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A Tale of Love and DarknessA Tale of Love and Darkness
Best Price: $4.11
Amos Oz's A Tale of Love and Darkness is a memoir of his life and the life of his family up...
Wiesel's Night (Cliffs Notes)Wiesel's Night (Cliffs Notes)
Best Price: $2.83
The book is only like 120 small pages -- read it! Having cliff notes to something like this...
A Journey to the End of the Millennium - A Novel of the Middle AgesA Journey to the End of the Millennium - A Novel of the Middle Ages
Best Price: $6.08
Bringing this book with me to the Middle East, I thought it would provide a nice...
Cliff Notes on The ChosenCliff Notes on The Chosen
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Jewish Literature Between The Bible And The Mishnah, with CD-ROM, Second EditionJewish Literature Between The Bible And The Mishnah, with CD-ROM, Second Edition
Best Price: $13.00
I got this book because Nickelsburg is one of the leading scholars in intertestimental...


The Saturday Morning Murder: Psychoanalytic Case, AThe Saturday Morning Murder: Psychoanalytic Case, A
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The Saturday Morning Murder was recommended to me by a psychoanalyst friend and I cannot thank...
Murder on a Kibbutz: Communal Case, AMurder on a Kibbutz: Communal Case, A
Best Price: $6.14
I've come to Batya Gur late in my reading life and have relished every one of her mysteries but...
Prisoner without a Name, Cell without a Number (The Americas)Prisoner without a Name, Cell without a Number (The Americas)
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I read this book, here in Brazil, about 20 years ago.This book was writen by an argetinian and...
The Apocalyptic Imagination: An Introduction to Jewish Apocalyptic Literature (The Biblical Resource Series)The Apocalyptic Imagination: An Introduction to Jewish Apocalyptic Literature (The Biblical Resource Series)
Best Price: $16.69
As mentioned by others, John Collins is probably the leading scholar of apocalyptic literature,...
Jewish American Literature: A Norton AnthologyJewish American Literature: A Norton Anthology
Best Price: $23.00
Nice Survey of this broad category of literature, with some amazingly arcane finds; but one...


A Walker in the CityA Walker in the City
Best Price: $8.22
Ditching college class one day, I went to the local public library, plucked a random book from...
Disguised As Clark Kent: Jews, Comics, And the Creation of the SuperheroDisguised As Clark Kent: Jews, Comics, And the Creation of the Superhero
Best Price: $15.51
I most enjoyed the Superman background. The book assumes knowledge of each of the comic book...
The Diary of Anne Frank (Cliffs Notes)The Diary of Anne Frank (Cliffs Notes)
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This is the most influential book in my life. I am deeply touched by the talent of Anne. You...
The Returns of Zionism: Myths, Politics and Scholarship in IsraelThe Returns of Zionism: Myths, Politics and Scholarship in Israel
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Leading Israeli scholar with a major re-evaluation of Zionist ideology and literature. In this...
Spark Notes NightSpark Notes Night
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Get your "A" in gear! They're today's most popular study guides-with everything you...

Classic Yiddish Stories of S.Y. Abramovitsh, Sholem Aleichem, and I.L. Peretz (Judaic Traditions in Literature, Music, and Art)Classic Yiddish Stories of S.Y. Abramovitsh, Sholem Aleichem, and I.L. Peretz (Judaic Traditions in Literature, Music, and Art)
Best Price: $12.75
Discovered this volume of translated Yiddish stories quite by chance or more likely by...
Open Closed Open: PoemsOpen Closed Open: Poems
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I cannot say if this represents the best of Yehuda Amichai or whether his earlier work was...
The Dybbuk and Other Writings by S. AnskyThe Dybbuk and Other Writings by S. Ansky
Best Price: $13.84
A Dybbuk is a haunting and beautiful and haunting combination between a love story and a ghost...
Joys of YiddishJoys of Yiddish
For example, for an honest translation and etymology of "shaygetz" or...
Permission to ReceivePermission to Receive
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Rabbi Lawrence Kelemen's "Permission to Receive" follows his book "Permission to...

In the CatskillsIn the Catskills
Best Price: $24.00
If someone would only perfect a time machine, I'd rush back to the Catskills for a birds-eye...
Tzili: 2The Story of a LifeTzili: 2The Story of a Life
Best Price: $4.55
This is a very moving work. Its heroine Tzila is a most sympathetic character. She is the...
Jewish Literature Between the Bible and the Mishnah: A Historical and Literary IntroductionJewish Literature Between the Bible and the Mishnah: A Historical and Literary Introduction
Best Price: $16.99
In this book, Nickelsburg places a number of non-canonical books into their historical setting....
Nahman of Bratslav: The Tales (The Classics of Western Spirituality Series)Nahman of Bratslav: The Tales (The Classics of Western Spirituality Series)
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The tailes of Rabbi Nachman contain the deepest secrets of the universe,as well as secrets of...
Past ContinuousPast Continuous
Shortly before his death, Y. Shabtai wrote two inter-related books, Past Perfect and Past...

Lilith's Cave: Jewish Tales of the SupernaturalLilith's Cave: Jewish Tales of the Supernatural
Best Price: $18.00
I was on www.youtube.com watching a video on Jewish Satanic Ritual Abuse, when one of Oprah's...
The Cross and Other Jewish Stories (New Yiddish Library Series)The Cross and Other Jewish Stories (New Yiddish Library Series)
Best Price: $20.73
A truly great day to have this collection of the great Yiddish writer, Lamed Shapiro. Powerful,...
Bernard Malamud: A Writer's LifeBernard Malamud: A Writer's Life
Best Price: $10.14
Here is the first full-length biography of Bernard Malamud, the self-made son of poor Jewish...
Haiku U: 7From Aristotle to Zola, 100 Great Books in 17 SyllablesHaiku U: 7From Aristotle to Zola, 100 Great Books in 17 Syllables
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I'm a list-lover. Show me a list of must-read books or must-see movies and I've got a pen out...
The Greatest Jewish Stories Ever ToldThe Greatest Jewish Stories Ever Told
Best Price: $24.95
I was trying to do a project for Global Studies when I came across this book at my library. I...

