Pearl Abraham

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

Minnesota

The author of "The Romance Reader" creates a stunning portrait of the disintegration of a marriage and the cultural clash between Hasidic and secular American values.

Giving up America

79d6ba15-97cf-44e0-ac3e-361443589f5c-1

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Oregon

A Perspective of New Testament Teachings Through Hebraic Eyes

New Treasures

db00583b-acd4-4cea-8204-7c842577cdff-1

Bahya ben Joseph ibn Pakuda

Avraham Yaakov Finkel

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

California

Duties of the Heart

c1e13e44-61c3-4f6a-b504-e1c1a8bc3fe9-0

Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

Nevada

At the Creation of the State of Israel

Look at the faces. Listen to the words. These are people who helped form the state of Israel. Shalom Masswari speaks nonchalantly of self-induced starvation, undertaken to make himself small enough to be smuggled out of prison in a suitcase. Zelig Gonen stands beside the bicycle he used to traffic a basket of Molotov cocktails across an Arab war zone. Eliahu Shavit crouches above the Jerusalem sewer holes he once crawled through as a saboteur, planting bombs. Munio Brandwein gazes at the olive trees he planted where three friends lost their lives.

In Testament, American photographer and journalist Aaron Levin heralds the men and women behind the founding of Israel on its 50th anniversary. Transcribed from interviews, sometimes translated from Hebrew, the essays that accompany each portrait in Testament tell of the extraordinary events that transformed everyday lives.

Along with the soldiers, civilians, and kibbutzniks who contributed to the independence movement, there are photos and first-person recollections of such prominent Israelis as former Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir, Nobel Peace Prize-winner Shimon Peres, and the former president of Israel and ambassador to the United Nations Chaim Herzog, now deceased.

Testament

7714e6c3-4c40-4e52-867d-d471c66f5f0a-1

Texas

Exploring the Holy Lands

Atlas of the Bible (June 2018)

M. Z. Feierberg

Hillel Halkin

Published 1973 - Masters of Modern Hebrew Literature Series; English-language translation published by The Jewish Publication Society of America

New Jersey

Whither? and Other Stories

3f4e02bd-7bb2-4f47-80b5-51423a58c602-0

Ayelet Gundar-Goshen

New York

This "brilliant" novel, an Elle Magazine Best Book of the Year about "lying and the lure of fame" (Joan Siber, National Book Critics Circle and PEN/Faulkner award-winning author), reveals how one mistake can have a thousand consequences.


Nofar is an average teenage girl -- so average, in fact, that she's almost invisible. Serving customers ice cream all summer long, she is desperate for some kind of escape.

One afternoon, a terrible lie slips from her tongue. And suddenly everyone wants to talk to her: the press, her schoolmates, and even the boy upstairs. He is the only one who knows the truth, and he is demanding a price for his silence.



Then Nofar meets Raymonde, an elderly immigrant whose best friend has just died. Raymonde keeps her friend alive the only way she knows how, by inhabiting her stories. But soon, Raymonde's lies take on a life of their own.



Written with propulsive energy, dark humor, and deep insight, The Liar reveals the far-reaching consequences of even our smallest choices, and explores the hidden corners of human nature to reveal the liar, and the truth-teller, in all of us.

The Liar

ab7b9dc5-1a4c-404c-bd0f-20dd98d6e72e-1

Hans W. Wolff

Waldemar Janzen

1977 Fortress Press. Jacket shoes wear with sun fading, small rips and scuffs. The book has a name placard on the front page from the previous owner. No other annotations 

New Mexico

Joel and Amos

8794b9ea-236e-4e6b-a3f0-038c65098b66-0

Linda Heller

Slight edge wear. Tight binding. Pages in very good condition.

And Other Wonders of Tzedakah

How Dalia Put a Big Yellow Comforter Inside a Tiny Blue Box

07e83ca6-25ab-473e-8cb0-bea93b66e2a4-0

Heather Amery

Y. Huron

Stephen Cartwright

Please note, this is a former school library book that was withdrawn. This is shown in the photos

Colorado

The First 1000 Words in Hebrew

c539bf4a-1234-44cc-b29d-e90f5ea776a4-1

Jennifer Howe Peace

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

Georgia

Stories of Interreligious Encounter, Growth, and Transformation

Leading writers from many religious traditions describe moments of transformation and growth through their interreligious encounters.

This groundbreaking volume gathers an array of inspiring and penetrating stories about the interreligious encounters of outstanding community leaders, scholars, public intellectuals, and activist from the United States, Europe, and the Middle East. With wisdom, wit, courage, and humility, these writers from a range of religious backgrounds share their personal experience of "border-crossing," and the lessons learned from their interreligious adventures. We live in the most religiously diverse society in the history of humankind. Every day, people of different religious beliefs and practices encounter one another in a myriad of settings. How has this new situation of religious diversity impacted the way we understand the religious "other," ourselves, and God? Can we learn to live together with mutual respect, working together for the creation of a more compassionate and just world?

