Nathan Laufer

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

New York

The Seder's Meaning Revealed, the Haggadah's Story Retold

Enrich Your Passover Seder with Renewed Meaning and Significance

Whether you are planning to participate in, contribute to, or lead a Passover Seder, Leading the Passover Journey will help you relive the Jewish People's legacy of survival, hope and redemption, and reconnect with the rich heritage celebrated in this special event.

Reclaim the hidden meaning of the Passover Seder. Connect the pieces of the Haggadah narrative into one meaningful, cohesive story. From preparing for Passover to understanding the order of the Seder, from eating the meal of freedom in the house of slavery to reenacting the saga at the sea, this fascinating exploration of the texts and traditions surrounding the most celebrated event in the Jewish calendar will awaken latent knowledge and provide new understanding. It will empower you to fully understand and identify with the complete story of the Jewish People's journey of liberation.

Leading the Passover Journey

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Scott Shay

How To Energize American Jewry

Ten practical and achievable mini-manifestos that can reinvigorate American Jewry.

Getting our Groove Back

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Nathan Englander

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

California

Stories

Rooted in Jewish history and the customs of Orthodox life, an anthology of ten stories includes "The Twenty-Seventh Man" about an unpublished writer who mistakenly lands in a Stalinist prison, and "The Gilgul of Park Avenue" about a Protestant who wakes u

For the Relief of Unbearable Urges

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Joseph Telushkin

Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

The Most Important People, Events, and Ideas of the Hebrew Bible

As he did so brilliantly in his bestselling book, jewish literacy,Joseph Teluslikin once again mines a subject of, Jewish history and religion so richly that his book becomes an inspiring companion and a fundamental reference. In Biblical Lileracy, Telushkin turns his attention to the Hebrew Bible (also known as the Old Testament), the most iniluential series of books in human history. Along with the Ten Commandments, the Bible's most famous document, no piece of legislation ever enacted has influenced human behavior as much as the biblical injunction to "Love your neighbor as yourself." No political tract has motivated human beings in so many diverse societies to fight for political freedom as the Exodus story of God's liberation of the Israelite slaves--which shows that God intends that, ultimately, people be free. The Bible's influence, however, has conveyed as much through its narratives as its laws. Its timeless and moving tales about the human condition and man's relationship to God have long shaped Jewish and Christian notions of morality, and continue to stir the conscience and imagination of believers and skeptics alike. There is a universality in biblical stories: The murder of Abel by his brother Cain is a profound tragedy of sibling jealousy and family love gone awry (see pages 11-14). Abraham',s challenge to God to save the lives of the evil people of Sodom is a fierce drama of man in confrontation with God, suggesting the human right to contend with the Almighty when it is feared He is acting unjustly (see pages 32-34). Jacob's, deception of his blind father, Isaac raises the timeless question: Do the ends justify the means when the fate of the world is at stake (see pages 46-55). Encyclopedia in scope, but dynamic and original in its observations and organization, Biblical Lileracy makes available in one volume the Bible's timeless stories of love, deceit, and the human condition; its most important laws and ideas; and an annotated listing of all 613 laws of the Torah for both layman and professional, there is no other reference work or interpretation of the Bible quite like this Stunning volume.

Biblical Literacy

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Michigan

Set in Italy during the dramatic finale of World War II, this new novel is the first in seven years by the bestselling author of "The Sparrow" and "Children of God." High school & older.

A Thread of Grace

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Huge Hardcover (6 to 8 lbs)

Facing the Holocaust

Published by the University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln, and Yad Vashem, Jerusalem

"We were both small nations whose existence could never be taken for granted," Vaclav Havel said of the Czechs and the Jews of Israel in 1990, and indeed, the complex and intimate link between the fortunes of these two peoples is unique in European history. This book, by one of the world's leading authorities on the history of Czech and Slovak Jewry during the Nazi period, is the first to thoroughly document this singular relationship and to trace its impact, both practical and profound, on the fate of the Jews of Bohemia and Moravia during the Holocaust.


