New Jewish Wedding
Scribner, August 1986. Trade Paperback. Describes the celebrations and rituals of a traditional Jewish wedding, offers advice on planning a wedding and reception, and discusses married life and divorce. More
Judaica
A Time for Gathering: The Second Migration, 1820-1880 (The Jewish People in America) (Volume 2)
Johns Hopkins University Press, May 1995. Trade Paperback. Volume II: A Time for Gathering. Between 1820 and 1880, European Jews arrived in the United States in ever greater numbers. While later Jewish immigrants would criticize their "rush" to assimilation, the Jews of this period created the institutions that continue to..... More
Night
Bantam, April 1982. Mass Market PaperBack. "Night" -- A terrifying account of the Nazi death camp horror that turns a young Jewish boy into an agonized witness to the death of his family...the death of his innocence...and the death of his God. Penetrating and powerful, as personal as "The Diary..... More
Abraham's Children: Race, Identity, and the DNA of the Chosen People
Grand Central Publishing, October 2007. Hardcover. A riveting scientific detective story crossed with a provocative and controversial re-examination of the meaning of race, ethnicity, and religion. Could our sense of who we are really turn on a sliver of DNA? In our multiethnic world, questions of individual identity are becoming..... More
The Brother Haggadah: A Medieval Sephardi Masterpiece in Facsimile
Thames & Hudson, March 2016. Hardcover. Commissioned by wealthy patrons in the Middle Ages, the Haggadot are among the most beautifully decorated Hebrew manuscripts. The Brother Haggadah--so-called because of its close, fraternal relationship to the Rylands Haggadah in the collection of the John Rylands Library, Manchester--is one of the finest..... More
Time for Planting: The First Migration, 1654-1820 (Revised)
Johns Hopkins University Press, May 1995. Trade Paperback. Volume I: A Time for Planting: The First Migration, 1654-1820 In the autumn of 1654, twenty-three Jews aboard the bark Sainte Catherine landed at the town of New Amsterdam to establish the first permanent Jewish settlement in North America. In A Time..... More
Exodus: A Memoir
Blue Rider Press, March 2014. First Edition. Hardcover. In 2009, at the age of twenty-three, Deborah Feldman packed up her young son and their few possessions and walked away from her insular Hasidic roots. She was determined to forge a better life for herself, away from the rampant oppression, abuse..... More
Unorthodox: The Scandalous Rejection of My Hasidic Roots
Simon & Schuster, October 2012. Trade Paperback. Now a Netflix original series! Unorthodox is the bestselling memoir of a young Jewish woman's escape from a religious sect, in the tradition of Ayaan Hirsi Ali's Infidel and Carolyn Jessop's Escape, featuring a new epilogue by the author. As a member of..... More
Judaism: Revelations and Traditions, Religious Traditions of the World Series
HarperOne, December 1987. Paper Back. An authoritative look at Judaism's historical sweep and distinctive religious dimensions, showing how it developed out of the Hebrew Bible and has diversified throughout history and throughout the world. Previous owner's name. Remainder mark. More
King's English (Oxford Language Classics series)
Oxford University Press, USA, April 2003. Reprint. Paper Back. In this classic reference book the Fowler brothers illustrate by example all the commonly-made blunders of English usage and guide the reader to improved expression and style. If Dickens had owned a copy of The King's English for example, he would..... More
The Diary of a Young Girl: The Definitive Edition
Bantam, March 1997. Reprint. Mass Market PaperBack. Anne Frank's "The Diary of a Young Girl" is among the most enduring documents of the twentieth century. Since its publication in 1947, it has been read by tens of millions of people all over the world. It remains a beloved and deeply..... More
The Diary of a Young Girl
Anchor, March 1996. Trade Paperback. For almost fifty years, Anne Frank's diary has moved millions with its testament to the human spirit's indestructibility, but readers have never seen the full text of this beloved book--until now. This new translation, performed by Winona Ryder, restores nearly one third of Anne's entries..... More
Our Israeli Diary: Of That Time, Of That Place
Oneworld Publications, January 2017. Hardcover. In May 1978 Harold Pinter and Antonia Fraser visited Israel at the time of the 30th Anniversary of Independence. It was three years after they first lived together; neither had set foot in Israel before. Based in Jerusalem, they toured many of the country's historic..... More
The New Rabbi: A Congregation Searches for Its Leader
Bantam, August 2002. First Edition. Hardcover. Covering the proceedings of the 2000 International Conference on Hydroinformatics, this volume addresses a variety of technological issues relating to all aspects of water management. It covers data aquisition and management; data mining; decision support; experience with modelling; ecology and water quality; forecasting; genetic..... More
In the Shadow of the Holocaust: The Second Generation
Cambridge University Press, July 1996. Paper Back. What are the effects of growing up in the shadow of the Holocaust? Drawing on interviews and survey materials, Aaron Hass provides a vibrant account of the experiences of survivors' children. Now in their thirties and forties, these men and women describe their..... More
Written Out of History: A Hidden Legacy of Jewish Women Revealed Through Their Writings and Letters
Bloch Pub. Co, January 1978. Trade Paperback. More
Jews in America: Four Centuries of an Uneasy Encounter: A History
Touchstone Books, October 1990. Trade Paperback. As is. Remainder mark and light staining on the edges of the print block. More
Roots Schmoots: Journeys Among Jews
Harry N. Abrams, January 1994. Hardcover. More
Ghetto Diary / The Last Walk of Janusz Korczak
Holocaust Library, June 1978. Trade Paperback. More
Prejudice or privilege?,
Miami Beach Sun, January 1969. Stapled Soft Cover. More
Film and the Holocaust: New Perspectives on Dramas, Documentaries, and Experimental Films
Continuum, May 2011. Trade Paperback. When representing the Holocaust, the slightest hint of narrative embellishment strikes contemporary audiences as somehow a violation against those who suffered under the Nazis. This anxiety is, at least in part, rooted in Theodor Adorno's dictum that "To write poetry after Auschwitz is barbaric." And..... More
The People and the Books
W. W. Norton & Company, October 2016. Hardcover. Jews have long embraced their identity as "the people of the book." But outside of the Bible, much of the Jewish literary tradition remains little known to nonspecialist readers. The People and the Books shows how central questions and themes of our..... More
All But My Life
Hill and Wang, March 1995. Trade Paperback. All But My Life is the unforgettable story of Gerda Weissmann Klein's six-year ordeal as a victim of Nazi cruelty. From her comfortable home in Bielitz (present-day Bielsko) in Poland to her miraculous survival and her liberation by American troops--including the man who..... More
Giants: the Dwarfs of Auschwitz: The Extraordinary Story of the Lilliput Troupe
Robson Press, January 2013. Hardcover. In this account of the Ovitz family, seven of whose ten members were dwarves, readers bear witness to the terrible irony of the Ovitz's fate: being burdened with dwarfism helped them to endure the Holocaust. Through research and interviews with the youngest Ovitz daughter, Perla..... More
A Chosen Few: The Resurrection Of European Jewry
Da Capo Press, August 1995. Trade Paperback. Despite the horrors of the Holocaust, decades of Soviet dominance, the rise of neo-Nazism, and a resurgence of anti-Semitism, Jewish communities have been recreated throughout postwar Europe. In A Chosen Few, Mark Kurlansky visits the homes and lives of those Jews who have..... More
