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A Secularist Revisits Jewish Traditions

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Max Rosenfeld was a Yiddish translator and editor of over 25 books, faculty at both Gratz College and the International Institute for Secular Humanistic Judaism, Director of the Jewish Children's Folkshul in Philadelphia from 1963 to 1975, and a monthly columnist on "Our Secular Jewish Heritage" in Jewish Currents magazine for 30 years. This collection of his best essays, translations, and ... Read more

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Max Rosenfeld was a Yiddish translator and editor of over 25 books, faculty at both Gratz College and the International Institute for Secular Humanistic Judaism, Director of the Jewish Children's Folkshul in Philadelphia from 1963 to 1975, and a monthly columnist on "Our Secular Jewish Heritage" in Jewish Currents magazine for 30 years. This collection of his best essays, translations, and
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Pushcarts and Dreamers

Stories of Jewish Life in America

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Two million Jews emigrated to the United States from Eastern Europe between 1890-1920. The large majority passed through Ellis Island and settled in the Lower East Side of New York City. They struggled to create a new life for themselves—among the tenements, inside the sweatshops, behind the pushcarts—as they dreamed and worked for a more just and compassionate world. Pushcarts and Dreams is a ... Read more

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Two million Jews emigrated to the United States from Eastern Europe between 1890-1920. The large majority passed through Ellis Island and settled in the Lower East Side of New York City. They struggled to create a new life for themselves—among the tenements, inside the sweatshops, behind the pushcarts—as they dreamed and worked for a more just and compassionate world. Pushcarts and Dreams is a
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Jewish Literacy Revised Ed

The Most Important Things to Know About the Jewish Religion, Its People, and Its History

by Joseph Telushkin ...

What does it mean to be a Jew? How does one begin to answer so extensive a question?In this insightful and completely updated tome, esteemed rabbi and bestselling author Joseph Telushkin helps answer the question of what it means to be a Jew, in the largest sense. Widely recognized as one of the most respected and indispensable reference books on Jewish life, culture, tradition, and religion, ... Read more

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What does it mean to be a Jew? How does one begin to answer so extensive a question?In this insightful and completely updated tome, esteemed rabbi and bestselling author Joseph Telushkin helps answer the question of what it means to be a Jew, in the largest sense. Widely recognized as one of the most respected and indispensable reference books on Jewish life, culture, tradition, and religion,
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Jewish Wisdom

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When, if ever, should lying be permitted?If you've damaged a person's reputation unfairly, can the damage be undone?Is a person who sells weapons responsible for how those weapons are used?if the fetus is not a life, what is it? How, as an adult, can one carry out the command to honor one's parents when they make unreasonable demands?What are the nine biblical challenges a good person must meet ... Read more

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When, if ever, should lying be permitted?If you've damaged a person's reputation unfairly, can the damage be undone?Is a person who sells weapons responsible for how those weapons are used?if the fetus is not a life, what is it? How, as an adult, can one carry out the command to honor one's parents when they make unreasonable demands?What are the nine biblical challenges a good person must meet
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The Will To Live On

This is Our Heritage

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The #1 New York Times –bestselling and Pulitzer Prize–winning author of This is My God continues to share his thoughts on Jewish faith and survival.Winner of the Jewish Book Council's Literary Achievement AwardHerman Wouk has ranged in his novels from the mighty narrative of The Caine Mutiny and the warm, intimate humor of Marjorie Mornings... ... Read more

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The #1 New York Times –bestselling and Pulitzer Prize–winning author of This is My God continues to share his thoughts on Jewish faith and survival.Winner of the Jewish Book Council's Literary Achievement AwardHerman Wouk has ranged in his novels from the mighty narrative of The Caine Mutiny and the warm, intimate humor of Marjorie Mornings...
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Hasidic Tales of the Holocaust

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Derived by the author from interviews and oral histories, these eighty-nine original Hasidic tales about the Holocaust provide unprecedented witness, in a traditional idiom, to the victims' inner experience of "unspeakable" suffering. This volume constitutes the first collection of original Hasidic tales to be published in a century."An important work of scholarship and a sudden clear window onto ... Read more

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Derived by the author from interviews and oral histories, these eighty-nine original Hasidic tales about the Holocaust provide unprecedented witness, in a traditional idiom, to the victims' inner experience of "unspeakable" suffering. This volume constitutes the first collection of original Hasidic tales to be published in a century."An important work of scholarship and a sudden clear window onto
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Yiddish

The Biography of a Language

by Miriam Weinstein ...

