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“miriam weinstein”

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  • Yiddish

    The Biography of a Language

    by Miriam Weinstein ...
    This first-ever biography on Yiddish is “a charming and highly readable history of the language” that “recreates the sound of a world . . . gone forever” (The Washington Post)For a thousand years Yiddish, was the glue that held a people together. Through the intimacies of daily use, it linked European Jews with their heroic past, their spiritual universe, their increasingly far-flung relations. In ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • All Set for Black, Thanks.

    A New Look at Mourning

    by Miriam Weinstein ...
    When Miriam Weinstein’s good friend died unexpectedly, and other losses followed close behind, it led to a year of introspection and black outfits. All Set For Black, Thanks ditches the sanctimony to give us the help, and the laughs, that we actually need in times of mourning and grief. She explores such topics as how we keep our dead with us even as we learn to let them go; why we should not ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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  • The Years of Extermination

    Nazi Germany and the Jews, 1939–1945

    by Saul Friedländer ...
    "Establishes itself as the standard historical work on Nazi Germany's mass murder of Europe's Jews . . . A masterpiece that will endure." — The New York Times Book ReviewA New York Times Notable Book of the YearA Publishers Weekly Best Book of the YearThe Years of Extermination, the completion... ... Read more

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  • Beginnings

    Reflections on the Bible's Intriguing Firsts

    by Meir Shalev ...
    The bestselling and prize-winning Israeli author Meir Shalev describes the many "firsts" of the Bible – the first love and the first death, to the first laugh and the first dream – providing a fresh, secular and surprising look at the stories we think we know.The first kiss in the Bible is not a kiss of love. The first love in the Bible is not the love of a man and a woman. The first hatred in the ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • The Life of Flavius Josephus: Autobiography

    by Flavius Josephus ...
    Translated by William Whiston ...
    The Life of Flavius Josephus, or simply Vita, is an autobiographical text written by Josephus in approximately 94-99 CE, where the author for the most part re-visits the events of the Jewish-Roman War, apparently in response to allegations made against him by Justus of Tiberias. Titus Flavius Josephus was a first-century Romano-Jewish scholar, historian and hagiographer, who was born in Jerusalem ... Read more

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  • Alex's Wake

    The Tragic Voyage of the St. Louis to Flee Nazi Germany-and a Grandson's Journey of Love and Remembrance

    by Martin Goldsmith ...
    Alex's Wake is a tale of two parallel journeys undertaken seven decades apart. In the spring of 1939, Alex and Helmut Goldschmidt were two of more than 900 Jewish refugees fleeing Nazi Germany aboard the St. Louis, "the saddest ship afloat" ( New York Times). Turned away from Cuba, the United States, and Canada, the St. Louis returned to Europe, a stark symbol of the world's indifference to the ... Read more

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  • Understanding the Arab-Israeli Conflict

    What the Headlines Haven't Told You

    by Michael Rydelnik ...
    Michael Rydelnik, professor of Jewish studies at Moody Bible Institute, goes beyond the media images for an in depth, biblically grounded look at the "crisis that never ends"--the conflict between the Israelis and the Arabs. Dr. Rydelnik explores such questions as:Will the violence ever stop?Who really has a right to the land?How did it all start...and where will it all end?This revised and ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • The 43 Group

    Battling with Mosley's Blackshirts

    by Morris Beckman ...
    Oswald Mosley decided he could carry on where Hitler and Mussolini had left off. On street corners his fascist speakers would proclaim 'not enough Jews were burned at Belsen'. Enter the 43 Group. In a ferocious, bloody and brilliantly covert five-year campaign, they destroyed the Mosleyites. The membership of the Group was almost entirely made up of British servicemen, the original 43 members ... Read more

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  • Forging Freedom

    The Life of Cerf Berr of Médelsheim

    by Margaret R. O’Leary ...
    Forging Freedom is the first full-length biography of Cerf Berr of Mdelsheim (17261793), the formidable eighteenth-century emancipator of the French Jews. His early business providing forage for thousands of horses of the French military garrisoned in Alsace grew into a huge military supply business that earned him the profound respect of French Kings Louis XV and XVI. After receiving his French ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • In Memory's Kitchen

    A Legacy from the Women of Terezin

    Edited by Cara de Silva ...
    A beautiful memorial to the brave women who defied Hitler by preserving a part of their hertiage and a part of themselves in this handwritten collection of recipes, proving that the Nazis could not break the spirit of the Jewish people. ... Read more

    $21.39 USD

  • A Social History of Hebrew

    Its Origins Through the Rabbinic Period

    by William M. Schniedewind ...
    Series series The Anchor Yale Bible Reference Library
    More than simply a method of communication shared by a common people, the Hebrew language was always an integral part of the Jewish cultural system and, as such, tightly interwoven into the lives of the prophets, poets, scribes, and priests who used it. In this unique social history, William Schniedewind examines classical Hebrew from its origins in the second millennium BCE until the Rabbinic ... Read more

    $28.69 USD

  • Portrait of a Jew

    by Albert Memmi ...
    Portrait of a Jew by Albert Memmi (translated from the French by Elisabeth Abbott; 99,000 words)In this memoir and extended meditation on Jewish identity and anti-Semitic stereotypes written in France in the early 1960s, Albert Memmi paints a portrait of himself as a secular Jew. The book has been compared to Rousseau’s Confessions because of its meticulous self-examination. Written only 15 years ... Read more

    $9.99 USD