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Farewell Espana
The World of the Sephardim Remembered
Written by Howard M. Sachar
Format: Trade Paperback, 464 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: October 3, 1995
Price: $15.96
ISBN: 978-0-679-73846-6 (0-679-73846-0)
Sachar chronicles the story of the Iberian Jews, the doyens of Jewish history, from their "Golden Age" in medieval Spain through their harassment, expulsion, and dispersion to new lives in Western Europe, the Balkans, Turkey, the Levant, the Americas, and eventually modern Israel.
In 1492, on the eve of Columbus's voyage, the... Read more >
The World of the Sephardim Remembered
Written by Howard M. Sachar
Format: Trade Paperback, 464 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: October 3, 1995
Price: $15.96
ISBN: 978-0-679-73846-6 (0-679-73846-0)
Sachar chronicles the story of the Iberian Jews, the doyens of Jewish history, from their "Golden Age" in medieval Spain through their harassment, expulsion, and dispersion to new lives in Western Europe, the Balkans, Turkey, the Levant, the Americas, and eventually modern Israel.
In 1492, on the eve of Columbus's voyage, the... Read more >
A History of the Jews in the Modern World
Written by Howard M. Sachar
Format: Trade Paperback, 848 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: September 12, 2006
Price: $24.00
ISBN: 978-1-4000-3097-2 (1-4000-3097-8)
The distinguished historian of the Jewish people, Howard M. Sachar, gives us a comprehensive and enthralling chronicle of the achievements and traumas of the Jews over the last four hundred years.
Tracking their fate from Western Europe’s age of mercantilism in the seventeenth century to the post-Soviet and post-imperialist Islamic upheavals... Read more >
Written by Howard M. Sachar
Format: Trade Paperback, 848 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: September 12, 2006
Price: $24.00
ISBN: 978-1-4000-3097-2 (1-4000-3097-8)
The distinguished historian of the Jewish people, Howard M. Sachar, gives us a comprehensive and enthralling chronicle of the achievements and traumas of the Jews over the last four hundred years.
Tracking their fate from Western Europe’s age of mercantilism in the seventeenth century to the post-Soviet and post-imperialist Islamic upheavals... Read more >
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A History of Israel
From the Rise of Zionism to Our Time
Written by Howard M. Sachar
Format: Trade Paperback, 1296 pages
Publisher: Knopf
On Sale: May 15, 2007
Price: $39.95
ISBN: 978-0-375-71132-9 (0-375-71132-5)
Sachar gives us the full story of Israel from its early-19th-century ideological beginnings through its ensuing growth as a sovereign republic, giving full weight to diplomatic, political, economic, cultural and military factors—always against the matrix of parallel and interacting events in other countries.
Sachar's updating begins with negotiations toward the interim... Read more >
From the Rise of Zionism to Our Time
Written by Howard M. Sachar
Format: Trade Paperback, 1296 pages
Publisher: Knopf
On Sale: May 15, 2007
Price: $39.95
ISBN: 978-0-375-71132-9 (0-375-71132-5)
Sachar gives us the full story of Israel from its early-19th-century ideological beginnings through its ensuing growth as a sovereign republic, giving full weight to diplomatic, political, economic, cultural and military factors—always against the matrix of parallel and interacting events in other countries.
