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Get the Summary of Judy Batalion's The Light of Days in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. "The Light of Days" by Judy Batalion chronicles the valiant efforts of Jewish women in Nazi-occupied Poland who actively participated in resistance movements against the German occupation during World War II. The book delves into the lives of these women, highlighting their bravery, resourcefulness, and determination to fight...
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Sinai Tapestry, the brilliant first novel of the Jerusalem Quartet,is an epic alternate history of the Middle East in which the discovery of the original Bible links a disparate group of remarkable people across time and space
In 1840, Plantagenet Strongbow, the twenty-ninth Duke of Dorset, seven-feet-seven-inches tall and the greatest swordsman and botanist of Victorian England, walks away from the family estate and disappears...
In 1840, Plantagenet Strongbow, the twenty-ninth Duke of Dorset, seven-feet-seven-inches tall and the greatest swordsman and botanist of Victorian England, walks away from the family estate and disappears...
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Taking readers from Manhattan to Hollywood to the Israeli desert, The Last Princess is the tale of a young woman whom every woman aspires to be . . . until she throws it all away for a love that will be her greatest trial-and triumph To the world, Lily Goodhue has everything: wealth, status, beauty, and a fiancé from one of New York's most distinguished families. But beneath the dazzling façade is a young woman haunted by a devastating childhood...
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National Jewish Book Award Finalist: A "sophisticated and engaging" novel of three innocents drawn into a criminal scheme in modern-day Jerusalem (The Wall Street Journal).
Brokenhearted haberdasher Isaac Markowitz has fled the Lower East Side for Israel, where he now assists a renowned elderly rabbi who tends to the hungry and hopeless in his courtyard. Tamar is an American hipster-turned-observant Jew who has come to Jerusalem to find a devout...
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2006 National Jewish Book Award, Modern Jewish Thought
Long the object of curiosity, admiration, and gossip, rabbis' wives have rarely been viewed seriously as American Jewish religious and communal leaders. We know a great deal about the important role played by rabbis in building American Jewish life in this country, but not much about the role that their wives played. The Rabbi's Wife redresses that imbalance by highlighting the unique contributions...
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In 1913, a young woman was found murdered in the National Pencil Factory in Atlanta. The investigation focused on the Jewish manager of the factory, Leo Frank, who was subsequently forced to stand trial for the crime he didn't commit and railroaded to a life sentence in prison. Shortly after being incarcerated, he was abducted from his cell and lynched in front of a gleeful mob.
In vividly re-imagining these horrifying events, Pulitzer Prize–winning...
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Honorable Mention, 2019 Saul Viener Book Prize, given by the American Jewish Historical Society
A vivid history of the American Jewish merchants who concentrated in the nation's most important economic sector
In the nineteenth century, Jewish merchants created a thriving niche economy in the United States' most important industry-cotton-positioning themselves at the forefront of expansion during the Reconstruction Era. Jewish success in the cotton...
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When Iberian Jews were converted to Catholicism under duress during the Inquisition, many struggled to retain their Jewish identity in private while projecting Christian conformity in the public sphere. To root out these heretics, the courts of the Inquisition published checklists of koshering practices and "grilled" the servants, neighbors, and even the children of those suspected of practicing their religion at home.
From these testimonies and...
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A dark and beautiful tale of a most unusual school Wolf Walker is the director of the Suicide Academy. Troubled individuals come to his school for just one day and must decide whether to end their lives. As for Wolf himself, he is suffering a kind of death-in-life. The Academy's board members have involved him in a policy skirmish, and the depressed employee he had an affair with is not getting any better. When his ex-wife, Jewel, and her husband...
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A brilliant tragicomedy based on the most infamous espionage trial of the twentieth century Thirty years after they walked hand in hand to the electric chair, sentenced to die for giving the gift of the atom bomb to the Soviet Union, Solomon and Dolores Rubell are the targets of a new investigation-conducted not by the FBI, or some paranoid Senate subcommittee, but by Gerald Lerner, boyhood Communist and author of such classic chronicles of the American...