My Neighbor's Faith

47ad0990-85d5-46e9-a647-b6f59593938f-1

#educational #college #hardcover #christian #Hebrew #Judaism #psalm119 #language #theology #translation

Tennessee

World Languages

The Word of God in the Child  of God 

Ariel Bloch

Chana Bloch

Stephen Mitchell

Robert Alter

Wisconsin

The World's First Great Love Poem

“Next to Genesis, no book in the Hebrew Bible has had a stronger influence on Western literature than the Song of Songs.” –The New York Review of Books One of the greatest love poems ever written, The Song of Songs celebrates the sexual awakening of a young woman and her lover and the intoxicating experience of falling in love. Composed more than two thousand years ago, this book of the Old Testament is not only an essential religious and literary text, but also a source of inspiration to modern-day poets and lovers. Enhanced by an Afterword by the esteemed scholar Robert Alter and a new Foreword from the noted translator Stephen Mitchell, this definitive volume showcases Chana Bloch and Ariel Bloch’s sensuous translation which has “a lyrical purity that is delightful” (W. S. Merwin).

The Song of Songs

3d29140b-a6e4-41e1-a698-d42a163a46d5-0

David C. Gross

Iowa

Romanized

English-Hebrew - Hebrew-English Conversational Dictionary

63aacd52-f75e-4f34-9ea8-6819a1e27f13-0

Heavy Paperback (2 to 4 lbs)

Louisiana

Translated From the Hebrew by David Rosenberg 

The Book of J

Julian Sinclair

Jewish Words Today

Jewish words are creeping into our vocabulary, not least because they are constantly used by comedians, actors and writers. Maureen Lipman, Jacky Mason, Howard Jacobson. But the fascination with these words is very widespread partly because of their effectiveness and vivacity in speech. Each chapter of this book focuses on just one word. The chapters are entertaining, short but also incredibly well informed (based on sounds knowledge and scholarship).

Let's Schmooze

3c5d90b6-70ef-46e2-b0c3-cc4f540c17bb-0

How to Get By and Be Easily Understood

Just Enough Hebrew 

A sacred sexual drama 🌹🤍 with lovely illustrations 🖼

In this new translation of the Canticles or Song of Songs Robert Graves uses the traditional form of the Hebrew pastoral drama performed at wedding festivals. He has found this preserved in the Codex Sinaiticus, the earliest surviving Greek it assigns parts to bride, bridegroom, bridesmaids and bridesmen. Professor Graves uses all his mastery of language and rhythm to bring a new depth of emotion to this version of the sole Hebrew book in sacred use which concentrated wholly on the theme of love between man and woman--this being regarded by the Council of Jabne as the most important of all religious themes because it prompts the recognition of a deeper love between God and man. In his Introduction, he comments on the origin of the Canticles and on their links with other religions, myths and poems of the Ancient Near East." Rovert Graves is also the author of "The Greek Myths" and "King Jesus"

Maine

The Song of Songs 

Gary Shteyngart

Washington

A Memoir

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FINALIST NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY MICHIKO KAKUTANI, THE NEW YORK TIMES • NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST NONFICTION BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY TIME NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY MORE THAN 45 PUBLICATIONS, INCLUDING The New York Times Book Review • The Washington Post • NPR • The New Yorker • San Francisco Chronicle • The Economist • The Atlantic • Newsday • Salon • St. Louis Post-Dispatch • The Guardian • Esquire (UK) • GQ (UK) Little Failure is the all too true story of an immigrant family betting its future on America, as told by a lifelong misfit who finally finds a place for himself in the world through books and words. In 1979, a little boy dragging a ginormous fur hat and an overcoat made from the skin of some Soviet woodland creature steps off the plane at New York’s JFK International Airport and into his new American life. His troubles are just beginning. For the former Igor Shteyngart, coming to the United States from the Soviet Union is like stumbling off a monochromatic cliff and landing in a pool of Technicolor. Careening between his Soviet home life and his American aspirations, he finds himself living in two contradictory worlds, wishing for a real home in one. He becomes so strange to his parents that his mother stops bickering with his father long enough to coin the phrase failurchka—“little failure”—which she applies to her once-promising son. With affection. Mostly. From the terrors of Hebrew School to a crash course in first love to a return visit to the homeland that is no longer home, Gary Shteyngart has crafted a ruthlessly brave and funny memoir of searching for every kind of love—family, romantic, and of the self. Praise for Little Failure “Hilarious and moving . . . The army of readers who love Gary Shteyngart is about to get bigger.”—The New York Times Book Review “A memoir for the ages . . . brilliant and unflinching.”—Mary Karr “Dazzling . . . a rich, nuanced memoir . . . It’s an immigrant story, a coming-of-age story, a becoming-a-writer story, and a becoming-a-mensch story, and in all these ways it is, unambivalently, a success.”—Meg Wolitzer, NPR “Literary gold . . . [a] bruisingly funny memoir.”—Vogue “A giant success.”—Entertainment Weekly “[Little Failure] finds the delicate balance between sidesplitting and heartbreaking.”—O: The Oprah Magazine “Should become a classic of the immigrant narrative genre.”—The Miami Herald “As vivid, original and funny as any that contemporary U.S. literature has to offer.”—Los Angeles Times “The very best memoirs perfectly toe the line between heartbreak and humor, and Shteyngart does just that.”—Esquire “Touching, insightful . . . [Shteyngart] nimbly achieves the noble Nabokovian goal of letting sentiment in without ever becoming sentimental.”—The Washington Post “[Shteyngart is] a successor to no less than Saul Bellow and Philip Roth.”—The Christian Science Monitor

