Written Out of History: A Hidden Legacy of Jewish Women Revealed Through Their Writings and Letters
Bloch Pub. Co, January 1978. Trade Paperback. More
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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
The Year of Living Biblically: One Man's Humble Quest to Follow the Bible as Literally as Possible
Simon & Schuster, September 2008. Trade Paperback. Now a TV series Living Biblically streaming on CBS All Access! From the New York Times bestselling author of The Know-It-All comes a fascinating and timely exploration of religion and the Bible. A.J. Jacobs chronicles his hilarious and thoughtful year spent obeying?as literally..... 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
Generation Exodus
Brandeis University Press, March 2001. Hardcover. Some half a million Jews lived in Germany when Hitler came to power in 1933. Over the next decade, thousands would flee. Among these refugees, teens and young adults formed a remarkable generation. Born between 1914 and 1928 (approximately), they were old enough to..... More
The Cambridge Companion to Ulysses (Cambridge Companions to Literature)
Cambridge University Press, October 2014. Paper Back. Few books in the English language seem to demand a companion more insistently than James Joyce's Ulysses, a work that at once entices and terrifies readers with its interwoven promises of pleasure, scandal, difficulty, and mastery. This volume offers fourteen concise and accessible..... More
How the Talmud Can Change Your Life: Surprisingly Modern Advice from a Very Old Book
W. W. Norton & Company, October 2023. Hardcover. For numerous centuries, the Talmud--an extraordinary work of Jewish ethics, law, and tradition--has compelled readers to grapple with how to live a good life. Full of folk legends, bawdy tales, and rabbinical repartee, it is inspiring, demanding, confounding, and thousands of pages..... More
Reawakening: The Companion Volume to Survival in Auschwitz
Simon & Schuster, December 1995. Paper Back. First published in English in 1965, The Reawakening is Primo Levi's bestselling sequel to his classic memoir of the Holocaust, Survival in Auschwitz. The Reawakening is the inspiring story of Levi's liberation from the German death camp in January 1945 by the Red..... More
Hana's Suitcase: A True Story
Albert Whitman & Company, January 2003. Soft Cover. In 2000, a suitcase arrived at a children's Holocaust education center in Tokyo, Japan, marked 'Hana Brady, May 16, 1931.' The center's curator, searches for clues to young Hana and her family, whose happy life in a small Czech town was turned..... More
Denying the Holocaust: The Growing Assault on Truth and Memory
Plume, July 1994. Trade Paperback. A timely analysis of the antisemitism and prejudice that fuels Holocaust deniers, written by the inspirational author behind the major motion picture Denial, starring Rachel Weisz. The denial of the Holocaust has no more credibility than the assertion that the earth is flat. Yet there..... More
In Pursuit of Justice: Examining the Evidence of the Holocaust
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, October 1996. Oversize Softcover. More
The Hand of Compassion: Portraits of Moral Choice during the Holocaust
Princeton University Press, July 2006. Trade Paperback. Through moving interviews with five ordinary people who rescued Jews during the Holocaust, Kristen Monroe casts new light on a question at the heart of ethics: Why do people risk their lives for strangers and what drives such moral choice? Monroe's analysis points..... More
Reuben Hecht: Vision and fulfillment
Hadar Publishing House, January 1995. Hardcover. In dust jacket. More
Number Our Days (Touchstone Book)
Touchstone, April 1980. Trade Paperback. When noted anthropologist Barbara Myerhoff received a grant to explore the process of aging, she decided to study some elderly Jews from Venice, California, rather than to report on a more exotic people. The story of the rituals and lives of these remarkable old people..... More
Eternal Treblinka: Our Treatment of Animals and the Holocaust
Lantern Books, February 2002. Trade Paperback. This book explores the similar attitudes and methods behind modern society's treatment of animals and the way humans have often treated each other, most notably during the Holocaust. The book's epigraph and title are from The Letter Writer, a story by the Yiddish writer..... More
Stranger in a Strange Land: Searching for Gershom Scholem in Jerusalem
Other Press, April 2017. Hardcover. Taking his lead from his subject, Gershom Scholem--the 20th century thinker who cracked open Jewish theology and history with a radical reading of Kabbalah--Prochnik combines biography and memoir to counter our contemporary political crisis with an original and urgent reimagining of the future of Israel..... More
Messianism, Zionism, and Jewish Religious Radicalism (Chicago Studies in the History of Judaism)
University of Chicago Press, September 1996. Paper Back. The Orthodox Jewish tradition affirms that Jewish exile will end with the coming of the Messiah. How, then, does Orthodoxy respond to the political realization of a Jewish homeland that is the State of Israel? In this cogent and searching study, Aviezer..... More
The Book of J (Vintage)
Vintage, October 1991. Trade Paperback. This controversial national bestseller is an audacious work of literary restoration revealing one of the great narratives of all time and unveiling its mysterious author. The Book of J is an innovative look at the text that runs through the first five books of the..... More
Confronting the Holocaust: Impact of Elie Wiesel
Indiana University Press, February 1979. First Edition. Hardcover. Jacket has light shelf wear and minor chipping. Mylar wrapped. More
A Double Dying: Reflections on Holocaust Literature
Indiana Univ Pr, April 1980. Hardcover. More
The New Joys of Yiddish: Completely Updated
Three Rivers Press, August 2003. Oversize Softcover. Enjoy the most comprehensive and hilariously entertaining lexicon of the colorful and deeply expressive language of Yiddish. With the recent renaissance of interest in Yiddish, and in keeping with a language that embodies the variety and vibrancy of life itself, The New Joys..... More
A Special Legacy: An Oral History of Soviet Jewish Emigres in the United States
Holiday House, October 1986. Paper Back. Heavy ink underlining. More
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