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Chapters of the Heart : Jewish Women Sharing the Torah of Our Lives

Published: 2013-11-01

Paperback: 226 pages

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Chapters of the Heart: Jewish Women Sharing the Torah of Our Lives invites readers into the lives of twenty women for whom Jewish language and texts provide a lens for understanding their experiences. The authors don't just use religious words (texts, theologies, or liturgies) like a cookbook. Instead...

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I'm Your Man: The Life of Leonard Cohen

by Sylvie Simmons

Published: 2013-08-27

Paperback: 592 pages

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The New York Times-bestselling, definitive biography of lengendary artist Leonard CohenSinger/songwriter Leonard Cohen is one of the most important and influential musical artists of the past fifty years—and one of the most elusive. In I’m Your Man, journalist Sylvie Simmons, one of...

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A Guest at the Shooters' Banquet: My Grandfather's SS Past, My Jewish Family, A Search for the Truth

by Rita Gabis

Published: 2015-09-08

Hardcover: 464 pages

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In prose as beautiful as it is powerful, Rita Gabis follows the trail of her grandfather’s collaboration with the Nazis--a trail riddled with secrets, slaughter, mystery, and discovery.Rita Gabis comes from a family of Eastern European Jews and Lithuanian Catholics. She was close to her ...

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Herzl's Vision: Theodor Herzl and the Foundation of the Jewish State

by Shlomo Avineri

Published: 2017-03-14

Paperback: 304 pages

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Theodor Herzl had been a successful Viennese journalist and a less successful playwright with no political ambitions. That changed in 1896, when he published The Jewish State. The following year he convened a Zionist Congress in Basel, Switzerland. The Congress founded the Zionist Organiza...

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The Gestapo: Power and Terror in the Third Reich

by Carsten Dams, Michael Stolle

Published: 2014-06-01

Hardcover: 256 pages

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The Gestapo was the most feared instrument of political terror in the Third Reich, brutally hunting down and destroying anyone it regarded as an enemy of the Nazi regime: socialists, Communists, Jews, homosexuals, and anyone else deemed to be an 'anti-social element'. Its prisons soon beca...

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Half-Jew: A Daughter's Search For Her Family's Buried Past

by Susan Jacoby

Published: 2000-05-05

Hardcover: 304 pages

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A journalist journeys back into her family's own hidden past to uncover the history of her New York German-Jewish family, which attempted to hide its religious and cultural background by converting to Roman Catholicism.

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It's Up to the Women

by Eleanor Roosevelt

Published: 2017-04-11

Hardcover: 256 pages

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"Eleanor Roosevelt never wanted her husband to run for president. When he won, she . . . went on a national tour to crusade on behalf of women. She wrote a regular newspaper column. She became a champion of women's rights and of civil rights. And she decided to write a book."--Jill Lepore,...

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Red War (A Mitch Rapp Novel)

by Vince Flynn, Kyle Mills

Published: 2018-09-25

Hardcover: 384 pages

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*Instant #1 New York Times Bestseller*The #1 New York Times bestselling series returns with Mitch Rapp racing to prevent Russia’s gravely ill leader from starting a full-scale war with NATO. “Mills is the only writer capable of filling the enormous void left by Vince Flynn.”—The ...

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Death from a Top Hat (A Great Merlini Mystery)

by Clayton Rawson

Published: 2018-10-02

Paperback: 312 pages

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A detective steeped in the art of magic solves the mystifying murder of two occultists.Now retired from the tour circuit on which he made his name, master magician The Great Merlini spends his days running a magic shop in New York’s Times Square and his nights moonlighting as a consultan...

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The Nazi Conscience

by Claudia Koonz

Published: 2005-11-30

Paperback: 368 pages

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The Nazi conscience is not an oxymoron. In fact, the perpetrators of genocide had a powerful sense of right and wrong, based on civic values that exalted the moral righteousness of the ethnic community and denounced outsiders. Claudia Koonz's latest work reveals how racial popularizers dev...