Flares of Memory: Stories of Childhood During the HolocaustFlares of Memory: Stories of Childhood During the Holocaust
Best Price: $10.17
I had to read this book for a class, I am a senior at college. I attend school around the...
The Prophets: Who They Were, What They AreThe Prophets: Who They Were, What They Are
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I really enjoyed Podhoretz's book on the prophets, but I think ultimately he's a better Biblical...
Kabbalah and ErosKabbalah and Eros
Best Price: $33.13
This book completely changed the way I understand Kabbalah. Idel's argument is that Eros is...
Jewish American Poetry: Poems, Commentary, and Reflections (Brandies Series in American Jewish History, Culture, and Life)Jewish American Poetry: Poems, Commentary, and Reflections (Brandies Series in American Jewish History, Culture, and Life)
Best Price: $5.42
This anthology contains poems of twenty - eight Jewish -American poets most of them of some...
The Golem: A New Translation of the Classic Play and Selected Short StoriesThe Golem: A New Translation of the Classic Play and Selected Short Stories
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Neugroschel's book assembles most major Yiddish legends of the golem, with the primary ones...

Conversations with Elie WieselConversations with Elie Wiesel
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Elie Wiesel here speaks with Richard Heffern on major questions of our moral and ethical life....
Preempting the HolocaustPreempting the Holocaust
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I read The Ruins of Memory and was disgusted! Mr. Langer was disrespectful in more than a few...
American Jewish Fiction: A Century of StoriesAmerican Jewish Fiction: A Century of Stories
Best Price: $10.49
In his astute introduction to this volume Gerald Shapiro points to a previous anthology of...
Lion of JudahLion of Judah
Best Price: $7.58
I did not mind this book, it just failed to really grab my interest. So I wrote a small review...
The Funniest Man in the World: The Wild and Crazy Humor of Ephraim KishonThe Funniest Man in the World: The Wild and Crazy Humor of Ephraim Kishon
Best Price: $12.95
I`ve read Mr. Kishon`s books in the 1960`s about the craziness that defined the modern Israel as...

Hebrew Myths: The Book Of GenesisHebrew Myths: The Book Of Genesis
It's a short, scholarly, yet engaging and easy to read collections of legends regarding the...
Treasury of Jewish Love: Poems, Quotations & Proverbs : In Hebrew, Yiddish, Ladino and English (Treasury of Love)Treasury of Jewish Love: Poems, Quotations & Proverbs : In Hebrew, Yiddish, Ladino and English (Treasury of Love)
Best Price: $3.27
To Jerusalem and Back (Penguin Classics)To Jerusalem and Back (Penguin Classics)
Best Price: $5.90
Well known , Nobel prize winning author , put his pen to the service of recording his 1975 visit...
Teaching Holocaust LiteratureTeaching Holocaust Literature
There is no doubt that literature--whether novels, plays, or poetry--can tell stories that...
The Oxford Book of Jewish StoriesThe Oxford Book of Jewish Stories
Best Price: $21.50
This is a wonderful collection. The great masters of modern Jewish story-telling are represented...

The Silence of HeavenThe Silence of Heaven
Best Price: $31.69
This book is at least on part based on public lectures given by Oz at the Hebrew University in...
Writing in the Dark: Essays on Literature and PoliticsWriting in the Dark: Essays on Literature and Politics
Best Price: $12.24
Recent essays on Israel, literature, and language from one of the country's most respected and...
The Penguin Book of Hebrew Verse (Penguin Classics)The Penguin Book of Hebrew Verse (Penguin Classics)
Best Price: $11.40
An impressive compendium of a vast body of material. Fresh translations side-by-side with the...
Kabbalah And Criticism (Continuum Impacts)Kabbalah And Criticism (Continuum Impacts)
Best Price: $5.94
This short little book contains three essays that move from the exoterically esoteric to the...
The Jewish Gauchos of the Pampas (Jewish Latin America series)The Jewish Gauchos of the Pampas (Jewish Latin America series)
Best Price: $18.94
It is a wonder why this little gem of Jewish Latin American Literature had not been previously...

Cl?per (Jewish Latin America series)Cl?per (Jewish Latin America series)
Best Price: $0.25
Cl?per is a novel of Venezuelan Jewish life originally published in Spanish in 1987. Narrated by...
Interpreting Hebrew Poetry (Guides to Biblical Scholarship Old Testament Series)Interpreting Hebrew Poetry (Guides to Biblical Scholarship Old Testament Series)
Best Price: $11.11
This book is most helpful in understanding Hebrew poetry beyond the notion of parallelism. It...
Gabriel's Palace: Jewish Mystical TalesGabriel's Palace: Jewish Mystical Tales
Best Price: $19.78
"We narrate unto thee the best of narratives" (Qur'an, sura 12:3). "At the...
A Bridge of Longing: The Lost Art of Yiddish StorytellingA Bridge of Longing: The Lost Art of Yiddish Storytelling
Best Price: $19.99
A Bridge of Longing is a compelling history of how Yiddish storytelling became the politics of...
Mediating Modernity: Challenges and Trends in the Jewish Encounter With the Modern World Essays in Honor of Michael A. MeyersMediating Modernity: Challenges and Trends in the Jewish Encounter With the Modern World Essays in Honor of Michael A. Meyers
Best Price: $39.95
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