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Helping her popular next-door neighbor Gayil set up what she thinks are harmless pranks, 12-year-old Orthodox Jewish girl Shaindy must figure out how to stop them before she becomes the next target when the pranks escalate and turn malicious.
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"Germany, 1929. At a festive gathering of young bohemians in Weimar, two young artists, Max, a skilled Jewish architect, and Bettina, a celebrated avant-garde painter, are drawn to each other and begin a whirlwind romance. Their respective talents transport them to the dazzling lights of Berlin, but this bright beginning is quickly dimmed by the rising threat of Nazism. Max is arrested and sent to the concentration camp at Dachau where only his talent...
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"As the United States enters World War II, seventeen-year-old Eleanor wants to do something to help her Jewish relatives in Poland, so she puts her brilliant math skills to work for the US army to fine-tune a top-secret weapon that will help defeat the enemy"--
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"Winner of the National Scholarly Jewish Book Award, Jewish Book Council" Seth Schwartz is the Gerson D. Cohen Professor of History at the Jewish Theological Seminary in New York. He is the author of Josephus and Judaean Politics and coauthor, with Roger Bagnall, Alan Cameron, and Klaas Worp, of Consuls of the Later Roman Empire.
This provocative new history of Palestinian Jewish society in antiquity marks the first comprehensive effort to gauge...
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Here Comes Mrs. Kugelman is Minka Pradelski's enchanting novel of listening and telling, of the silence between Holocaust survivors and their children, and of the power of stories to mend broken bonds
When feisty young Tsippy Silberberg of the curious eating habits receives word from Tel Aviv that a distant aunt has left her a mysterious inheritance-an incomplete fish service in a battered brown suitcase-she decides to break her rigid routine and...
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"Mark R. Cohen, Winner of the 2010 Goldziher Prize, The Center for the Study of Jewish-Christian-Muslim Relations at Merrimack College"
Leon (Judah Aryeh) Modena was a major intellectual figure of the early modern Italian Jewish community--a complex and intriguing personality who was famous among contemporary European Christians as well as Jews. Modena (1571-1648) produced an autobiography that documents in poignant detail the turbulent life of...
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With the addition of two stories, namely, "April 19th" and "Letters to God", this collection makes available in English for the first time a complete selection of Chava Rosenfarb's short stories all in one place. All the stories in this collection deal with the afterlife of Holocaust survivors in North America. Since Chava Rosenfarb was herself a Holocaust survivor who settled in Montreal after the war, she speaks in these stories from personal experience...
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The Hebrews tradition speaks of a annual cycle of events that reoccur in their "season". The author brings the reader along his journey involving the gathering and analysis of the data to determine if this tradition is fact or fiction. And, is there any information "written" in the stars, Mazzaroth, that confirm these events?
In this first issue of the Alter Called Witness, the author delves into events such as; The Binding of Isaac, Expulsion of...
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Négocier avec les nazis pour sauver des centaines de vies, est-ce collaborer ? Deux mois après son onzième anniversaire, le 9 juillet 1944, les portes du camp de concentration de Bergen-Belsen se ferment derrière Ladislaus Löb. Cinq mois plus tard, alors que la Seconde Guerre mondiale fait encore rage, il franchit la frontière de la Suisse neutre, hébété mais sain et sauf. Il n'est pas seul : il fait partie d'un groupe de 1 670 Juifs –...
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The History of the Jewish People in America is a thorough historical account of Jewish communities in both South and North America starting from the earliest days of Spanish colonization all the way to the beginning of the 20th century.
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The Participation of Jews in the Discovery of the New World
Early Jewish Martyrs Under Spanish Rule in the New World
Victims of the Inquisition in Mexico and in Peru
Marranos in the Portuguese Colonies
The...
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"The King of Schnorrers: Grotesques and Fantasies" by Israel Zangwill. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices....
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Established as a Jewish settlement in 1909 and dedicated a year later, Tel Aviv has grown over the last century to become Israel's financial center and the country's second largest city. This book examines a major period in the city's establishment when Jewish architects moved from Europe, including Alexander Levy of Berlin, and attempted to establish a new style of Zionist urbanism in the years after World War I. The author explores the interplay...
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Get the Summary of Judy Batalion's The Light of Days in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. "The Light of Days" by Judy Batalion chronicles the valiant efforts of Jewish women in Nazi-occupied Poland who actively participated in resistance movements against the German occupation during World War II. The book delves into the lives of these women, highlighting their bravery, resourcefulness, and determination to fight...
17) Mungu Hakopeshwi
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Riwaya ya Mungu Hakopeshwi inaelezea maisha ya familia moja ya Unguja iliyoingia katika mitafaruku na mikasa mingi. Kila kitu huwa na chanzo na khatima; basi ni nini chanzo cha mitafaruku hiyo na khatima yake ilikuwaje? Simulizi ni juu ya baba, Bw. Ahmed, mwenye hasira kali zisizo na mipaka, aliyeongoza familia yake kwa utashi wa nafsi yake, bila kujali hisia za mkewe wala wanawe. Kumbe moyoni mwake alihifadhi siri, na hiyo siri ndiyo iliyomfanya...
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DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Adonijah: A Tale of the Jewish Dispersion" by Jane Margaret Strickland. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic...
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Hasia R. Diner is the Paul S. and Sylvia Steinberg Professor of American Jewish History at New York University. Her books include In the Almost Promised Land: American Jews and Blacks, 1915-1935; A Time for Gathering: The Second Migration, 1820-1880; Erin's Daughters in America: Irish Immigrant Women in the Nineteenth Century; and Hungering for America: Italian, Irish, and Jewish Foodways in the Age of Migration.
Manhattan's Lower East Side stands...
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History of the Jews in America is a thorough historical account of Jewish communities in both South and North America starting from the earliest days of Spanish colonization all the way to the beginning of the 20th century.
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The Participation of Jews in the Discovery of the New World
Early Jewish Martyrs Under Spanish Rule in the New World
Victims of the Inquisition in Mexico and in Peru
Marranos in the Portuguese Colonies
The Short-lived...
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