Ethnic Orientation/Jewish
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Genius & Anxiety: How Jews Changed the World, 1847-1947
$20.99 Add to cartThis lively chronicle of the years 1847–1947–the century when the Jewish people changed how we see the world–is “[a] thrilling and tragic history…especially good on the ironies and chain-reaction… [more below]
- Author: Lebrecht, Norman
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: December 08 2020
- ISBN10: 1982134267
- Language: English
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Dachau Liberated: The Official Report
$11.95 Add to cartChilling details from the American Seventh Army report about the liberation of prisoners from Dachau’s death camps, with diary entries and eyewitness accounts.
- Author: U. S. Seventh Army
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: October 20 2000
- ISBN10: 1587420031
- Language: English
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The Heebie-Jeebies at CBGB’s: A Secret History of Jewish Punk
$16.95 Add to cartBased in part on the recent interviews with more than 125 people–among them Tommy Ramone, Chris Stein (Blondie), Lenny Kaye (Patti Smith Group), Hilly Kristal (CBGBs owner), and John Zorn–this book … [more below]
- Author: Beeber, Steven Lee
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: April 01 2008
- ISBN10: 1556527616
- Language: English
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Immigrant Baggage: Morticians, Purloined Diaries, and Other Theatrics of Exile
$19.95 Add to cartFrom a bilingual master of the literary memoir comes this moving and humorous story of losing immigrant baggage and trying to reclaim it for his American future.
- Author: Shrayer, Maxim D.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 146
- Publish Date: April 04 2023
- ISBN10: 1644699982
- Language: English
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Drunk on Genocide: Alcohol and Mass Murder in Nazi Germany
$21.95 Add to cartIn Drunk on Genocide, Edward B. Westermann reveals how, over the course of the Third Reich, scenes involving alcohol consumption and revelry among the SS and police became a routine part of rituals of
- Series: Battlegrounds: Cornell Studies in Military History
- Author: Westermann, Edward B.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 312
- Publish Date: March 15 2023
- ISBN10: 1501770152
- Language: English
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Bernardine’s Shanghai Salon: The Story of the Doyenne of Old China
$18.99 Read moreMeet the Jewish salon host in 1930s Shanghai who brought together Chinese and expats around the arts as civil war erupted and World War II loomed on the horizon.
Bernardine Szold Fritz arrived in Shan- Author: Blumberg-Kason, Susan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: November 07 2023
- ISBN10: 9798888450314
- Language: English
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Kaddish and Other Poems: 1958-1960
$12.95 Read more“As a pandemic rages and we are unable to gather to celebrate our dead, make our minyans, or hold one another’s hands, have our seders, I think of Ginsberg writing Kaddish for his mother. I think of
- Series: Pocket Poets #14
- Author: Ginsberg, Allen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: November 23 2010
- ISBN10: 0872865118
- Language: English
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Walking the Bible: A Journey by Land Through the Five Books of Moses
$19.99 Add to cart“An instant classic. . . . A pure joy to read.” —Washington Post Book World
Both a heart-racing adventure and an uplifting quest, Walking the Bible presents one man’s epic journey- by foot, jeep, rowb
- Author: Feiler, Bruce
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: November 18 2014
- ISBN10: 0062336509
- Language: English
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The Storm of War: A New History of the Second World War
$24.99 Add to cart“Gripping. . . . splendid history. A brilliantly clear and accessible account of the war in all its theaters. Roberts’s prose is unerringly precise and strikingly vivid. It is hard to imagine a better
- Author: Roberts, Andrew
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 800
- Publish Date: May 29 2012
- ISBN10: 0061228605
- Language: English
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The Bielski Brothers: The True Story of Three Men Who Defied the Nazis, Built a Village in the Forest, and Saved 1,200 Jews
$19.99 Add to cartIn 1941, three brothers witnessed their parents and two other siblingsbeing led away to their eventual murders. It was a grim scene that would, of course, be repeated endlessly throughout the war. Ins
- Author: Duffy, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 302
