#fastsandfeasts #judaism #alphabet #hardcover 

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

Michigan

An alphabet book introducing Jewish holidays and their customs.

A Jewish Holiday ABC

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Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

The Animated Jewish Year

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#hardcover #religion #history #Judaism #Christianity 
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Arkansas

Exploring past, present, and future 

This book records the reflections and dialogue of nine distinguished scholars, who by exploring past and present relationships between Christians and Jews, are enhancing the search for new means of communication and the development of a future in which Jewish-christian bonds are stronger and closer.

Jews and Christians

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#hardcover #hitler #biography #history #teaching #WWII #holocaust #genocide #judaism

Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

New York

2003 Sibert Medal Winner



Many people believe Hitler was the personification of evil. In this Sibert Medal-winning biography, James Cross Giblin penetrates this façade and presents a picture of a complex person--at once a brilliant, influential politician and a deeply disturbed man.

In a straightforward and nonsensational manner, the author explores the forces that shaped the man as well as the social conditions that furthered his rapid rise to power. Against a background of crucial historical events, Giblin traces the arc of Hitler's life from 1889 to 1945: his childhood, his years as a frustrated artist in Vienna, his extraordinary rise as dictator of Germany, his final days in an embattled bunker under Berlin. Powerful archival images provide a haunting visual accompaniment to this clear and compelling account of a life that left an ineradicable mark on our world. Author's note, bibliography, index.

The Life and Death of Adolf Hitler

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#paperback #historicalfiction #fiction #history #judaism #newyork #romance #womensfiction 

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Texas

A Novel

With echoes of Rules of Civility and The Boston Girl, a compelling and thought-provoking novel set in postwar New York City, about two women—one Jewish, one a WASP—and the wholly unexpected consequences of their meeting. One rainy morning in June, two years after the end of World War II, a minor traffic accident brings together Eleanor Moskowitz and Patricia Bellamy. Their encounter seems fated: Eleanor, a teacher and recent Vassar graduate, needs a job. Patricia’s difficult thirteen-year-old daughter Margaux, recovering from polio, needs a private tutor. Though she feels out of place in the Bellamys’ rarefied and elegant Park Avenue milieu, Eleanor forms an instant bond with Margaux. Soon the idealistic young woman is filling the bright young girl’s mind with Shakespeare and Latin. Though her mother, a hat maker with a little shop on Second Avenue, disapproves, Eleanor takes pride in her work, even if she must use the name "Moss" to enter the Bellamys’ restricted doorman building each morning, and feels that Patricia’s husband, Wynn, may have a problem with her being Jewish. Invited to keep Margaux company at the Bellamys’ country home in a small town in Connecticut, Eleanor meets Patricia’s unreliable, bohemian brother, Tom, recently returned from Europe. The spark between Eleanor and Tom is instant and intense. Flushed with new romance and increasingly attached to her young pupil, Eleanor begins to feel more comfortable with Patricia and much of the world she inhabits. As the summer wears on, the two women’s friendship grows—until one hot summer evening, a line is crossed, and both Eleanor and Patricia will have to make important decisions—choices that will reverberate through their lives. Gripping and vividly told, Not Our Kind illuminates the lives of two women on the cusp of change—and asks how much our pasts can and should define our futures.

Not Our Kind

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New Hampshire

revised edition

Provides an introduction to Hinduism, Buddhism, Confucianism, Taoism, Islam, Judaism, Christianity, and the native traditions of the Americas, Australia, Africa, and Oceania

The World's Religions

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#paperback #religion #karenarmstrong #nonfiction #ahistoryofgod #christianity #god #history #theology #Judaism #Islam #Christianity 
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Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

The 4,000-Year Quest of Judaism, Christianity and Islam

The 4,000-year quest of Judaism, Christianity and Islam.

A History of God

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#paperback #parenting #religion #judaism 

Washington

A Practical Handbook for Family Life

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Red Tent--a classic parenting book that combines insights from Jewish tradition with contemporary thinking about how children learn and grow.

In this updated edition, you will discover the practices, customs, and values that go into creating a Jewish home and raising joyful children within the rich traditions of Judaism.

How to Raise a Jewish Child

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#paperback #fairytales #fiction #jewishhistory #judaism #magic #mysticism #hungary 

Florida

Experience an evocative combination of fantasy, history, and Jewish folklore in this fairytale-inspired novel from the author of The Sisters of the Winter Wood. ​ "The Light of the Midnight Stars is storytelling as spellcasting. Rossner has conjured something vivid and wild and true." --Kiran Millwood Hargrave, author of The Mercies Deep in the Hungarian woods, the sacred magic of King Solomon lives on in his descendants. Gathering under the midnight stars, they perform small miracles and none are more gifted than the great Rabbi Isaac and his three daughters. Hannah, bookish and calm, can coax plants to grow even when the weather is bitterly cold. Sarah, defiant and strong, can control the impulsive nature of fire. And Levana, the fey one, can read the path of the stars to decipher their secrets. But darkness is creeping across Europe, threatening the lives of every Jewish person in every village. Each sister will have to make an impossible choice in an effort to survive - and change the fate of their family forever. Praise for The Light of the Midnight Stars: "Rossner creates a lush, immersive world through which the sprawling plot meanders, punctuated by moments of intense grief. The result is as lovely as it is heartbreaking." --Publishers Weekly "Rossner's tale is as lyrical as the slow growth of roots, the quick dance of fire, and the stately procession of the stars. Blending folktale with history, hope with tragedy, its touch will linger on your heart long after you put it down."-- Marie Brennan For more from Rena Rossner, check out The Sisters of the Winter Wood.

