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Homesick (Hebrew Literature Series)

by Eshkol Nevo

Published: 2010-04-20

Paperback: 374 pages

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Moving from character to character, perspective to perspective, Homesick is a complex and moving portrait of parallel lives and failing love in a time of permanent war.

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Washing the Dead

by Michelle Brafman

Published: 2015-03-16

Kindle Edition: 345 pages

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Three Orthodox Jewish women search for truth amid a lifetime of secrets in this “heartfelt story of loss, hope, and reconciliation” (Booklist).   Barbara Blumfield, a big-hearted suburban Milwaukee mom and preschool teacher, was seventeen years old when her mother’s affair ripped he...

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Zion in the Desert: American Jews in Israel's Reform Kibbutzim (SUNY series in Israeli Studies)

by William F. S. Miles

Published: 2008-06-05

Paperback: 288 pages

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The first book about the only two Reform Movement kibbutzim in Israel.Zion in the Desert speaks to the millions of Jewish American baby boomers who at one time in their youth flirted with moving to Israel and may still wonder: “What would have happened to me? Who would I have become?” ...

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Hanns and Rudolf: The True Story of the German Jew Who Tracked Down and Caught the Kommandant of Auschwitz

by Thomas Harding

Published: 2014-09-23

Paperback: 368 pages

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WINNER OF THE WINGATE PRIZEThe “compelling,” untold story of the man who brought one of Nazi Germany’s most notorious war criminals to justice—“fascinates and shocks” (The Washington Post).May 1945. In the aftermath of the Second World War, the first British War Crimes Investi...

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The Modern Jewish Girl's Guide to Guilt

by Ruth Andrew Ellenson

Published: 2006-07-25

Kindle Edition: 336 pages

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Twenty-eight of today’s top Jewish women writers tell the truth about all the things their rabbis warned them never to discuss in public in this hilarious and provocative collection.Includes original essays on: • Finding (and Divorcing) the Perfect Jewish Man• Not Calling Your Mother...

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An Exclusive Love: A Memoir

by Johanna Adorjan

Published: 2012-01-30

Paperback: 193 pages

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"A powerful and affecting memoir––reminiscent of Sebald." ?Phlipp Meyer, author of American Rust Chain-smoking, peculiarly stylish, stubborn, and eccentric?Vera and István were anything but ordinary grandparents. Sixteen years after their death, Johanna Adorján fills the gaps in thei...

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Nazi Plunder: Great Treasure Stories Of World War II

by Kenneth D. Alford

Published: 2003-04-03

Kindle Edition: 256 pages

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World War II was the most devastating conflict in human history, but the tragedy did not end on the battlefields. During the war, Germany--and, later, the Allies--plundered Europe's historic treasures. Between 1939 and 1945, German armed forces roamed from Dunkirk to Stalingrad, looting go...

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Hitler's Holy Relics: A True Story of Nazi Plunder and the Race to Recover the Crown Jewels of the Holy Roman Empire

by Sidney Kirkpatrick

Published: 2010-05-11

Hardcover: 316 pages

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From Paris to Stalingrad, the Nazis systematically plundered all manner of art and antiquities. But the first and most valuable treasures they looted were the Crown Jewels of the Holy Roman Empire. In Hitler’s Holy Relics, bestselling author Sidney Kirkpatrick tells the riveting and neve...

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India's Israel Policy

by P. R. Kumaraswamy

Published: 2010-07-28

Hardcover: 376 pages

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India's foreign policy toward Israel is a subject of deep dispute. Throughout the twentieth century arguments have raged over the Palestinian problem and the future of bilateral relations. Yet no text comprehensively looks at the attitudes and policies of India toward Israel, especially th...

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Finnegans Wake (Classic, 20th-Century, Penguin)

by James Joyce

Published: 1999-12-01

Paperback: 672 pages

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Having done the longest day in literature with his monumental Ulysses, James Joyce set himself even greater challenges for his next book — the night."A nocturnal state...That is what I want to convey: what goes on in a dream, during a dream." The work, which would exhaust two decades of ...