Livia Rothkirchen provides a detailed and comprehensive history of how Nazi rule in the Czech lands was shaped as much by local culture and circumstances as by military policy. The extraordinary nature of the Czech Jews' experience emerges clearly in chapters on the role of the Jewish minority in Czech life; the crises of the Munich agreement and the German occupation, the reaction of the local population to the persecution of the Jews, the policies of the London-based government in exile, the question of Jewish resistance, and the special case of the Terezin (Theresienstadt) ghetto. The Jews of Bohemia and Moravia is based on a wealth of primary documents, many uncovered only after the 1989 November Revolution. With an epilogue on the post-1945 period, this richly woven historical narrative supplies information essential to an understanding of the history of the Jews in Europe.

The Jews of Bohemia and Moravia

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Sholom Aleichem

Hannah Berman

Except for light staining and slight fraying along the top pages and back cover, the book is in solid, sturdy shape!

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

The first-ever translation of Sholom Aleichem into English ...

The first work of Sholom Aleichem's to be translated into English-this long out-of-print translation is the only one ever done under Aleichem's personal supervision-Stempenyu is a prime example of the author's hallmark traits- his antic and often sardonic sense of humor, his whip-smart dialogue, his workaday mysticism, and his historical documentation of shtetl life.

Held recently by scholars to be the story that inspired Marc Chagall's "Fiddler on the Roof" painting (which in turn inspired the play that was subsequently based on Aleichem's Tevye stories), Stempenyu is the hysterical story of a young village girl who falls for a wildly popular klezmer fiddler-a character based upon an actual Yiddish musician whose fame set off a kind of pop hysteria in the shtetl. Thus the story, in this contemporaneous "authorized" translation, is a wonderful introduction to Aleichem's work as he wanted it read, not to mention to the unique palaver of a nineteenth-century Yiddish rock star.

Stempenyu: a Jewish Romance

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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 (1 to 2 lbs)

North Carolina

As Noah’s wife sings the animals to sleep, an age-old tale is told afresh in a soothing poetic form brought to life with beautiful collage illustrations.

Naamah is the wife of Noah, and her name means "great singer." For forty days and forty nights, as the ark tosses on storm-wracked seas, Naamah sings. She sings to the animals, two by two. She sings to her husband, her sons, and their wives. She sings, and they all sleep, finally at peace. Acclaimed author Susan Campbell Bartoletti’s rhythmic, lyrical text pairs with Caldecott Honor winner Holly Meade’s luminous collage for a cozy, tender lullaby, and an ode to the power of song.

Naamah and the Ark at Night

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Maryland

A Novel

New York Times and USA Today Bestseller In this stunning new historical novel inspired by true events, Kim van Alkemade tells the fascinating story of a woman who must choose between revenge and mercy when she encounters the doctor who subjected her to dangerous medical experiments in a New York City Jewish orphanage years before. In 1919, Rachel Rabinowitz is a vivacious four-year-old living with her family in a crowded tenement on New York City’s Lower Eastside. When tragedy strikes, Rachel is separated from her brother Sam and sent to a Jewish orphanage where Dr. Mildred Solomon is conducting medical research. Subjected to X-ray treatments that leave her disfigured, Rachel suffers years of cruel harassment from the other orphans. But when she turns fifteen, she runs away to Colorado hoping to find the brother she lost and discovers a family she never knew she had. Though Rachel believes she’s shut out her painful childhood memories, years later she is confronted with her dark past when she becomes a nurse at Manhattan’s Old Hebrews Home and her patient is none other than the elderly, cancer-stricken Dr. Solomon. Rachel becomes obsessed with making Dr. Solomon acknowledge, and pay for, her wrongdoing. But each passing hour Rachel spends with the old doctor reveal to Rachel the complexities of her own nature. She realizes that a person’s fate—to be one who inflicts harm or one who heals—is not always set in stone. Lush in historical detail, rich in atmosphere and based on true events, Orphan #8 is a powerful, affecting novel of the unexpected choices we are compelled to make that can shape our destinies.