Sachar's updating begins with negotiations toward the interim... Read more >
A History of the Jews in America
Written by Howard M. Sachar
Format: Trade Paperback, 1072 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: November 2, 1993
Price: $30.00
ISBN: 978-0-679-74530-3 (0-679-74530-0)
Spanning 350 years of Jewish experience in this country, Sachar tells the stories of Spanish marranos and Russian refugees, of aristocrats and threadbare social revolutionaries, of philanthropists and Hollywood moguls. At the same time, he elucidates the grand themes of the Jewish encounter with America, from the bigotry of a Christian... Read more >
Written by Howard M. Sachar
Format: Trade Paperback, 1072 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: November 2, 1993
Price: $30.00
ISBN: 978-0-679-74530-3 (0-679-74530-0)
Spanning 350 years of Jewish experience in this country, Sachar tells the stories of Spanish marranos and Russian refugees, of aristocrats and threadbare social revolutionaries, of philanthropists and Hollywood moguls. At the same time, he elucidates the grand themes of the Jewish encounter with America, from the bigotry of a Christian... Read more >
Future Tense
Jews, Judaism, and Israel in the Twenty-first Century
Written by Jonathan Sacks
Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
Publisher: Schocken
On Sale: August 7, 2012
Price: $15.95
ISBN: 978-0-8052-1229-7 (0-8052-1229-9)
We are in danger, says Rabbi Sacks, of forgetting what Judaism’s place is within the global project of humankind. The Jewish people exist for a reason, and it is not for themselves alone. They must recommit themselves to their foundational purpose: to the task of creating a just world in which... Read more >
Jews, Judaism, and Israel in the Twenty-first Century
Written by Jonathan Sacks
Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
Publisher: Schocken
On Sale: August 7, 2012
Price: $15.95
ISBN: 978-0-8052-1229-7 (0-8052-1229-9)
We are in danger, says Rabbi Sacks, of forgetting what Judaism’s place is within the global project of humankind. The Jewish people exist for a reason, and it is not for themselves alone. They must recommit themselves to their foundational purpose: to the task of creating a just world in which... Read more >
Future Tense
Jews, Judaism, and Israel in the Twenty-first Century
Written by Jonathan Sacks
Format: Hardcover, 304 pages
Publisher: Schocken
On Sale: April 20, 2010
Price: $26.95
ISBN: 978-0-8052-4269-0 (0-8052-4269-4)
One of the most admired religious thinkers of our time issues a call for world Jewry to reject the self-fulfilling image of “a people alone in the world, surrounded by enemies” and to reclaim Judaism’s original sense of purpose: as a partner with God and with those of other faiths in... Read more >
Jews, Judaism, and Israel in the Twenty-first Century
Written by Jonathan Sacks
Format: Hardcover, 304 pages
Publisher: Schocken
On Sale: April 20, 2010
Price: $26.95
ISBN: 978-0-8052-4269-0 (0-8052-4269-4)
One of the most admired religious thinkers of our time issues a call for world Jewry to reject the self-fulfilling image of “a people alone in the world, surrounded by enemies” and to reclaim Judaism’s original sense of purpose: as a partner with God and with those of other faiths in... Read more >
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The Man Who Fell Into a Puddle
Israeli Lives
Written by Igal Sarna
Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: March 9, 2004
Price: $13.00
ISBN: 978-0-375-72477-0 (0-375-72477-X)
From one of Israel's leading investigative journalists, piercingly honest portraits of Israeli men and women who, in the face of brutal and desperate forces, try—often without success—to hold onto their past, their identity, their sanity, and their hope.
The son of a Holocaust survivor descends into paranoia, “swept away like a demon—ravaged... Read more >
Israeli Lives
Written by Igal Sarna
Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: March 9, 2004
Price: $13.00
ISBN: 978-0-375-72477-0 (0-375-72477-X)
From one of Israel's leading investigative journalists, piercingly honest portraits of Israeli men and women who, in the face of brutal and desperate forces, try—often without success—to hold onto their past, their identity, their sanity, and their hope.
The son of a Holocaust survivor descends into paranoia, “swept away like a demon—ravaged... Read more >
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When General Grant Expelled the Jews
Written by Jonathan D. Sarna
Format: Hardcover, 224 pages
Publisher: Schocken
On Sale: March 13, 2012
Price: $24.95
ISBN: 978-0-8052-4279-9 (0-8052-4279-1)
A riveting account of General Ulysses S. Grant’s decision, in the middle of the Civil War, to order the expulsion of all Jews from the territory under his command, and the reverberations of that decision on Grant’s political career, on the nascent American Jewish community, and on the American political process.
On... Read more >
Written by Jonathan D. Sarna
Format: Hardcover, 224 pages
Publisher: Schocken
On Sale: March 13, 2012
Price: $24.95
ISBN: 978-0-8052-4279-9 (0-8052-4279-1)
A riveting account of General Ulysses S. Grant’s decision, in the middle of the Civil War, to order the expulsion of all Jews from the territory under his command, and the reverberations of that decision on Grant’s political career, on the nascent American Jewish community, and on the American political process.