This first-ever biography on Yiddish is “a charming and highly readable history of the language” that “recreates the sound of a world . . . gone forever” (The Washington Post)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 far-flung relations. In ... Read more

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This first-ever biography on Yiddish is “a charming and highly readable history of the language” that “recreates the sound of a world . . . gone forever” (The Washington Post)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 far-flung relations. In
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I Am Jewish

Personal Reflections Inspired by the Last Words of Daniel Pearl

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Being Jewish. What does it mean—today—and for the future? Listen in as Jews of all backgrounds reflect, argue, and imagine.When Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl was brutally murdered in Pakistan, many Jews were particularly touched by his last words affirming his Jewish identity. Many were moved to reflect on or analyze their feelings toward their lives as Jews.The saying "two Jews, three ... Read more

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Being Jewish. What does it mean—today—and for the future? Listen in as Jews of all backgrounds reflect, argue, and imagine.When Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl was brutally murdered in Pakistan, many Jews were particularly touched by his last words affirming his Jewish identity. Many were moved to reflect on or analyze their feelings toward their lives as Jews.The saying "two Jews, three
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Elie Wiesel

Jewish, Literary, and Moral Perspectives

by Steven T. Katz, Alan Rosen ...

"Illuminating . . . 24 academic essays covering Wiesel's interpretations of the Bible, retellings of Talmudic stories . . . his post-Holocaust theology, and more." — Publishers WeeklyNobel Peace Prize recipient Elie Wiesel, best known for his writings on the Holocaust, is also the accomplished author of novels, essays, tales, and plays as well as portraits of seminal figures in Jewish life and ... Read more

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"Illuminating . . . 24 academic essays covering Wiesel's interpretations of the Bible, retellings of Talmudic stories . . . his post-Holocaust theology, and more." — Publishers WeeklyNobel Peace Prize recipient Elie Wiesel, best known for his writings on the Holocaust, is also the accomplished author of novels, essays, tales, and plays as well as portraits of seminal figures in Jewish life and
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The Complete Idiot's Guide to Jewish History and Culture

by Rabbi Benjamin Blech ...

You're no idiot, of course. You know that Judaism began with Abraham and that Moses led the children out of slavery in Egypt. But when it comes to knowing who Elijah, Esther, and Judah Maccabee were, and their significance to Judaism, you feel like you've been wandering in the desert for 40 years. Don't feel Jewish guilt just yet! The Complete Idiot's Guide® to Jewish History and Culture provides ... Read more

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You're no idiot, of course. You know that Judaism began with Abraham and that Moses led the children out of slavery in Egypt. But when it comes to knowing who Elijah, Esther, and Judah Maccabee were, and their significance to Judaism, you feel like you've been wandering in the desert for 40 years. Don't feel Jewish guilt just yet! The Complete Idiot's Guide® to Jewish History and Culture provides
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Rabbi Nachman of Bratslav and Franz Kafka

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From the acclaimed author of The Jew in the Lotus comes an "engrossing and wonderful book" (The Washington Times) about the unexpected connections between Franz Kafka and Hasidic master Rabbi Nachman of Bratslav—and the significant role played by the imagination in the Jewish spiritual experience.Rodger Kamenetz has long been fascinated by the mystical tales of the Hasidic master Rabbi Nachman of ... Read more

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From the acclaimed author of The Jew in the Lotus comes an "engrossing and wonderful book" (The Washington Times) about the unexpected connections between Franz Kafka and Hasidic master Rabbi Nachman of Bratslav—and the significant role played by the imagination in the Jewish spiritual experience.Rodger Kamenetz has long been fascinated by the mystical tales of the Hasidic master Rabbi Nachman of
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A Jew Today

by Elie Wiesel ...

A powerful and wide-ranging collection of essays, letters, and diary entries that weave together all the periods of the author's life from his childhood in Transylvania to Auschwitz and Buchenwald, Paris, and New York. • "One of the great writers of our generation addresses himself to the question of what it means to be a Jew." —The New RepublicElie Wiesel, acclaimed as one of the most gifted and ... Read more

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A powerful and wide-ranging collection of essays, letters, and diary entries that weave together all the periods of the author's life from his childhood in Transylvania to Auschwitz and Buchenwald, Paris, and New York. • "One of the great writers of our generation addresses himself to the question of what it means to be a Jew." —The New RepublicElie Wiesel, acclaimed as one of the most gifted and
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