Orphan #8

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New Jersey

It is the winter of 1945, the last dark days of World War II in occupied Holland. A Nazi collaborator, infamous for his cruelty, is assassinated as he rides home on his bicycle. The Germans retaliate by burning down the home of an innocent family; only twelve-year-old Anton survives.

Based on actual events, The Assault traces the complex repercussions of this horrific incident on Anton's life. Determined to forget, he opts for a carefully normal existence- a prudent marriage, a successful career, and colorless passivity. But the past keeps breaking through, in relentless memories and in chance encounters with others who were involved in the assassination and its aftermath, until Anton finally learns what really happened that night in 1945-and why.

The Assault

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Kentucky

In the years preceding the destruction of Jerusalem in 70 CE, young Esther's greatest worry is that she will be forced to marry against her will but soon, she faces famine, seige, and slavery.

Rebel Daughter

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Selma van de Perre

Massachusetts

The Remarkable Memoir of a Jewish Resistance Fighter and Ravensbrück Survivor

An international bestseller, this powerful memoir by a ninety-eight-year-old Jewish Resistance fighter and Holocaust survivor "shows us how to find hope in hopelessness and light in the darkness" (Edith Eger, author of The Choice and The Gift).

Selma van de Perre was seventeen when World War II began. Until then, being Jewish in the Netherlands had not been an issue. But by 1941 it had become a matter of life or death. On several occasions, Selma barely avoided being rounded up by the Nazis. While her father was summoned to a work camp and eventually hospitalized in a Dutch transition camp, her mother and sister went into hiding--until they were betrayed in June 1943 and sent to Auschwitz. In an act of defiance and with nowhere else to turn, Selma took on an assumed identity, dyed her hair blond, and joined the Resistance movement, using the pseudonym Margareta van der Kuit. For two years "Marga" risked it all. Using a fake ID, and passing as Aryan, she traveled around the country and even to Nazi headquarters in Paris, sharing information and delivering papers--doing, as she later explained, what "had to be done."

In July 1944 her luck ran out. She was transported to Ravensbrück women's concentration camp as a political prisoner. Unlike her parents and sister who she later found out died in other camps--Selma survived by using her alias, pretending to be someone else. It was only after the war ended that she could reclaim her identity and dared to say once again: My name is Selma.

"We were ordinary people plunged into extraordinary circumstances," she writes in this "astonishing, inspirational, and important" memoir (Ariana Neumann, author of When Time Stopped). Full of hope and courage, this is Selma's story in her own words.

My Name Is Selma

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History of the Jews

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Steven Spielberg and Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation

"Published to coincide with the release of a documentary film which follows five survivors of the Holocaust in Hungary in 1944, this book features each survivor's descriptions of life before the war, their experiences in concentration camps, and their return to those camps 50 years later."

The Last Days

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Aaron Lansky

Except for the pages and cover yellowish from age, 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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The Jewish Experience in America

Brings together all aspects of American Jewish history--the transformation of a people, their religion, their move into trade and commerce, their political commitments, and their contributions to education and culture.

Throughout American history, from the colonial era to the present, Jews have found America generally hospitable. Yet even in this relatively receptive country, which essentially replaced Israel as the "promised land," there have been vexing questions for Jews--questions about the costs of freedom and mobility, especially with regard to the erosion of Jewish tradition and distinctiveness.

In this one-volume history of the Jewish experience in America, Gerald Sorin argues that, from colonial times to the present, "acculturation" and not "assimilation" has best described the experience of Jewish Americans. American Jews, Sorin explains, have maintained their unique ethnic characteristics yet have become part of mainstream, middle-class American life. Sorin also shows how the large migration of Jews from Russia and Eastern Europe in the late nineteenth century made a lasting impact on how other Americans imagine, understand, and relate to Jewish Americans and their cultural contributions today.

Drawing together all aspects of American Jewish history, this concise volume deals with the transformation of a people, their religion, their move into trade and commerce, their political commitments domestically and internationally (especially after the Holocaust), and their contributions to education and culture.

