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Becoming Malka
Published: 2016-03-31
Paperback: 224 pages
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Bringing Bubbe Home: A Memoir of Letting Go Through Love and Death
Published: 2014-06-10
Paperback: 192 pages
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Debra Zaslow was humming along on baby-boomer autopilot, immersed in her life as a professional storyteller, wife of a Rabbi, and mother of two teenagers when she felt compelled to bring her 103-year-old grandmother, Bubbe, who was dying alone in a nursing facility, home to live and die wi...
Not Your Father's Antisemitism: Hatred of the Jews in the 21st Century
Published: 2008-04-01
Paperback: 450 pages
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In sixteen crisp essays written by distinguished scholars from diverse disciplines, backgrounds and countries, Not Your Father's Antisemitism argues that contemporary hatred of the Jews is not a throwback to the 1930s but a unique manifestation of 21st century humanity and the post-moderni...
Faith Unravels: A Rabbis Struggle with Grief and God
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...
The Devil That Never Dies: The Rise and Threat of Global Antisemitism
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 ...
A Broken Hallelujah: Rock and Roll, Redemption, and the Life of Leonard Cohen
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, ...
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...
An Island Called Home: Returning to Jewish Cuba
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...
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,...
Heroines: Powerful Indian Women of Myth and History
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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