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Desc of StruggleDesc of StruggleLetters to FeliceLetters to Felice
Kafka's letters to Felice Bauer were written between 1912 and 1917, during which time they...
The SunflowerThe Sunflower
A young Jew listens silently while a dying Nazi begs absolution for taking part in the burning...
MASQUERADEMASQUERADE
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Masquerade Out of all the characters, my favorite one was Ronnie, because he sounds like into...
Widows GuideWidows Guide


Making of Britn: MID AgeMaking of Britn: MID Age
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Far from a weighty professorial exposition, The Making of Britain: The Middle Ages presents a...
UsurpersUsurpers
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I have read this book both in Spanish and in this English translation by Carolyn Richmond; it is...
Loves of Franz KafkaLoves of Franz Kafka
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TolstoyTolstoy
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Yiddish English-Hebrew DictionaryYiddish English-Hebrew Dictionary
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Alexander Harkavy (1863?1939) is credited with almost single-handedly creating an intellectual...


You Must Remember This: An Oral History of Manhattan from the 1890s to World War IIYou Must Remember This: An Oral History of Manhattan from the 1890s to World War II
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Personal stories for readers who enjoyed Betty Smith's Brooklyn or Joseph Mitchell's...
Tales of the Hasidim: Book One: The Early Masters and Book Two: The Later Masters (v. 1-2)Tales of the Hasidim: Book One: The Early Masters and Book Two: The Later Masters (v. 1-2)
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One of the major phases of Jewish literature is that produced by Hasidim, a sect founded in the...
The Trial: A New Translation Based on the Restored TextThe Trial: A New Translation Based on the Restored Text
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"The trial" is a deeply symbolic novel and opens with the protagonist Joseph K., being...
Tales of Mendele the Book Peddler: "Fishke the Lame" and "Benjamin the Third" (Yiddish Classics Series)Tales of Mendele the Book Peddler: "Fishke the Lame" and "Benjamin the Third" (Yiddish Classics Series)
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In Jerusalem there is a short street called Mendele Mocher Sefarim Street. The street is in the...
And the Sea Is Never Full: Memoirs, 1969-And the Sea Is Never Full: Memoirs, 1969-
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After ten years of silence about his experiences in the hell of the Nazi reign, Elie Wiesel has...

Anti-Semite and Jew: An Exploration of the Etiology of HateAnti-Semite and Jew: An Exploration of the Etiology of Hate
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Imagine the value of a book on anti-Semitism composed by a non-Jew, a deep-thinker, a...
The CastleThe Castle
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I offer the startling proposal that Franz Kafka's The Castle is, after all, about life as it...
Montessori from the Start: The Child at Home, from Birth to Age ThreeMontessori from the Start: The Child at Home, from Birth to Age Three
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I postponed buying this book until my baby was 5 months because of the negative reviews. I was...
Maimonides (Jewish Encounters)Maimonides (Jewish Encounters)
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The Jewish Encounter series of Schocken and Nextbook opted for an unusual, yet entirely...
Legends of Our TimeLegends of Our Time
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Eli Wiesel returns to Sighet in Romania where he was born to walk the streets of his hometown....

THROUGH THE LOOKING-GLASS and What Alice Found ThereTHROUGH THE LOOKING-GLASS and What Alice Found ThereDays of Awe a Treasury of Traditional Legends Rosh Ha- Shanah to Yom Kippur and the Days BetweenDays of Awe a Treasury of Traditional Legends Rosh Ha- Shanah to Yom Kippur and the Days Between
JUdaica REligion, bibliography, 297 pp,VG in VG DJ, translated by Judith Goldin
Microsoft Access 95 Developer's HandbookMicrosoft Access 95 Developer's HandbookEighty Years and More: Reminiscences 1815-1897Eighty Years and More: Reminiscences 1815-1897
Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815-1902) was an American social activist, abolitionist, and leading...
As Lonely as Franz Kafka A Psychological BiographyAs Lonely as Franz Kafka A Psychological Biography

Montessori from the Start: The Child at Home, from Birth to Age ThreeMontessori from the Start: The Child at Home, from Birth to Age Three
Rife with poor writing and outdated, harmful advice, this book isn't worth reading even if...
One People, Two Worlds: A Reform Rabbi and an Orthodox Rabbi Explore the Issues That Divide ThemOne People, Two Worlds: A Reform Rabbi and an Orthodox Rabbi Explore the Issues That Divide Them
After being introduced by a mutual friend in the winter of 2000, Reform Rabbi Ammiel Hirsch and...
On JudaismOn JudaismBenjamin Disraeli (Jewish Encounters)Benjamin Disraeli (Jewish Encounters)
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A dandy, a best-selling novelist, and a man of political and sexual intrigue, Benjamin Disraeli...
Evolutionary Socialism: A Criticism and AffirmationEvolutionary Socialism: A Criticism and Affirmation

