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Written by Michael Leventhal
Format: Trade Paperback, 70 pages
On Sale: May 21, 2013
Price: $12.95
The Jewish community is the oldest ethnic minority in the country. This book tells the epic story of Jews in Britain over a thousand years. Many came as wealthy traders - others as desperate refugees. Sometimes they were feared and had to lead secret lives. At other times they stood shoulder... Read more >
Written by Michael Leventhal
Format: eBook, 64 pages
On Sale: May 21, 2013
Price: $7.95
The Jewish community is the oldest ethnic minority in the country. This book tells the epic story of Jews in Britain over a thousand years. Many came as wealthy traders - others as desperate refugees. Sometimes they were feared and had to lead secret lives. At other times they stood shoulder... Read more >
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Reflections and Recipes from the House That Herring Built
Written by Mark Russ Federman
Foreword by Calvin Trillin
Format: Hardcover, 224 pages
On Sale: March 5, 2013
Price: $25.95
WITH 8 PAGES OF FULL-COLOR PHOTOGRAPHS AND BLACK-AND-WHITE IMAGES THROUGHOUT
The former owner/proprietor of the beloved appetizing store on Manhattan’s Lower East Side tells the delightful, mouthwatering story of an immigrant family’s journey from a pushcart in 1907 to “New York’s most hallowed shrine to the miracle of caviar, smoked salmon, ethereal...
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Reflections and Recipes from the House That Herring Built
Written by Mark Russ Federman
Foreword by Calvin Trillin
Format: eBook, 224 pages
On Sale: March 5, 2013
Price: $13.99
WITH 8 PAGES OF FULL-COLOR PHOTOGRAPHS AND BLACK-AND-WHITE IMAGES THROUGHOUT
The former owner/proprietor of the beloved appetizing store on Manhattan’s Lower East Side tells the delightful, mouthwatering story of an immigrant family’s journey from a pushcart in 1907 to “New York’s most hallowed shrine to the miracle of caviar, smoked salmon, ethereal...
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The Life and Legacy of Flavius Josephus
Written by Frederic Raphael
Format: Hardcover, 368 pages
On Sale: January 22, 2013
Price: $28.95
From the acclaimed biographer, screenwriter, and novelist Frederic Raphael, here is an audacious history of Josephus (37–c.100), the Jewish general turned Roman historian, whose emblematic betrayal is a touchstone for the Jew alone in the Gentile world.
Joseph ben Mattathias’s transformation into Titus Flavius Josephus, historian to the Roman emperor Vespasian, is...
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The Life and Legacy of Flavius Josephus
Written by Frederic Raphael
Format: eBook, 368 pages
On Sale: January 22, 2013
Price: $14.99
From the acclaimed biographer, screenwriter, and novelist Frederic Raphael, here is an audacious history of Josephus (37–c.100), the Jewish general turned Roman historian, whose emblematic betrayal is a touchstone for the Jew alone in the Gentile world.
Joseph ben Mattathias’s transformation into Titus Flavius Josephus, historian to the Roman emperor Vespasian, is...
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A Biography
Written by Deirdre Bair
Format: Hardcover, 752 pages
On Sale: November 20, 2012
Price: $40.00
From National Book Award winner Deirdre Bair, the definitive biography of Saul Steinberg, one of The New Yorker's most iconic artists.
The issue date was March 29, 1976. The New Yorker cost 75 cents. And on the cover unfolded Saul Steinberg's vision of the world: New York City, the Hudson River, and...
A Biography
Written by Deirdre Bair
Format: eBook, 480 pages
On Sale: November 20, 2012
Price: $21.99
From National Book Award winner Deirdre Bair, the definitive biography of Saul Steinberg, one of The New Yorker's most iconic artists.
The issue date was March 29, 1976. The New Yorker cost 75 cents. And on the cover unfolded Saul Steinberg's vision of the world: New York City, the Hudson River, and...
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A Story of Courage and Survival in Nazi-Occupied Poland
Written by Matthew Brzezinski
Format: Hardcover, 496 pages
On Sale: October 2, 2012
Price: $30.00
Starting as early as 1939, disparate Jewish underground movements coalesced around the shared goal of liberating Poland from Nazi occupation. For the next six years, separately and in concert, they waged a heroic war of resistance against Hitler’s war machine that culminated in the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. In Isaac’s Army, Matthew... Read more >
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A Story of Courage and Survival in Nazi-Occupied Poland
Written by Matthew Brzezinski
Format: eBook, 496 pages
On Sale: October 2, 2012
Price: $15.99
Starting as early as 1939, disparate Jewish underground movements coalesced around the shared goal of liberating Poland from Nazi occupation. For the next six years, separately and in concert, they waged a heroic war of resistance against Hitler’s war machine that culminated in the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. In Isaac’s Army, Matthew... Read more >
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A New History
Edited by David Biale
Format: eBook, 1232 pages
On Sale: August 29, 2012
Price: $35.99
WITH MORE THAN 100 BLACK-AND-WHITE ILLUSTRATIONS THROUGHOUT
Who are “the Jews”? Scattered over much of the world throughout most of their three-thousand-year-old history, are they one people or many? How do they resemble and how do they differ from Jews in other places and times? What have their relationships been to the... Read more >
A Nation of Words
Written by Miriam Weinstein
Format: eBook, 300 pages
On Sale: August 21, 2012
Price: $16.99
This first-ever popular history of Yiddish is so full of life that it reads like a biography of the language.