Tradition Transformed

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Aryeh Lev Stollman

A lonely boy's world is touched by the likes of Mr. and Mrs Henry Ford II, his rabbi father, a dying wealthy girl, twins who had both been victims of Dr. Mengele, and a Gypsy prophetess, in a story about a young man's spiritual coming-of-age. A first novel. 

'To read this wonderful book with its prayer-like rhythms, with it's beautiful pacing of a familiar tale, holds a reward for the reader: we have just met a great writer? -- Jamaica KincaidOne of the most haunting and original novels to emerge in recent years, in only 224 pages The Far Euphrates raises the central questions of Western Culture: how we can find meaning in a post-Holocaust world; how we define the notion of ?home? in our modern time; where the boundaries lie between sanity, madness, and transcendence; and what our responsibilities are to ourselves and to each other.The Far Euphrates is the story of a lonely boy, the son of a rabbi, whose small world is touched by an unlikely range of people: a dying wealthy girl, a Gypsy prophetess, Mr. and Mrs. Henry Ford II, and the cantor and his twin sister'both victims of Aushwitz's Dr. Mengele. The recipient of secrets he can't bear to know, Alexander engages himself in the accumulation of knowledge, in an attempt to unlock the mysteries of the universe.Infused with rich mystical and scientific understanding The Far Euphrates poignantly addresses the human longing to know and reclaim our origins, the mythic Far Euphrates to which we can never return. In publishing it, Riverhead books is proud to introduce a dazzling and important literary debut, a bold and memorable contribution to American letters.

Far Euphrates

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The Shocking, Untold Story of God's Love for His People

Everyone is looking for a miracle. Families devastated by a faltering economy. A college student facing the horrific diagnosis of cancer. Corporately, whole nations are teetering on the brink of despair and chaos. The Miracle of Israel is a stunning examination of the millennia-old love that God has for His people that:Clearly conveys the promise God gave to AbrahamExamines the ancient prophecies regarding Israel that have happened and are unfolding even todayProvides an easy-to-read timeline of miracle after miracle related to the nation of IsraelTracing the history of the Jewish people to the present day, the authors look at prophecy after prophecy that clearly attest to the Lord's miraculous promises. From historical records to personal, dramatic stories, the Miracle of Israel shows us that in keeping epic promises to the nation of Israel, God's provision for each of us is sure, perfect, and on time, every time.

Miracle of Israel

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Abba Eban

Oversized Hardcover (4 to 6 lbs)

The Story of the Jews

My People

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Seymour Kurtz

Little bit of wear to one corner of cover - see picture.  Owner label on inside of cover. 

Jewish America

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Pennsylvania

The first complete translation and interpretation of 50 K documents withheld for over 35 years

The Dead Sea Scrolls Uncovered

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Nathan Laufer

Leading the Passover Journey

Scott Shay

Getting our Groove Back

Nathan Englander

For the Relief of Unbearable Urges

Joseph Telushkin

Biblical Literacy

Mary Doria Russell

A Thread of Grace

Livia Rothkirchen

The Jews of Bohemia and Moravia

Sholom Aleichem; Hannah Berman

Stempenyu: a Jewish Romance

Rena Rossner

The Light of the Midnight Stars

Susan Campbell Bartoletti; Holly Meade (Illustrator)

Naamah and the Ark at Night

Kim van Alkemade

Orphan #8

Harry Mulisch

The Assault

Lori Banov Kaufmann

Rebel Daughter

Selma van de Perre

My Name Is Selma

Simon Dubnov

History of the Jews

David Cesarani

The Last Days

Aaron Lansky

Outwitting History

Gerald Sorin

Tradition Transformed

Aryeh Lev Stollman

Far Euphrates

Gary Frazier; Jim Fletcher

Miracle of Israel

Abba Eban

My People

Seymour Kurtz

Jewish America

Robert Eisenman and Michael Wise

The Dead Sea Scrolls Uncovered

Marianne Buchwalter

Memories of a Berlin Childhood

Rena Rossner

The Light of the Midnight Stars