On... Read more >
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The Process
1,100 Days that Changed the Middle East
Written by Uri Savir
Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: June 29, 1999
Price: $17.00
ISBN: 978-0-679-74561-7 (0-679-74561-0)
A New York Times Notable Book of the Year
"Meet your Enemy Number One," a nervous Norwegian diplomat said to Uri Savir, the young director-general of Israel's Foreign Ministry, as he introduced him to Abu Ala, one of Yasser Arafat's top aides. They were in Oslo, and this was the first official... Read more >
1,100 Days that Changed the Middle East
Written by Uri Savir
Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: June 29, 1999
Price: $17.00
ISBN: 978-0-679-74561-7 (0-679-74561-0)
A New York Times Notable Book of the Year
"Meet your Enemy Number One," a nervous Norwegian diplomat said to Uri Savir, the young director-general of Israel's Foreign Ministry, as he introduced him to Abu Ala, one of Yasser Arafat's top aides. They were in Oslo, and this was the first official... Read more >
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The Balfour Declaration
The Origins of the Arab-Israeli Conflict
Written by Jonathan Schneer
Format: Trade Paperback, 480 pages
Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks
On Sale: January 3, 2012
Price: $17.00
ISBN: 978-0-8129-7603-8 (0-8129-7603-7)
Winner, 2010 National Jewish Book Award (Writing Based on Archival Material)
Issued in London in 1917, the Balfour Declaration was one of the key documents of the twentieth century. It committed Britain to supporting the establishment in Palestine of “a National Home for the Jewish people,” and its reverberations continue to be... Read more >
The Origins of the Arab-Israeli Conflict
Written by Jonathan Schneer
Format: Trade Paperback, 480 pages
Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks
On Sale: January 3, 2012
Price: $17.00
ISBN: 978-0-8129-7603-8 (0-8129-7603-7)
Winner, 2010 National Jewish Book Award (Writing Based on Archival Material)
Issued in London in 1917, the Balfour Declaration was one of the key documents of the twentieth century. It committed Britain to supporting the establishment in Palestine of “a National Home for the Jewish people,” and its reverberations continue to be... Read more >
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Fires in the Mirror
Written by Anna Deavere Smith
Format: Trade Paperback, 208 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: September 1, 1993
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-0-385-47014-8 (0-385-47014-2)
In monologues based on interviews with 26 subjects ranging from The Reverend Al Sharpton and Professor Leonard Jeffries, to Rabbi Joseph Speilman and Norman Rosenbaum (Yankel Rosenbaum's brother) to several men-and-women-on-the-street, Smith exposes and explores the black-Jewish tensions that erupted into outrage in the streets of Crown Heights, Brooklyn, in 1991... Read more >
Written by Anna Deavere Smith
Format: Trade Paperback, 208 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: September 1, 1993
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-0-385-47014-8 (0-385-47014-2)
In monologues based on interviews with 26 subjects ranging from The Reverend Al Sharpton and Professor Leonard Jeffries, to Rabbi Joseph Speilman and Norman Rosenbaum (Yankel Rosenbaum's brother) to several men-and-women-on-the-street, Smith exposes and explores the black-Jewish tensions that erupted into outrage in the streets of Crown Heights, Brooklyn, in 1991... Read more >
Resurrecting Hebrew
Written by Ilan Stavans
Format: Hardcover, 240 pages
Publisher: Schocken
On Sale: September 16, 2008
Price: $21.00
ISBN: 978-0-8052-4231-7 (0-8052-4231-7)
Here is the stirring story of how Hebrew was rescued from the fate of a dead language to become the living tongue of a modern nation. Ilan Stavans’s quest begins with a dream featuring a beautiful woman speaking an unknown language. When the language turns out to be Hebrew, a friend... Read more >
Written by Ilan Stavans
Format: Hardcover, 240 pages
Publisher: Schocken
On Sale: September 16, 2008
Price: $21.00
ISBN: 978-0-8052-4231-7 (0-8052-4231-7)
Here is the stirring story of how Hebrew was rescued from the fate of a dead language to become the living tongue of a modern nation. Ilan Stavans’s quest begins with a dream featuring a beautiful woman speaking an unknown language. When the language turns out to be Hebrew, a friend... Read more >
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Hillel
If Not Now, When?
Written by Joseph Telushkin
Format: Hardcover, 272 pages
Publisher: Schocken
On Sale: September 14, 2010
Price: $24.00
ISBN: 978-0-8052-4281-2 (0-8052-4281-3)
This is the most famous teaching of Hillel, one of the greatest rabbis of the Talmudic era. What makes it so extraordinary is that is was offered to a gentile seeking conversion. Joseph Telushkin feels that this Talmudic story has great relevance for us today. At a time when religiosity is... Read more >
If Not Now, When?
