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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Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

New Jersey

Home to Stay

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

Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

New York

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

Michigan

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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Civilization and the Jews

Heritage 

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

The Uninvited Guest and Other Jewish Holiday Tales 

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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David Altschuler

Heavy Paperback (2 to 4 lbs)

Judaic Treasures from the Czechoslavak State Collection

The Precious Legacy

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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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Rachel Naomi Remen

Spibe shows wear. See ohoty. Otherwise like new. 

Stories of Strength, Refuge, and Belonging

In My Grandfather's Blessings, Rachel Naomi Remen, a cancer physician and master storyteller, uses her luminous stories to remind us of the power of our kindness and the joy of being alive. Dr. Remen's grandfather, an orthodox rabbi and scholar of the Kabbalah, saw life as a web of connection and knew that everyone belonged to him, and that he belonged to everyone. He taught her that blessing one another is what fills our emptiness, heals our loneliness, and connects us more deeply to life. Life has given us many more blessings than we have allowed ourselves to receive. My Grandfather's Blessings is about how we can recognize and receive our blessings and bless the life in others. Serving others heals us. Through our service we will discover our own wholeness—and the way to restore hidden wholeness in the world.

My Grandfather's Blessings

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Donna Jo Napoli

I have other books available by this author. I also have other books about the holocaust available on my shelf.

This is a book for every Bar Mitzvah boy and indeed anyone who wants to learn about the beliefs, philosophies and history of the Jewish religion.

Stones in Water

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

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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#deadseascrolls #archaeology #judaism #bible #theology 
Hardback with dust jacket and acetate cover in like new condition with no markings in text. 
Questions? Just ask. Thanks! 

I am selling my personal theological library of approximately 1500 volumes. They all have the Library of Congress classification number on the spine and most have my name stamped in them. Most are in like new or excellent condition. 

Arkansas

The Dead Sea Scrolls Uncovered 

Naomi Ragen

An Unorthodox Match is a powerful and moving novel of faith, love, and acceptance, from author Naomi Ragen, the international bestselling author of The Devil in Jerusalem.

California girl Lola has her life all set up: business degree, handsome fiancé, fast track career, when suddenly, without warning, everything tragically implodes. After years fruitlessly searching for love, marriage, and children, she decides to take the radical step of seeking spirituality and meaning far outside the parameters of modern life in the insular, ultraorthodox enclave of Boro Park, Brooklyn. There, fate brings her to the dysfunctional home of newly-widowed Jacob, a devout Torah scholar, whose life is also in turmoil, and whose small children are aching for the kindness of a womanly touch.

While her mother direly predicts she is ruining her life, enslaving herself to a community that is a misogynistic religious cult, Lola’s heart tells her something far more complicated. But it is the shocking and unexpected messages of her new community itself which will finally force her into a deeper understanding of the real choices she now faces and which will ultimately decide her fate.

Alabama

A powerful and moving novel of faith, love, and acceptance, from the international bestselling author of The Devil in Jerusalem. Yaakov is a man of God, a father, a Talmud scholar, and a widower. After failing to save his wife’s life, he is struggling both financially and spiritually. Lola is a woman from the secular world who has suffered terrible tragedy and hardship in her life. To find her place she has turned to God and the Orthodox community in Brooklyn. She now goes by the name of Leah. Yaakov needs help to keep his home and his children in order; Leah needs a purpose and a place in the Orthodox community. They both need a partner in life, a perfect match. But the instant chemistry they share is fraught with drama and prohibition. Forces are against them while necessity pushes them together. And then there is the possibility – will love win, or won’t it?

An Unorthodox Match

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Jonathan Greenblatt

Signed hardcover. Spots shown in photos are part of dust jacket pattern. Some minor edge wear, as shown in photos. No markings in text. 

Why America Is Tipping from Hate to the Unthinkable--And How We Can Stop It



"Refreshingly candid  . . . Get off Instagram and read this book."--Sacha Baron Cohen 



From the dynamic head of ADL, an impassioned argument about the terrifying path that America finds itself on today--and how we can save ourselves



It's almost impossible to imagine that unbridled hate and systematic violence could come for us or our families. But it has happened in our lifetimes in Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and Asia. And it could happen here.



Today, as CEO of the storied ADL (the Anti-Defamation League), Jonathan Greenblatt has made it his personal mission to demonstrate how antisemitism, racism, and other insidious forms of intolerance can destroy a society, taking root as quiet prejudices but mutating over time into horrific acts of brutality. In this urgent book, Greenblatt sounds an alarm, warning that this age-old trend is gathering momentum in the United States--and that violence on an even larger, more catastrophic scale could be just around the corner.



But it doesn't have to be this way. Drawing on ADL's decades of experience in fighting hate through investigative research, education programs, and legislative victories as well as his own personal story and his background in business and government, Greenblatt offers a bracing primer on how we--as individuals, as organizations, and as a society--can strike back against hate. Just because it could happen here, he shows, does not mean that the unthinkable is inevitable.

 

SIGNED - It Could Happen Here

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#paperback #childrens #chapterbook #fiction #Judaism #holiday #fiction #sukkot  #food

Searching for a new recipe to welcome Sukkot guests to her family's restaurant Saralee uses her super-nose to smell her way to the stars. But her magical Starlight Soup turns out to be a taste-bud disasterÔøΩnow what? Welcome back Saralee! --Kirkus Reviews

Starlight Soup, a Sukkot Story

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Anita Dittman

Jan Markell

Ray Comfort

Book is in good condition. There is sticker residue at the bottom of the spine and the corner on the back cover is a little messed up. Please see pictures.

Ohio

A Young Jewish Girl Discovers the Messiah's Faithfulness in the Midst of the Holocaust

"Previously titled Angels in the c& published by Tyndale House, 1979"--Title page verso.

Trapped in Hitler's Hell

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Tova Hartman Halbertal

Arizona

Modern Mothers in Traditional Religions

The author interviewed mothers of teenage daughters in religious communities: Catholic in the USA and Orthodox Jews in Israel, to find out how to reconcile conflicting loyalties.

Appropriately Subversive

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Morris Norman Kertzer

Obvious wear on jacket and spine. Debris and sticker residue stains on cover. Several dog ear pages. Tear at top of cover. Pages in acceptable shape for reading. Clean enough despite dog ears. Devoid of scribbles. Please see photos for reference.

Tell Me, Rabbi

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South Carolina

Saul Bellow

In this wonderfully entertaining collection edited by Nobel Prize-winning author Saul Bellow, 28 stories by outstanding Jewish authors capture all the bold color and rich flavor of Jewish culture through the ages. Includes stories by Sholom Aleichem, Isaac Bebel, S.J. Agnon, and others.

Great Jewish Short Stories

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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. 

A Secret Star

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Elaine Grudin Denholtz

Ex-library copy with internal markings, stamps, etc.

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

The Battle for a Boy's Soul

A zaddik is a righteous man and inspirational Jewish leader. Denholtz, a journalist, playwright, and screenwriter who teaches at Fairleigh Dickinson U., presents the stranger-than-fiction case of the 1992 kidnapping of a Brooklyn boy, believed by an ultra- Orthodox rabbi destined to become a zaddik, and his immigrant Israeli mother's legal fight to get him back. The court transcript excerpts treat important moral issues. c. Book News Inc.

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