- Publish Date: June 15 2004
- ISBN10: 0060935537
- Language: English
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A Small Book of Jewish Comedians
$29.95 Read moreAn unmissable gift book, A Small Book of Jewish Comedians is a perfect (please God) post-pandemic pick-me-up
A New York Times Book Review 2021 holiday gift guide pick
In 1978, Time magazine estimated t- Author: Nourmand, Tony
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: October 19 2021
- ISBN10: 1909526835
- Language: English
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Mama Nazima’s Jewish-Iraqi Cuisine: Jewish Iraqi Recipes
$19.95 Add to cart“… when it comes to understanding the soul of what makes Middle Eastern cooking so delicious, it’s one of the best hidden treasures on the market.”-Jessica Soffer, Saveur Magazine
Now available in p
- Author: Goldman, Rivka
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 194
- Publish Date: November 23 2021
- ISBN10: 078181426X
- Language: English
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Little Book of Jewish Feasts: (Jewish Holiday Cookbook, Kosher Cookbook, Holiday Gift Book)
$18.95 Add to cartLittle Book of Jewish Feasts offers the perfect dishes to feature at the center of the table. Leah Koenig shares 25 globally inspired Jewish holiday main dishes that will satisfy and delight, from Ba… [more below]
- Author: Koenig, Leah
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 136
- Publish Date: July 24 2018
- ISBN10: 1452160627
- Language: English
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None of This Rocks: A Memoir
$18.99 Read moreLead guitarist and cofounder of Fall Out Boy shares personal stories from his youth and his experiences of modern rock and roll stardom in this memoir filled with wit and wisdom.
Trohman cofounded Fa… [more below]
- Author: Trohman, Joe
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: September 12 2023
- ISBN10: 0306847345
- Language: English
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Warnings
$28.00 Add to cartOld friends–one a Jew, the other a Christian–Leonard (Lenny) Grob and John K. Roth are philosophers who have long studied the Holocaust. That experience makes us anxious about democracy, because we … [more below]
- Author: Grob, Leonard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: July 06 2023
- ISBN10: 1666743968
- Language: English
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Gertruda’s Oath: A Child, a Promise, and a Heroic Escape During World War II
$15.99 Add to cartTrapped in the horrors of World War II, a woman and a child embark on a journey of survival in this page-turning true story that recalls the power and the poignancy of Schindler’s List.
Michael Stolo- Author: Oren, Ram
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: August 03 2010
- ISBN10: 0385527195
- Language: English
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W-3
$16.95 Add to cartAn extraordinary portrait of a brilliant mind on the brink: A new edition of the 1974 memoir by the author of the acclaimed collection Calm Sea and Prosperous Voyage. With an introduction by Yiyun Li.… [more below]
- Author: Howland, Bette
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: June 28 2022
- ISBN10: 1736370901
- Language: English
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Where the Angels Lived: One Family’s Story of Exile, Loss, and Return
$19.99 Add to cartThe moment she discovers the existence of Richard, a long-lost relative, at Israel’s Holocaust Museum, Margaret McMullan begins an unexpected journey of revelation and connectivity as she tirelessly r
- Author: McMullan, Margaret
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: May 01 2019
- ISBN10: 194459308X
- Language: English
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On the Chocolate Trail: A Delicious Adventure Connecting Jews, Religions, History, Travel, Rituals and Recipes to the Magic of Cacao (2nd Edit
$30.99 Add to cartTake a delectable journey through the religious history of chocolate-a real treat!
In this new and updated second edition, explore the surprising Jewish and other religious connections to chocolate in
- Author: Prinz, Deborah
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 340
- Publish Date: October 17 2017
- ISBN10: 1683366778
- Language: English
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How Yiddish Changed America and How America Changed Yiddish
$29.99 Add to cartIs it possible to conceive of the American diet without bagels? Or Star Trek without Mr. Spock? Are the creatures in Maurice Sendak’s Where the Wild Things Are based on Holocaust survivors? And how ha
- Author: Stavans, Ilan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: January 21 2020
- ISBN10: 1632062623
- Language: English