The Light of the Midnight Stars

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#paperback #fairytales #fiction #hungary #jewishhistory #judaism #magic #mysticism 

Georgia

California

A Teaching and Journaling Experience

God speaks to you not only through His Word, but through your dreams too.



Scripture confirms that one of the primary ways God speaks to His people is through dreams. In this remarkable book Rabbi Schneider, a Jewish believer in Jesus, shows through personal examples from his own life, as well as biblical examples, how the Lord is still speaking to His people today through their dreams. 

Rabbi Schneider demonstrates how we can do the following:
 * Receive direction
 * Be encouraged
 * Receive revelation
 * Be warned
 * Be prepared for what we're about to face in our future
 * Be launched into our destinies by paying attention to how the Spirit is speaking to us through our dreams at night

 

Readers will also learn how to record and interpret their dreams in this important and exciting resource.

This book will help you understand how God speaks to you through your dreams so that you can receive direction, encouragement, and revelation.

 

The Mystery of Dreams

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How to Comfort the Dying, Bury the Dead, and Mourn As a Jew

From beloved New York Times bestselling author and award-winning journalist--the definitive guide to Judaism's end-of-life rituals, revised and updated for Jews of all backgrounds and beliefs.

From caring for the dying to honoring the dead, Anita Diamant explains the Jewish practices that make mourning a loved one an opportunity to experience the full range of emotions--grief, anger, fear, guilt, relief--and take comfort in the idea that the memory of the deceased is bound up in our lives and actions.
 
In Saying Kaddish you will find suggestions for conducting a funeral and for observing the shiva week, the shloshim month, the year of Kaddish, the annual yahrzeit, and the Yizkor service. There are also chapters on coping with particular losses--such as the death of a child and suicide--and on children as mourners, mourning non-Jewish loved ones, and the bereavement that accompanies miscarriage.
 
Diamant also offers advice on how to apply traditional views of the sacredness of life to hospice and palliative care. Reflecting the ways that ancient rituals and customs have been adapted in light of contemporary wisdom and needs, she includes updated sections on taharah (preparation of the body for burial) and on using ritual immersion in a mikveh to mark the stages of bereavement. And, celebrating a Judaism that has become inclusive and welcoming. Diamant highlights rituals, prayers, and customs that will be meaningful to Jews-by-choice, Jews of color, and LGBTQ Jews. Concluding chapters discuss Jewish perspectives on writing a will, creating healthcare directives, making final arrangements, and composing an ethical will.

Saying Kaddish

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Heavy Paperback (2 to 4 lbs)

Social Studies

The Illustrated Guide to World Religions

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Pennsylvania

My Journey to Jewish Orthodoxy

The author recounts his slow conversion from secular success to Orthodox Judaism, a process influenced by his discovery of his non-Judaic ancestry.

The Lord Will Gather Me In

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Maryland

A Journey into the Heart of the Twentieth Century

The author of the The Children’s Blizzard delivers an epic work of twentieth century history through the riveting story of one extraordinary Jewish family In tracing the roots of this family—his own family—Laskin captures the epic sweep of the twentieth century. A modern-day scribe, Laskin honors the traditions, the lives, and the choices of his ancestors: revolutionaries and entrepreneurs, scholars and farmers, tycoons and truck drivers. The Family is a deeply personal, dramatic, and emotional account of people caught in a cataclysmic time in world history. A century and a half ago, a Torah scribe and his wife raised six children in a yeshivatown at the western fringe of the Russian empire. Bound by their customs and ancient faith, the pious couple expected their sons and daughter to carry family traditions into future generations. But the social and political crises of our time decreed otherwise. The torrent of history took the scribe’s family down three very different roads. One branch immigrated to America and founded the fabulously successful Maidenform Bra Company; another went to Palestine as pioneers and participated in the contentious birth of the state of Israel; the third branch remained in Europe and suffered the onslaught of the Nazi occupation. With cinematic power and beauty, bestselling author David Laskin brings to life the upheavals of the twentieth century through the story of one family, three continents, two world wars, and the rise and fall of nations.

The Family

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#hardcover #religion #Judaism #spirituality

Massachusetts

Talking Spiritual Life, Living Spiritual Talk

"According to the Hebrew Bible, God made the world with words. God just spoke and the world became reality. (The Aramaic for 'I create as I speak' is avara k'davara, or in magician's language, abracadabra.) ... This does not protect words from the numbing effects of overuse in any religious tradition.... We need to dust off the words, shake away the accretions, wonder again about what they originally might have meant and enable ourselves to live in the word."
--from the Introduction

With creativity and poetry (and occasional heresy) Kushner dusts off thirty classical Hebrew words, shakes them free of the effects of generations of overuse, "re-translates" them and liberates their ancient holy power. The result is a contemporary spiritual guide for your personal religious life.

