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  • Jewhooing the Sixties

    American Celebrity and Jewish Identity—Sandy Koufax, Lenny Bruce, Bob Dylan, and Barbra Streisand

    by David E. Kaufman ...
    Series series Brandeis Series in American Jewish History, Culture, and Life
    Sandy Koufax, Lenny Bruce, Bob Dylan, and Barbra Streisand first came to public attention in the early 1960s, a period Kaufman identifies as historically ripe for American Jews to reexamine their (Jewish) identities. All four achieved extraordinary success in their respective fields and became celebrities within an American context, while at the same time they were clearly identifiable as Jews ... Read more

    $39.99 CAD

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  • Patrimony

    A True Story

    by Philip Roth ...
    WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD"A tough-minded, beautifully written memoir" (San Francisco Chronicle) from the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of American Pastoral, Patrimony is a true story about the relationship between a father and a son.Philip Roth watches as his eighty-six-year-old father, famous for his vigor, his charm and his skill as a raconteur - lovingly called 'the Bard ... Read more

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  • An Empire of Their Own

    How the Jews Invented Hollywood

    by Neal Gabler ...
    A provocative, original, and richly entertaining group biography of the Jewish immigrants who were the moving forces behind the creation of America's motion picture industry.The names Harry Cohn, William Fox, Carl Laemmle, Louis B. Mayer, Jack and Harry Warner, and Adolph Zucker are giants in the history of contemporary Hollywood, outsiders who dared to invent their own vision of the American ... Read more

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  • The Haunted Smile

    The Story Of Jewish Comedians In America

    by Lawrence J. Epstein ...
    Lawrence Epstein's The Haunted Smile tackles a subject both poignant and delightful: the story of Jewish comedians in America. For the past century and more, American comedy has drawn its strength and soul from the comic genius of Jewish performers and writers. An incomplete listing of names makes the point: The Marx Brothers, Jack Benny, Fanny Brice, George Burns, Milton Berle, Jackie Mason, Joan ... Read more

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  • The Universal Kabbalah

    by Leonora Leet, Ph.D. ...
    Presents a new understanding of the laws of cosmic manifestation through the sacred geometry of the Sabbath Star diagram• Explores three higher levels of consciousness above the four worlds of the classical Kabbalah• Reveals the mathematical code of the laws of all cosmic manifestationThis landmark work by an innovative modern Kabbalist develops a scientific model for kabbalistic cosmology and ... Read more

    $54.99 CAD

  • If Home is Not Here

    by Max Bornstein ...
    Series series The Azrieli Series of Holocaust Survivor Memoirs
    Max Bornstein’s epic account of a poor Jewish boy born in 1920s Poland is breathtaking in scope. Not quite two when he immigrates to Canada, he returns to Europe in 1933, the year that Adolf Hitler came to power. Barely surviving as a stateless refugee in 1930s Paris, he manages to escape as France falls to the Nazis only to be interned in a Spanish concentration camp. Rich in details of pre-war ... Read more

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  • Jews and Humor

    Edited by Leonard J. Greenspoon ...
    Series series Studies in Jewish Civilization
    Jews and humor is, for most people, a natural and felicitous collocation. In spite of, or perhaps because of, a history of crises and living on the edge, Jews have often created or resorted to humor. But what is humor? And what makes certain types, instances, or performances of humor "Jewish"? These are among the myriad queries addressed by the fourteen authors whose essays are collected in this ... Read more

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  • Members of the Tribe

    by Ze'ev Chafets ...
    An irreverent and startling portrait of Jewish AmericaAfter two decades in Israel, Ze’ev Chafets returned to his native land to embark upon an extraordinary odyssey: a six-month, thirty-state search for America’s Jews. From side streets to mean streets, from the small-town serenity of the country to the hustle and bustle of the big city, he discovered Jews in some expected and unexpected places to ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • Haikus for Jews

    For You, a Little Wisdom

    by David M. Bader ...
    Why is this haiku book different from all other haiku books?For centuries, the Japanese haiku has been one of the world's most dazzling poetic forms. In just three short lines, it captures the sublime beauty of nature--the croak of the bullfrog, the buzzing of the dragonfly, the shriek of the cicada, the scream of the cormorant. Now, with Haikus for Jews, there is finally a collection that ... Read more

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  • Nietzsche's Jewish Problem

    Between Anti-Semitism and Anti-Judaism

    by Robert C. Holub ...
    The first comprehensive account of Nietzsche's views of Jews and JudaismFor more than a century, Nietzsche's views about Jews and Judaism have been subject to countless polemics. The Nazis infamously fashioned the philosopher as their anti-Semitic precursor, while in the past thirty years the pendulum has swung in the opposite direction. The increasingly popular view today is that Nietzsche was ... Read more

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  • The Definition of Anti-Semitism

    by Kenneth L. Marcus ...
    What is anti-Semitism? The Definition of Anti-Semitism is the first book-length study to explore this central question in the context of the new anti-Semitism. Previous efforts to define 'anti-Semitism' have been complicated by the disreputable origins of the term, the discredited sources of its etymology, the diverse manifestations of the concept, and the contested politics of its applications. ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

  • Antisemitism

    The Oldest Hatred

    by John Mann ...
    'The Jewish people in its very being constitutes a living protest against a world of hatred, violence and war' - Emeritus Chief Rabbi, Lord SacksThe history of Jewish persecution is as old as the written word, though the epithet `antisemitism` was only conceived in the late nineteenth century as it reached the beginning of its most horrifying chapter. Throughout Christian history the hatred and ... Read more

    $20.99 CAD