For a thousand years Yiddish was the glue that held a people together. Through the intimacies of daily use, it linked European Jews with their heroic past, their spiritual universe, their increasingly... Read more >
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Jews, Judaism, and Israel in the Twenty-first Century
Written by Jonathan Sacks
Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
On Sale: August 7, 2012
Price: $15.95
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...
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The Life and Legends
Written by Tom Segev
Format: Trade Paperback, 512 pages
On Sale: April 3, 2012
Price: $16.95
With 16 pages of black-and-white illustrations
Now in paperback, the first fully documented biography of the legendary Polish-born Nazi hunter—a revelatory account of a man whose life, though part invention, was wholly dedicated to ensuring both that the Nazis be held responsible for their crimes and that their destruction of European Jewry...
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Written by Jonathan D. Sarna
Format: Hardcover, 224 pages
On Sale: March 13, 2012
Price: $24.95
***Finalist, 2012 National Jewish Book Awards, American-Jewish Studies***
Part of the Jewish Encounter series
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...
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Written by Jonathan D. Sarna
Format: eBook, 256 pages
On Sale: March 13, 2012
Price: $12.99
***Finalist, 2012 National Jewish Book Awards, American-Jewish Studies***
Part of the Jewish Encounter series
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...
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The Life of Rachel Beer: Crusading Heiress and Newspaper Pioneer
Written by Eilat Negev and Yehuda Koren
Format: eBook, 368 pages
On Sale: February 28, 2012
Price: $17.99
A panoramic portrait of a remarkable woman and the tumultuous Victorian era on which she made her mark, The First Lady of Fleet Street chronicles the meteoric rise and tragic fall of Rachel Beer—indomitable heiress, social crusader, and newspaper pioneer.
Rich with period detail and drawing on a wealth of original material... Read more >
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The Life of Rachel Beer: Crusading Heiress and Newspaper Pioneer
Written by Eilat Negev and Yehuda Koren
Format: Hardcover, 368 pages
On Sale: February 28, 2012
Price: $30.00
A panoramic portrait of a remarkable woman and the tumultuous Victorian era on which she made her mark, The First Lady of Fleet Street chronicles the meteoric rise and tragic fall of Rachel Beer—indomitable heiress, social crusader, and newspaper pioneer.
Rich with period detail and drawing on a wealth of original material... Read more >
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The Extraordinary Tale of Gustav Klimt's Masterpiece, Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer
Written by Anne-Marie O'Connor
Format: Hardcover, 368 pages
On Sale: February 7, 2012
Price: $30.00
The spellbinding story, part fairy tale, part suspense, of Gustav Klimt’s Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer, one of the most emblematic portraits of its time; of the beautiful, seductive Viennese Jewish salon hostess who sat for it; the notorious artist who painted it; the now vanished turn-of-the-century Vienna that shaped it; and... Read more >
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The Extraordinary Tale of Gustav Klimt's Masterpiece, Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer
Written by Anne-Marie O'Connor
Format: eBook, 368 pages
On Sale: February 7, 2012
Price: $15.99
The spellbinding story, part fairy tale, part suspense, of Gustav Klimt’s Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer, one of the most emblematic portraits of its time; of the beautiful, seductive Viennese Jewish salon hostess who sat for it; the notorious artist who painted it; the now vanished turn-of-the-century Vienna that shaped it; and... Read more >
The Twentieth-Century Odyssey of a Remarkable Jewish Family
Written by Ron Chernow
Format: eBook, 880 pages
On Sale: January 18, 2012
Price: $16.99
Bankers, philanthropists, scholars, socialites, artists, and politicians, the Warburgs stood at the pinnacle of German (and, later, of German-American) Jewry. They forged economic dynasties, built mansions and estates, assembled libraries, endowed charities, and advised a German kaiser and two American presidents. But their very success made the Warburgs lightning rods for... Read more >
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The Origins of the Arab-Israeli Conflict
Written by Jonathan Schneer
Format: Trade Paperback, 480 pages
On Sale: January 3, 2012
Price: $17.00
Winner of the National Jewish Book Award
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 felt to this day...
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Unveiling the Myths that Fuel Muslim Anti-Semitism
Written by Tarek Fatah
Format: Trade Paperback, 272 pages
On Sale: December 6, 2011
Price: $16.95
A liberal Muslim and critically acclaimed author explores the historical, political, and theological basis for centuries of Muslim animosity towards Jews, debunking long-held myths and tracing a history of hate and its impact today.
More than nine years after 9/11 and 60 years after the creation of the state of Israel, the... Read more >
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Portrait of a Patron Family, Vienna 1900
Written by Tim Bonyhady
Format: Hardcover, 400 pages
On Sale: November 15, 2011
Price: $35.00
Vienna and its Secessionist movement at the turn of the last century is the focus of this extraordinary social portrait told through an eminent Viennese family, headed by Hermine and Moriz Gallia, who were among the great patrons of early-twentieth-century Viennese culture at its peak.
Good Living Street takes us from the...
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Portrait of a Patron Family, Vienna 1900
Written by Tim Bonyhady
Format: eBook, 384 pages
On Sale: November 15, 2011
Price: $20.99
Vienna and its Secessionist movement at the turn of the last century is the focus of this extraordinary social portrait told through an eminent Viennese family, headed by Hermine and Moriz Gallia, who were among the great patrons of early-twentieth-century Viennese culture at its peak.
Good Living Street takes us from the...
