Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

New Jersey

A Novel 

Button Man

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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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Abby Levine

Former library copy with expected stickers and markings. 

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

Oregon

Max and his family prepare to celebrate Passover. In cumulative verse, Max and his sister Ruth shop for matzah in the Passover aisle of the grocery store. The family gathers for the traditional Seder that celebrates this holiday of freedom.

This Is the Matzah

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Anita Diamant

Michigan

A tale inspired by the post-Holocaust experience is set in an immigrant holding camp in 1945 Palestine, where four women, refugees from Nazi Europe, find healing in the bonds of friendship that are forged while recounting their losses.

Day after Night

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Except for a small stain in the upper right corner pages, the book is pristine! Read this for a book discussion—a touching Holocaust-period read. 

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

New York

A Secret Star

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Home to Stay

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#hardcover #nonfiction #philosophy #religion #culture #Christianity #Judaism 

Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

A Living Conversation / PBS series

Offers a discussion of the Book of Genesis by more than fifty eminent thinkers and artists

Genesis

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Kitty Zeldis

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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Karen Berg

One dog eared page corner and light wear. Unmarked interior. 

Kabbalah for Women

For millennia, the spiritual science known as Kabbalah has not only been skewed towards men and their issues, but women have literally been forbidden to study it -- and in many cases, still are. Now, Karen Berg, co-director of The Kabbalah Centre, the largest international organization devoted to teaching and promoting Kabbalah wisdom, breaks this barrier. God Wears Lipstick contains the tools for women to dramatically increase their sense of fulfillment, passion, communication, and understanding of life. The author covers such subjects as what it means to be a woman, the meaning of life and love, transforming potential, attracting the perfect mate, and how to create a better sex life. The book is structured around Kabbalistic "tools" -- the Sharing Tool, the Conflict Tool, the Effort Tool -- which makes its ancient lessons intelligible and inspiring to modern readers.

God Wears Lipstick

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Civilization and the Jews

Heritage 

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Iowa

#paperback #holidays #jewish #judaism #jews #passover #hanukkah #yomkippur #messianic #shabbat

The Uninvited Guest and Other Jewish Holiday Tales 

Arthur A. Levine

Robert Roth

Massachusetts

A PJ Library Book

Pearl Moscowitz takes a stand when the city government tries to chop down the last ginko tree on her street.

Pearl Moscowitz’s Last Stand

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David Altschuler

Heavy Paperback (2 to 4 lbs)

Judaic Treasures from the Czechoslavak State Collection

The Precious Legacy

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Diane Wolkstein

Holiday Stories That Reveal the Soul of Judaism

On the Jewish holidays, portions of stories are told. An exquisite teller of tales, Wolkstein has gifted readers with the full story for each holiday. Each of the 27 stories in "Treasures" is introduced in both historical and symbolic time.

Treasures of the Heart

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Chaim Potok

Cover wear, but very nice and readable inside. 

In the Beginning

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Aaron Lansky

Except for both the yellow-y pages & cover from its long shelf life, this wonderful book is intact, solid, and in very good condition! 

The Amazing Adventures of a Man Who Rescued a Million Yiddish Books

"Incredible . . . Inspiring . . . Important." --Library Journal, starred review



"A marvelous yarn, loaded with near-calamitous adventures and characters as memorable as Singer creations." --The New York Post

    

"What began as a quixotic journey was also a picaresque romp, a detective story, a profound history lesson, and a poignant evocation of a bygone world." --The Boston Globe



"Every now and again a book with near-universal appeal comes along: Outwitting History is just such a book." --The Sunday Oregonian



As a twenty-three-year-old graduate student, Aaron Lansky set out to save the world's abandoned Yiddish books before it was too late. Today, more than a million books later, he has accomplished what has been called "the greatest cultural rescue effort in Jewish history." In Outwitting History, Lansky shares his adventures as well as the poignant and often laugh-out-loud stories he heard as he traveled the country collecting books. Introducing us to a dazzling array of writers, he shows us how an almost-lost culture is the bridge between the old world and the future--and how the written word can unite everyone who believes in the power of great literature.



A Library Journal Best Book

A Massachusetts Book Award Winner in Nonfiction

An ALA Notable Book

Outwitting History

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Huston Smith

Maryland

A Guide to Our Wisdom Traditions

Retaining all the beloved qualities of Huston Smith's classic The Religions of Man and the current fully revised and updated The World's Religions, this stunning pictorial presentation refines the text to its wonderful essentials. In detailed, absorbing, richly illustrated, and highly readable chapters on Hinduism, Buddhism, Confucianism, Taoism, Islam, Judaism, Christianity and primal religions, we find refreshing and fascinating presentations of both the differences and the similarities among the worldwide religious traditions. The approach is at once classic and contemporary, retaining all the empathy, eloquence and erudition that millions of readers love about the earlier editions, while being edited and designed for a contemporary general readership. This delightful marriage of winsome text and remarkable pictures vividly brings to life the scope and vision of Huston Smith's expertise and insight.