According to the Hebrew Bible, God made the world with words. God just spoke and the world came into being. Words therefore are not merely sounds signifying something else; they are instruments of creation, primary reality itself. They need only to be read, spoken and interpreted. And to know them is to know reality itself.

Kushner has designed the book himself, seamlessly blending graphics and content. In doing so he evokes the aesthetics of an ancient manuscript and a vision of our power to shape the future.

Each finely crafted chapter begins with a Hebrew word and Kushner's provocative English translation. At the bottom of the page is a transliteration of the Hebrew along with its more customary English rendering. In addition to his own intriguing definition, he includes a biblical citation anchoring the word, along with a more recent text showing the word's evolution. Finally, we are offered a personal, meditative exercise designed to enable you to "live in the word."

The Book of Words

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#hardcover #spirituality #religion #judaism

Finding Self, Spirituality and Ultimate Meaning

Selected as a Union of American Hebrew Congregations (UAHC)
"Significant Jewish Book"

Jacob was running away from home. One night he lay down in the wilderness to sleep and had one of the great mystical experiences of Western religion. He dreamed there was a ladder, with angels ascending and descending, stretched between heaven and earth. For thousands of years, people have tried to overhear what the messengers came down to tell Jacob, and us.

Now in a daring blend of scholarship and imagination, psychology and history, Lawrence Kushner gathers an inspiring range of interpretations of Genesis 28:16 given by sages, from Shmuel bar Nachmani in third-century Palestine to Hannah Rachel Werbermacher of Ludomir who lived in Poland two hundred years ago. Through a fascinating new literary genre and Kushner's creative reconstruction of the teachers' lives and times, we enter the study halls and sit at the feet of these spiritual masters to learn what each discovered about God's Self and ourselves as they ascend and descend Jacob's ladder.

In this illuminating journey, our spiritual guides ask and answer the fundamental questions of human experience: Who am I? Who is God? What is God's role in history? What is the nature of evil? How should I relate to God and other people? Could the universe really have a self?

Rabbi Lawrence Kushner brilliantly reclaims a millennium of Jewish spirituality for contemporary seekers of all faiths and backgrounds. God Was in This Place & I, i Did Not Know is about God and about you; it is about discovering God's place in the universe, and yours.

God Was in This Place and I, I Did Not Know

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#Israel #Judaism Previous owner inscription on half-title page #nonfiction #paperback 

New Jersey

Home to Stay

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Like new 1972 printing! #printing #holocaust #jew #judaism #historical

Minnesota

My Name is Asher Lev (VINTAGE, 1972)

Studies in Judaism Vol 1

Targum Neophyti A Textual Study

#historicalfiction #historical #hardcover #suspense #intrigue #judaism Sequel to The Book of Abraham. 1990 lightly toned, name inside. 

Alabama

Translation of Les fils d'Abraham. "Arcade Publishing."

The Children of Abraham; by Marek Halter, Translated from the French by Lowell Bair

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Illinois

The author of the best-selling Unorthodox traces her new life as an independent young woman and single mother searching for an authentic and personal Jewish identity, describing how after leaving her Hasidic community she pursued healing in a circle of like-minded outcasts and misfits.

Exodus

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#paperback #fiction #novel #family #spelling #judaism 

An ordinary girl with an exceptional gift for spelling, young Eliza Naumann embarks on the rough-and-tumble "spelling bee" circuit, where her quirky family will collide with the harsh realities of life. A first novel. Reissue. (A Bona Fide Productions, Fox Searchlight film, releasing November 2005, directed by Scott McGehee & David Siegel, starring Juliette Binoche & Richard Gere) (General Fiction)

Malka Drucker; Rita Pocock (Illustrator)

A Jewish Holiday ABC

Inbal Beter

The Animated Jewish Year

James H. Charlesworth

Jews and Christians

James Cross Giblin

The Life and Death of Adolf Hitler

Kitty Zeldis

Not Our Kind

Huston Smith

The World's Religions

Karen Armstrong

A History of God

Anita Diamant; Karen Kushner

How to Raise a Jewish Child

Rena Rossner

The Light of the Midnight Stars

Rena Rossner

The Light of the Midnight Stars

Rabbi Kirt A. Schneider

The Mystery of Dreams

Anita Diamant

Saying Kaddish

Michael David Coogan

The Illustrated Guide to World Religions

David Klinghoffer

The Lord Will Gather Me In

David Laskin

The Family

Lawrence Kushner

The Book of Words

Lawrence Kushner

God Was in This Place and I, I Did Not Know

Daniel Gordis

Home to Stay

Chaim Potok

My Name is Asher Lev (VINTAGE, 1972)

B Barry Levy

Targum Neophyti A Textual Study

Marek Halter

The Children of Abraham; by Marek Halter, Translated from the French by Lowell Bair

Deborah Feldman

Exodus

Myla Goldberg

Bee Season

Fritz Ridenour

So What’s the Difference