Written by Joseph Telushkin
Format: Hardcover, 272 pages
Publisher: Schocken
On Sale: September 14, 2010
Price: $24.00
ISBN: 978-0-8052-4281-2 (0-8052-4281-3)
This is the most famous teaching of Hillel, one of the greatest rabbis of the Talmudic era. What makes it so extraordinary is that is was offered to a gentile seeking conversion. Joseph Telushkin feels that this Talmudic story has great relevance for us today. At a time when religiosity is... Read more >
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The Alphabet That Changed the World
How Genesis Preserves a Science of Consciousness in Geometry and Gesture
Written by Stan Tenen
Edited by Charles Stein
Format: Trade Paperback, 392 pages
Publisher: North Atlantic Books
On Sale: July 5, 2011
Price: $44.00
ISBN: 978-1-55643-723-6 (1-55643-723-4)
Rabbinic tradition asserts that every letter of every word of the Torah is a word in itself. Author Stan Tenen demonstrates that each letter is also a hand gesture, and it is at this level that Hebrew forms a natural universal language. All people, including children before they speak and people... Read more >
How Genesis Preserves a Science of Consciousness in Geometry and Gesture
Written by Stan Tenen
Edited by Charles Stein
Format: Trade Paperback, 392 pages
Publisher: North Atlantic Books
On Sale: July 5, 2011
Price: $44.00
ISBN: 978-1-55643-723-6 (1-55643-723-4)
Rabbinic tradition asserts that every letter of every word of the Torah is a word in itself. Author Stan Tenen demonstrates that each letter is also a hand gesture, and it is at this level that Hebrew forms a natural universal language. All people, including children before they speak and people... Read more >
Louis D. Brandeis
A Life
Written by Melvin Urofsky
Format: Trade Paperback, 976 pages
Publisher: Schocken
On Sale: September 4, 2012
Price: $24.95
ISBN: 978-0-8052-1195-5 (0-8052-1195-0)
As a young lawyer in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Louis Brandeis, born into a family of reformers who came to the United States to escape European anti-Semitism, established the way modern law is practiced. He was an early champion of the right to privacy and pioneer the idea... Read more >
A Life
Written by Melvin Urofsky
Format: Trade Paperback, 976 pages
Publisher: Schocken
On Sale: September 4, 2012
Price: $24.95
ISBN: 978-0-8052-1195-5 (0-8052-1195-0)
As a young lawyer in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Louis Brandeis, born into a family of reformers who came to the United States to escape European anti-Semitism, established the way modern law is practiced. He was an early champion of the right to privacy and pioneer the idea... Read more >
Louis D. Brandeis
A Life
Written by Melvin Urofsky
Format: Hardcover, 976 pages
Publisher: Pantheon
On Sale: September 22, 2009
Price: $40.00
ISBN: 978-0-375-42366-6 (0-375-42366-4)
Winner of the Erwin Griswold Prize
The first full-scale biography in twenty-five years of one of the most important and distinguished justices to sit on the Supreme Court–a book that reveals Louis D. Brandeis the reformer, lawyer, and jurist, and Brandeis the man, in all of his complexity, passion, and wit.
Louis... Read more >
A Life
Written by Melvin Urofsky
Format: Hardcover, 976 pages
Publisher: Pantheon
On Sale: September 22, 2009
Price: $40.00
ISBN: 978-0-375-42366-6 (0-375-42366-4)
Winner of the Erwin Griswold Prize
The first full-scale biography in twenty-five years of one of the most important and distinguished justices to sit on the Supreme Court–a book that reveals Louis D. Brandeis the reformer, lawyer, and jurist, and Brandeis the man, in all of his complexity, passion, and wit.