Little Failure

d91bbef9-daab-4d17-a783-648100748d7d-1

Oklahoma

Hebrew - Russian New Testament 

In Pursuit of One of the World's Most Coveted, Sacred, and Mysterious Books

"A brilliant non-fiction thriller about an ancient copy of the Torah. Highly recommended."

--Paulo Coelho, author of The Alchemist



Winner of the 2014 Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature



A thousand years ago, the most perfect copy of the Hebrew Bible was written. It was kept safe through one upheaval after another in the Middle East, and by the 1940s it was housed in a dark grotto in Aleppo, Syria, and had become known around the world as the Aleppo Codex.



Journalist Matti Friedman's true-life detective story traces how this precious manuscript was smuggled from its hiding place in Syria into the newly founded state of Israel and how and why many of its most sacred and valuable pages went missing. It's a tale that involves grizzled secret agents, pious clergymen, shrewd antiquities collectors, and highly placed national figures who, as it turns out, would do anything to get their hands on an ancient, decaying book. What it reveals are uncomfortable truths about greed, state cover-ups, and the fascinating role of historical treasures in creating a national identity.

The Aleppo Codex

213ca7f5-2178-459c-8fbc-ca4d816b81e8-1

Alice Hoffman

Story of The Masada

Alice Hoffman's bestselling, spellbinding tale of four extraordinarily bold, resourceful, and sensuous women in Masada in 70 A.D. has been made into a four-hour miniseries airing on CBS and produced by Roma Downey and Mark Burnett, the married team behind the History Channel's Emmy Award-winning The Bible and Fox's feature film Son of God.

Nearly 2,000 years ago, nine hundred Jews held out for months against armies of Romans on Masada, a mountain in the Judean desert. According to the ancient historian Josephus, two women and five children survived. Based on this tragic and iconic event, Hoffman's novel is a spellbinding tale of four extraordinarily bold, resourceful, and sensuous women, each of whom has come to Masada by a different path.

The lives of these four complex and fiercely independent women intersect in the desperate days of the siege. All are dovekeepers, and all are also keeping secrets--about who they are, where they come from, who fathered them, and whom they love. The Dovekeepers is Alice Hoffman's masterpiece.

The Dovekeepers

da5f6127-9df2-4e57-b60d-c8d634f964e8-1

Hebrew Language Edition — Damaged, poor condition. Front cover torn off. 

Mrs. Laura's Show: Stories (Hebrew Language Edition)

Browse by categories

Save this search

Pearl Abraham

Giving up America

E. William Bean; David Bivin (Introduction by)

New Treasures

Bahya ben Joseph ibn Pakuda; Avraham Yaakov Finkel

Duties of the Heart

Aaron Levine; Shimon Peres (Introduction by)

Testament

National Geographic Society

Atlas of the Bible (June 2018)

M. Z. Feierberg; Hillel Halkin

Whither? and Other Stories

Ayelet Gundar-Goshen

The Liar

Hans W. Wolff; Waldemar Janzen

Joel and Amos

Linda Heller; Illustrated by Stacey Dressen McQueen

How Dalia Put a Big Yellow Comforter Inside a Tiny Blue Box

Heather Amery; Y. Huron; Stephen Cartwright

The First 1000 Words in Hebrew

Jennifer Howe Peace

My Neighbor's Faith

George J Kemek

The Word of God in the Child of God

Ayelet Gundar-Goshen

The Liar

Ariel Bloch; Chana Bloch; Stephen Mitchell; Robert Alter

The Song of Songs

David C. Gross

English-Hebrew - Hebrew-English Conversational Dictionary

Interpreted by Harold Bloom

The Book of J

Julian Sinclair

Let's Schmooze

Dror Zeevi

Just Enough Hebrew

Robert Graves (Translator) , Hans Erni (Illustrator)

The Song of Songs

Gary Shteyngart

Little Failure

Various

Hebrew - Russian New Testament

Matti Friedman

The Aleppo Codex

Alice Hoffman

The Dovekeepers

Hanna Kav Rot

Mrs. Laura's Show: Stories (Hebrew Language Edition)