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When Caesar Was King: How Sid Caesar Reinvented American Comedy
$35.00 Add to cartFINALIST FOR THE PEN/JACQUELINE BOGRAD WELD AWARD FOR BIOGRAPHY – From longtime New York Times and Vanity Fair writer David Margolick comes the first definitive biography of Sid Caesar: founding fathe… [more below]
- Author: Margolick, David
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: November 11 2025
- ISBN10: 0805242554
- Language: English
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When We’re Born We Forget Everything: A Memoir
$30.00 Add to cartFrom the creator of the internationally acclaimed singer-songwriter project Girls in Trouble, a memoir following her journey from a secular Jewish childhood to becoming a modern queer woman owning anc… [more below]
- Author: Rabins, Alicia Jo
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: March 03 2026
- ISBN10: 0593702166
- Language: English
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Jewish Meditation: A Practical Guide
$17.00 Add to cartStudents of mediation are usually surprised to discover that a Jewish mediation tradition exists and that it was an authentic and integral part of mainstream Judaism until the eighteenth century.
Jewi- Author: Kaplan, Aryeh
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: March 14 1995
- ISBN10: 0805210377
- Language: English
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Open Heart: A Memoir
$15.00 Add to cartA profoundly and unexpectedly intimate, deeply affecting summing up of life so far, from one of the most cherished moral voices of our time.
Eighty-two years old, facing emergency heart surgery and h- Author: Wiesel, Elie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: September 29 2015
- ISBN10: 0805212582
- Language: English
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The Sons
$15.00 Add to cartFrom one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century, the author of The Trial Three stories he published in his lifetime, including his best-known tale, “The Metamorphosis.”
I have only one reques… [more below]- Series: Schocken Kafka Library
- Author: Kafka, Franz
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 167
- Publish Date: August 05 1989
- ISBN10: 0805208860
- Language: English
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Women’s Diaries of the Westward Journey
$18.00 Add to cartMore than a quarter of a million Americans crossed the continental United States between 1840 and 1870, going west in one of the greatest migrations of modern times. The frontiersmen have become an in… [more below]
- Author: Schlissel, Lillian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: July 06 2004
- ISBN10: 0805211764
- Language: English
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Yiddish Folktales
$23.00 Add to cartFilled with princesses and witches, dybbuks and wonder-working rebbes, the two hundred tales that make up this delightful compendium were gathered during the 1920s and 1930s by ethnographers in the sm… [more below]
- Series: Pantheon Fairy Tale and Folklore Library
- Author: Weinreich, Beatrice
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: September 23 1997
- ISBN10: 0805210903
- Language: English
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Everyman’s Talmud: The Major Teachings of the Rabbinic Sages
$23.00 Add to cartLong regarded as the classic introduction to the teachings of the Talmud, this comprehensive and masterly distillation summarizes the wisdom of the rabbinic sages on the dominant themes of Judaism.
“To… [more below]- Author: Cohen, Abraham
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: February 07 1995
- ISBN10: 0805210326
- Language: English
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Responsibility and Judgment
$20.00 Add to cartResponsibility and Judgment gathers together unpublished writings from the last decade of Arendt’s life, where she addresses fundamental questions and concerns about the nature of evil and the making … [more below]
- Author: Arendt, Hannah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: August 09 2005
- ISBN10: 0805211624
- Language: English
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The Trial of God: (As It Was Held on February 25, 1649, in Shamgorod)
$15.00 Read moreThe Trial of God (as it was held on February 25, 1649, in Shamgorod)
A Play by Elie Wiesel
Translated by Marion Wiesel
Introduction by Robert McAfee Brown
Afterword by Matthew Fox
Where is God when innoce… [more below]- Author: Wiesel, Elie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: November 14 1995
- ISBN10: 0805210539
- Language: English
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The Good Life: Helen and Scott Nearing’s Sixty Years of Self-Sufficient Living
$19.00 Add to cart- Author: Nearing, Scott
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 411
- Publish Date: January 03 1990
- ISBN10: 0805209700
- Language: English
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A Pigeon and a Boy
$16.95 Add to cartA mesmerizing novel of two love stories, separated by half a century but connected by one enchanting act of devotion–from the internationally acclaimed Israeli writer Meir Shalev.
During the 1948 Wa- Author: Shalev, Meir
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: January 06 2009
- ISBN10: 0805212140
- Language: English
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Montessori from the Start: The Child at Home, from Birth to Age Three
$18.00 Read moreBased on Dr. Maria Montessori’s philosophies for nurturing babies and toddlers, this practical and useful guide is brimming with instructions, anecdotes, and encouragement for raising calm, competent,… [more below]
- Author: Lillard, Paula Polk
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: July 22 2003
- ISBN10: 0805211128
- Language: English
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Not in God’s Name: Confronting Religious Violence
$18.00 Read moreIn this powerful and timely book, one of the most admired and authoritative religious leaders of our time tackles the phenomenon of religious extremism and violence committed in the name of God. If re… [more below]
- Author: Sacks, Jonathan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: February 07 2017
- ISBN10: 080521268X
- Language: English
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My Russian Grandmother and Her American Vacuum Cleaner: A Family Memoir
$18.00 Read moreFrom the author of the acclaimed novel A Pigeon and a Boy comes a charming tale of family ties, over-the-top housekeeping, and the sport of storytelling in Nahalal, the village of Meir Shalev’s birth.
- Author: Shalev, Meir
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: January 02 2018
- ISBN10: 080521240X
- Language: English
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My Wild Garden: Notes from a Writer’s Eden
$35.00 Read moreA colorfully illustrated round of the season in the garden of the best-selling novelist, memoirist, and champion putterer with a wheelbarrow
On the perimeter of Israel’s Jezreel Valley, with the Carm- Author: Shalev, Meir
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: March 31 2020
- ISBN10: 0805243518
- Language: English
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To Heal a Fractured World: The Ethics of Responsibility
$19.00 Read moreOne of the most respected religious thinkers of our time makes an impassioned plea for the return of religion to its true purpose–as a partnership with God in the work of ethical and moral living.
Wh- Author: Sacks, Jonathan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: February 06 2007
- ISBN10: 0805211969
- Language: English
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Letter to the Father/Brief an Den Vater: Bilingual Edition
$17.00 Add to cartA son’s poignant letter to his father–from the author of The Metamorphosis and The Trial, and one of the most important writers of the twentieth century. – “One of the great confessions of literatur… [more below]
- Series: Schocken Kafka Library
- Author: Kafka, Franz
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: November 03 2015
- ISBN10: 0805212663
- Language: English
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The Periodic Table: A Memoir
$20.00 Add to cartThe Periodic Table is largely a memoir of the years before and after Primo Levi’s transportation from his native Italy to Auschwitz as an anti-Facist partisan and a Jew.
It recounts, in clear, precise
- Series: Everyman’s Library Contemporary Classics
- Author: Levi, Primo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: April 04 1995
- ISBN10: 0805210415
- Language: English
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Choosing a Jewish Life, Revised and Updated: A Handbook for People Converting to Judaism and for Their Family and Friends
$18.00 Add to cartThe definitive guide to the conversion process–for a new generation of Jews-by-choice.
However you choose to fashion your personal journey to Judaism, Anita Diamant is the perfect guide. In this comp- Author: Diamant, Anita
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: February 24 1998
- ISBN10: 0805210954
- Language: English