Louis... Read more >
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Farewell Shanghai
Written by Angel Wagenstein
Translated by Elizabeth Frank and Deliana Simeonova
Format: Trade Paperback, 400 pages
Publisher: Other Press
On Sale: November 4, 2008
Price: $13.95
ISBN: 978-1-59051-308-8 (1-59051-308-8)
Elisabeth and Theodore Weissberg, famous musicians, Hilde, a young film extra, and Vladek, an Eastern European adventurer wanted by the police on political charges, flee Nazi Germany for Shanghai at the onset of World War II. A magnet for every human ambition and vice, Shanghai is a city of extremes–of dazzling... Read more >
Written by Angel Wagenstein
Translated by Elizabeth Frank and Deliana Simeonova
Format: Trade Paperback, 400 pages
Publisher: Other Press
On Sale: November 4, 2008
Price: $13.95
ISBN: 978-1-59051-308-8 (1-59051-308-8)
Elisabeth and Theodore Weissberg, famous musicians, Hilde, a young film extra, and Vladek, an Eastern European adventurer wanted by the police on political charges, flee Nazi Germany for Shanghai at the onset of World War II. A magnet for every human ambition and vice, Shanghai is a city of extremes–of dazzling... Read more >
The Tent of Abraham
Stories of Hope and Peace for Jews, Christians, and Muslims
Written by Arthur Waskow, Joan Chittister and Saadi Shakur Chishti
Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
Publisher: Beacon Press
On Sale: June 1, 2007
Price: $18.00
ISBN: 978-0-8070-7729-0 (0-8070-7729-1)
The Tent of Abraham is the first book to tell the entire story of Abraham and to reenergize it as a basis for peace. Written by three leaders belonging to different faiths, the book explores in accessible language the mythic quality and the teachings of reconciliation that are embedded in the... Read more >
Stories of Hope and Peace for Jews, Christians, and Muslims
Written by Arthur Waskow, Joan Chittister and Saadi Shakur Chishti
Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
Publisher: Beacon Press
On Sale: June 1, 2007
Price: $18.00
ISBN: 978-0-8070-7729-0 (0-8070-7729-1)
The Tent of Abraham is the first book to tell the entire story of Abraham and to reenergize it as a basis for peace. Written by three leaders belonging to different faiths, the book explores in accessible language the mythic quality and the teachings of reconciliation that are embedded in the... Read more >
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All Rivers Run to the Sea
Memoirs
Written by Elie Wiesel
Format: Trade Paperback, 464 pages
Publisher: Schocken
On Sale: October 22, 1996
Price: $16.95
ISBN: 978-0-8052-1028-6 (0-8052-1028-8)
From his early years with his loving Jewish family to the horrors of Auschwitz to his life as a Nobel Prize-winning novelist, Elie Wiesel tells his story. Passionate and poignant, All Rivers Run to the Sea is an unforgettable book of love and rage, doubt and faith, despair and trust, and... Read more >
Memoirs
Written by Elie Wiesel
Format: Trade Paperback, 464 pages
Publisher: Schocken
On Sale: October 22, 1996
Price: $16.95
ISBN: 978-0-8052-1028-6 (0-8052-1028-8)
From his early years with his loving Jewish family to the horrors of Auschwitz to his life as a Nobel Prize-winning novelist, Elie Wiesel tells his story. Passionate and poignant, All Rivers Run to the Sea is an unforgettable book of love and rage, doubt and faith, despair and trust, and... Read more >
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From the Kingdom of Memory
Reminiscences
Written by Elie Wiesel
Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
Publisher: Schocken
On Sale: January 31, 1995
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-0-8052-1020-0 (0-8052-1020-2)
In this powerful collection of personal essays and speeches by one of the great writers of our generation, Elie Wiesel weaves together reminiscences of his life before the Holocaust, his struggle to find meaning afterward, and the actions he has taken on behalf of others that have defined him as a... Read more >
Reminiscences
Written by Elie Wiesel
Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
Publisher: Schocken
On Sale: January 31, 1995
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-0-8052-1020-0 (0-8052-1020-2)
In this powerful collection of personal essays and speeches by one of the great writers of our generation, Elie Wiesel weaves together reminiscences of his life before the Holocaust, his struggle to find meaning afterward, and the actions he has taken on behalf of others that have defined him as a... Read more >
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Jew Today
Written by Elie Wiesel
Format: Trade Paperback, 260 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: August 12, 1979
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-0-394-74057-7 (0-394-74057-2)
In these essays, open letters, and diary entries, Wiesel addresses the question of what it means to be a Jew today--in America, in Europe, and in Israel. From his childhood in Transylvania to Auschwitz and Buchenwald, Paris, and New York, Wiesel probes such central moral and political issues as Zionism and the... Read more >
Written by Elie Wiesel
Format: Trade Paperback, 260 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: August 12, 1979
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-0-394-74057-7 (0-394-74057-2)
In these essays, open letters, and diary entries, Wiesel addresses the question of what it means to be a Jew today--in America, in Europe, and in Israel. From his childhood in Transylvania to Auschwitz and Buchenwald, Paris, and New York, Wiesel probes such central moral and political issues as Zionism and the... Read more >
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The Jews of Silence
A Personal Report on Soviet Jewry
Written by Elie Wiesel
Format: Trade Paperback, 144 pages
Publisher: Schocken
On Sale: January 13, 1987
Price: $14.00
ISBN: 978-0-8052-0826-9 (0-8052-0826-7)
Elie Wiesel’s groundbreaking report from inside the Soviet Union: The book that ignited the firestorm in the West over three million Jews who were forbidden to live Jewish lives in the USSR and forbidden to leave it.
