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  • Lingering Bilingualism

    Modern Hebrew and Yiddish Literatures in Contact

    by Naomi Brenner ...
    Series series Judaic Traditions in Literature, Music, and Art
    In a famous comment made by the poet Chayim Nachman Bialik, Hebrew—the language of the Jewish religious and intellectual tradition—and Yiddish—the East European Jewish vernacular—were "a match made in heaven that cannot be separated." That marriage, so the story goes, collapsed in the years immediately preceding and following World War I. But did the "exes" really go their separate ways?Lingering ... Read more

    $34.39 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Number on Your Forearm is Blue Like Your Eyes

    A memoir

    by Eva Umlauf, Naomi Umlauf ...
    Translated by Shelley Frisch, PhD ...
    On November 3, 1944, a toddler named Eva, one month shy of her second birthday, was branded prisoner A-26959 in Auschwitz. She fainted in her mother’s arms but survived the tattooing and countless other shocks. Eva Hecht was born on December 19, 1942, in Novaky, Slovakia, a labor camp for Jews. Eva and her parents, Imrich and Agnes, were imprisoned in this camp until their deportation to Auschwitz ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

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  • Hebrew Flash Cards: 99 Essential Words And Phrases For Reading And Understanding Basic Biblical Hebrew (PACK 1)

    by Eti Shani ...
    This publication is a collection of essential words and phrases which form the basis to reading and understanding Biblical Hebrew.All Hebrew words are spelled out complete with nikud (diacritical signs for vowel pronunciation), English translation and transliteration for easy pronunciation.By using the "next page" and "previous page" button on your Kindle reader you can "flip" the cards and ... Read more

    $4.79 CAD

  • Learn Hebrew With Stories And Pictures: Dudu Ha Duhg (Dudu The Fish) - includes vocabulary, questions and audio

    by Eti Shani ...
    This book contains:* a charming story for both young and old* easily readable Hebrew fonts* full color illustrations* vocabulary and pronunciation guide* translations of words and phrases* a free downloadable audiobook* text com ... Read more

    $6.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A Humanistic Siddur of Spirituality and Meaning

    The American Character: We Rationalize Everything

    by Rabbi David Rabeeya Ph.D. ...
    This Siddur (prayer book) speaks to all those who seek a meaningful and humanistic approach to prayer. Rabbi Rabeeya offers his reflections and inner thoughts about the divine to those searching for meaning in an alienated society. ... Read more

    $5.39 CAD

  • Conversational Yiddish Quick and Easy: The Most Innovative Technique to Learn the Yiddish Language

    by Yatir Nitzany ...
    Have you always wanted to learn how to speak Yiddish but simply didn't have the time??Well if so, then, look no further.You can hold in your hands "Conversational Yiddish Quick and Easy" which contains one of the most advanced and revolutionary methods that was ever designed for quickly becoming conversational in a language.In creating this time-saving program, master linguist Yatir Nitzany spent ... Read more

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  • One Hundred Great Jewish Books

    Three Millennia of Jewish Conversation

    by Rabbi Lawrence A. Hoffman ...
    An introduction to one hundred great Jewish books, arranged as a concise and thought-provoking guide to the Jewish conversation across many centuries. Each of the entries features one work in its historical and cultural context, provides a summary of content and author, and reflects on its relevance for today’s readers. ... Read more

    $12.79 CAD

  • 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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  • Jews and Magic in Medici Florence

    The Secret World of Benedetto Blanis

    by Edward L. Goldberg ...
    In the seventeenth century, Florence was the splendid capital of the Medici Grand Dukedom of Tuscany. Meanwhile, the Jews in its tiny Ghetto struggled to earn a living by any possible means, especially loan-sharking, rag-picking and second-hand dealing. They were viewed as an uncanny people with rare supernatural powers, and Benedetto Blanis—a businessman and aspiring scholar from a distinguished ... Read more

    $39.19 CAD

  • Flares of Memory

    Stories of Childhood During the Holocaust

    Edited by Anita Brostoff ...
    In a series of writing workshops at the Holocaust Center of Pittsburgh, survivors who were children or teens during World War II assembled to remember the pivotal moments in which their lives were irreparably changed by the Nazis. These "flares of memory" preserve the voices of over forty Jews from throughout Europe who experienced a history that cannot be forgotten. Ninety-two brief vignettes ... Read more

    $23.19 CAD

  • Imagining the Kibbutz

    Visions of Utopia in Literature and Film

    by Ranen Omer-Sherman ...
    Series series Dimyonot
    In Imagining the Kibbutz, Ranen Omer-Sherman explores the literary and cinematic representations of the socialist experiment that became history’s most successfully sustained communal enterprise. Inspired in part by the kibbutz movement’s recent commemoration of its centennial, this study responds to a significant gap in scholarship. Numerous sociological and economic studies have appeared, but no ... Read more

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  • The Joys of Hebrew

    by Lewis Glinert ...
    When do you say mazal tov? What is the English equivalent to the Talmudic expression Alya ve-kots ba ("a sheep's tail with a thorn in it")? What is a get, a golem, a kibbutz, a chalutz? What four plant species are waved during prayers on the harvest festival of Sukkot? You'll find answers to these questions and hundreds of others--all in clear English--in this remarkable collection of the best ... Read more

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