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As millions of people around the world who have read her diary attest, Anne Frank, the most familiar victim of the Holocaust, has a remarkable place in contemporary memory. Anne Frank Unbound looks beyond this young girl's words at the numerous ways people have engaged her life and writing. Apart from officially sanctioned works and organizations, there exists a prodigious amount of cultural production, which encompasses literature, art, music, film,...
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It
is generally accepted that Jews and evangelical Christians have little in
common. Yet special alliances developed
between the two groups in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Evangelicals
viewed Jews as both the rightful heirs of Israel and as a group who failed to
recognize their true savior. Consequently, they set out to influence the course
of Jewish life by attempting to evangelize Jews and to facilitate their return
to Palestine....
13) The Trojan Jew
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This is a mildly poisonous satire from the grave – the intertwined stories of the launch of a Nazi project in WW2 Berlin and its conclusion half a century later in Manhattan. Wallace Markfield published 4 full-length novels (3 satires + 1 thriller) in the 20th century. His 5th was interrupted by his death in 2002. It was nearly done, not that hard to finish, but thoroughly unmarketable in the context of 9/11. Much has changed since then, so...
14) Harmony Lights
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Will it take a miracle to turn this small-town second chance reunion into true love? It's Hanukkah in the small town of Harmony Springs, and Abigail Cohen is surrounded by latkes, holiday candles, and a mother who seems determined to push her into the arms of the one man she's vowed to forget. Abby got over Ethan Weiss years ago. She moved away. She became a doctor. She hardly ever thinks about her first true love. But when her mother has a medical...
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The quintessential introduction to Jewish beliefs, practices and traditions by the rabbi and director of the New York Federation of Reform Synagogues.
Rabbi Daniel L. Davis was a leader of Reform Judaism. His classic text, Understanding Judaism, has been widely used by Jews and non-Jews alike since it was first published in 1958. A popular volume for those attending conversion courses, if offers a fuller grasp of Jewish religion and culture. From...
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Jesus is known to have lived a life of love, justice and mercy. His actions and teachings are permeated by these values, and they continue to inspire and guide millions of people around the world to this day.Jesus preached love of neighbor as one of the most important commandments, teaching the importance of loving not only friends and family but also strangers and even enemies. He exemplified this love through his actions, helping those in need and...
17) Café Nevo
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Café Nevo is a Tel Aviv gathering place for artists, politicians, lovers, and Bohemians-Arabs and Jews, young and old, conservative and radical. Nevo is presided over by Emmanual Sternholz, the waiter whose unblinking gaze takes in the tangled web of destinies and desires spun out around him. In this comic, tragic, and compelling mosaic of intertwined lives, Barbara Rogan has created a dazzling work of fiction-and a marvelously illuminating mirror...
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The book you hold before you is no ordinary Haggadah. If you've ever suffered through a Seder, you're well aware of the fact that the entire evening can last as long as the exodus from Egypt itself. There are countless stories, dozens of blessings, and far too many handwashings while the meal turns cold. Now prepare to be entertained by another version of the book that's responsible for this interminable tradition.
With this hilarious parody Haggadah...
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"I'm not old," quips Marjie Zacks, "I'm experienced."
With the same inimitable wit found in her first book, It All Ends Up in a Parfait Glass, Marjie takes readers for a romp down memory lane and into the joys and absurdities of her "young senior" years. Marjie tells tales on herself that will have readers laughing one minute and tearing up the next. She examines questions like:
• Why can't we see or hear as well when we wear a medical...
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From Denmark to Riga and back, through two World Wars, to India and Afghanistan, to America as it was and as it is, and through boarding schools, mental hospitals, and almshouses for the poor, Suzanne Brøgger's The Jade Cat is a sweeping family saga of almost limitless ambition.
At the heart of the narrative and of this Jewish family unit is the grandmother, Katze, and her memories. She tells the story from her patrician apartment in Copenhagen's...
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