The Illustrated World's Religions

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Hayim H. Donin

A Guide to Jewish Observance in Contemporary Life

The classic guide to the ageless heritage of Judaism Embraced over many decades by hundreds of thousands of readers, To Be a Jew offers a clear and comprehensive introduction to traditional Jewish laws and customs as they apply to daily life in the contemporary world. In simple and powerful language, Rabbi Hayim Halevy Donin presents the fundamentals of Judaism, including the laws and observances for the Sabbath, the dietary laws, family life, prayer at home and in the synagogue, the major and minor holidays, and the guiding principles and observances of life, such as birth, naming, circumcision, adoption and conversion, Bar-mitzvah, marriage, divorce, death, and mourning. Ideal for reference, reflection, and inspiration, To Be a Jew will by greatly valued by anyone who feels that knowing, understanding, and observing the laws and traditions of Judaism in daily life is the essence of what it means to be a Jew.

To Be a Jew

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Daniel Mendelsohn

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A Search for Six of Six Million

A New York Times Notable Book * Winner of the National Jewish Book Award * Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award * A Los Angeles Times Book Prize Finalist

"A gripping detective story, a stirring epic, a tale of ghosts and dark marvels, a thrilling display of scholarship, a meditation on the unfathomable mystery of good and evil, a testimony to the enduring power of the ancient archetypes that haunt one Jewish family and the greater human family, The Lost is as complex and rich with meaning and story as the past it seeks to illuminate. A beautiful book, beautifully written."--Michael Chabon

In this rich and riveting narrative, a writer's search for the truth behind his family's tragic past in World War II becomes a remarkably original epic--part memoir, part reportage, part mystery, and part scholarly detective work--that brilliantly explores the nature of time and memory, family and history.

The Lost begins as the story of a boy who grew up in a family haunted by the disappearance of six relatives during the Holocaust--an unmentionable subject that gripped his imagination from earliest childhood. Decades later, spurred by the discovery of a cache of desperate letters written to his grandfather in 1939 and tantalized by fragmentary tales of a terrible betrayal, Daniel Mendelsohn sets out to find the remaining eyewitnesses to his relatives' fates. That quest eventually takes him to a dozen countries on four continents and forces him to confront the wrenching discrepancies between the histories we live and the stories we tell. And it leads him, finally, back to the small Ukrainian town where his family's story began, and where the solution to a decades-old mystery awaits him.

Deftly moving between past and present, interweaving a world-wandering odyssey with childhood memories of a now-lost generation of immigrant Jews and provocative ruminations on biblical texts and Jewish history, The Lost transforms the story of one family into a profound, morally searching meditation on our fragile hold on the past. Deeply personal, grippingly suspenseful, and beautifully written, this literary tour de force illuminates all that is lost, and found, in the passage of time.

The Lost

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A skeptical visitor to the village of Nemirov finds out where its rabbi really goes during the Jewish New Year, when the villagers claim he goes to heaven to speak to God.

Alaska

Even Higher

#paperback #nonfiction #religion #judaism #classics #mystical

North Carolina

The Essential Kabbalah 

Stephen J. Einstein

Lydia Kukoff

Nevada

An introduction to Judaism, discussing the customs, ceremonies, and life-cycle events, along with the Jewish calendar, the Sabbath, contemporary Jewish life, and related topics, and explaining the connection between Jewish theology and daily living for those in the Jewish community.

Every Person's Guide to Judaism

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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.

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Andrew Gross

Button Man

David Klinghoffer

The Lord Will Gather Me In

Abby Levine

This Is the Matzah

Anita Diamant

Day after Night

Sharon Flitterman-King

A Secret Star

Daniel Gordis

Home to Stay

Bill Moyers; Joanne Dobson

Genesis

Kitty Zeldis

Not Our Kind

Karen Berg

God Wears Lipstick

Abba Eban

Heritage

Kitty Zeldis

Not Our Kind

Nina Jaffe

The Uninvited Guest and Other Jewish Holiday Tales

Arthur A. Levine; Robert Roth

Pearl Moscowitz’s Last Stand

David Altschuler

The Precious Legacy

Diane Wolkstein

Treasures of the Heart

Chaim Potok

In the Beginning

Aaron Lansky

Outwitting History

Huston Smith

The Illustrated World's Religions

Hayim H. Donin

To Be a Jew

Daniel Mendelsohn

The Lost

Barbara Cohen

Even Higher

Daniel C. Matt

The Essential Kabbalah

Stephen J. Einstein; Lydia Kukoff

Every Person's Guide to Judaism

James H. Charlesworth

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