTER, SURVIVAL AND
BULOFF, JOSEPH
JEAN MARKS
THROUGH HIS PROTAGONIST, YOSIK, AN UNDERSIZED PRECOCIOUS JEWISH BOY, THE AUTHOR DESCRIBES THE CHAOTIC EVENTS IN VILNIUS, THE FORMER CAPITOL OF LITHUANIA, DURING THE FIRST TWO DECADES OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY. AMONG THOSE EVENTS ARE POGROMS, A WAR, PESTILENCE, A REVOLUTION, AND ANTI-SEMITISM.
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4933
FROM THE WISDOM OF MISHLE
HIRSCH, SAMSON RAPHAEL
STANLEY R BRAV
TWENTY-TWO ESSAYS, BASED ON THEMES FROM THE 'BOOK OF PROVERBS', OFFER INSIGHT AND GUIDANCE ON THE HUMAN SITUATION AND ITS DILEMMAS.
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FROM THE WORLD OF THE KABALLAH
THE PHILOSOPHY OF RABBI JUDAH LOEW
BOKSER, BEN ZION
SCHA, RUBELLE
A SCHOLARLY STUDY OF THE PHILOSOPHY OF JEWISH MYSTICISM, BASED ON THE WRITINGS OF RABBI JUDAH LOEW OF PRAGUE.
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A NOVEL
STERN, STEVE
JANICE MANN
RABBI ZEPHYR WAS FROZEN IN A BLOCK OF ICE IN THE JEWISH PALE IN 1889. IN 1999, THE "GREAT THAW" BRINGS THE REANIMATED RABBI AND MISFIT TEEN BERNIE KARP TOGETHER IN A SUBURB OF MEMPHIS, TENNESSEE. LAUGH-OUT-LOUD FUNNY, THE SORT OF HUMOR THAT TAKES YOU BY SURPRISE.
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3341
THE UNTOLD STORY OF THE JAPANESE AND JEWS IN WWII
TOKAYER, M. AND MARY SWARTZ
ELLEN PROPP
THE SAGA OF A GROUP OF FLEEING EUROPEAN JEWS IN WORLD WAR II AND THEIR EVENTUAL SURVIVAL IN AN ASIAN GHETTO SET UP BY HITLER'S OWN ALLY, JAPAN.
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5624
FUNNIEST MAN IN THE WORLD
THE WILD AND CRAZY HUMOR OF EPHRAIM KISHON
KISHON, EPHRAIM
MEL DAVIS
KISHON'S STORIES FIND HUMOR IN THE DETAILS THAT MAKE UP EVERYDAY LIFE. THROUGH HIS CAST OF ECCENTRIC CHARACTERS, THE AUTHOR MANAGES TO SKEWER EVERYONE AND EVERYTHING FROM THE TAX AUTHORITIES TO THE NEIGHBORS TO DOMESTIC APPLIANCES AND FAMILY PETS.
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SHULGASSER-PARKER, BARBARA
LILA STERN
FUNNY, SOPHISTICATED AND FIERCELY INTELLIGENT, THIRTY-TWO-YEAR-OLD ANNA HAS ONE WEAKNESS: MEN OLD ENOUGH TO BE HER FATHER. AUTHOR BARBARA SHULGASSER-PARKER, DEMONSTRATES HER GIFT FOR PSYCHOLOGICAL INSIGHT IN THIS SOCIAL AND MORAL COMEDY.© 2001
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6132
THE LIFE AND TIMES OF FANNY BRICE
GROSSMAN, BARBARA W.
HELEN DITTUS
THE AUTHOR RECONSTRUCTS THE COMEDY STYLES OF FANNY BRICE, A VAUDEVILLE AND RADIO STAR WHOSE CAREER SPANNED 40 YEARS. BRICE IS BEST REMEMBERED AS A SINGER AND COMIC IN THE ZIEGFIELD FOLLIES AND BY BARBRA STREISAND'S PORTRAYAL OF HER IN THE MUSICAL, 'FUNNY GIRL.'
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EBERSTADT, FERNANDA
SANDI SKODNIK
THIRTY YEAR OLD GWEN HAS A PERFECT LIFE: AN EXCITING JOB, A NEW YORK APARTMENT, FAMILY MONEY, AND A "SUITABLE" BANKER BOYFRIEND. THEN SHE MEETS GIDEON, A SECULAR JEW AND THROWBACK TO THE 1970S. THEY FALL DESPERATELY IN LOVE, BUT THEIRS IS A COURTSHIP OF OPPOSITES. WHEN PARENTHOOD INTRUDES ON THEIR BLISSFUL RELATIONSHIP, THEIR MARRIAGE SELF-DESTRUCTS. © 2003
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5421
MODERN JEWISH REFLECTIONS ON HOMEL
EISEN, ARNOLD M.
IRVING W. KRAMER, DR
BY ANALYZING CLASSICAL SOURCES, THE AUTHOR EXPLORES THE POSSIBLE MEANINGS OF EXILE AND HOMECOMING. HE ASSERTS THAT CONTEMPORARY NOTIONS OF HOMELESSNESS ARE SHAPED BY THE WAY IT IS DEPICTED IN THE BIBLE AND RABBINIC LITERATURE.
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CHANDLER, DAVID
MARION BAER
A NOVEL ABOUT THE SON OF JEWISH IMMIGRANTS WHO WINS THE TRUST OF A POWERFUL DON.
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GARDEN OF THE FINZI-CONTINIS
BASSANI, GIORGIO
MARCEL SISLOWITZ
THE STORY OF A WEALTHY, INSULAR JEWISH FAMILY IN FASCIST ITALY JUST BEFORE THE OUTBREAK OF WORLD WAR II. A NEW RECORDING OF THE ORIGINAL.
