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Die Laughing: Killer Jokes for Newly Old Folks

by William Novak

Published: 2016-10-25

Hardcover: 304 pages

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From the co-creator of the celebrated Big Book of Jewish Humor comes a laugh-out-loud collection of jokes about growing older that makes fun of memory loss, marriages, medicine, sex, the afterlife, and much more, making this the perfect gift for almost anyone who was born before you were.G...

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My Mother's Spice Cupboard: A Journey From Baghdad To Bombay To Bondi

by Elana Benjamin

Published: 2014-06-17

Paperback: 316 pages

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InMy Mother's Spice Cupboard, Elana Benjamin has produced a warm and detailed account of her family's story, as they moved from Baghdad to Bombay (now Mumbai) and finally to Sydney, Australia. With loving strokes, she has created a detailed picture of everyday life for Jews living in Bombay during the...

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Never Surrender: Winston Churchill and Britain's Decision to Fight Nazi Germany in the Fateful Summer of 1940

by John Kelly

Published: 2015-10-20

Hardcover: 384 pages

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A remarkably vivid account of a key moment in Western history: The critical six months in 1940 when Winston Churchill debated whether the British would fight Hitler.London in April, 1940, was a place of great fear and conflict. Everyone was on edge; civilization itself seemed imperiled. Th...

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My New Orleans, Gone Away: A Memoir of Loss and Renewal

by Peter M. Wolf

Published: 2013-07-09

Kindle Edition: 322 pages

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A New York Times bestseller: A “charming” memoir of growing up Jewish among New Orleans high society—and finding a place in the bigger world (Winston Groom, The Wall Street Journal). The Wolf family had been in New Orleans for generations. They were Jewish but—as Peter Wolf’s gra...

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White Girl: A Story of School Desegregation

by Clara Silverstein

Published: 2004-09-20

Hardcover: 168 pages

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This poignant account recalls firsthand the upheaval surrounding court-ordered busing in the early 1970s to achieve school integration. Like many students at the vanguard of this great social experiment, sixth-grader Clara Silverstein was spit on, tripped, and shoved by her new schoolmates...

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The Garden of Ruth

by Eva Etzioni-Halevy

Published: 2006-12-26

Paperback: 293 pages

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A historical novel imagines the riveting story behind the Book of Ruth Sitting beneath a tree in ancient Bethlehem, Osnath, niece of the prophet Samuel, examines a dusty scrap of parchment she found hidden in her relative’s scroll room. Scrawled on the decaying page is an intriguing mes...

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Houses of Study: A Jewish Woman among Books

by Ilana M. Blumberg

Published: 2009-03-01

Paperback: 208 pages

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Houses of Study is an eloquent memoir of a Jewish woman’s life and her efforts to reconcile the traditions of her faith with her belief in women’s equality and the pull of modern American living. Ilana M. Blumberg traces her path from a childhood immersed in Hebrew and classical Judaic...

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Best American Short Stories 2017 (The Best American Series ®)

Published: 2017-10-03

Paperback: 332 pages

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Best-selling author Meg Wolitzer guest edits the premier annual showcase for the country's finest short fiction. “If you know exactly what you are going to get from the experience of reading a story, you probably wouldn’t go looking for it; you need, in order to be an open reader of fi...

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The Lost: The Search For Six Of Six Million (P.S.)

by Daniel Mendelsohn

Published: 2013-11-12

Paperback: 688 pages

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In this rich and riveting narrative, a writer's search for the truth behind his family's tragic past in World War II becomes a remarkably original epic—part memoir, part reportage, part mystery, and part scholarly detective work—that brilliantly explores the nature of time and memory, ...

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Wonder of Wonders: A Cultural History of Fiddler on the Roof

by Alisa Solomon

Published: 2014-09-02

Paperback: 448 pages

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In the half-century since its premiere, Fiddler on the Roof has become a supremely potent cultural landmark, beloved by audiences the world over. Now, in a history as captivating as its subject, award-winning drama critic Alisa Solomon traces how and why the story of Tevye the milkman, the...