“While all religions survive precariously in the Soviet Union, Judaism struggles against singular oppression ... Read more >
A Personal Report on Soviet Jewry
Written by Elie Wiesel
Format: Trade Paperback, 144 pages
Publisher: Schocken
On Sale: January 13, 1987
Price: $14.00
ISBN: 978-0-8052-0826-9 (0-8052-0826-7)
Elie Wiesel’s groundbreaking report from inside the Soviet Union: The book that ignited the firestorm in the West over three million Jews who were forbidden to live Jewish lives in the USSR and forbidden to leave it.
“While all religions survive precariously in the Soviet Union, Judaism struggles against singular oppression ... Read more >
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Rashi
Written by Elie Wiesel
Translated by Catherine Temerson
Format: Hardcover, 128 pages
Publisher: Schocken
On Sale: August 11, 2009
Price: $22.00
ISBN: 978-0-8052-4254-6 (0-8052-4254-6)
From Elie Wiesel, winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, comes a magical book that introduces us to the towering figure of Rashi—Rabbi Shlomo Yitzchaki—the great biblical and Talmudic commentator of the Middle Ages.
Wiesel brilliantly evokes the world of medieval European Jewry, a world of profound scholars and closed communities ravaged... Read more >
Written by Elie Wiesel
Translated by Catherine Temerson
Format: Hardcover, 128 pages
Publisher: Schocken
On Sale: August 11, 2009
Price: $22.00
ISBN: 978-0-8052-4254-6 (0-8052-4254-6)
From Elie Wiesel, winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, comes a magical book that introduces us to the towering figure of Rashi—Rabbi Shlomo Yitzchaki—the great biblical and Talmudic commentator of the Middle Ages.
Wiesel brilliantly evokes the world of medieval European Jewry, a world of profound scholars and closed communities ravaged... Read more >
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Unchosen
The Hidden Lives of Hasidic Rebels
Written by Hella Winston
Format: Trade Paperback, 216 pages
Publisher: Beacon Press
On Sale: November 15, 2006
Price: $16.00
ISBN: 978-0-8070-3627-3 (0-8070-3627-7)
Named one of Publishers Weekly’s Ten Best Religion Books of 2005
When Hella Winston began talking with Hasidic Jews in Brooklyn for her doctoral dissertation in sociology, she was surprised to be covertly introduced to Hasidim unhappy with their highly restrictive way of life and sometimes desperately struggling to escape it. Unchosen... Read more >
The Hidden Lives of Hasidic Rebels
Written by Hella Winston
Format: Trade Paperback, 216 pages
Publisher: Beacon Press
On Sale: November 15, 2006
Price: $16.00
ISBN: 978-0-8070-3627-3 (0-8070-3627-7)
Named one of Publishers Weekly’s Ten Best Religion Books of 2005
When Hella Winston began talking with Hasidic Jews in Brooklyn for her doctoral dissertation in sociology, she was surprised to be covertly introduced to Hasidim unhappy with their highly restrictive way of life and sometimes desperately struggling to escape it. Unchosen... Read more >
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Jews and Power
Written by Ruth R. Wisse
Format: Hardcover, 256 pages
Publisher: Schocken
On Sale: August 28, 2007
Price: $19.95
ISBN: 978-0-8052-4224-9 (0-8052-4224-4)
From the kingdom of David to the Oslo accords, Ruth Wisse's sweeping narrative offers a radical new way to think about the
Jewish relationship to power. It is her bracing theory that the Jewish people have been corrupted—not by power, but by
powerlessness.
Focusing on key moments in Jewish history—the destruction of the... Read more >
Written by Ruth R. Wisse
Format: Hardcover, 256 pages
Publisher: Schocken
On Sale: August 28, 2007
Price: $19.95
ISBN: 978-0-8052-4224-9 (0-8052-4224-4)
From the kingdom of David to the Oslo accords, Ruth Wisse's sweeping narrative offers a radical new way to think about the
Jewish relationship to power. It is her bracing theory that the Jewish people have been corrupted—not by power, but by
powerlessness.
Focusing on key moments in Jewish history—the destruction of the... Read more >
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