THROUGH THE LOOKING-GLASS and What Alice Found ThereTHROUGH THE LOOKING-GLASS and What Alice Found ThereDays of Awe a Treasury of Traditional Legends Rosh Ha- Shanah to Yom Kippur and the Days BetweenDays of Awe a Treasury of Traditional Legends Rosh Ha- Shanah to Yom Kippur and the Days Between
JUdaica REligion, bibliography, 297 pp,VG in VG DJ, translated by Judith Goldin
Microsoft Access 95 Developer's HandbookMicrosoft Access 95 Developer's HandbookEighty Years and More: Reminiscences 1815-1897Eighty Years and More: Reminiscences 1815-1897
Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815-1902) was an American social activist, abolitionist, and leading...
As Lonely as Franz Kafka A Psychological BiographyAs Lonely as Franz Kafka A Psychological Biography

Montessori from the Start: The Child at Home, from Birth to Age ThreeMontessori from the Start: The Child at Home, from Birth to Age Three
Rife with poor writing and outdated, harmful advice, this book isn't worth reading even if...
One People, Two Worlds: A Reform Rabbi and an Orthodox Rabbi Explore the Issues That Divide ThemOne People, Two Worlds: A Reform Rabbi and an Orthodox Rabbi Explore the Issues That Divide Them
After being introduced by a mutual friend in the winter of 2000, Reform Rabbi Ammiel Hirsch and...
On JudaismOn JudaismBenjamin Disraeli (Jewish Encounters)Benjamin Disraeli (Jewish Encounters)
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A dandy, a best-selling novelist, and a man of political and sexual intrigue, Benjamin Disraeli...
Evolutionary Socialism: A Criticism and AffirmationEvolutionary Socialism: A Criticism and Affirmation

While Messia Tarried  Jewish Socialist Movements 1871-1917While Messia Tarried Jewish Socialist Movements 1871-1917Witness: One of the Great Correspondents of the Twentieth Century Tells Her Story (Schocken paperbacks on Judaica)Witness: One of the Great Correspondents of the Twentieth Century Tells Her Story (Schocken paperbacks on Judaica)
With her perfect memory (and plenty of zip), ninety-five-year-old Ruth Gruber?adventurer,...
The Rebbe's Army: Inside the World of Chabad-LubavitchThe Rebbe's Army: Inside the World of Chabad-Lubavitch
?Excuse me, are you Jewish?? With these words, the relentlessly cheerful, ideologically driven...
The Arts in America: the Colonial PeriodThe Arts in America: the Colonial PeriodBeyond the Welfare StateBeyond the Welfare State

Life is With People : The Culture of the ShtetlLife is With People : The Culture of the Shtetl
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Over many hundreds of years the Shtetl, the small-town Jewish community of Eastern Europe,...
The Kuzari: An Argument for the Faith of IsraelThe Kuzari: An Argument for the Faith of Israel
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This book was written as a kind of catechism to persuade Jews to stay with their faith rather...
The Way of ResponseThe Way of Response
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Notes from the Warsaw GhettoNotes from the Warsaw Ghetto
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It is a little-known fact that, during the first two or more years of the German occupation of...
Dictionary of the TarotDictionary of the Tarot
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This is a good book for referencing multiple Tarot deck card interpretations simultaneously....

Peace Is PossiblePeace Is Possible
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The Jewish Holiday Baker: Recipes for Breads, Cakes, and Cookies for All the Holidays and Any Time of the YearThe Jewish Holiday Baker: Recipes for Breads, Cakes, and Cookies for All the Holidays and Any Time of the Year
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Joan Nathan's knowledge, enthusiasm, and experience have made her prize-winning books on...
What Nietzsche Really SaidWhat Nietzsche Really Said
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The authors wrote this book with the intention of exonerating Nietzsche from many nasty rumors...
A Good Enough Daughter: A memoirA Good Enough Daughter: A memoir
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This relatively short (254 pages) memoir is outstanding in the way Shulman reviews her life and...
Until the Dawn's Light: A NovelUntil the Dawn's Light: A Novel
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From the award-winning, internationally acclaimed writer (?One of the best novelists alive?...

The Rebbe's Army: Inside the World of Chabad-LubavitchThe Rebbe's Army: Inside the World of Chabad-Lubavitch
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"Chabad has a formidable infrastructure. It has an elegant and fascinating theology, an...
Jews and Power (Jewish Encounters)Jews and Power (Jewish Encounters)
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This is one of the BEST books out there on the subject of anti-Semitism (hatred of Jews or the...
The Jewish WritingsThe Jewish Writings
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Hannah Arendt is known today primarily as the political thinker who provided a fundamental...
The Montessori MethodThe Montessori Method
1912. Montessori, the first Italian woman M.D., was one of the great pioneers in studying the...
Children at Risk: a Handbook of the Signs and Symptoms of Early Childhood DifficultiesChildren at Risk: a Handbook of the Signs and Symptoms of Early Childhood Difficulties

POLISH JEWS: a Pictorial RecordPOLISH JEWS: a Pictorial RecordLiving the good LifeLiving the good Life
The author was expelled from the Communist Party in the early 1930's. He spoke a kind of...
Man and His Music The story of Musical Experience in the West Late Renaissance and Baroque Music Part TwoMan and His Music The story of Musical Experience in the West Late Renaissance and Baroque Music Part TwoSelected PoemsSelected PoemsThe Periodic TextThe Periodic Text

