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Faith Unravels: A Rabbis Struggle with Grief and God

by Daniel Greyber

Published: 2012-09-12

Paperback: 138 pages

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Every year, thousands of young people die, leaving in their wake circles of grieving friends in need of support. Many look to how clergy understand loss but few religious traditions have a defined mourning process-or even a role in mourning-for non-family members. Faith Unravels speaks to the profound...

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The Devil That Never Dies: The Rise and Threat of Global Antisemitism

by Daniel Jonah Goldhagen

Published: 2013-09-03

Hardcover: 496 pages

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A groundbreaking--and terrifying--examination of the widespread resurgence of antisemitism in the 21st century, by the prize-winning and #1 internationally bestselling author of Hitler's Willing Executioners.Antisemitism never went away, but since the turn of the century it has multiplied ...

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A Broken Hallelujah: Rock and Roll, Redemption, and the Life of Leonard Cohen

by Liel Leibovitz

Published: 2015-03-23

Paperback: 288 pages

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Brings to life a passionate poet-turned-musician and what compels him and his work. Why is it that Leonard Cohen receives the sort of reverence we reserve for a precious few living artists? Why are his songs, three or four decades after their original release, suddenly gracing the charts, ...

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Scribblers on the Roof: Contemporary Jewish Fiction

Published: 2006-07-30

Paperback: 352 pages

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The first American Jewish anthology in a decade to include both established masters and the newest generation of gifted storytellers.The authors gathered here represent contemporary American Jewish fiction at its best. Drawn from the renowned rooftop reading series at Ansche Chesed, a syna...

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An Island Called Home: Returning to Jewish Cuba

by Ruth Behar

Published: 2009-01-27

Paperback: 320 pages

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Yiddish-speaking Jews thought Cuba was supposed to be a mere layover on the journey to the United States when they arrived in the island country in the 1920s. They even called it “Hotel Cuba.” But then the years passed, and the many Jews who came there from Turkey, Poland, and war-torn...

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Half/Life: Jew-ish Tales from Interfaith Homes

Published: 2006-04-15

Paperback: 280 pages

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Written by authors born into the so-called ?dilemma of intermarriage,” the stories in Half/Life explore the experience of being raised in a half-Jewish home. Though each essay is distinct, and the experiences are vastly different, each describes growing up without a streamlined identity,...

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Heroines: Powerful Indian Women of Myth and History

by Ira Mukhoty

Published: 2017-01-01

Paperback: 236 pages

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The idea of heroism in women is not easily defined. In men the notion is often associated with physical strength and extravagant bravery. Women's heroism has tended to be of a very different nature, less easily categorized. All the women portrayed-Draupadi, Radha, Ambapali, Raziya Sultan, Meerabai, Jahanara,...

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One for the Blackbird, One for the Crow: A Novel

by Olivia Hawker

Published: 2019-10-08

Hardcover: 0 pages

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From the bestselling author of The Ragged Edge of Night comes a powerful and poetic novel of survival and sacrifice on the American frontier.Wyoming, 1870. For as long as they have lived on the frontier, the Bemis and Webber families have relied on each other. With no other settlers for mi...

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Rules for Visiting: A Novel

by Jessica Francis Kane

Published: 2019-05-14

Hardcover: 304 pages

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NATIONAL BESTSELLER!*An Oprah Summer Reading Pick for 2019**A best book of 2019 pick for Real Simple, Southern Living, and Vulture* *A May IndieNext Pick*"Fun, hilarious, and extremely touching."—NPRA beautifully observed and deeply funny novel of May Attaway, a university gardener w...

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Light on Lucrezia: A Novel of the Borgias

by Jean Plaidy

Published: 2011-01-18

Kindle Edition: 386 pages

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Some said she was an elegant seductress. Others swore she was an incestuous murderess. It didn’t matter what they called her. She was the most dangerous and sought-after woman in all of Rome. She was Lucrezia Borgia. Born into Rome’s notorious Borgia family, young Lucrezia led a life ...