Jailed for Freedom, the Story of the Militant American Suffragist MovementJailed for Freedom, the Story of the Militant American Suffragist MovementMaimonides (Jewish Encounters)Maimonides (Jewish Encounters)
Moses Maimonides was a Renaissance man before there was a Renaissance: a great physician who...
Responsibility and JudgmentResponsibility and JudgmentA Pigeon and a Boy: A NovelA Pigeon and a Boy: A Novel
This touching 2006 novel by popular Israeli writer Meir Shalev is a tender love story of two...
The Schocken Book of Jewish Mystical Testimonies: A unique and inspiring collection of accounts by people who have encountered God from Biblical times to the presentThe Schocken Book of Jewish Mystical Testimonies: A unique and inspiring collection of accounts by people who have encountered God from Biblical times to the present
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This was the first book I ever read about Jewish mysticism, and it has prompted me to read more....

The Conversion: A novelThe Conversion: A novel
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I stumbled upon this book quite accidentally at my library, and I'm very glad that I ended...
Conversations with Elie WieselConversations with Elie Wiesel
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Elie Wiesel here speaks with Richard Heffern on major questions of our moral and ethical life....
On Jews & Judaism CrisiOn Jews & Judaism CrisiChildren at RiskChildren at RiskBEING JEWISH IN AMERICABEING JEWISH IN AMERICA
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Making Films Yr BusinesMaking Films Yr BusinesWhen Bad Things Happen to Good PeopleWhen Bad Things Happen to Good People
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I was given this book after the death of my only child. He was 23 when he died following an 8...
Orwell's LondonOrwell's London
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It is a shame that this little gem is out of print and so rare or expensive to find....
Natural ActsNatural Acts
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A revised and expanded edition of Quammen?s first book of nonfiction, including...
Judaism & American IdeaJudaism & American Idea
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Sleeping BeautySleeping Beauty
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Enraged at not being invited to the princess' christening, the wicked fairy casts a spell...
Country of StrangersCountry of Strangers
Like in his classic novel "The Light in the Forest," Conrad Richter's...
Kafka's Other Trial: The Letters to FeliceKafka's Other Trial: The Letters to Felice
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Elias Canetti fascinated with the genius of Kafka reads one set of the 'letter- diary'...
Jewish Holiday KitchenJewish Holiday Kitchen
By adding over 50 new recipes, Nathan has improved and expanded this classic Jewish cookbook....
The Wizard of Oz (The Critical Heritage Series)The Wizard of Oz (The Critical Heritage Series)

The Architecture of the Italian RenaissanceThe Architecture of the Italian Renaissance
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Guides the reader from the earliest revivals of Roman style to the villas of Palladio and...
The Jews of SilenceThe Jews of Silence
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This book, is a classic testament to the brutal persecution of Jews in the Soviet Union during...
ZAKHOR (Samuel and Althea Stroum Lectures in Jewish Studies)ZAKHOR (Samuel and Althea Stroum Lectures in Jewish Studies)
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This work has four major chapters each of which deals with a certain period of Jewish history,...
LETTERS TO MILENA (Works)LETTERS TO MILENA (Works)
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These are Kafka's best letters . He pours forth his broken soul to the woman who can and...
Century of AmbivalenceCentury of Ambivalence
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A well written and nicely illustrated book on the history of Easter Europe's Jews, from...

LETTERS TO MILENA (Works)LETTERS TO MILENA (Works)
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Kafka first made the acquaintance of Milena Jesenska in 1920 when she was translating his work...
WRESTLING WITH THE ANGEL: Jewish Insights on Death and MourningWRESTLING WITH THE ANGEL: Jewish Insights on Death and Mourning
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Nachamu, nachamu Ami, yomar Elokaichem. Give comfort, give comfort to my people, says your God....
Black on White: Black Writers on What It Means to Be WhiteBlack on White: Black Writers on What It Means to Be White
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In this thought-provoking volume, David R. Roediger has brought together some of the most...
A Guide to Jewish PrayerA Guide to Jewish Prayer
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This is a largely a how-to book written by a Jew for primarily a Jewish audience. The primariy...
Collected Poems, 1954-2004Collected Poems, 1954-2004
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Irving Feldman is a great American poet who writes for people who love poetry, for people who...

To Heal a Fractured World: The Ethics of ResponsibilityTo Heal a Fractured World: The Ethics of Responsibility
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This is a beautifully written and inspiring work. It is rich in personal anecdote, story and...
A Pigeon and a Boy: A NovelA Pigeon and a Boy: A Novel
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WHAT CHAGALL IS TO PAINT, SHALEV IS TO WORDS The feeling I had when reading a Pigeon and a...
My Russian Grandmother and Her American Vacuum Cleaner: A Family MemoirMy Russian Grandmother and Her American Vacuum Cleaner: A Family Memoir
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